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The  Library  of  Congress 


Packard  Campus 
for  Audio  Visual  Conservation 
www.loc.gov/avconservation 

Motion  Picture  and  Television  Reading  Room 
www.loc.gov/rr/mopic 

Recorded  Sound  Reference  Center 
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how  I  feel  about  love 


Capture  the 
look  of  New 
Loveliness 


WITH  YOUR 


First  Cake 
of  Camay! 


MRS.  WILIIAM  FIELD  DE  NEERGAARD 
the  former  Cicely  Davenport  of  Chevy  Chafe,  D.  C. 
Bridal  portrait  by  -y^^^^^^' 


ROMANCE 


How  thankful  you  feel— when  Someone  New  wins  your  heart— if 
your  skin's  at  its  glorious  best!  And  your  skin  will  be  softer —clearer, 
too— with  your  first  cake  of  Camay.  Change  to  regular  care— use 
Camay  alone.  Marvel  at  the  difference  your  first  cake  of  Camay  makes! 

Camay— All  That  A  Beauty  Soap  Should  Be! 

A  finer  beauty  soap  than  Camay  does  not  exist!  It's  so  mild— so  quick  with  its  creamy 

lather.  And  no  other  soap  has  ever  quite  captured  Camay's  flattering  fragrance. 
When  Camay's  your  complexion  care,  the  first  cake  can  bring  new  beauty! 


It  besan  with  a  blind  date  at  a 
Syracuse  sorority.  But  how 
could  Bill  be  blind  to  Cicely's 
complexion?  It's  so  clear— so 
fresh-looking— soft  as  a  camel- 
lia petal.  Cicely  found  there  is 
complexion  magic  in  Camay's 
creamy  lather! 


It  led  to  a  flying  honeymoon! 
And  Cicely  brought- home  a 
British  sixpence  for  a  charm. 
But  her  special  charm  is  her 
complexion.  Cicely  says: 
"Your  first  cake  of  Camay 
can  bring  a  smoother  skin. 
See  for  yourself!" 


TRY  THE  BIG,  ECONOMICAL 

BATH-SIZE  CAMAY 


Camay  The  Soap  of  Beautiful  Women 


©CI  B    2  7  7  4  9, 


DEC  14  1950 

Ar^  you  in  the  know? 


Can  you  remedy  cold, 
red  hands  with  — 

I  I  Open-air  workouts 
□  Miffens 
I  I  Lotion 

If  Winter  turns  your  mitts  to  icy  "lobster 
claws"  —  chances  are,  your  circulation  needs 
recharging.  Get  more,  outdoor  exercise. 
Swap  tight  gloves  for  warm,  wool  mittens 
that  give  your  fingers  wiggle-room.  And  use 
hand  lotion,  faithfully.  (Did  you  guess  all 
3  answers  were  right?)  On  certain  days, 
you  don't  have  to  guess  which  Kotex  ab- 
sorbency's  right  for  you.  Try  all  3:  Regular, 
Junior,  Super  —  (different  sizes,  for  different 
days) .  See  which  answers  your  needs ! 


For  some  gals,  which  style 
demands  special  grooming? 

I  I  Horseshoe  neckline 
I  I  Batwing  sleeves 
□  Pleated  skirts 

Squires  soon  tire  of  gals  who  perspire  and 
don't  do  something  about  it!  Use  underarm 
deodorants;  dress  shields.  And  with  batwing 
sleeves,  you  can  wear  a  bra  with  built-in 
shields:  special  precaution  to  save  your 
dress,  your  daintiness.  At  "calendar"  time, 
smooth  grooming's  no  problem  — when  you 
let  Kotex  banish  revealing  outlines.  With 
those  special,  fiat  pressed  ends  no  telltale 
outlines  show.  You  can  flaunt  any  smart 
new  fashion  — minus  a  single  secret  qualm! 


If  you're  conversation-shy  in  a  crowd,  what  helps  overcome  it? 

I  I  Take  a  public-speaking  course  Q  Avoid  gang  gatherings  Q  Go  in  for  sports 


Your  sound  track  fails  you  in  "parlor" 
chatter?  Join  a  sports  group.  Go  skating. 
Bowling  .  .  .  (who  can  be  a  dumb  belle  when 
she  scores  a  strike?)  Hop  on  a  snow  train 
.  .  .  and  look  who's  talking!  You,  leading  the 
yacketty-yak  about  ski  lessons,  boots,  waxes. 


And  once  in  the  sports  whirl  don't  be  a 
quitter.  On  difficult  days,  choose  Kotex  for 
comfort  .  .  .  downy  softness  that  holds  its 
shape  because  Kotex  is  made  to  stay  soft 
while  you  wear  it.  (Comfort  and  confidence 
are  team-mates!) 


How  to  straighten  out 
a  feud  you  started? 

I   I  Make  the  first  move 

□  Woit  for  him  to  call 

□  Try  the  weeping  technique 

You  blow  your  top.  And  you're  sorry  — 
even  before  you  hear  the  door  slam.  Well, 
tell  him  so,  in  a  little  note.  Or  ask  the  crowd 
over  and  include  your  bitter  half.  If  that 
doesn't  fetch  him,  why  knock  yourself  out? 
'Taint  worth  it  .  .  .  any  more  than  it  is  to 
fret  over  trying  days'  woes.  You  needn't, 
for  Kotex  gives  you  the  extra  protection  of 
an  exclusive  safety  center.  A  Kotex  feature 
that  guards  against  accidents;  spares  you 
"those"  nagging  cares. 


How  to  prepare 
for 

"certain"  days? 


O  Circle  your  calendar 
CH  Perk  up  your  wardrobe 
□  Buy  a  new  belt 

Before  "that"  time,  be  ready! 
All  3  answers  above  can  help. 
But  to  assure  extra  comfort,  buy 
a  new  Kotex  sanitary  belt.  Made 
with  soft-stretch  elastic— this 
strong,  lightweight  Kotex  belt's 
non-twisting  .  .  .  non-curling. 
Stays  flat  even  after  many  wash- 
ings. Dries  pronto!  So  don't  wait 
till  the  last  minute:  buy  a  new 
Kotex  belt  notv.  (Why  not  buy 
two— for  a  change?) 


^ore  ivome/j  c/joose  /COTSK* 

3  ABSOKBmNCIES:  KB&UCAK,  JU/VtOR.  SUJ>eR 


T.  H.  REG.  U.  S.  PAT.  OFF. 


a  Ma  n, 


READER'S  DIGEST*  Reported  The  Same 
Research  Which  Proves  That  Brushing  Teeth 
Right  After  Eating  with 

COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST 

Reader's  Digest  recently  reported  the 
same  research  which  proves  the  Colgate 
way  of  brushing  teeth  right  after  eating 
stops  tooth  decay  best!  Better  than  any 
other  home  method  of  oral  hygiene! 

Yes,  and  2  years'  research  showed  the 
Colgate  way  stopped  more  decay  for  more 
people  than  ever  before  reported  in  den- 
tifricehistory!Nootherdentifrice,ammo-' 
niated  or  not,  has  proof  of  such  results! 


LATER— Thanks  to  Colgate  Oenfal  Cream 


*YOU  SHOULD  KNOW!  While  not  mentioned  by  name, 
Colgate's  was  the  only  toothpaste  used  in  the  research 
on  tooth  detoy  recently  reported  in  Reader's  Digest. 


JANUARY,  1951 


modern  screen 


.see  page  88 


The  Most  Unusual  Contest  Ever  Offered! 
BRING  A  STAR  TO  YOUR  HOME.   

stories 

IF  THIS  ISN'T  LOVE  C Janet  Leigh,  Tony  Curtis)  by  Consuelo  Anderson  16 

HE  MIGHT  HAVE  BEEN  MY  SON  (John  Derek)  by  Russell  Harlan  26 

MY  PREDICTIONS  FOR  1951  ;  by  Hedda  Hopper  28 

LIFE  WITH  LORETTA  CLoretta  Young)  by  Tom  Lewis  30 

SEASON  IN  THE  SUN  (Alan  Ladd)   32 

HOW  I  FEEL  ABOUT  LOVE  by  Shirley  Temple  35 

MARIKA'S  MIRACLE  by  Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Jim  Henaghan  36 

WHAT  NOW,  FRANKIE  BOY?  (Frank  Sinatra,  Ava  Gardner)  by  Arthur  L.  Charles  38 

HOMEMADE  FOR  HAPPINESS  (Richard  Widmark)  by  Marva  Peterson  40 

THE  GIRL  WHO  TAMED  DON  JUAN  (Errol  Flynn,  Patrice  Wymore) 

by  Steve  Cronin  43 

WHAT  PRICE  GLAMOUR?  (Betty  Grable)  by  Leslie  Snyder  44 

HE  GETS  AWAY  WITH  MURDER  (Burt  Lancaster)  by  Mickell  Novak  46 

REUNION  IN  ITALY  (Robert  Taylor,  Barbara  Stanwyck)  by  Helen  Ferguson  48 

MY  CHRISTMAS  STORY  by  Bing  Crosby  52 

IT'S  A  GOOD  LIFE  (Piper  Laurie)  by  Tom  Carlile  54 

NO  SAD  SONGS  FOR  RONNIE  (Ronald  Reagan)  by  Jack  Wade  56 

features 

THE  INSIDE  STORY   4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS   6 

YOUR  FAVORITES  FOR  1950  (Alan  Ladd,  June  Allyson)   25 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers)   72 

departments 

MOVIE  REVIEWS  by  Christopher  Kane  1 

ANN  BLYTH,  YOUR  HOLLYWOOD  SHOPPER   19 

FASHION    58 

ON  THE  COVER:  Color  Portrait  of  Shirley  Temple  by  Nickolas  Muray. 
Other  picture  credits  on  page  84. 


CHARLES  D,  SAXON,  editor 


DURBIN  L.  HORNER,  managing  editor 
FLORENCE  EPSTEIN,  story  editor 
SUZANNE  EPPES,  associate  editor 
FERNANDO  TEXIDOR,  art  director 
BILL  WEINBERGER,  art  editor 
BARBARA  FOG,  iashion  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  reviewer 


CARL  SCHROEDER,  western  manager 
BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
BOB  BEERMAN,  staff  photographer 
BERT  PERRY,  staff  photographer 
BARBARA  GOLD,  assistant  editor 
IRENE  TURNER,  research  editor 
CAROL  CARTER,  beauty  editor 


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Advertiseuient 


'Heari! 


'TWAS  A  COUPLE  OF 
NIGHTS  BEFORE 
CHRISTMAS  AND 
JOAN  LANSING  ALL  THROUGH  THE 
HOUSE  not  a  creature 
was  stirring  .  .  .  they  were  all  ab- 
sorbed in  listening  to  ABC's  fabu- 
lous Friday  night  programs. 

Yes,  ma'am,  here's  one  handsomely 
wrapped  "package"  that'll  give  you 
plenty  of  excitement  all  season 
long. 

The  Santa  Claus  Samaritan  of  the 
hills  rides  into  thrilling  action  at 
7:30  PM  (EST).  Yes,  it's  THE 
LONE  RANGER  offering  the  spe- 
cial brand  of  "good  will  toward 
men"  that  makes  tingling  listening. 
(Season's  greetings  and  "cheerios" 
from  General  Mills.) 

THE  FAT  MAN  jovially  sets  the 
pace  at  8  PM  (EST).  The  portly 
crime-chaser  is  a  refreshing  bracer 
on  a  Friday  night  .  .  .  and  at  this 
time  of  year,  appropriately  enough, 
is  carried  by  Camels  (Cigarettes, 
that  is!). 

What  else  keeps  folks  by  the  fire- 
side on  Friday  nights?  THIS  IS 
YOUR  F.B.L  on  your  local  ABC 
station  is  one  big  factor!  This 
great  public  service  Jerry  Devine 
dramatization,  with  cases  taken 
from  actual  F.B.L  files,  is  an  8:30 
PM  (EST)  high-light.  The  Equita- 
ble Life  Assurance  Society  of  the 
United  States  sponsors  this  dy- 
namic documentary. 

Another  Friday  night  special  "fil- 
lip" comes  along  at  9  PM  (EST) 
when  THE  ADVENTURES  OF 
OZZIE  AND  HARRIET  gladden 
your  local  ABC  station's  airwaves. 
OZZIE,  HARRIET,  DAVID  and 
RICKY  continue  to  whip  up  family 
fun  that's  bright  as  sunshine.  (To 
quote  a  "snack"  note  from  the 
wizard-of-OZZIE:  "At  noon,  at 
night,  at  other  times  .  .  .  warm  up 
with  soups  by  H.  J.  HEINZ!") 
Stay  in  the  saddle,  sister,  because 
THE  SHERIFF  is  riding  into  your 
home  at  9:30  PM  (EST).  The  fear- 
less Friday  night  enforcer  of  law 
and  order  is  a  most  welcome  guest 
as  he  tells  the  tales  of  the  west 
that  everyone  likes  best.  The  Pacific 
Coast  Borax  Company  keeps  THE 
SHERIFF'S  shiny  star  well  pol- 
ished. 

HARRY  WISHER  "sparks"  the 
CHAMPION  ROLL  CALL  to  sports 
at  9:55  PM  (EST)  for  Champion 
Spark  Plugs  .  .  .  and  at  10  PM 
(EST)  you'll  thrill  to  the  action  of 
THE  FIGHTS  .  .  .  punch-ful  of  Fri- 
day night  entertainment.  Gillette 
keenly  sponsors  the  series. 

That's  it  for  your  Friday  night 
pleasure  on  your  local  ABC  station 
...  a  prize  "package"  of  variety 
and  spice  all  season  long. 

MERRY  CHRISTMAS! 


WHAT  HAPPENED  TO  LANA? 

■  When  she  came  out  of  the  anesthetic  and  they  told  her  she  had  lost  the 
baby,  Lana  Turner  cried. 

"We  wanted  that  baby  more  than  anything  else  on  earth,"  she  said. 

She  looked  at  the  nurse  and  then  her  eyes  traversed  the  room  at  St.  John's 
Hospital,  and  they  seemed  to  say,  "Why  should  this  happen  to  me?  What 
have  I  done  to  deserve  this?" 

The  irony  of  it  all  was  that  Lana  had  gone  through  a  strenuous  schedule  in 
the  making  of  Mr.  Imperiiim  with  Ezio  Pinza.  She  had  taken  the  location 
trips  in  stride,  the  long  hours,  the  lengthy  rehearsals,  the  hot,  hard  hours  under 
the  burning  lights.  She  had  been  especially  careful  of  her  every  step.  No 
unnecessary  chances  for  her.  No  repetition  of  the  miscarriage  she  had 
suffered  in  New  York  in  January  1949. 

Bob  and  Lana  wanted  a  little  playmate  for  eight-year-old  Cheryl  and  it 
looked  very  much  as  if  their  wish  were  well  on  the  road  to  fulfillment — well  on 
the  way  until  that  perverse  fate,  which  has  doggedly  followed  Lana's  ever>- 
footstep,  caught  up  with  her. 

It  was  Monday  night,  October  23rd.  Lana  was  at  home  with  her  husband 
in  the  new  Holmby  Hills  residence  they  had  recently  purchased.  Lana  stepped 
from  her  den  to  a  porch  which  had  been  freshly  waxed  and,  when  she  started 
to  slip,  she  called  out  "Bob," 

Topping  came  running  from  the  den.  He  picked  Lana  up  in  his  arms, 
rushed  her  into  his  car,  and  raced  down  to  St.  John's  Hospital  in  Santa  Monica. 

Dr.  Leslie  Spicer  took  over,  but  it  was  too  late.  Lana  had  suffered  a  mis- 
carriage. There  was  no  need  to  give  her  a  low  spinal  to  protect  the  baby. 
Since  the  baby,  in  its  sixth  month  of  development,  was  dead. 

Physically  Lana  had  a  relatively  easy  time  in  her  ordeal,  but  mentally  she 
suffered  poignantly — for  if  ever  a  child  was  wanted,  this  was  it. 

Two  years  ago  when  Lana  suffered  her  first  miscarriage,  the  RH  blood 
factor  was  involved,  but  this  time  the  doctors  declared  that  the  negative  RH 
factor  had  nothing  to  do, with  the  miscarriage. 

Last  spring  when  Lana  discovered  that  she  was  an  expectant  mother  she 
told  everyone.  "Bob  and  I  couldn't  possibly  be  happier.  Both  of  us  have 
always  wanted  and  planned  for  a  large  family." 

Fortunately,  Lana  may  still  have  other  babies.  In  fact  there  is  nothing  that 
would  more  quickly  drive  the  sadness  out  of  her  heart  than  the  knowledge 
that  she  is  again  expecting. 

{"The  Sorrows  of  Lana  Turner"  will  appear  in  February's  Modern  Screen.) 


p.  Is  it  true  that  Rita  Hayworth  and 
Aly  Khan  are  on  the  verge  of  a  divorce? 

— J.  H.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

A.  There  has  been  no  divorce  talk,  but 
newspapermen  on  the  Continent  predict 
that  Rita's  marriage  to  Aly  will  not  be 
her  last.  Of  late,  Rita  and  her  husband 
have  not  been  seen  together  very  much 
in  public.  Rita  has  dated  no  individual 
man,  but  from  time  to  time,  she  has 
surrounded  herself  with  single  men  and 
couples.  Rita  has  been  told  that  unless 
she  makes  a  motion  picture  early  in  1951 
there  is  a  very  great  danger  that  the 


American  public  will  forget  her  com- 
pletely. 

p.  I've  been  told  that  during  the  making 
of  Red  Badge  of  Courage  Audie  Mur- 
phy and  Bill  Mauldin  refused  to  talk  to 
each  other  and  in  fact,  engaged  in  sev- 
eral fist  fights.  Is  that  true? 

— T.  Y.,  Austin,  Texas 

A.  There  were  absolutely  no  fist  fights 
between  Mauldin  and  Murphy  on  the 
set  of  the  picture  in  question. 

(Continued  on  page  23) 


Mr.Music  makes 
it  the  happiest 
holiday  of  all! 

It's  Mr.  Music,  Himself  ...  In 

The  Musical  Story  Packed  with 
All  The  Fun  and  Songs 

and  Dancing  and  Spectacle 

Anyone  Could  Ask  For! 


Proteil  by  ROBERl  L  WELCH 
Suggested  by  a  Play  by  Samson  Raphaelson 
lyiics  by  lobnny  Burke 


Written  for  the  Screen  by  Arthur  Sheekman 
Music  by  James  Van  Heusen  •  A  Paramount  Picture 


LOUELLA 
PARSONS 


"Come  as  your  suppressed  desire  .  .  ."  the  invitation  read.  So  Jane  Powell  bor- 
rowed the  corset  she  wears  in  MGM's  Tlt'O  -  Weeks  With  Love  and  her  husband, 
Geary,  wore  a  costume  from  Nancy  Goes  to  Rio  at  the  Press  Photogrophers'  Boll. 


EVERYBODY  CLICKED  AT  THE  PHOTOGRAPHERS'  BALL 


ONLY   HARVEY   MISSED   HIS   PREMIERE  . 


SCHIAPARELLI'S 


FOR  fun,  gaiety,  and  glamourous  costumes 
the  Hollywood  Press  Photographers'  Ball 
doesn't  have  to  take  a  back  seat  to  any  Mardi 
Gras.  This  year  the  camera  boys  asked  the 
stars  to  come  as  their  suppressed  desires,  and 
the  effect  was  hilarious. 

For  a  while  Bob  Climmings  stole  the  show  as 
a  Petty  girl  done  up  in  a  blond  wig  and  a  pink 
and  blue  bathing  suit.  His  wife  was  dressed 
up  as  his  manager. 

Both  Shelley  Winters  and  Dorothy  Parker 
showed  up  as  angels!  Very  worldly  angels, 
to  be  sure. 

Anne  Baxter,  in  full  Santa  Claus  costume, 
complete  with  white  whiskers,  said  she  picked 
that  because  St.  Nick  only  has  to  work  one 
day  a  year.  John  Hodiak  went  Anne  one  bet- 
ter in  a  beachcomber's  outfit — because  they 
never  have  to  work. 

The  most  startling  personality  switch  was 
made  by  super  dignified  Jean  Hersholt.  No 


one  recgnized  him  as  a  decrepit,  red  nosed 
tramp. 

In  a  lovely  ballerina  costume,  Liz  Taylor 
looked  like  she  would  pirouette  any  minute, 
while  Nicky  Hilton  was  an  old  fashioned 
Southern  gambler.  Next  to  me  sat  Paul  Brink- 
man  as  a  sultan  v/ith  a  harem  of  one:  Jearme 
Grain,  of  course. 

Van  Johnson  was  a  minister,  but  that  wasn't 
his  suppressed  desire.  He  had  waited  un- 
til the  last  minute,  and  that  was  the  quickest 
costume  he  could  get  from  the  studio  wardrobe 
department.    Evie  was  a  princess. 

Ann  Blyth  was  Sadie  Thompson  and  her 
date,  Scott  Brady,  came  as  a  lamppost  for  her 
to  lean  against. 

One  of  the  most  exciting  costumes  of  the 
evening  was  Steve  Gochran's.  He  was  an 
eagle,  and  the  costume  was  so  real  that  he 
couldn't  open  his  mouth,  so  he  couldn't  be  fed. 
Steve  was  with  Yvonne  DeCarlo,  whose  sup- 


pressed desire  was  to  be  an  opera  singer. 

Dressed  as  Marlene  Dietrich,  beautiful 
Arlene  Dahl  looked  like  it  was -her  ambition 
to  show  her  legs,  but  Lex  Barker  apparently 
wanted  to  get  away  from  those  drafty  Tarzan 
outfits.  His  Russian  Hussar  outfit  made  him 
the  most  completely  covered  man  there.  That 
pair  has  that  "we'll  get  married  soon"  look. 

John  Derek  was  a  soldier  with  a  dove  of 
peace  on  his  shoulder,  while  Patti  was  the 
Goddess  of  War.  Gene  Tiemey  made  a 
charming  French  doll,  and  Art  Linkletter  was 
dressed  in  nothing  but  money! — a  popular 
suppressed  desire! 

Roddy  McDowall,  as  Charlie  Chaplin, 
was  with  Betty  Lynn,  as  Clara  Bow.  But  a 
pair  of  show  stoppers  came  as  themselves : 
Cesar  Romero  and  Anne  Sheridan  did  a 
Charleston  that  had  the  crowd  howling  for 
more. 

Almost  too  disguised  were  Larry  Parks,  Bet- 


Piper  Laurie  and  friend  arrive  with  cave-man 
Rock  Hudson.  {For  a  story  of  Piper  and  news 
of  Modern  Screen's  contest  see  page  55) 


Shelley  Winters  is  the  one  with  the  halo.  Sadie  Hobo  King  Red  Skelton  is  o  ^part-time  camero 
Thompson  BIyth — it's  Ann  under  that  blonde  fiend.  He  was  beside  himself  when  Arlene  Dahl 
wig — cocks  on  ear  for  some  heavenly  music.      (in  Dietrich's  Kismet  costume)  offered  to  pose. 


Like  the  courtly  Southern  gentleman  he  por- 
trays, Nick  Hilton  offers  assistance  to  beautiful 
Liz  Taylor,  who  desired  to  be  a  ballet  dancer. 


Janet  Leigh  came  as  Juliet,  with  Tony  Curtis 
OS  her  Romeo.  Janet  could  have  had  her  choice 
of  Romeos  that  night,   but  stayed  with  Tony. 


These  two  were  just  a  couple  of  clowns  on  their 
way  to  a  brawl,  and  hod  everyone  guessing. 
Gentleman  is   Betty  Garrett  and   lady,  Larry. 


COLLECTION    OPENED    OUR  EYES 


JUNE    ALLYSON    HAD    THE    BABY    SHOWER    SHE'S    WANTED    FOR    SO  LONG. 


ty  Garrett  and  Ruth  Roman.  They  were  clowns, 
and  no  one  recognized  them. 

The  entertainment — as  if  the  party  wasn't 
entertainment  enough — was  headlined  by  Red 
Skelton,  who  was  dressed  in  rags  and  tat- 
ters underneath  a  regal  ermine  robe,  Danny 
Kaye  (he  played  it  straight),  and  Bill  Bendix 
(a  railroad  engineer).  Bob  Mitchum  as  Brig- 
ham  Young,  the  man  of  many  wives,  sang  a 
duet  with  Jane  Russell,  done  up  as  one  of  the 
wives. 

The  party  went  on  until  the  wee,  small 
hours. 

SHIRLEY  Temple  is  now  free  to  marry 
Charles  Black,  the  man  whom  the  whole 
world  knows  Shirley  loves  and  who  loves 
Shirley.  Her  California  divorce  from  John 
Agar  became  final  December  6. 

But  whether  or  not  Shirley  and  the  San 
Francisco  socialite,  who  took  an  advertising 


job  in  Los  Angeles  just  to  be  near  his  beloved, 
are  married  by  the  time  you  read  this  de- 
pends on  whether  or  not  young  Black  is  in 
the  Navy. 

Black  came  out  of  World  War  II  a  Lieuten- 
ant Commander  with  a  wonderful  record.  He 
had  done  heroic  intelligence  missions  behind 
the  Jap  lines  in  the  Dutch  East  Indies. 

Many  reserves  have  already  been  called 
for  the  war  in  Korea  and  when  I  asked  Shirley 
if  there  were  any  barriers  to  their  marriage, 
she  said  in  a  serious  and  sober  voice,  "The 
only  thing  that  would  stop  us  is  world  affairs. 
Who  can  say  what  will  happen?" 

I  am  willing  to  say  that  if  they  aren't  mar- 
ried by  the  time  you  read  this,  they  will  be 
soon,  war  or  no  war.  (For  Shiiley's  aiticle. 
How  I  Feel  About  Love,  please  turn  to 
page  35) 

June  Allyson's  adoring  husband,  Dick 
Powell  told  me: 


"She's  the  happiest  pregnant  woman  I've 
ever  seen." 

One  look  at  Junie  and  you're  bound  to 
agree. 

The  girls  who  gathered  at  Helen  Rose's 
shower  for  Junie  know  that  what  Dick  said 
was  true.  With  every  gift  June  let  out  a 
squeal  of  joy.  The  presents  were  all  lovely, 
and  she  was  so  happy  that  at  last  she  had 
a  baby  shower.  She  had  wanted  one  for  so 
long. 

Lana  Turner,  Frances  Bergen,  Liz  Taylor, 
Mrs.  Van  Johnson,  and  all  of  June's  girl- 
friends at  MGM  brought  fetching  presents  for 
June's  baby. 

One  of  the  gifts  that  received  a  lot  of  at- 
tention was  made  by  Mrs.  Ricardo  Montalban 
(Georgianna  Young,  Loretta's  sister).  It  was 
a  tree  to  hang  baby  clothes  on,  and  the  top 
was  made  like  a  baby's  head,  with  felt  eye- 
lashes.  On  the  stand  was  a  yellow  organdy 


''Well  remember  him  as  long  as  there  is  music  .  .  .  " 


■■  Al  Jolson,  the  greatest  showman  of  our 
age,  died  as  he  lived — with  a  smile  in  his 
eyes  and  a  joke  on  his  lips.  With  millions 
of  others  throughout  the  world  I  share  the 
loss  of  a  great  American,  a  great  man,  and 
a  great  friend.  For  Al  was  a  friend  to  every- 
one who  listened  to  him,  and  made  them  feel 
it.  My  own  loss  is  a  particularly  personal 
one  for  Al  had  been  a  close  friend  of  mine 
for  more  than  thirty-five  years,  and  I'll  never 
forget  that  he  last  talked  to  all  of  us  on  my 
radio  program  in  a  speech  from  far  off  Korea 
that  won  the  thanks  not  only  of  the  fighting 
boys  out  there,  but  from  their  anxious  par- 
ents here  at  home  as  well.  (A  recent  picture 
ot  Jolson  and  his  wife,  Erie,  is  at  righf.) 

Al  was  close  to  seventy — he  never  wanted 
to  reveal  his  true  age — when  he  went  to 
Korea  as  the  first  entertainer  from  home  to 
visit  the  battlefront.  Just  as  he  had  been 
the  first  entertainer  to  go  overseas  in  World 
War  II.  At  that  age  it  spelled  extra  hard- 
ship for  him,  but  he  felt  the  kids  who  were 


risking  their  lives  and  going  through  untold 
suffering  needed  help,  and  he  was  going  to 
see  that  they  got  it  in  whatever  measure  he 
could  give.  The  greatest  happiness  in  the 
closing  years  of  his  life  was  that  The  Jolson 
Story  and  Jolson  Sings  Again  brought  him  the 
same  solid  popularity  with  this  generation 
that  he  had  enjoyed  years  ago.  He  was  so 


proud  when  he  told  me  his  recent  records 
had  exceeded  Crosby,  Como,  Sinatra,  and 
other  crooners  in  Sales.  "Gosh,"  he  said,  "I 
never  dreamed  the  modern  kids  would  like 
the  way  I  sing,  but  the  teen-agers,  bless 
them,  are  the  best  customers  for  my  records." 

It  was  Bing  Crosby  who  had  Al  on  a  radio 
program  for  the  first  time  after  the  tremendous 
success  of  The  Jolson  Story,  and,  by  one  of 
those  quirks  of  fate,  it  was  for  another  pro- 
gram of  Bing's  that  Al,  tired  as  he  was  from 
the  exhausting  Korean  trip,  journeyed  to  San 
Francisco,  where  he  died.  Al  loved  to  sing, 
any  time,  any  place,  and  for  any  audience, 
large  or  small.  It  was  the  secret  of  his  suc- 
cess and  his  popularity,  for  his  listeners 
sensed  that  love  of  singing  in  him,  and  re- 
sponded to  it  with  joy  and  enthusiasm. 

Yes,  Al  is  gone,  but  his  songs  will  ring 
forever  in  our  hearts.  And  the  memory  of 
him  never  can  grow  dim  as  long  as  there 
is  music  in  the  world. 

LouELLA  O.  Parsons 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

dress,  a  bath  robe,  a  bonnet  and  baby  shoes, 
so  that  all  together  it  looked  just  like  a  life 
size  baby  doll. 

June  says  she  hopes  her  baby  doesn't  ar- 
rive on  Christmas  Day  because  Pamela,  her 
adopted  daughter,  would  be  so  disappointed 
if  June  wasn't  home  for  Christmas. 

Let's  take  a  look  at  those  rumors  that  the 
Elizabeth    Taylor-Nicky    Hilton  marriage 
won't  last  a  year. 

They  had  barely  gotten  to  the  altar  when 
some  of  the  cynics  started  knifing  away.  The 
reason?  Elizabeth  was  just  too  beautiful,  and 
Nicky  was  just  too  wealthy. 

It's  certainly  true  that  Elizabeth  was  one  of 
the  most  gorgeous  brides  Hollywood  has  ever 
seen.  As  for  Nicky,  not  only  is  he  heir  to 
one  of  the  nation's  biggest  hotel  chains,  but 
he  has  controlling  interest  in  the  swank  Bel 
Air  Hotel. 

But  is  that  enough  reason  for  the  sour 
grapes? 

To  know  Elizabeth,  is  to  recognize  that  she 
is  mature  beyond  her  years.  As  I  watched 
them  dance  at  the  Hollywood  Photographers' 
Ball,  I  thought: 

"You're  beautiful,  all  right.  Beautiful  like 
a  fox  and  twice  as  smart." 

They  know  the  rumors.  And  they  are  learn- 
ing first  hand  about  the  adjustments  to  mar- 
ried life  in  Hollywood  or  any  other  town. 
They  also  know  it's  more  than  worth  the 
effort. 

I THINK  this  next  year  will  tell  whether  or 
not  Janet  Leigh  becomes  Hollywood's 
latest  femme  fatale.  She  is  certainly  pretty 
enough  to  be  a  heart  breaker. 

I  can  just  see  you  shaking  your  head  and 
saying,  "Oh,  no.  She's  too  sweet." 

You're  absolutely  right.   She's  one  of  the 
sweetest  young  girls  in  our  town.   But  don't 
forget  that  many  a  glamour  gal  has  left  a 
8    trail  of  broken  hearts  when  she  didn't  think 


she  was  any  more  dangerous  than  the  kid 
sister  of  the  boy  who  lived  next  door. 

Janet  wasn't  any  older  than  someone's  kid 
sister  when  she  married  the  first  time.  She 
was  15.  Before  she  was  out  of  her  teens,  she 
tried  matrimony  again — ^with  disastrous  ef- 
fects. 

Last  year,  Janet  was  again  that  close  to 
wedding  bells  with  Arthur  Loew,  Jr.  She  had 
even  picked  Liz  Taylor  as  her  matron  of 
honor. 

This  year,  Janet  is  being  seen  everywhere 
with  Tony  Curtis,  and  the  glamour  is  begin- 
ning to  show. 

Next  year,  who  knows?  It'll  be  interesting 
to  watch.  (^Interesting  to  read  is.  It  This  Isn't 
Love,  on  page  16. — Ed.) 

The  zoo  that  Errol  Flynn  has  at  his  hilltop 
"Mulholland  Farm"  above  Hollywood  may 
soon  be  just  another  memory  like  Pola 
Negri's  leopards. 

Latest  resident  of  the  private  zoo  to  leave 
is  Chico,  Errol's  pet  ape.  The  neighbors  com- 
plained about  Chico,  and  I  can  hardly  say  I 
blame  them.  I'll  wager  his  bride  wouldn't 
have  cared  for  this  kind  of  pet  either. 

Having  an  ape  live  across  the  street  would 
be  enough  to  make  me  nervous,  but  Chico 
developed  a  very  disturbing  habit.  He  began 
getting  up  early,  and  his  shrieking  got  on 
the  neighbors'  nerves.  The  few  neighbors 
who  weren't  nervous  already,  that  is. 

THE  one  Hollywood  affair  that  brought  out 
white  ties  and  tails  was  the  very  ultra 
ultra  Sadler's  Wells  Ballet  followed  by  a 
supper  party  at  Romanoff's 

Modern  Screen  magazine  and  all  the  other 
camera  boys  had  a  field  day.  Can  you 
imagine  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clark  Gable,  Sir 
Laurence  Olivier  and  Vivien  Leigh,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Ronald  Colman,  Cilfton  Webb,  and  Mrs. 
Darryl  Zanuck — all  sitting  at  the  same  table? 

Nearby,  I  sat  with  the  Gregory  Pecks, 
Rosalind  Russell  and  Freddie  Brisson  and 
Bentley  Ryan,  attractive  young  Hollywood 
lawyer. 

We  were  all  in  a  daze  after  the  ballet.  It 


was  so  wonderful.  Margot  Fonteyn,  who  is 
grace  and  perfect  precision  personified,  was 
the  subject  of  our  conversation.  She  is  cer- 
tainly the  top  ballerina  of  the  world  today. 
Very  late,  she  and  her  partner,  Robert  Help- 
mann,  joined  the  Colman  party. 

I  saw  Greer  Garson  at  the  theater,  and  she 
has  put  on  just  a  speck  of  weight,  which  is 
very  becoming. 

Mary  Lee  Fairbanks  (Mrs.  Douglas)  told 
me  young  Doug  was  still  in  London.  She  was 
sitting  with  Richard  Greene  and  Patricia 
Medina.  Incidentally,  it  was  their  second  ap- 
pearance together  in  a  week,  and  that  started 
up  the  question  again  of  whether  or  not  they 
will  reconcile.  They  won't. 

Seems  it  was  a  night  for  husbands  to  bring 
their  estranged  wives.  Ida  Lupino  was  there 
with  none  other  than  Collier  Young. 

JEAN  Simmons  and  Stewart  Granger  cer- 
tainly prove  that  it's  love  that  mokes  the 
world  go  'round. 

I've  never  seen  two  young  people  more 
radiantly  happy  or  more  in  love  than  Jean  and 
Stewart  when  the  three  of  us  dined  together 
at  Romanoff's  the  night  they  announced  their 
engagement. 

They  told  me  they  hoped  to  marry  some- 
time during  the  first  of  the  year  with  Gary 
Grant  and  Betsy  Drake  as  their  best  man  and 
matron  of  honor.  But  I  wouldn't  be  surprised 
if  they  are  Mr.  and  Mrs.  by  the  time  you 
read  this — even  if  it  means  going  against  the 
wishes  of  Jean's  British  boss,  J.  Arthur  Rank. 

Confidentially,  I  hope  they  do,  because  it's 
over  three  years  since  they  first  fell  in  love. 
Rank  persuaded  them  to  part  then,  because 
Jean  was  only  17. 

"And  now?"  I  asked. 

"Now  I'm  21,  and  my  own  boss  of  the  heart 
department,"  Jean  said.  "And  my  heart  still 
belongs  to  Granger!" 

THE  fashion  news  of  the  year  was  Madame 
Schiaparelli's  invasion  of  Hollywood. 
Quite  a  switch  when  you  consider  that- Ameri- 
can fashion  experts  (Continued  on  page  J0)> 


STARRING 


DAI  BRIAN  JOHN  AGAR  FRANK  LOVEM  SUZANNE 


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DIRECTED  BY  LEWIS  SEILER  Screen  Play  by  BERNARD  GIRARD  and  TED  SHERDEMAN  From  a  Story  by  Joseph  I.  Breen,  Jr.  PRODUCED  Br  BRYAN  FOY 


Straight  out  of  the  Arabian  Nights,  via  Beverly 
Hills.  Paul  Brinkman  and  Jeanne  are  gorgeous 
as  a  Sultan  and  his  one  and  only  harem  girl. 


It's  easy  to  see  why  John  Lindsay  should  want 
to  photograph  his  wife.  Diana  Lynn  is  as 
dazzling  with  raven  hair  as  she  is  when  blonde. 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

travel  to  France  twice  a  year  to  see  the 
famous  Paris  collections. 

Her  showing  at  the  Beverly  Hills  hotel  was 
given  as  a  benefit  for  the  John  Tracy  Clinic, 
started  for  deaf  children  by  Mrs.  Spencer 
Tracy  to  help  children  afflicted  like  her  son 
John. 

Keynote  of  Schiap's  collection  was  light 
colors.  The  gowns  were  white,  yellow, 
orange  and  flame. 

So  you  can  imagine  my  surprise  when  she 
turned  up  at  dinner  in  a  smart  silk  dress — 
but  black! 

Don't  think  our  designers  didn't  perk  up 
and  take  notes  on  her  newest  styles.  But  one 
said:  "Bringing  color  to  California  is  like 
bringing  coals  to  Newcastle!" 

Meow! 

WHO  would  have  thought  looking  at 
Greer  Garson  a  year  ago  that  marriage 
would  have  had  such  a  profound  effect  on 
her? 

She  was  so  urban  and  sophisticated  as  she 
moved  through  the  most  elite  drawing  rooms 
of  Beverly  Hills  and  Bel  Air  that  no  one  could 
dream  that  in  just  a  short  year  she  would  be 
winning  blue  ribbons  for  prize  cattle  at  a 
county  fair  in  New  Mexico. 

But  when  Greer  does  something,  she  does 
it  all  the  way,  and  that's  the  attitude  she  had 
10  when  she  married  Buddy  Fogelson  over  a 


year  and  a  half  ago. 

First  she  became  an  American  citizen.  Then 
while  Buddy  was  in  the  hospital  she  began 
shipping  prize  cattle  to  his  ranch  in  New 
Mexico.  When  he  got  out  of  the  hospital  she 
took  him  to  Palm  Springs  to  nurse  him  back 
to  health. 

You  have  to  take  your  hat  off  to  Greer  for 
the  way  she  has  fit  herself  in  to  her  husband's 
way  of  life. 

THE  plush  premiere  of  Harvey  at  the 
Cathay  Circle  Theater  was  like  old  times, 
with  all  the  glitter  and  glamour,  the  parade 
of  beautifully  gowned  and  bejeweled  stars, 
and  the  welcoming  shrieks  of  the  fans  in  the 
bleachers,  all  adding  to  the  excitement  of  the 
evening. 

Number  one  spotlight-getter  was  Shelley 
Winters,  who  arrived  on  the  arm  of  Dan 
DaUey.  Mighty  fetching  she  looked,  too,  all 
done  up  in  shimmering  cloth  of  gold  which 
matched  her  shiny  golden  hair. 

"This  is  one  time  they  can't  accuse  me  of 
breaking  up  a  home,"  Shelley  laughed.  "Dan 
and  his  wife  were  separated  before  I  ever 
met  him!" 

Shelley  and  Farley  Granger  have  not  re- 
sumed their  steady  romancing,  now  that  he's 
back  from  Europe.  And  it  doesn't  look  as  if 
they'll  ever  be  thataway  again.  Of  course, 
they're  still  good  friends — or  are  they? 

What  a  gala  night  it  was!  I  can't  remem- 
ber actually  when  I  have  been  so  neck-deep 
in  stars,  which  was  ginger-peachy  for  me, 
because  I  was  broadcasting  the  event  to 
90,000,000  people  via  my  own  radio  show  and 
a  special  recording  for  the  Armed  Forces 
Radio  Service. 

Yvonne  DeCarlo,  who  was  there  with  Steve 
Cochran,  had  on  enough  mink  to  last  a  life- 
time in  Labrador. 

Deborah  Paget,  who  had  never  attended  a 
premiere  before,  was  there  when  the  doors 
opened.  She  was  that  excited. 

A  cute  couple,  too,  were  Donald  O'Connor 
and  his  wife.  Don  was  sporting  one  of  those 
dinner  jackets  in  midnight  blue.  And  speak- 
ing of  dress  clothes.  Bill  "Hopalong"  Boyd 
always  looks  so-o-o  handsome  in  his.  There's 
something  about  the  contrast  of  black  and 
that  silvery  hair  of  his  that  never  fails  to  set 
the  gals'  hearts  a-pumping  extra  fast.  Judging 
from  the  cheers  he  received.  Bill  has  as  many 
ardent  fans  among  the  grown-ups  as  he  num- 
bers among  his  kids. 

There  was  lots  of  applause,  too,  for  Judy 
Canova  and  her  new  bridegroom,  Phillip 
Rivero.  It  was  his  first  "preem"  and  he  took 
it  big.  But  no  bigger  than  Judy,  who  was 
decked  to  the  teeth  in  a  dazzling  white  fox 
and  orchids. 

Howard  Duff  was  with  Piper  (flower  eat- 
ing) Laurie.  Evelyn  Keyes  with  Freddie 
DeCordova,  the  Jack  Bennys,  the  Ezio  Pinzas, 
the  Pat  O'Briens,  Ruth  Hussey — etc.,  etc. 

Well,  everybody  was  there  except  Harvey 
— and.  after  the  premiere  there  was  a  table 
marked  "Reserved  for  Harvey"  at  the  Cocoa- 
nut  Grove  but  he  didn't  show  up  there  either. 

I  love  the  card  that  went  with  a  bouquet 
of  flowers  a  young  actor  sent  to  Evelyn  Keyes. 
It  said: 

"May  you  rise  with  the  cost  of  living." 

I don't  like  to  snitch  on  anyone,  and  maybe 
this  word  of  warning  will  be  sufficient  for 
a  pretty  and  very  popular  young  married 
star: 

She's  being  very  indiscreet  in  her  frequent 
meetings  with  another  popular  star,  now 
separated  from  his  wife. 


Even  if  those  meetings  are  quite  public,  and 
she  takes  her  girl  friend  with  her,  people  are 
beginning  to  talk.  And  it's  not  nice  talk, 
either. 

If  it's  just  a  passing  infatuation,  as  I  sus- 
pect, she's  a  silly  girl  to  jeopardize  her  home, 
her  children,  and  the  love  of  her  adoring 
husband.  She's  asking  for  trouble,  too,  be- 
cause he's  the  jealous  type — as  he  has  al- 
ready proved  once.  If  it  is  a  serious  romance, 
then  make  the  break  a  clean  one. 

It's  wonderful  to  see  the  public's  response 
to  Alan  Ladd's  "Adopt  a  G.I.  Pen  Pal" 
campaign  which  is  snowballing  to  huge  pro- 
portions. 

Like  all  of  us,  Alan  was  heartsick  when  he 
saw  so  many  of  our  wounded  American  boys 
— just  kids — on  his  recent  visits  to  Farfield 
hospital  near  San  Francisco.  He  was  also 
distressed  to  learn  that  30  percent  of  the 
men  there  and  in  Korea  have  no  family  ties 
at  all  and,  therefore,  receive  no  mail  of  any 
kind. 

Right  away  he  got  busy,  and  with  the 
help  of  Sue  and  their  daughter  Carol,  he 
started  enlisting  friends  to  "adopt"  a  soldier, 
sailor,  or  marine  by  writing  personal  letters 
to  them.  The  idea  caught  on  like  wildfire, 
and  already  Alan  has  received  over  1200 
thank-you  letters  from  the  boys,  telling  him 
how  much  the  mail  from  their  new  "famOies" 
encourages  them  to  keep  on  doing  their  bitter 
duty  so  magnificently. 

It's  not  too  late  for  you  to  help  either. 
Just  call  the  Armed  Forces  Information  Ser- 
vice in  your  own  city — it's  listed  in  your 
telephone  book — and  ask  for  the  names  of 
the  chaplains  on  duty.  They  will  help  you 
to  "adopt"  your  ovm  G.  I.  pen  pal.  So  don't 
forget  to  call. 

If  ND  speaking  of  letters,  according  to  my 
mail,    the    thing    that    impressed  you 
most    about    Hollywood    during    the  past 
months  was  the  response  of  the  motion  pic- 
ture industry  to  the  war  in  Korea. 

When  Bob  Hope  took  a  whole  troupe  to 
Korea,  Hollywood  was  really  in  the  swing 
with  junkets  of  stars  traveling  wherever  our 
soldiers,  sailors,  and  marines  are  stationed, 
and  Jack  Benny  decided  to  play  Santa  Claus 
to  the  lonesome  boys  in  Korea. 

Usually  my  letters  about  Ruth  Roman  are 
from  young  men  who  want  to  date  her.  This 
time  one  came  from  a  Washington,  D.  C.  or- 
chestra leader  who  had  heard  about^  her 
visits  to  the  wounded  vets.  Ruth  said  that 
what  the  vets  wanted  more  than  anything 
was  money  enough  to  telephone  their  wives 
and  mothers.  The  orchestra  leader  asked 
permission  to  turn  over  his  tips  to  her  for 
that  fund. 

The  mail  has  certainly  disproved  the  be- 
lief that  all  bobbie-soxers  are  silly.  Here's 
a  typical  letter  I  got  from  a  teen-ager  in 
Chicago : 

"Ann  Blyth  is  my  idea  of  the  perfect 
American  girl.  A  lovely,  sincere  and  warm 
person,  it  shows  on  the  screen.  What  pleases 
me  is  that  she's  deeply  religious.  Believe 
me,  this  world  of  ours  could  do  with  some 
faith  in  God.  Otherwise  we  wouldn't  have 
these  wars,  one  after  another." 

It  makes  you  feel  warm  inside  to  know 
that  the  younger  generation  is  thinking  like 
that.  For  when  the  cards  are  down,  how 
can  a  nation  with  this  real  kind  of  faith  ever 
lose? 

Keep  the  letters  coming,  because  I  certainly 
want  to  know  what  you  think  of  the  stars 
and  who  you  want  to  hear  about. 


UGLY*  "Scrubbing  my  hands  constantly,  in  order  to  keep  them 
'hospital  clean,'  could  easily  make  them  look  red  and  ugly," 
says  Jean  Crow,  Registered  Nurse  of  Baltimore,  Maryland. 


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undergo,"  she  continues.  "I  use  Noxzema  throughout  the  day 
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Mrs.  J.  I.  Ransome, 

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Winona  McCture, 

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Betty  Jane  Hoken- 
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ry   tries    to    comfort    jealous,    aging    Bette.      Anne  becomes  famous,  but  Bette  finds  real  happiness  as  Gary's  wife. 


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■  All  About  Eve  runs  over  two  hours,  and  is  vastly  entertaining.  Some 
of  it  seems  to  me  pretty  unrealistic — for  instance,  the  idea  of  a  girl's 
telling  her  life  story  while  a  bunch  of  other  people  sit  silently  by, 
neither  quivering,  interrupting,  nor  even  blowing  their  noses,  is  a  little 
dated  by  now,  but  maybe  I'm  carping.  Bette  Davis  hasn't  acted  so 
much  or  so  good  in  years — she's  cast  as  an  aging  stage  star  who's 
in  love  with  a  younger  man,  and  frightened.  Anne  Baxter,  as  the 
evil  young  girl  who  moves  into  Bette's  life  and  dressing-room  (that's 
where  she  relates  her  lying  saga  to  the  rapt  audience  of  which  I 
spoke),  and  who  later  tries  to  take  over  Bette's  career  and  her  man, 
seemed  a  bit  hammy,  and  something  less  than  convincing  to  me.  So 
I  guess  I'll  have  to  sit  there  blushing  when  they  go  and  hand  her 
the  Academy  Award.  Also  suavely  unbelievable  is  George  Sanders 
as  a  wicked  columnist  who  wields  a  vitriolic  pen.  I  liked  Gary  Merrill 
(Bette's  fiance).  Celeste  Holm  and  Hugh  Marlowe  made  a  very  nice 
playwright  and  wife,  and  plenty  of  the  dialogue  is  fresh  and  exciting. 
I  don't  know  if  it's  a  good  satire  on  stage  people,  but  it's  certainly 
not  a  boring  one,  for  which  20th  Century-Fox  should  be  justly  proud. 


TO  PLEASE  A  LADY 

Here  are  some  big  famous  popular  stars  in 
a  lousy  picture,  so  it  you're  a  Gable  or  Stan- 
wyck fan,  you'll  just  have  to  take  your 
chances.  Clark's  a  racing  car  driver,  Bar- 
bara's a  newspaper  columnist.  She  can  make 
or  break  people,  and  she's  positively  intolerant 
of  evil-doers.  She  thinks  Clark's  ruthless,  runs 
over  folks  at  the  race  track  on  purpose,  so  she 
villifies  him  in  her  many  columns  until  the 
poor  slob  is  practically  forced  into  a  bread  line. 
Then  an  embezzler  she's  also  been  attacking  in 
her  column  kills  himself.  "Gosh,"  Barbara  cries, 
heartbrokenly,  "I  see  you  can  be  responsible 
for  killing  someone  even  when  you  got  no 
such  an  intention.  And  here  I  went  and 
rooned  Clark  Gable."  So  they  get  married. 
Honest,  it  goes  something  like  that. 
Cast:  Clmk  Gable,  Barbara  Stanwyck,  Adolphe 
Menjou. — MGM. 


THE  MINIVER  STORY 

The  Minivers  are  back,  and  you  can  have 
'em.  Mrs.  M.  (Greer)  is  loaded  with  charm, 
but  the  story  is  so  full  of  maudlin  situations, 
it's  nearly  unbearable.  There's  poor  John 
Hodiak,  the  brave  chins-up  American  soldier 
who's  fallen  in  love  with  Mrs.  M.  yet  re- 
solves to  go  back  to  his  own  most  fortunate 
wife.  While  you're  reeling  from  the  tragedy, 
the  Miniver  daughter  announces  that  she's  in 
love  with  a  general  who's  too  old  and  de- 
cadent for  any  good  reason.  (He  understands 
classical  music,  and  he's  been  married.)  Then 
Mrs.  M.  springs  some  personal  news  on  poor 
graying  Walter  Pidgeon  Miniver,  newly  re- 
turned from  the  war.  She  has  only  a  little 
while  to  live  herself.  Besides  that,  the  little 
boy  Miniver  keeps  talking  about  the  way  he 
prefers  America  (where  he'd  been  boarded 
out  for  the  duration).  I  remember  liking  the 
original  Mrs.  Miniver  picture  very  much,  so  I 
guess  I'm  simply  getting  old  and  sour. 
Cast:  Greer  Gar  son,  Walter  Pidgeon,  John 
Hodiak.  Leo  Genn,  Cathy  O'Donnell. — MGM. 


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MAD  WEDNESDAY 

Mad  Wednesday  starts  off  with  a  scene 
from  Harold  Lloyd's  old  masterpiece.  The 
Freshman,  and  goes  on  from  there.  You  watch 
the  years  turn  the  fiery  young  football  hero 
into  a  pathetic  aging  bookkeeper  who  finally 
loses  his  job.  On  the  day  he  loses  his  job, 
he  becomes  acquainted  with  strong  drink,  and 
horse-racing,  and  that's  the  beginning.  He 
buys  a  circus,  he  wears  a  plaid  suit,  he  es- 
corts a  lion  through  the  streets  as  he  goes 
calling  on  bankers.  (Most  of  the  bankers 
faint  dead  away,  but  there's  one  little  guy 
who's  nearly  stone  blind,  and  he  sits  right 
there  and  talks  back.  "You  got  no  call  to 
bring  a  dawg  in  here,"  he  sniffs.  "He  don't 
smell  good.    Go  on.  Rover,  get  outa  here.") 


There  is  no  moral  to  this  picture  except  maybe 
the  one  about  all  work  and  no  play,  because 
the  minute  Harold  embarks  on  a  career  of 
gambling,  women  and  song,  he  flourishes, 
and  so  will  you,  watching  him.  He  even  ends 
up  with  a  beautiful  young  girl  (Frances  Rams- 
den)  as  his  wife.  He's  been  in  love  with  her 
six  older  sisters  (one  at  a  time),  hopelessly, 
fatally,  in  love,  but  never  had  nerve  or  money 
enough  to  tell  any  of  them  his  story,  and  now 
the  seventh  falls  into  his  lap,  and  she's  the 
prize  of  the  pack.  "Your  sisters  kept  getting 
better  and  better,"  he  tells  her  at  one  point, 
and  she  says,  "Well,  Mother'd  had  more  prac- 
tice." Mad  Wednesday  is  a  prize  of  a  picture. 
Go  see  it. 

Cast:  Harold  Lloyd,  Raymond  Walburn,  Jim- 
my Conlin,  Frances  Ramsden. — RKO. 


TWO  WEEKS  WITH  LOVE 

A  delightful  period  piece  (Life  With  Father 
era)  about  a  family's  vacation  at  a  place 
called  Kissamee-in-the-Catskills.  Jane  Powell 
is  the  older  daughter  whose  cross  is  that  she 
doesn't  yet  wear  corsets.  (A  man  won't  look 
at  a  girl  who  doesn't  wear  corsets.)  Jane 
desperately  admires  Ricardo  Montalban,  but 
there  she  is  without  a  you-know-what,  and 
a  19-year-old  lady  menace  (Phyllis  Kirk)  on 
the  loose.  Louis  Calhern  plays  the  father  who 
inadvertently  blows  up  his  sons,  and  the 
younger  daughter  is  acted  by  Debbie  Rey- 
nolds, who  sings,  dances,  has  a  beautiful 
flair  for  comedy,  and  is  darn  cute  to  look  at. 
Carleton  (Lost  Boundaries,  Summer  Stock) 
Carpenter  gangles  through  this  too,  and  what 
I'm  curious  about  is,  does  he  really  walk  like 
that? 

Cast:  Jane  Powell,  Ricardo  Montalban,  Louis 
CaJhern.— MGM. 


THE  JACKPOT 

A  very  funny  picture  about  an  average 
American  family  and  what  happens  when 
they  win  an  average  American  $24,000  jack- 
pot. Jimmy  Stewart's  the  man  of  the  house 
who's  been  bewailing  his  dull  life.  Not  that  he 
doesn't  love  his  wife  and  kids,  just  that  it's 
suddenly  hit  him  all  of  a  heap  that  he'll  never 
get  to  the  North  Pole  with  Admiral  Byrd.  Radio 
prize  changes  that.  Jimmy  and  wife  Barbara 
Hale  don't  get  cash.  They  get  oil  paintings, 
grand  pianos,  an  interior  decorator  who  comes 
to  live  with  them,  and  the  news  that  the  in- 
come tax  on  all  this  largesse  will  amount  to 
$7000.  They  have  $490  in  the  bank,  so  their 
happy  home  nearly  breaks  up,  and  their  small 
daughter's  constant  demanding  to  know  if 
they're  planning  a  divorce  (she's  very  mod- 
ern) doesn't  help  any.  But  it's  all  good  clean 
fun,  and  I  heartily  recommend  it. 
Cast:  James  Stewart,  Barbara  Hale,  James 
Gleason. — 20th  Century-Fox. 


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QUESTIONNAIRE:  Which  stories  and  features  did  you  enjoy  most  in  the  January 
issue?  WRITE  THE  NUMBERS  I,  2,  3,  AT  THE  LEFT  of  your  first,  second,  and  third 
choices.    Then  let  us  know  what  stars  you'd  like  to  read  about  in  future  issues. 


□  The  Inside  Story 

□  Louella  Parsons'  Good  News 

□  If  This  Isn't  Love  (Curtis,  Leigh) 

□  Christopher  Kane's  Movie  Reviews 

□  He  Might  Have  Been  My  Son 
(John  Derek) 

□  My  Predictions  for  1951 
by  Hedda  Hopper 

□  Life  With  Loretta  (Loretta  Young) 

□  Season  in  the  Sun  (Alan  Ladd) 

□  How  I  Feel  About  Love 
by  Shirley  Temple 

□  Marilta's  Miracle 

□  What  Now,  Frankie  Boy? 
(Frank  Sinatra,  Ava  Gardner) 

□  Homemade  for  Happiness 
(Richard  Widmark) 

□  The  Girl  Who  Tamed  Don  Juan 
(Errol  Flynn) 

□  What  Price  Glamour?  (Betty  Grable) 

□  He  Gets  Away  With  Murder 
(Burt  Lancaster) 

□  Reunion  In  Italy 

(Robert  Taylor,  Barbara  Stanwyck) 

□  My  Christmas  Story  by  Bing  Crosby 

□  It's  a  Good  Life  (Piper  Laurie) 

□  No  Sad  Songs  For  Ronnie 
(Ronald  Reagan) 

□  Modern  Screen  Fashions 

n  Tell  It  To  Joan  (Joan  Evans) 


Which  of  the  stories  did  you  like  LEAST? 


What  3  MALE  stars  would  you  like  to 
read  about  in  future  issues?  List  them 
I,  2,  3,  in  order  of  preference. 


What  3  FEMALE  stars  would  you  like  to 
read  about  in  future  issues?  List  them 
I,  2,  3,  in  order  of  preference. 


What  MALE  star  do  you  like  least? 
What  FEMALE  star  do  you  like  least? 

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My  address  is  


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SCREEN.  BOX  125.  MURRAY  HILL 
STATION.    NEW   YORK    16.    N.  Y. 


Which  of  these  pictures  have  you  seen  in  1950:  Barricade  □,  Cinderella  □,  Dear 
Wife  □,  Devil's  Doorway  □,  Father  of  the  Bride  □,  Key  to  the  City  □,  Man  on  the 
Eiffel  Tower  □,  My  Friend  Irma  Goes  West  □,  Nancy  Goes  to  Rio  □,  No  Sad  Songs 
For  Me  □,  Our  Very  Own  □,  Slottery's  Hurricane  □,  So  Young  So  Bad  □,  Stage 
Fright  □,  Sword  in  the  Desert  □,  The  Big  Lift  □,  The  Black  Rose  □,  The  Daughter 
of  Rosie  O'Grady  □,  The  Happy  Years  □,  The  Men  □,  The  Petty  Girl  □,  The  Sleep- 
ing City  □,  Wagonmaster  □,  Winchester  73  □. 


14 


ROCKY  MOUNTAIN 


MRS.  O'MALLEY  AND  MR.  MALONE 


TRIPOLI 


Errol  Flyiin  and  eight  trusty  Confederate  sol- 
diers are  supposed  to  meet  an  outlaw  leader 
in  the  mountains  of  California.  Outlaw  lead- 
er's going  to  furnish  some  men,  help  the  Con- 
federacy take  the  West.  Errol  gets  mixed  up 
with  injuns,  helps  rescue  a  beautiful  .Yankee 
girl  on  her  way  to  meet  her  Union  fiance,  gets 
in  trouble  with  the  Union  fiance,  and  then  the 
outlaw  leader  is  killed  by  Indians,  and  the 
Union  fiance  goes  for  the  Union  Army,  and 
Errol  and  his  band  are  doomed.  They  die 
gallantly,  protecting  a  lady  (injuns  get  'em, 
but  they've  sent  the  lady  off  in  a  different  di- 
rection) and  when  the  Union  soldiers  arrive, 
they  erect  a  rebel  flag  on  the  spot.  Noblesse 
oblige.  Patrice  Wymore  plays  the  Yankee 
girl,  and  she's  the  one  Errol  married  in  real 
life,  as  you  probably  know. 
Casf:  EtioI  Flynn,  Patrice  Wymoie,  Scott 
Foibes,  Guinn  Wilhams. — Warners. 


There  has  hardly  ever  been  a  more  enjoy- 
able mystery  picture  than  this  one,  even  if  it's 
not  very  mysterious.  The  partners-in-detection 
involved  are  Marjorie  Main,  a  farm  lady  who's 
going  to  New  York  to  pick  up  a  passel  of 
money  she  won  from  a  radio  contest,  and 
James  Whitmore,  a  lawyer  who's  going  to 
New  York  to  track  down  a  guy  who  owes 
him  ten  thousand  dollars.  He  and  Marjorie 
race  through  a  New  York  bound  train  find- 
ing corpses  galore,  and  getting  into  hilari- 
ous trouble.  The  picture's  dialogue  is  fast 
and  funny.  When  somebody  asks  Whitmore, 
"Will  you  take  the  case?"  he  says,  "No,  I 
drink  it  by  the  bottle,"  and  a  lady  who's  been 
slapping  his  face  stops  long  enough  to  tell 
him,  "You'd  be  a  nice  man  for  a  girl  who  could 
like  a  man  like  you." 

Casf:  Maijorie  Main,  ]ames  Whitmoie,  Ann 
Dvoiak.—MGM. 


In  1805,  the  Marines  (seven  of  them)  went 
traipsing  across  the  Libyan  desert  to  fight  a 
bunch  of  Tripoli  pirates  who  "had  challenged 
America's  right  to  use  the  sea."  With  the 
seven  Marines  was  an  unusual  army,  built 
around  some  followers  of  a  dethroned  Pasha, 
a  bunch  of  Greek  mercenaries  (headed  by 
Howard  Da  Silva,  whose  Greek  sounds  strictly 
from  Brooklyn),  and  a  few  other  weird  men 
and  true.  The  plots  and  counterplots  beat  me. 
Maureen  O'Hara  (with  a  French  maid  named 
Henriette,  also  from  Flatbush)  tries  to  wed  the 
rich,  dethroned  Pasha  for  his  money,  until 
she  discovers  he's  not  an  honorable  man. 
Then  she  settles  for  John  Payne,  the  pride 
of  the  Marines.  Any  upright  money-loving 
girl  would  have  done  the  same.  I  liked  them 
nice  sandstorm-in-the-desert  scenes,  though. 
Cast:  Mauieen  O'Haia,  John  Payne,  Howard 
Da  Silva. — Paramount. 


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Since  her  surprise  romance  with  Tony  Curtis  started,  Janet  hos  stopped  doting  Arthur  Loew,  Jr.,  whom  friends  hod  thought  she  would  marry. 


1 0  a 


Why  does  Tony 
Curtis  say,  "I've  never  felt  like 
this  before"?   Why  is  he 
wearing  his  heart  in  his  eyes 
...   if  this  isn't  love? 

By   CONSUELO  ANDERSON 


■  They  met  at  a  party  three  years  ago. 

A  publicity  man  ushered  Tony  Curtis  over  to  Janet  Leigh's  table  and  said,  "Tony  Curtis, 
this  is  Janet  Leigh."  Tony  smiled  and  said,  "How  do  you  do?"  Janet  smiled  back.  That's 
how  Hollywood's  most  tempestuous  love  affair  began. 

Tony  says  he  can't  explain  it.  "I  just  stood  there,"  he  recalls,  "looking  at  her — I  guess  I 
was  staring — and  feeling  kind  of  silly,  but  my  heart  started  to  beat  in  double  time,  and 
I  said  to  myself,  'Gee,  Bernie!  This  Janet  Leigh  is  really  something,**  and  then  I  went  over 
and  asked  someone  about  her,  and  he  said,  'Lay  off,  kid — that  girl's  married.'  When  I 
heard  that,  it  was  kind  of  like  a  bullet  in  my  heart.  No  kidding.  I  was  only  twenty-one 
at  the  time,  and  you  know  how  it  is  when  you're  twenty-one.  You  start  dreaming  awfuUy 
fast,  and  then  suddenly — Poof!  The  whole  thing  goes  up  in  smoke." 

Janet,  who  by  nature  is  much  more  calm  and  contained,  (Continued  on  opposite  page) 


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than  Tony,  says,  "To  be  perfectly  honest, 
when  I  first  met  Tony  it  was  at  that  big 
party,  and  all  the  faces  were  blurred.  I 
remember  meeting  him,  but  that's  all." 

Janet,  of  course,  was  married  to  Stanley 
Reames  at  the  time. 

"I  just  couldn't  seem  to  forget  her,"  Tony 
says.  "And  then  one  day,  I  picked  up  the 
paper  and  read  that  Janet  had  gotten  a 
divorce.  I  was  sorry  that  her  marriage  had 
broken  up,  but  at  the  same  time,  I  was 
glad  that  she  was  free.  Then  she  started 
going  around  with  Arthur  Loew,  Jr." 

A  RTHUR  Loew,  jr.  and  Tony  Ctu-tis  come 
from  two  different  worlds.  Tony's 
father  was  a  tailor  on  New  York's  East 
\     Side.  Arthur  Loew,  Jr.,  is  a  rich  man's  son. 

Tony  realized  this  when  he  thought  of 
them  together  making  the  rounds  of  all 
the  night  spots  he  couldn't  afford. 

He  used  to  walk  around  the  lot  at  Uni- 
versal, day-dreaming.  The  gaffers  and  prop 
men  v/ho  love  him  dearly,  would  stop  him 
and  say,  "What  you  thinkin'  about,  kid?" 
And  Tony,  honest  and  unaffected,  would 
say  "I'm  thinking  of  that  Janet  Leigh." 

Then  it  happened.  One  of  the  prop  men 
out  at  Universal  thought  it  would  be  a 
great  practical  joke.  One  night,  he  picked 
up  his  phone  and  dialed  Tony's  home. 

"Curtis,"  he  said.  "I  understand  that  you 
made  a  pass  at  my  girl  some  time  ago. 
And  I  don't  Uke  it." 

"Who    is   this?"   Tony  demanded. 

"This  is  Arthur  Loew,  Jr.,"  the  prop 
man  lied,  "and  next  time  I  see  you  with 
her,  I'm  gonna  beat  your  brains  in." 

Tony  blew  his  top.  "Listen,  you  jerk,"  he 
shouted,  "if  you  think  you  can,  come  out 
to  my  house  right  now." 

The  prop  man  almost  died  laughing. 

As  for  Tony,  he  was  so  angry  that  he 
phoned  a  friend  of  his  over  at  Metro  and 
said,  "Look,  I'd  like  to  get  Janet  Leigh's 
phone  number."  The  friend  gave  it  to  him. 
Tony  rang  up  Janet  and  made  a  date. 

Poor  Loew,  of  course,  didn't  have  the 
slightest   idea    of   what    was    going  on. 

Anyway,  Tony  and  Janet  started  seeing 
each  other,  Arthur  Loew,  Jr.  dropped  out 
of  the  picture. 

Hollywood  had  expected  a  marriage  be- 
tween Arthur  and  Janet,  and  no  one  real- 
ized that  Tony  Curtis  had  swept  Janet  off 
her  feet  in  a  whirlwind  courtship. 

They  said  that  Janet  was  madly  in  love 
with  a  New  Yorker  named  Bob  Quarrie. 

Apparently,  Janet  was  not,  because  after 
a  few  days  in  New  York  last  October,  she 
flew  back  to  Hollywood  to  start  work  on 
Two  Tickets  to  Broadway,  and  she  flew 
directly  inta  Tony's  arms. 

Tony  had  a  day  off  from  The  Prince  Who 
Was  A  Thief  and  he  and  Janet  spent  it  at 
her  new  little  house  in  Brentwood. 

They  pored  over  Janet's  scrapbooks;  they 
confided  in  each  other;  they  were  obvious- 
ly in  love.  They  still  are. 

"Yeah,"  he  says,  "it's  true.  I'm  really 
stuck  on  Janet.  She's  the  first  girl  I've  ever 
been  in  love  with,  and  I've  got  it  bad. 

"Maybe  I'm  acting  like  a  kid  about  her, 
but  she's  the  first  woman  I've  ever  really 
known.  I  mean  a  mature,  grown-up  wom- 
an. She  knows  what  it's  all  about. 

"We're  both  in  the  same  business.  She 
realizes  the  problems  I  have.  Everything 
I've  gone  through,  she's  gone  through  her- 
self. A  lot  of  people  say  we're  opposites, 
that  she's  a  small-town  girl,  and  I'm  a  guy 
from  the  big  city. 

"It's  not  like  that  at  all.  She  comes  from 
a  small  town.  She  never  had  much  dough. 
She  helps  her  folks  out.  So  do  I.  I'm 
making  $300  a  week  now,  but  I  started  for 
peanuts  and  so  did  Janet. 

"She's  a  plain,  simple  girl,  and  I'm  a 
plain  simple  guy.  Maybe  she's  had  more 
experience  because  she's  been  married, 
and  I  haven't,    (Continued  on  page  69) 


Timely  Tips  by  Little  Lulu 

HOW  DO  VOU  SCORE  OM  THESE   HELPFUL  WAYS    TO  SAVE  ? 


When  fastening  stockings,  what 
helps  prevent  runs? 

□  Lady,  be  seated  □  Round  garters 

Don"t  let  garter-pull  strain  your  nylons. 
Fasten  them  while  in  a  sitting  position 
to  avoid  future  hosiery  strain,  runs,  when 
seated.  Another  neat  trick  is  to  cover 
garter  clasps  with  Kleenex.  Saves  stock- 
ing wear  and  tear,  saves  money. 


When  you  need  a  tissue,  do  you  — 

O  find  one  handy     Q  Fumble  with  many 

Next  to  your  bed,  you'll  like  Kleenex 
best— to  check  a  sneeze  or  sniffle!  Keep 
a  box  on  the  night  stand.  No  fumbling; 
no  need  to  turn  on  the  light  to  find  a 
Kleenex  tissue.  Only  Kleenex  serves  one 
at  a  time  — not  a  handful!  — and  another 
pops  up,  ready  to  use.  Saves  tender  noses ! 


How  to  save  your  glamour  after 
peeling  onions? 

□  Try  salt  □  Use  Kleenex 

Both  answers  are  right.  Rid  hands  of 
onion  odor  by  rubbing  with  dry  salt . .  . 
soothe  "weepy"  eyes  with  Kleenex !  To 
save  your  complexion  —  after  cold  cream- 
ing, let  soft,  absorbent  Kleenex  gulp  up 
the  grease.  (A  special  process  keeps 
this  sturdv  tissue  extra  soft.) 


FREE  !  Instructions  for  making 
this  attractive  Kleenex  box  cover! 

Turn  scraps  of  fabric  — your  man's  old 
ties,  for  instance  — into  a  handsome  box 
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above.)  Easy  to  make!  Convenient  to 
use!  Free  instructions  by  Man'  Brooks 
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^1  rode  ISO  miles 
on  a  roller  coaster!" 


ON  THE  RUN' 

nternational. 


'111  mm'ii 


"Retaking  this  scene  for  'Woman  on  the  Run'  kept  me  on  a  roller 
coaster  hour  after  hour.  I  rubbed  my  hands  raw,  gripping  the  rail. 


And  hanging  from  this  sky- 
light nearly  tore  Yny  fingers. 


But  I  smoothed  my  hands 
with  Jergens  Lotion  .  .  . 


For  romantic  close-ups  with 
Dennis  O'Keefe!" 


Being  a  liquid,  Jergens  is 
absorbed  by  thirsty  skin. 


CAN  YOUR  LOTION  OR  HAND 
CREAM  PASS  THIS  FILM  TEST? 

To  soften,  a  lotion  or  cream 
should  be  absorbed  by  upper 
layers  of  skin.  Water  won't 
"bead"on  hand  smoothed  with 
Jergens  Lotion.  It  contains 
quickly-absorbed  ingredients 
that  doctors  recommend,  no 
heavy  oils  that  merely  coat 
the  skin  with  oily  film. 


Prove  it  witli  this  simple 
test  described  above  .  .  . 


You'll  see  why  jergens 
Lotion  is  my  beauty  secret. 


More  women  use  Jergens  Lotion  than  any  other  hand  care  in  the  world 

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a 


hollywood 
goes 
shopping 
for  you! 


■  A  Hollywood  lady  on  a  shopping 
tour  is  more  than  a  star — she's  a 
woman  on  the  hunt — for  a  bargain. 
She's  looking  for  style,  glamour, 
quality,  and  beauty — at  the  right 
price.  She'll  shop  from  one  coast 
to  the  other  for  just  the  thing  she 
wants.  Her  final  purchases  for  her- 
self are  just  what  every  worrian 
would  want,  and  could  afford! 

In  this  exclusive  Modern  Screen 
feature,  a  different  star  each  month 
will  report  on  her  prize  buys.  To 
get  any  item,  write  to  the  store 
mentioned,  enclose  a  check  or  mon- 
ey order  (and  gift  card  if  you  like) 
and  they  will  rush  your  selection  to 
you  or  another  address.  Prices  in- 
clude postage  and  tax.  Delivery 
guaranteed.  Monogrammed  mer- 
chandise cannot  be  returned.  Money 
will  be  refunded  on  items  returned 
within  10  days  after  deliver\\ 


ann  biyth 

your  Hollywood  shopper 

for  jonuory 


Ann  BIyth's  iatesf 
movie  is  Universal- 
International's  Katie 
Did   It,  co-starring 
Mark  Stevens. 


'■if 


■  Would  you  believe  it!  I've  just 
been  on  the  longest  shopping  trip  in 
history-  and  still  feel  chipper. 

When  Aunt  Cissy  and  I  go  hunt- 
ing for  odds  and  ends,  things  for  my 
new  home  in  the  Valley,  or  something 
special  for  Uncle  Pat,  we're  usually 
exhausted  just  looking  at  our  lists. 
But  this  was  the  most  sensational,  re- 
freshing trip  a  girl  could  want.  Shop- 
ping on  a  grand  scale  is  any  gal's 
dream,  and  it's  such  fun  being  able 
to  share  my  finds  wdth  you. 

Hunting  for  a  bargain  is  second 
nature  to  me,  am-vvay.  First  I  combed 
the  state  of  California  for  unusual 
buys  and  \\hen  I  was  in  New  York 
recently  I  turned  that  town  upside 
down  looking  for  more  rare  treats. 
These,  plus  a  few  special  finds  rushed 
to  me  by  my  friends  in  other  parts  of 
the  country,  add  up  to  a  pretty  out- 
of-this-world  collection,  if  I  say  so 
myself.  There  are  things  for  the 
home,  personal  items,  and  gift  sug- 
gestions which  I  hope  you  will  want 
to  use  just  as  I  have  used  them  for 
myself. 

All  you  have  to  do  is  wTite  directly 
to  the  store  mentioned  for  anything 
that  strikes  your  fancy. 

Hope  you  enjoy  the  things  you 
select,  and  the  happiest  New  Year 
to  vou  all. 


SHALL  WONDER  THEY  GO  TOGETHER!  It's  an 
adorable  lipstick-compact.  The  compact 
is  in  the  middle,  topped  with  simulated 
leather  that  encircles  the  two  cases.  The 
bottom  of  the  perfume  holder  pulls  out 
and  has  a  spill-proof  glass  vial.  The  lower 
half  of  the  lipstick  holder,  taking  any  regu- 
lar lipstick,  comes  out,  too.  Top  in  red, 
green,  navy,  tan.  Goldtone  finish.  S2.07. 
Lord  V  Taylor,  Dept.  18,  Fifth  Avenue  and 
38th  Street,  New  York  18. 


HAVE  YOU  GOT  ANY  TIES?  Well,  here's  one 
that  will  add  zip  to  any  outfit.  Made  like 
a  small  cravat,  of  gaily  colored  plaid  taf- 
feta, criss-crossed,  it  snaps  on  in  a  jiffy  and 
is  set  for  the  day.  Stunning  with  suits, 
sweaters  or  blouses.  It  sports  a  handsome 
antiqued  gilt  medallion  pin  that  is  charm- 
ing on,  or  can  be  taken  off  to  lead  a  hand- 
some life  of  its  own.  $2.00.  {Add  12c  ppd. 
out  of  New  York)  Stern  Bros.,  42nd  Street, 
New  York. 


THIS  DARLING  DOUBLE-DUTY  DRUM  is  a  most 

versatile  companion.  Unzip  one  end  for 
a,moire  taffeta  case  outfitted  for  mending 
with  thimble,  thread,  needles  and  pins. 
Unzip  the  other,  it's  a  velvet-lined  case  for 
your  own  jewels!  I  love  to  take  it  across 
the  country  or  tuck  it  in  my  dresser.  In 
navy,  dark  green,  ice  blue,  peach,  con- 
trasting lining.  2i/>"  x  2i4".  Give  2nd 
choice.  S2.95.  Bre'n  Linda,  Dept.  M.  S., 
545  Fifth  Avenue,  New  York  17. 


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you 


ann  biyth 

ollywood  shopper 

for  january 


GET  THE  HANG  OF  IT  and  you'll  rave  about 
these  "sur-grip"  trouser  hangers  the  way 
Uncle  Pat  does.  Of  light-weight  chrome- 
plated  steel  with  wire  springs,  they're  real- 
ly unique.  Squeeze  the  horseshoe  to  slip 
rubber  prongs  inside  inner  cuffs,  then  re- 
lease to  hold  trousers  firm.  Crease  stays 
in,  bagginess  stays  out,  trousers  stay  on  the 
hanger.  $1.00,  (ruin,  order  2  hangers) 
add  16c  postage.  James  McCreery  ir  Co., 
Fifth  Avenue  at  34th  Street,  New  York  1. 


I  turned  Cali- 
fornia upside  down 
and  New  York 
inside  out,  looking  for 
these  wonderful 
bargains  that  I  know 
you'll  love. 


THESE  ARE  MY  BEST  FRIENDS!  /  just  love  this 
sparkling  simulated  rhinestone  pin  and 
earring  set  and  it's  all  the  rage  this  season. 
A  cluster  of  individually  set  oval  stones 
forms  the  beautiful  round  pin,  with  a  safety 
catch,  adding  simple  elegance  to  anything 
it  touches.  Its  match-mate  is  a  pair  of 
dramatic  earrings  made  of  one  diamond- 
shaped  stone  from  which  dangles  a  larger 
diamond-shaped  group.  $4.99.  Gimbels, 
Broadway  &  33rd  Street,  New  York  1. 


THIS  I  SIMPLY  MUST  HAVE!  It's  a  delectable 
decollete  blouse  of  frill  cotton  boucle  guar- 
anteed to  steal  any  important  scene. 
Knitted  firmly  so  it  can't  stretch  or  snag. 
Wide-banded  baby  ribbing  around  the 
neck,  sleeves  and  icaist  for  a  soft  flattering 
look.  Smart  boat  neck  and  cap  sleeves. 
Sizes  32,  34,  36,  38.  White,  black,  flame  and 
gold.  Give  your  second  choice.  $4.23.  Fam- 
ous Fashion  Shops,  419  Madison  Avenue, 
Neiu  York  17. 


A  TWIST  OF  THE  WRIST  and  this  automatic 
tooth  brush  shoots  just  enough  of  your 
favorite  paste  onto  the  bristles.  No  more 
lost  caps  or  mutilated  tubes,  because  a 
built-in  compartment  holds  the  paste  in 
readiness.  An  aerated  cap  protects  the 
brush  head.  Perfect  for  traveling.  Red, 
blue,  green,  amber.  $1.00.  Extra  brush 
heads,  nylon  (or)  bristle,  25c  ea.  Tulh- 
Pak  Co.  375  W.  54th  St.,  Los  Angeles  43, 
California,  Dept.  g-16. 


NO  DISH  JUGGLING  FOR  ME!  I'm  thrilled  with 
this  practical  folding  table.  Perfect  for  a 
buffet,  it's  tall  enough  (24  inches  high)  to 
fit  over  your  knees  and  doesn't  wobble. 
Serve  one  to  a  guest  or  let  two  share  it. 
It  can  hold  a  radio  or  books,  too.  The  top 
is  a  decorative  tray  13"  x  17'^/<i' ,  with  gar- 
den bouquet  design.  Choice  of  white  or 
black  legs.  $2.95  (plus  12c  tax  in  Calif.). 
Partner  &  Perrin  (Dept.  D)  Glendale  3, 
California. 


\ 


YOU  NEVER  TIP  YOUR  HAND  ivith  one  of  these 
novel  fan-hand  card  holders.  Made  espe- 
cially for  canasta,  but  good  for  any  card 
game,  it  holds  as  many  cards  as  you're 
lucky  enough  to  pick  up.  Tricorner- 
shaped  board  with  a  rotating  circle  and 
piece  of  foam  rubber,  it  keeps  the  cards 
neatly  in  place.  Set  of  four  holders  in  red, 
blue,  green  and  yellow.  $2.50.  The  Salt 
and  Pepper  Shop,  445  East  86  Street,  New 
York  28. 


YOU'LL  GET  A  BOOT  out  of  these  cozy  foot- 
warmers.  Quilted  percale  cotton  in  gaily 
colored  assorted  designs,  the  cuffs  turn 
down  to  show  a  matching  solid  hue, 
which  runs  down  the  center  to  the  toe. 
Or  wear  the  cuff  up  for  extra  warmth. 
Wonderful  with  any  sit-by-the-fire  outfit. 
Durable  ply-suede  soles.  Easily  wasliable. 
Red,  green  or  blue  cuffs.  Small,  medium, 
large.  $2.95.  Grenada,  18  East  4l  Street, 
New  York  17. 


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To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned ,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


THEIR  LIFE  SPAN  IS  UNIIMITED. T/iere'i  nothing 
like  this  pot  of  "Gay  Deceiver"  geraniums 
to  brighten  up  a  kitchen  window  sill  or 
any  dark  corner  on  a  bleak  winter's  day. 
Delicately  crafted  in  wax,  they  look  so 
fresh  and  real  it's  hard  to  tell  they're  not 
nature's  own.  Xo  fuss  or  bother  with  sun 
or  water.  Three  blossoms  in  red,  white  or 
pink  with  deep  green  leases  in  -fi/,"  white 
pot.  $3.50,  Constance  Spry,  Inc.,  322M 
Park  Avenue,  Xew  York  22. 


THE  YOUNG  FRY  WILL  VIE  over  this  wonderful 
magnetic  harbor.  A  playboard  on  four 
removable  steel  legs  forms  the  ocean  blue 
harbor  on  which  land-strips,  lighthouse, 
buoy,  boathouse,  docks  and  a  fleet  of  three 
ships  are  put  in  place.  Move  the  small 
magnetic  block  beneath  the  playboard  un- 
der any  of  the  ships  and  they  steam  along, 
responding  to  the  magnet's  every  tjiove. 
$3.25.  The  Crow's  Nest,  59  Park  Avenue, 
Xew  York  16. 


YOU'LL  THINK  YOU'RE  IN  FRANCE  xchen  you  sip 
coffee  from  this  indi-vidual  coffee  filter. 
Marie  just  the  -way  it's  done  in  Parisian 
cafes,  it  turns  out  a  delicious  brew.  Place 
your  coffee  in  the  top  comfyartment,  pour 
boiling  water  over  it  and  voila,  it's  done. 
Perfect  for  a  single  cup  for  a  bachelor 
girl  like  me.  It's  such  fun  to  drink  from 
that  soda-like  glass  and  holder.  Aluminum 
with  glass.  $2.25.  Bazar  Frangais,  666 
Sixth  Avenue,  Xew  York  10. 


4^ 


THIS  GUITAR  PLAYS  FOR  YOU!*  Strumming 
on  this  cowboy  guitar  is  great  fun  for  the 
kiddies  (and  for  grown-ups,  too).  A  real 
instrument  made  of  bright  plastic  with 
steel  strings  and  neck  cord,  its  face  is 
decorated  with  a  cowboy,  six-shooters, 
bucking  bronco  and  steer  head.  *(Play  it 
a  while,  then  turn  the  crank  and  let  it 
play  you  a  lusty  western  tune).  $1.98. 
C  &  W  Products  Co.,  Dept.  W-12,  202 
Grand  Street,  Brooklyn  11,  Xew  York. 


LIGHT  UP  YOUR  DARKEST  THOUGHTS  with  this 
fascinating  bed-side  secretary.  Jot  down 
a  7niddle-of-the-night  inspiration  without 
groping  for  a  light  switch.  Just  press 
do-wn  to  write,  and  presto— your  light. 
Batteries  and  paper  replaceable.  Red,  green, 
wine,  brown,  navy,  ivoiy,  light  blue,  pink, 
gold-tooled  leather  with  gold-plated  auto- 
matic pencil.  Specify  first  and  second  color 
choice.  $6.50.  Abbott  Gifts,  22  W.  21  Street, 
Xew  York  11. 


MAKE  ROOM  FOR  YOUR  PLATES  u  /f/?  un- 
usual new  chrome  kitchen  device.  It  at- 
taches to  any  cabinet,  has  holders  for  three 
different  size  plates,  and  swings  out  in  a 
jiffy.  A  fine  space-saver,  plates  can  be 
stacked  high,  yet  are  readily  available. 
Adaptable  as  a  swing  out  flower  pot  brack- 
et, too.  It  easily  fastens  onto  any  wall  or 
post  and  takes  a  pot  in  each  of  its  holders. 
$3.95,  Morris  Products,  92  Liberty  Street, 
Xew  York  6. 


YOU'LL  SURELY  BE  INVITED  AGAIN  if  you  send 
your  hostess  this  unusual  cigarette  case 
and  ash  tray  set.  In  fact  you'll  want  one 
for  yourself!  Made  to  look  like  a  pepper 
mill  with  a  slide-back  top,  the  cylindrical 
cigarette  case  stands  3"  high  and  holds  a 
full  pack.  The  ash  tray  carries  three  ciga- 
rettes and  has  a  spill-proof  top  that  lifts 
up  like  a  compact  for  dumping  the  ashes. 
Silver  or  gold-tone  finish.  S325.  Miller  & 
Rhodes,  Richmond,  Virginia. 


LICKITY-SPIIT  IT'S  DONE!     This  handy  new 

jiffy  mailer  dispenses  stamps,  performs  the 
thankless  task  of  licking  them  moist,  and 
keeps  a  supply  on  hand.  Your  thumb 
helps  do  the  trick.  Made  of  plastic  with 
a  felt  moisture  device,  it  holds  a  roll  of  I's, 
2's,  3's,  4's,  5's,  lO's  and  air  mails,  avail- 
able at  any  U.S.  Post  Office.  It  helps  me 
answer  my  fan  mail.  $1.95.  The  Holly- 
wood Bazaar,  Dept.  12,  17151  Ventura 
Blvd.,  Encino,  California. 


THE  SQUIRRELS  DON'T  STAND  A  CHANCE  when 
Cousin  Kevin's  let  loose  near  this  peanut- 
vender  bank.  In  bright  yellow,  it's  mod- 
eled after  the  Planter's  peanut  man,  mon- 
ocle and  all.  His  transparent  lop  hat 
comes  full  of  peanuts  .  .  .  i/o  pound,  in 
fact.  His  face  holds  oodles  of  coins.  Push 
a  coin  in  the  slot  and  a  handful  of  7iuts 
rush  out.  It's  no  trouble  teaching  the 
children  to  save.  $2.75.  Xovelty  Mart, 
59  East  8  Street,  Xew  York  3. 


Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  zchere  monogranimed. 


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onn  biyth 
yo^  hollywood 
shopper 


GUESS  I'M  BEING  RATHER  CLANNISH,   but  I'm 

just  mad  about  this  authentic  "McDonald" 
plaid  vest.  Bright  red  stripes  on  a  soft 
green  and  navy  background,  it  makes 
a  perfect  foil  for  your  best  blouse  or 
skirt.  Wear  it  under  a  suit  or  with  a 
dark  velvet  skirt  depending  on  the  hour. 
It  is  beautifully  tailored  in  fine  virgin 
wool,  lined  with  rayon  satin  and  has  pearl 
buttons.  $5.98.  The  Ettingers,  360  First 
Avenue,  New  York  10. 


HERE'S  A  REAL  DUTCH  TREAT.  Tltis  chinining 
miniature  all-metal  stove  that  holds  salt 
and  pepper  shakers,  luill  warm  your  heart 
on  a  cold  luinter's  day.  The  gaily  painted 
Pennsylvania-Dutch  design,  done  by  hand, 
is  a  perfect  decoration  in  the  kitchen  or 
dining  room.  You  can  hang  it  on  the  wall, 
too.  Without  the  shakers  use  it  as  an 
ashtray  or  as  a  cute  base  for  xour  favorite 
plant.  $4.00.  Hazel  Jasper,  142  E.  45  Street, 
New  York  17. 


"BURNING  CANDLES  AT  BOTH  ENDS  "  is  passe. 
The  newest  and  most  exciting  thing  in 
illuminators  is  a  pair  of  these  fat  long- 
lasting  candles.  High  (51/2^^  wide  (3")  and 
handsome,  they're  decorative  and  ever  so 
useful  any  place  they're  put.  Use  them  as 
they  come  or  set  them  in  a  dish.  In  a  variety 
of  colors  with  initials  in  contrasting  shades. 
Candles  burn  down  inside  so  monogram 
lasts  the  life  of  the  candle.  $3.95.  Klepa 
Arts,  8413  W.  3rd  St.,  Hollywood  48,  Calif. 


THEY'LL  WIN  ANY  SAFETY  AWARD!  These 
glow-gloves  lead  a  double  life.  By  day  an 
attractive  grey  (weather-proof  and  water- 
proof), but  at  night,  under  lights  they' 
shine  with  brilliance  that  can  be  seen 
more  than  two  blocks  away  because  of 
Scotchlite,  a  reflective.  Wonderful  idea 
for  auto  drivers  and  pedestrians.  Inner 
palm  tan  pigskin.  Sizes  6-81/2-  $2.95. 
King  Sales  Company,  101  W.  42  Street, 
New  York  18. 


YOU  CAN  T  GET  FOWLED  UP  with  this  versatile 
indoor-outdoor  skewer  roaster-broiler. 
Aunt  Cissy  thinks  it's  grand.  Of  sturdy 
steel,  it  snaps  on  to  both  oval  or  square 
roasting  pans  and  adjusts  to  size.  A  flick 
of  the  handle  turns  a  chicken,  duck  or 
turkey,  up  to  fifteen  pounds,  and  oven 
heat  circulates  evenly.  Small  lugs  in  the 
handle  lock  under  the  pan  so  the  fowl 
can't  turn  itself.  $1.75.  R.  H.  Macy  ir 
Company,  Herald  Square,  New   York  1. 


SAVE  YOURSELF  SOME  "WAIST"  SPACE  with  this 
marvelous  gimmick  for  taking  care  of  a 
gal's  whole  belt  wardrobe.  Made  of 
chrome  finished  steel,  and  only  61/2"  ^ong, 
it  has  eight  handy  hooks  with  red  plastic 
guards  luhich  hold  several  belts  each. 
No  need  to  mislay  the  belt  to  your  best 
dress;  it  has  its  own  hook.  Comes  with 
screws  to  attach  to  a  closet  door  or  wall. 
$2.50,  Nu  Novelty  Company,  Dept.  M, 
317  West  45  Street,  New  York  19. 


MY  FAMILY'S  ALWAYS  WITH  ME  in  this  tiny 
portable  picture  frame.  Three  separate 
sections  give  me  room  for  straps  of  Aunt 
Cissy  and  Uncle  Pat  (in  the  double  sec- 
tion) and  two  extras.  The  center  frame 
holds  a  picture  I1/2"  x  2",  the  two  side 
ones  are  1"  x  I1/2"  with  a  metal  edge. 
Closed  it  looks  like  a  cigarette  lighter.  A 
side  button  pops  it  open.  Fits  in  a  purse. 
Goldtone  finish.  $2.20.  Richter's,  585  Fifth 
Ave.,  New  York  17. 


BRIGHT  AS  A  NEW  PENNY  is  this  cunning 
copper  pot  filled  with  your  favorite  all- 
year-round  plant.  I  use  it  in  our  breakfast 
nook.  The  bucket  really  swings  to  and 
fro.  A  perfect  size  for  any  corner  shelf, 
centerpiece  or  end-table  decoration,  it 
stands  61/9  inches  high.  Lacquered  to 
prevent  tarnish  or  discoloration.  It  comes 
without  the  plant,  which  is  inexpensive  at 
any  florist's  shop.  $2.00.  The  Copper  Shop, 
9  W.  42  Street.  New  York  18. 


To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 
Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  zvithin  10  days,  except  zvhere  monogrammed. 


the  inside  story 


{Continued  from  page  4) 

9.  I  understand  that  Xancy  Olson  who 
starred  in  Sunset  Boulevard  has  been 
seeing  a  lot  of  Montgomerj-  Clift  on  the 
slv.  Will  you  verifv  that? 

'—V.  v.,  Parts,  Ky. 

A.  Pure  nonsense.  Clift  and  Olson  have 
never  been  out  together.  Xancy  is  mar- 
ried to  Alan  Lerner,  the  playwright. 
Both  of  them  recently  bought  Paulette 
Goddard's  house  in  Ncd:  York. 

Q.  Can  you  tell  me  if  Bob  Hope  goes 
over  all  his  movie  scripts  inserting  funny 
lines  wherever  possible? 

— D.  S.,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

A.  Hope  has  a  separate  fund  for  the 
purpose.  Whenever  a  screenplay  for  him 
is  finished,  he  hands  it  over  to  his  radio 
and  TV  -duriters.  They  "punch  it  up,"  in 
return  for  U'hich  Bob  pays  them  extra 
money. 

9.  Recently  I  read  that  Harr>-  James 
and  Betty  Grable  were  straining  at  the 
leash  and  that  Bett\-  would  get  a  di- 
vorce and  marr\'  Dan  Dailey  who  is  get- 
ting a  divorce  from  his  wife.  True  or 

false?  r>    17  * 

— G.  F.,  Atlanta,  Ga. 

A.  False.  The  James  family  has  just 
moved  into  a  new  home.  Betty  and 
Harry  seem  happily-married  and  ivell 
adjusted.  The  rumor  of  Dailey  being  in 
love  ivith  Betty  Grable  has  been  circu- 
lated for  years.  It  has  no  foundation  in 
truth.  Dailey  plans  to  concentrate  on  his 
career. 

9.  Is  Judy  Garland  completely  recov- 
ered from  her  mental  and  physical  illness 
of  a  few  months  ago  ? 

— R.  E..  DoBBS  Ferry.  X.  Y. 

A.  Not  yet. 

9.  Once  and  for  all.  is  Farley  Granger 
sweet  on  Shelley  Winters  or  was  it  just 
good  publicity? 

— R  Y.,  Boston,  M.ass. 
A.  Good  publicity. 

9-  Why  does  ever>-one  say  that  Eliza- 
beth Taylor's  marriage  won't  last  sLx 
months  or  a  year?  Doesn't  that  sort  of 
gossip  drive  Liz  crazy?  Why  don't. the 
gossip  columnists  give  the  marriage  a 
chance  to  last? 

— T.  v.,  Chzytenxz,  Wyoming 

A.  The  pessimistic  outlook  on  the  Tay- 
lor-HUton  marriage  is  founded  on  these 
facts  and  assumptions:  both  Liz  and 
Nicky  are  strong-'u.-iUed  and  slightly 
spoiled;  both  are  relatively  young  and 
inexperienced;  marriages  in  which  the 
wife's  career  over-shadows  the  husband's 
usually  end  disastrously.  Liz  doesn't 
mind  the  gossip,  but  according  to  her 
"It's  a  new  experience  to  Nicky  and  he 
can't  understand  it.  He  gets  mad  and 
wants  to  know  why  people  make  up 
those  lies."  Liz  is  determined  to  make 
her  marriage  work,  and  she  has  never 
yet  failed  at  anything  she  has  set  her 
heart  on. 

Here's  the  truth  about  the  stars — 
as  you  asked  for  it.  Want  to  spike 
more  rumors?  Want  more  facts? 
Write  to  THE  INSIDE  STORY, 
Modern  Screen,  1046  X.  Carol 
Drive,  Hollywood,  Cal. 


SUDDEN  CHILL?, 

Sudden  changes  of  temperature,  like 
wet  feet,  cold  feet,  and  drafts,  may 
reduce  body  resistance  so  that  germs 
in  the  throat  can  make  trouble. 


YOU  START  SNEEZING  . .  i 

That  sneeze  or  cough  is  usually  a 
hint  that  a  cold  may  be  on  its  way, 
and  that  you'd  better  do  something 
about  it. 


THESE  "BUGS"  MAY  INVADE  THROAT 

These  "bugs"  in  throat  go  into  action  .  .  j 
They  are  called  Secondary  Invaders  .  .  .  can 
attack  tissue  and  cause  much  of  the  misery  as- 
sociated with  colds,  say  numerous  authorities. 


AmongtheSECONDARY  INVADERSa/ettiefoBowini;  a  Baci- 
lus  influenzae,  2  Pneumococcus  Type  IH,  ^3;  Streptocaxus 
hemcJyticus,  '4;  Friedlandef's  bacfflus,  f5-  Staphylooxcus 
aureus,  ^6  •  Streptococcus  virulans,  (7i  Micrococcus  catarrhalis, 
(3)  Pneiimococcits  Type  IV. 


LISTERINE  ANTISEPTIG-QWC/r/ 
-for  Colds  and  Sore  Throat 

a  safe,  direct  way  with  no  dangerous  side -effects 


IISTERIXE  ANTISEPTIC,  gargled  early  and 
4  often,  may  entirely  head  off  a  cold, 
or  sore  throat  due  to  a  cold — or  lessen  its 
severity,  once  started. 

Careful  tests,  made  over  a  rwelve-year 
period,  showed  that  there  were  fewer  colds 
and  sore  throats,  and  generally  milder  ones, 
for  those  who  gargled  Listerine  Antiseptic 
rwice  a  day  than  for  those  who  did  not 
gargle.  That  is  understandable! 

Kills  Secondary  Invaders 
Listerine  Antiseptic  reaches  way  back  on 
throat  surfaces  to  kill  germs  by  millions — 


attacks  them  before  they  attack  you  .  .  ; 
halts  a  mass  invasion. 

Tests  showed  germ  reductions  ranging 
up  to  96.7?S  even  fifteen  minutes  after  the 
listerine  Antiseptic  gargle,  and  up  to  80% 
one  hour  after. 

So,  whatever  else  you  do,  at  the  first 
sign  of  a  sniffle,  or  cough,  or  a  scratchy 
throat,  Starr  with  the  Listerine  Antiseptic 
gargle.  You  may  spare  yourself  an  un- 
pleasant siege  of  trouble. 

Lambert  Pharmacal  Co.,  St.  Louis,  iWo. 


That 


Belvedere  Man 


whose  phenomenal  wit 

Wr|:  ^  (SITTING  PRETTY) 

"H^*  • 


and  phenomenal  genius 

(BELVEDERE  GOES  TO  COLLEGE) 


and  phenomenal  prowess 

(CHEAPER  BY  THE  DOZEN) 


stunned  a  nation . . .  now 
moves  heaven  and  earth 
. . .  with  laughter! 


JOAN  BLONDELL-  GIG!  PERREAU''^'"  "'^'^"^ 


i  VON  ZELL  •  TOMMY  RETTIG 


GEORGE  SEATON  •  -sr  WILLIAM  PERLBERG 

Written  for  the  screen  by  GEORGE  SEATON  •  From  a  play  by  HARRY  SEGALL 


24 


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JOHN  WAYNE 

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FARLEY  GRANGER 

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GLENN  FORD 

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MONTGOMERY  CLIFT 

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ROBERT  TAYLOR 

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VAN  JOHNSON 

10 

JANE  WYMAN 

■  The  stars  that  shine  in  Hollywood  do  so  because  of  you,  and 

the  stars  who  are  most  aware  of  this  never  fade.  Alan  Ladd,  for  example,  is  first  on 

Modern  Screen's  popularity  poll  for  the  third  consecutive  year.  (The 

ten  top  male  and  female  stars  of  1950  are  in  the  lists  above.)  The 

Hollywood  Reporter  has  explained  Ladd's  appeal  (and  indirectly  the  appeal  of 

all  those  mentioned)  in  perhaps  the  best  way.  "Ladd,"  it  said,  "has  always 

understood  his  responsibility  to  the  industry  and  to  the  people  who 

put  him  where  he  is."  That's  why  he  remains  top  mone>'maker  at  Paramount,  and 

topman  to  our  more  than  4,500,000  readers. 

Clark  Gable  and  Bing  Crosby,  second  and  fourth  on  the  poll,  aje 
familiar  names  to  everyone;  their  popularity  has  never  been  in  question  .  .  .  But 
now,  at  last,  John  Wa>Tie  has  come  into  his  own  as  third  on  your  star 
parade.  His  career  has  been  long  and  enviable,  but  in  1950  the  applause 
reached  a  new  crescendo  .  .  .  Farley  Granger's  career  so  far  has  been  short  but 
exceedingly  sweet.  His  boyish  appeal  combined  with  his  very  serious  ap- 
proach to  acting  went  right  to  the  spot — number  five  among  the  favored  few. 
Jime  Allyson,  now  at  the  peak  of  her  personal  happiness,  and  with  many 
endearing  screen  performances  behind  her,  soared  from  third  to  first  place  in  1950  .  .  . 
Lana  Turner,  Shirley  Temple,  Betty  Grable — their  names  are  synonymous  with  Holly- 
wood. You've  followed  the  paths  of  their  personal  and  professional  lives  for  many 
years.  As  stars  and  as  women,  they've  proved  their  mettle,  which  is  why 
you'll  always  find  them  near  the  top  of  any  popularity  poll  .  .  .  This  year  you've 
put  Barbara  Stanwj'ck  high  in  fifth  place.  She's  a  screen  oldtimer,  but  young  enough 
to  grow  in  depth  and  wise  enough  to  achieve  personal  contentment  .  .  .  Most  of  your  choices 
have  appeared  on  the  poll  before,  some  like  Glenn  Ford  and  Montgomery  Clift,  have 
slipped  a  little  in  1950,  others  have  remained  stationary.  Ronald  Reagan's  new  at 
the  top,  but  now  firmly  established  in  seventh  place.  And  Jane  Wy- 
man,  who  had  hovered  below  the  ten  mark,  moved  up  to  take  her  place  with 
a  record  of  magnificent  p)erformances  behind  her.  ...  All  favorites,  all  different  types, 
these  twenty  stars  have  two  things  in  common:  they  are  outstanding 
citizens,  and  they  are  sincerely  pleased  by  your  recognition. 


he  might  have 
been  my  son 


0 


John  Derek's  camercmwn  and  oldest  friend 


Patti,   John,   and   the   head   of  the    household,    my   godson,  Russell. 


■  Just  about  fryin'  size,  he  stood  there. 
So  quiet — a  city  kid  staring  at  all  the 
animals  on  our  Lasky  Ranch  location. 
Back  then  we  were  shooting  Fighting 
Caravan — with  Gary  Cooper.  He  was  a 
good-looking,  six-year-old  kid.  Not  good- 
looking  the  way  fans  see  him  now.  Good- 
looking  the  way  all  kids  are — ^broken- 
nosed,  freckled,  snub-nosed,  or  whatever. 

"Hi,  you  all,"  I  said.  Shyly  he  stared  up 
at  my  face.  He  didn't  answer.  Obviously 
this  was  no  child  actor  with  a  mom  who'd 
prompted  him  to  speak  up.  Turned  out  his 
mother  was  an  actress,  name  of  Dolores 
Johnson.  The  woman  supposed  to  take 
care  of  him  while  Dolores  worked  hadn't 
shown  up  that  morning.  Pictures  being  as 
informal  as  they  were  16  years  ago, 
Dolores  had  just  brought  her  little  boy 
along  to  work  with  her.  His  name  was 
Derek  Harris. 

Being  a  fellow  who  likes  kids,  I  tried  to 
break  the  ice.  "Want  to  ride  a  horse?"  I 
asked  him.  He  managed  a  big  smile.  Bor- 
rowing the  double  for  Coop's  horse,  we 
had  ourselves  a  ride.  I  found  myself  telling 
him  about  my  folks'  ranch  down  near 
Vista,  California,  where  there  -^'ere  horses 
to  ride  any  time.  And  somehow  I  found 
myself  promising  to  take  him  down — 
maybe  the  next  {Continued  on  page  71) 


Hi  m  /314I  mk  ly  w  kun/m  o 


Some  use  a 
crystal  ball.  Others 
turn  to  tea  leaves. 
But  Hedda  studies  the 
stars  to  give  Modern 
Screen  a  Hopper's  eye- 
view  of  the  future. 


my 
predictions 

for  1951 


■  Maybe  I  ought  to  have  my  headlines  examined — but  if  you'll 
kindly  hold  on  to  your  hats — here  I  go  again! 

It's  that  time  of  year  when  I  heave  a  scribbled  old  calendar  marked 
"1950"  into  my  wastebasket  and  prop  a  clean,  new  1951  job  on  my 
desk,  and  that  changeover  always  does  something  to  me.  It  brings  on 
a  rash  of  Hollywood  predictions.  Yep,  every  time. 

Here's  a  year  gone  by — and  what  a  year! — with  a  hundred  stories 

started — but  the  endings  still  dangling.  Comedies  and  tragedies. 

Romances,  rifts,  courtships,  carryings-on.  There  are  new  marriages  to 

prove,  old  ones  to  steady,  or  end. 

What's  the  new  1951  heart  of  the  matter?  Here  are  three  hundred 
-  -  *    t_  '  ■ 

and  sixty-five  bright  ntiw:  day^  on  deck  to  make  or  mar  hearts  and 
homes,  lives  and  livings.  Who'll  be  the  new  stars?  Who'll  capture 
1950's  prized  Oscar?  What  will  be  the  big,  unforgettable  pictures  of 
1951?  Can  they  match  or  top  Sunset  Boulevard,  dig  deeper  than 
No  Way  Out,  touch  your  heart  and  funny  bone  more  than  Mister  880? 
What  dark  clouds  hang  heavy  over  the  stars'  heads  as  the  moxdng 
finger  writes  Hollywood  history  in  1951,  A.D.? 

Well,  here's  how  it  looks  from  where  I  sit — and  it's  a  hot  seat,  too, 
believe  me.  Playing  prophetess.  I  can  be  oh,  so  wrong,  but  there's  a 
kind  of  delicious  dare  about  New  Year's  that  tingles  my  spine.  So 
the  neck  end  of  it's  sticking  out  a  mile  and  maybe  not  so  rashly  as  it 
seems.  Coming  events  cast  their  shadows  before,  don't  they?  Let's 
flip  forward  that  new  calendar  a  few  pages.  Let's  look  first  at  Holly- 
wood's underdealt  hand  of  hearts — but  let's  be  sure  to  call  a  spade  a 
spade.  I  predict  that — 

Elizabeth  Taylor  and  Nick  Hilton  will  make  a  happy  go  of  their 
young  and  too-publicized  marriage.  (Continued  on  page  66) 


THEIR  OWN  BABY  will  bring  June  Allyson  and  Dick 
Powell  more  happiness  than  ever  before,  in  1951. 


RESTED,  SURE  OF  HERSELF  and  of  her  talent,  Judy 
Garland  will  be  bdck  knocking  'em  dead  once  more. 


28 


HAPPINESS  TOGETHER  in  spite  of  rumors  is  in  store 
for  beautiful  Liz  and  Nicky  hiilton  in  the  new  year. 


A  SOLID  FUTURE  together  is  assured  for  Clark  Goble  and  his  wife 
Sylvia,  who  is  surprisingly  I-odc/  '■/'-lo  i'r-c'/        -'"^'^  E-:'no  ranch. 


MARRIAGE  WITH  IRENE  Wrightsman  seerns  certain  for  busy  Kirk 
Ucugias  who  knows  his  mind.    They'll  wed  when  h';  dec-ee  is  final. 


PARTING  OF  THE  WAYS  is  sad  but  definite  in  the  Dailey  household. 
Dan    will    enlarge    his    successful    career,    and    find    new  friends. 


NO  WEDDING  BELLS  for  Farley  Granger  and  Shelley  Winters.  He's 
too  busy  seeing  the  world,  and  she's  net  the  morrying  type,  anyv/ay. 


NO  MORE  RIFTS  in  Betty  Mutton's  marriage  to  Ted  Briskin.  Their  long- 
distance arrangement  (between  hicllyv.ood  and  Chicago)  suits  them. 


THEY'LL  NEED  EACH  OTHER  more  then  e.er,  new  that  Lana  Turner 
and   Bob  Topping   have   had  the   misfortune  to   lose  their  baby. 


.  .  ..is  always  new,  always  gay.     She  taught  me  to  see  Hollywood  through  her  eyes. 


■  Ten  years  ago,  when  Gretcben  and  I  had  been 
married  but  a  few  months.  I  was  suddenly  called  to 
New  York  on  business,  and  because  my  wife  was  then 
involved  in  production,  I  had  to  make  the  trip  by 
myself.  I  remember  that  I  apologized  for  leaving  her 
alone  as  we  said  goodbye. 

"Nonsense,  darling, she  told  me,  breezily  (a  hide  too 
breezily,  I  thought  at  the  time).  "Have  a  good  trip.  I 
won't  be  lonely." 

I  knew^  perfectly  what  she  meant,  but  it  was  not 
imtil  several  days  later  that  I  was  able  to  really  tmder- 
stand  it.  On  my  verj-  first  evening  in  New  York.  I  was 
invited  to  a  cocktail  party  on  upper  Park  Avenue.  I 
had  been  there  perhaps  thirty  minutes,  when  our  hostess 
asked  me  if  I  would  care  to  meet  Greta  Garbo.  I  had 
noticed  Miss  Garbo  earher,  sitting  quietly  in  a  comer 
with  several  intimate  friends,  and  had  hoped  that  I 
might  have,  the  opportunity  of  meeting  her. 

When  we  were  introduced,  she  gave  me  a  cordial  but 
concise  greeting  that  seemed  to  end  it  right  there.  But 
then  our  hostess  rushed  in  to  fill  the  void  with.  "'"Mr. 
Lewis'  wife  is  also  in  the  cinema." 

"Who  is  she?"'  asked  Miss  Garbo,  with  a  trace  of 
curiosity. 

"Loretta  Young."  I  suppled.  {ContiTUted  on  page  74) 


31 


The  Ladd   children   were   sold   on   Arizona    (they  went  there  on 


was   before  -  they'd   seen   June  Lake. 


Captain  Bud  Scott  takes  the  family  on  a  breathtakingly  beautiful  speedboat 
ride  around  Lake  Tahoe.  David,  conspicuous  by  his  absence,  doesn't  particu- 
larly like  such  large   bodies  of  water,  althoug-h   he  loves  to  swim  at  home. 


■  A  while  back,  the  Ladd  family  journeyed 
to  Arizona  to  watch  Alan  become  Techni- 
colored  in  Branded,  his  latest  Paramount 
movie.  Arizona  made  quite  an  impression  on 
the  Ladd  children.  They  wouldn't  talk  about 
anything  else  for  weeks  afterward.  This 
bothered  Alan.  After  all,  Arizona  may  have 
been  beautiful,  but  what  was  wrong  with 
California?  It  was  loaded  with  scenic  won- 
ders. There  was  Yosemite,  June  Lake,  Car- 
mel,  Lake  Tahoe — everything.  "Let's  not  leap 
to  conclusions,"  he  told  his  kids.  "Let's  see 
California  first."  They  were  willing.  They'd 
tag  along  with  him  anytime.  So  Alan  and  Sue 
packed  the  valises  again,  polished  up  two  sets 
of  golf  clubs  and  the  children,  piled  them  all 
into  the  convertible  and  set  out.  It  was  quite 
a  trip — as  you  can  see  on  these  pages — the 
sky  couldn't  have  been  bluer,  the  days  couldn't 
have  been  longer.  They  rode,  boated,  golfed, 
picnicked  and  just  admired  the  many  won- 
ders around  them.  {Continued  on  next  page) 


MORE 


cont'd 


David  and  Alana  saw  most  of  Tahoe  from 
the  saddle.  Both  of  them  are  old  hands  at 
riding — picked  up  their  information  back 
home  at  Alsulad  ranch.  But  no  matter  how 
the  rest  of  the  family  pleaded,  they  couldn't 
get  David  near  the  water.  At  first,  he  just 
shook  his  head  when  they  offered  him  a  speed- 
boat ride.  Then  he  burst  into  tears,  so  he  was 
left  on  shore  while  the  others  zipped  around 
Lake  Tahoe.  Alana,  feeling  slightly  superior, 
turned  her  face  toward  the  sun  and  let  the 
wind  lift  her  hair.  Aside  from  that  incident, 
though,  David  was  really  in  there  pitching. 
And  now  he  hardly  talks  about  Arizona  at  aU. 


On  their  way  to  Tahoe,  Alan,  Alona,  and  David  stop  to 
explore  the  rocky  countryside  near  June  Lake,  while  chief 
cook,  Sue,  prepares  a  picnic  lunch  for  her  hungry  ones. 


David  doesn't  mind  the  water,  as  long  as  he's  on  a  horse. 
Both  he  and  Alana  are  seasoned  riders.  Here  a  guide  takes 
them  on  o  rambling  tour  of  the  country  around  Lake  Tahoe, 


Complete  in  cowboy  outfits,  the  children  are  off  on 
another  jaunt  through  the  wide  open 'spaces  of  Tahoe. 
Alan  prefers  golf  to  riding.  He  plays  it  whenever  he's  free. 


Dressed  up  in  a  lifebelt  almost  as  big  as  he  is,  David's 
prepared  for  any  emergency.  He  took  a  good,  firm  hold  on 
dry  land  when   his  family  urged   him  to  come  boating. 


Piled  high  among  the  suitcases,  David  waves  goodbye 
to  a  wonderful  vacation.  Yosemite,  June  Lake,  Carmel, 
Lake  Tahoe — it  was  all  just  perfect  to  the  littlest  Ladd. 


34 


How  I  feel  about  Love 


■  I  was  flying  through  the  air  with  the  greatest 
of  ease,  headed  for  Hawaii  at  the  rate  of  about 
200  miles  an  hour,  when  I  made  the  decision 
that  changed  my  whole  life. 

"This  is  wonderful,"  I  thought,  looking  down 
at  the  blue  Pacific  ocean  17,000  feet  below,  "but 
I  might  as  well  make  up  my  mind.  I'm  a  home- 
girl  and  I'm  going  to  stay  that  way." 

Linda  Susan,  snuggled  against  my  shoulder, 
stirred  in  her  sleep.  She  half  opened  her  eyes, 
looked  up  at  me  and  smiled,  then  dropped  off 
again.  I  felt  secure  and  happy  for  the  first  time 
in  months^  mostly  because  I  had  decided  not 
to  do  something  that  might  have  meant  a  great 
deal  to  my  future. 

I  had  decided  to  discard  a  great  opportunity 
which  was  simply  this — ^David  Selznick,  who  is 
famous  for  performing  miracles  in  the  acting 
profession,  had  given  me  the  chance  of  a  life- 
time. He  wanted  me  to  go  to  Europe  and  study 
for  six  months  with  a  famous  director  who  had 
never  seen  me  in  a  movie.  This  man  was  to  train 
me  as  he  had  others,  and  then  I  was  to  be 
launched  in  an  entirely  new  type  of  picture. 

The  actress  part  of  me  realized  that  this  might 
mean  many  years  of  added  life  before  the 
cartieras  and  perhaps  proof  positive  to  everyone 
that  I  had  grown  up  to  become  what  is  known 
as  a  "great  talent." 

The  woman  and  mother  side  of  me  simply 
said,  "You  can't  do  it.  You  can't  drag  Susan 
around  Europe.  Stay  home  and  see  what  life 
will  bring  you." 

I  won't  live  to  regret  that  decision.  As  a  matter 
of  fact  it  was  only  a  few  hours  afterwards  that 
I  began  to  meet  new  {Continued  on  page  80) 


Charles  Black  and  Shirley  attend  the  opening  of  Little  Boy  Blue. 
They  have  seen  each  other  constantly  since  they  met  in  Hawaii 
last  winter.    He's  a  television  executive  at  KTTV,  in  Los  Angeles. 


Shirley  discusses  her  past,  present,  and  future  ...  a  frank  arid  revealirig  article. 


■  It  was  a  pretty  ordinal  miracle,  except  to  Marika.  To  her, 
it  was  just  as  though  a  door  had  opened  in  one  of  the  pages  of 
her  favorite  book  of  fairy  tales,  and  she  had  been  permitted  to 
walk  in  and  meet  the  wonderful  people  she  had  read  abQut  so 
often.  It  was  proof  that  Alice  really  went  through  the  looking- 
glass— and  proof,  too,  as  her  father  told  her,  that  the  world  is 
full  of  good  people. 

Because  it  was  Christmas  Eve,  an  enchanted  day,  and  this  is 
a  fantasy,  let  us  say  it  all  began  in  the  street  outside  the  mag- 
nificently ornate  gate  of  Splendid  Studio,  in  Hollywood. 


It  was  rather  late  in  the  afternoon,  and  chilly.  A  slight  rain 
filled  the  air  with  tiny  drops  of  moisture  that  clung  to  clothing 
and  wet  the  feet  through  shoes  that  were  thin  at  the  soles. 
Marika  was  eight.  And  on  this  day,  filled  with  the  adventure  of 
the  season  in  a  strange  land,  she  had  wandered  from  her  home 
and  had  been  beckoned  by  the  glittering  sign,  atop  the  gate, 
that  spelled  S-P-L-E-N-D-I-D  in  the  murky  sky. 

She  stood  for  a  long  time  watching  the  word  flicker  on  and  off 
in  red  and  green  and  dazzling  white.  The  rain  was  forgotten  and 
the  chill  almost  forgotten,  and  pretty  (Continued  on  page  81) 


what  now,  Frankie  hoy? 


Ava  Gardner  was  not  solely  responsible  for  Frank's  sep- 
aration from  his  wife  {helow  with  their  children). 
Much  of  their  trouble  has  been  due  to  diverging  interests. 


If  Ava  and  Frank 
consider  marriage  he'll 
have  to  sing, 
"I  can't  give  you  any- 
thing but  love, 
baby."  Will  that 
be  enough? 

BY  ARTHUR  L.  CHARLES 


MGM  released  Frank  so  he  could  do  television.  He's  working  hard,  but  feels  the  separation  from  Ava  keenly,  and  misses  Hollywood 


■  The  year  1950  will  go  down  in  the  records  as  the  year 
of  the  open  season  on  Ava  Gardner  and  Frank  Sinatra. 

In  1950  everything  was  thrown  at  these  two  but  the 
kitchen  sink,  and  only  the  plumbers'  union  prevented  them 
from  getting  that. 

Frankie  was  typed  as  the  kind  of  guy  who'd  steal  cod 
liver  oil  from  babies  and  virtue  from  any  amount  of  inno- 
cent girls.  Ava  was  labelled  home-wrecker,  siren,  thoughtless 
pleasure-seeker. 

During  this  time,  neither  of  them  could  have  been  more 
jinderstanding,  considerate,  or  sweeter  to  get  along  with. 
For  they  were  in  love — they  still  are — in  a  way  that  few 
couples  could  hope  to  be. 

Now  that  Frank  is  in  New  York,  working  on  his  television 
show,  and  Ava  is  in  Hollywood  working  in  Show  Boat,  their 
love  has  grown. 

During  October  and  November,  it  was  love  by  telephone, 
love  via  airmail,  love  by  Western  Union,  and  the  substitu- 
tion of  Ava's  voice  for  her  heart. 

Like  doctors,  hotel  telephone  operators  are  pledged  to 


silence,  but  if  you  could  see  Frank  Sinatra's  telephone  bill 
for  long  distance  calls  from  New  York  to  Ava  Gardner  in 
Hollywood — ^you  wouldn't  beheve  your  eyes. 

"A  guy  like  Sinatra,"  one  of  his  friends  recently 
explained,  "cares  absolutely  nothing  about  money  whien  he's 
fallen  for  a  girl.  My  guess  is  that  he's  spent  over  a  thousand 
bucks  in  the  last  three  months  on  long  distance  calls  to  Ava. 

"All  she  has  to  do  is  to  say  she  wants  anything,  and  in  a 
minute  she's  got  it.  When  she  came  back  from  Spain,  she 
was  on  a  Spanish  kick,  wanted  to  learn  pure  Castilian.  She 
happened  to  mention  that  to  Frank.  Fifteen  minutes  later, 
a  messenger  boy  drove  up  to  her  house  with  a  complete  set 
of  Spanish  language  records. 

"Fortunately  for  Frank,  Ava  doesn't  especially  hke 
jewelry.  Usually  she  wears  only  a  good  luck  medallion  he 
gave  her,  and  earrings  for  which  she  recently  had  her  ears 
pierced.  Frank  gave  her  a  nifty  piece  of  ice  when  she  was  in 
Spain,  but  the  papers  got  it  all  wrong.  One  paper  said  they 
were  emeralds  valued  at  $10,000;  another  called  them 
diamonds,  costing  $50,000,  and  a  {Continued  on  page  70) 


39 


m 


HOMEMADE  FOR 


■  Everything  was  picture-postcard-perfect.  Sun-tanned  couples 
were  speeding  up  and  down  the  canyon  road  in  their  convertibles. 
The  horsey  set  was  cantering  along  the  bridle  paths.  Beside  their 
backyard  swimming  pools,  the  sophisticates  were  sipping  cock- 
tails and  munching  canapes.  But  in  front  of  Richard  Widmark's 
house,  a  gaunt-looking  young  man  was  clipping  a  boxwood  hedge. 
Dressed  in  dungarees,  his  face  covered  with  a  week's  growth 
of  beard,  he  looked  amazingly  like  a  hobo. 

Abruptly,  a  station  wagon  screeched  to  a  halt  beside  the 
hedge.  A  proper,  matronly  sort  of  woman  leaned  out  from 
behind  the  wheel.  "Young  man,"  she  called. 

The  young  man  turned  off  his  electric  cUppers,  and  sauntered 
over  to  the  car. 

"Tell  me,"  asked  the  woman,  imperiously,  "what  do  you  get 
for  clipping  hedges?" 

"Well,"  said  Richard  Widmark,  "the  lady  who  lives  here  lets 
me  Hve  with  her." 

The  matron  drove  off  in  a  cloud  of  dust.  (Cont'd  on  page  42) 


The  dining   room    (above)    opens  into  a   gabled   living    room   whose    big   stone   hearth  and   solid  furniture   achieve  informality. 


HAPPINESS 


Like  -the  rest  of  the  rooms,  the  library  is  square  and  lofty.  Dick  papered  the  ceiling,  and 
lined  the  walls  with  shelves  to  give  coziness  without  cutting  down  space,  hie  also  built,  pa- 
pered, and  painted  a  closet  bar.    Decorating  the  kitchen  was  another  weekend  project. 


The  spacious  master  bedroom  is  so  cheery  and  comfortable  it's  a  second  living  room.  Dick 
mode  the  book  shelves  and  Jean  whipped  up  drapes  and  lamp  shades.  The  furniture,  along 
with  other  handsome  pieces  in  the  house,  comes  from  Jean's  girlhood  home  In  Chicago. 


The  grounds  were  once  o  botanical  garden. 


The    house    is    one-story,  unpretentious. 


II 


Give  him  a  lawn, 
he'll  mow  it  down;  give 
him  a  table,  he'll 
finish  it  off. 

Widmark's  a  tough  guy 
to  beat  when  he's 
his  house  b^^^^{^hil 


MORE  ■ 


Dick  gathered  the  twiddley-bits,  an  English  expression 
for  bric-a-brac,  on  many  trips  abroad.  The  chairs  ore 
hangovers  from  his  bachelor  apartment  in  New  York. 


Dick  laughed  so  long  and  hard  it  brought  his  wife  and 
five-year-old  daughter,  Ann,  out  of  the  house. 

"What's  so  funny?"  Jean  Widmark  asked. 

Dick  told  her,  and  she  smiled'.  "Why  don't  you  do 
some  work  in  the  backyard?"  she  said.  "Or  maybe  you'd 
better  come  into  the  house  for  awhile." 

Widmark  gave  her  one  of  those  long-suffering,  hus- 
bandly looks  and  continued  his  hedge-clipping.  He 
wasn't  going  to  let  his  beard  (which  he'd  grown  espe- 
cially for  Halls  of  Montezuma)  keep  him  off  the  streets. 
Not  while  there  was  work  to  be  done,  anyway. 

His  home  projects  take  the  form  of  wall-papering  the 
kitchen,  simonizing  his  1935  Ford,  or  painting  the 
half-mile  of  white  fence  that  surrounds  his  property. 

Apparently,  Widmark  has  always  been  this  hj'per-ac- 
tive.  Soon  after  he  and  Jean  were  married  and  living  in 
New  York,  he  began  to  feel  cramped  in  a  city  apartment 
so  they  moved  into  a  succession  of  rented  suburban 
homes  in  Bronxville  and  White  Plains.  The  fact  that 
the  houses  were  rented  didn't  stop  Dick  from  working 
on  them.  He  cheerfully  plunged  (Continued  on  page  58) 


Jean,   Dick  and  Ann  are  a  close-knit  family.  The  threesome  prefer,  being  home  together  to  anything  else  in  the  world. 


SHE  WAS  ERROL'S  LEADING  LADY  AND  SHE  LIKED  THE  ROLE  ENOUGH  TO   MAKE  !T  REAL. 


■  Almost  as  soon  as  his  second  wife,  Xora,  left  him  to  marrj'  Dick 
Haymes.  Errol  Flynn  was  out  looking  for  a  bride.  He  had  a  little 
trouble — ^as  all  great  lovers  do — there  wasn't  a  girl  for  miles  who, 
when  asked,  would  say  no. 

But  there  wasn't  a  girl  for  miles  who  struck  him  the  way  Patrice 
Wy-more  did.  She  was  22,  red-headed,  corn-fed.  and  almost  as  tall 
as  he  was.  When  she  looked  him  in  the  eye  he  saw  his  future. 

They  were  married  on  October  23.  1950.  in  Monte  Carlo.  Mayor 
Charles  Palmare,  decorated  in  a  red  and  white  sash,  conducted  the 
ci\'il  ceremony  in  French.  The  couple  took  it  sitting  down  in  big 
armchairs.  WTien  it  was  over,  the  Mayor  handed  them  a  medal 
bearing  Monaco's  coat  of  arms. 

Six  hundred  people  gathered  outside  the  Town  Hall,  their  pockets 
stuffed  with  rice,  and  as  the  newlj-weds  dashed  to  their  black  Rolls 
Royce  the  rice  flew  and  the  air  was  filled  with  romance. 

The  bride  wore  an  off-white  street  length  gowna  vdth  a  stole 
lined  in  blue  satin  (to  match  the  sapphire  (Continued  oil  page  86) 


I 


Married   Oc+.  23 


43 


B 


This  sleek,  and  always 
stylish  sunning  outfit  is  only 
$11.95  in  nnost  stores.  The  white 
sharkskin  shorts  have  a  polka 
dot  trim  matching  the  halter. 


ains  can  be  beautiful! 
Betty's  lightv/oight  slack  suit  and 
the  red  heart  print  dress 
were  inexpensive  purchases  at  a 
small,  Beverly  Hiib  shop. 


One  of  Betty's  extravagances 
is  the  Allardyce  race  track 
blouse  which  cost  $29.95.  Usually, 
she  v/ears  cashmere  or 
angora  sweaters. 


Deceivingly  low-pnced 
but  obviously  good  looking  are 
this  jersey  blouse  and 
cotton  twiil  shorts  whose  total 
cost  was  $8.00. 


A  Paris  gown 
will  flatten  your  wal- 
let but  it  won't 
always  flatter  your  fig- 
ure.   Ask  Betty 
who  can  look  like  a 
million  for  only 
$8.95. 

BY  LESLIE  SNYDER 


■  The  petite  blonde  took  a  dress  from  the  rack  of  brightly  colored  frocks  before  her. 

"This  is  awfully  cute."  She  tipped  her  head,  gathered  the  green  and  white  polka  dot 
dress  into  her  tiny  waist  and  held  the  hanger  just  under  her  chin  to  get  the  effect. 

"It's  very  becoming,"  the  sales  girl  agreed.  "Particularly  on  .  .  ."  she  stopped  sud- 
denly, recognizing  the  blonde  with  the  luscious,  much  publicized  figure. 

"S-a-a-a-a-y.  You're  Betty  Graele!"  The  excitement  in  her  voice  made  Betty  start. 

"Yes,  I  am,"  she  smiled,  "and  I  like  this  dress."  She  turned  back  to.  the  mirror. 
"Let's  take  it  into  a  dressing  room  and  try  it  on."  She  started  toward  the  nearest 
curtained  alcove. 

"But,  Miss  Grable !"  The  girl  hurried  after  her.  "We  have  some  much  nicer  things. 
That  dress  is  only  $8.95." 

"Doesn't  make  any  difference,"  Betty  said  firmly.  "I  like  it,  and  if  it  fits  me  I'll 
take  it."  {Continued  on  page  84) 


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Lancaster 

can  maim  you  with 
a  glance,  and 
kill  you  with 
a  word.  He  often  does. 
And  he's  the  only 
man  in  Holly- 
wood who  "doesn't 
have  to  apologize. 


HE  DIRECTOR  yelled  'Cut!''  and  the  actors  began  mo\-ing  off  the  set.  The 
nauscuiar  young  star  put  a  restraining  hand  on  a  character  actor  near  him  and  said.  "You 
know,  I  think  you're  missing  the  characterization  in  this  scene.  Why  don't  you  try  a  dif- 
ferent inflection  in  your  lines — something  like  this  .''  and  he  proceeded  to  reinterpret 

the  older  man's  reading. 

An  hour  later  in  the  studio  commissar}-,  the  character  man  confided  to  a  friend.  ''Why  I 
was  an  established  leading  man  on  Broadway  when  he  was  still  chinning  himself  on  his 
crib!"  He  pondered  a  moment,  then  shrugged  it  off.  "But  who  can  say  Burt  Lancaster  is 
wrong?  I'm  here  on  a  $55.00  call,  but  Burt  is  loaned  out  for  $150,000  a  picture!  " 

In  a  later  film.  Lancaster  and  his  top-rung  feminine  co-star  prepared  to  do  a  scene.  "Just 
a  moment,"  said  the  high-salaried  lady,  turning  to  the  director.  '"Shall  I  play  the  scene  the 
way  you  directed  it.  or  the  way  Burt  directed  it?" 

The  question  of  whether  Burt  Lancaster  is  right  or  wrong — ^^vhether  he  gets  away  with 
murder  or  justifiable  homicide — is  a  problem  that  has  been  debated  in  the  drawing  rooms- 
of  Holh  vvood  for  four  years  without  ever  ha\ing  been  resolved. 

There  are  those  who  maintain  that  Lancaster  is  just  the  same  stubble-chinned,  uncombed 
fugitive  from  a  flea-bitten  circus  that  he  was  when  he  first  hit  town  five  years  ago:  that  he 
has  always  been  forthright,  outspoken,  blunt,  and  devastatingly  logical. 

There  are  others  who  agree  that  while  Burt  is  still  stubble-chinned  and  uncombed,  he 
is  also  opinionated,  rude,  and  monomaniacally  egocentric ;  that  by  the  time  he  had  made  his 
second  picture.  Desert  Fury,  he  had  reached  the  point  where  he  considered  himself  a  mus- 
cular version  of  Orson  Welles,  with  a  dictatorial  finger  in  almost  even,-  phase  of  the 
whole  production  pie. 

In  all  fairness  to  Lancaster,  his  side  of  some  celebrated  "incidents"  should  be 
given  a  hearing. 

Incident  #1:  A  high-flown  female  writer  publicly  squawked  that  Burt  was  "rude"  and 
had  walked  out  on  her  in  the  middle  of  an  inter\aew. 

Burt's  version:  "The  dame  was  too  condescending.  She  tolerated  me.  and  I  will  not  be 
tolerated ! " 

Incident  #2:  A  New  York  night  club  photographer  complained  that  when  he  attempted 
to  take  a  picture  of  Burt,  the  star  had  stubbornly  refused  and  had  pushed  him  around. 

Burt's  version:  "The  guy  was  persistent  and  abusive,  even  after  I  asked  him.  courteously, 
not  to  take  my  picture  that  night.  He  got  in  my  way  as  I  tried  to  leave  the  club,  so  I 
shoved  him  aside." 

Incident  #3 :  A  writer  complained  to  ever>'one  within  hearing  distance  that  Burt,  without 
just  cause,  had  refused  to  give  him  an  interview. 

Burt's  version:  "I  had  plenty  of  cause.  I  cancelled  out  on  that  interview  after  I  heard 
the  guy  pop  off  at  a  party  about  what  an  egotistical,  no-good  ham  I  was." 

Few  Hollywood  stars  would  dare  such  basic  honesty  in  their  (Continued  on  page  83) 


WITH  MURDER 


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REUNION 

48 


Barbara  couldn't  believe  that  she  was  really  In  Italy.  When  she  visited  St. 
Mark's  Cathedral  with  her  good  friend  and  publicist,  Helen  Ferguson,  she 
^aid,  "I've  so  often  worked  agoinst  this  background,  I'm  sure  I'm  on  stage  12." 


Bob  commissioned  the  famous  Roman  sculptor,  Manucci,  to  do 
a  head  of  Barbara.  He  worked  mostly  from  photos,  but  she 
sat  In  person  for  the  final  job.  Bob's  secretary,  Tullia.  was  a'oro 


I 


vVhenever  Bob -had  o  day  off  from  work,  he  and  Barbara  went  shopping 
in  Rome.  They  each  had  a  pair  of  Roman  sandals  made  by  Michele  Cegiia, 
creator  of  custom  shoes.    Barbara  believes  in  comfort,  and  wore  hers  a  lot. 


Exotic  Venice  was  almost  too  hot  to  appreciate.  The  Taylors 
rested  from  sight-seeing  at  the  Piazza  cafe  in  St.  Mark's  square. 
They  sat  in  the  sun  though  the  shady  side  was  more  popular. 


.gjmiled  Barbara,  and  then  they  kissed  while  half  of  Rome  stood  by  and  cheered. 


no  idea  the  citizenry  of  Tucson  would  be 
at  the  airport,  aknost  en  masse,  to  greet 
her.  But  there  they  were,  all  wearing  west- 
ern regaha.  From  the  Mayor,  to  the  cow- 
boys who'd  worked  on  the  picture. 

She  was  half  an  hour  early  for  the  dedi- 
cation ceremonies  at  the  University.  She 
didn't  get  through  her  speech  without 
breaking.  Her  effort  to  do  so  was  valiant — 
but  it  failed.  Her  audience  wept  with  her. 
There  was  no  applause  when  she  finished. 
The  communion  between  her  and  her  listen- 


ers and  the  tears  they  shared  were  the 
heart's  applause  for  Walter  Huston,  In 
that  quiet,  too.  she  unveiled  his  portrait. 
Standing  beneath  it,  head  tilted  to  look 
upon  him,  painted  in  his  role  for  The  Furies, 
screen  star  Barbara  Stanwyck,  for  all  her 
silver  hair,  seemed  like  a  bereft  little  girl. 

Within  the  hour  Barbara  had  showered, 
changed,  was  on  her  way  to  Davis-Monthan 
Air  Base  to  christen  and  autograph  a  new 
bomber.  After  waiting  15  minutes  in  the 
broiling  desert  sun  for  the  ceremonies  to 


start,  she  scrawled  her  name  with  a  flourish, 
smashed  the  champagne  bottle  against  the 
nose  of  the  plane  with  strength  and 
competence,  and  with  equal  competence 
kissed  ever>'  one  of  its  14-man  crew  quite 
thoroughly  as  she  presented  each  of  them 
with  a  key  ring  bearing  the  bomber's  in- 
signia— dice  numbered  7-11. 

Two  broadcasts  and  one  cocktail  party 
later  she  again  showered  and  changed,  and 
at  the  premiere,  again  paid  tribute  to  Hus- 
ton. She  meant  {Continued  on  next  page) 


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REUNION  «i  imY 


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every  word  of  it,  "Ladies  and  gentlemen.  You  are  about  to  see  the  Hal  Wallis 
production  of  The  Furies  in  which,  unfortunately  for  our  industry,  Walter 
Huston  plays  his  final  role.  It  is  Walter's  picture.  Mr.  Wendell  Corey,  Mr. 
Gilbert  Roland,  Miss  Judith  Anderson  and  myself  are  in  the  supporting  cast. 
For  me,  this  is  the  greatest  honor  I  have  ever  had." 

After  the  premiere,  in  the  teeming  rain,  she  went  again  to  the  Air  Base. 
First  to  the  Enlisted  Men's  Club  where  she  danced  till  12:30,  then  to  the 
Ofi&cers'  Club  where  she  danced  till  two. 

Next  morning,  next  lap  of  the  "Road  to  Rome."  The  Governor's  car  took 
us  to  the  airport.  American  Airlines  to  Dallas.  To  New  York. 

They  held  the  connecting  plane  ten  minutes  at  Dallas  because  we  came  in 
right  on  deadline.  Sprint  to  make  it?  Brother,  you  think  Stanwyck  hurries 
to  be  on  time?  She's  jet-propelled. 

New  York,  LaGuardia  Field  at  midnight  after  the  sweetest,  smoothest 
landing!  Banrbara  Tvanted  to  write  a  fan  letter  to  the  pilot,  btrt  the  photog- 
raphers were  waiting.  Because  it  was  midnight  and  Saturday  she  got  lost 
in  her  agitation  because  she  knew  that'  the  poor  guys  were  having  their 
date  night  ruined. 

"Why  didn't  you  walk  out  on  me?"  she  demanded.  "Why  hang  around  to 
photograph  some  gray  haired  dame  like  me,  when  you  could  have  been 
dancing  with  a  doll?" 

Her  adroit  switch  to  the  vernacular,  her  apologies,  sent  them  into  a  spin. 
"Don't  go  calling  yourself  no  dame,  Barbara,"  one  of  them  said.  And  she 
couldn't  have  been  more  flattered. 

Gil  Cote,  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,  and  Herb  Steinberg,  Paramount,  were 
there  to  meet  her.  Each  with  a  limousine.  Tactful  doll,  she  herded  them 
both  into  one  car  with  her.  The  other  followed,  luggage  filled.  Sandwiches 
and  black  coffee  at  the  hotel,  unpacking,  and  chatter.  We  turned  in  at 
three  o'clock  in  the  morning. 

Gil  Cote  had  told  Barbara  about  Danny's  Hideaway.  "Wonderful  steaks," 
he'd  said,  knowing  Barbara.  We  went  there  on  our  first  night  in  New  York. 
"Wonderful  steaks"  plus.  Plus  meaning  the  friendships  that  grew  from 
Danny's  delighted  hospitality  which  refused  to  allow  Barbara  to  pay  for 
a  dinner.  We  dined  no  place  else  in  the  city.  "Dannyls  Hideaway — my  New 
York  'home,'  "  Stanwyck  said.  As  is  customary  {Continued  on  page  76) 


Barbara  never  fired  of  wandering  fhrough  the 


Admirers  followed  "our  love  couple" 
everywhere  to  applaud  and  take  pictures. 


Even  the  natives  get  lost  in  Rome,  but  Bob's  uncanny 
sense  of  direction  piloted  them  perfectly  on  their  tours. 


On  the  set  of  Qtw  Vadis,  Emperor  Nero,  Peter 
Usinov,  amuses  the  Taylors  ond  Mervyn  LeRoy. 


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many  beautiful  churches  in  Rome.  Here  she  admires  St.  Paul's  Cothedral..  The  climax  of  her  visit  in  the  Holy  City  wos  an  audience  with  the  Popi 


! 


The  Taylors  and  Mervyn  LeRoy  sat  next  to 
Jean   Simmons,   at  the  Venice   Film  Festival. 


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stom  by  biny 


crosby 


■  This  year,  the  spirit  of  Christmas  descended  on  the  Crosby  clan  a  couple  of  months  ahead  of  schedule.  The 
four  sprouts  and  I  had  just  finished  up  a  heavy  haying  season  on  the  ranch  at  Elko,  Nevada,  and  were  loafing 
around  at  Hayden  Lake  for  a  few  weeks  before  we  were  due  to  check  in  at  school  and  CBS,  respectively.  We'd 
been  doing  some  fishing,  riding,  and  throwing  the  football  around  a  bit,  and  Christmas  was  absolutely  the  last 
thing  on  our  minds. 

Then,  one  sizzling  afternoon  when  the  thermometer  was  flirting  with  the  idea  of  blowing  its  top,  I  got  a  call 
from  Hollywood.  It  was  Johnny  Burke,  a  lyric  writer  of  considerable  repute.  He  was  plainly  excited. 
"Hey,  Bing,  listen  to  this!"  he  said,  with  a  gasp. 

There  was  a  moment's  pause,  broken  up  by  the  shuffling  background  noise  of  Jimmy  Van  Heusen  sliding  into 
place  behind  the  piano.  Then  Johnny,  in  his  fractured  tenor  voice,  began  to  sing. 

I  must  pause  to  mention  that  Johnny  Burke  is  not  my  favorite  singer.  Personally,  I  like  Sinatra  better,  or 
the  Andews  sisters,  or  even,  for  that  matter,  a  certain  weary  baritone  of  my  acquaintance.  But  while  Johnny's 
voice  isn't  much  to  boast  about,  his  material  is  always  bright  and  new.  He  had  a  Christmas  song  ...  a  heart- 
warming little  ditty  about  a  snowman  who  melted  away,  and  as  his  voice  came  over  {Continued  on  page  82) 


BS 


She'd  rather  act 
than  eat — but  Hollywood 
would  rather  see 
her  star  than  starve. 
So  they've  worked 
out  a  deal.  Piper 
Laurie  can  act  anytime 
— and  Hollywood  will  feed 
her  on  caviar. 

BY  TOM  CARLILE 


Now  eighteen  and  a  high  school  graduate,  Piper  has  lots  of  beaus,  but  hasn't 
Piper  is  ready  to  concentrate  on  her  career  settled  on  any  one.  Besides  Mom's 
which  already  has  reached  star  proportions,     cooking's  still  too  good  to  leave. 


■  Universal's  had  her  for  less  than  a  year.  She  was  17  and  a  high 
school  student  when  they  offered  her  a  salary,  which  she  refused. 
"It  would  have  been  hke  stealing,"  she  says,  especially  since  she 
would  have  been  willing  to  pay  tkem  for  a  chance  to  act.  Almost  as 
soon  as  she  got  her  high  school  diploma  she  was  cast  in  Louisa,  and 
after  that,  in  The  Milkman.  She  felt  a  little  easier  then  about  taking 
the  money.  Now  she's  18,  lovely  owner  of  a  term  contract,  and  star 
in  The  Prince  Who  Was  A  Thief.  That's  not  bad,  and  Piper  Laurie 
knows  it. 

Her  big  break  came  about  half  a  year  ago.  Piper,  was  carrying  a 
basket  of  fruit  to  the  mayor  of  Chicago.  (The  fruit  was  a  present 
from  Ann  Blyth,  the  mayor  of  Toluca  Lake.)  She  was  standing  in 
City  Hall,  waiting  for  an  elevator,  when  Ben  Katz,  head  of  Universal- 
International's  Chicago  office,  rushed  up  to  her.  He  was  red-faced 
and  excited. 

"Just  got  a  wire  from  Hollywood,"  he  told  Piper.  "Don't  tell 
anyone,  but  they're  going  to  star  you  in  a  two  million  dollar  Techni- 
color production.  Congratulations!" 

"You're  kidding,"  said  Piper,  calmly. 

"No.  Honest,"  said  Mr.  Katz. 

Piper  smiled  knowingly  as  she  stepped  into  the  elevator.  But  three 
floors  up  she  turned  white.  "He  must  be  kidding,"  she  thought,  but 
she  reaUzed  then  that  he  wasn't. 

Half  an  hour  later  in  her  hotel  room  the  phone  rang.  It  was  a  long 
distance  call  from  her  agent  in  Hollywood. 

"Don't  say  anything,  kid,"  he  said,  "but  U-I  is  giving  you  the 
starring  role  in  a  big  Technicolor  picture.  Isn't  that  terrific?" 

"Terrific!"  said  Piper,  dazedly. 

The  next  phone  call  was  from  her  mother  in  Beverly  Hills.  "Don't 
say  anything,  baby,"  her  mother  said,  "but  Universal  is  starring  you 
in  a  big  picture.  I'm  so  proud  of  you."  • 

By  that  time.  Piper  couldn't  have  said  {Continued  on  page  85) 


bring  a 
movie  star  to 
your  home 

How  would  you  like  to 
have  Piper  Laurie  visit  you  in 
person?  Would  you  like 
to  meet  Tony  Ciu-tis,  too? 
How  about  seeing  a  brilliant 
premiere  of  their  new  picture, 
The  Prince  Who  Was  A  Thief,  in 
your  home  town  theater?  AD 
this  plus  a  prize  of  a  $1000 
Government  Bond  will  happen 
to  the  winner  of  Modern 
Screen's  exciting  contest.  Turn 
to  page  88  for  the  easy  rules. 

over  $6500  in  prizes 


His  eight  acre  horse  breeding  ranch  in  ^San  Fernando  Valley  keeps  Ronnie  busy.  On  weekends  the  children  join  him  in  form  chores  and  riding. 


No  sad  songs 
for  Ronnie 


■  In  an  exuberant  moment  last  month.  Ronald  Reagan  bought  two  new  siiits, 
several  shirts,  a  handful  of  neckties,  and  immediately  outgrew  his  apartment. 

■'When  I  came  in  that  afternoon  and  couldn't  find  an  empty  chair  to  put 
down  my  packages,"  Ronnie  later  told  friends.  "I  glumly  surveyed  the  place 
I've  called  home  for  two  years  and  decided  it  was  time  for  a  little  chat  with 
the  landlord.'' 

The  landlord  wouldn't  hear  of  his  moving. 

"Come  vdth  me,"'  he  told  Ronnie,  mysteriously. 

Ronnie  came  with  him  out  into  the  courtyard  and  upstairs  into  another 
wing  of  the  bmlding.  He  stood  patiently  while  the  landlord  rattled  the  key  in 
the  lock  of  a  door  and  then  ushered  hini  into  a  pleasant,  airy  living  room. 
Just  outside,  Ronnie  noticed,  was  a  spacious  sundeck  overlooking  the 
Mocambo  across  the  street. 

Ronnie  signed  up  on  the  spot,  and  by  the  following  noon  all  of  his  belong- 
ings were  moved  in.  It  was  as  simple  as  that. 

As  a  rule,  bachelors  have  a  bad  time  living  alone.  They  can't  find  their 
socks.  The  laundrv*  loses  their  shirt  buttons.  They  forget  to  eat  the  right 
vitamins,  and  become  indifferent  about  appointments. 

But  it  hasn't  been  that  way  with  Ronald  Reagan.  No  frayed  shirts.  No 
dirty  dishes  in  the  sink.  Hardly  any  troubles  at  (Continued  on  page  87) 


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homemade  for  happiness 

(Continued  from  page  42)  into  such  am- 
bitious projects  as  bookcase  building,  re- 
setting the  bathroom  tile,  and  staining  the 
woodwork. 

"Sometimes,  I  couldn't  see  much  sense 
in  putting  all  that  work  into  someone 
else's  property,"  his  wife  recalls,  "but  so 
long  as  it  made  Dick  happy  I  worked 
along  as  his  bungling  assistant.  I  can  see 
now  that  it  was  a  good  apprenticeship 
for  the  work  we're  doing  in  our  own 
house.  At  least,  we  know  a  Uttle  more 
about  home  decorating  than  we  did  dvu-ing 
those  first  years  of  ovir  marriage." 

The  Widmarks  bought  their  present 
house  after  trying  out  three  others.  Their 
first  California  rental  was  a  caretaker's 
adobe  cottage  which  they  refer  to  in 
retrospect  as  "Snake-haven." 

"We  didn't  mind  the  coyotes  howling 
at  night,"  Dick  says,  "but  when  I  had  to 
kill  a  rattlesnake,  Jean  said  we'd  better 
fly  the  coop.  Fly  we  did." 

The  next  Widmark  home  was  in  a 
crowded  (crowded  for  Widmark,  that  is) 
section  of  Santa  Monica.  Dick,  who  loves 
privacy  to  the  point  of  isolation,  was 
under  the  impression  that  people  were 
breathing  down  his  neck,  so  he  took  his 
wife  and  child  and  moved  into  Claude 
Rains'  house  in  Brentwood.  Very  nice, 
very  stylized,  very  formal — ^but  not  ex- 
actly Widmark. 

"We  were  jvist  like  a  lot  of  couples  are," 
Jean  says.  "We  couldn't  put  our  feeling 
about  a  home  into  words.  We  felt  that 
when  we  saw  what  we  wanted,  it  would 
hit  us  all  of  a  sudden.  I'd  look  at  the 
house,  Dick  would  look  at  it.  We'd  look 
at  each  other  and  we'd  know  at  once 
that  this  was  it.  The  real  estate  agents 
were  very  anxious  to  make  a  sale  and 
they  kept  showing  us  house  after  house, 
but  in  the  end  we  found  the  house  our- 
selves." 

VV/  HEN  Harry  Carey,  the  veteran  Western 
"  star,  passed  away  several  years  ago, 
his  wife,  OUie,  decided  to  sell  their  roomy, 
rambling  California  ranch  house  in  Man- 
deville  Canyon.  Before  OlUe  could  put  it 
on  the  market,  Dick  and  Jean  rushed  to 
make  her  an  offer.  She  accepted  it.  ^Mrs. 
Carey  says,  "I  was  glad  to  turn  the  house 
over  to  people  who  really  loved  it  and 
appreciated  its  charm." 

The  house  is  twenty  years  old — ^a  one- 
story  frame  job  that  spreads  out  in  the 
middle  of  an  acre.  The  acre  was  once  a 
botanical  garden,  and  ginger  plants,  a 
rare  Chinese  tree,  and  half  a  dozen  experi- 
mental fruit-bearers  still  remain  from 
those  days.  A  good  deal  of  shrubbery 
which  is  too  unique  and  valuable  to  be 
cleared  out  almost  obscures  the  house 
which  has  no  particular  style.  Neither  is 
it  impressive  to  look  at.  Its  fimdamental 
beauty  lies  in  its  spacious,  uncomplicated 
floor  plan.  All  the  rooms,  including  the 
baths,  are  large,  square,  and  high-ceUinged. 
The  living  room  seems  even  larger  than 
it  is,  because  it  has  a  gabled  ceiling  and 
one  wall  of  windows  that  overloola  the 
rose  garden.  The  dining  room  is  spacious 
enough  to  seat  twelve  or  fifteen  guests, 
and  the  master  bedroom,  with  its  great 
stone  fireplace,  is  practically  a  second  Uv- 
ing  room. 

Only  the  library  is  small  enough  to  be 
considered  cozy.  But  even  here,  Dick  and 
Jean  have  cleverly  lined  the  walls  with 
book  cases  and  magazine  racks  to  provide 
plenty  of  sheH  storage  without  taking  up 
floor  space. 

Throughout  the  entire  house  there's 
ample  evidence  of  Dick's  weekend  projects. 
There's  the  closet-bar  which  he  built, 
papered,  and  painted.   There's  the  early 


American  antique  table  which  he  cut 
down  to  coffee  table  height.  Hie  bedroom 
bookcases  are  a  tribute  to  his  carpentry. 
In  the  big  old-fashioned  kitchen,  though, 
there's  a  trace  of  handiwork  he'd  rather 
you  wouldn't  mention.  Seems  he  started 
fixing  the  room  by  pciinting  it  blue.  Then, 
in  a  fit  of  inspiration,  he  decided  to  paper 
one  wall.  He  ran  short  of  paper,  and 
when  he  went  back  to  get  a  second  roll, 
he  discovered  that  the  paper  was  out  of 
stock,  which  was  why  he'd  gotten  a  good 
bargain  in  the  first  place. 

Tf  the  fresh  paint  and  imique  papering 

are  indicative  of  the  Widmark  week- 
ends, the  fumishhigs  are  a  chronicle  of 
the  Widmark  travels. 

Take  the  twin  easy  chairs  beside  the 
living  room  fireplace.  They  represent 
Dick's  earUest  venture  into  the  field  of 
home  furnishings.  He  bought  them,  with 
Jean's  help;  for  his  first  bachelor  apart- 
ment in  New  York.  They  weren't  married 
at  the  time,  but  together,  they  stimibled 
onto  a  smart  trick  of  economy  buying. 
They  learned  that  chairs  bought  in  the 
boudoir  section  of  a  department  store  are 
often  less  expensive  •  than  similar  chairs 
in  the  regular  furniture  depcirtment.  Then 
all  they  had  to  do  was  get  them  uphol- 
stered in  an  appropriate  fabric. 

The  Widmark  bedroom  set  is  the  one 
Jean  had  when  she  was  Miss  Jean  Hazel- 
wood  of  Chicago.  A  good  many  other 
furniture  pieces  also  come  from  the  Haz- 
elwood  homestead.  After  Jean's  mother 
died,  her  father  sold  the  family  home  and 
stored  the  furnishings  in  a  Chicago  ware- 
house. He  urged  Jean  and  Dick  to  look 
things  over  and  select  what  they  liked 
best.  "Poking  through  the  Loop  ware- 
house," Dick  says,  "got  to  be  our  favorite 
in-between-trains  diversion  whenever  we 
were  traveling  from  coast  to  coast." 

The  Chippendale  mirror,  Queen  Anne 
chest,  and  Victorian  seat  in  the  living 
room  are  mute  evidences  of  the  number 
of  trans-continental  stop-offs. 

The  oil  painting  over  the  fireplace  was 
bought  by  Dick  a  year  ago.  He  had  a  few 
days  off  from  filming  Night  and  The  City 
in  England  so  he  and  Jean  flew  to  Paris. 
As  soon  as  he  saw  the  painting  of  the 
Seine  after  dark  in  a  little  Montmartre  art 
gallery,  he  knew  it  was  for  hjm.  But  he 
acted  casual  about  it,  because  he'd  been 
told  not  to  get  enthusiastic  about  any- 
thing he  reaUy  wanted  to  buy  in  France. 
It  almost  killed  him,  but  he  didn't  buy 
the  painting  that  first  night.  They  re- 
turned the  next  morning  Eind  bought  it 
on  the  spot.  The  oil  is  by  a  young  artist 
named  KiUakoff,  who  paints  only  at  night. 

While  Dick'  worked  in  England,  Jean 
and  Uttle  Ann  used  to  roam  the  Sussex 
countryside  in  search  of  antiques.  On  the 
weekends,  the^d  lead  Dick  to  their  dis- 
coveries, and  he'd  say  yes  or  no.  Their 
most  impressive  British  find  is  a  heavy 
monk's  table  and  six  chairs  which  they 
use  in  the  dining  room.  The  table  also 
acts  as  a  base  for  Dick's  movie  projector 
when  he  wants  to  show  home  movies. 

Two  cricket  tables,  three  milking  stools, 
and  a  wing-back  chair  are  also  remem- 
brances of  the  English  trip  as  well  as  a 
collection  of  twiddley-bits,  the  British 
equivalent  of  bric-a-brac. 

Dick  and  Jean  have  lived  in  their  can- 
yon home  for  almost  a  year  now  and  still 
friends  rave  over  its  individuality  and 
homey  quality.  Only  the  other  day,  one 
of  them  asked  Mrs.  Widmark  to  disclose 
the  name  of  her  interior  decorator.  "I 
really  mean  it,  dear,"  she  gushed.  "Your 
decorator  has  captured  your  personaUties." 

It  wasn't  very  Hollywood-like,  but  Jean 
told  the  truth.  "We  decorated  it  our- 
selves." And  the  Widmark  hoUse  looks 
it — solid,  intelligent,  in  good  taste.  In 
short,  almost  pure  Widmark.        The  End 


bobble  fog,  fashion  editor 

beverly 
tyler  at  the 
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(at  the  Rainbow  Room  iji  Rockefeller 
Center)  wearing  a  strictly  tailored 
suit — ^inspired  by  men's  practical  fash- 
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skirts,  the  jacket  copied  from  the  one 
he  keeps  for  smoking.  More  male 
thefts:  fabric,  vest,  and  link  fastenings. 
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menswear  combines  -a 
strip  of  roUed  collar,  raglan 
sleeve  ending  high  and 
a  string  of  buttons  closing 
down  center.  The  full  skirt 
meets  at  the  waist  in  soft 
pleats.  Navy  or  brown 
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Photographed  at  the 
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A  traditional  meeting  place,  under  the  clock  at  the  BOtmore,  in  a  traditional 
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dinner  at  the  stork  club 


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Wonderful  construction  and  iridescent 

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Sleeves  of  three-quarter 
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my  predictions  for  1951 

(Continued  from  page  28)  Shirley  Temple 
will  change  her  name  to  Mrs.  Charles  Black 
and  gradually  give  up  her  Hollywood 
career. 

Kirk  Douglas  and  Irene  Wrightsman  will 
find  a  way  to  make  a  match. 

Bob  Walker  will  find  a  wife  and  found 
a  home  for  himself  and  his  boys. 

Doris  Day  will  be  Mrs.  Martin  Melcher 
(if  she  already  isn't  by  the  time  this 
prints) . 

Ava  Gardner  will  discover  a  new  lover 
boy,  but  Nancy  won't  take  Frankie  back 
again.  i 

Farley  Granger  will  live  alone  and  like  it 
for  another  year,  anyway,  and  so  will  his 
old  sweetie,  Shelley  Winters. 

Janet  Leigh  won't  love  Tony  Curtis  half 
as  much  as  her  brilliant  new  picture 
breaks.  So  she'll  keep  saying,  "No." 

The  Dan  Daileys  will  sign  their  bill  of 
divorcement  and  Dan  will  play  the  field. 

Errol  Flynn  will  stay  put  and  pacified 
with  Patrice  Wymore  at  least  through  '51. 
So  will  Bette  Davis  with  Gary  Merrill. 

Clark  Gable  and  his  lady  fair  will  grow 
cozier  and  cozier  out  on  the  farm. 

The  Crosby  clan  will  allow  no  more  mar- 
riage break  rumors,  with  their  family  life 
put  back  in  good  order. 

Betty  Hutton  will  risk  no  more  marriage 
rifts  with  Ted  Briskin. 

June  Allyson  will  be  one  of  the  happiest 
girls  in  the  world  for  the  greatest  reason 
in  the  world — a  new  baby.  And  Dick  Pow- 
ell will  be  a  foolish  father  and  first  class 
family  man. 

That  will  do  for  a  starter  on  the  ques- 
tion-marks. So  let's  get  down  to  some 
whys: 

I SUPPOSE  it  soimds  foolish  to  forecast 
wedded  bliss  for  Liz  and  Nick  Hilton  in 
the  face  of  all  the  wild  rumors  still  rattling 
around.  But  those  rumors,  don't  forget, 
flew  out  of  their  biggest  marriage  mistake 
and  greatest  newlywed  ordeal — that  in- 
judicious, three-months  long  European 
honeymoon.  It's  over  now  and  two  people 
are  mighty  glad — Elizabeth  and  Nick. 

It's  rough  enough  adjusting  to  a  husband 
or  wife,  besides  taking  on  a  three-ring  cir- 
cus at  the  same  time,  and  neither  Nick  nor 
Elizabeth  ever  cleared  the  sawdust  out  of 
their  eyes  the  whole  confusing  trip.  Every 
ambitious  hostess,  titled  count  and  no-ac- 
count used  and  abused  them  for  their  own 
benefit.  They  were  never  alone,  never  got 
the  chance  to  know  each  other — until  they 
came  home  to  America.  Nick  heard  noth- 
ing but,  "Miss  Taylor  this,  and  Miss  Tay- 
lor that,"  deadly  to  a  groom's  manly  pride. 
He  got  fed  up  and  he  acted  up.  But  that's 
over,  thank  goodness. 

I  know  Elizabeth  is  madly  in  love  with 
Nick  Hilton.  She  tells  me  so  in  exactly 
those  words  every  time  I  talk  to  her.  I 
also  know  Nick  worships  the  ground  she 
walks  on.  They've  both  come  down  to 
earth  by  now.  Nick's  busy  running  his 
Bel-Air  Hotel,  Liz  is  back  before  the  cam- 
eras. They've  moved  into  their  newly  dec- 
orated suite,  they're  looking  for  a  house, 
Liz  has  even  learned  to  cook,  they've  got 
reality  roped.  They  have  arguments — 
sure  they  always  will — and  who  doesn't? 
But  they're  starting  off  right  at  home  after 
their  wrong  beginnings  abroad.  The  Hil- 
tons  don't  step  around;  they  stick  to  their 
family  and  friends.  There's  no  baby  started 
as  I  write — yep,  I  checked  that — but  Nick 
wants  one  soon  as  possible.  Mrs.  Hilton 
would  like  to  wait,  but  Heaven  will  handle 
that.  Put  this  down  for  Elizabeth  next 
year:  A  new  hold  on  happiness — and  may- 
be that  baby. 
The  same  kind  of  bliss  lines  up  for  Shir- 
66  ley   Temple   in  my  book  because,  first, 


Shirley,  too,  is  in  love,  so  in  love,  so  in  love. 
She's  kept  a  mum  marathon  throughout 
1950  but  she  can't  fool  me  or  anyone  else. 
The  dark,  handsome,  and  close  mouthed 
San  Franciscan  who  snared  her  heart  with 
a  flowered  lei  almost  a  year  ago  in  Hono- 
lulu has  never  let  it  go,  not  for  a  minute. 
He's  not  courting  Shirley  for  her  glamour 
or  her  gold.  He's  proven  he  wants  no  share 
of  her  fame.  But  he  does  want  Shirley. 
There  have  been  visits  I  know  that  stayed 
secret,  constant  calls  and  rendezvous  dis- 
creetly masked.  There  still  are.  Charles 
Black  has  a  career  and  a  life  of  his  own  in 
a  world  well  apart  from  Hollywood,  and 
that  leads  me  right  to  my  second  Temple 
prediction. 

AFTER  she  marries,  Shirley  will  soon  re- 
tire from  the  screen.  She  may  even 
leave  the  home  of  her  childhood  for  keeps 
and  the  world  of  her  golden  girl  memories 
— Hollywood.  She  has  had  that  world  rise 
up  and  slap  her  down,  hard.  She's  got  her 
values  back  now  and  they're  less  Holly- 
wood than  ever  before.  All  Shirley's  ac- 
tions this  past  year  have  pointed  to  that — 
her  quiet  life,  her  nursing,  her  earnest  at- 
tention to  Linda  Susan.  She's  after  a  home 
and  a  new  life — and  if  it's  to  be  found  in 
San  Francisco  or  Honolulu — that's  where 
she'll  go.  And  I  think  the  world's  blessing 
will  go  with  her.  Mine  certainly  will. 

Now  wedding  bells  can  be  catching,  and 
I  think  they  can  be  catching  Kirk  Douglas 
in  1951,  too.  Kirk  will  be  doing  more  than 
humming  "Good  night  Irene" — I've  a 
hunch  he'll  be  saying  it  to  Irene  Wrights- 


From  where  I'm  sitting,  tolerance  is  lust  a 
big  word  for  peace.  War  can't  get  going 
where  there's  sympathetic  understanding 
of  nation  for  nation,  man  for  man,  and 
creed  for  creed. — Bing  Crosby  as  quoted 
by  Irving  Hoffman  in  The  Hollywood  Re- 
porter. 


man  very  regularly.  Only  the  other  night, 
at  my  house,  I  asked  him,  "Have  you  pro- 
posed to  Irene  yet?"  and  Kirk  replied  in- 
nocently, "Proposed?  Why,  I  didn't  think 
they  did  that  anymore  except  in  novels!" 
But  he's  not  fooling  me.  He's  a  cocky,  con- 
fident chap  who's  out  after  the  best  and 
right  now,  like  a  lot  of  boys  from  across  the 
tracks  who've  fought  their  way  up.  Kirk 
has  a  lady  complex.  There's  something 
fatally  fascinating  about  society  girls  to 
slugger-uppers  who've  made  the  grade.  I 
believe  the  Champ  will  make  Irene 
Wrightsman  his  bride,  because  Kirk  gets 
what  he  wants,  and  he  wants  a  society  girl, 
which  Irene  definitely  is.  She's  also  sweet 
and  smart  and  she's  been  around  for  all  the 
sophistication  she  needs.  She's  seen  enough 
of  playboys  and  she  wants  a  real  man. 
Beside,  who  wouldn't  fall  for  Douglas? 
I'm  scheduling  that  match  just  as  soon  as 
Kirk's  decree  is  final. 

DuT  what  about  some  other  hot  and 
heavies  of  this  mid-century  year?  Take 
Ava  Gardner  and  Frank  Sinatra — and  then 
take  them  out  of  the  picture  before  too 
many  moons  wax  and  wane.  Because  the 
present  Mrs.  S.  has  no  intentions  of  giving 
her  wandering  troubadour  a  divorce.  And 
where  does  that  leave  Ava — emotionally 
tied  forever  and  a  day  to  a  man  she  can 
never  marry?  I  don't  think  so.  Watch  that 
headlined  pair  next  year  and  watch  for  the 
breakup  of  a  torrid  romance.  It  can  hap- 
pen any  day.  - 

Last  year  about  this  time  I  was  pretty 
certain  that  Farley  Granger  and  Shelley 
Winters  would  make  a  team.  Now,  I'm 
sure  they  won't.  In  fact,  I'll  go  further  out 
on  a  limb  and  say  that  Farley  hasn't  one 


thought  of  marriage  roosting  under  his 
curly  mop.  Farley  has  learned  a  lot  in 
1950.  Primarily,  he's  learned  that  there.'s 
a  great,  wide,  interesting  world  outside  of 
Hollywood.  He  made  this  Chris  Columbus 
discovery  on  trips  to  Mexico,  Europe,  and 
several  times,  to  New  York.  He  found  art, 
music,  new  things  and  new  thoughts.  He 
met  interesting  people.  Farley  is  just 
starting  on  a  hungry  bachelorhood  dedi- 
cated to  life  experience,  yes,  experience  in 
romance,  too. 

Certainly  Shelley  Winters  was  one  of  the 
first  of  those  and  one  of  the  best  for  Far- 
ley. There's  not  a  gal  in  town  who's  more 
fiin,  or  was  better  equipped  to  snap  seri- 
ous Granger  out  of  his  boyish  shyness. 
When  they  first  started  sighing  and  swoon- 
ing, a  catty  character  around  Hollywood 
asked  Shelley  pointedly,  "But  what  do  you 
see  in  such  a  nice  boy  as  Farley  Granger?" 
.  Shot  back  Shelley,  "He's  even  nicer  at 
night!" 

Me,  I  wish  there  were  a  dozen  SheUey 
Winters  around  town.  They  brighten  up 
Hollywood  like  a  dancing  bonfire.  I  adore 
her — and  in  his  way,  Farley  Granger  still 
does.  But  the  golden  moment  for  that  pair 
is  gone.  I  don't  expect  either  one  to  marry 
— not  for  a  long  time.  In  completely  dif- 
ferent ways,  neither  one's  the  marrying 
type — not  now. 

'T'he  other  evening  I  had  a  gorgeous  girl 
-■-  over  to  my  house  and  asked  her  a  rather 
personal  question.  I  asked  Janet  Leigh, 
"Are  you  engaged?"  and  she  answered, 
"Yes  I  am.  I'm  engaged  to  my  career." 
That  should  banish  a  flock  of  rumors  be- 
cause truer  words  were  never  spoken,  al- 
though they're  sad  ones,  I  know,  for  'Tony 
Curtis,  Arthur  Loew,  Jr.,  Bob  Quarrie — 
or  any  one  of  the  smitten  Romeos  beauing 
Janet  hopefully  around.  But  I  know  she 
means  them  and  you  can  bet  your  best  hat 
that  Janet  won't  say  "Yes"  or  even  "May- 
be" to  anyone  until  she's  secure  in  her  very 
great  ambitions — which  will  take  all  of 
1951  to  realize.  I  can  predict  Jetnet's  single 
blessedness  in  '51  as  safely  as — say — I  can 
bank  on  the  stag  standing  of  those  cautious 
customers  Montgomery  Clift  and  Marlon 
Brando — until  they,  too,  have  hit  a  higher 
top.  Or,  as  I  can  confidently  forecast  Peter 
Lawford's  bachelorhood  vmtU  he  finds  a 
girl  with  the  right  social  standing,  title,  or 
wealth  that  he  considers  worthy  of  his 
highly  esteemed  self.  And  I  might  as  well 
polish  off  the  other  Hollywood  "I  do" 
chances  while  I'm  at  it,  briefly,  and  like 
this: 

Sally  Forrest  and  Milo  Frank — yes,  and 
soon.  Jean  Simmons  and  Stewart  Granger 
— very  definitely  for  sure:  they're  officially 
engaged,  aren't  they?  Ida  Lupino  and 
Howard  Duff?  No,  indeed.  Lupino's  still 
married  to  Collier  Young  and  there  are  no 
divorce  papers  filed.  Arlene  Dahl  and  Lex 
Barker — also  No — Lex  has  too  roving  an 
eye.  Ruth  Roman  and  Bill  Walsh — same  as 
a  year  ago;  Ruth's  still  too  wrapped  up  in 
her  work  to  take  on  marriage.  Jane  Wy- 
man  and  Greg  Bautzer — now,  wait  a  min- 
ute— look  at  Greg's  fickle  record  with  al- 
most everyone  in  town — Lana  Turner,  Joan 
Crawford,  Ginger  Rogers.  Jane  may  be 
"the- one,"  but  I  doubt  it. 

I'll  tell  you  who  I  bet  will  get  married, 
and  that's  Robert  Walker,  because  Bob 
desperately  needs  a  home  for  his  boys. 
They're  his  whole  life  and  his  balance. 
He's  made  a  marvelous  comeback  from 
despair  and  he  wants  to  anchor  it.  Maybe 
not  with  Nancy  Davis — but  he'll  find  some- 
one to  love  and  marry,  because  he  must. 

Now  how  about  the  Hollywood  homes 
that  hit  the  front  pages  in  1950?  I 
wouldn't  predict  divorces  even  if  I  knew 
some  were  brewing,  because  I  don't  be- 
lieve in  widening  any  domestic  cracks  as 


long  es  there's  an  outside  chance.  Luckily, 
I  don't  have  to.  If  you're  worrying  about 
the  Clark  Gables,  for  instance,  you  can 
stop.  Clark  and  Sylvia  knew  what  they 
wanted  and  now  they've  got  it.  The  other 
day  Clark  was  gushing  like  a  groom  to  me 
over  the  virtues  of  the  pampered  Lady 
everyone  said  would  never,  never  measure 
up  to  the  rugged  King.  Well,  Clark  took 
her  on  location  to  Montana  with  him  for 
Across  the  Wide  Missouri.  "I  didn't  think 
she  could  take  it,  Hedda,"  the  King  mar- 
velled. "Rough  stuff.  No  comforts,  no  fim, 
camp  cookin',  in  bed  at  eight,  up  at  five. 
But  you  know  what — she  had  a  wonderful 
time!"  I'm  sure  she  did  and  I'm  sure  the 
Gables  do,  every  minute,  making  like 
country  squires  at  Encino. 

I  said  when  Lana  married  Bob  Topping 
four  years  ago — and  right  in  Modern 
Screen — that  they  meant  their  vows  and 
I've  said  it  since  in  the  same  pages.  I'll  say 
it  again  for  1951.  The  same  goes  for  Dick 
Powell  and  June  Allyson  who  long  ago 
straightened  out  any  difficulties  that  pes- 
tered them.  Dick  looks  younger  than 
springtime  these  days,  June  never  cuter. 
I  can  see  nothing  but  sunshine  ahead  for 
them  both.  And  for  Bette  Davis  and  Gary 
Merrill  too,  for  another  reason. 

Bette  is  in  the  full  flush  of  a  major  come- 
back right  now — and  it's  hooked  right  on 
to  the  man  she  married.  Gary  Merrill  was 
her  leading  man  in  All  About  Eve — the 
greatest  acting  job  of  her  life.  Right  after 
that  great  performance  she  married  Gary. 
When  Bette's  career  is  rosy,  so  is  her  home 
life.  When  it's  not,  she  isn't  fit  to  live  with. 
Nothing  can  stop  her — or  Gary,  for  that 
matter — in  the  year  to  come.  They'll  be 
happy  as  clams.  So  will  the  Bing  Crosbys. 

The  other  night  there  was  a  family  clam- 
bake over  at  Everett  and  Florence  Cros- 
by's house.  Everett,  of  course,  is  Bing's 
brother  and  manager.  Twenty-five  Crosbys 


were  gathered,  including  a  wonderful  old 
laciy,  Bings  mom.  The  four  Crosby  boys 
were  there  and  the  whole  shebang  san.g 
and  celebrated  for  the  first  time  in  twenty- 
odd  years.  The  Crosbys  are  happy  again. 
When  the  dinner  was  through,  Bing  and 
Dixie  packed  up  Mama  Crosby's  things  and 
sped  her  off  to  Pebble  Beach  for  a  stay 
with  them. 

What  people  forget  about  the  Crosbys  is 
that — spats  or  no  spats,  and  even  with 
Bing's  sometimes  selfish  gallavantLngs  off 
alone  between  pictures  for  golf — there's  a 
strong  family  tie  that  never  wavers.  The 
death  of  Bing's  beloved  dad  brought  the 
clan  close  again  and  now  Mrs.  Crosby  is  a 
staunch  character  who  is  keeping  it  there. 
And  there's  a  woman  for  you! — Until  her 
husband's,  death  she  cooked  all  his  meals, 
mended  his  clothes,  looked  to  his  com- 
forts in  person.  She  once  told  me,  "The 
reason  my  children  sometimes  find  unhap- 
piness  is  because  they  have  too  much." 
She  could  say  that  again — and  for  all  Hol- 
lywood. As  long  as  Mama  Crosby  is  around, 
don't  you  worry  about  her  banjo-eyed  son 
and  his  wonderful  wife,  Dixie. 

''Phere  are  two  more  headlined  homes  I 
can  figure  for  Fifty-One — one  yes  and 
one  no — and  like  this:  Betty  Hutton  and 
Ted  Briskin  have  found  the  solution  to 
their  on-again-off-again  marriage.  Ted's 
back  in  the  family  business  in  Chicago; 
Betty's  working  in  Hollywood.  When  they 
fly  to  each  other  for  week  or  month  ends, 
they're  dying  to  see  each  other.  Mean- 
while, both  skip  the  irritations  of  two  high 
tension  careers.  It's  a  long-distance  love 
life,  but  for  the  Briskins  it's  logical.  But 
nothing  will  bring  the  Dan  Daileys  back 
together  again.  The  minute  their  property 
settlement's  worked  out,  they'll  get  a  di- 
vorce. I  have  Elizabeth's  word  for  that, 
too,  and  it's  an  old  story: 


'  We  are  simply  two  temperamentally 
different  people,"  she  told  me.  "And  we'll 
never  match  up.  Dan  tried.  I  tried.  It 
didn't  work.  I  like  horses,  the  outdoors, 
and  home  life.  Dan  likes  the  bright  lights, 
boogie-woogie,  a  twenty-four  hour  studio 
day.  That's  wonderful  for  his  career,  and 
it's  his  career  he's  really  married  to — not 
me.  We  must  end  it  as  soon  as  possible 
so  we  can  keep  on  being  friends."  That's 
sensible,  but  sad,  so  on  that  note  let's  have 
Cupid  corralled  with  his  smiles  and  sorrows 
for  the  New  Year  and  pass  on  to  careers. 

Nothing  affects  the  stars'  private  Uves 
more  than  their  public  ones — and  there  are 
some  changes  to  be  made,  as  you'll  see  for 
yourself  in  1951,  right  in  your  neighbor- 
hood theater. 

They  say  "old  soldiers  never  die — they 
simply  fade  away."  It's  that  way  with  old 
stars,  too.  Dozens  of  them  are  still  around 
but  their  candlepower  grows  dimmer  all 
the  time.  Who  are  the  new  comets  certain 
to  cross  the  Hollywood  heavens  and  crowd 
out  some  stars  in  1951.  Here's  my  pick: 

Marlon  Brando.  They  come  along  once 
in  a  blue  moon  like  that  brilliant  brat.  Sel- 
fish, unmannered,  a  screwball,  if  you  please 
— but  glowing  with  greatness,  that's  Bran- 
do. The  Men  may  win  brash  Bud  Brando 
an  Academy  Award  for  his  first  picture. 
A  Streetcar  Named  Desire  may  do  it  next 
year  if  he  misses  this  trip.  He's  head  and 
shoulders  above  all  the  new  star  bets.  For 
Marlon  I  predict  success  unlimited.  He 
could  be  the  Barrymore  of  this  era. 

Next  comes  David  Wayne.  He's  brilliant. 
He's  versatile.  After  knocking  them  dead 
with  comedy  Ln  The  Reformer  and  the 
Redhead  and  Adam's  Rib,  Davey  Wayne 
switched  to  play  a  child  murderer  in  M. 
He's  smooth,  Broadway  seasoned,  and  Up 
Front,  the  Bill  Mauldin  movie,  will  make 
him  a  rave  star  for  sure.  They  can't  type 
David  Wayne  and  they  can't  tie  him  down. 


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Howard  Keel.  Annie  Get  Your  Gun, 
Howard's  first  picture,  was  sensational.  Pa- 
gran.  Love  Song  and  Three  Guys  Named 
Mike,  prove  him  no  morning  glory  freak. 
1951  is  Howard's  big  year.  He's  got  the 
prize  role  in  Showboat — to  send  him  right 
off  to  glory.  Big,  virile,  and  good  looking, 
a  guy  who  can  act  like  a  million  and  sing 
like  two.  How  can  he  miss? 

Barry  Sullivan.  Last  year  MGM  let  Bar- 
ry go  three  times  for  a  vacation — each  time 
they  had  to  call  him  back.  He  has  four  un- 
released  hits  as  I  write,  including  Inside 
Straight  and  Grounds  For  Marriage.  A 
Life  of  Her  Own  was  a  bad  picture  for 
Lana  Turner  but  good  for  Barry.  He  has 
the  spark  of  sex,  and  women  love  him. 
Enough  said. 

To  those  four  of  a  kind  add  Keefe  Bras- 
selle,  fiery  Lloyd  Bridges  (The  Sound  of 
Fury)  and  nimble  footed  Gene  Nelson. 
And  don't  forget  Frank  Lovejoy  of  Home 
of  the  Brave,  and  Goodbye  My  Fancy  or 
Richard  Basehart,  a  great  young  actor  get- 
ting his  break  at  last  in  Fourteen  Hours. 
Those  nine  youths  will  make  nine  old  men 
move  over.  And  that's  as  it  should  be.  I'd 
pick  Audie  Murphy,  too,  after  The  Red 
Badge  of  Courage  but  the  irony  there  is 
that  Captain  Murphy  will  undoubtedly 
join  his  Texas  regiment  just  as  Hollywood 
makes  that  hero,  at  long  last,  a  major  star. 

THERE  is  no  wonder  girl  to  match  Marlon 
Brando;  in  fact,  1951's  women  are  weak- 
er (natch)  than  the  men.  But  not  too 
weak  to  snatch  some  picture  plums  from 
their  senior  sisters. 

Patricia  Neal  with  The  Breaking  Point 
and  Three  Secrets  both  starring  her,  heads 
my  list  of  Favored  Fillies  for  Fifty-One. 
Jerry  Wald,  a  producer  whose  judgment  I 
respect,  told  me,  "If  that  girl  ever  gets  a 
dramatic  part  worthy  of  her  talent — 
watch  out!"  I  agree.  What's  more,  I  think 
just  that  will  happen  to  Pat  this  coming 
year. 

Janet  Leigh  is  set  to  cash  in  in  '51.  That's 
when  Howard  Hughes'  pet  project  Jet 
Pilot  comes  out  at  last  starring  Janet,  and 
that's  when  Janet's  first  musical  Two 
Tickets  to  Broadway  also  breaks.  Watch 
her  shoot  to  the  skies. 

Sally  Forrest,  a  fine  little  actress  and 
dancer  too,  will  follow  Mystery  Street  and 
Excuse  My  Dust  with  important  pictures 
at  MGM  to  match  her  zooming  popularity. 
If  Judy  Holliday — who  doesn't  like  Holly- 
wood— can  make  herself  a  star  with  one 
picture  a  year,  she  will.  Born  Yesterday 
has  the  whole  town  talking  about  Judy. 
Jan  Sterling  of  Caged  will  have  her  '51 
Ace  in  the  Hole  with  Kirk  Douglas  in  the 
picture  of  the  same  name,  and  I  think  she'll 
take  the  jackpot.  The  Philippines  should 
do  as  much  to  boost  Michelline  Prelle  as  it 
does  to  bring  back  Ty  Power.  Marge 
Champion  and  brother  Gower — will  be  the 
new  Fred  and  Adele  Astaire  of  the  dance 
after  Showboat.  They're  terrific.  Mala 
Powers,  Peggy  Dow,  Barbara  Bates  and 
Nancy  Olson  have  their  lucky  numbers  up, 
too — but  they  won't  be  Academy  winners 
or  anything  like  that — not  for  a  good  many 
years.  And  let  me  get  that  prediction  off 
my  chest  right  now — and  with  it  a  bow  to 
the  old  timers  who  feel  these  hot  yoxing 
breaths  down  their  necks: 

Bette  Davis'  smashing  comeback  will  win 
her  third  Oscar  for  All  About  Eve.  If  it 
doesn't,  the  award  is  a  mockery.  Bette's 
searching  study  of  an  actress  in  that  great 
picture  (which  could  win  the  production 
Oscar,  too)  is  not  only  the  masterpiece  of 
her  career,  but  one  of  the  great  Hollywood 
performances  of  all  time.  Oscars  are  won 
on  scenes,  and  the  scene  where  Bette 
realizes  what  she  really  is  beneath  her 
artificial  fame  is  beyond  technique;  it 
breaks  your  heart.  She  has  no  rival — al- 
68  though  look  for  Anne  Baxter  (in  the  same 


picture)  Barbara  Stanwyck  (The  Furies) 
Gertrude  Lawrence  and  Jane  Wyman  (The 
Glass  Menagerie)  and  Gloria  Swcinson 
(Sunset  Boulevard)  to  win  nominations. 
If  Gloria  wins,  sentiment  will  play  a  part. 

Jimmy  Stewart  is  my  choice  for  the  best 
actor  of  the  year.  Jimmy's  screen  job  of  the 
lovable  lush  and  his  rabbit  in  Harvey 
matched  Frank  Fay's  on  Broadway.  How- 
ever, he'll  be  closely  pressed  by  Marlon 
Brando  for  The  Men — the  only  young  per- 
formance of  Academy  calibre.  And  don't 
forget  Edmund  Gwenn  for  Mister  880 — 
that's  worth  it,  too.  I  don't  believe  Holly- 
wood will  bow  to  the  late  Walter  Huston 
for  his  work  in  The  Furies,  although  senti- 
ment could  work  that,  too,  and  it  was 
masterly.  But  I'm  still  picking  Jimmy  to 
earn  his  second  gold  paperweight. 

Now  what  about  the  pictures  that  may 
turn  out  to  be  Academy  winners  for 
next  year?  In  these  tragic  times  Holly- 
wood must  reach  the  human  heart,  lift  up 
and  entertain,  get  back  to  grass  roots  for 
its  stories,  drama  and  emotions — and  it 
will  because  that's  what  the  public  wants 
Already  Liz  Taylor  and  Spencer  Tracy  are 
making  Father's  Little  Dividend  to  follow 
Father  of  the  Bride,  which  cleaned  up. 
Born  Yesterday,  a  fun  fest,  will  be  a  big 
picture  of  1951.  So  will  The  Mudlark—a 
ragged  urchin  and  a  queen — which  made 
Darryl  Zanuck  weep  every  time  he  saw  it. 
Gene  Kelly  in  An  American  in  Paris  with 


WAS  MY  FACE  RED! 

The  only  rival  Red  Skelton  has  to 
his  children's  affection  is  his  Buick  sta- 
tion wagon.  One  day  Red  took  the  kids 
to  a  studio  showing  of  "The  Yellow  Cab 
Man."  Proudly,  he  watched  them  laugh 
in  the  right  places,  .^fter  two  thirds  of 
the  way  through  the  picture,  there  was 
a  scene  where  cars  of  all  kinds  converge 
in  a  hilariously  confused  scene.  When 
that  ended,  his  daughter  stood  up,  say- 
ing, "Let's  go,  the  cars  are  over." 

— Kohna  Flake 


ballet  to  Gershwin's  music.  The  glorious 
tunes  and  Southern  glamor  of  Showboat. 
Cecil  B.  DeMille's  circus  epic.  The  Greatest 
Show  On  Earth.  Quo  Vadis — a  spectacle 
which  I  hope  is  beautiful  and  not  a  big 
bore.  And  there'll  be  Technicolor  musicals 
as  long  as  stars  sing  and  dance,  as  long  as 
Betty  Grable  and  girls  with  legs  like  hers 
hold  out. 

There'll  be  serious,  searching  pictures 
too,  but  tied  to  the  real  warp  and  woof  of 
life.  Sister  Carrie  with  Sir  Laurence  Olivi- 
er and  Jennifer  Jones.  A  Place  in  the  Sun 
with  Elizabeth  Taylor,  Montgomery  Clift. 
A  Streetcar  Named  Desire  with  wonder- 
ful Vivien  Leigh  back  again  and  Marlon 
Brando.  The  epic  westerns  will  keep  roar- 
ing— they're  timeless — and  they  always 
win.  You'll  see  more  science  adventure  on 
film  hke  the  Buck  Rogers  hits  of  '51 — ■ 
Rocketship  X  and  Destination  Moon.  The 
most  hush-hush  picture  shooting  in  Holly- 
wood right  now  is  Howard  Hawks'  mys- 
terious The  Thing. 

V'ou'll  pay  more  to  see  these  pictures — 
inflation  and  the  defense  boom.  But  the 
same  shot  in  the  arm  will  help  cure  Holly- 
wood's box-office  miseries.  Stars  will  troop 
back  from  abroad — the  frozen  money  there 
is  about  used  up.  Stars  will  move  out  of 
big  houses  into  little  ones — if  they  can  find 
them.  They're  not  afraid  of  atom  bombs, 
but  they  are  of  taxes.  Stars  will  seek  the 
comforting  old  fads  and  fashions,  try  to 
bring  back  the  good  old  days.  As  they 
brought  back  square  dancing  and  then  the 


Charleston  in  '50,  I  predict  waltzes  may  be 
the  rage  in  '51.  Stars  will  hug  their  hearths 
more  and  they'll  go  to  church.  Stars  will 
be  like  everyone  else  in  this  America  of 
ours,  sobered,  scared,  and — if  they've  got 
the  sense  I  think  they  have — determined 
to  get  their  liberties  and  independence  back 
again. 

One  movieland  bugaboo  has  faded  and 
another  flared.  Television  is  no  longer  a 
scarey,  veiled  threat  for  Hollywood  stars. 
It's  familiar — and  a  future  opportunity  for 
every  star.  When  things  are  right,  Holly- 
wood,' where  the  talent  and  producing 
knowhow  lies,  will  step  in  and  take  over 
that  booming  baby  of  show  business.  But 
that's  not  yet,  Nanette — for  three  good 
reasons.  One,  there's  no  coaxial  cable  to 
California,  and  won't  be  in  1951  so  the 
audience  is  still  too  small  for  screen  stars 
to  play  for.  Therefore,  two,  there's  not 
enough  money  in  it  for  them.  And  three, 
no  foolproof  way  has  been  found  for  you 
— the  audience — to  pay  to  see  them  play 
in  your  own  front  room.  I  can  easily  pre- 
dict that  you  won't  be  seeing  the  big  ones 
there — not  next  year. 

But  war  is  something  else.  It  can  hap- 
pen overnight  and  it  can  strip  Hollywood 
overnight  of  the  young  talent  it  so  badly 
needs.  Tony  Curtis,  Farley  Granger,  John 
Agar — almost  every  promising  young  actor 
you  can  name  will  see  service  if  full-dress 
war  occurs,  and  maybe,  if  it  doesn't.  Some 
older  veterans  of  the  last  scrap  will  see 
service,  too — ^like  Glenn  Ford,  Ty  Power, 
Gene  Kelly,  and  a  himdred  more.  War  can 
change  the  lives  of  every  star  in  town. 

That  war  is  in  the  laps  of  the  gods — but 
there's  another  war,  a  private,  personal, 
and  important  battle  that  rests  in  the  lap 
of  one  particular  Hollywood  star.  In  1951 
she  will  win  it,  or  lose  it  forever.  To  me, 
in  a  way,  it's  the  most  important  single 
star  question  to  be  answered  next  year. 
Because,  to  me,  Judy  Garland  is  not  only 
one  of  the  greatest  talents  ever  developed 
by  Hollywood,  but  her  tragic  1950  struggle 
symbolizes  the  tortured  soul  of  Hollywood. 
She  incarnates  its  burning  ambition — and 
the  bitter  price — which  are  Hollywood's 
Heaven  and  Hell. 

Hollywood  alone  made  Judy  Garland 
great  and  Hollywood  has  almost  destroyed 
her.  She  has  been  cast  adrift  by  the  studio 
which  fathered  her  career  and  there  are 
no  adoption  offers.  Right  now  the  future  of 
that  career  and  of  her  very  life  teeters  in 
the  balance.  She  is  by  no  means  well — as 
her  doctors  say  she  is.  She  needs  loving 
care,  understanding,  encouragement,  and 
loyal  friends — a  large  order. 

I  know  that  if  Judy  gets  the  right  en- 
couragement she  can  come  through.  Ethel 
Barrymore  caught  her  hurrying  away  from 
an  MGM  stage  like  a  frightened  deer  one 
day  last  year.  "Why,  Judy,"  she  said, 
"what's  the  matter?  Why  aren't  you  going 
in  there  to  work?" 

"I  can't,"  she  answered.  "I'm  afraid  to." 

Ethel  took  her  shoulder  and  lifted  her 
chin.  "You — afraid?"  she  asked,  as  only  a 
Barrymore  can  ask  it.  "Why,  you're  the 
greatest  performer  Hollywood  has  ever 
produced.  You're  Judy  Garland!  Now,  I 
want  you  to  go  back  in  there  and  knock 
'em  dead!" 

And  Judy  went  back.  And  Judy  did. 

I'd  like  to  say  that  myself  to  Judy  Gar- 
land as  this  crucial  year  dawns  for  her. 
"Go  back  in  there — knock  'em  dead."  And 
I'd  like  every  friend  she  has  in  this  wide 
world  to  say  the  same.  I  don't  care,  myself, 
if  every  New  Year's  prediction  I've  made 
bounces  back  and  blacks  my  eyes — if  only 
this  one  will  come  true:  If  only  Judy  Gar- 
land can  came  back  to  work,  rested,  re- 
freshed and  in  firm  control  of  her  magni- 
ficent talent.  It's  a  fifty-fifty  chance.  It's 
touch  and  go.  But  I'm  saying  that  in  1951 
she  will.  The  End 


if  this  isn't  love 


(Continued  from  page  17)  but  maybe  that's 
why  I've  fallen  for  her  like  a  ton  of  bricks. 

"Want  to  know  what  we  do  on  dates? 
We  go  down  to  the  beach  and  lie  on  the 
sand,  and  there's  none  of  that  baloney 
about  trying  to  impress  each  other. 

"Every  time  I  look  at  Janet,  I  see  her 
with  my  heart.  On  the  level.  For  me  right 
now,  she's  the  only  one." 

Tony  can  talk  about  her  for  hours.  The 
only  thing  that  stops  him  is  mention  of 
marriage.  When  you  ask  him  if  he  and 
Janet  plan  marriage,  a  glazed  look  comes 
over  his  eyes.  He  says  that  he  has  $1200 
in  the  bank,  that  marriage  is  a  big  step, 
that  he  hasn't  known  Janet  long.  He's 
sensible  enough  to  realize  that  his  emotions 
might  subside. 

"About  marriage,"  he  says,  "that's  too 
early.  Who  knows  how  I'll  make  out  in 
Hollywood.  If  I'm  no  good,  maybe  they'll 
give  me  back  to  the  Indians. 

"Janet,  on  the  other  hand — she's  an  es- 
tablished star.  I  don't  know  how  many 
pictures  she's  been  in — twelve  or  fifteen  or 
or  twenty.  But  she's  a  star.  You  know  what 
happens  when  a  husband  has  to  play 
second  fiddle  to  a  wife.  Usually  winds  up 
in  a  divorce.  None  of  that  for  me. 

"Of  course,  I'm  sure  right  now.  But  I'm 
young  and  Janet's  young.  Things  change, 
we  have  to  see  what  happens  in  the  future. 

"All  I  can  say  is  that  I'm  in  love  with 
Janet  Leigh.  At  least,  I  think  it's  love, 
because  I've  never  felt  this  way  before." 

Each  time  Tony  dates  Janet,  he  brings 
her  a  gift — a  nosegay,  a  charm  bracelet,  a 
little  vase — nothing  very  expensive,  be- 
cause he  doesn't  have  much  money.  But 
he  never  shows  up  at  her  house  empty- 
handed.  "I  just  want  her  to  know  that  I'm 
thinking  of  her." 

By  now  Janet  knows  that.  Tony  has 
placed  his  heart  on  a  platter.  But  whether 
or  not  she  will  accept  it,  she  doesn't  say. 

"P^ESPiTE  her  girlish  appearance  Janet 
-L^  Leigh  is  a  woman  of  the  world.  Twice 
married  before  she  was  twenty-one,  she 
knows  men  well.  Essentially,  however,  she 
is  sweet,  kind  and  thoughtful,  unembittered 
by  two  marital  failures,  and  sure  in  her 
heart  that  her  third  will  be  a  success. 

She  made  a  mistake  in  tactics  when  she 
began  going  steadily  with  Arthur  Loew, 
Jr.  The  assumption  was  that  these  two 
were  engaged,  and  when  a  bethrothal  did 
not  materialize,  Janet  was  out  in  the  cold. 
For  a  few  fast  weeks  she  had  no  male 
escorts  at  all.  All  the  eligible  bachelors 
had  been  convinced  that  Janet  was  Arthur 
Loew  property. 

Janet  is  determined  not  to  make  the  same 
error  with  Tony.  Should  this  friendship 
fail  to  materialize  into  something  fruitful, 
she  wants  to  make  certain  that  she  will  still 
have  a  coterie  of  male  admirers. 

She  isn't  exactly  playing  Tony  Curtis  of 
Hollywood  off  against  Bob  Quarrie  of  New 
York,  but  at  the  same  time  she  is  not  com- 
ing right  out  as  Tony  has  and  saying,  "Yes, 
Tony  is  the  boy  for  me." 

She  will  not  deny  that  she  is  extremely 
fond  of  him,  but  when  it  comes  to  a  con- 
fession of  love,  she  is  keeping  that  a  secret. 

Whether  or  not  the  flame  of  his  love  will 
burn  long  and  lastingly,  whether  this  is 
real  and  not  the  wild  infatuation  of  a  boy 
who  has  never  known  love  before — no 
man  knows. 

At  this  point  in  Hollywood,  however, 
everyone  recognizes  the  attraction  between 
Tony  and  Jeinet  as  the  town's  sweetest, 
nicest,  most  youthful  love  affair. 

It's  the  kind  of  boy-meets-girl  friend- 
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over  the  age  of  thirty  wish  they  were 
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what  now,  frankie  boy? 

(Continued  from  page  39)  third  said  they 
were  $50,000  worth  of  pearls  that  came 
from  the  estate  of  some  dead  chorus  girl. 
A  lot  of  btmk!  Frank  gave  her  a  diamond 
necklace.  I  don't  know  exactly,  but  I  think 
it  cost  seven  and  a  half  thousand  dollars. 

"But  as  I  said,  money  means  nothing 
to  Frank  when  he's  in  love.  IJe's  a  guy 
who  started  with  nothing.  Used  to  pick  up 
and  cash  in  empty  bottles  for  the  deposit 
dough  in  Hoboken.  He  doesn't  want 
money.  He  wants  happiness. 

"When  he's  with  Ava,  he's  happy.  It's 
as  simple  as  that." 

"C'rank  and  Ava  have  both  loved  before 
and  l^st.  Both  of  them  have  worked 
long  and  hard  for  the  success  they've 
achieved.  But  success,  until  they  met, 
brought  them  little  happiness. 

The  sad  truth  about  Frank's  marriage 
to  Nancy  is  that  it  was  a  failure  years 
before  he  ever  met  Ava  Gardner.  Ava 
had  absolutely  nothing  to  do  with  the 
Sinatra  marital  discord. 

What  happened  between  Nancy  and 
Frank  happens  to  couples  everywhere. 

Nancy  realized  last  year  that  their  inter- 
ests lay  farther  and  farther  apart.  She 
tried  to  enroll  at  the  University  of  Cali- 
fornia for  some  extension  courses  in  art 
and  music  appreciation.  But  by  then  it  was 
too  late.  Frank  had  fallen  out  of  love  with 
her.  They  seemed  to  have  nothing  in  com- 
mon but  the  past,  and  somehow,  memories 
aren't  enough  to  hold  a  marriage  together. 
Only  faith  in  the  future  can  do  that. 

When  Nancy  learned  that  Frank  was 
deterftiined  to  have  his  freedom,  that 
further  reconciliations  were  impossible, 
she  agreed  to  a  legal  separation. 

Whether  she  did  this  because  divorce 
is  forbidden  by  her  religion  or  because 
she  thought  Frank  would  one  day  return 
to  her,  only  Nancy  knows. 

"When  no  one  wants  him  any  more,"  she 
once  said,  "I'll  take  him  back." 

Frank  hasn't  been  having  much  fun 
lately. 

He's  been  working  like  a  dog  on  his 
television  show — television  is  much  more 
strenuous  for  an  actor  than  movies — and 
he's  unhappy  because  Ava's  in  Hollywood. 

He  misses  his  children,  and  he  also 
misses  Hollywood.  He  isn't  saying  so — as 
a  matter  of  fact,  he  won't  even  publicly 
acknowledge  that  there  is  anything  at  all 
between  him  and  Ava — but  in  his  heart, 
Frank  would  like  to  return  to  Hollywood 
and  make  motion  pictures. 

He  feels  that  his  potential  was  never 
fully  realized  on  the  screen.  He  enjoyed 
his  feature  roles  and  comedy  parts,  but 


he  might  have  been  my  son 

(Continued  from  page  26)  Sunday.  Well, 
I  had  me  a  pal  then.  We  were  "Dare"  and 
"Russ."  He  tagged  after  me  and  my  movie 
camera  until  it  came  time  to  quit  for  the 
day.  Then  he  solemnly  reminded  me  of 
my  promise  to  take  him  out  to  the  ranch, 
so  I  asked  his  mother  about  it.  She  said 
she'd  be  grateful  because  he'd  missed  the 
companionship  of  men  since  she  and  his 
father  had  been  divorced  a  year  before. 

So  the  next  Sunday  he  was  making  a 
big  hit  with  my  folks.  With  me,  too.  Seeing 
the  treasures  of  ranch  life  through  his 
young  eyes  was  really  fine.  But  when  I 
dropped  him  off  at  his  home  back  in  Holly- 
wood that  evening  I  didn't  dream  I'd  be 
taking  him  on  hunting  and  camping  trips, 
that  I'd  come  close  to  killing  him  some 
day,  and  that  someday  he'd  be  John  Derek, 
70  the  movie  star.' 


wishes  he'd  had  a  chance  to  exhibit  his 
talent  for  serious  acting  in  roles  of  wider 
range. 

The  official  reason  Frank  left  MGM, 
is  that  he  wanted  his  television  rights. 
When  the  studio  wouldn't  grant  them, 
he  applied  for  his  release.  MGM  agreed  to 
let  him  go. 

Recently,  Red  Skelton,  when  his  MGM 
contract  came  up  for  renewal,  made  the 
same  demands.  Skelton  was  given  the 
right  to  perform  on  TV. 

You  can't  get  anyone  to  talk  about  it 
officially,  but  unofficially  it  is  well- 
known  that  the  MGM  front  office  was 
more  than  a  little  ruffled  about  Frank's 
attachment  to  Ava  Gardner  and  vice  versa. 

It  is  no  secret,  for  example,  that  Ava 
was  put  on  the  carpet  by  studio  officials 
who  told  her  that  she  was  making  herself 
unpopular  by  continuing  to  see  Frank.  It 
was  strongly  suggested  to  Ava  that  she 
stop  seeing  him. 

It  is  characteristic  of  Ava  that  she 
immediately  made  her  stand  definite  and 
her  intentions  plain. 

"Frank  Sinatra,"  she  said,  "is  a  man  who 
is  legally  separated.  In  the  eyes  of  the 
law,  in  the  eyes  of  the  State,  and  what  is 
most  important  to  me,  in  the  eyes  of  God, 
he  is  free  and  unattached. 

"Because  he  is  legally  separated,  does 
that  mean  that  for  the  rest  of  his  natural 
life  he  can  never  again  go  out  with  any 
woman?  Because  he  is  legally  free,  does 
that  mean  I  CEin't  see  him? 


Hollywood  is  the  only  place  in  the  world 
where  they  put  beautiful  frames  in  pic- 
tures.— Kirk  Douglas  as  quoted  by  Irving 
Hoifman  in  The  Hollywood  Reporter. 


"Who  am  I  harming  by  seeing  Frank? 
Do  I  harm  him?  Do  I  harm  myself?  Do  I 
harm  the  public?  I  refuse  to  believe  that 
the  American  public  will  penalize  me  be- 
cause I  like  Frank  Sinatra's  company. 

"Is  this  the  first  time  in  the  history  of 
the  world  that  an  actor  has  been  divorced 
or  legally  separated?  I  had  nothing  to  do 
with  the  separation.  I've  been  married 
twice  myself.  I  would  sooner  cut  off  my 
right  arm  than  interfere  in  any  marriage, 
because  I've  had  interference  in  marriages 
of  my  own,  and  I  know  what  that  can  do 
to  a  wife. 

"I  like  Frank,  and  I  value  his  friend- 
ship, and  I  don't  intend  to  give  it  up.  All 
of  us  are  entitled  to  a  little  happiness  in 
life,  especially  if  we  do  no  harm.  Tell  me, 
what's  wrong  with  my  thinking?" 

The  stocky,  little  grey-haired  man  to 
whom  Ava  had  been  talking,  this  very 


For  a  time  I  almost  lost  track  of  him. 
Being  a  cameraman  I  was  pretty  busy  get- 
ting a  reputation.  And  being  a  bachelor  I 
guess  I  was  more  interested  in  the  big 
girls  than  in  little  boys. 

'T'wo  things  conspired  to  change  that.  My 
mother  kept  asking  me  about  him  and 
I  kept  promising  I'd  look  him  up  again. 
And  suddenly  my  hunting  and  camping 
pals  began  bringing  their  sons  along  on 
trips. 

All  in  all,  a  couple  of  years  had  passed 
by  that  time  and  he  was  in  military  school, 
but  he  hadn't  forgotten  me.  His  welcome 
made  me  a  little  ashamed  I'd  not  come 
around  sooner.  He  was  exceptionally  hand- 
some. He  looked  like  the  idealized  young 
military  school  student  in  an  advertise- 
ment. Too  perfect.  When  he  changed  into 
levis,  he  looked  a  little'  more  natural  to  me. 

Down  at  the  ranch,  I  handed  him  a  22 
rifle  and  jokingly  suggested  he  hit  a  fly- 


powerful  motion  picture  magnate  rose 
from  his  seat. 

"There  is  nothing  wrong  with  your 
thinking,"  he  explained.  "I  want  you  to 
have  all  the  happiness  in  the  world,  Ava. 
I  just  don't  want  you  to  have  its  hurt." 

AVA,  of  course,  knows  what  hurt  is. 
Mickey  Rooney  hurt  her.  Artie  Shaw 
hurt  her.  What  now  will  be  the  end  result 
of  her  friendship  with  Sinatra? 

The  love  affair  luider  the  present  cir- 
cumstances cannot  possibly  end  in  mar- 
riage. Because  Nancy  Sinatra  wiU  not,  at 
this  time  anyway,  grant  Frank  a  divorce. 

Sinatra  is  paying  Nancy  one-third  of  his 
income,  approximately  $18,000  a  month  for 
the  support  of  his  children.  In  addition, 
she  owns  outright  their  Hobnby  Hills 
residence  and  a  new  CadiUac. 

Needless  to  say,  she  lacks  nothing  ma- 
terially under  this  setup.  She  is  sought 
after  as  a  guest,  friend,  and  social  ac- 
quaintance. "I  think,"  a  friend  of  hers 
recently  pointed  out,  "that  she's  really 
one  of  the  luckiest  women  in  the  world. 
Marriage  to  Frank  has  never  been  a  bowl 
of  cherries.  He  was  always  her  biggest 
worry.  And  now,  she's  gotten  rid  of  him. 
She'U  never  lack  for  friends.  She's  always 
been  one  of  the  most  popular  women  in 
Hollywood  among  men  and  women." 

As  for  Ava,  few  men  in  Hollywood  will 
dare  ask  her  for  a  date.  They  know  how 
she  feels  about  Frank,  and  they  know  how 
Frank  feels  about  her.  As  a  result,  she 
dines  with  her  sister,  Bappie,  or  goes  out 
with  her  business  manager,  Benton  Cole. 

"Where  will  it  end?"  That's  the  question 
everyone  asks  of  Ava.  "What  now,  little 
chick?  If  this  Sinatra  guy  can't  marry  you, 
aren't  you  wasting  your  time?  Isn't  this 
whole  affair  destined  to  fade  into  nothing- 
ness?" 

Ava  strolls  about  her  living  room,  and 
there  over  the  sofa  hangs  the  painting  of 
New  York,  a  picture  painted  by  Sinatra 
himself.  Looking  at  it,  she,  too,  may  won- 
der what  will  become  of  it  all. 

A  reporter  who  asked  her  if  she  ever 
intended  to  marry  Frank,  was  startled 
when  she  said,  "No,  I  don't  think  so. 
Eventually,  I  think  I'll  wind  up  marrying 
some  man  who  isn't  in  show  business,  and 
having  five  or  six  kids.  That's  what  I  really 
want.  I've  married  two  men  in  show  busi- 
ness, and  I  can  tell  you  they  don't  make 
very  good  husbands." 

Ava  knows  the  score  all  right.  She 
knows  exactly  what  her  chances  of  happi- 
ness with  Frank  are.  But  somehow,  Ava. 
cannot  resist  love. 

Ever  since  she  flowered  into  maturity, 
a  beautiful  and  provocative  woman,  she 
has  let  her  heart  rule  her  head.  In  her 
sense  of  values,  love  comes  first. 

The  End 


ing  crow,  knowing  that's  difficult  for  any- 
one, and  almost  impossible  for  a  novice. 
But  that  eight-year-old  kid  blasted  my 
grown-up  smugness  and  the  crow.  Brought 
them  down  on  the  first  shot!  At  the  mo- 
ment I  thought  it  was  pure  luck.  His  other 
shots  proved  me  wrong.  Modestly  he  ex- 
plained they  were  pretty  good  at  school 
about  teaching  them  to  shoot.  Inwardly  I 
began  to  chuckle,  thinking  how  I  could 
whittle  down  some  of  the  bragging  fathers 
I  knew.  Well,  that  was  the  real  start  of  our 
long  friendship. 

Before  the  day  was  over,  I  realized  my 
little  friend  was  a  kid  who  had  to  be  tough 
because  he  was  mighty  handsome  and  be- 
cause he  didn't  have  his  dad  around  to 
help  him  be  tough  enough. 

There  was  the  business  about  the  fel- 
lows who  called  him  a  sissy.  I  remembered 
my  own  impression  that  he  looked  just 
too  perfect.  He'd  been  in  a  few  fights  al- 
ready and  he  hadn't  won  every  time.  I 


decided  to  set  about  teaching  him  what 
fine  points  I  knew  about  fighting.  I  went 
overboard  to  the  point  where  the  teacher 
at  his  school  advised  me  to  teach  him 
something  else  because  he  was  piling  into 
anyone  who  so  much  as  looked  cross-eyed 
at  him.  Well,  I  had  to  say  a  good  piece  to 
him.  Thinking  it  over  awhile  I  finally  came 
up  with,  "Now  you've  proved  you  can 
fight,  be  sure  any  fight's  worthwhile.  Never 
turn  a  joke  into  a  fight.  If  there's  the 
slightest  chance  the  other  fellow's  kidding, 
just  take  it  that  way.  If  he's  serious,  still 
give  him  a  break.  Warn  him  you're  a 
trained  fighter.  If  he  still  asks  for  it,  then 
let  him  have  it  and  fight  to  win.  You're  a 
kid  who  can't  afford  to  lose." 

He  didn't  lose  his  belligerence  about  his 
looks  as  I  found  out  one  day  when  I  ac- 
quired a  fine  new  Graflex  camera.  I  was 
eager  to  get  the  picture  of  the  boy  who 
looked  like  the  ideal  military  school  stu- 
dent. I  wouldn't  let  him  change  into  other 
clothes  in  the  car  as  he'd  gotten  into  the 
habit  of  doing.  I  finally  found  the  perfect 
background  for  the  shot — a  wonderful  old 
stone  wall.  He  got  out  and  stood  by  the 
wall  obediently  for  just  a  moment,  but 
before  I  could  get  my  shot  he  started  cry- 
ing and  backing  away.  Said  it  was  a  sissy 
picture.  I  had  to  give  him  a  spank  across 
the  britches  and  tell  him  not  to  be  so  sensi- 
tive, before  he'd  let  me  take  it.  It  didn't 
turn  out  to  be  the  picture  I'd  hoped  for. 
He  was  glowering  at  me.  Anyway,  that's 
the  last  time  I  saw  him  cry. 

IT  wasn't  long  after  that  when  he  saw  a 
picture  of  a  really  good  skating  act.  He 
set  out  to  be  a  good  skater.  He  reached  the 
point  where  he  was  practicing  rolling  even 
over  rough,  vacant  lots.  One  day  I'd  just 
driven  up  when  he  tried  that,  fell  and 
cut  himself  clear  across  the  bottom  of 
his  knee  so  deeply  you  could  see  the 
cartilage.  I  rushed  him  to  an  emergency 
hospital,  the  blood  streaming.  It  took 
twelve  stitches  to  sew  his  leg  up.  Finally, 
with  relief  in  his  soft  voice,  he  said,  "I 
hurt  myself  but  I  didn't  cry." 

Nor  did  he  cry  the  time  I  almost  killed 
him.  But  I  almost  cried  then.  He  was  about 
twelve  and  he  was  beginning  to  handle  a 
20  gauge  shotgun  pretty  well,  so  I  decided 
to  take  him  along  on  a  duck  hunt  down  at 
the  Salton  Sea.  We  were  in  a  boat  in  a 
shallow  part  of  the  sea  when  I  brought 
down  two  ducks  in  two  lucky  shots.  My 
birds  fell  onto  a  slough  beside  us.  I  knew 
I  was  too  heavy  to  try  to  walk  over  the 
crust,  but  I  was  sure  Dare  was  light 
enough.  Just  as  he  got  to  where  they  lay, 
he  suddenly  sank  into  the  mud  and  slime 
clear  up  to  his  shoulders.  I  don't  remem- 
ber how  I  managed  to  drag  him  out.  I  re- 
member only  the  horror  of  seeing  him 
sinking  faster  and  faster  with  the  ducks 
in  his  arms.  Back  in  the  boat,  both  of  us 
coated  in  mud  from  head  to  foot,  he 
started  laughing,  saying  it  was  fun!  Be- 
fore long  I  realized  he  hadn't  been  fright- 
ened because  he  thought  I  could  do 
anything. 

Luckily,  anything  he  called  on  me  to 
do  I  managed  to  do  although  I  had  some 
close  shaves.  Like  the  time  someone  gave 
him  a  tall,  mean,  jug-headed  pinto  and 
he  took  four  or  five  kids  down  to  the 
corral  to  see  it.  It  was  one  of  those  horses 
it  takes  about  three  days  to  catch  even  in 
a  corral.  By  the  time  I  happened  to  drive 
up,  he'd  knocked  himself  out  trying  to 
catch  his  horse.  I  stopped  and  watched  a 
few  moments  before  he  spotted  me.  My 
knees  got  a  little  weak  as  I  heard  him 
shout  to  the  other  kids  that  I'd  show  him 
how  to  catch  the  horse  right  away.  With 
no  real  assurance,  I  took  his  lariat  and 
tied  a  huge  loop  into  it.  Then  I  gave  it  back 
telling  him  to  get  the  horse  going  around 
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•TiHE  older  I  get — and  I'm  now  at  the 
ripe  old  age  of  sixteen — the  more  I 
believe  that  having  just  plain  old  fashioned 
good  manners  is  better  than  being  popular 
with  boys  or  being  beautiful  or  having  lots 
of  money.  All  of  those  things  are  nice  but, 
honestly,  it  seems  to  me  that  manners  are 
more  important. 

Before  I  go  on  to  tell  you  how  I  feel,  I 
have  to  confess  that  I've  forgotten  my 
manners  many  times.  And  when  I  say 
"manners"  I  don't  mean  just  remembering 
to  say  "please"  and  "thank  you"  and 
writing  a  nice  note  when  someone  sends  you 
a  present.  So  to  the  hundreds  of  kids  who 
have  written  this  month  to  ask,  "Shouldn't 
your  date  walk  you  to  the  door?"  or 
"Should  you  always  ask  your  boy  friend 
to  meet  your  parents?"  or  "I  get  confused 
when  I  introduce  people" — to  these  kids  I 
want  to  say  that  although  these  things  are 
important,  it's  bigger  than  that.  Let  me 
give  you  myself  as  the  horrible  example. 

It  was  a  Sunday.  I  had  gone  out  with  a 
bunch  of  kids  to  a  swimming  party  followed 
by  an  early  buffet  supper.  My  mother  and 
father  had  gone  to  a  friend's  house  and  my 
date  was  to  drop  me  at  their  friends  and 
they  would  bring  me  home. 

Well,  my  party  was  a  mess.  It  was  just 
one  of  those  times  when  nothing  jelled.  I 
work  so  darned  hard  six  days  a  week  that 
when  a  Sunday  goes  wrong  I  feel  that  I've 
been  cheated  out  of  recreation  I  should 
have.  So,  angry  and  cross,  I  came  into  the 
room  where  I  found  my  parents  and  their 
friends,  and  I  began  to  tell  all  about  the  bad 
time  I  had  had.  My  father  tried  to  shift  the 
conversation  back  to  where  it  was  before 
I  came  in.  But  I  wasn't  interested.  I  didn't 
even  stop  to  think  that  I  had  interrupted 
their  conversation. 

When  we  left  my  father  said,  "Joan,  if 
you  ever  pull  a  trick  like  that  again,  I'm 


not  going  to  wait  until  we  get  in  the  car 
to  tell  you  how  rude  you  were.  I'm  going 
to  say  it  in  front  of  everybody,  and  it  will 
be  embarrassing  to  the  others  and  to  you 
and  to  me." 

Then  my  mother  said,  "There  is  some- 
thing you  should  always  remember  when 
you're  with  people.  Before  you  open  your 
mouth  you  should  ask  yourself,  'Is  what 
I'm  about  to  say  going  to  be  interesting  to 
others?'  " 

I'll  never  forget  that — I  hope.  Unless 
what  you  say  will  interest,  entertain  or 
amuse — then  why  say  it?  The  exception, 
of  course,  is  when  you're  talking  to  an  in- 
timate friend  and  ask  for  advice  or  help. 

T  LEARNED,  the  hard  way,  that  the  basis 
*  of  all  good  manners  is  consideration  of 
other  people. 

You  can  even  break  rules  if  following  the 
rule  makes  people  uncomfortable.  One  of 
the  rules  everyone  learns  when  he's  a  kid 
is  that  he  should  not  walk  between  two 
people  who  are  facing  each  other.  That's 
fine,  and  all  etiquette  is  made  for  a  pur- 
pose. The  purpose  of  this  rule  is  not  to 
make  the  two  people  talking  bob  their 
heads  around  as  you  pass.  But  if  you  have 
to  practically  climb  over  the  backs  of 
chairs  and  disarrange  a  room  in  order  to 
avoid  crossing  between  people  then  this  is 
more  annoying  than  a  quick  cross. 

Another  example.  We  all  know  that  a  boy 
is  supposed  to  hold  a  door  open  for  a  girl 
and  that  any  young  person  holds  a  door 
open  for  an  older  person.  But  suppose  you 
have  opened  it  and  the  darn  thing  slips  out 
of  your  hancls.  It  is  much  easier — saves 
time  and  trouble — if  you  dash  ahead  and 
hold  it  open  from  the  other  side. 

Also  it's  the  rule  that  you  rise  when  an 
older  person  enters  the  room.  But  if  you're 
wedged  in  a  corner  and  if,  by  standing,  you 


have  to  move  a  piece  of  furniture  or  run  the 
risk  of  knocking  something  over — then  it  is 
much  better  to  stay  seated. 

In  other  words,  you  don't  need  to  memorize 
Emily  Post  to  have  good  manners.  All  you  have 
to  do  is  to  ask  yourself,  "Am  I  making  others 
uncomfortable?  Am  I  boring  others?"  If  the 
answer  is  "Yes"  then  you'd  better  change  your 
ways.  I  know  I'll  never  forget  the  bawling  out 
my  parents  gave  me  about  just  this.  And  I'm 
glad  I  won't. 

T  HAVE  another  reason,  besides  all  the  ques- 
*  tions  I've  had  on  the  subject,  for  writing 
about  teen-age  manners  this  month.  I  was  on  a 
personal  appearance  tour  all  summer  and  into 
the  fall.  For  the  most  part  the  kids  were  swell. 
When  I'd  come  out  of  the  theater  there  they'd 
be  with  their  autograph  books  and  their 
cameras.  It  was  a  great  big  thrill  for  me.  I 
like  people.  I  like  to  talk  to  people  and  I  like 
to  have  my  picture  taken.  And,  besides,  I'm 
so  new  at  being  in  the  movies,  that  it  tickles 
me  pink  to  think  that  anybody  really  wants 
my  autograph.  So,  unless  I  had  to  dash  off 
to  do  a  radio  or  television  show  or,  as  hap- 
pened in  Portland,  Oregon,  do  four  different 
theaters  in  one  night,  I  liked  to  hang  around 
the  theater  and  talk  to  the  kids. 

We  were  all  about  the  same  age,  and  I  sin- 
cerely wanted  to  know  how  they  enjoyed  Our 
Very  Own  and  Edge  of  Doom — the  pictures  I 
was  publicizing.  I  wanted  to  know  what  they 
thought  about  a  lot  of  things.  I  felt  like  one 
of  a  gang  and  I  loved  it. 

But  then  something  happened  in  Denver  that 
made  me  sick  all  over.  Farley  Granger  and  I 
worked  on  the  stage  together  for  the  first 
time,  to  do  our  little  ad  lib  act.  When  we 
catne  on,  Farley  had  his  arm  around  my  shoul- 
ders. Well,  the  kids  in  the  audience  began  to 
scream,  "Don't  put  your  arm  around  her.  Put 
your  arms  around  me."  And  when  the  act 
was  over  and  we  got  outside  they  climbed  up 
on  the  car  trying  to  get  to  Farley.  They 
smashed  in  the  top.  They  tried  to  tear  his 
ring  off  and  his  wrist  watch.  I  was  knocked 
down  in  the  rush. 

When  I  got  back  to  the  hotel  with  my 
teacher  I  was  shaking,  not  only  because  I  was 
frightened  but  because  I  was  so  mad  that  this 
hysteria — and  there's  no  other  word  for  it — 
could  make  perfectly  nice  kids  behave  so  badly. 
I  don't  think  anybody — actors  or  not — should 
have  to  go  through  what  Farley  and  I  did. 
Those  kids  were  just  rude ! 

If  you  remember  that  "politeness  is  to  do 
and  to  say  the  kindest  thing  in  the  kindest 
way"  and  if  you  remember  that  all  rules  can 
be  broken  IF  it  makes  the  other  person  more 
comfortable — here  are  some  rules  you  should 
try  to  follow. 

TICT  HEN  a  boy  and  girl  are  going  into  a 
" "  restaurant  together,  the  boy  holds  the 
door  open  and  the  girl  follows  the  waiter,  go- 
ing first  into  the  place.  Same  goes  for  a  theater. 
The  girl  follows  the  usher.  A  boy  opens  the 
car  door  for  a  girl  while  standing  on  the  out- 
side and  then  goes  around  to  the  driver's  seat. 
In  giving  an  order  in  a  restaurant  it  used  to 
be  that  the  girl  told  the  boy  what  she  wanted, 
and  he  told  the  waiter.  This  seems  silly  now 
and  most  people  don't  obey  this  rule.  A  girl 


can  tell  the  waiter  directly. 

It's  rude  for  a  girl  not  to  be  ready  when 
the  boy  calls  for  her  on  a  date.  She  should  have 
her  coat  out  when  he  arrives.  If  he's  a  new  boy 
she  should  introduce  him  to  her  parents  and 
then  say,  "Well,  I  think  we  should  go  now." 
And  then  she  should  ask  her  parents,  "What 
time  should  we  be  home?" 

It  is  just  as  rude  for  the  boy  to  keep  a  girl 
waiting.  Being  late  isn't  smart  and  it  makes 
the  other  person  uncomfortable.  In  fact,  every- 
thing about  good  manners  goes  back  to  plain 
decency  and  consideration. 

Here  are  some  letters  on  different  subjects: 

"Dear  Joan:  Do  you  think  a  twenty-year-old 
sister  or  your  mother  should  open  a  fifteen- 
year-old  girl's  mail?^ — R.  I.,  Chester,  Pa." 

If  there's  one  thing  in  the  world  that  every- 
body needs,  it  is  a  little  privacy.  Nobody  has 
a  right  to  open  another  person's  maU,  no  mat- 
ter how  close  the  relationship  or  what  the  age 
difference.  With  one  exception !  If  your  par- 
ents think  you're  receiving  letters  that  you 
should  not  be  receiving,  the  only  way  they 
can  protect  you  is  to  see  what's  in  them.  But 
that's  the  only  exception. 

■'Dear  Joan:  During  the  summer  I  met  a  girl 
whom  I  liked  very  much,  only  she  lives  in 
Long  Island.  What  is  the  best  way  I  can  get 
to  know  her  when  I  only  see  her  in  the 
summer? — A.  B.,  Cambridge,  Mass." 

You  can  certainly  write  her  during  the  win- 
ter. This  is  a  swell  way  to  get  to  know  a  per- 
son. I  know  a  boy  who  lives  in  New  York 
whom  I  hadn't  seen  for  two  years,  until  re- 
cently. And  honestly,  carrying  on  a  cor- 
respondence with  him  for  those  two  years  let 
me  know  him  much  better  than  if  I  could  have 
seen  him  all  the  time.  When  you  and  this  girl 
meet  again  this  summer  you'll  have  so  much 
to  talk  about. 

'Dear  Joan:  A  boy  I  liked  got  fresh  with  me 
and  made  me  cry.  I  said  I  didn't  want  to  see 
him  but  our  parents  are  acquainted,  belong  to 
the  same  church.  If  I  don't  speak  to  him  they 
will  suspect  something.  Please  advise  me. — A. 
H.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y." 

Can't  you  talk  to  the  boy  and  tell  him  how 
awkward  the  whole  situation  is  for  you?  Has 
he,  by  the  way,  apologized?  If  he  has  and  if 
he  seems  really  sorry  perhaps  you  would  feel 
like  giving  him  another  chance,  putting  him 
sort  of  on  probation  until  he  proves  that  he 
won't  get  fresh  again.  If  you  don't  want  to  do 
this  then  you  should  explain  the  situation  to 
your  mother.  You  know  how  I  feel — that 
there's  almost  nothing  that  can't  be  settled  by 
the  people  involved  sitting  down  together  and 
talking  the  problem  over. 

"Dear  Joan:  Your  skin  always  looks  so  clear 
and  smooth.  How  about  tipping  us  poor  gals  on 
how  you  do  it? — E.  S.  Detroit,  Mich." 

V/ell,  thanks,  for  the  nice  compliment.  I  have 
to  work  hard,  particularly  in  California  where 


the  climate  is  so  dry,  to  keep  my  skin  fairly 
smooth.  What  I  do  is  to  scrub  my  face  with 
soap  and  water  and  a  comple.xion  brush  night 
and  morning.  At  night  I  plaster  my  face  with 
baby  oil.  And  whenever  I  have  any  free  time 
or  am  doing  homework  I  keep  baby  oil  on  it. 
The  important  thing  for  us  teen-agers  is  to 
keep  our  faces  super  clean.  Oil  makes  skin 
smooth. 

"Dear  Miss  Evans:  I  am  fourteen  and  have  a 
terrible  disposition.  My  mother  says  this  and 
so  do  my  aunt  and  my  cousin.  I  trj'  to  be  nice 
but  I  can't.  My  mother  gives  me  any  old  ques- 
tion to  answer  and  I  can't  seem  to  give  a  de- 
cent answer.  Can  you  tell  me  how  I  can  be 
nicer  to  everybody? — S.  B.,  Chicago,  111." 

It  is  simply  wonderful  that  you  admit  you 
have  a  bad  disposition  and  want  to  do  better. 
That's  the  biggest  step  in  solving  your  prob- 
lem. You  know  that  line  from  Shakespeare, 
"Assume  a  virtue  if  you  have  it  not?"  Pretend 
you  have  a  good  disposition.  Act  the  part  and 
all  of  a  sudden  you'll  find  you're  not  pre- 
tending any  longer. 

I  had  a  very  high  temper  which  I  had  to 
conquer,  and  I  did  a  couple  of  old,  seemingly 
corny  things  that  were  helpful.  When  your 
mother  asks  you  "any  old  question,"  don't 
answer  immediately.  Count  off  five  in  your 
mind  and  think  out  what  you're  going  to 
say,  giving  a  nice  answer  instead  of  a  sharp 
one.  Then  keep  a  note  book  and  every  time 
you  show  your  bad  disposition  give  yourself 
an  X  and  when  you're  nice  make  a  check  mark. 
The  fact  that  you  have  to  put  down  the  X's  is 
good.  When  you  see  the  checks  outnumbering 
them  youH  know  you're  on  your  way  to  con- 
quering a  big  personality  problem. 

And  that  winds  up  another  page.  I'd  like  to 
teU  you  that  I'm  so  grateful  to  you  for  writing 
and  I  wish  to  goodness  I  could  answer  every 
letter  personally  but  it  just  isn't  humanly  pos- 
sible. I  try  to  pick  the  most  interesting  and 
most  typical  letters  every  month. 

Bye  now.  See  you  next  month.  And  Happy 
New  Year. 


Editor's  note:  Do  you  have  a  teen- 
ager problem?  If  so,  tell  it  to  Joan. 
Write  to  Joan  Evans,  1416  Queens 
Road,  West  Hollywood,  California. 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

I  sat  at  the  side 
oj  the  pool  inBanff 
National  Park,  Al- 
berta, and  watched 
some  people  do- 
ing fancy  strokes 
and  dives.  One  of 
them  came  over 
and  sat  beside  me. 
When  he  asked  me 
if  I  could  swim,  I 
said  no,  so  he 
showed  me  the  crawl  stroke.  I  tried 
it  and  practiced  a  while.  Later  the 
desk  clerk  asked  me  if  I  knew  who'd 
been  instructing  me.  I  didn't.  So  he 
told  me — Errol  Flynn. 

Annie  Nohorchka 
Calgary,  Alberta,  Canada 


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Name  Age. . 

Street   

City  Zone. . .  .State. 


he  might  have  been  my  son 

(Continued  from  page  71)  drop  the  loop 
in  front  of  it  so  it'd  run  into  the  noose. 

"Why,  of  course.  Why  didn't  I  think  of 
that,"  he  shouted  and  rushed  off.  Dog- 
goned  if  it  didn't  work  and  save  my 
reputation.  It  was  about  that  time  I  wak- 
ened to  the  fact  he  was  turning  into  an 
excellent  horseman. 

By  the  time  he  was  17,  when  talent 
scouts  began  to  notice  him,  he  was  paint- 
ing very  well  and  had  his  heart  set  on 
being  a  cameraman.  When  D.  O.  Selznick 
offered  him  that  first  contract  he  wasn't  as 
enthusiastic  as  most  fellows  would  have 
been.  Selznick  had  nothing  specific  in  mind 
for  him,  promising  simply  to  groom  and  pay 
him.  Dare  felt  it  was  a  waste  of  time.  I 
didn't.  I  told  him  I  thought  it  was  fine 
because  Selznick  had  a  reputation  of 
really  teaching  his  young  players  some- 
thing and  of  developing  them.  After  he 
thought  it  over,  he  accepted  the  offer. 

OF  course  before  he  could  be  cast  in  a 
picture,  he  was  drafted.  The  day  he 
came  to  see  me  about  that  I  could  tell  he 
had  something  special  on  his  mind. 

On  his  mind  was  the  fact  the  army  wasn't 
using  him  in  the  infantry  but  had  given 
him  an  opportunity  to  select  a  specialized 
field  for  training. 

Quickly  I  said,  "Get  into  aviation." 
"No,"  he  said  quietly  but  firmly.  "Takes 
too  long  to  get  overseas  that  way.  Quickest 
way's  with  the  paratroopers." 

He  listened  respectfully  to  my  argu- 
ments but  he  got  overseas  the  quickest 
way.  Into  the  fight  in  the  Philippines.  Into 
the  occupation  of  Japan. 

When  he  came  back,  he  was  definitely 
grown  up.  He  knew  more  about  what  he 
wanted  from  life.  When  20th  Century-Fox 
offered  him  a  contract,  he  buckled  down 
and  worked.  He  found  good  friends  among 
the  other  players — particularly  one  named 
Patti  Behrs. 

He  didn't  ask  my  advice  about  her.  Long 
before  when  he  had  come  to  me  for  advice 
about  girls  I'd  balked.  I'd  told  him,  "This 
one  you  have  to  figure  out  for  yourself. 
You're  the  one  who's  there,  not  me.  I  can't 
operate  the  way  you  do  nor  you  the  way 
I  do  when  it  comes  to  girls." 

So  he  figured  Patti  out  all  by  himself. 
And  as  soon  as  he  moved  over  to 
Columbia  where  he  got  his  big  break  in 
Knock  On  Any  Door,  he  married  her. 

I  heartily  approve  except  for  one  small 
item.  Patti's  a  mean  woman.  She  won't 
give  me  the  recipe  for  those  thin,  thin 
flannel  pancakes  she  tosses  off  so  easily. 
She  says  if  she  did  I'd  just  settle  down  on 
my  new  ranch  to  make  and  eat  them  in- 
stead of  coming  around  to  get  them.  She 


needn't  worry  about  that.  Not  when  she  can 
whip  up  those  French  dishes. 

Nor  as  long  as  she  and  Dare  insist  on 
retaining  custody  of  my  godson,  Russell 
Andre  Derek.  When  I  left  for  Alaska  on 
location  for  Howard  Hawks'  The  Big  Sky, 
I  was  pretty  worried.  As  everyone  prob- 
ably knows,  the  baby  had  a  tough  start  in 
life.  A  start  which  nearly  had  Dare  cry- 
ing again  after  all  these  years. 

X)UT  when  I  came  back  and  dropped  in 
on  them,  it  was  quite  different.  I 
called  out,  "Hi,  you  all,"  as  usual. 

"Hi,  hurry  closer,"  Dare  called.  "Baby's 
talking  already!" 

As  I  came  closer,  the  baby  gurgled. 

"Oh,  he  didn't  say  anything,"  I  snorled 
disappointedly. 

"He  certainly  did.  He  asked,  'How  was 
Alaska,  Godpop?' "  Dare  interpreted. 

"Rugged  and.  .  .  ."  Their  laughter  stopped 
me.  I'd  swallowed  the  bait. 

I  joined  their  laughter.  Under  Dare's 
gaiety  was  a  deeper  and  stronger  tough- 
ness than  I'd  ever  heard  before.  A  good, 
solid  kind.  And  I  thought  to  myself,  "Why 
not?  He's  contributed  new  life  to  the 
world.  He's  part  of  a  real  family  at  last." 

Modern  Screen's  editors  tell  me  John 
Derek  says  that  I'm  responsible  for  most  of 
the  right  attitudes  he  has.  . 

T  couldn't  help  remembering  a  day  not 
long  ago  when  I  sat  proudly  in  the 
audience  while  my  eldest  daughter,  12- 
year-old  Diane,  was  awarded  the  Sports- 
manship Medal  for  the  year  at  her  school. 
While  she  is,  I  believe,  Olympic  Champion- 
ship swimming  material,  the  medal  was  for 
attitude  as  well  as  performance.  As  I 
applauded  proudly  there  came  to  my  mind 
the  face  of  that  teacher  who  said  angrily, 
"Why  don't  you  teach  him  something  be- 
sides fighting?"  And  goaded  me  into  a 
saner  philosophy — that  of  sportsmanship. 

That's  only  one  of  the  ways  in  which 
Dare's  faith  in  me  made  me  stop  to  figure 
things  out  more  carefully. 

But  don't  tell  him  I  said  that  just  yet. 
You  see  my  wife,  my  three  daughters  and 
I  have  just  moved  into  a  ranch  of  our  own. 
There's  a  lot  of  help  I  need.  As  soon 
as  John  Derek  finishes  The  Hero  at  Co- 
lumbia— quite  a  rugged  picture  by  the 
way — I  aim  to  get  him  down  to  our  ranch 
to  show  me  how  to  set  tile  for  the 
swimming  pool  I'm  building  myself.  Then 
I  fancy  having  some  Mexican  murals  by 
John  Derek  on  the  thick  adobe  walls  of 
our  house.  Then.  ... 

Well,  he  may  have  been  fryin'  size  when 
I  first  met  him,  but  he's  too  tough  to  fry 
now.  When  he  gives  me  advice — like  how 
to  feed  the  Angus  cattle  I'm  getting — I 
don't  try  to  fry  him.  I  listen  with  respect. 
The  End 


life  with  loretta 


(Continued  from  page  31)  "Oh,  yes,"  said 
Miss  Garbo,  warming.  "Where  do  you  live 
in  Hollywood?" 

"In  Beverly  Hills,"  I  said.  "On  one  of  the 
streets  with  palm  trees." 

"Oh  dear,  how  do  you  ever  have  any 
privacy  there?"  Miss  Garbo  asked.  "How 
does  your  wife  go  out  without  being 
bothered?" 

"I  don't  believe  the  thought  ever  oc- 
curred to  her,"  I  said,  matter-of-factly. 
"You  see,  Loretta  has  lived  in  Hollywood 
since  she  was  a  little  girl,  and  to  her,  it  is 
the  most  delightful  and  natural  place  in 
the  world.  It's  her  home  town,  and  she 
loves  everything  about  it,  including  the 
bother.  Why,  her  older  sister  lives  on  the 
same  street  two  blocks  away,  and  her 


younger  sister  just  three  blocks  east.  I 
don't  believe  she  could  ever  feel  intruded 
upon,  unhappy,  or  lonely  in  Hollywood; 
The  town  is  too  deeply  intermingled  with 
her  whole  life." 

T  found  that  I  had  put  into  words  the 
-'-  feeling  that  I  had  understood  but  vague- 
ly when  I  said  goodbye  to  Gretchen  three 
days  before.  Many  times  since  then,  I  have 
experienced  innumerable  fresh  awakenings 
to  the  deep  and  personal  meaning  which 
Hollywood  has  for  my  wife.  To  the  ma- 
jority of  the  people  who  work  and  live  in 
this  city,  it  is  a  transient  place,  a  brief 
stop-over  in  a  career  for  some,  a  goal 
achieved  for  others.  To  Gretchen,  it  has 
been  a  way  of  life  ...  an  experience  span- 
ning almost  all  of  her  years. 

When  we  were  first  married  I,  who 
came  to  Hollywood  with  a  typical  eastern 


attitude,  used  to  be  surprised  at  many 
things  which  Gretchen  would  say  and 
think  and  do.  But  that  was  before  I  even 
vaguely  understood  what  it  means  to  be 
the  product  of  a  movie  environment.  It  is 
one  thing  to  read,  as  I  did,  the  statement 
in  my  wife's  biography  that  she  began 
working  in  motion  pictures  when  she  was 
six  years  old.  And  it  is  quite  another  thing 
to  attempt  to  share  and  understand  what 
those  experiences  really  meant  in  her  life. 
That  process  has  been  going  on  in  our 
household  for  a  number  of  years  now,  and 
the  end  is  not  in  sight.  Sometimes,  it  is 
quite  a  shock. 

Not  long  ago,  for  instance,  we  borrowed 
an  old  print  of  Laugh.  Cloicn,  Laugh,  which 
Gretchen  made  with  Lon  Chaney  when  she 
was  just  13  years  old.  It  was  her  first  im- 
portant role,  and  as  we  sat  watching  that 
jumpy,  old  print,  it  told  me  more  than 
anyQiing  that  Gretchen  has  ever  said  how 
desperately  she  wanted  to  be  a  movie 
actress  when  she  was  a  little  girl.  The 
image  on  the  screen  bore  very  little 
resemblance  to  the  woman  beside  me.  I 
had  to  laugh  a  couple  of  times  at  her  sheer 
earnestness.  She  had  absolutely  no  humor 
about  her  role.  Sometimes  she  looked 
serious,  sometimes  scared.  She  had  a  body 
like  a  boy  and  was  made  up  to  look  like 
an  imitation  of  the  movie  sirens  of  the  era. 
But  she  acted  the  daylights  out  of  her  part. 

That  picture  also  gave  me  a  new  in- 
sight into  something  that  columnist  Doro- 
thy Maimers  once  told  me.  "When  Gretch- 
en and  her  sisters  were  just  starting  in 
pictures,"  she  said,  "everyone  knew  that 
Sally  and  Polly  Ann  would  be  beautiful 
women.  But  no  one  could  guess  whether 
Gretchen  would  turn  into  a  swan  or  an 
ugly  duckling.  It  was  too  soon  to  know." 

If  I  had  been  asked  to  cast  my  vote  in 
those  days,  it  w'ould  have  been  "duckling." 
Gretchen  looked  like  a  starved  waif  in  her 
mother's  high-heeled  shoes  after  an  irre- 


sponsible session  with  a  lipstick.  But  I  am 
told  that  the  change  came  quickly,  and 
when  it  did,  there  was  no  further  doubt 
about  her  beauty. 

T  HAVE  often  msirveled  at  the  genuinely 
warm-hearted  regard  which  Gretchen 
feels  for  the  movie  industry.  To  be  sure,  it 
has  been  good  to  her,  given  her  an  ex- 
citing career,  money,  the  affection  of  count- 
less moviegoers  who  like  her  work  on  the 
screen.  But  it  has  taken  years  for  me  to 
understand  how  good,  how  abundantly 
good,  Hollywood  has  been  to  her,  even 
when  she  was  a  naive,  impulsive,  and  am- 
bitious child  trying  to  speed  to  stardom. 

I  learned  a  great  deal  about  how  good 
on  the  night  that  we  stood  in  the  lobby  of 
Cathay  Circle,  after  a  preview,  looking  at 
a  window  exhibit  of  stills  from  old  movies, 
including  some  of  Gretchen's  own. 

"Hollywood  must  have  been  wonderful 
in  the  old  days,"  I  said. 

"It  was,"  she  told  me.  "I  can  remember 
when  I  came  to  my  first  premiere.  It  was 
here,  at  Cathay  Circle,  and  I  was  feeling 
verj'  proud  because  I  had  just  signed  my 
very  first  contract.  I  dressed  up  elegantly, 
and  was  on  top  of  the  world.  When  I  saw 
the  picture.  Seventh  Heaven,  I  could  hard- 
ly wait  until  the  next  day  because  I  knew 
so  definitely  the  kind  of  role  I  wanted  to 
play.  I  sat  in  my  producer's  reception  room 
an  hour,  waiting  to  see  him  and  tell  him 
that  I  wanted  to  do  a  picture  jiist  like  the 
one  I'd  seen  Janet  Gaynor  do. 

"He  didn't  laugh  at  me.  Instead,  he  led 
me  out  of  his  office,  holding  my  hand,  and 
said,  'Gretchen,  we'll  do  our  best  to  find 
you  a  story  like  Seventh  Heaven.' 

"It  w'asn't  until  months  later  that  I  knew 
that  everj'  studio  in  town  was  looking  for 
a  storj'  property  like  Seventh  Heaven.  To- 
day, I  never  see  that  man  without  thinking 
about  the  tender  way  he  let  me  dowTi  from 
mv  enthusiasm.  He  could  have  crushed  me 


with  one  cynical  word.  But  he  didn't,  and 
I'll  always  remember  him  for  it." 

Some  people  are  attracted  to  the  movie 
capital  because  of  its  glamour  and  un- 
reality. To  Gretchen,  Hollywood  has  al- 
ways meant  work.  Her  mother  has  told 
me  that  she  did  not  realize  that  stars  were 
supposed  to  be  glamorous  until  she  read 
it  in  a  movie  magazine,  long  after  she  was 
an  established  star.  Then  she  became  glam- 
orous because  she  realized  it  was  her  duty. 

Gretchen's  concentration  on  work — on 
acting,  that  is — ^has  given  her  a  very  clear- 
cut  idea  about  the  difference  between 
laziness  and  energy  conservation.  Early  in 
our  marriage,  I  couldn't  understand  why 
she  never  exercised  .  .  .  played  tennis  or 
golf,  or  rode  horseback.  She  is  so  opposed 
to  exercise  that  I  am  convinced  she  would 
not  walk  across  the  living  room  if  she 
could  get  a  ride.  Yet  she  will  work  very 
hard  at  ballet  if  she  is  to  dance  in  a  pic- 
ture, cind  she  would  ride  a  horse  headlong 
dov,Ti  a  cliff  to  get  an  exciting  scene  on 
film.  But  exercise,  just  to  be  exercising — 
nol  It  has  no  purpose,  and  things  must 
have  a  purpose  to  play  an  important  role 
in  her  life. 

Frequently,  as  a  joke,  she  wUl  ask  me, 
■'Tom,  why  did  you  go  to  coUege?" 

"To  get  an  education,"  I  reply. 

"A  waste  of  time,"  she  wUl  say.  "People 
should  go  to  school  to  learn  something  to 
help  them  earn  a  living.  Now  our  children 
are  going  to  school  .  .  .  the  best  school  .  .  . 
to  learn  something  xiseful.  But  not  to  your 
school." 

I  will  never  win  that  argument.  Nor  did 
I  do  so  well  the  day  I  mentioned  to  Gretch- 
en that  an  actress  I  had  met  always  made 
out  the  menus  for  her  household,  wTote  out 
a  daily  list  of  chores  for  the  maid,  and 
supervised  aU  her  piu-chases. 

"You  know,  I  did  a  picture  with  her 
once,"  Gretchen  replied,  with  a  twinkle. 
"She  was  always  forgetting  her  lines  and 


-MD  A  BfO;  BIO-  BOTTLB,  700 ! 


it  tied  up  the  whole  cast  while  she  learned 
them.  Now  really,  why  should  I  write  out 
a  menu  for  the  cook  when  she  knows  how 
to  cook  a  hundred  times  better  than  I  do? 
It's  simply  silly." 

For  tiie  same  reason,  Gretchen  could 
never  be  a  successful  club- woman,  or  even 
an  tmsuccessful  club-woman,  for  that  mat- 
ter. I  think  she  would  run  like  an  antelope 
from  Robert's  Rules  of  Parliamentary  Pro- 
cedure. Yet  I  have  always  been  amused 
that  she  became  the  sponsor  and  first  presi- 
dent of  St.  Anne's  Foundation  without  once 
realizing  the  responsibility  she  was  as- 
suming. It  sort  of  sneaked  up  on  her.  But 
once  Gretchen  became  aware  of  the  plight 
of  the  unmarried  mothers  whom  the 
Foundation  cares  for,  she  became  a  demon 
of  efficiency. 

"If  we  can  improve  the  situation  for  the 
girls  at  St.  Anne's,"  she  told  me,  "surely  it 
will  help  the  world  a  little  bit." 

WHENEVER  Gretchen  decides  that  a  cause 
is  valid  and  purposeful,  she  acts  di- 
rectly, and  even  blimtly.  I  discovered  this 
myself  on  the  day  we  first  met.  WhUe  I 
was  still  associated  with  Young  and  Rubi- 
cam,  I  was  given  the  job  of  producing  a 
series  of  half-hour  dramatic  shows  which 
hinged  on  obtaining  the  free  services  of 
the  top  stars  as  their  contribution  to  the 
Motion  Picture  Relief  Fund  Home.  One 
of  the  first  stars  the  committee  took  me 
to  see  was  Loretta  Young.  I  remember  that 
she  sat  very  quietly  while  I  outlined  the 
weekly  format  of  the  show,  proclaiming 
that  I  knew  it  would  be  the  best  dramatic 
program  on  the  air. 

"You  can  count  on  me  and  most  of  the 
people  in  Hollywood  to  help  the  Motion 
Picture  Home,  Mr.  Lewis,"  she  said.  "But 
we  actors  certainly  can't  guarantee  that 
the  shows  will  be  successful.  That  will 
depend  entirely  on  the  quality  of  the 
scripts.  And  now  that  that's  settled,  would 
you  like  some  tea?" 

To  a  large  degree,  it  is  her  directness 
that  gives  Gretchen  much  of  her  appeal 
to  our  friends  outside  of  the  movie  in- 
dustry, for  she  approaches  everything  with 
a  freshness  and  basic  honesty  that  is  rare- 
ly seen  in  sophisticated  actresses.  At  first, 
I  had  some  doubts  that  Gretchen  would 
like  my  friends  from  New  York,  and  that 
they  would  like  her.  But  I  remember  the 
first  night  that  we  had  dinner  with  my 
college  friends,  George  Gallup  and  his  wife, 
Ophelia.  I  thought  that  George,  a  college 
professor  and  statistician,  would  be  the  last 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 


Gene  Autry's 
horse  was  making 
a  personal  appear- 
ance at  a  Toledo 
store.  While  we 
were  looking  on, 
q  man  standing 
next  to  us  tried  to 
start  a  conversa- 
tion with  us.  An- 
noyed, I  turned 


abruptly  to  him. 
How  embarrassed  we  were  to  discover 
that  the  friendly  man  was  Gene  Autry, 
himself. 

Mrs.  L.  G.  Frederick 
Willow  Run,  Michigan 


person  on  earth  to  appeal  to  Gretchen. 
But  it  was  just  like  putting  a  hungry 
child  in  a  candy  shop.  She  spent  the 
entire  evening  learning  everything  she 
could  about  George's  work.  I  hardly  had 
a  chance  to  get  a  word  in  edgewise.  To- 
day, we  both  regard  them  as  our  closest 
friends. 

Most  of  Gretchen's  friendships  are  deep 
and  enduring,  and  usually  based  upon  an 
experience  which  is  warmly  shared.  For 
example,  Gretchen  and  Irene  Diuine  be- 
came good  friends  during  our  engagement, 
and  it  was  rather  revealing,  I  feel,  how 
their  friendship  began.  It  was  during  a 
lavish  party  which  Elsa  Maxwell  had  given 
for  a  group  of  the  reigning  Hollywood 
beauties.  During  dinner,  Irene  leaned 
across  the  table  to  say,  "I've  just  heard 
about  you  and  Tom,  and  I  wanted  to  tell 
you  that  I  think  it  will  be  an  ideal  mar- 
riage." Later  in  the  evening,  while  ap- 
plauding an  extemporaneous  speech  by 
Elsa,  Irene  tipped  over  backwards  in  her 
chair  and  did  a  complete  somersault.  Al- 
though she  landed  beautifully  on  her  feet, 
it  embarrassed  Irene  terribly,  and  she  was 
quiet  the  rest  of  the  evening. 

Before  Gretchen  left  the  party,  she  made 
a  point  of  talking  to  Irene  again.  "I  wanted 
to  thank  you  for  your  very  sincere  con- 
gratulations on  our  marriage,"  she  said. 
"And  I  want  to  compliment  you  on  your 
acrobatics.  There  wasn't  another  woman 
at  the  table,  myself  included,  who  could 
have  done  what  you  did  without  losing 
her  dignity." 

They  have  been  fast  friends  ever  since. 


FOR  more  thstn  ten  years,  Gretchen  and 
I  have  carefully  avoided  the  usual  haz- 
ards of  Hollywood  marriages  by  keeping 
our  personal  lives  and  our  careers  clearly 
distinguished.  This  spring,  when  Dore 
Schary  arranged  for  Gretchen  to  appear 
in  the  film.  Cause  for  Alarm,  which  I 
produced  for  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,  we 
made  it  clear  to  one  another  that  we  would 
not  bring  our  work  home  .  .  .  that  it  woxild 
end  as  soon  as  we  stepped  through  the 
front  door. 

"Otherwise,  once  we  start  working  on 
this  picture,"  I  told  her,  "we  won't  have 
any  fun.  If  you  have  any  problems  about 
the  picture,  take  them  up  with  me  at  the 
studio  over  lunch." 

I  am  happy  to  say  that  we  were  able  to 
hold  to  that  plan,  with  only  occasional 
lapses.  One  evening,  when  Gretchen  came 
home  tired,  she  started  to  say  that  she 
just  couldn't  do  a  scene  the  way  it  was 
written.  I  simply  put  my  fingers  in  my 
ears,  and  she  understood  immediately. 
Cause  for  Alarm  rolled  along  with  sur- 
prisingly few  complications.  We  completed 
it  in  just  14  days,  principally  because  we 
rehearsed  extensively  before  we  shot  a 
foot  of  film. 

"You  have  me  at  a  disadvantage  about 
one  thing,"  Gretchen  joked.  "You'll  always 
know  when  I'm  late  to  the  studio  because 
you  have  to  drive  me  there." 

All  during  the  course  of  shooting  I  fre- 
quently would  come  back  to  my  office  to 
find  a  note  from  Loretta  Young  lying  on 
the  top  of  my  desk.  I  forgot  to  mention  her 
notes.  They  have  been  one  of  the  greatest 
delights  of  my  life  with  Gretchen.  She 
leaves  them  all  over  the  house  for  me, 
under  my  hairbrush,  in  the  ashtray,  or 
propped  against  a  lamp.  "I  kame  by  to  sho 
u  my  nu  hairdoo.  I  will  see  u  tonite.  Luv," 
she  will  write,  with  perfect  phonetic  spell- 
ing. She  always  signs  them,  "Me." 

We  are  frequently  asked  if  we  intend  to 
continue  working  together  as  a  husband- 
and-wife  team.  The  answer  to  that  is  no, 
unless  circumstances  just  happen  to  bring 
us  together  in  our  work.  We  both  feel  that 
husband-and-wife  teams  are  unnatural 
and  tend  to  place  an  undue  stress  upon 
career  and  the  details  of  your  work. 
Gretchen  loves  Hollywood  and  her  work, 
and  I  certainly  enjoy  mine,  but  we  are 
also  very  fond  of  our  family,  our  personal 
life,  and  one  another.  After  ten  years  of 
happy  marriage,  we  are  convinced  that  we 
are  right  about  this. 

The  End 


reunion  in  italy 


(Continued  from  page  50)  with  her,  she 
meant  what  she  said.  Neither  Danny,  nor 
Captain  Pete,  waiter  Tony,  nor  Amando 
expected  her  to  remember  her  quick  "I 
sure  will,"  when  they  said,  "If  you  see  the 
Pope  in  Rome,  have  him  bless  a  rosary 
for  us."  They  hadn't  known  her  very 
long.  .  .  . 

The  T.W.A.  flight  to  Gander  was  smooth 
and  uneventful.  Barbara  was  preoccupied 
with  her  secret  process  for  stilling  her 
fear  of  her  first  ocean  flight  and  finding 
reassurance  in  the  fact  that  Mrs.  Charles 
Lindbergh  was  aboard,  Paris-boimd  to 
meet  her  husband. 

After  we  left  Gander  and  its  sharp, 
exhilarating  cold,  everyone  settled  down 
patiently  and  uncomfortably  for  the  night. 

Hours  later,  the  monotonous  hours  that 
are  part  and  parcel  of  long  flights,  we 
looked  down  on  England.  It  was  a  neat 
little  patchwork  quilt,  spread  firmly  on  the 
sea.  Tight  and  sturdy  and  serviceable. 
Then  we  were  over  France  with  its  larger 
76  farms  and  more  widely  separated  villages. 


The  monotony  of  the  trip  was  over.  We 
swooped  down  to  Orly  Field  outside  Paris. 
We  were  two  hours  ahead  of  schedule! 

Members  of  the  press  and  half-a-dozen 
photographers  greeted  Barbara  with  en- 
thusiasm and  courteously  refrained  from 
photographing  Mrs.  Lindbergh  who  quietly 
indicated  she  did  not  wish  to  be  photo- 
graphed. Colonel  Lindbergh  was  waiting 
inside  the  airport  and  the  excitement  over 
Stanwyck  provided  a  complete  diverting 
of  attention  from  the  Lindberghs'  meeting. 

It  was  on  the  flight  from  Paris  to  Rome 
that  Missy  found  her  wings.  We  were 
flying  over  the  Alps.  The  captain  on  this 
part  of  the  flight  was  a  fugitive  from  a 
sight-seeing  bus,  I'm  sure.  His  steady 
announcements,  via  the  plane's  loud 
speaker,  identified  practically  every  ma- 
jestic, glacier-draped  peak.  He  gave  in- 
structions, suggestions  and  exposure  ad- 
vice to  the  camera-happy  passengers  who 
were  clicking  shutters  absorbedly.  Bar- 
bara was  at  the'  porthole,  looking  dovm, 
leaning  her  head  against  the  glass.  Sud- 
denly she  turned,  a  look  of  bewilderment 
darkening  her  eyes.  "Get  me,"  she  com- 
manded, "I'm  looking  down!  I'm  not 
afraid!"    She  grinned.    She  looked  smug. 


And  why  not?  Losing  a  fear,  a  gal  has  a 
right  to  be  pleased  with  herself. 

/"iuR  sight-seeing  pilot  circled  Rome.  Not 
^  once,  but  twice.  It  made  a  magnifi- 
cent panorama,  the  ancient,  rambling  Holy 
City.  But  we  were  nearing  a  long  jour- 
ney's end;  Bob  Taylor,  Missy  knew,  was 
waiting  at  Ciampino  Airport.  And  Bob, 
more  than  Rome,  was  Missy's  destination. 

We  landed  at  Ciampino — on  the  steel- 
stripped  runway  with  which  the  Ameri- 
cans temporarily  repaired  the  damaged 
airport  during  the  war,  and  which  has  not 
yet  been  replaced  by  the  Italians. 

"Bob's  thin,"  Barbara  said  sharply.  How 
she'd  seen  him  so  quickly  I'll  never  know. 
She  was  right.  Bob  was  thin.  Fifteen 
poimds  thinner.  His  role  of  Marcus  in 
Quo  Vadis  was  rugged — and  working  day 
after  day,  month  after  month,  in  the  hottest 
weather  Rome  has  had  in  50  years  was 
rugged,  too.  But  leave  it  to  Taylor  to  look 
sensational,  anyway,  in  a  seersucker  Eisen- 
hower he  had  designed  himself  and  a  pair 
of  linen  slacks.  His  grin  was  one  of  those 
ear-to-ear  things,  and  it  crinkled  his  eyes 
to  slits.  It  had  been  nearly  four  months 
since  the  Taylors  had  seen  each  other. 


 1 

NIHETEEN  YARDS!« 


POUNDS 


"Hello,  Doll,"  he  said.  "Hi,  Bob,"  she  said. 
Then  they  kissed  as  the  scores  of  smiling 
Italians  applauded  Hke  mad.  Flowers  were 
thriist  upon  Stanwyck,  great  cellophane- 
covered  bouquets,  and  the  crowd  opened 
a  path  for  the  Tay-lores  to  walk  through. 

Driving  to  the  apartment  Bob  had  taken 
in  anticipation  of  her  visit,  Barbara  be- 
came conscious  of  persistently  tooted  horns 
and  looking  back,  discovered  the  parade. 
A  dozen  cars  were  trailing  Bob's  and  in 
each  there  were  two  or  three  photogra- 
phers. All  grinning  delightedly.  At  a 
stop-signal  they  drew  up  beside  and 
around  Bob's  car,  cameras  levelled  toward 
Bob  and  Barbara.  "Keess!"  they  com- 
manded. And  Bob  and  Barbara  did  as 
they  were  told.  Again,  at  the  apartment 
entrance,  the  Tay-lores  were  surrounded, 
flash  bulbs  popped,  and,  "Keess,  keess," 
they  were  commanded.  The  Taylors 
keesed,  keesed,  then  the  photographers 
were  gone.  Barbara  was  with  Bob  in 
Rome. 

Bob's  apartment  was  in  one  of  the  new 
buildings  in  the  modern  Monte  Parioli 
section  which  has  been  developed  since  the 
war.  These  modern  apartment  houses 
huddle  together  with  the  haphazard  prox- 
imity which  marks  all  of  Rome.  My  ad- 
miration for  Bob's  abnormal  sense  of 
direction  was  instant,  constant,  and  oft 
expressed.  Getting  lost  in  Rome  is  nor- 
mal, even  for  Romans,  I  learned.  But 
Taylor  never  gets  lost — not  in  Rome — nor 
when  he's  flying — in  -  whatever  soupy 
weather — anywhere  over  the  United  States. 

Bob's  housekeeping  set-up  was  evidence 
of  his  perfectionist  planning.  Parici,  the 
cook,  sixty-five  and  militarily  erect,  erst- 
while chef  for  the  late  King  Victor  Eman- 
uel; Renato,  the  houseman,  young  and 
rigidly  devoted  to  his  duties.  Paola,  maid 
and  laundress,  pretty,  tiny  (height  4'  10"), 
efficient — and  determined  to  learn  English. 

"Hi,"  said  Barbara  as  Signora  Tay-lore 
was  presented  to  the  smiling  trio,  and 
swimg  her  arm  in  an  arc  as  she  said  it. 
This  gesture  was  to  more  than  make  up 
for  her  lack  of  Italian.  It  became  the 
Stanwyck  "signature"  wherever  she  went, 
and  it  delighted  the  Italians  who  intui- 
tively rephed  in  kind  to  its  informality. 

After  Bob  had  briefed  us  earnestly  on 
the  apartment's  temperament  (the  uncer- 
tainty of  the  water  supply,  the  capricious- 
ness  of  the  electricity,  the  control  of  its 
window  shutters),  after  he  warned  us  to 
answer  the  telephone  with  "pronto"  in- 
stead of  "hello,"  we  \mpacked  and  settled 
down.  We  were  ready  to  find  out  for  our- 
selves just  what  "when  in  Rome,  do  as  the 
Romans  do,"  really  meant. 


HOW  TIME  FLIES! 

■  The  name  of  Gloria  Swanson  came 
up.  One  of  the  minor  mysteries  of  Holly- 
wood was  that  Gloria  wasn't  "doing 
anything  in  pictures."  Why  perhaps,  we 
told  each  other,  Swanson  couldn't  carry 
a  picture  today  as  the  star,  but  she  cer- 
tainly would  have  considerable  pulling 
power  at  the  box  office  if  someone  could 
talk  her  into  playing  a  strong  secondary 
lead. — January,  1939 — Modern  Screen. 


We  quickly  discovered  we'd  started  off 
contrary  to  what  the  "Romans  do."  For, 
during  the  month  of  August,  Rome  is 
deserted.  It's  the  hottest  month  of  the 
year,  and  no  one  who  can  leave  Rome, 
even  for  a  few  days,  stays  in  town.  It's 
not  quite  a  ghost  city  but  it's  a  skeleton 
populace  that  remains  at  work  or  in  resi- 
dence. The  majority  of  shops  are  closed. 
The  traffic  of  its  small  cars  is  reduced  to  a 
minimum.  This  Holy  Year  it  was  some- 
what different  because  Rome  is  the  desti- 
nation for  thousands  and  thousands  of 
pilgrims  from  every  country.  The  sight  of 
these  groups,  the  priests,  the  nuns  and  the 
peasants  in  their  native  costumes,  never 
palled. 

The  day  we  went  to  St.  Peter's  was  no 
exception. 

The  pilgrims  moved  in  and  out,  chant- 
ing, or  knelt  and  prayed  in  unison.  We 
took  the  elevator  to  the  roof  of  St.  Peter's, 
then  walked  part  way  up  the  steep  stone 
steps  of  the  dome.  We  watched  little  old 
peasant  women  from  northern  Italy,  their 
wrinkled,  leathery  faces  lighted  with  glow- 
ing eyes,  climb  the  seven  flights  of  steps 
to  the  roof,  and  run  happily  toward  the 
dome  to  take  the  long  steep  steps  to  the 
top!  Theirs  was  the  deep  joy  and  energy 
of  the  dedicated  pilgrim. 

Barbara  never  tired  of  watching  them. 
One  late  afternoon  we  sat  and  watched  for 
hours  on  the  wide  shallow  steps  in  front 
of  St.  Peter's. 

We  saw  all  the  sights  of  Rome;  the  an- 
cient ruins,  the  Vatican,  the  Sisttne  Chapel, 
the  monuments,  the  statues.  We  went  to 
St.  Paoll's,  to  St.  Giovanni's,  to  Ste.  Maria's, 
to  St.  Peter's.  Except  on  Saturday  nights, 
dinner  was  at  home  because  Bob  was 
working.  And,  the  heat  of  Rome  being  a 
24-hour  debilitating  process,  we  learned  to 
sit  quietly  after  dinner,  hoping,  sometimes 
even  praying,  for  a  breeze. 

Paola's  language  lessons  proceeded  \m- 
der  the  largely  pantomimic  tutelage  of  the 
Taylors.  Dinner  over.  Bob  and  Barbara 
would  sit  on  the  floor  in  the  living  room, 
each  in  possession  of  an  English-Italian 
dictionary  and  the  language  lessons  were 
on.  Somehow,  in  the  confusion,  Paola 
learned  English.  Barbara,  no  linguist, 
learned  to  say  "buon  giorno"  (good 
morning),  "buona  sera"  (good  evening). 
She  learned  to  say  "multo  bella"  (very 
pretty),  and  "multo  buono"  (very  good). 
She  learned  to  say  "grazie"  (thank  you) 
and  "arivederci'"  (until  we  meet  again) 
and  with  her  smile  and  her  "Hi"  she  didn't 
need  any  other  words. 

Rome's  one  concession  to  punctuality  is 
that  all  shops  close  at  1:00  p.m.  It  is  the 
law.  Fines  are  levied  if  a  shop  is  caught 
open  at  1:05.  They  reopen  at  4:00  or  at 
4: 15.  Or  maybe  they  don't  reopen  at  all. 
The  Romans  lunch  from  1:00  to  2:00 — and 
sleep  for  two  hours  afterward.  This  Roman 
daily  custom  put  Missy  in  a  daily  state  of 
suspended  enthusiasm.  Eventually,  she'd 
nibble  a  bit  of  lunch  when  the  Romans  did, 
although  her  indifference  to  food  was  a 
great  cross  for  Parici  to  bear.  After  Ivmch, 
she'd  sit  in  disciplined  patience,  waiting 
for  the  shops  to  open. 

Except,  of  course,  on  the  days  she  visited 
,Cinecitta  to  watch  Bob  at  work,  or  to  pose 
for  Manucci,  the  sculptor  Bob  had  com- 
missioned to  do  a  bust  of  her.  Going  to 
the  studio  to  watch  Bob  work  was  a  great 
innovation  m  Missy's  scheme  of  things. 
In  the  11  years  of  their  marriage  she  has 
never  visited  Bob  when  he  was  working. 
She  doesn't  believe  a  wife's  place  is  on  her 
husband's  job.  However,  in  Rome,  Bob's 
sincere  desire  for  her  to  visit  the  set  broke 
down  her  "principles."  And  the  magni- 
tude of  Quo  Vadis  made  set-visiting  more 
than  visiting  Bob.  Quo  Vadis  had  been  a 
decade  in  the  planning.  It  had  taken  two 
years  of  concentrated  work  to  complete 


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build  the  enormous  sets,  including  the 
gigantic  reproduction  of  the  Circus  Maxi- 
mus,  etc.,  etc.,  etc!  No  wonder  Missy 
broke  her  unbreakable  rule  and  took  a 
"postman's  holiday"  by  watching  Bob  and 
Deborah  Kerr,  Leo  Genn,  and  Peter  Ustinov 
at  work. 

T^HEY  weren't  doing  a  very  spectacular 
scene  the  first  of  her  visiting  days.  Only 
shooting  a  section  of  the  Circus  Maximus. 
The  principals  arid  only  3,000  extras  were 
working  that  day.  It  was  hot.  Rome-hot. 
The  day  before  132  people  had  fainted.  On 
this  day  only  three  had  to  be  revived.  How 
Bob  stood  it,  wearing  pounds  of  metal 
armor;  how  Peter  Ustinov,  playing  Nero, 
survived  the  long  hours  in  the  sun  wearing 
the  heavy  velvet,  ermine-boimd  robes  be- 
coming an  Emperor,  I'll  never  know.  But 
Mervyn  LeRoy,  Bob  and  Peter  had  been 
working  every  day  since  May  and,  ob- 
viously, aside  from  the  loss  of  weight  and  a 
good  solid  "bushed"  tiredness  at  the  day's 
end  they  seemed  to  be  bearing-  up  nobly. 

Noble  is  the  word  for  everything  about 
Quo  Vadis.  From  Bob's  noble  Roman  mien 
to  the  proportions  of  the  entire  spectacular 
production.  Quo  Vadis  will  not  be  ready 
for  release  for  a  long  time  but  when  this 
magnificent  Technicolor  presentation  of 
the  story  of  the  early  Christians  is  re- 
leased it  will  take  its  high  place  among  the 
enduring  classics  of  the  screen. 

"D  UT  whether  Barbara  went  to  Cinecitta  or 
shopping,  5:30  was  Rosati-time. 

Rome's  sidewalk  cafes  are  always 
crowded.  Donati's  is  the  mecca  for  tourists 
intent  upon  watching  each  other  and  upon 
watching  the  Romans  pass  by.  Rosati's  is 
more  relaxed — it  is  where  the  Romans  go 
to  sip  tea  or  consume  the  giant  dishes  of 
ice  creani,  topped  with  gobs  of  syrupy  fruit, 
which  they  seem  to  relish. 

Barbara  went  to  Rosati's  every  day 
wearing  her  customary  spotless  white 
blouse,  dark  skirt  and  Roman  sandals.  The 
Romans  did  not  stare  at  her  while  she  sat 
there.  Not  tmtil  Bob  joined  her  on  one  of 
the  few  days  he  finished  working  early 
enough  to  do  so.  Barbara  exaggerates 
when  she  says  she  never  is"  recognized  un- 
less she  is  with  Bob,  but  there  certainly  is 
a  different  kind  of  recognition  when  they 
are  together.  This  day  when  Bob  joined  us 
there  was  instant  excitement.  The  tea- 
sippers  stared  frankly,  the  passing  pedes- 
trians stopped,  stared  and  talked  excitedly 
to  each  other.  Clerks  and  customers 
popped  out  of  adjacent  shops,  passing  cars 
stopped.  Everyone  was  smiling  and  bow- 
ing and  chattering  about  the  "love  couple" 
as  the  Taylors  were  called  in  Italy. 

It  was  at  the  Lido  in  Venice  that  I  first 
heard  them  called  that.  When  Bob  got  a 
weekend  off,  with  Tullia  Picella,  his  Italian 
secretary  (a  Wellesley  graduate)  as  inter- 
preter, we  flew  to  Venice  on  a  Friday 
morning.  Venice  is  gorgeous  from  the  air 
— Venice  is  gorgeous  period.  Venice  is  the 
proof  that  travel  folders  don't  lie. 

The  Venetians  must  have  primitive  tele- 
graphic powers.  As  Bob  and  Barbara's 
gondola  moved  through  the  Grand  Canal 
every  bridge  across  the  Canal  was  lined 
with  applauding  fans.  They  applauded  as 
the  Tay- lores'  gondola  approached  the 
bridge,  then  moved  across  the  bridge  to 
applaud  as  the  gondola  came  under  the 
bridge. 

Around  St.  Mark's  Square  Bob  and  Bar- 
bara did  a  window-shopping  tour.  A  happy 
78  crowd  of  about  a  thousand  fans  followed 


them  for  a  full  hour.  Venetians,  like  Ro- 
mans, are  avid  photographers.  Several 
such  asked  if  they  might  take  pictures, 
but  none  asked  for  autographs,  none  shot 
a  picture  without  asking  permission.  Cour- 
tesy in  the  best  Italian  tradition. 

The  unforgettable  greeting  was  at  the 
Lido.  Our  speedboat  docked  at  the  Hotel 
Excelsior  landing  in  front  of  the  long,  red- 
carpeted  corridor  under  the  bridge,  which 
leads  up  to  the  hotel  lobby. 

As  Bob  stepped  from  the  boat  the  Satur- 
day night  crowd,  lined  across  the  bridge, 
recognized  him  and  applauded.  He  turned 
to  help  Barbara  from  the  boat  and  the 
cheering  started.  Full  and  strong,  "Viva 
Bob  and  Barbara!"  they  cried,  "Viva  Bob 
and  Barbara!"  and  something  else  in  Ital- 
ian. Ttdlia  translated  quickly.  "They  say 
'our  love  couple',"  she  said.  And  had  to 
shout  to  be  heard  above  the  noise  of  the 
crowd. 

By  the  time  Bob  and  Barbara  reached 
the  lobby  the  crowd  on  the  bridge  had  in- 
creased and  moved  against  the  lobby  win- 
dows. Inside  the  lobby  all  the  guests  had 
gathered  to  welcome  them  too.  The  ap- 
plause crackled,  growing  in  volume  and 
"Bravo,  Bob  and  Barbara"  was  called  out 


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over  and  over.  This  greeting  from  ex- 
quisitely gowned  and  bejewelled  women 
and  formally  dressed  men,  was  more  re- 
strained but  quite  as  sincere  and  spon- 
taneous as  that  of  the  crowd  outside.  With 
enthusiasm  and  frankly  evident  admira- 
tion the  guests  followed  Bob  and  Barbara 
to  the  terrace.  That  terrace  was  a  fairy- 
land, its  trees  drenched  with  multi-colored 
lights,  shell-pink  tableclothes,  gold-backed 
chairs,  a  golden  throne  outlined  against 
the  dark,  moon-bearing  sky.  The  throne 
was  there  because  tonight  was  the  Cin- 
derella Gala.  As  Bob  and  Barbara  stepped 
onto  the  terrace  the  orchestra  recognizing 
them  played  "You  Are  My  Lucky  Star." 

Tt  was  an  evening  of  enchantment.  Bar- 
A  bara's  eyes  glowed,  Bob's  smile  flashed. 
On  our  return  to  Venice,  as  our  speedboat 
neared  the  Gritti  Palace,  from  a  half-dozen 
lantern-lighted  gondolas  moving  abreast 
of  each  other,  came  the  music  of  violins 
and  accordions  in  accompaniment  for  some 
unknown  baritone  arid  soprano.  I  was  sure 
it  wasn't  real.  I  was  just  dreaming  myself 
into  a  Jeanette  MacDonald-Nelson  Eddy 
operetta. 

It  was  hard  to  leave  Venice.  Bob  and 
Barbara  went  again  to  the  Lido  for  the 
opening  of  the  Venice  Film  Festival  with 
Mervyn    LeRoy,    Jean    Simmons,  Maria 


Montez,  et  al.  Their  enthusiastic  reception 
was  even  greater  than  it  had  been  the  night 
before.  Yes,  it  was  very  hard  to  leave 
Venice.  The  only  way  you  can  leave  is  by 
promising  yourself  that,  somehow,  some- 
way, some  day — you  will  return. 

Of  course  Barbara  insists  she  still  doesn't 
believe  it.  "I've  spent  so  much  time  in 
'Venice'  on  process  stages  that  I  never 
stopped  expecting  someone  to  yell  'cut' 
and  the  grips  to  move  one  of  the  side  walls 
away.  I'm  sure  I  was  only  on  Paramotmt's 
Stage  12." 

Barbara's  great  accomplishment  in  Rome 
was— resignation.  The  Romans  are  calmly 
superior  to  the  stress  and  strain  of  pvmc- 
tuality.  It's  taken  them  centuries  to  achieve 
their  civilization  and  what  the  centuries 
have  done  clocks  and  schedules  can't  ton- 
do.  After  a  while  you  stop  expecting  them 
to  be  on  time  and,  if  an  appointment  made 
for  three  on  Tuesday  materializes  that 
same  week  you  really  think  you're  getting 
places.  So  a  giant  and  gentle  resignation 
cast  an  aura  of  calm  about  Miss  S.  Except 
for  the  day  she  wanted  to  go  to  the  zoo 
and  some  American  newspapermen  were 
an  hour  and  a  half  late  for  an  11  o'clock 
appointment. 

"You're  late,"  said  Barbara,  and  the  gen- 
tle resignation  wasn't  evident. 

"This  is  Rome,"  the  spokesman  for  the 
group  thus  capsuled  apologies  and  explan- 
ations. 

"But  we're  Americans,"  said  Missy.  That 
gave  the  lady  the  last  word.  Subsequent 
appointments  with  our  countrymen  were 
kept  with  solemn  punctuality,  as  though 
on  some  lonely  outpost,  we  were  faithful 
to  a  distant  tradition. 

Inevitably,  in  every  city,  Barbara  visits 
the  zoo.  If,  of  course,  there  is  one.  Her 
zoo  visiting  started  years  ago,  when  David 
Belasco  said  to  her,  "Any  woman  who 
wants  to  know  how  to  walk  will  go  to  the 
zoo,  watch  the  animals  walk.  Watch  the 
panthers  walk.  Watch  and  watch  until  she 
can  walk  as  they  do."  It's  a  long  time  now 
that  Stanwyck  has  known  how  to  walk. 
But  she  still  goes  to  zoos. 

At  the  zoo  in  Rome  Barbara  made  friends 
with  George,  the  brilliantly  trained  chim- 
panzee and  his  infinitely  gentle,  feminine 
and  appealing  mate,  Catherine.  Catherine  is 
quite  a  personality.  We  were  all  enamored 
and  put  up  no  resistance  to  her  affection- 
ate demonstrativeness.  Even  though  we 
knew  there  was  more  valor  than  discretion 
in  permitting  her  embraces.  Afterward,  as 
we  itched  and  scratched,  we  wondered  if 
she  really  was  as  adorable  as  we  had 
thought  she  was. 

Tj^  ONTANA,  the  Rome  Coutourier,  sent 
word  through  Bob's  secretary,  Tullia, 
that  she'd  like  to  arrange  a  private  showing 
of  her  collection  for  Signora  Tay-lore.  The 
Signora  was  not  impressed — ^no  foreign- 
made  wardrobe  for  her,  she  said.  But,  the 
third  time  she  received  the  gentle  sugges- 
tion she  capitulated.  Bob  got  off  early  that 
day  and  went  along.  Fontana's  gowns  are 
lovely.  She  uses  superb  materials,  ex- 
quisite embroidery.  Her  formal  gowns  are 
breathtakingly  feminine.  We  all  oh'd  and 
ah'd  over  every  model,  unanimously  de- 
cided each  one  should  be  worn  by  Loretta 
Young.  Fontana  has  yet  not  succvmibed 
to  high  price-tag  fever  prevalent  among 
top  designers  in  America  and  France.  175,- 
000  (lira)  for  a  formal  evening  govra 
sounds  like  a  lot  of  money,  but  $280.00, 
which  is  a  lot  of  money,  is  a  comparatively 
modest  price.  The  Paris  ateliers  blandly 
put  90,000  francs,  or  $260.00  on  their  tags 
for  just  a  simple  daytime  street  dress. 

Even  respecting  Fontana's  sane  prices, 
we  just  oh'd  and  ah'd,  wished  Loretta 
could  see  Fontana's  collection,  and  drifted 
away  from  there.  Next  day  Barbara  had 
Tullia  phone  to  order  one  street  dress. 


Day  after  that  Barbara  had  Tullia  phone 
to  order  a  cocktail  dress.  Next  day  at  the 
fittings,  Fontana  brought  in  one  of  her 
fabulous  evening  gowns.  Started  to  fit  it 
on  Barbara.  "Signore  Tay-lore  liked  it  so 
much,"  she  said  appealingly.  That's  when 
Barbara  discovered  Bob  was  gifting  her 
with  the  trio  of  gowns. 

Dy  now  Barbara  was  possessed  with  her 
"mission."  She  was  determmed  not  to 
return  to  New  York  without  rosaries 
blessed  by  the  Pope  for  the  boys  and  Danny. 
Tullia  had  placed  Barbai-a's  request  for  an 
audience  with  His  Holiness  before  the 
Monsignor,  and  received  an  appointment 
for  Barbara  to  appear  in  person  at  the 
Vatican  before  the  request  was  considered. 
Missy  went  rosary-shopping.  I  always 
thought  a  rosary  was  a  rosary.  Missy 
thought  these  rosaries  had  to  be  something 
special.  They  had  to  be  "masculine"  she 
said.  The  rosary  hunt  took  us  in  and  out 
of  a  pretty  good  percentage  of  the  hun- 
dreds of  shops  all  over  Rome  where  rosa- 
ries are  sold.  She  bought  the  sixth  rosary 
late  on  a  Saturday  afternoon.  At  the 
apartment  she  found  her  notice  that  her 
private  audience  had  been  granted  for  the 
next  day  at  Castel  Gondolfo,  the  Pope's 
summer  palace. 

Next  day,  Barbara  started  to  dress  at 
noon.  She  wore,  as  instructed,  a  black 
suit,  covered  her  hair  with  a  fine  black 


WAS  MY  FACE  RED! 

When  John  Hodiak  displayed  some 
tenseness  before  the  camera  in  one  of 
his  first  pictures,  Lifeboat,  Alfred 
Hitchcock  tried  to  soothe  him  by  say- 
ing, "What's  there  to  worry  about, 
John?  Remember,  this  is  just  another 
picture."  Then  paused  dramatically 
before  adding,  "On  which  your  whole 
future  depends." 

— Kolma  Flake 


net  veil.  She  wore  white  gloves,  and  car- 
ried, looped  over  her  left  arm,  the  six 
heavy  rosaries;  carnelian,  jade,  amber  and 
topaz-quartz  respectively.  Bob,  with  other 
members  of  the  Quo  Vadis  company  had 
had  his  audience  with  His  Holiness  at  the 
Vatican  just  before  filming  the  production 
started,  and  shared  Barbara's  excitement. 
Her  appointment  was  for  5:15  "precisely." 
Castel  Gondolfo  is  about  40  minutes  (as 
Julio  drives)  from  Rome.  Barbara  was 
dressed  and  waiting  for  Julio  at  three 
o'clock. 

Arriving  at  the  Castel  gates  at  4: 30 
she  wandered  with  Bob  in  the  milling 
crowd  before  the  gates  until  5:15  precisely, 
then  was  passed  through  the  gates,  ushered 
through  one  room  after  another,  and  at 
last,  clutching  her  rosaries,  awaited  His 
Holiness  in  one  of  the  smaller  reception 
rooms,  where  she  received  his  blessing. 
Barbara  was  deeply  moved,  as  she  had 
been  moved  by  the  sight  of  the  pilgrims' 
devotion  at  St.  Peter's.  For  herself  she 
would  never  have  sought  the  audience. 
For  what  the  rosaries,  blessed  by  His  Holi- 
ness, would  mean  to  Danny  and  Pete,  to 
Amando  and  Tony — "my  waiters" — she  had 
sought  and  secured  it.  Wordless,  as  she  is 
in  moments  of  personal  emotion,  she  was 
intensely  quiet  on  the  drive  back  to  Rome. 
Bob  held  her  hand  tightly,  and  she  smiled 
softly  to  herself  all  the  way. 

"Mission  accomplished"  was  now  de- 
scriptive of  Barbara's  visit.  The  rosaries 
were  blessed  and  Bob's  schedule  required 
weeks  of  day  and  night  work  to  finish 
I  Quo  Vadis. 

There  were  almost  as  many  farewell 


flowers  in  the  apartment  for  Missy  dur- 
ing the  next  three  days  as  there  had  been 
to  welcome  her  upon  her  arrival.  There 
were  tuberoses  from  Ceglia,  the  bootmak- 
er, tuberoses  from  the  glovemaker  and 
great  red  dahlias  from  Bob's  tailor.  In  all 
this  fragrance,  Tullia  and  Paola,  Parici, 
Julio  and  Renato  moved  about  their  work, 
their  smiles  conspicuously  and  touchingly 
absent. 

"Paola  dolora,"  said  Paola  over  and  over. 
"Paola  very  sad,"  she  elucidated,  in  her 
clear,  unaccented,  third-person  English, 
"and  she  speaks  for  everyone." 

Bob  was  working  and  couldn't  see  us  off 
at  the  airport  on  Friday,  but  Tullia,  Paola 
and  Julio  were  there  and  said  their  good- 
byes with  frankly  tear-filled  eyes.  Missy, 
though  touched  by  their  caring,  said  her 
goodbyes  abruptly  and  strode  to  the  plane 
— without  a  backward  glance.  Looking 
back  after  a  goodbye  is  her  one  superstition 
about  flying. 

The  motors  were  warmed.  Our  plane  was 
airborne.  Our  visit  to  Rome  was  commit- 
ted to  memory. 

The  road  back  spread  out  before  us.  We 
flew  to  Paris  whose  incredible  beauty  was 
misted  in  rain.  We  wandered  eagerly 
through  the  streets,  dined  at  Maxim's, 
heard  the  sweet  music  of  violins  at  Mon- 
seigneur's  .  .  .  The  next  few  days  were  a 
kaleidoscope  of  interviews,  press  confer- 
ences, sight-seeing,  perfume-buying.  And 
then,  one  morning,  we  boarded  the  Queen 
Elizabeth  at  Cherbourg.  Cables  and  flow- 
ers from  Bob  were  awaiting  each  of  us  in 
our  cabins. 

The  crossing  was  rough,  but  Barbara  and 
I  paced  the  deck  for  hours,  discovered  the 
remote,  hypnotic  beauty  of  the  moon  at 
sea,  stood  on  the  top  deck  with  the  wind 
slapping  our  faces.  Then  Barbara  sent  a 
cable  to  Bob.  "Will  meet  you  in  New  York 
whenever  you  finish!" 

IVTew  York.  Our  penthouse  suite  at  the 
'  Sherry  was  like  a  garden.  Loveliest  of 
all  the  flowers  were  the  two  huge  baskets, 
Barbara's  and  mine,  from  Bob.  Each  bear- 
ing hand-written  note  from  Signore  Tay- 
lore. 

Our  official  homecoming  was  our  dinner 
that  night  at  Danny's  Hideaway.  What  a 
welcome  it  was!  Danny's  eyes  were  danc- 
ing as  he  took  us  to  "the  Royal  Booth." 
The  table  was  beautifully  decorated  with 
red  roses  and  gardenias  and  green  tapers. 

Danny  handed  Barbara  an  envelope.  She 
read  it  in  the  candlelight,  and  was  sur- 
prised, and  pleased  and  touched.  It  was 
from  Bob.  We  were  his  dinner  guests.  He 
just  wanted  to  be  "with  us"  on  our  first 
night  home.  He'd  thought  of  everything, 
ordered  the  dinner  and  the  flowers  from 
Rome. 

Halfway  through  dinner  and  in  her  most 
offhand  manner,  Stanwyck  presented  the 
rosaries  one  at  a  time  to  Danny  and  the 
boys  ... 

Our  "few  days"  in  New  York  stretched 
into  weeks  of  concentrated  appointments — 
interviews,  radio  appearances,  photographs 
— all  in  connection  with  Barbara's  picture 
for  MGM,  To  Please  A  Lady,  co-starring 
Clark  Gable. 

We  flew  to  Indianapolis  for  the  premiere 
of  To  Please  A  Lady.  Indianapolis  loved 
Missy.  The  newspapers  headlined  her  ar- 
rival; the  Governor  greeted  her;  she 
danced  with  the  soldiers  of  the  28th  Infan- 
try Division.  It  was  an  exciting  and  grati- 
fying stopover,  but  then  we  were  on  our 
way  again.  This  time  headed  for  Los 
Angeles.  Home. 

We  made  the  Eastern  Airlines  hop  to 
Chicago,  and  then  via  TWA  went  West. 
All  in  all  we'd  covered  18,000  miles  by  the 
time  we'd  reached  our  doorstep.  Every 
single  mile  of  that,  we'd  been  up  in  the 
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how  I  feel  about  love 


(Continued  from  page  35)  people  who  lead 
interesting  lives  far  removed  from  acting. 
They  seemed  to  confirm  my  conclusion — 
that  home  and  family  would  always  be  the 
most  important  factors  in  my  life. 

W/"hen  the  editors  of  Modern  Screen  asked 
"  me  to  write  this  article  for  them  I 
agreed,  but'  I  said  that  anything  I  thought 
about  life,  love,  philosophy  and  faith  would 
be,  as  in  a  movie  "with  no  reference  to 
any  real  persons,  living  or  dead."  It  would 
be  impertinent  of  me,  I  think,  to  refer  to 
people  in  my  private  life  by  name,  because 
we  all  have  a  right  of  privacy  in  our  hearts. 

To  really  begin  about  the  way  I  feel,  I'll 
confess  that  events  leading  up  to  my  im- 
portant decision  were  the  very  things  that 
should  have  caused  me  to  decide  to  leave 
Hollywood  for  awhile  and  start,  so  to  speak, 
writing  my  life  in  an  entirely  new  book. 

Frankly,  I  had  reached  the  stage  of  be- 
ing very  close  to  a  cynic.  But  I  discovered 
that  you  can  look  at  things  in  a  highly 
realistic  manner  without  being  bitter.  You 
can  fail  at  love  or  love  can  fail  you.  This 
doesn't  mean  that  you  need  to  go  around 
announcing  you've  discovered  there  is  no 
such  thing.  If  you  do,  you  mark  yourself 
as  someone  who  isn't  equipped  for  genuine 
living. 

Do  I  sound  like  a  wise  old  lady?  I'm  not. 
You  know,  I  am  aware  that  many  people 
have  said  that  a  girl  named  Shirley  Temple 
would  be  a  lot  better  off  if  she  moved  to  the 
other  side  of  town,  away  from  her  family 
and  the  home  she  has  knovm  almost  all  her 
life.  It  would  help  her  to  grow  up  and 
"broaden"  herself. 

Believe  me,  I  have  grown  up,  and  believe 
me,  I  don't  want  to  be  "broadened."  (In 
the  hips  or  anywhere  else.)  I've  known 
people  who  were  in  a  tearing  hurry  to  "get 
away  from  home."  Usually  they  wound  up 
years  later  in  some  distant  place  saying, 
"It  was  all  so  foolish.  I  didn't  gain  any- 
thing. Now  I'm  homesick  and  want  to  go 
back."  Usually  they  can't,  though.  The 
roots  have  been  torn  up.  'The  home  they 
had  was  a  part  of  them.  When  they  left 
they  destroyed  it. 

I  like  the  home  I  live  in.  I  love  being 
close  to  my  mother  and  father.  It  has 
meant  a  great  deal  to  all  of  us  and  to  Linda 
Susan,  and  never  has  there  been  discord 
which  would  prevent  the  chances  of  any 
of  us  for  happiness. 

A  BOUT  a  year  ago  I  went  through  a  se- 
vere  personal  experience.  I  guess 
everyone  knows  what  it  was  and  I  am  per- 
sonally in  favor  of  not  repeating  the  cir- 
cumstances. I  will  say,  though,  that  the 
event  marked  my  abnapt  "growing  up." 
With  the  door  firmly  closed  on  a  certain 
chapter  in  my  life  I  began  to  make  new 
plans.  I  think  that  my  training  as  an 
actress  since  childhood  helped  me  to  avoid 
any  deep  suffering. 

Frankly,  I  think  it  is  high  time  someone 
took  the  podium  and  explained  that  those 
in  the  acting  profession  are  not  really  the 
emotionally  imstable  people  they  have 
been  painted  for  lo!  these  many  years. 

It  is  because  their  business  is  "play  act- 
ing" that  the  legend  has  grown  up  about 
their  not  knowing  the  difference  between  a 
script  and  their  own  lives.  The  truth  is 
that  actors,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
whose  troubles  are  broadcast  out  of  all  pro- 
portion to  actual  importance,  are  generally 
happier  people  than  the  average. 

I  believe  that  all  of  us  are  actors  in  a 
sense.  Those  who  never  have  known  act- 
ing as  a  business  are  more  likely  to  delude 
themselves  with  pretending  in  their  own 
lives  than  the  individual  who  is  constantly 
aware  of  the  abrupt  change  between  the 


characters  he  must  pretend  to  be,  and  what 
he  actually  is. 

For  instance,  I  know  a  girl  who  wants  to 
marry  a  boy  who  is  rapidly  becoming  a 
success  in  business.  She  is  constantly  act- 
ing by  pretending  what  isn't  true — that  she 
is  socially  his  superior  and  therefore  her 
"contacts"  will  help  him;  that  she  is  going 
to  inherit  quite  a  bit  of  money;  that  she  is 
somehow  "better"  than  other  people  he 
knows. 

I  am  afraid  that  if  he  marries  her  they 
are  headed  for  a  great  deal  of  unhappiness. 
He  will  discover  that  she  is  merely  social- 
ly ambitious.  He  probably  won't  mind  if 
she  doesn't  inherit  any  money,  but  what 
will  bother  him  is  that  she  will  spend  their 
dollars  as  though  they  had  more  than 
enough.  As  for  being  "better,"  the  poor 
lad  is  going  to  some  day  be  a  bad  audience 
for  her  constant  "acting." 

i^N  the  other  hand,  I  know  a  young  ac- 
^  tress  who's  planning  to  wed  a  doctor. 
People  say,  "what  a  mistake  he's  making! 
She'll  never  stop  playing  Mrs.  Kildaire." 
Actually,  he  is  making  no  mistake  at  all. 
This  girl,  because  of  her  own  work,  will 
be  able  to  understand  the  irregularity  of 
the  hours  he  must  work.  When  he  gets  up 
at  five  o'clock  in  the  morning  for  early 
hour  operations  she  won't  be  sleeping  bliss- 
fully. The  chances  are,  she'll  be  up  at  the 
same  time,  getting  ready  for  her  own  call 
to  the  set. 

This  is  a  girl  who  knows  how  much  hard 
work  her  man  went  through  to  get  going  in 
his  profession.  Seven  years  of  severe  con- 
centration. She  herself  went  through  the 
disciplined  work  of  modeling,  three  years 
of  stage  acting,  and  another  two  years  of 
indoctrination  into  picture  work.  The  re- 
sult is  that  she  has  consideration  of  others, 
tremendous  energy,  and  a  happy  spirit  that 
comes  with  being  able  to  survive  a  tough 
school  of  experience.  She  has  met  people 
in  many  different  lines  of  work  and  there- 
fore will  not  be  ill  at  ease  with  her  hus- 
band's associates. 

I  could  cite  a  dozen  other  different  ways 
in  which  the  actress'  chances  for  successful 
marriage  are  so  much  greater  than  my 
first  illustration  about  the  girl  who  is  real- 
ly acting  every  waking  moment. 

A  friend  of  mine  once  told  me — if  you 
want  to  get  at  the  truth  in  human  rela- 
tionship all  you  have  to  do  is  take  a  good 
look  at  any  given  situation,  say  to  your- 
self, "What  I  see  may  be  right,  but  perhaps 
the  real  answer  is  just  the  opposite."  I, 
myself,  had  to  pretend  for  a  time  that 
"everything  was  all  right"  in  my  life  when 
it  wasn't.  That  will  never  happen  to  me 
again.  And  that  is  why  I  have  consistently 
refused  to  let  my  name  be  "linked"  with 
anyone's.  If  I  did,  with  the  result  that  a 
romance  was  "dreamed  up,"  I'd  soon 
get  the  name  for  being  fickle. 

IITere  again  I  want  to  speak  up  for  the 
girls  of  my  profession.  You  may  read 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

saw  Howard  Duif 
quietly  laughing  at  me. 

Hattie  Fay  Moody 
Nesson,  Ark. 


hundreds  of  words  about  their  many  ro- 
mances, but  the  genuine  actress  is  ninety - 
nine  times  out  of  one  hundred  a  girl  who 
is  planning  for  a  home  and  a  family  of  her 
own.  Just  as  in  any  town  some  "get  off  the 
beam"  for  awhile,  but  the  stories  that  cir- 
culate usually  are  about  girls  whose  con- 
nection with  movie-making  is  really  very 
slight. 

Now,  to  be  a  little  more  personal  about 
myself.  I  know  that  there  have  been  many, 
many  books  and  articles  written  on  the 
subject  of  how  to  be  happy.  Happy  as  a 
bachelor  girl.  Happy  as  a  wife.  Happy  in 
love.  Happy  when  out  of  love.  Life  has 
been  more  thoroughly  studied  by  experts 
through  the  years  than  any  other  subject, 
from  law  to  atom  bombs.  Yet  the  one  thing 
we  are  still  trying  to  learn  to  do  is  to  get 
along  with  each  other. 

I  don't  want  to  seem  matter  of  fact,  but 
by  looking  at  those  around  me — particular- 
ly my  family — I  see  that  those  who  have 
achieved  happiness  are  those  who  concen- 
trate on  the  things  so  taken  for  granted 
by  most  people  that  they  may  even  seem 
unimportant. 

A  reporter  friend  of  mine  dropped  in  to 
see  me  the  other  day.  I  was  kriee  deep  in  a 
pile  of  old  scripts  and  papers. 

"I  should  think  you'd  have  a  secretary  do 
that,"  he  said. 

"It's  a  temptation,"  I  admitted,  "but  part 
of  woman's  business  is  house  cleaning.  I 
may  squawk  about  it,  but  all  of  these 
things  at  one  time  or  another  have  been  an 
important  part  of  my  life,  and  I  don't  see 
why  I  should  ask  anyone  else  to  take  care 
of  them." 

I'm  not  trying  to  say  that  I  do  all  mv  own 
work,  or  to  paint  a  picture  of  myself  as  a 
brave  girl  getting  on  in  the  world.  I  know 
that  I  am  very  well  oft  and  I  want  to  avoid 
false  impressions.  Not  long  ago,  I  was  very 
embarrassed  to  read  that  I  plarmed  to  sup- 
port myself  by  training  to  be  a  nurse.  Ac- 
tually, I  had  only  been  doing  volunteer 
work  in  orthopedic  training. 

This  twisted  report  got  into  the  news- 
papers and  I  was  horrified.  In  the  first 
place,  it  was  obvious  that  I  don't  need  any 
other  type  of  work  as  a  profession  other 
than  the  one  I  have.  In  the  second  place,  it 
takes  four  years  of  training  to  be  accepted. 
I  wondered  what  the  army  of  girls  working 
so  hard  to  enter  a  great  profession  might 
think  of  my  supposedly  casual  entrance  on 
the  scene. 

THE  truth  is  that  I  have  been  giving  about 
three  or  four  days  a  week  to  hospital 
visits  and  other  allied  things.  I  have  al- 
ways been  interested  and  I  hope  I  always 
will  be.  It  seems  to  me  that  every  young 
woman  has  an  obligation  to  do  some  sort 
of  volunteer  work.  If  she's  lonely,  she'll 
find  that  other  people  have  far  worse  prob- 
lems. As  for  finding  love,  it's  right  there. 
Perhaps  she  won't  meet  a  man  as  a  result, 
but  if  she  tries  to  bring  love  to  people  she'll 
find  that  it  will  come  back  to  her  many 
times  over.  If  she  is  too  busy  to  be  con- 
cerned about  the  problems  of  others,  they'll 
be  too  busy  to  think  about  her. 

To  put  it  simply,  I  think  we  young  wom- 
en make  the  gravest  mistake  of  all  in 
thinking  about  love  in  the  terms  of  "man" 
alone. 

For  all  of  us  love  is  ninety-nine  per  cent 
of  life  and  the  secret  of  finding  the  happi- 
ness we  want  seems  to  be  in  being  pre- 
pared to  receive  it.  And  how  to  do  that? 
Well,  the  foundation  is  there  for  all  to  see 
in  those  who  are  happy.  They  are  those 
who  have  religion  and  practice  it,  those 
who  hold  qualities  of  good  citizenship 
above  the  gay,  free  social  life,  and  those 
who  place  the  needs  of  their  homes  and 
families  above  their  own. 

I'm  not  sure  how  close  I  come  to  mem- 
bership in  that  select  group,  but  I'm  going 
to  try.  The  End 


marika's  miracle 


(Continued  from  page  37)  soon  her  eyes 
grew  tired  but  she  continued  to  watch. 

A  policeman  sat  in  a  warm  cubicle  be- 
side the  gate  and  observed  the  little  girl. 
Presently  he  put  down  his  pipe  and  went 
out  and  spoke  to  her. 

"Aren't  you  cold?"  he  asked. 

"No,  sir,"  said  Marika. 

"It's  getting  late,"  said  the  policeman. 
"Hadn't  you  better  be  getting  on  home? 
It's  Christmas  Eve,  you  know." 

"There  is  no  hurry,  sir,"  said  Marika. 
"My  father  is  away  looking  for  work.  We 
are  new  here,  and  we  have  agreed  not  to 
have  Christmas  this  year  like  the  Ameri- 
cans. Maybe  next  year,  if  things  are 
better." 

The  policeman  didn't  have  an  answer 
ready.  He  just  chewed  hard  on  his  pipe 
for  a  moment,  then  went  over  and  took 
Marika  by  the  hand  and  led  her  inside 
his  office. 

"Wait  here  a  moment,"  he  said.  "That's 
nonsense.  It's  Christmas  Eve  all  over  the 
world — for  everybody."  And  he  hurried 
away  to  do  something  about  this  emer- 
gency. 

MARIKA  sat  on  the  big  chair  and  thought 
about  that.   So  it  was  Christmas  Eve 
all  over  the  world,  for  everybody.  She 


HOW  TIME  FLIES  I 

■  Rosalind  Russell  and  Jimmie  Stewart, 
incidentally,  are  making  their  love 
scenes  so  convincing  on  this  program 
that  it  sounds  like  the  real  stuff.  And 
those  on  the  inside  say  that  since  Rosa- 
lind's return  from  England,  Jimmie 
Stewart  has  had  an  option  on  all  her 
spare  time. — February,  1939 — Modern 
Screen. 


couldn't  quite  believe  that.  She  had  been 
other  places  on  other  Christmas  Eves  and 
it  hadn't  been  Christmas  Eve  at  all.  The 
gentleman  was  mistaken. 

Her  eyes  were  heavy,  and  for  some 
reason  she  didn't  want  to  sit  there  and 
think  about  it  any  longer.  She  left  the 
cubicle  and  stepped  into  the  studio  street. 
It  seemed  barren,  with  long  rows  of  tall 
structures  that  looked  like  warehouses  on 
either  side,  and  very  few  people  about. 
Marika  walked  down  between  the  build- 
ings. 

It  seemed  as  though  she  had  walked  for 
a  long  time,  and  she  was  quite  tired  when 
she  saw  a  white  door  partly  opened  in  one 
of  the  buildings.  She  went  inside. 

It  was  dark  in  there,  but  ofE  in  the  dis- 
tance a  small  light  showed  and  Marika 
went  toward  it.  She  could  hardly  believe 
her  eyes,  for  there  before  her  was  a 
stable,  almost,  she  thought,  like  a  stable 
on  a  farm  she  remembered  in  a  distant 
past.  There  was  the  floor  littered  with 
straw,  horse  trappings  hanging  from  the 
stall  posts,  dusty  windows,  a  cow  munch- 
ing from  a  broken  bale,  the  smell  of  sweet 
hay,  and  many  familiar  sights,  sounds  and 


scents.  There  was  even  a  donkey  gazing 
at  her  in  lazy  speculation.  Marika  lay 
down  on  the  straw  and  in  a  moment  she 
was  weeping  for  something  she  thought 
she  had  forgotten.    Soon  she  fell  asleep. 

It  was  there  the  policeman  and  his 
hastily-recruited  group  of  studio  workers 
found  her  There  was  a  hurried,  whispered 
consultation;  members  of  the  party  were 
dispatched  on  urgent  errands,  and  the 
policeman  gently  picked  Marika  up,  still 
asleep,  and  carried  her  like  a  rag  doll 
from  the  building. 

When  Marika  opened  her  eyes,  she  was 
frightened  for  a  moment,  but  only  for  a 
short  moment.  She  was  seated  in  a  very 
big  chair  in  a  room  that  was  larger  than 
any  she  had  ever  seen.  It  looked  like  the 
main  salon  of  a  prince's  palace.  The  lights 
were  very  bright  and  everywhere  she 
looked  there  were  people  with  happy, 
smiling  faces. 

There  was  the  policeman,  hovering  close. 
There  were  men  in  overalls,  girls  in  short 
skirts  and  ballet  shoes.  There  was  a 
Bishop  in  magnificent  robes,  men  and 
women  in  evening  dress,  a  man  in  a  dark 
suit  and  a  hat  pulled  down  over  a  badly 
scarred  face.  There  were  men  who  looked 
like  business  leaders  and  men  who  looked 
like  beggars.  It  seemed  as  though  a 
sampling  of  people  from  every  walk  of 
life  had  been  gathered  and  placed  in  the 
big  room.  And  over  in  a  comer,  behind  a 
huge  Christmas  tree  that  was  the  most 
magnificent  sight  Marika  had  ever  seen, 
there  were  musicians  softly  playing  songs 
of  happiness. 

The  policeman  raised  his  hand  and  called 
for  everyone  to  be  quiet,  and  then,  on  a 
signal  from  a  jolly  accordionist  dressed  as 
a  Swiss  mountaineer,  everyone  began  to 
sing  and  move  about  with  merry  gestures. 

Marika  was  tongue-tied  and  wide-eyed 
with  the  wonder  of  it  all.  And  she  pinched 
herself,  as  she  had  heard  people  do,  to 
mctke  sure  she  was  awake. 

SUDDENLY  a  wide  door  opened  and  snow 
flew  into  the  room,  whipped  by  a  strong 
wind  that  scattered  the  flakes  over  every- 
one. Eight  champing  reindeer  pranced 
inside,  drawing  a  sled  on  which  the  round, 
fat  figure  of  Santa  Claus  himself  sat, 
chuckling  and  waving  at  Marika.  While 
willing  hands  held  his  beasts,  Santa  got 
down  off  his  sled,  carrying  a  bag  almost  as 
big  as  he  was.  He  placed  it  before  the  tree 
and  walked  to  where  Marika  sat.  He 
bowed  deeply  and  reached  for  her  hand. 

"Come,  little  one,"  he  said.  "It  is  Christ- 
mas Eve  all  over  the  world  today  and  I  am 
in  a  great  hurry.  Come  and  see  what 
Santa  has  brought  you." 

Trembling  with  excitement,  Marika 
took  Santa's  hand  and  permitted  him  to 
lead  her  to  the  tree.  The  big  red  bag  was 
opened  and,  to  the  squeals  of  delight  of 
everyone,  packages  wrapped  gaily  in  all 
colors  were  placed  at  Marika's  feet.  Every- 
one gathered  then  about  the  tree  to  help 
the  child  open  her  presents,  while  Santa 
sat  on  a  strong  chair  and  chuckled  as  only 
Santa  does. 

There  was  a  doll,  almost  as  large  as 
Marika,  and  a  good  deal  plumper,  that 
said  "Mama."  There  was  a  white  dress  of 
lace,  a  blue  dress  of  organdie,  and  a  pink 
dress  of  wool.  There  was  a  dark  coat,  with 
brass  buttons,  and  a  hat  to  match.  There 
were  shoes,  it  seemed,  without  number, 
books  uncountable,  each  with  a  title  that 
spelled  magic  adventure.  There  were 
roller  skates  and  games,  mittens  and  rub- 
bers, candy  and  fruit.  Some  of  the  gifts 
were  expensively  wrapped,  others  were 
simple  things,  like  maybe  an  orange,  a 
banana  and  a  few  nuts  wrapped  in  white 
tissue.  But  there  were  more  presents  that 
Marika  had  ever  known  existed. 

The  room  became  warm  with  giving  and 
the  lights  multiplied  in  the  corners  of 


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Marika's  eyes  as  moisture  reflected  them, 
and  soon  she  couldn't  see  at  all,  could  just 
feel  Christmas  everywhere. 

IN  the  office  of  the  head  of  Splendid 
Studio,  the  boss  sat  at  his  desk  and 
pushed  a  button.  His  secretary  answered. 

"What's  going  on  around  here?"  the 
boss  asked.  "I  feel  something  strange  in 
the  air." 

"It's  Christmas  Eve,  sir,"  the  secretary 
said. 

"I  know,"  said  the  boss.  "But  where  is 
everybody?  I  don't  hear  a  soul  on  the 
streets." 

"They're  on  Stage  Ten,"  said  the  secre- 
tary. "There's  a  Christmas  party  going  on 
over  there." 

A  few  minutes  later  the  boss  opened,  the 
door  of  stage  ten  and  his  eyes  grew  large. 
All  the  noise  on  the  stage  stopped,  and 
people  appeared  uncomfortable.  All  ex- 
cept Marika.  She  merely  looked  up  at  him 


and  smiled. 

"Come  in,  sir,"  she  said.  "It's  Christmas 
Eve.  It's  Christmas  Eve  for  everyone — 
everywhere — today. 

"Merry  Christmas,"  said  the  boss,  and 
he  came  in. 

The  stars  were  out  when  the  policeman 
carried  Marika,  now  half  asleep  from  the 
excitement  of  it  all,  into  the  street  and 
placed  her  in  the  long  limousine.  He  put 
the  packages  in  with  her  and  covered  her 
with  a  lap  robe.  The  boss  got  in  beside 
her  and  ordered  the  driver  to  start.  Marika 
nestled  against  his  shoulder  and  looked 
through  weary  eyelids  up  at  the  twinkling 
lights  in  the  sky.  "They  must  be  real, 
too,"  she  thought.  "Today,  even  the  stars 
are  real." 

Marika's  father  was  standing  hatless  in 
the  street  when  the  car  drove  up,  and  he 
shook  with  fear  and  uncertainty  as  the 
chauffeur  opened  the  door  and  began  lifting 
out  Marika's  presents.  The  boss  emerged 


in  a  moment,  carrying  the  sleeping  child. 
He  put  her  in  her  father's  arms,  then 
pressed  a  pad  of  bills  and  a  small  white 
card  in  his  hands. 

"It's  an  advance,"  he  said.  "Come  and 
see  me  Monday." 

"I  thought  she  was  lost,"  Marika's 
father  mumbled. 

"No,"  said  the  boss.  "We  were  lost.  She 
found  us." 

The  big  car  drove  away,  and  still 
Marika  slept  in  her  father's  arms.  And  he 
looked  up  into  the  sky,  too,  and  his 
cheeks  were  wet  although  it  was  not 
raining. 

It's  just  a  fable,  maybe,  but  it  has  hap- 
pened, or  something  like  it.  It  was 
Marika's  miracle,  and  it  proved  that  on 
Christmas  Eve  it  is  Christmas  Eve  every- 
where, even  in  Hollywood.  And  that  for 
one  magic  day,  make-believe  joins  with 
the  goodness  of  man  and  becomes  reality 
and  moves  closer  to  God.  The  End 


my  Christmas  story 

{Continued  from  page  53)  that  distant 
HoUywood-to-Hayden-Lake  hookup,  I  be- 
gan to  get  a  feeling  for  the  song.  Before 
he  hung  up,  Johnny  said  that  he  and 
Jimmy  had  a  couple  of  other  fine  Yuletide 
tunes,  too. 

"Deck  them  out  with  boughs  of  holly," 
I  said.  "The  boys  and  I  will  be  down  next 
week  and  see  what  kind  of  family  harm- 
ony we  can  work  up." 

"Don't  worry.  Pop,"  said  Linny.  "We'll 
kill  'em." 

The  next  week,  when  we  started  re- 
hearsing at  Decca's  recording  studios,  it 
seemed  like  the  most  natural  thing  in  the 
world  to  record  the  songs  as  a  family 
Christmas  album.  So  that's  what  we  did. 
The  twins,  Denny  and  Phil,  chose  the 
snowman  number.  Linny  took  over  a 
bright  little  song  called  "I  Hitched  a  Ride 
with  Santa  Claus."  Gary  and  the  old 
man  drew  the  end-piece,  a  straightforward 
song  entitled  "That  Christmas  Feeling," 
which  comes  mighty  close,  I  think,  to  ex- 
pressing the  real  spirit  of  Christmas: 

"I  love  that  Christmas  feeling, 
It  does  my  heart  so  much  good. 
Strangers  I  meet  all  seem  like  friends 
And  the  world's  just  a  neighborhood. 
So  here's  to  the  joy  of  Christmas; 
Here's  to  the  ones  I  hold  dear, 
May  you  have  that  merry  Christmas 
feeling 

All  through  a  happy  new  year."* 

Even  if  I  do  say  so,  our  little  Christmas 
album  turned  out  to  be  a  fair  country 
set  of  sides  .  .  .  pretty  good,  that  is,  for 
five  farmers  just  in  from  the  range.  And 
I  am  not  without  a  touch  of  pride  when- 
ever I  think  of  the  fine  way  the  boys 
handled  their  numbers.  If  they  keep  com- 
ing along  in  this  fashion,  I'll  have  some- 
thing to  fall  back  on  in  my  old  age. 

Of  course,  it's  perfectly  natural  that  our 
first  family  offering  should  be  a  selection 
of  Christmas  songs.  The  Irishers  and  I 
have  been  singing  together  at  Yuletide  for 
lo!  these  many  years,  and  it  would  be 
a  break  in  a  long  tradition  if  this  year, 
too,  we  don't  spend  a  large  part  of  Christ- 
mas day  out  in  the  crisp  winter  air  carol- 
ing our  neighbors,  friends,  and  the  other 
members  of  the  Crosby  family.  Last  year, 
we  covered  about  30  houses  .  .  .  starting 
out  in  Holmby  Hills  and  playing  the  cir- 
cuit all  the  way  out  to  old  Ski-snoot's 
place  in  North  Hollywood. 

*By  permission  of  Burke- Van  Heusen  and 
Associates. 


The  boys  like  to  end  up  their  caroling 
at  the  Hope  house.  He  always  puts  at 
least  $5  in  the  kitty  they  collect  for 
charity.  So  do  Johrmy  Burke  and  the 
others  who  seem  to  like  our  version  of 
"Silent  Night."  But  at  brother  Everett's 
house,  they  don't  even  bother  to  pass  the 
hat.  He  always  gives  them  a  dime  apiece. 

THIS  year,  I  hope  Christmas  will  be 
pretty  much  the  way  it  has  always  been 
at  our  house  since  the  boys  have  been  old 
enough  to  enjoy  it.  Especially  in  these 
troubled  times,  Christmas  should  be  a  time 
for  kids  to  enjoy  themselves,  and  a  time 
for  us  old  folks  to  pause  and  count  our 
blessings. 

I  know  that  this  year  when  the  boys 
come  home  from  Bellarmine  Prep  up 
north  where  Gary  is  a  senior,  Dennis 
and  Phil  sophomores,  and  Linny  a  fresh- 
man, the  air  will  be  full  of  talk  of  foot- 
ball. For  this  year,  Gary  is  playing  fullback 
on  the  school  team  and  I  know  I'll  have  to 
watch  while  the  whole  season  is  replayed 
on  the  living  room  rug.  And  we'll  prob- 
ably take  in  all  of  the  football  games  that 
are  being  played  within  two  hundred 
miles  of  Los  Angeles  during  the  holidays. 

Like  as  not,  the  kids  will  bring  home 
some  of  their  friends  from  school.  Each 
year  when  they  do,  I  am  reminded  of  our 
Dig  house  in  Spokane,  a  block  away  from 
Gonzaga,  which  was  always  a  human 
swarm  on  Christmas  Day.  To  this  day  I 
don't  know  how  Dad  managed  to  hold  up 
under  the  job  of  carving  the  turkey  for  all 
those  kids.  Most  of  us  were  back  for 
seconds  before  he  could  sit  down.  Yet  as 
soon  as  he  spotted  an  empty  plate  down 
the  table,  he  would  yell,  "Back  up  your 
cart,  son!"  and  reload  it  with  turkey.  Ever- 
ett and  Ted  always  got  stuck  with  the 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 


When  Ava  Gard- 
ner visited  Smith- 
field  about  a  year 
ago,  some  -  of  my 
friends  and  myself 
went  to  see  her 
during  our  school 
lurcch  period.  Be- 
cause we  had  pic- 
tures taken  with 
Miss  Gardner,  it 


was  after  lunch 
period  that  we  returned  to  class.  We 
were  excused,  however,  thanks  to  the 
thoughtfulness  of  Miss  Gardner,  who 
had  written  notes  for  us  to  our  teachers. 
Mary  Smithwick 
Smithfield,  North  Carolina 


dishes. 

As  always,  our  Christmas  this  year  will 
begin  with  early  mass  at  our  neighbor- 
hood church,  the  Good  Shepherd.  For 
many  years,  it  has  been  my  humble  privi- 
lege to  sing  "Adeste  Fidelis"  at  this  early 
mass.  Perhaps  this  year  I  can  talk  Mon- 
seignor  Concannon  into  allowing  the 
sprouts  to  backstop  me  on  the  chorus. 

After  church,  we  will  rush  home  and 
start  tearing  away  at  the  packages  piled 
under  oiur  big  tree.  We'll  miss  Dad,  who 
passed  away  this  fall,  when  we  open  our 
presents.  He  always  liked  to  come  over 
early  on  Christmas  Day  and  sit  by  the  tree 
with  Mom  while  the  boys  clawed  at  their 
packages. 

And  we'll  all  miss  Dad  at  the  dinner 
table,  too.  His  Christmas  Day  was  never 
complete  without  a  huge  Yuletide  dinner 
...  a  full  scale  affair  with  turkey,  dress- 
ing, and  all  the  fixings  .  .  .  and  although 
he  hadn't  been  able  for  years  to  eat  heart- 
ily, he  never  lost  any  of  his  old  dexterity 
with  a  carving  knife.  I'll  miss  hearing  him 
tell  my  boys,  "Back  up  your  carts,  boys. 
Don't  be  shy."  It  was  one  of  his  greatest 
pleasures  to  watch  a  bunch  of  himgry, 
bug-eyed  boys  tackling  heaping  plates  of 
turkey.  And  my  boys  always  managed  to 
do  full  justice  to  his  carving. 

After  dinner,  we'll  probably  gather 
around  the  tree  for  some  talk  and  a  few 
songs.  I'm  sure  we'll  have  a  monstrous 
tree  again  this  year  ...  a  tall  spreading 
affair  that  looks  like  it  should  be  outdoors. 
A  few  years  back,  we  had  a  big  tree  that 
caught  fire  and  burned  down  the  house, 
but  we  still  wouldn't  have  any  other  kind. 
It  wouldn't  seem  like  Christmas. 

In  the  afternoon,  open  house  prevails 
at  the  Crosby  manor,  and  we  welcome  the 
random  wanderers  who  stop  by  to  quaff 
a  bit  of  eggnog  or  to  pass  the  time  of  day. 
It  will  be  the  surprise  of  my  life  if  I'm  not 
called  away  right  at  the  height  of  the 
jollity.  For  some  strange  reason,  I  always 
seem  to  have  a  radio  program  scheduled 
sometime  during  Christmas  Day.  I'm  hop- 
ing, for  once,  that  I  can  just  sit  down  with 
my  feet  up  comfortably  and  let  that 
turkey  settle  for  a  change. 

This  year,  with  strife  again  making  its 
ugly  self  felt  in  the  lives  of  millions  of 
Americans,  I  believe  that  Christmas  will 
have  a  renewed  meaning  to  us  all.  And 
with  the  fundamental  values  of  Christmas 
being  threatened  as  never  before,  we  must 
be  stavmch  in  our  faith  that  they  will  live 
forever.  The  secure  peace  of  family  life, 
the  glowing  kindness  of  man  to  fellow 
man,  the  power  of  simple  personal  prayer 
— these  things,  as  they  are  embodied  in 
our  celebration  of  Christmas  Day,  are  the 
light  of  the  world.  May  yours  be  merry! 
The  End 


he  gets  away  with  murder 

(Continued  jrom  page  47)  press  relations 
for  fear  of  being  blacklisted.  Lancaster 
frankly  doesn't  give  a  hoot  about  journal- 
istic thumbs-down.  He  doesn't  seek  pub- 
licity. He  accepts  it  because  it  is  part  of 
his  job  to  accept  it.  He  knows  that  if  his 
stellar  position  warrants  attention,  news- 
papermen will  have  to  give  it  to  him 
whether  they  want  to  or  not. 

There  are  those  who  hold  that  Lancaster 
would  rather  argue  than  eat.  They  may  be 
right.  Certainly  his  producers  and  directors 
concur.  The  man  who  directed  one  of  his 
first  pictures  is  widely  quoted.  "I'd  direct 
Burt  Lancaster  in  another  picture  if  I  had 
to."  he  said,  "but  frankly,  it's  one  chore 
I'd  like  to  side-step.  Two  directors  on 
one  pict\ire  is  one  too  many." 

TVIcT  all  of  his  directorial  encoimters,  of 
course,  wind  up  alike.  Just  recently 
Burt  and  his  Jim  Thorpe,  All- American 
mentor,  Mike  Curtiz,  came  to  grips.  A  few 
moments  after  a  particularly  vitriolic 
verbal  battle,  Curtiz  walked  off  the  sound 
stage  and  into  the  office  of  a  friendly 
executive,  where  he  struck  a  dramaticadly 
tragic  pose. 

''Look  at  me,"  he  intoned  pitifully.  "I 
am  an  old  man,  alone  in  the  world.  I  have 
no  one  but  my  boy,  Burt,  whom  I  love 
like  a  son.  But  my  boy  has  turned  on 
me.  Mel  I  am  the  man  who  fights  with 
actors — they  do  not  fight  with  mel" 

He  allowed  the  tears  to  roll  down  his 
cheeks.  "This  son  whom  I  love,  you  know 
what  he  has  just  done? — In  front  of  the 
whole  company  my  boy  Burt  called  me  a 
lousy  bxmil" 

Curtiz's  "boy,"  Lancaster,  just  an  hour 
later  sent  the  director  two  dozen  roses 
with  an  apologetic  card  which  began,  "Dear 
Lousy  Bum." 

How  Lancaster  gets  away  with  his  mur- 
deroiis  tussles  with  authority  is  some- 
thing few  of  his  colleagues  can  understand. 
But  today  Burt,  in  the  jargon  of  the  indus- 
try, is  one  of  the  hottest  stars  in  tov.Ti, 
currently  ranking  number  six  as  a  box- 
office  draw. 

His  sometimes-strange  behavior  rarely 
foUows  the  same  pattern  twice.  There  was 
the  time,  not  too  long  ago,  when  he 
guested  on  a  San  Francisco  air  show  con- 
ducted by  a  harried  female  commentator. 
Burt  wasn't  too  happy  about  being  there, 
and  made  little  attempt  to  disguise  his 
boredom.  The  fact  that  it  was  a  network 
show  with  a  good  Hooper  rating  didn't 
stimulate  his  interest  at  all.  The  ad  lib 
interview  began: 

Q.  "Glad  to  have  you  with  us,  Burt. 
You've  been  in  several  pictures  now  and 
you've  made  an  enviable  name  for  j'ourself. 
By  this  time  you  must  have  formed  some 
opinions  about  your  profession.  Do  you 
enjoy  being  an  actor?" 

A.  "Nah." 

Q.   "Well,  what  is  it,  then,  that  strikes 
your  fancy?  Do  you  want  to  be  a  director?" 
A.  "Nah." 

Q.   "I'll  bet  I  know  what  it  is — you've 
,  levelled   your   sights   on  the   top  spot — 
you'd  like  to  be  a  producerl" 
A.  "Nah." 

Q.  "Well,  for  goodness'  sake,  Mr.  Lan- 
caster, what  do  you  want  to  be?" 
A.  "President  of  the  United  States." 

ORE  recently  Burt  was  a  guest  on  a 
round-table  broadcast  from  Holly- 
wood. A  member  of  the  panel  managed  to 
pop  just  one  question  before  the  actor 
took  over.  Burt's  answer  devoured  the 
allotted  thirty-minute  air  time  and  con- 
tinued on  for  another  quarter-hour  after 
the  show  signed  off. 
Lancaster's  outspoken  opinions  frequent- 


ly land  him  in  hot  water,  although  vocally 
he  gets  away  with  murder.  For  instance, 
a  few  months  ago  he  was  taken  to  task 
by  his  studio  for  okaying  a  magazine  story 
which  was  later  printed  iinder  the  cover 
blurb,  "The  Amazing  Rebellion  of  Burt 
Lancaster  "  in  which  he  revealed  a  to-HeU- 
with-Hollywood  attitude.  Burt  openly  and 
loudly  resented  any  attempt  to  put  a  curb 
on  his  frank  statement. 

"I  object  to  the  sanctimonious,  holier- 
than-thou  attitude  in  this  business,  it's  a 
lot  of  hooey,"  he  said.  "Why  don't  we  just 
let  down  our  hair  and  admit  that  we're  not 
always  the  artistic  masters  we  pretend  to 
be?  Some  of  us  are  in  this  business  to 
make  good  entertainment — and  through 
that  entertainment,  some  doughl 

"There's  too  much  bull  and  baloney  con- 
nected with  picture-making.  Listen,  Hol- 
lywood's been  aroimd  a  long  time.  It's  old 
enough  now  to  be  able  to  take  some  honest 
criticism,  and  to  admit  it  makes  mistakes, 
too. 

"A  man  who  sets  out  to  make  a  buck — 
say  in  the  steel  industry — doesn't  have  to 
profess  belief  that  everything  connected 
with  steel  is  on  the  highest  cultural,  spirit- 
ual, or  moral  plane.  He'll  even  admit  that 
his  plant  turns  out  a  lousy  batch  of  steel 
once  in  a  while — and  it  doesn't  shake  the 
public's  faith  in  that  product  at  all." 

To  some  who  know  him,  Burt  is  com- 
pletely self- centered  and  vain.  To  his 
friends,  the  "vanity"  is  simply  complete 
confidence  in  his  own  abilities,  intensified 
by  his  absolute  refusal  to  hide  his  light 
under  a  bushel  of  ill-becoming  bashfulness. 

As  far  back  as  the  release  of  his  first 
picture.  The  Killers,  Burt's  self-assurance 


Before  marriage  a  woman  knows  all  the 
answers;  afterwards  she  knows  all  the 
questions. — Betty  Hofton  os  quoted  by 
Irving  Hoffmon  in  The  Hollywood  Reporter. 


was  evident.  A  close  friend  brought  him  the 
reviews  of  the  picture  after  its  press  pre- 
view and  stood  back,  awaiting  Burt's  ex- 
cited reaction.  Burt  merely  scanned  the 
pieces  and  grunted  his  approval. 

"For  heaven's  sake,"  yapped  the  friend, 
"they're  terrific  reviews." 

Burt  looked  at  him  calmly.  "Of  course 
they're  good,"  he  said.  "What  did  you 
expect? — It's  a  good  picture." 

His  self-confidence  extends  beyond  what 
he's  proved  he  can  do  and  do  as  well.  When 
an  acquaintance  recently  asked  if  the 
rumor  were  true  that  he'd  like  to  dance 
in  a  future  picture,  Burt  replied.  "Sure. 
Why  not?"  The  other  man  looked  his  sur- 
prise. "You  think  you  could?"  Lancaster's 
answer  was  tjrpical:  "I  have  two  legs, 
haven't  I?" 

He  later  elaborated  on  this  theme  when 
he  said,  "I  can  do  other  things  on  the 
screen — sing,  dance,  clown.  So  far  nobody 
in  Hollywood  wants  to  gamble  a  million 
or  so  on  my  idea  that  fans  wiU  like  me 
as  much  as  a  comic,  a  hoofer,  or  a  singer  as 
they  do  when  I  play  a  mug  with  a  gun 
in  my  mitt  or  an  acrobatic  adventurer." 

LANCASTER  has  never  doubted  himself 
for  a  moment.  His  confidence  in  his 
own  judgment  and  production  acumen  re- 
mained imshaken  even  after  the  lukewarm 
critical  and  box-office  reception  accorded 
his  initial  production  venture.  The  Un- 
afraid. He  charged  immediately  into  plans 
for  The  Flame  and  the  Arrow,  which  he 
and  Harold  Hecht  produced  under  the  Nor- 
ma banner,  and  in  which  Burt  starred.  He 
was  not  at  all  surprised  when  it  turned  out 
to  be  one  of  the  year's  top  money-makers. 

But  his  pride  in  his  physical  accom- 
plishments is  a  facet  of  the  Lancaster 


character  that  nobody  criticizes.  That  he 
is  a  superb  athlete  is  an  acknowledged  and 
unchallengeable  fact.  Colleagues  whose 
muscles  shriek  at  the  eighteenth  hole  are 
unanimous  in  their  praise  of  his  agUity  and 
coordination. 

Already  lean  and  fit  as  a  fiddle  string 
before  production,  he  nonetheless  dropped 
ten  pounds  during  his  heavy  pre-produc- 
tion decathlon  workouts  for  Jim  Thorpe, 
All-American.  One  of  the  set  crew,  soft  of 
belly  and  shank,  remarked,  "That  guy's 
so  trim  you  can't  tell  if  he's  coming  or 
going." 

Lancaster's  unshakable  determination  to 
stand  by  his  own  code  of  ethics  has  in- 
creased his  unpopularity  with  a  lot  of 
people.  But  there  are  many  who  are  quick 
to  admit  that  they  highly  admire  his  sense 
of  integrity. 

From  the  beginning,  Burt  refused  to 
allow  "an  invasion  of  privacy"  by  the 
press.  He  once  said,  "I  keep  my  home 
apart  from  this  movie  rat-race.  My  home  is 
a  symbol  to  me.  Once  I  let  photographers 
or  writers  in,  it'll  mean  I've  given  in."  At 
this  writing,  Mr.  Lancaster  has  budged  not 
a  whit,  even  going  so  far  as  to  ask  pho- 
tographers on  the  set  not  to  photograph 
his  wife  and  their  oldest  boy,  Junmy,  who 
were  there  to  watch  him  cavort  on  the 
horizontal  bars  for  Flame. 

(Jimmy's  comment,  it  might  be  noted, 
after  watching  a  particularly  breath-taking 
feat,  was:  "Heck,  Dad  does  a  lot  better 
in  the  back  yard!") 

(~\^  personal  appearance  tours  he  is  nat- 
"  ural  prey  to  the  hordes  of  teen-agers 
who  greet  his  arrival  on  stage  with  the 
usual  cacaphony  of  screams,  squeals,  and 
sighs.  In  disgust  one  Jay,  Burt  stepped  to 
the  footlights  and  publicly  spanked  them 
all;  particularly  risky  tj^pe  of  blimtness 
in  which  to  indulge. 

"Your  behavior  is  somewhat  appalling," 
Lancaster  told  the  kids.  "If  all  your  energy 
could  be  channeled,  it  would  make  some 
sense." 

He  got  away  with  more  murder  in  the 
public  prints.  "I'm  personally  against  the 
bobby-sox  type  of  hero-worship,"  he  was 
quoted  as  saying,  "Kids  who  idolize  movie 
stars  worship  something  that  is  manu- 
factured, for  stars  are  often  the  product 
of  the  studio  mUl.'' 

Surprisingly  enough,  Burt  was  acquitted 
on  this  charge,  for  the  kids  continue  to 
adore  him. 

There  is  one  Lancasterism  that  has  driven 
clothes-conscioiis  Hollywood  to  despair. 
"Why,"  one  actress  demanded  recently, 
"does  he  have  to  go  around  looking  like 
a  panhandler?  It's  embarrassing  to  have 
to  say  'hello'  to  him  on  the  street." 

Holljrvvood  can  speak  its  mind  freely 
about  his  personal  appearance:  whatever 
it  says,  it  is  justified  in  saying  it.  Burt's 
hair  generally  seems  to  be  combed  by  a 
Waring  blender.  His  face  sports  five  o'clock 
shadow  at  noon.  His  dark,  monotone  sports 
shirts  and  slacks  look  as  though  they'd 
been  used  for  pajamas.  His  moccasined 
feet  are  often  sockless. 

It  has  been  said  that  Burt's  slovenly  at- 
tire is  a  form  of  defiance  illustrating  his 
attitude,  "If  people  don't  like  the  way  I 
dress,  the  de\'il  with  themi" 

Burt  says  quite  frankly,  "I  don't  care 
about  my  appearance.  People  tell  me  it 
win  hurt  my  career.  But  that's  ridiculoiis. 
If  my  bad  pictures  haven't  hurt  me,  noth- 
ing I  do  will  hurt  mel  " 

He  was  just  as  self-assured  the  day  he 
stood  before  the  late  Mark  Hellinger,  dur- 
ing production  of  The  Killers,  and  vowed, 
"HolljMvood  will  never  get  mel" 

'Whether  it  has  or  not  is,  in  Holly%vood's 
opinion,  a  ver>'  moot  point.  Until  it  is  de- 
cided (and  perhaps  not  even  then)  Lan- 
caster will  \mdoubtedly  continue  getting 
away  with  murder.  The  End  8 


M 


what  price  glamour? 

{Continued  from  page  45)  This  wasn't  at 
Sak's  Fifth  Avenue,  or  Adrian's  or  I.  Mag- 
nin's.  Betty  had  been  ambling  down  the 
street,  window  shopping  like  any  other 
hotisewife.  The  smartness  of  the  display  in 
the  window  of  a  small,  unobtrusive  Bever- 
ly Hills  shop  had  caught  her  eye  and  she'd 
wandered  in  to  see  what  they  had  to  offer. 

The  Grable  philosophy  concerning  things 
to  wear  is  simply,  "It  ain't  what  you  wear, 
it's  the  way  that  you  wear  it!" 

Knowing  what  becomes  you  is  a  matter 
of  personal  analysis.  "Fashion"  is  for  you 
only  if  it  is  suited  to  your  style.  And 
"style"  is  not  always  what  happens  to  be 
the  current  fad.  Betty  discovered  this 
early  and  wisely  adhered  to  it. 

WHEN  the  "new  look"  hit  the  country 
with  considerable  force  and  struck 
most  of  the  feminine  population;  when 
skirts  sagged  perilously  close  to  the  ankles 
and  women  billowed  about  looking  like 
a  Ringling  Bros,  tent  in  search  of  a  cir- 
cus, Betty  didn't  join  the  crowd.  She 
lengthened  her  skirts,  to  be  sure,  but 
only  as  far  as  was  flattering.  It  suited  her 
and  she  stood  nicely  apart  from  the  fad- 
conscious  mob. 

During  this  extremely  "long"  period, 
Betty  went  to  the  Santa  Anita  Race  Track 
in  one  of  her  "nearly  new  look"  gowns.  A 
self-consciously  smart  young  matron  ap- 
proached her  and  cooed  acidly: 

"Darling,  that's  a  terribly  smart  dress, 
but,"  she  simpered,  "really,  they're  wear- 
ing them  longer  now." 
Betty  smiled  good  naturedly. 
"Maybe  'they'  have  something  to  hide," 
she  replied.  "I  haven't  .  .  .  and  anyway, 
I  like  this  length." 

Betty  loves  beautiful  lingerie  with  a 
passion,  and  would  buy  stacks  of  it,  if  her 
conscience  would  let  her.  She  has  a  num- 
ber of  filmy,  expensive  creations.  How- 
ever, there's  a  small  shop  on  Hollyv/ood 
Boulevard,  which  carries  a  modest  line  of 
lingerie  at  an  amazingly  low  price.  Betty 
shops  there  regularly,  and  these  simple 
garments  far  outnumber  the  lacy  ones. 
Betty's  reluctance  to  pay  high  prices  for 
unmentionables  is  well  known  to  all  her 
friends.  Not  long  ago,  at  one  of  the  swank 
Beverly  Hills  stores,  a  salesgirl  was  about 
to  sell  a  dozen  pair  of  silk  panties  for 
the  impressive  sum  of  $12.95  per  pair, 
when  her  customer  was  suddenly  snatched 
away  from  her.  Betty,  passing  by,  had 
recognized  the  customer  as  her  friend, 
and  just  wouldn't  allow  her  to  spend  all 
that  money  on  mere  panties. 

"Come  with  me,"  Betty  whispered. 
"Where  to?"  the  friend  asked,  mystified. 
"Woolworth's,"    Betty    replied.  "Their 
panties  may  not  be  as  pretty,  but  they 
wear    well    and    they're    only  fifty-five 
cents  a  pair." 

During  the  period  when  Betty  wasn't 
the  adored  darling  she  is  today,  she  had 
a  budget.  On  budgets,  one  may  look  long- 
ingly into  Saks'  windows — but  that's  all. 
You  learn  to  spend  wisely  and  you  never 
outgrow  the  habit.  And  often  you  learn 
how  to  do  your  own  beauty  chores  with 
professional  skill. 

Take  the  mundane  matter  of  hair.  Betty 
puts  hers  up  in  bobby  pins  personally. 
She  goes  to  the  beauty  parlor,  yes.  Long 
ago  she  discovered  "Cassie's"  on  Rodeo 
Drive;  and  found  that  Norma  could  per- 
form the  necessary  magic  to  keep  her 
locks  as  beautifully  blonde  as  technicolor 
pictures  demand.  She  has  been  going 
there  regularly  once  a  week.  Norma  ap- 
plies her  lotions,  but  Betty  brings  along 
a  small  box  of  bobby  pins.  Not  that  she 
doesn't  have  implicit  faith  in  Norma's 
84  skill,  but  she  knows  that  she  alone  has 


the  "know-how"  as  far  as  the  Grable 
hair  style  is  concerned,  so  she  sets  it 
herself,  with  no  apologies  to  anyone. 

If  there  is  one  place  where  Betty  may 
fall  down  in  the  economy  department,  it's 
with  her  fancy  for  chi-chi  shoes.  She  has 
dozens  of  pairs,  most  of  them  full  cut 
D'orsay  pumps  and  all  rather  "buttons- 
and-bowsey."  Along  with  her  overwhelm- 
ing interest  in  shoes,  goes  her  habit  of 
wearing  the  sheerest  of  nylons.  Here  again 
Betty  is  hardly  what  you  could  call 
economical.  She  won't  wear  them  if  they 
have  even  so  much  as  a  small  snag.  In- 
congruous, when  you  realize  that  she  won't 
pay  over  $2.95  for  a  pair  of  white  cotton 
gloves.  Incidentally,  she  is  very  metic- 
ulous about  gloves.  She  doesn't  consider 
herself  well  dressed  unless  she  carries  a 
pair.  She  loves  accessories,  too,  like  match- 
ing bags  and  belts.  The  bags  generally 
cost  from  fifteen  to  thirty  dollars  and  the 
belts  are  under  fifteen  dollars. 

Detty  is  more  partial  to  suits  than 
any  other  articles  of  clothing  in  her 
wardrobe.  She  shies  away  from  the  gus- 
sied  formal  evening  wear,  and  feels  much 
more  at  ease  in  tailored  things. 

One  night  she  arrived  at  a  Giro's  opening 
in  a  stunning  evening  outfit.  Nine  out  of 
ten  of  the  women  who  peacocked  about  the 
room  sported  decolletes  that  would  make 
Earl  Wilson's  eyes  bulge,  but  Betty's  en- 
semble of  ice  blue  satin  embroidered  with 
silver  bugle  beads  was  built  along  the  lines 
of  her  favorite  suit.  Betty  just  doesn't  like 
extreme  formals.  She  generally  ducks 
gatherings  where  such  gowns  are  expected 
because  of  this  distaste  for  showy  evening 
things.  She  is  casual  by  nature  and  gravi- 
tates rapidly  away  from  any  functions 
where  she  must  "dress." 

Like  most  Southern  California  women, 
hats  are  not  a  "must"  with  Betty  Grable. 
Although  she  wears  them  occasionally 
they're  generally  little  frou-frous  that 
match  her  ensembles,  and  John  Fred- 
ericks and  Lily  Dache  can  hardly  count 
Betty  among  their  best  customers. 

The  same  informal  note,  so  characteristic 
of  Betty,  prevails  in  her  makeup.  With 
that  flawless  blonde  complexion  of  hers 
which  tans  so  beautifully,  she  has  very 
little  need  of  pancake  or  powder  bases. 
However,  she's  a  stickler  when  it  comes 
to  lipstick.  The  famous  Grable  mouth  is 
never  seen  without  bright  orange  lip  rouge 
which  she  applies  religiously  and  is  always 
licking  off.  Among  toilet  waters  she  pre- 
fers "White  Shoulders,"  "Shalimar,"  "Pla- 
tine,"  and  likes  to  surround  herself  with  a 
cloud  of  fragrance. 

For  a  girl  who  is  imanimously  conceded 
to  be  one  of  Hollywood's  top  glamour  stars, 
Betty  is  remarkably  unconcerned  about 
appearing  in  public  in  slacks,  shorts,  or 
even  levis.  With  these,  she  wears  sweaters 
— angora  or  cashmeres — which  are  soft 
enough  not  to  irritate  her  skin.  Other  stars 
would  never  think  of  leaving  the  house 
without  their  best  bibs  and  tuckers,  Betty 
has  no  such  qualms.  She  once  shocked  a 
whole  fioorful  of  people  in  Los  Angeles' 
biggest  department  store  when  she  walked 
in  wearing  a  very  obvious  maternity  gown, 
sat  down  at  the  fountain  and  calmly  or- 
dered a  soda. 

A  LTHOUGH  Betty  has  very  beautiful  jewel- 
ry,  she  never  flaunts  it.  In  contrast  to 
her  rather  flamboyant  preference  in  shoes, 
her  taste  in  jewelry  is  surprisingly  con- 
servative, running  to  a  few  finely  executed 
pieces.  She  rarely  wears  earrings.  The 
reason  is  simple.  "They  always  pinch  me," 
she  complains. 

She  has  been  known  to  make  exceptions 
in  the  matter  of  startling  jewelry.  An  ex- 
tremely different  and  becoming  dress  made 
especially  for  her  by  the  fashionable  Allar- 


dale's  dress  shop  is  trimmed  with  jewels. 
The  dress  is  the  first  of  its  kind  and  was 
a  fashion  experiment  which  happily  was  a 
tremendous  success.  It  is  a  burnt  orange 
tweed,  with  matching  suede  inserts  and  an 
intricate  pattern  worked  in  jewels  on  the 
collar  and  yoke.  The  outfit,  which  cost 
$235.00,  is  completed  by  a  top  coat  and 
perky  peaked  cap  of  the  same  biunt 
orange  suede.  This  is  one  of  Betty's  few 
really  expensive  purchases,  but  the  money 
is  well  invested  for  the  dress  sets  her 
blonde  beauty  off  to  perfection,  and  the 
simple  cut  reveals  the  lines  of  her  figure 
at  their  best. 

Speaking  of  Betty's  fabulous  shape,  it  is 
often  shown  in  pin-up  pictures  encased  in 
a  form-fitting  swim  suit.  These  pictures, 
however,  are  products  of  studio  publicity 
departments.  When  vacationing  at  Del 
Mar,  Betty  prefers  the  two-piece  cotton 
sun  suit  for  which  she  usually  pays  a  fast 
$5.75,  to  the  more  confining,  skin  tight 
bathing  suit.  In  fact,  she  doesn't  even  own 
such  a  suit,  and  has  to  borrow  one  from 
the  studio  wardrobe  department  when  she 
poses  for  the  pictures. 

Betty,  by  the  way,  takes  very  good  care 
of  her  health  and  her  figure.  Every  night 
after  she  finishes  at  the  studio  she  has  a 
steam  bath  and  massage.  When  she  isn't 
working,  she's  prone  to  take  on  weight,  and 
this  she  corrects  immediately.  (Betty's 
weight  is  pretty  constant  right  now — 
thanks  to  exhausting  routines  for  her  new 
picture,  Call  Me  Mister.) 

A  T  a  luncheon  recently,  Betty  was  asked 
how  she  managed  to  stay  so  nice  and 
slender.  She  explained  that  it  was  very 
simple.  All  she  does  is  avoid  all  starches 
and  sweets,  such  as  potatoes,  bread,  pies 
and  desserts.  At  this  point  the  waitress  ar- 
rived to  take  their  order.  Betty  looked  up 
and  said: 

"Make  mine  a  hot  fudge  sundae  with 
whipped  cream."  Then  she  smilingly  turned 
to  her  friend  and  remarked: 

"I'm  so  glad  you  told  me  I  look  thin. 
I've  had  a  craving  for  a  hot  fudge  sundae 
for  weeks." 

Because  Betty  is  an  individualist  and 
refuses  to  go  along  with  fashion  fads  and 
fancies,  she  has  never  been  mentioned 
among  the  best  dressed  women  of  America. 
Chances  are  she  never  wiU,  because  she 
refuses  to  devote  that  much  time  to  being 
a  "clothes  horse".  However,  she  still  looks 
better  in  her  clothes  than  most  women  do 
in  their  wildest  dreams.  The  Grable  figure 
is  far  more  effective  than  Christian  Dior's 
most  expensive  creation. 

So  when  you  think  of  glamour,  remem- 
ber Grable — and  remember,  it  isn't  money 
that  sharpens  your  appearance,  but  your 
own  good  taste.  The  End 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by 
page  the  photographs  which  appear  in 
this  issue. 

6-7 — Bert  Parry  and  Bob  Beerman,  8 — Wide 
World,  10 — Bert  Parry  and  Bob  Beerman,  16 — 
International  News,  26 — Bert  Parry,  27 — Co- 
lumbia, 28 — T.  Bob  Beerman,  Cen.  World  Wide, 
Bot.  Bert  Parry,  29 — T.  Lt.,  T.  Cen.  Globe 
Photos,  Bot.  Lt.  20th  Century-Fox,  T.  R.,  Bert 
Parry,  Cen.  Rt.  Stork  Club,  Bot.  Rt.  M.G.M., 
30 — 20th  Century-Fox,  31 — Walt  Davis,  32-34 
— Paramount,  35 — Modern  Screen  staff,  38 — T. 
Bob  Beerman,  Bot.  Bert  Parry,  39 — Bert  Parry, 
40-42 — Bob  Beerman  and  Bert  Parry,  43 — T. 
International   News   Service,   Bot.    Bert  Parry 

and  Walt  Davis,  44  20th  Century-Fox,  46 — 

Universal,  48-51 — Helen  Ferguson,  52 — World 

Wide  Photo,   54  Bob  Beerman,   55 — T.  Bob 

Beerman,  Bot.  Bert  Parry,  56-57 — Floyd  Mc- 
Carty,  59-65 — Jacques  Simpson  of  PaganO 
Studios,  74  M.G.M.,  88 — Bert  Parry. 

Abbreviations:  Bot.,  Bottom;  Cen.,  Center;  Exc, 
Except;  Lt.,  Left;  Rt.,  Right;  T.,  Top. 


it's  a  good  life 


(Continued  from  page  55)  anything  if 
she'd  wainted.  It  was  all  too  perfect,  and 
she  had  to  get  used  to  the  idea. 

The  next  day,  the  script  of  The  Prince 
Who  Was  A  Thief  arrived  by  airmail.  It 
was  brought  to  Piper  while  she  was  having 
a  press  interview  in  Chicago's  Pump  Room, 
and  dying  of  curiosity,  she  had  to  sit  on 
it  all  the  way  through  lunch.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  because  she  w-as  doing  seven  or 
eight  TV  and  radio  shows  each  day  to 
publicize  Louisa,  she  didn't  get  a  chance 
to  read  the  script  until  she  got  to  Des 
Moines.  That  is,  she  started  it  in 
Des  Moines,  and  finally  finished  the  rest 
of  it  in  Nebraska. 

Almost  as  exciting  as  the  script  was  the 
letter  which  came  with  it.  It  was  sent 
by  Rufus  Le  Maire,  head  of  Universal's 
casting  department. 

■'Congratulations,  Piper,  and  good  luck." 
it  read.  "This  is  a  grand  opportunity  and 
I'm  sure  tliat  you  will  do  well.  Perhaps 
now  you  will  know  why  I  asked  you  to 
come  over  to  my  office  and  let  me  measure 
j'our  height.  We  had  to  have  someone  tiny, 
and  I  was  worried  that  you  were  too  tall 
for  the  part." 

Piper  remembered  the  day  that  Mr.  Le 
Maire  had  kept  staring  at  her  all  during 
luncheon  in  the  commissary,  then  finally 
had  come  over  to  her  table  with  a  quiz- 
zical look  on  his  face. 

"How  tall  are  you.  Piper?"  he'd  asked. 

"Five  feet  five  inches,"  she'd  said. 

"I  don't  think  you  are."  Mr.  Le  Maire 
had  said,  emphatically.  "Come  over  to  my 
office  after  limch.  and  bring  a  ruler." 

In  his  office,  Piper  measvured  5  feet  AVz 
inches  tall.  "Ha!"  said  Mr.  Le  Maire,  "Just 
as  I  thought." 

"What  difference  does  it  make,  anyway?" 
asked  Piper. 

"No  difference,"  said  Mr.  Le  Maire,  sud- 
denly becoming  mysterious.  "I  just  wanted 
to  know." 

"And  to  think.  '  Piper  told  her  mother 
later,  "of  all  the  times  I've  gone  around 
wishing  that  I  could  be  tallerl" 

VF/'hex  Piper  got  back  to  Hollywood,  after 
•  three  frantic  weeks  on  the  road,  she 
was  understandably  tired.  But  not  too  tired 
to  rush  over  to  the  studio  and  find  out 
all  about  the  picture.  \^Tien  the  execu- 
tives explained  that  they'd  been  following 
her  career  and  were  happy  to  give  her  and 
Tony  Curtis  a  real  chance,  she  almost 
floated  on  air. 

Then  she  drifted  over  to  the  wardrobe 
department  to  look  at  the  sketches  of  her 
costumes.  The  dresses  were  not  only  beau- 
tiful, but  everj-  one  of  the  figures  had  been 
sketched  with  her  face  on  it.  It  was 
almost  too  much  for  Piper  Laurie  to 
endure. 

For  the  next  five  weeks  she  and  Tony 
worked  on  the  script,  rehearsing  each 
scene  until  they  had  it  letter  perfect.  Final- 
ly, the  director  felt  they  w-ere  ready  to  do 
the  big  Technicolor  test  which  was  the  last 
check  and  doublecheck  before  the  actual 
shooting  began.  The  afternoon  the  tests 
were  screened.  Piper  was  treated  like 
Princess  Elizabeth  by  all  who  saw  her  in 
the  studio  commissary. 

First,  dialogue  director  Lee  Shollem 
stopped  by  to  shake  her  hand. 

"I  just  saw  the  tests  this  morning,"  he 
said.  "You  were  beautiful.  Piper." 

Casting  director  Robert  Palmer  came 
over  and  said,  "Simply  wonderful,  honey. 
Simply  wonderful." 

Writer  A.  McKenzie  was  next.  "Piper," 
he  said,  "you  have  no  idea  how  many 
people  like  you.  I  have  to  rewrite  the  whole 
screenplay   just   to   enlarge   your  part." 


Then  Tony  Curtis  strolled  in,  wearing 
blue  jeans  and  a  western  shirt. 

"I  understand  they  showed  the  tests 
this  morning,"  Tony  said.  "They  told  me 
that  I'd  better  start  looking  for  another 
job.  but  that  you  were  great." 

Tony,  of  course,  was  kidding,  but  he 
was  getting  too  much  pleasure  out  of 
Piper's  tremendous  enthusiasm  to  let  his 
own  run  wild. 

"This  girl,"  he  will  tell  you,  with 
flourishing  gesture,  "is  wonderful." 

How  wonderful  was  a  secret  imtil  a  few 
months  ago. 

At  that  time  drama  coach  Sophie  Rosen- 
stein  presented  an  evening  of  theater  on 
the  lot,  starring  her  young  students.  Piper 
appeared  in  a  Tennessee  Williams  one- 
acter  entitled.  This  Property  Is  Con- 
demned, and  the  applause  she  got  was 
deafening.  It  was  a  role  with  range.  She 
was  wistful,  sexy,  fiery  .  .  .  but  most  of 
all.  she  was  a  challenging,  extraordinary 
actress.  It  was  a  triumphant  evening  for 
Piper,  and  for  her  mother  and  father,  who 
were  sitting  in  the  audience. 

HThe  commanding  ability  which  Piper 
-•-  demonstrated  on  the  stage  that  eve- 
ning was  a  long  time  arriving.  Unlike 
most  young  actresses,  she  was  never  pre- 
cocious. Her  first  attempt  at  drama,  at 
the  age  of  two,  was  an  utter  flop  in 
Detroit,  where  Piper  was  bom.  Her  mother 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

Because  my 
roommate  and  I 
are  in  a  tubercular 
hospital,  we  were 
unable  to  see  the 
celebrities  that 
had  come  to  In- 
dianapolis for  the 
Five  Hundred  Mile 
Race.  A  friend  of 
ours  wrote  to  Bar- 
bara Stanwyck 
that  we  would  especially  like  to  see 
her.  Not  only  did  she  visit  in  our 
room  for, over  twenty  minutes,  hut  she 
went  around  to  each  of  the  other 
ninety  patients,  signing  her  name  and 
chatting  with  everyone. 

Virginia  Smith 

Flower  Mission  Hospital 

Indianapolis,  Indiana 


had  taught  her  a  short  poem  to  deliver 
at  a  children's  recital.  Piper  learned  it  well, 
but  when  her  turn  came  she  was  too 
frightened  to  open  her  mouth.  She  just 
stood,  facing  the  terrifj'ing  audience,  until 
all  the  Unes  had  rxm  quietly  through  her 
mind  and  then  she  bolted  straight  for  her 
seat. 

Six  years  later,  after  Piper  and  her 
family  had  moved  to  Los  Angeles,  she  had 
more  or  less  made  up  her  mind  that  she 
wanted  to  be  an  actress.  But  she  was  too 
ashamed  to  tell  anyone  about  it. 

"I  remember  one  morning  when  my 
mother  was  taking  my  sister,  Sherrye,  and 
me  for  a  walk,  she  asked  us  each  what  we 
wanted  to  be  when  we  grew  up.  Sis  said, 
T  want  to  be  a  cook'  (which  she  is,  to- 
day ...  an  excellent  one).  Then  I  said 
that  I  wanted  to  be  a  manicurist.  I  knew 
it  was  a  lie,  but  I  also  thought  that  being 
an  actress  was  so  far  from  reality  that 
there  was  no  use  mentioning  it." 

As  a  child.  Piper  was  such  a  shy  little 
thing  that  her  mother  frequently  worried 
about  her.  When  people  came  to  the  house, 
she'd  just  sit  and  stare,  or  walk  around 
with  her  head  down. 

"I  didn't  say  much,"  Piper  recalls,  "but 


I  thought  a  lot." 

She  thought  a  great  deal  about  ways  to 
even  the  score  with  her  sister,  Sherrye, 
who  was  two-and-a-half  years  older. 
Piper's  biggest  resentment  was  caused  by 
being  put  to  bed  a  half  hour  earlier  than 
Sherrye,  and  she  satisfied  her  anger  by 
daily  putting  the  hairbrush,  the  alarm 
clock,  or  cracker  crumbs  in  Sherrye's  bed. 

"Sherrye  and  I  had  our  share  of  sisterly 
spats  due  to  the  difference  in  our  ages.  I 
always  wanted  what  she  had.  I  remember 
one  Valentine's  Day  when  a  boy  brought 
her  a  box  of  candy.  I  nearly  died  with 
envy.  I  thought  that  her  beau  was  the  most 
handsome  boy  I  had  ever  seen.  But  a  year 
later,  when  Sis  outgrew  him,  I  went  out 
with  him  and  didn't  like  him  at  all." 

At  John  Burroughs  Jxinior  High  School, 
Piper,  who  was  then  known  as  Rosetta 
Jacobs,  began  to  take  on  the  nicknames 
that  dogged  her  adolescence.  She  was 
"Carrot-top,"  "Rosie,"  and  of  course,  "Red." 
She  was  still  shy,  but  not  too  shy  to  play 
an  active  part  on  the  yearbook  art  staff, 
and  eventually  to  deliver  the  valedictory 
address  on  graduation  day. 

At  15,  Piper  enrolled  in  Los  Angeles  High 
School.  During  her  jixnior  year  she  an- 
,  noimced  to  her  family  that  she  wanted  to 
study  acting.  Her  father  thought  the  idea 
was  xinreal  and  siUy.  But  Piper's  mcrther 
somehow  managed  to  get  together  the 
money  for  her  to  begin  taking  dramatic 
lessons. 

OiPER  undertook  her  study  of  drama  with 
mature  seriousness.  She  enrolled  in  a 
small  rehearsal  group  headed  by  Mrs. 
Betomi  Schneider.  The  group  included  a 
number  of  established  professionals  whose 
experience  was  extremely  valuable  to  her. 
They  met  twice  weekly  in  a  rented  studio 
in  HoUy^vood,  and  in  order  to  be  admitted 
Piper  lied  about  her  age.  Although  she  was 
only  16,  the  deception  was  not  too  diffi- 
cult to  maintain-  She  had  a  creamy,  en- 
viable complexion,  and  her  figure  was 
already  generously  endowed. 

"I  never  was  16, "  Piper  confesses,  today, 
"but  I've  been  18  for  two  years,  which 
ought  to  make  up  for  it.  I  was  really 
thrilled  when  I  finally  was  18,  so  I  could 
start  telling  the  truth  about  my  age." 

It  was  during  a  classroom  production  of 
Our  Town  that  Universal  first  noticed 
Piper,  and  even  before  a  single  studio 
evidenced  an  interest,  the  Sam  Jaffe  office 
offered  to  represent  her  in  motion  pictures. 
Finally,  they  got  together  and  wTote  up  a 
term  contract  for  Piper,  who  surprised 
everj'one  bj'  refusing  to  sign  it  until  she 
was  18  and  a  high  school  graduate,  ready 
for  ftill-time  acting. 

Piper  is  still  attending  the  little  red 
schoolhouse  on  the  Universal  lot,  taking 
college  extension  courses  in  Psychology, 
French,  and  Ajrt  under  Mrs.  Gladys  Hoene, 
the  studio  schoohnarm. 

"I  don't  want  to  grow  up  to  be  a  dope," 
she  says. 

So  you  can  see  that  at  18  (a  real  18 
this  time) ,  Piper's  head  is  firmly  connected 
to  her  shoulders.  For  instance,  there's  verj' 
little  of  that  usual  nonsense  about  the- 
men-must-wait-for-my-career  from  Piper. 
When  she  meets  the  man  that  matters, 
she'll  be  willing  to  fall  like  a  rock.  In  the 
m.eantime,  she's  playing  the  field,  dating 
Vic  Damone,  Jerry  Paris,  and  other  young 
Hollj'wood  actors, 

"I'm  constantly  looking  for  fellows  who 
are  really  honest,"  Piper  says.  "They're 
pretty  hard  to  find." 

Until  she  finds  one,  the  right  one,  Piper 
will  continue  to  live  with  her  parents  in 
Beverly  Hills,  study  hard,  and  follow 
through  with  the  wonderful  plans  which 
her  studio  has  in  store  for  her. 

That  is  a  pretty  good  life,  now,  isn't  it? 

The  End  J 


the  girl  who  tamed  don  juan 


(Continued  from  page  43)  ring  Flynn  had 
given  her).  Flynn  wore  a  business  suit.  He 
looked  much  gayer  than  39,  and  the  pros- 
pect of  going  through  another  ceremony  in 
a  French  Lutheran  church  at  Nice  didn't 
seem  to  faze  him.  After  that  ceremony 
the  couple  took  the  Zaca  (Errol's  yacht) 
for  a  moonlight  sail. 

In  the  annals  of  love  history  this  ro- 
mance will  go  dovra  as  one  of  the  most 
memorable.  For  while  Patrice  was  falling 
in  love,  another  woman,  name  of  Princess 
Irene  Ghica,  was  plarming  to  marry  Flynn. 

Patrice  and  Errol  were  on  location  to- 
gether in  Gallup,  New  Mexico.  The  Prin- 
cess, thinking  that  Errol  might  be  lonely 
out  there  on  the  sandswept  wasteland,  flew 
there  to  cheer  him  up. 

When  the  20-year-old  Princess  (Errol 
likes  'em  young)  arrived  in  Gallup,  she 
soon  discovered  that  he  was  far  from  lone- 
ly. In  fact,  Errol  couldn't  see  her  at  all. 
He  was  too  busy  gazing  at  Patrice. 

In  addition,  gossip  was  being  hushed 
all  over  town  to  the  effect  that  Flynn  was 
madly  in  love  with  her.    Patrice,  that  is. 

THE  PRINCESS,  who  had  traveled  all 
over  Europe  with  Flynn  last  year,  who 
had  flown  all  the  way  from  Paris  to  spend 
some  time  with  him  in  Hollywood,  who 
had  allegedly  expected  to  marry  him 
sometime  this  fall,  learned  that  it  was 
all  for  naught. 

Whether  she  told  Errol  off — she  has  the 
quality  of  dynamite  when  aroused — ^or 
placidly  accepted  her  defeat,  only  Errol 
knows,  and  he  won't  talk. 

In  any  event,  the  Princess  hadn't  been 
in  Gallup  very  long  before  she  packed  her 
luggage,  flew  back  to  Hollywood,  and  then 
winged  to  Paris. 

"Flynn?"  she  said,  between  planes.  "I 
knew  such  a  person  once.  I  think  he's  be- 
come a  cowboy." 

In  Gallup,  Errol,  ever  the  gentleman, 
referred  his  questioners  to  Emily  Post. 
"It's  up  to  the  lady,"  Flynn  explained,  "to 
announce  a  broken  engagement." 

The  Princess  announced  nothing,  but 
two  days  later,  Patrice's  mother,  Mrs. 
James  A.  Wymore  of  Salina,  Kansas,  an- 
nounced that  her  daughter,  Patrice,  orig- 
inally from  Miltonville,  Kansas,  would 
marry  Mr.  Errol  Flynn  in  a  quiet  church 
ceremony  within  three  months. 

The  impact  of  this  announcement  upon 
Hollywood  was  atomic,  and  for  several 
reasons,  too. 

Numb°r  one  was  that  only  a  few  days 
previously,  Flynn,  supported  by  his  old 
friend  and  trusted  legal  adviser,  Jerry 
Giesler,  had  marched  into  court.  Both  of 
them  had  beseeched  Superior  Court  Judge 
Elmer  Doyle  to  reduce  the  amount  of  ali- 
mony Errol  pays  his  first  wife,  Lili  Damita. 

Errol  admitted  that  he  received  $200,000 
from  Warner  Brothers  for  making  one 
picture  a  year,  but  his  expenses  were  very 
high,  he  pointed  out,  and  he  also  had  to 
support  two  children  by  his  second  wife. 

There  was  a  long  legal  tussle  in  which 
Lili  said  the  alimony  shouldn't  be  reduced, 
because  $25,000  a  year  was  really  very 
little  to  get  along  on.  And  the  upshot  of 
the  whole  affair  was  that  Judge  Doyle 
decided  to  take  the  case  under  advisement. 

When  the  Judge,  a  few  days  later,  read 
that  Errol  was  to  marry  for  the  third  time, 
he  was  a  little  taken  back.  After  all,  Flynn 
had  just  told  him  that  he  couldn't  support 
his  two  previous  wives  and  the  commit- 
ments therefrom.  Why  now  was  he  taking 
a  third? 

Tt  looks  to  me  like  he's  in  enough 
86      trouble     already,"     said     the  Judge. 


"Sooner  or  later,  you  know,  you've  got  to 
support  these  women." 

When  told  that  Patrice's  parents  owned 
quite  a  ffew  farms  and  oil  wells  in  Kansas, 
that,  in  fact,  she  was  a  fairly  wealthy  girl 
who  might  inherit  a  pretty  penny  one 
day,  the  Judge  said,  "That's  fine.  Maybe 
she  can  help  him  out." 

He  then  went  on  to  say  that  "these  mar- 
riages where  you  don't  know  the  girl  a 
considerable  length  of  time  usually  break 
up  on  the  rocks.  Seems  to  me  these  people 
are  not  taking  marriage  as  seriously  as 
they  should.  My  idea  is  that  you  love  a 
girl,  marry  her  and  stay  with  her  the  rest 
of  her  life." 

Actually,  Errol  knew  Patrice  Wymore 
about  seven  weeks  before  he  popped  the 
question.  He  met  her  by  accident  when 
he  happened  to  walk  through  the  wrong 
door  of  the  wardrobe  department  at  War- 
ner Brothers.  He  ambled  into  the  women's 
section,  where  Patrice,  scantily  clad,  was 
patting  some  cold  cream  into  her  face. 
When  she  saw  Flynn,  she  quickly  grabbed 
for  a  robe  and  called  out  in  surprise. 

Errol  beat  a  hasty  retreat  after  apologiz- 
ing. Over  the  transom,  he  was  then  intro- 
duced to  his  leading  lady. 

When  the  cast  took  ofE  for  Gallup  on 
location,  Errol  and  Patrice  hit  it  right  off 
from  the  very  first.  Patrice  hasn't  made 
many  full-length  films,  just  Rocky  Moun- 
tain and  Tea  for  Two,  but  she's  been  danc- 
ing and  entertaining  ever  since  the  age 
of  six,  and  she  knows  her  way  around. 

She's  played  all  the  large  night  clubs  in 
New  York,  Chicago,  and  Miami;  she's 
starred  in  several  Broadway  musical  com- 
edies, and  as  a  result,  she's  not  easily  im- 


HOW  TIME  FLIES! 

■  Annabella's  is  the  latest  name  to  be 
linked  with  Ty's.  This  time  wiU  he 
marry? — March,  1939 — Modern  Screen. 


pressed  by  a  handsome,  masculine  face. 

In  short,  she  wasn't  awe-struck  by 
Flynn  the  way  many  girls  have  been. 

A  member  of  the  Rocky  Mountain  crew 
who  knows  all  about  the  courtship  of 
Patrice  Wymore,  says,  "It  actually  took 
about  six  weeks  for  Patrice  and  Flynn 
to  fall  in  love. 

"It  came  as  a  big  surprise  to  me,  because 
like  everyone  else,  I've  always  thought 
that  Flynn  went  in  for  Continental  babes. 
You  know,  he's  a  world  traveler;  he's  got 
a  yacht  in  Jamaica;  he's  always  taking  off 
for  some  port,  and  naturally,  it  figures 
that  he'll  want  one  of  those  Riviera  dames 
to  go  through  life  with  him. 

"I  mean  you'd  never  think  he'd  pick  on 
a  corn-fed  dame  from  Kansas.  At  least,  I 
didn't.  After  a  while,  however,  all  of  us 
used  to  go  down  to  the  Elk's  Cafe — it's  run 
by  a  wonderful  woman  named  Mrs.  Wing- 
field — and  Errol  and  Patrice  would  talk 
and  listen  to  the  juke  box  and  smile  at 
each  other  across  the  table. 

"Then,  when  they'd  do  a  scene  together 
next  day,  it  began  to  look  like  the  real 
McCoy.  Next  thing  we  knew,  Patrice's 
mother  and  brother  were  in  Gallup,  and 
things  were  cooking  a  little. 

"I  don't  actually  know  when  Errol  pro- 
posed, but  towards  the  end  of  the  shooting, 
we  used  to  go  out  towards  the  hills  and 
cook  some  steaks  and  have  some  barbecues 
— Patrice  is  a  wonderful  cook,  and  one 
evening  just  after  she'd  given  him  a  good 
steak,  she  was  taken  aside  by  Flynn.  He 
asked  her  to  marry  him  and  she  said  yes 
and  then  she  told  her  mother,  and  that's 
the  way  it  happened. 

"They  make  a  very  wonderful  couple. 
She's  tall.  I  think  she  almost  hits  five  ten 
with  her  heels  on.  She's  very  athletic  and 


so,  of  course,  is  he,  and  I  really  think  she's 
the  dame  who  can  keep  Flynn  in  line." 

He's  almost  twice  her  age,  but  she 
knows  the  score,  and  I  don't  think 
she'll  take  any  foolishness  from  him.  Mat- 
ter of  fact,  I  think  Flynn  has  got  most  of 
the  foolishness  out  of  his  system.  He's 
ready  to  settle  down,  and  Patrice  is  the 
girl  who  can  help  him." 

After  the  announcement  by  Pat's 
mother,  Errol  flew  to  Salina,  Kansas,  to 
meet  some  of  Pat's  friends.  Unfortunately, 
Errol  has  a  way  of  lousing  up  public  re- 
lations. He  says  things  he  really  doesn't 
mean,  and  sometimes  these  sophisticated 
barbs  hurt  the  local  citizenry. 

Here's  what  the  Garden  City  Telegram 
of  Kansas  had  to  say  about  Errol's  visit 
to  Salina:  ".  .  .  When  Flynn  finally  climbed 
out  from  between  the  sheets  at  11:30  a.  m., 
he  lost  no  time  in  demonstrating  that  he 
hasn't  lost  his  technique  of  how  'not  to 
win  friends  nor  influence  people.' 

"Yep,  Errol  said  he  was  surprised  to 
find  the  country-side  so  green;  he  had 
expected  only  dust.  He  said  he  didn't  know 
where  Kansas  was  until  Pat  pointed  it 
out  to  him  on  the  map.  He  was  just  as 
surprised  to  find  that  Kansas  produced 
oil  .  .  .  Every  time  Flynn  opened  his 
mouth  in  Salina  yesterday,  Errol  stuffed 
his  foot  into  it." 

THIS  SEEMS  more  than  a  little  unfair 
to  Flynn,  because  regardless  of  his 
escapades,  and  these  have  been  numerous, 
he  is  always  polite  and  diplomatic.  He  has 
never  wilfully  intended  to  hurt  anyone 
or  anything,  and  he  certainly  would  never 
cast  a  slur  on  Kansas  or  Salina.  As  a  mat- 
ter of  fact,  he  made  a  film  Dodge  City  in 
Kansas  msiny  years  ago,  and  has  always 
had  a  soft  spot  in  his  heart  for  the  land 
and  the  commimity. 

He  just  happens  to  be  a  misunderstood 
boy.  He  gets  involved  in  deals  which  have 
the  most  incredible  ramifications.  Take  his 
love  affair  with  Patrice.  He  no  sooner  an- 
nounced his  intentions  than  word  was 
forthcoming  from  New  York  that  some 
television  producer  was  under  the  impres- 
sion that  he  was  scheduled  to  marry 
Patrice,  that  he  had,  in  fact,  gone  out. 
bought  furniture,  and  furnished  an  apart- 
ment for  that  very  purpose.  Flynn  was 
indirectly  accused  of  being  a  love  pirate. 

He  was  absolutely  guiltless.  All  he  knew 
was  that  Patrice  had  starred  in  Mike 
Todd's  Up  in  Central  Park,  that  she  was  a 
dancer  and  a  singer,  that  she  had  act°d 
in  Tea  for  Two  at  Warner  Brothers,  had 
appeared  on  TV  in  N.  Y.,  thpt  sh-^  had 
been  his  leading  lady  in  Rocky  Moun- 
tain, and  that  he  had  fallen  in  love  with 
her,  proposed,  and  had  been  accepted. 
The  repercussions  were  unexpected. 
Errol  may  have  been  hanpy  when  he 
left  the  U.  S.  for  a  little  while  last  Auc^'st 
to  make  a  film  in  Nice  entitled  '^''e 
Baraain.  He  left  Patrice  and  her  mother 
in  New  York  where  they  set  about  buying 
a  trousseau. 

In  Nice,  Errol  expected  a  little  auiet 
and  relaxation.  But  what  happened?  First 
off,  Bill  Marshall,  who  was  co-producing 
the  film  with  Errol,  ran  into  government 
trouble,  reportedly  starting  the  picture 
without  a  permit  from  the  proper  French 
officials.  Then  Warners  annoimced  that 
unless  The  Bargain  was  released  through 
a  major  studio,  Flynn  would  have  violated 
his  contract. 

It  just  seems  that  wherever  he  goes, 
Errol  Flynn  just  has  to  make  headlines. 

"Maybe,"  a  friend  of  his  recently  said, 
"Patrice  Wymore  can  act  as  a  sedative 
and  keep  him  in  check.  If  she  does,  she'll 
be  the  first  girl  who  ever  has." 

In  Salina,  Kansas,  they're  saying  that 
Pat  can  do  it  hands  down.  The  End 


no  sad  songs  for  ronnie 

(Continued  jrom  page  57)  all.  In  fact, 
Ronnie  manages  to  make  his  bachelor  way 
of  life  look  so  relaxed  and  effortless  that 
even  his  most  happily  married  friends 
sometimes  frankly  envy  him. 

JUST  what  does  the  future  hold  in  store 
for  this  handsome,  broad-shouldered 
young  actor?  Will  he  remarry?  Or  will  he 
remain  single,  preferring  the  imcompli- 
cated  life  of  a  bachelor? 

Not  long  ago,  I  was  talking  about  Ronnie 
with  one  of  his  closest  friends,  a  man  who 
has  known  him  since  he  was  a  sports  an- 
noimcer  many  years  ago.  "I  don't  think 
Rormie  is  anxious  to  make  any  radical 
changes  in  his  present  way  of  life,"  he 
said  to  me.  "He  has  always  been  a  stable, 
dignified  guy  who  could  take  anything  in 
his  stride.  He  is  far  too  mature  to  make  a 
career  out  of  being  single.  He's  got  the 
ground  under  him." 

Except  on  the  screen,  and  occasionally 
at  previews,  I  had  not  seen  much  of  Ron- 
nie since  the  war,  when  he  was  a  dashing 
captain  of  the  Army  Air  Forces.  But  since 
then,  a  lot  has  happened  which  could 
have  changed  Ronnie's  cordial,  easy-going 
personality.  So  I  was  looking  forward  to 
the  inter^dew  which  was  scheduled  for  a 
lazy  Saturday  morning  at  his  new  apart- 
ment. 

I  was  almost  startled  when  he  opened 
the  door  wearing  spotless  riding  pants  and 
high-topped  cavalry  boots.  Minus  the  red 
coat,  he  looked  as  if  he  were  dressed  for 
riding  to  the  hounds,  which,  as  it  turned 
out,  was  just  about  the  case.  He  grinned 
at  my  surprise,  as  he  threw  a  long,  boot- 
encased  leg  over  the  arm  of  his  chair  and 
settled  into  comfoii:. 

"Oh,  I'm  taking  the  kids  riding  this 
afternoon,"  he  said,  by  way  of  explaining 
his  costume.  "I  try  to  take  them  out  to 
the  ranch  every  Saturday." 

The  ranch,  incidentally,  is  the  eight- 
acre  breeding  farm  in  the  San  Fernando 
Valley  w-hich  Ronnie  bought  two  years  ago. 
It  has  been  occupying  a  great  deal  of  his 
time.  He  personally  has  set  all  of  the 
fence  posts  on  the  whole  ranch,  and  with 
his  partner,  Nino  Pepitone,  has  developed 
the  place  into  an  up-and-coming  breeding 
farm.  They  aren't  in  the  L.  B.  Mayer  class 
yet,  but  this  fall,  they  will  place  their 
first  three  colts  on  sale,  and  if  they  don't 
bring  at  least  $10,000  each,  Roimie  is  no 
iudge  of  racing  horse-flesh.  One  in  par- 
ticular, the  great-grandson  of  Man  o'  War 
and  the  son  of  Stagehand,  shoiild  be  show- 
ing his  heels  to  the  nation's  fleetest  horses 
during  the  next  few  years. 

yV/HEN  Maureen  and  Michael,  who  are 
"  now  10  and  6  respectively,  go  out  to 
the  ratnch  with  Ronnie,  they  have  the  very 
special  job  of  cooling  down  the  horses  after 
their  father  has  given  them  a  brisk  work- 
out. The  kids  get  to  ride  them  around 
the  exercise  ring  maybe  20  or  30  times 
every  Saturday,  and  if  the  young  Reagans 
don't  end  up  saddle-wise  it  won't  be  be- 
cause they  didn't  have  a  wonderful  chance 
to  learn. 

Fathers  don't  come  much  better  than 
Ronnie,  and  it  is  a  great  contribution  to 
his  children's  start  in  life  that  they  are 
able  to  experience  his  genial  intelligence 
in  surroundings  like  those  at  the  ranch. 
Children  can  profit  immeasurably  from 
their  first  contacts  with  nature  when  it  is 
interpreted  to  them  by  a  wise  and  imagi- 
native parent.  Ronnie  is  all  of  that.  While 
he's  working  around  the  ranch,  Maureen 
and  Michael  are  constantly  at  his  side 
with  questions.  Not  long  ago,  a  gentle- 
hearted  Maureen  was  near  to  tears  when 
her  father  started  to  put  out  poison  for 


the  gophers  which  burrow  long  tunnels 
underneath  the  training  ring.  Ronnie  had 
to  kneel  down  patiently  beside  her  and 
explain  why  he  must  do  what  he  had  to  do. 

"Look,  honey,"  he  told  her.  "Suppose 
Mrs.  Simpson  were  running  very  fast  and 
stepped  on  the  spot  where  all  the  gophers 
had  their  main  cross-roads.  The  ground 
would  cave  in,  and  she  might  break  her 
leg.  You  wouldn't  want  anything  like  that 
to  happen,  would  you,  just  because  we 
didn't  do  the  very  thing  that  would  pre- 
vent it  from  happening?" 

Maureen  shook  her  head,  and  ever  since, 
has  been  as  enthusiastic  as  Ronnie  that 
gophers  get  all  of  the  poisoned  bran  they 
C8in  hold.  Mrs.  Simpson  is  Maureen's  fa- 
vorite horse,  and  she  doesn't  want  any- 
thing to  happen  to  her. 

D  ANCHO  Reagan  has  provided  Ronnie  with 
an  excellent  outlet  for  his  own  vital 
energy.  He  hasn't  gone  about  ranching 
like  a  country  squire,  either,  and  as  he  sat 
in  his  apartment  telling  me  about  the  place, 
his  deep  leathery  tan  and  muscular  arms 
were  proof  of  it. 

"I've  come  to  agree  with  E.  B.  White," 
he  laughed,  "that  farming  is  10%  agri- 
culture and  90%  fixing  something  that  got 
broke." 

The  ranch  has  had  one  disastrous  con- 
sequence— the  horsy  flavor  which  has  crept 
into  Tfonnie's  conversation  of  late.  His 
friends,  he  claims,  are  beginning  to  object 
to  his  unbecoming  habit  of  describing 
things  as  "fourteen  hands  high"  or  "a  fur- 
long away."  So  far,  though,  he  doesn't  call 
an  attractive  woman  a  "cute  little  filly." 
Girls  are  still  girls  to  him  and  he  hasn't 
lost  his  appreciation  of  their  particular 
kind  of  beauty. 

Romance,  however,  doesn't  occupy  a 
cardinal  place  in  Rormie's  life  at  the  mo- 
ment. During  the  past  year,  he's  dated 
more  than  a  dozen  of  Hollywood's  most 
beautiful  women.  On  the  occasions  when 
Rormie  has  escorted  Jane  Wyman  to  a 
quiet  restaurant  for  dinner,  the  gossips 
have  invariably  shrilled  the  news  that  a 
reconciliation  was  in  the  offing.  But  not 
even  this  glaring  spotlight  has  been  able 
to  impair  the  bond  of  their  friendship  and 
the  many  things  which  they  still  share — 
their  children,  mutual  friends,  and  a  com- 
mon profession.  There  should  be  no  mys- 
tery about  their  friendship.  It  exists 
because  Ronnie  and  Jane  are  matiure, 
warm-hearted  people.  It  would  be  a 
mystery  if  they  weren't  friends. 

Ronnie's  bachelor  existence  has  only  be- 
gun to  develop  a  characteristic  pattern 
during  the  past  year.  The  year  before,  he 
spent  the  greater  part  of  his  time  travel- 
ing, working  on  The  Hasty  Heart  in  Eng- 


HOW  TIME  FLIES! 

■  And  still  the  romance  rumors  of  Bette 
Davis  and  George  Brent  persist.  Al- 
though each  denies  that  there's  "any- 
thing to  it,"  the  pair  are  inseparable  as 
ham  and  eggs— September,  1939— Mo- 
dern Screen. 


land,  and  lying  in  a  hospital  bed  with  his 
broken  leg  in  traction.  But  now  that  he 
has  moved  into  larger  quarters,  which  are 
decorated  with  the  familiar,  masculine 
things  he  likes,  Ronnie  plans  to  do  a 
moderate  amount  of  entertaining.  Nothing 
lavish.  Just  some  quiet  little  dinners  for 
the  married  folks  to  whom  he  owes  a  meal. 

Ronnie  is  a  chef  of  no  mean  ability,  with 
a  flair  for  savory  dishes  which  is  excelled, 
perhaps,  only  by  that  of  his  close  friend 
and  fellow  gourmet,  William  Holden.  Ron- 
nie is  not  addicted  to  funny  hats  to  cook  in, 
nor  is  he  the  sort  of  pot-sniffer  who  works 
by  blind  luck.  He  knows  a  number  of 
tasty  recipes  and  the  proper  use  of  aro- 
matic spices.  Currently  he's  planning  a 
menu  aroimd  a  brace  of  pheasants  that 
should  make  Holden  drool.  Rivalry  at  the 
board  between  Ronnie  and  Bill  has  been 
going  on  for  years.  When  Ronnie  was  laid 
up.  Bill  brought  him  a  brightly  wrapped 
present  consisting  of  two  bottles  of  wine. 
Nurses  passing  by  Ronnie's  room  were 
treated  to  the  spectacle  of  two  grown  men 
growing  madly  ecstatic  as  they  sampled 
the  rare  liquid. 

Even  without  their  mutual  interest  in 
good  food,  it's  only  natural  that  Rormie  cind 
Bill  Holden  would  have  become  good 
friends.  They  both  have  been  active  in  the 
Screen  Actors'  Guild  since  its  inception, 
and  today  hold  the  offices  of  President  and 
Vice-President  respectively.  As  President 
of  the  SAG,  Ronnie's  the  principsJ  spokes- 
man for  the  acting  profession  in  Hollywood, 
a  job  which  he  has  accepted  with  complete 
seriousness.  When  he's  talking  about  the 
problems  confronting  the  movie  industry, 
Ronnie  can  be  as  pontifical  as  a  traffic  court 
judge  dealing  with  a  drunken  driver.  This 
responsibility,  at  times,  gives  him  a  dignity 
which  actually  is  a  contradiction  of  his 
appearance  and  his  years.  The  SAG,  how- 
ever, thought  enough  of  his  efforts  to  re- 
elect him  as  president  for  a  second  term. 

Tt's  not  surprising  for  an  actor  to  pay 

close  attention  to  his  fans  and  their 
letters.  But  it's  a  little  out  of  the  ordinary 
when  an  actor  displays  an  interest  in 
general  audience  reaction  to  motion  pic- 
tures. In  Hollywood,  Ronnie  goes  to  the 
movies  as  regularly  as  any  fan.  And  last 
winter,  the  manager  of  a  little  theater  in 
downtown  Chicago  was  quite  surprised 
when  an  usher  came  hurrying  down  to  tell 
him  that  Ronald  Reagan  was  sitting  up  in 
the  balcony.  He  was  even  more  surprised 
when  Ronnie  stopped  by  the  box-office  on 
his  way  out  to  talk  about  the  recent 
motion  pictures  he  had  shown.  Ronnie, 
killing  time  between  trains,  learned  a  great 
deal  about  audience  reaction  and  the  ex- 
hibitors' problems  out  of  that  visit. 

"I  wish  that  everyone  involved  in  making 
motion  pictures  would  spend  more  time  in 
the  theaters  with  the  people  who  pay  to 
get  in,"  he  says.  "They  really  know  what 
they  like,  and  no  one  is  going  to  convince 
them  differently  with  exaggerated  adver- 
tising and  misleading  titles.  The  people 
who  go  to  movies  go  to  be  entertained, 
and  if  they  aren't,  you  know  it  when  you're 
in  the  theater  with  them." 

Outspoken  comments  of  this  sort  are  a 
habit  with  Ronald  Reagan,  but  they  have 
in  no  way  affected  his  employment  in 
Hollywood.  This  year,  Rormie  signed  a 
new  five-year  contract  with  Universal- 
International  which  calls  for  a  minimum 
of  one  picture  a  year.  This  supplements 
his  previous  contract  with  Warner  Broth- 
ers, also  for  one  picture  a  year.  You  will 
soon  be  seeing  the  results  of  this  happy 
arrangement — a  melodrama  named  Storm 
Warning  for  Warners  and  Louisa,  for  U-I. 

In  a  profesisonal  sense,  his  year's  work 
is  done.  But  as  Hollywood's  most  eligible 
bachelor,  Roimie's  activities  have  only  just 
started.  The  End  87 


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COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST 

Reader's  Digest  recently  reported  the 
same  research  which  proves  the  Colgate 
way  of  brushing  teeth  right  after  eating 
stops  tooth  decay  best!  Better  than  any 
other  home  method  of  oral  hygiene! 

Yes,  and  2  years'  research  showed  the 
Colgate  way  stopped  more  decay  for  more 
people  than  ever  before  reported]  in  den- 
tifricehistory!Nootherdentifrice,ammo- 
niated  or  not,  has  proof  of  such  results! 


LATER— Thonkj  to  Colgate  Dentol  Cream 


nOU  SHOULD  KNOW!  While  not  mentioned  by  name, 
Colgate's  was  the  only  toothpaste  used  in  the  research 
on  tooth  decay  recently  reported  in  Reader's  Digest. 


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THEY'RE  TALKING  ABOUT  THE  POWERS  by  Giselle  la  Falaise  14 

A  MINISTER  LOOKS  AT  HOLLYWOOD  by  Kolma  Flake  29 

THE  SORROWS  OF  LANA  TURNER  by  Steve  Cronin  30 

ARE  THEY  HAUNTED  BY  THEIR  PERFECT  LOVE?  (Ronald  Reagan,  Jane  Wyman) 

by  Louella  Parsons  32 

NICKY  HILTON  TELLS  HIS  SIDE  OF  THE  STORY  by  Kiitley  Baskette  34 

BUT  HERE  ARE  THE  FACTS  HE  HAS  TO  FACE  (Elizabeth  Taylor) 

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IT  PAYS  TO  BE  SENSATIONAL  (Ruth  Roman)  by  Susan  Trent  36 

WHAT'S  WRONG  WITH  THE  CLARK  GABLES?  by  Sheilah  Graham  38 

I  WAS  AN  ORPHAN  by  Marilyn  Monroe  40 

THE  TRUTH  ABOUT  HOLLYWOOD  SOCIETY  by  Jill  Mason  42 

CASTLE  WITH  A  REDWOOD  FENCE  (Janet  Leigh)  by  Marva  Peterson  44 

MISS  WHISTLE-BAIT  OF  1951  (Jane  Powell)  by  Jane  Wilkie  48 

I  CAN  LOVE  AGAIN  (Wanda  Hendrix)  by  Jim  Henaghan  50 

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WHO  KILLED  ME?  by  Dick  Powell  56 

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9.  Is  it  true  that  Lana  Turner  has  gone 
high-hat  and  is  now  difficult  to  handle 
both  inside  the  studio  and  out? 

— M.  P.,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

A.  Lana  has  changed  since  her  marriage 
to  Bob  Topping,  but  to  say  that  she's 
gone  high-hat,  is  not  true.  She  has  de- 
veloped a  certain  maturity  towards  life, 
has  given  up  night-clubbing,  jor  in- 
stance, to  settle  down  to  a  more  sedate 
mode  of  living.  {For  new  insight,  read 
The  Sorrows  of  Lana  Turner,  on  page  30.) 

9.  What  is  the  truth  about  Kathryn 
Grayson  and  Johnny  Johnston?  Are 
they  divorced,  happily-married,  or  mere- 
ly   separated? — T.    R.,    Moline,  III. 

A.  Kathryn  and  Johnny  officially  sep- 
arated on  November  15,  1950.  At  that 
time,  Johnny  was  scheduled  to  make 
a  personal  appearance  in  Washington, 
D.  C,  and  Kathryn  was  scheduled  to 
appear  at  MGM.  Insiders  who  know 
them  well,  seriously  doubt  they'll  re- 
concile. 

9.  Is  it  true  that  John  Agar  was  a 
crooner  before  he  met  Shirley  Temple 
and  wants  very  much  to  become  a 
crooner  again? — D.  V.,  Phoenix,  Ariz. 

A.  Agar  did  a  bit  of  club-singing  before 
he  was  married  to  Shirley.  He  has  a 
pleasant  voice,  has  been  taking  vocal  in- 
struction in  his  spare  time,  and  may 
have  made  his  crooning  debut  on  the 
night-club  circuit  by  the  time  you  read 
this. 

9.  Which  motion  picture  do  you  think 
will  win  the  Academy  Award  this  year, 
and  are  the  Awards  a  big  fake? 

— R.  L.,  Greenwich,  Conn. 

A.  Best  possibilities  for  the  Oscar  go  to 
Sunset  Boulevard,  Cyrano  de  Bergerac, 
All  About  Eve,  Harvey,  and  Born  Yes- 
terday. The  Academy  Awards  are  not 
fakes.  They  are  scrupulously  honest,  and 
the  balloting  is  supervised  by  Price, 
Waterhouse  &  Co.,  one  of  the  most 
reputable  accountancy  firms  in  the 
country. 

9.  Is  Ingrid  Bergman  pregnant  again? 

— R.  R.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

A.  Vest 

9.  What  is  the  status  of  the  Sharman 
Douglas-Peter  Lawford  love  affair?  Do 
you  think  these  two  will  ever  get 
married? — F.  T..  Pasadena,  Cal. 


A.  Lawford  would  marry  Miss  Douglas, 
if  she  gave  her  consent,  but  the  chances 
are  she  won't  for  some  time  to  come.  Of 
late,  she  has  been  seeing  a  good  deal  of 
Montgomery  Clift.  If  Miss  Douglas  had 
a  choice  between  Clift  and  Lawford, 
odds  are,  she'd  pick  Clift. 

9.  What  is  the  score  between  Gregory 
Peck  and  Barbara  Peyton? 

— Y.  D.,  Los  Angeles,  Cal. 

A.  No  score — just  good  friends. 

9-  I  read  somewhere  that  if  Nancy 
doesn't  give  Frank  Sinatra  a  divorce,  he 
will  get  one  in  Mexico  and  marry  Ava 
Gardner,  anyway.  True  or  false? 

— O.  P.,  Chicago,  III. 

A.  False,  at  least  at  this  writing.  A 
Mexican  divorce  would  not  give  Frank 
the  legal  right  to  live  with  Ava  in  Cali- 
fornia as  her  husband. 

9-  I  have  a  bet  that  both  Vera-Ellen 
and  Shelley  Winters  have  been  married 
before.  Do  I  win  or  lose? 

— T.  D.,  Miami,  Fla. 

A.  You  win.  Vera-Ellen  was  married  to 
dancer  Robert  Hightower.  Shelley  was 
once  Mrs.  Mack  Mayer. 

9.  The  New  York  columnists  say  that 
Janet  Leigh's  steady  boyfriend  is  New 
York  actor  Bob  Quarry.  The  HoUywood 
columnists  say  her  steady  is  Tony  Curtis. 
Who  is  right?— R.  R.,  Newark,  N.  J., 

A.  Both   sides.   "When    I'm   in  New^ 
York,"  Janet  says,  "I  go  steady  with 
Bob.  When  I'm  in  Hollywood  I  go 
steady  with  Tony." 

9-  Can  you  tell  me  how  much  money 
Gary  Crosby  has  made  on  his  re- 
cordings?— F.  a.,  Scranton,  Pa. 

A.  As  of  Dec,  1950,  Bing's  oldest  boy 
had  earned  approximately  $20,000  in 
royalties  from  "Sing  A  Simple  Melody'' 
and  "Sam's  Song." 

9.  Is  it  true  that  Claudette  Colbert 
turned  down  the  Bette  Davis  role  in  All 
About  Eve? — R.  E.,  Denver,  Col. 

A.  Claudette  had  the  part  until  she  in- 
jured her  sacroiliac  and  had  to  be  re- 
placed by  Bette  Davis.  "And  don't  think 
that  I  haven't  eaten  my  heart  out  about 
it,  either,"  says  Miss  Colbert,  one  of  the 
most  honest  women  in  Hollywood. 


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9  J  ItfeS 


Dan  Dailey's  date  with  Shelley  Winters  for  the  Harvey  premiere  added  to  the 
rumors  of  romance.  But  lately,  he  and  19-year-old  Barbara  Whiting  are  a 
twosome.  Dan  recently  went  to  the  Menninger  Sanitarium  to  think  things  over. 


TT^AN  DAILEY  surprised  everyone  in  Holly- 
wood  when  he  went  to  the  Menninger 
Sanitarium — the  place  where  Robert  Walker 
was  restored  to  health.  Dan  went  there  of  his 
own  accord  after  his  doctor,  a  noted  psychia- 
trist, told  him  that  he  must  have  complete  rest. 
He  had  been  very  nervous  following  the 
separation  from  his  socialite  wife.  I  don't 
believe  it  was  so  much  on  her  account  as 
because  of  their  little  son.  Believe  me,  my 
hat  is  off  to  Dan  because  it  took  a  lot  of 
courage  to  go  to  the  Kansas  City  sanitarium 
to  get  away  from  everything. 

Meanwhile,  Barbara  Whiting  is  head-over- 
heels  dizzy  in  love  with  him,  and  doesn't 
care  who  knows  it.  The  19-year-old  sister  of 
songstress  Margaret,  may  be  "just  a  kid" — 
but,  oh  my,  her  yen  for  Dan  is  on  the  grande 
passion  proportions. 

She  runs  to  fortune  tellers  a  couple  of  times 
a  week  to  see  if  they  "foresee"  a  marriage 
for  her  to  a  "tall,  sandy,  song  and  dance  man" 
in  the  immediate  future! 

At  first,  I  think  Dan  was  merely  amused  by 
the  peppy  kid — but  now,  to  quote  the  song, 
I've  got  a  feeling  he's  falling. 

There's  almost  the  plot  for  a  movie  musical 
comedy  back  of  this  real-life  romance. 

There's  another  lady  (who  shall  be  name- 
less) whom  Dan  was  supposed  to  have  been 


quite  serious  about  right  after  his  separation 
from  Liz  Dailey.  But  he  didn't  want  gossips 
linking  their  names  so  soon  after  the  break-up 
of  his  home. 

So,  because  he  was  lonesome,  and  thought 
little  Barbara  was  a  "cute  kid"  and  much  too 
young  (for  him)  to  start  romance  rumors — 
Dan  started  taking  her  out! 

All  this  was  very  amusing  to  The  Lady  In 
The  Background — at  tiistl  Now,  I  hear,  she's 
as  miffed  as  miffed  can  be! 

Set  this  situation  to  music — and  Dan  and 
Barbara  could  star  in  it  as  their  next  musical 
at  20th  Century-Fox. 

WE  will  know  by  the  time  you  read  this 
whether  the  baby  June  Allyson  and  Dick 
Powell  want  so  much  is  a  boy  or  a  girl.  It 
doesn't  matter  to  them  if  it's  triplets — that's 
how  many  gifts  Junie  received  at  the  shower 
given  her  by  Mrs.  Edgar  Bergen,  Dinah  Shore 
and  Mrs.  Justin  Dart  (the  former  Janie  Bryan 
of  the  movies). 

When  I  walked  in  at  the  luncheon  I  thought 
— no  small  town  girl  could  be  getting  more  of 
a  thrill  out  of  unwrapping  the  pretty  pack- 
ages than  was  our  June. 

Gloria  De  Haven,  who  started  in  movies 
with  the  honor  guest,  brought  a  silver  frame 
for  the  baby  with  a  place  on  it  for  his  or  her 


name — plus  a  lovely  nightie  for  happy  June. 

Gloria  told  me  that  when  she  was  leaving 
the  house,  her  little  daughter  didn't  want  her 
to  take  the  packages.  "The  baby  should  open 
them,"  she  said. 

"But  the  baby  isn't  here  yet,"  Gloria  told 
little  Kathy. 

"Well,  then,  keep  them  until  the  baby 
comes,"  Kathy  insisted. 

Frances  Bergen  gave  June  a  lovely  yellow 
bassinet.  The  flowers  on  the  table  were  blue, 
pink  and  yellow.  The  centerpiece  was  a  large 
stork  standing  on  a  mirror  and  at  each  place 
was  a  knitted  bonnet  in  blue,  yellow  and  pink, 
holding  tiny  little  candy  booties. 

At  my  table  sat  Ginger  Rogers  and  Mrs. 
Ray  Milland,  who  was  just  home  from  Eng- 
land. Also  Gail  Patrick,  who  said  she  had 
done  a  landslide  business  in  her  successful 
baby  shoppe,  "The  Enchanted  Cottage,"  what 
with  this  shower  and  the  one  for  Darrylin 
Zanuck  Jacks  the  night  before. 

Roz  Russell  dashed  in  and  right  out  again 
as  she  had  to  do  a  radio  show. 

Dinah  Shore  was  a  busy  co-hostess  looking 
after  all  the  guests — one  of  the  most  active  be- 
ing Candy  Bergen,  who  wheeled  in  the  bassi- 
net and  wanted  all  the  favors  for  herself! 

Steffi  Duna  (Mrs.  Dennis  O'Keefe)  made  one 
of  her  first  appearances  since  her  serious  ac- 


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Those  Brinkmans  always  look  happy.  As  usual, 
Jeanne  Crain  was  radiant  at  the  informal  Born 
Yesterday  prenniere  with  her  steady  date,  Paul. 


Jane  Powell  and  Geary  Steffen  got  all  dressed  up 
for  the  Breakthrough  premiere.  (Read  about 
Jane's  new-found  personality  on  page  48.) 


cident  which  happened  several  months  ago. 

Bunny  Green  (Mrs.  Johnny)  brought  her 
amera  and  was  all  over  the  place  taking 
ictures.   Georgiarma   Montalban  (Ricardo's 
•ife)  brought  a  beautiful  handmade  dress. 
Other  guests  were  Connie  Moore,  Mrs.  Mer- 
vyn  Le  Roy,  Mrs.  Leonard  Firestone,  Mrs.  Ben 
Hogan  (wife  of  the  golf  champ  who  is  very 
well  liked  in  our  town),  Julie  Murphy,  Marion 
Nixon  Seiter  and  Mrs.  Alfred  Vanderbilt  who 
eally  got  a  kick  out  of  the  filmland  shower. 

FAHLEY  Granger  has  moved  into  the  small- 
est house  in  Laurel  Canyon — a  tiny  place 
just  clinging  to  the  side  of  a  hill.  It  has  the 
fancy  name  of  "Idylwilde" — and  therein  lies 
a  gag: 

With  Farley's  yen  to  travel  and  to  be  a  free 
soul  when  he  isn't  actually  making  a  movie 
the  current  talk  of  Hollywood — his  pals  have 
changed  the  name  to  "Wild  To  Be  Idle"! 

It's  true  he  is  actually  living  in  two  suitcases 
— hasn't  even  unpacked  one — he  is  so  eager 
to  be  off  again  the  minute  he  finishes  Stranger 
On  A  Tia'm  on  loan-out  to  Warners. 

This  flitting  of  Farley's  is,  of  course,  a  pain 
in  the  neck  to  his  contract  boss,  Sam  Gold- 
wyn,  who  last  month  barred  Farley's  manager 
from  the  Goldwyn  lot. 

Personally,  I   would  hate  to   see  young 


John  Agar  will  turn  crooner  on  his  personal  ap- 
pearance tour  for  Breakthrough,  a  pleasant 
surprise  for  many,    htis  dote  is  Susan  Morrow. 


Glamorous  Faye  Emerson,  who  just  announced 
her  engagement  to  Skitch  Henderson,  chats 
with  John  Payne  on  her  Pepsi-Cola  TV  program. 


Granger  get  in  the  middle  of  a  long  drawn- 
out  contract  fight  at  this  time.  He  is  so  popu- 
lar now — right  at  the  height  of  his  career. 
I've  seen  so  many  contract  fights  injure  the 
careers  of  promising  young  stars. 

Also,  I  happen  to  have  seen  a  letter  Farley 
wrote  Sam  admitting  he  has  been  away  too 
much  and  promising  to  concentrate  more  on 
his  career. 

And  maybe  you  think  Goldwyn  isn't  keep- 
ing this  letter — ^just  in  case! 

LIKE  the  buzz,  buzz,  buzz  of  the  old  saw 
mill,  gossip  was  all  over  our  town  that 
Joan  Fontaine  had  deliberately  pushed  Pa- 
tricia Medina  at  Collier  Young's  Old  Times 
party — and  as  a  result,  Pat  was  treated  at 
the  hospital  for  a  slight  concussion! 

Take  my  word  for  it — there  was  never  a 
more  untrue,  or  unkind  story.  Here  is  what 
really  happened: 

Collier's  party  was  a  real  old  fashioned 
affair  with  kid  games,  pinning  the  tail  on  the 
donkey,  musical  chairs.  Post  Office  and  all 
that  sort  of  thing.  Everybody  came  dressed 
up  silly-style. 

At  the  height  of  the  evening  a  group  con- 
sisting of  Joan  Fontaine,  Lauren  Bacall,  Hum- 
phrey Bogart,  Richard  Greene  and  Patricia 
Medina  were  putting  on  an  impromptu  "ballet" 


June  Allyson's  baby  is  due  in  January.  Boy  or 
girl,  it  v/ill  be  one  of  the  best  dressed  children 
in  town,  June's  friends  gave  so  many  showers. 


Frankie's  in  New  York,  so  Ava  Gardner  come 
to  the  All  About  Eve  premiere,  one  of  the 
year's  flashiest  full-dress  affairs,  with  Ben  Cole. 


doing  adagios.  Everybody  was  running  and 
jumping  and  Joan  was  supposed  to  catch  Pat. 

Accidentally,  the  girls  lost  their  balance  and 
Pat  fell,  hitting  her  head  on  a  tile  step  be- 
tween the  living  room  and  the  dining  room! 
At  the  time,  she  did  not  even  seem  to  be  hurt 
— but  when  she  had  to  be  taken  to  the  hos- 
pital the  next  day,  a  veritable  mountain  of 
gossip  was  made  out  of  this  clowning! 

"They"  said — Patricia  has  been  going 
around  with  Joan's  ex-husband.  Bill  Dozier — 
and  Joan  is  jealous!  They  said  that  Joan  de- 
liberately dropped  her  during  the  height  of 
the  horseplay. 

Poor  Joan!  She  was  absolutely  sick  about 
the  whole  thing. 

In  the  first  place — she  is  not  the  slightest 
bit  jealous  of  Bill  Dozier.  She  certainly  has 
no  feeling  against  Pat  who  did  not  even  meet 
her  ex-husband  until  almost  a  year  after  he 
and  Joan  separated. 

And,  even  more  important,  she  is  in  love 
with  Collier  Young  (Ida  Lupino's  ex)  who 
was  the  host  at  the  party.  I  believe  she  will 
marry  him  when  she  is  free. 

As  for  Patricia — she  was  a  swell  scout 
about  doing  all  she  could  to  set  everybody 
straight  about  the  accident,  and  she  was  just 
as  indignant  as  were  Joan's  friends  over  the 
silly  gossip.  (Continued  on  next  page) 


7 


Are  you  In  the  know  ? 


How  to  win  a  reputation  as  a  top-flight  hostess? 

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Q  Make  like  an  owl 
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Can  your  complexion  take  a  daytime  close- 
up?  To  help  belittle  large  pores,  suds  your 
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Come  calendar  time,  you  can  take  your 
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as  Kotex.  A  tissue  as  soft  and  absorbent  as  Kleenex.* 
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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

con+'d 

LARRY  Parks  is  the  envy  of  every  male  on 
the  ISIGM  lot.  The  dressing  room  build- 
ing for  male  stars  is  completely  filled  up,  so 
Larry  was  moved  into  the  women's  section  for 
his  stint  in  love  Is  Better  Thaa  Ever! 

His  neighbors  are  Arlene  Dahl  on  one  side, 
and  Elizabeth  Taylor  on  the  other! 

But  Larry  did  insist  on  a  redecorating  job. 
He  had  all  the  chintzes  and  cushions  and  frip- 
peries taken  out  and  moved  in  his  old  red 
leather  easy  chair  and  portable  radio. 

This  has  been  "preem"  month  in  Holly- 
wood— meaning  all  the  important  pictures  not 
yet  released  gave  themselves  gala  premieres 
getting  in  under  the  wire  for  Academy  Award 
consideration. 

First  off — and  by  far  the  most  glittering 
(Grauman's  Chinese  hasn't  been  so  lighted 
up  since  the  days  of  Mary  Pickford,  Douglas 
Fairbanks,  and  Charlie  Chaplin)  was  All 
About  Eve. 

Every  glamor  girl  in  town  wanted  to  see 
Bette  Davis'  take-off  on  Tallulah  Bankhead  in 
this  wonderful  drama  of  back-stage  Broad- 
way— so  they  trooped  in  by  the  dozens  ar- 
rayed in  jools,  furs,  and  gorgeous  gowns. 

Bette  Davis,  in  decollete  black  velvet  and 
a  diamond  necklace,  showed  up,  although  she 
had  promised  her  bridegroom  that  she  would 
not  look  at  the  picture  without  him.  (They 
fell  in  love  making  it — "just  about  the  time  of 
the  second  kiss,"  says  Bette.) 

Without  breaking  that  promise — she  got  as 
close  as  she  could — sitting  up  in  the  projec- 
tionist's booth  while  the  movie  was  run  off. 
Her  guests,  Gary's  parents,  sat  in  the  audi- 
ence and  must  have  been  thrilled  to  tears 
hearing  their  handsome  son  applauded. 

If  you  ask  me — Gary  is  the  closest  thing  to 
Clark  Gable  since — Clark  Gable! 

Lana  Turner,  gorgeous  in  pale  blue,  got  a 
special  cheer  from  the  sidewalk  crowds — 
maybe  because  it  was  almost  her  first  ap- 
pearance in  public  since  she  lost  her  baby. 

What  a  night  it  was  for  Anne  Baxter  ("Eve" 
herself)  looking  radiant  in  pink.  This  is  by  far 
her  greatest  role. 

George  Sanders,  marching  in  nonchalantly 
with  his  red-headed  Zsa  Zsa  on  his  arm,  didn't 
fool  me.  He  was  inwardly  trembling.  George 
actually  has  an  inferiority  complex  and  is 
nothing  like  the  blase  critic  he  plays  in  the 
picture. 

Joan  Crawford  wore  a  red  dress  with  red 
roses  over  one  bare  shoulder. 

Greer  Garson  came  with  her  mother,  Nina 
(Buddy  Fogelson  being  in  New  Mexico).  She 
wore  a  simple  black  dress  with  a  gorgeous 
mink  coat — both  perfect  to  set  off  her  lovely 
red  hair. 

Speaking  of  hair — all  the  fans  were  in- 
trigued by  Danny  Kaye  who  has  trimmed  his 
once  shaggy  locks  to  almost  a  "butch"  haircut. 

Little  Vera-Ellen  furnished  the  fashion  sur- 
prise by  wearing  a  bright  red  tarn  with  eve- 
ning clothes.  On  her,  it  looked  cute. 

As  usual,  Arlene  Dahl  looked  like  a  maga- 
zine cover,  in  a  pink  gown  and  ermine  coat 
and,  as  usual,  she  was  holding  hands  with 
Lex  Barker. 

The  Hollywood  Roosevelt  Hotel,  across  the 
street  from  the  premiere,  added  a  cute  touch 
by  blocking  out  everything  but  the  letters 
E-V-E  in  their  big  electric  sign. 

After  the  picture  there  were  many  parties  at 
Mocambo,  La  Rue's,  Romanoff's  and  Giro's.  It 
was  like  New  Year's  Eve  with  so  many  gor- 
geously gowned   women  and  their  escorts. 


^       It  was  leve  at  first  sight ...  for 

a  lonely  man  and  a  lovely  girl . . . 
in  the  world's  most  romantic  place - 
Capri !  And  amid  its  spellbinding 
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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

cont'd 

THE  Born  Yesterday  premiere  was  not 
nearly  as  gay  because  nobody  got  so 
dressed  up.  But  this  picture  gives  the  world  a 
new  star  in  Judy  Holliday.  She's  wonderful — 
and  you're  going  to  be  crazy  about  her  after  the 
picture  is  nationally  released  in  February. 

Judy  gives  the  best  comedy  performance  of 
the  year — with  no  one  even  close  to  her.  The 
surprising  part  is,  although  Missy  Holliday 
played  Born  Yesteiday  for  years  on  Broad- 
way and  was  very  cute  in  a  minor  part  in 
Adam's  Rib  in  the  movies — she's  sure  to  be  a 
brand  new  star  discovery  to  screen  fans. 

She's  beautiful,  cute,  irresistible — and  oh, 
well — just  the  comedienne  we  have  been 
waiting  for.   Watch  for  Judy  at  Oscar  time. 

SIR  Laurence  Olivier  and  Vivien  Leigh  left 
Hollywood  after  a  series  of  dinners  and 
cocktail  parties  that  would  have  "done  in"  less 
hardy  and  appreciative  people. 

Jack  Warner  gave  a  dinner  for  them  the 
day  Vivien  finished  Streetcar  Named  Desire 


in  the  magnificent  Warner  home — one  of  the 
showplaces  of  the  West  Coast. 

The  placecards  were  miniature  streetcars 
with  each  guest's  name  printed  on  the  side! 

Larry  (he  prefers  to  be  called  Larry  in- 
stead of  Sir  Laurence)  came  in  limping.  He 
has  been  suffering  from  bursitis — but  he  didn't 
let  it  dim  his  wit  or  his  spirit.  He  made  a 
very  amusing  after  dinner  speech. 

But,  no  one  could  have  been  funnier  than 
Danny  Kaye  who  sounded  for  all  the  world  as 
,  if  he  were  addressing  a  Rotary  club.  I've 
never  heard  anything  so  hilarious,  made  even 
more  so  by  Danny's  deadpan  expression. 

The  Alfred  Gwynn  Vanderbilts,  Ruth  Ro- 
man, lovely,  blonde  Virginia  Mayo,  the  Artur 
Rubinsteins  and  the  Louis  B.  Mayers  were 
among  the  guests  who  numbered  only  twen- 
ty-five. 

This  intimacy  made  for  wonderful  conver- 
sation. Seems  that  conversation  is  a  lost  art 
in  these  days  of  jammed  cocktail  parties  and 
night  club  affairs  where  you  have  to  yell 
above  the  din  of  a  swing  band. 


I 


FULLY  believe  that  by  the  time  this  Good 
News  reaches  you,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gary 


10 


*Offer  good  oniv  in  U.  S. 


easy  money 


This  is  the  time  of  year  when  a  shot  in  the  wallet  certainly  comes  in  handy.  And  we're 
giving  away  one  hundred  crisp  one  dollar  bills  to  the  first  hundred  people  who  fill 
in  the  questionnaire  below  and  mail  it  to  us.  So  hurry!  All  you  hove  to  do  is  read 
this  issue  carefully — answer  the  questions  and  tell  us  which  stars  you'd  like  to  read 
about  in  future  issues.  Write  soon — to  the  first  one  hundred,  each  and  every  one 
— we'll  send  a  new  dollar  bill. 

QUESTIONNAIRE:  Which  stories  and  features  did  you  enjoy  most  in  the  February 
issue?  WRITE  THE  NUMBERS  I,  2,  3,  AT  THE  LEFT  of  your  first,  second,  and  third 
choices.  Then   let  us  know  what  stars  you'd   like  to  read  about  in  future  issues. 


□  The  Inside  Story 

□  Louella  Parsons'  Good  News 

O  Christopher  Kane's  Movie  Reviews 
O  They're  Talking  About  the  Powers 
Q  A  Minister  Looks  at  Hollywood 

□  The  Sorrows  of  Lana  Turner 

O  Are  They  Haunted  by  a  Perfect  Love? 
(Ronald  Reagan,  Jane  Wyman)  by 
Louella  Parsons 

□  Nicky  Hilton  Tells  His  Side  of  the 
Story 

□  But  Here  Are  The  Facts  He  Has  To 
Face  (Elizabeth  Taylor) 

□  It  Pays  To  Be  Sensational  (Ruth 
Roman) 

□  What's  Wrong  With  the  Clark 
Gables? 

□  I  Was  An  Orphan  by  Marilyn  Monroe 

□  The  Truth  About  Hollywood  Society 

□  Castle  With  a  Redwood  Fence  (Janet 
Leigh) 

□  Miss  Whistlebait  of  1951  (Jane 
Powell) 

□  I  Can  Love  Again  (Wanda  Hendrix) 

□  .Man  in  The  House  (Vera-Ellen) 

□  .Week-end  Marriage  (Betty  Hutton) 

□  Who  Kilfed  Me?  by  Dick  Powell 

□  Modern  Screen  Fashions 

□  Tell  It  to  Joan  (Joan  Evans) 


Which  of  the  stories  did  you  like  LEAST? 


What  3  MALE  stars  would  you  like  to 
read  about  in  future  issues?  List  them, 
I,  2,  3,  in  order  of  preference. 


What  3  FEMALE  stars  would  you  like  to 
read  about  in  future  issues?  List  them 
I,  2,  3,  in  order  of  preference. 


What  MALE  star  do  you  like  least? 
What  FEMALE  star  do  you  like  least? 


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mm  PARSONS'  good  news 

cont'd 

Cooper  will  have  forgotten  their  difierences 
and  will  be  together  again.  It  was  a  minor 
bombshell  when  I  printed  an  exclusive  story 
that  Rocky  had  gone  to  New  York  for  an 
indefinite  stay,  taking  their  daughter  Maria 
with  her.  Both  Rocky  and  Gary  are  my  close 
personal  friends,  and  they  admitted  very 
freely  that  they  had  had  a  big  misunder- 
standing. I  talked  to  both  the  Coopers  to  get 
the  straight  of  the  story.  Seems  there  had 
been  trouble  for  some  weeks  and  Rocky  de- 
cided the  best  thing  to  do  was  to  go  East, 
^rs.  Cooper,  who  is  a  Catholic,  is  opposed  to 
any  idea  of  divorce,  but  I  am  sure  the  Coopers 
who  have  had  a  beautiful  life  together  for 
many  years  will  not  risk  the  divorce  thing. 

Is  anyone  even  faintly  surprised  at  the  part- 
ing of  Kathryn  Grayson  and  Johnny  John- 
ston? I'm  not.  These  two,  I  think,  have  been 
straining  at  the  matrimonial  leash  for  a  year. 

But,  always,  when  I  checked  Kathryn  she 
would  stall  with,  "No,  everything's  all  right. 
Johnny  has  to  go  to  New  York  for  a  TV  show 
— or  to  read  a  play — or  to  see  about  a  pic- 
ture"— or  any  one  of  a  number  of  invented 
excuses. 

It  was  the  same  thing  when  she  separated 
from  John  Shelton.  Kathryn  is  down  in  my 
book  as  the  "deny-ing-est"  lady  I  know — even 
when  she  knows  I  know  better. 

I  had  the  tip  that  she  and  Johnny  (John- 
ston) were  going  to  make  an  announcement  a 
full  ten  days  before  they  got  around  to  doing 
it.  As  usual,  I  called  Kathy. 

"Oh,  no,"  she  said,  etc,  etc,  etc. 

There's  no  particular  "inside"  to  this  newest 
Hollywood  rift.  There  is  no  "other  woman" 
talk  as  there  was  once  before  when  Kathryn 
and  her  singer  husband  parted. 

Personal  Opinions:  Jose  Ferrer  is  a  cinch 
to  be  Mr.  Hot  in  the  Academy  Awards  race  for 
"best  performance"  in  Cyrano  De  Beigerac. 
By  the  way — did  you  know  that  Jose's  real 
name  is  Jose  Vincente  Ferrer  Otero  y  Cintro? 
Light  that  up  on  your  old  theatre  mar- 
quee! .  .  .  Never  have  two  people  tried  to 
make  soooo  sure  that  their  approaching  mar- 
riage will  be  "for  keeps"  than  Doris  Day  and 
Marty  Melcher.  Absolutely  scorning  a  Mexi- 
can elopement,  they  are  postponing  their  wed- 
ding until  April  when  their  marriage  will  be 
unquestionably  legal  in  the  California  courts. 
Main  reason  is — Marty  wants  to  adopt  Doris' 
nine-year-old  son,  Terry.  .  .  .  John  Agar  will 
sing  when  he  goes  out  on  his  p.a.  tour  of  the 
nightclubs — you'll  be  surprised,  I  bet,  at  how 
good  he  is.  There's  a  slight  Sinatra  quality 
about  his  way  of  delivering  a  tune — and  that 
ain't  bad.  .  .  .  Keep  your  eye  on  the  Linda 
Darnell-William  Dozier  romance.  All  these 
steady  dates  mean  something.  .  .  .  Isn't  Arlene 
Dahl's  red  hair  getting  blonder  and  blonder? 

The  Letter  Box:  Those  of  you  who  wrote 
this  month  asking  if  Farley  Granger  is  giving 
up  his  career — the  answer  is  no,  no,  no. 

I  notice  you're  getting  a  hankering  for  How- 
ard Keel  after  Annie  Get  Your  Gun.  You  Flori- 
da fans  be  on  the  lookout — Howard's  heading 
there  soon  to  meet  his  in-laws  for  the  first 
time. 

Among  the  belles,  you  asked  me  more 
questions  about  Judy  Garland  and  June  Ally- 
son.  Well,  I'll  keep  trying  to  bring  the  news 
to  you.  But  that's  all  for  now.  See  you  next 
month! 


l.'S'l 


Makes  Money— and 
Friends  Too 

"Cards  so  attractive  my 
friends  gave  their  orders 
unhesitatingly.  Am  mak- 
ing friends  in  this  new 
-Mary  Pasciucco,  N.  Y. 


Earnings  Pay  for 
Children's  Clothes 

"Couldn't  afford  things 
for  my  2  boys.  Extra  money 
earned  paid  for  more  than 
boys  needed.  Now  helping 
pay  for  home."— Mrs.  D.  Hance.  Penna. 


"Like  a  Friendly  Call  on 
People" 

"Very  profitable  in  dol- 
lars-and-cents,  and  in  hap- 
piness passed  on  to  others. 
It's  not  WORK;  more  like 


friendly  call."— Mrs.  Carver,  Fenna. 

Invited  to  Bring  Cards 
to  Meetings 

"One  tells  another  until 
my  business  has  surely 
grown.  Church,  other 
groups,  call  me  to  bring 
caids  to  meetings."— Lida  W.  Smith, 
Wash. 


P Beginner  Gets  10  Orders 
"1  received  ten  orders 
in  30  minutes.  Everyone 
just  'ah'd'  and  'oh'd'  over 
your  cards.  It's  going  to  be 
very  enjoyable."— Rita  J.  Shaw.  N.  Y. 


Plans  a  Home 
Card-Shop 

"My  customers  gratefiil 
for  such  lovely  cards; 
eagerly  tell  their  friends. 
Plarming  to  remodel  a 
room  in  our  home,  as  card  shop."— P. 
Sargent.  Neb. 


78  Boxes  in  5  Days 

"Received  sample  boxes 
on  evening  of  6th;  sending 
order  for  78  boxes  today, 
the  12th.  Have  taken  all 
but  12  of  the  orders  over 
phone."— Etta  Gaskill.  Ohio. 


Fine  Spare-Time  Profits 

"While  in  Nurses'  course 
I  made  practically  all  my 
expenses.  Now  graduated, 
but  wouldn't  drop  card 
business  for  anything." 
D.  Nephew,  Cal. 


PEOPLE  ALL  SAY 


All-Occasion 
Boxes 


T^/"  so  IT'S  NO  WONDER  THtY  SUl  ON  SIGHJ  •  •  •  *ND 

NO  WONDER  SO  MANY  FOLKS 


In  Their  Spare  Time  . 
Putting  in  Regular  Hours 


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Fetal  Script" 
Stationery  with 
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Domestic  evenings  are  rare  now  at  the  Power  honne.  Tyrone  appeors  six  nights  a  week  in  Mr.  Roberts,  while  Linda  attends  social  functions. 


report  from  London: 


they're  talking  about  the  Powers 


Mr.  Charles  D.  Saxon, 
Editor,  Modern  Screen, 
261  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York,  16,  N.  Y. 

Dear  Mr.  Saxon: 

Everybody  is  talking  about  the  future  of  the  Power  marriage,  but  I 
can't  do  a  story  on  it  because  there  just  aren't  any  solid  facts.  All  I  can  tell 
you  is  what  "they're"  saying,  what  I've  noticed  about  Ty  and  Linda 
as  people,  and  what  has  been  going  on  publicly.  You'll  have  to  draw  your 
own  conclusions  .  .  .  like  everyone  else  .  .  .  and  then  wait  and  see. 

On  the  face  of  it,  the  situation  looks  as  though  things  were  about  over 
for  the  Powers.  If  seeing  is  believing,  Mrs.  Tyrone  Power  is  not  devoting  her 
full  time  to  her  dashing  movie-hero  husband.   And  if  those  intimate 
reports  from  close  friends  are  accurate,  Mr.  Power  isn't  exactly  as  dashing 
around  the  house  as  on  the  screen.  His  half-Mexican,  half-Dutch  wife  is 
disappointed  in  the  dream  she  had  of  married  life  when  she  was 
a  bride  two  years  ago  in  Rome. 

Linda  Christian  is  seen  everywhere,  at  theatrical  parties  and  at  the  most 
exclusive  London  shindigs.   She  confines  her  charity  appearances  to  the 
glossy  fxmctions  where  there  may  be  a  (Continued  on  page  88) 

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Her  date  with  Monty  Cliff  for  a  com- 
mand performance  aroused  rift  rumors. 


Which  giri  has  the  natural  curl . . .  and 

which  girl  has  theToni? 


New  improved  Toni  guarantees  your  wave 
will  look  soft  and  natural  from  the  very  first  day! 


You  can't  tell  a  ne'^v,  improved  Toni  ^s"ave  from  Nature's 
loveliest  wave.  Your  hair  will  feel  like  naturally  curly  hair  — 
comb  like  naturally  curly  hair  —  look  like  naturally  curly 
hair  from  the  first  thrilling  moment.  That's  because  Toni  has 
the  gentlest  waving  lotion  kno'^vn,  plus  amazing  new  Permafix 
that  leaves  your  hair  in  a  softer,  more  natural  condition. 
Permafix  is  a  neiv  vconder  discovery  of  Toni 
research.  Far  more  effective  than  any  other  neu- 
tralizer  knotcn.  Permafix  actually  conditions 
your  hair  . . .  leaves  your  u;ave  silky-soft  at  first 
com,bing — more  natural  month  after  month. 
Toni  is  the  only  permanent  \\-ith  Permafix  —  the  only  per- 
manent that  guarantees  your  wave  ^s'ill  look  soft  and  natural 
the  very  first  day  —  and  even,'  day  for  months  to  come.  No 
wonder  more  women  use  Toni  than  all  other  home  per- 
manents  combined.  Ask  for  Toni  today.  Joan  Tebbe,  the 
lovely  brunette,  has  the  Toni. 


Bair  styles  by  Shirlee  Collins 

Which  Twin  Has  The  Toni  —  and  which  has  the 
beauty  shop  wave?  Compare  Barbara  Dahm's  Toni 
(at  the  right)  v.-ith  her  sister  Bererly's  permanent, 
and  you'll  agree  that  even  the  most  expensive  beauty 
shop  wave  can't  surpass  the  natural  beauty  of  a  Toni. 


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BEFORE  TAMPAX 
WAS  IMWTED 


Women  (of  necessity)  got 
along  as  best  they  could  with 
regard  to  sanitary  protection 
on  "those  annoying  days" 
each  month 


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BUT  things  are  different  now !  Women 
need  no  longer  depend  on  an  out- 
side harness  of  belts,  pins  and  bulky 
absorbent  pads.  In  contrast,  Tampax  is 
so  small  that  a  full  month's  supply  will 
slip  right  into  your  purse.  A  doctor 
designed  it  for  internal  absorption  and 
it's  made  of  pure  surgical  cotton  con- 
tained in  dainty,  one-time-use  applica- 
tors, making  insertion  simple  and  easy. 

The  woman  who  uses  Tampax  experi- 
ences a  new  freedom  all  round.  .  .  . 
Tampax  does  not  chafe — nor  does  it 
cause  odor,  winter  or  summer.  You  may 
be  sure  no  bulge  or  ridge-line  will  tell 
tales  during  "those  days"  of  the  month. 
With  all  these  worries  eliminated,  you 
are  more  likely  to  relax  and  be  yourself. 

You  wear  Tampax  without  feeling 
its  presence.  You  can  wear  it  in  tub 
or  shower.  Another  point:  it's  easily 
disposable.  Sold  at  drug  and  notion 
counters  in  3  absorbency-sizes:  Regu- 
lar, Super,  Junior.  Tampax  Incorporated, 
Palmer,  Mass. 


Accepted  for  Advertising 
by  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association 


HARVEY 


James  Stewart  introduces  Harvey  to  his  sister  She  tries  to  make  arrangements  for  him  at  o 
Josephine  hlull.  Josephine  loves  James,  but  sanitarium.  Despite  her  violent  protests,  Jose- 
is  convinced   he  needs  psychiatric  treatment.      phine  is  taken  for  the  patient  and  carried  away. 


Josephine  is  released.  Nov/  Dr.  Charles  Drake  An  in|ection  will  shock  James  into  forgetting 
and  nurse  Peggy  Dow  befriend  the  amiable  obout  his  rabbit  pal,  but  Josephine,  who  must 
James,    try   to    lure    him    to   the    sanitarium.      consent  to  it,  can't  decide  to  banish  Harvey. 


MOVIE 
REVIEWS  f. 


Elwood  P.  Dowd  (Jimmy  Stewart)  is  a  hap- 
py man.  He's  escaped  from  reality,  and 
everywhere  he  goes,  an  imaginary  six-foot 
tall  white  rabbit  accompanies  him.  This  dis- 
mays El  wood's  sister  Veta  (Josephine  Hull) 
and  her  daughter  Myrtle  Mae  (Victoria 
Home).  Everytime  Myrtle  Mae  is  about  to 
be  introduced  to  society,  Elwood  comes  home, 
introduces  Harvey  to  the  assembled  com- 
pany, and  ruins  Myrtle  Mae's  chances.  Myrtle 
Mae,  desperate  at  the  thought  of  never  ar- 
riving, convinces  Veta  that  Elwood  must  go 


to  a  sanitarium,  and  that's  the  crux  of  the 
matter.  Much  of  the  picture  is  hilarious  (espe- 
cially where  Josephine  Hull  is  convinced  white 
slavers  are  after  her),  much  of  the  picture  is 
gentle  and  charming  (xredit  Jimmy  Stewart), 
and  aside  from  a  rather  irreverent  attitude 
towards  psychiatry  and  psychiatrists,  I  can't 
think  of  anything  about  Harvey  that  would 
offend  a  soul. 

Cast:  James  Stewart,  Josephine  Hull,  Peggy 
Dow,  Charles  Drake,  Cecil  Kellaway,  Victoria 
Home. — Universal-International. 


After  youVe  seen 


"Born  Yesterday 


your  favorite  new 
star  will  be 

Judy  HoUiday 


COLUMBIA  PICTURES 

presents        ,  /  /   ,  /  ,^ 


JUDY 


'/  ^  .  \  \  *  \  ^     starring    /  '  /  V  m  \  \ 


WILLIAM 


Screen  Play  by  Albert  Mannheimer  •  From  the  Celebrated  Stage  Play 
Produced  by  S.  SYLVAN  SIMON  .  Directed  by  GEORGE  CUKOR 


BROADWAY'S  BIGGEST  HIT. ..NOW  A  PERFECTLY  SWELL  MOTION  PICTURE! 


17 


Amazing  shampoo 
guaranteed  not  to  rob 
hair  of  natural  oils 


Shasta  lathers  guj  beauty-dulling  film- 
Leaves  m  glamour-giving  natural  oils  that  make  hair. . . 


New  Shasta,  enriched  with  lanolin  —  that 
marvelous  emollient  from  nature — does  what 
women  have  always  wanted  from  a  shampoo 
. . .  lathers  out  beauty-dulling  film,  leaves  in 
glamour-giving  natural  oils. 
Shasta  is  guaranteed  not  to  rob  hair  of 
precious,  glamour- giving  oils  which  keep 
your  hair  naturally  shiny,  soft,  healthy, 
easier-  to  -  manage. 

See  how  Shasta  persuades  even  hair  that 
seems  dull  and  dry  to  look  softer,  silkier; 
sparkle  with  gleaming  highlights.  Try  new 
lanolin -enriched  Shasta  today.  Remember, 
Shasta  doesn't  rob  hair  of  its  natural  oils. 

PROCTER  &  GAMBLE  GUARANTEE  :  Shasta  does  not 
rob  hair  of  natural  oils.  Procter  &  Gamble  guarantees 
this  or  money  back  when  unused  portion  is  returned. 

mZ  Shasta Shampoo 

DOESN'T  ROB  HAIR  OF  NATURAL  OILS 


BORN  YESTERDAY 

Judy  Holliday  re-creates  her  stage  role  oi 
the  "dumb  broad"  who's  being  kept  by  a  junk 
tycoon,  and  it's  like  the  Fourth  of  fuly,  and 
Christmas,  and  New  Year's  Eve,  to  watch  her. 
The  story  deals  with  a  junk  dealer  and  his 
lady  coming  to  Washington  to  buy  a  senator. 
Junk  dealer's  afraid  lady'U  embarrass  him  in 
high  society,  hires  a  writer  to  educate  her,  and 
finds  out  she  gets  too  smart  too  fast.  She 
doesn't  approve  of  his  flouting  the  law,  push- 
ing little  guys  around,  etc.  But  the  story's 
unimportant.  What's  important  is  Judy  Holli- 
day, building  out  of  her  own  gorgeous  talent 
a  character  who  is  exciting,  funny,  tender  and 
pitiful  all  at  once.  When  she's  on  the  scene, 
bells  ring,  and  you  hear  music;  the  minute 
she  goes  away,  everything  stops,  nothing 
happens.  Forcing  myself  to  consider  the  rest 
of  the  cast,  I  come  to  Brod  Crawford,  last 
year's  Academy  Award  winner.  He  wasn't 
quite  satisfactory  as  the  crooked  junk  dealer, 
and  I  don't  honestly  know  why.  He  was 
tough,  and  crude,  and  forceful,  but  he  wasn't 
funny  for  a  minute.  With  the  same  lines,  Paul 
Douglas,  on  Broadway,  was  a  howling  scream, 
and  I'm  not  sure  where  Crawford  fell  down. 
Anyhow,  he's  too  good  an  actor  to  just  mimic 
another  man's  performance,  so  maybe  I'm 
complaining  where  I  should  be  giving  praise. 
Cast:  /udy  Holliday.  William  HoJden,  Brod- 
erick  Crawford. — Columbia. 

KATIE  DID  IT 

This  is  a  half-baked  Petty  Girl,  without  Joan 
Caulfield's  curves.  (And  now  that  I  think  of 
it,  didn't  Virginia  Mayo  once  play  a  prim 
school  teacher  who  was  lured  into  modeling 
for  some  crazy  artist  man?)  Sure  enough. 
Mark  Stevens  is  a  commercial  artist,  makes 
millions  (you  should  see  bis  apartment)  out 
of  calendar  ladies,  meets  Ann  Blyth,  a  librar- 
ian in  her  small  hometown,  and  lures  her  into 
the  big  city.  She  needs  money  on  account  of 
her  uncle's  gambling  debts.  Ann  falls  in  love 
with  wicked  old  Mark,  but  it  takes  heaven's 
own  time  for  her  to  get  to  the  point  of  ad- 
mitting it,  and  I  don't  know  if  you'd  really 
want  to  wait  that  long. 

Cast:  Ann  Blyth,  Mark  Stevens,  Cecil  Jfelio- 
way,  Jesse  White. — Universal-International. 

FRENCHIE 

Shelley  Winters  sees  her  daddy  shot  dead 
by  gunmen  when  she's  just  a  tyke,  and  she 
vows  to  return  to  the  frontier  town  of  Bottle- 
neck, and  even  up  the  scoah  some  day.  By 
the  time  she  comes  back,  she's  grown  a 
bustle,  has  a  perfectly  ghastly  French  accent 
(which  she  uses  to  entice  men  with),  and  is 
accompanied  by  a  whole  entourage  from  a 
gambling  place  she  owned  in  New  Orleans. 
She's  home  to  get  the  bozos  who  got  Daddy, 
but  she  falls  for  a  sheriff  fella  who's  devoted 
to  law  and  order,  and  he  won't  let  her  blow 
anybody's  brains  out.  He's  sentimental;  don't 
want  the  blood  on  her  little  white  hands.  Paul 
Kelly  is  the  villain  of  the  piece,  if  you're  going 
to  take  it  seriously  enough  so  it  matters. 
Casf:  Joel  McCrea,  Shelley  Winters,  Paul  Kelly, 
Elsa  Lanchester. — Universal-International. 

THE  MAGNIFICENT  YANKEE 

This  is  a  quiet  picture,  about  Justice  Oliver 
Wendell  Holmes,  who  came  to  Washington  to 
be  a  member  of  the  Supreme  Court,  in  the 
middle  of  his  law  career,  and  who  served  the 
court  and  the  nation  for  many  years  there- 
after, telling  the  truth  as  he  saw  the  truth, 
and  bending  his  (Continued  on  page  99) 


JAMES  STEWART 


with  JOSEPHINE  HULL  •  charles.  drake  •  cecil-kellaway 

JESSE  WHITE  •  VICTORIA  HORNE  •  WALLACE  FORD  and  PEGGY  DOW 

From  the  play  written  by  MARY  CHASE  and  produced  by  BROCK  PEMBERTON  .  Screenplay  by  MARY  CHASE  and 
OSCAR  BRODNEY  .  Produced  by  JOHN  BECK  •  Directed  by  HENRY  KOSTER 


Soaping  dulls  hair. 
Halo  glorifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  your  hair  with 
even  finest  Hquid  or  oily  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thus  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Yialo— America's 
favorite  shampoo— at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  counter! 


Gives  fragrant 
^soft-water"  lather 
—needs  no 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable- 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights! 


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Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair! 


a 


Hollywood 
goes 
shopping 
for  you! 


■  A  Hollywood  star  with  a  shop- 
ping list  is  like  any  other  gal  with  a 
similar  mission.  She's  looking  for 
the  best  buys  available  for  herself 
and  her  family  with  an  ever  watch- 
ful eye  on  her  budget.  Her  standards 
of  quality,  style,  and  glamor  are 
comparable  to  yours  and  she'll  hunt 
tirelessly  from  coast  to  coast 
through  the  best  shops  in  America 
until  she  has  uncovered  just  what 
she  wants.  Her  prize  plums  are  "the 
best  of  the  most  for  the  least"  and 
are  sure  to  be  the  answer  to  many 
of  your  shopping  problems,  too. 

Modern  Screen  presents  this 
special  shopping  service  to  you  as 
an  exclusive  feature.  This  month, 
lovely  Jeanne  Grain  recommends  27 
wonderful  buys. 

Just  write  direct  to  the  shops 
mentioned  below  each  picture  to  get 
any  of  the  items,  enclosing  a  check 
or  money  order  (and  gift  card  if 
you  hke).  Your  selection  will  be 
rushed  to  you  or  any  other  address. 
Prices  all  include  postage  and  tax 
where  necessary.  Modern  Screen 
guarantees  delivery.  Only  mono- 
grammed  merchandise  cannot  be  re- 
turned. Money  will  be  refunded  on 
items  that  are  not  satisfactory,  if  re- 
turned within  10  days  after  delivery. 


jeanne  cram 
your  hollywood  shopper 

for  february 


Jeanne  Grain 
v/ill  soon  be  seen 
in  20fh  Century-Fox's 
Take  Care  of 
Mv  Little  Girl. 


■  Have  you  ever  heard  of  going 
shopping  with  four  men  in  tow  .  .  . 
especially  when  one  of  them  is  still 
cutting  his  first  tooth?  Well,  that's 
how  I  often  shop  these  days. 

It  all  started  when  Paul  and  I 
were  first  married.  We  tried  shop- 
ping independently,  but  it  simply 
didn't  work.  It  was  all  my  fault,  too. 
I  missed  the  man's  viewpoint.  As  the 
male  members  of  the  Brinkman 
family  increased  I  acquired  more 
shopping  companions. 

Since  MODERN  SCREEN  en- 
trusted me  with  the  thrilling  job  of 
shopping  for  all  of  you  this  month 
I  found  my  male  critics  a  tremendous 
help.  Of  course  the  boys  weren't  al- 
ways with  me,  but  they're  severe 
judges  and  put  the  things  I've  chosen 
for  you  to  a  stiff  test.  I  covered  the 
West  Coast  (with  Paul's  help)  look- 
ing for  smart  buys  in  the  finest  shops 
and  then  enlisted  the  aid  of  shop-wise 
friends  around  the  country  for  other 
fascinating  finds,  mindful  always  of 
that  very  important  male  point  of 
view. 

Just  choose  what  you  like,  then 
order  directly  from  the  stores  men- 
tioned under  each  picture. 

Don't  forget  your  favorite  Valen- 
tine, and  I'm  sure  he'll  remember 
you,  too! 


All  THE  COMFORTS  OF  HOME  travel  with  you 
in  this  handy  stitched  kit.  Holds  sewing 
tools,  manicure  set  (tweezer,  nail  file  and 
orange  stick)  and  ball-point  pen.  Each  unit 
in  a  smart  gold-tone  metal  container.  So 
small  that  during  my  scenes  with  him. 
Dale  Robertson  kept  my  kit  in  his  pocket. 
Broivn  or  wine  with  your  name  or  initials. 
$1.95.  Treasure  Mart,  545  Fifth  Avenue, 
New  York  17,  N.  Y. 


PROVERBIAl    CONVERSATION    PIECE    IN  SIIVER. 

This  particular  one,  if  you  haven't  gx^essed, 
is  "a  bird  in  the  hand  is  worth  two  in 
the  bush."  Others  are  "a  stitch  in  time, 
etc.,"  "birds  of  a  feather,  etc.,"  "penny 
wise,  pound  foolish,"  or  send  in  your  own 
favorite  saying.  Most  any  proverb  can  be 
hand  crafted  in  sign  language  in  a  wide 
nickel  silver  bracelet.  Perfect  gifts.  $3.75. 
Old  Curiosity  Shop,  St.  Augustine,  Fla. 


THEY'll  GIVE  YOU  A  HAND.  Any  kitchen  will 
be  prettied  up  by  this  smart  set  of  three 
dish  towels  and  three  dish  rags.  Towels 
are  made  of  pure  Belgian  linen  and  come 
in  bright  red  or  green  to  go  with  your 
kitchen  colors.  The  dish  rags  are  striped 
to  match  the  towels.  They're  so  attractive 
and  practical.  $3.95  (add  8(f  sales  tax  in 
New  York  City).  Shoenfeld  Linens,  38  E. 
57th  St.,  New  York  22,  N.  Y. 


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leanne  cram 


your  bollvwood  shopper 


for  february 


I  always  shop  with 
my  boys  in  mind, 
and  sometimes  I  take 
two  of  them  with  me. 
So  if  you  like  what's 
here — don't  thank  me, 
thank  my  family. 


A  TV  DIRECTOR  AT  THREE!  Any  tot  can  be  just 
that  with  this  sturdy  folding  chair  of  solid 
oak  and  maple  with  dark  green  canvas. 
"Foodini  TV  Director"  and  the  three  main 
characters  of  CBS'  Lucky  Pup  TV  Show 
are  colored  on  the  front  of  the  back  rest 
and  the  child's  first  name  is  painted  on 
the  reverse  side.  $2.98  (plus  30i  postage 
west  of  Miss.).  Krimstock  Bros.,  112  N. 
Ninth,  Phila.  7,  Pa. 


KEEP  THEM  ON  THEIR  TOES!  These  red  shoes 
on  the  wall  belong  to  no  ballerina,  but, 
filled  with  your  favorite  greenery,  they're 
a  permanent  tribute  to  the  fine  art  of 
terpsichore.  Bright  red  pottery,  with 
matching  ribbon,  they  add  a  note  of  gaiety 
to  any  wall  they  touch.  They  remind  me 
of  that  grand  movie  "Red  Shoes."  $3.95. 
Malcom's  House  &  Garden  Store,  524-5 
North  Charles  St.,  Baltimore  1,  Md. 


PAUL  JR.'S  REALLY  A  PICTURE  in  this  charming 
hand-made  ceramic  frame.  I  have  one  for 
Mike  and  Tim  too.  Name  (or  initials) 
and  trim  come  in  pastel  pink,  yellow, 
green,  or  blue.  $3.50.  Or  send  in  a  picture, 
describe  the  child's  coloring  and  have  it 
hand-tinted  in  permanent  finish,  repro- 
duced to  fit  the  21/2"  X  IVi"  open- 
ing, $5.00.  Evelyn  Reed,  538  Madison 
Ave.,  New  York  22,  N.  Y. 


GEMINI  IS  MY  ZODIAC  SIGN,  so  I'm  thrilled  to 
pieces  to  have  these  gold  plated  screw-type 
drop  earrings  made  with  the  appropriate 
symbol  for  a  Springtime  birthday  gal. 
Each  the  size  of  a  U.  S.  nickel,  they're 
adorable  good  luck  pieces.  They  dangle 
prettily  as  you  move,  reflecting  glamor 
in  all  directions.  $2.50.  Send  birth  date 
for  your  own  special  sign.  Flair,  420 
Lincoln  Road,  Miami  Beach,  Florida. 


SHED  LIGHT  ON  THE  SUBJECT  with  this  smartly 
styled  goose  neck  lamp  and  shade  of  spun 
aluminum  that  fastens  to  the  wall.  A  long 
flexible  arm  twists  and  turns  at  will.  Comes 
with  a  good  long  stretch  of  cord.  It's  so 
restful  having  a  nice  soft  light  to  read  by 
after  hours  of  shooting  under  hot  bright 
Kleigs.  I  think  you'd  like  one  too.  $6.95. 
Jan's  Modern  Lamps,  Inc.,  Dept.  MS  120, 
15  W.  8th  St.,  New  York  11,  N.  Y. 


"IT  SUITS  HIM  TO  A  JVjunior's  crazy  about 
his  clown  towel  and  face  cloth  set.  Washing 
behind  the  ears  no  longer  causes  tears. 
Man-sized  terry  cloth  towel  and  cloth  with 
red,  blue,  and  yellow  hand-printed  clown. 
Name  (for  more  than  8  letters  add  25<t  per 
set)  on  towel  and  first  initial  on  cloth  in  big 
red  letters.  $2.5.0  each  set.  3  for  $6.75.  Harry 
Rein  Studios,  1146  N.  Sierra  Bonita,  Pasa- 
dena 7,  Calif. 


A  TOUGH  NOT  TO  CRACK,  is  a  cinch  with  this 
marvelous  nutcracker.  A  sensitive  mecha- 
nism, it  jacks  up  the  nut,  cracks  it  com- 
petently, and  stops  just  in  time  to  preseme 
the  nut  meats  intact.  No  more  shell  spllnl- 
ers.  Does  wonders  with  Brazil  nuts,  which 
are  especially  stubborn.  Fine  high-polish 
chrome  finish,  it's  easy  to  use.  $2.95. 
Hoffritz  for  Cutlery,  551  Fifth  Ave.,  New 
York  17,  N.  Y. 


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HIS  OWN  MERRY-GO-ROUND  is  every  child's 
dream,  and  here  it  is  in  a  precious  wall 
costumer.  Catching  the  brass  ring  is  no 
more  exciting  to  a  tot  than  being  able  to 
hook  his  clothes  on  each  of  the  five  wooden 
pegs.  About  9"  by  21",  of  sturdy  masonite, 
it  screws  onto  a  wall  or  closet  door. 
Teaches  neatness  the  easy  way.  A  grand 
gift.  $2.75.  The  Children's  Shop,  986 
Farmington  Ave.,  West  Hartford  7,  Conn. 


MY  PEN  WRITES  WITH  NAIL  POLISH!  A  wonder- 
ful gadget  for  any  meticulous  Miss,  this 
red  metal  fountain  pen  holds  a  liberal 
supply  of  nail  polish.  A  safe  traveling 
companion,  it  has  a  leak-proof  screw  cap. 
I  find  it  a  life  saver  between  "takes"  at 
20th  Century-Fox.  Just  press  the  button 
and  the  polish  brushes  on,  evenly,  easily. 
$1.50.  Miles  Kimball,  Kimball  Building, 
41  Bond  Street,  Oshkosh,  Wise. 


TEND  TO  YOUR  ILHmXHG  without  fear  of  en- 
tanglements with  this  ingenious  "Knit-bit 
holder."  Knitters  and  crocheters  delight 
in  this  expandable  plastic  bracelet  from 
which  dangles  a  staff  to  hold  yarn,  ribbon, 
string  or  spool,  kept  in  place  by  a  remov- 
able disc.  A  connecting  ring  lets  the  yarn 
feed  evenly.  Yarn  stays  clean.  Red,  green, 
amber,  clear,  $1.00.  The  Gerard  Company, 
162  Green  Bay  Rd.,  Winnetka,  III. 


GET  YOURSELF  THIS  "PENNY-PINCHER."  It's  a 
terrific  gimmick  in  "golden"  metal  to  hold 
the  two  items  without  which  no  girl  can 
function  .  .  .  coins  and  keys.  It  has  a  kind 
of  slot  to  hold  coins  of  all  sizes  that  re- 
minds me  of  a  conductor's  change  holder, 
and  is  just  as  quick  to  operate.  The  other 
end  is  a  key  ring  to  accommodate  a  large 
collection.  Cute  and  only  $1.95.  Edith 
Chapman,  50  Piermont  Ave.,  Nyack,  N.  Y. 


MAKE  YOUR  OWN  PARIS  CREATION  on  this 
marvelous  dress  form,  adjusting  seven 
ways  for  a  perfect  reproduction  of  your 
dimensions.  Raises  to  any  height  or  col- 
lapses to  half-size  for  storing.  Of  durable 
papier  mache,  covered  with  jersey  so  you 
can  pin  fabrics  right  on  it.  Send  dress  size. 
{$15.  $3  with  order,  $2  monthly.)  Acme 
Dress  Form  Co.,  Dept.  MS-1,  380  Throop 
Avenue,  Brooklyn  21,  N.  Y. 


IT'S  QUITE  A  STUNT  TO  SELECT  these  eye- 
catching acrobat  garters  for  that  man  in 
your  life.  I'm  giving  them  to  Paul  for 
Valentine's  Day.  "Mr.  Muscles,"  with  his 
red  tights  and  handle-bar  moustache  add 
real  zip  to  an  otherwise  drab  man's  acces- 
sory. A  red  and  white  design  on  black 
background,  it  comes  with  red  or  black 
elastic  and  English  nickel  fittings.  $2.50. 
Calvin  Curtis,  60  E.  55  Street,  N.  Y.  22,  N.  Y. 


SAVED  FOR  A  RAINY  DAY!  The  strongest  gale 
is  nothing  to  this  new  wind-proof  um- 
brella. The  frame  is  protected  so  it  turns 
inside  out,  rather  than  fall  apart  the  way 
most  umbrellas  do.  A  smart  simulated 
alligator  case  conceals  a  16  cadmium- 
plated  ribbed  umbrella  with  shrink-proof 
acetate  rayon  cover.  Strap  and  handle 
also  of  alligator.  In  popular  colors.  $4.95. 
Sta-Dri,  765  Crotona  Park  N.,  N.  Y.  60. 


MY  BOYS  LOVE  TO  CLOWN  around  with  these 
cunning  bean  bag  dolls.  Loved  by  tots  like 
Tim,  and  fun  to  throw  around  for  Michael 
and  Paul  (and  their  Mom  and  Dad  too). 
These  droll  little  circus  folk  are  entirely 
hand  made  in  gayly  printed  costumes  with 
whimsical  hand-painted  faces.  Each  about 
6"  tall,  making  adorable  companions  for 
small  fry.  $1.95  each,  3  for  $5.25.  The 
Josselyns,  Box  147,  Dedham,  Mass. 


THEY'RE  DOING  THE  HIGHLAND  FLING!  This 
Scotch  lad  and  his  lassie  are  as  gay  a 
couple  as  you'll  find  on  any  lapel  this  sea- 
son. Perfect  on  plaid,  of  course,  but 
equally  at  home  on  a  solid  color  coat,  suit, 
blouse  or  dress.  In  sterling  silver,  they're 
skillfully  designed  with  a  fine  feeling  of 
texture  and  movement.  Their  costumes 
are  genuine.  Each  $3.60;  pair  $6.95.  Gay- 
lords,  47  W.  Elm  St.,  Brockton  64,  Mass. 


Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  wliere  monogrammed. 


23 


leanne  cram 
your  hollywood 
 shopper 


MINIATURE  CHIANTI  BOTTLES  FROM  ITALY  make 
these  adorable  salt  and  pepper  shakers. 
The  bottles  are  deep  green  and  each  nests 
in  a  straw  basket,  one  with  green  trim  and 
the  other  with  red,  to  show  which  is  which. 
The  shakers  fit  into  a  double  straw  basket 
with  loop  holder.  They  add  spice  to  any 
table  decoration.  A  pair  costs  $2.00.  Write 
to  FFF  Fine  Food,  35  W.  8th  Street,  New 
York  10,  N.  Y. 


HAVE  A  FINE  SHOE  SHINE.  Here  is  a  wonder- 
ful bucket  made  by  New  Hampshire  folks 
(who  really  have  the  art  down  pat)  to  hold 
enough  shoe  cleaning  paraphernalia  for 
the  whole  family.  Of  pine,  finished  in 
maple,  about  lOi/^  inches  high,  it  has  a 
secure  swinging  handle.  The  top  is  the 
sole  of  a  shoe,  in  reverse,  and  can  serve 
nicely  as  a  shoe  shine  box.  $2.90.  Gifts  of 
Character,  366  Madison  Ave.,  N.  Y.  17,  N.  Y. 


GIVE  IT  A  CLEAN  SWEEP  with  this  "Glovo- 
matic,"  a  new  cleaning  aid  that  puts  the 
"duster"  to  shame  and  protects  your  hands 
in  the  bargain.  An  electrified  shearling 
mitt,  fits  either  hand  and  does  a  million 
chores  without  turning  a  hair.  Polishes 
and  buffs  furniture  so  that  it  sparkles. 
Also  polishes  your  car.  Needs  no  water  to 
function,  but  washes  easily.  $1.00.  Glovo- 
matic,  219  W.  29  St.,  New  York  1,  N.  Y. 


I  CAN  BANK  ON  TONY,  the  gay  ceramic  barber, 
as  a  safe  deposit  for  my  extra  coins,  and 
Paul  has  a  twin  Tony  to  hold  his  old  razor 
blades.  He's  a  very  personable  guy,  color- 
fully painted,  and  made  either  to  hang  on 
the  wall  or  stand  on  his  own  two  feet.  I've 
promised  the  boys  each  their  own  to  en- 
courage them  to  save  their  pennies  and  are 
they  thrilled  with  the  idea!  $1.50.  The 
Bartons,  Ridgewood,  New  Jersey. 


SEE  YOUR  NAME  IN  PRINT.  Here  is  a  complete 
desk  kit  full  of  all  kinds  of  personalized 
stationery  imaginable.  You  can  have  your 
own  stock  of  "office  supplies"  right  at 
home.  There  are  15  sheets  of  fine  writing 
paper,  50  well-lined  cheque  envelopes,  50 
gummed  labels,  50  shipping  tags  and  50 
return  postcards.  $4.95.  (Give  your  name 
and  address.)  The  Ledyard  Press,  427 
Franklin  Ave.,  Hartford  6,  Conn. 


BLOUSE  WITH  A  PERSONAL  TOUCH.  This  crisp 
sanforized  cotton  broadcloth  shirt  does 
wonders  for  a  suit.  Or  wear  it  as  a  shirt  'n 
skirt  ensemble.  Has  cuffed  short  sleeves  and 
a  pert  Peter-Pan  collar  embroidered  with 
any  first  name  or  nickname.  In  white, 
maize,  aqua,  blue,  pink.  Sizes  32-38.  A  grand 
Valentine  gift.  $1.69  ea.,  3  for  $5.00.  Gay- 
lord,  Dept.  MS-6,  Fifth  and  Hamilton, 
Pittsburgh  6,  Pa. 


SCRUB-A-DUB-DUB!  It's  the  cutest  trick  for 
small  fry  who  are  at  the  water-conscious 
stage.  The  cloth  book  is  a  technicolor 
opus  called  "Washing  is  Fun"  and  tells 
all  about  why.  It's  tubbable  and  boilable 
with  no  color  change.  Attached  is  a  cuddly 
foam  rubber  stuffed  elephant  that  doubles 
as  a  grand  sfionge  when  the  baby  isn't 
tossing  it  around.  $1.75.  Peggy  Cloth- 
Books,  109  Worth  St.,  New  York  13,  N.  Y. 


YOUR  FACE  ON  A  POSTAGE  STAMP!  Any  size 
photograph  (or  negative)  made  into  these 
adorable  photostamps  will  personalize  sta- 
tionery, greeting  cards,  loads  of  other  items. 
You  can  reproduce  your  favorite  star- 
beau,  hubby,  child,  pet.  I  think  they're 
fun  for  answering  my  mail.  A  sheet  of 
100  glossy  gumbacked  photostamps  $2.00. 
(Returned  with  original  photo  intact.) 
Croyden  Co.,  516  Fifth  Avenue,  N.  Y.  18. 


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and  introducing  GEORGE  DOLENZ  with  HILLARY  BROOKE  •  NIGEL  BRUCE  •  JOSEPH  CALLEIA 

HUGO   HAAS  •  DONALD  BUKA  •  Directed  by  MEL  FERRER  •  Screenplay  by  W.  R.  BURNETT  ^ 


\ 

The  other  girls  never  asked  Laura  to  lunch 

if  they  could  possibly  avoid  it.  Not  that  she 

wasn't  good  company  or  that  she  didn't 

pay  her  share  .  .  .  but  she  had  one  fault 

that  outweighed  her  good  points.  What  it*  was, 

Laura,  poor  girl,  would  be  the  last 

to  suspect.  There's  one  in  every  office  . . , 

and  she  had  to  be  the  one. 


happen  to  you... anjti/Tje 


No  matter  what  other  good  points  a  girl  may  have,  they  can 
be  nullified  by  halitosis*  (unpleasant  breath).  It  may  be  absent 
one  day  and  present  the  next,  without  your  realizing  when  you 
have  it.  So  play  smart.  Rinse  your  mouth  with  Listerine  Anti- 
septic night  and  morning,  and  especially  before  any  date. 

To  be  extra-attractive  be  extra-careful.  Listerine  Antiseptic  is 
the  extra-careful  precaution.  It  freshens  your  breath  .  .  .  not  for 
seconds,  not  for  minutes  .  .  .  but  usually  for  hours. 

Though  sometimes  systemic,  most  cases  of  halitosis  are  due  to  the 
bacterial  fermentation  of  tiny  food  particles  in  the  mouth.  Listerine 
Antiseptic  quickly  halts  such  oral  fermentation,  then  overcomes  the 
odors  it  causes.  Lambert  Pharmacal  Company,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 


LISTERINE  ANTISEPTIC... 


sweet  mljl  hot 


IT'S  BREATH-TAKINGI 


by  leonard  feather  T.^::' 


FROM  THE  MOVIES 

ATLANTIC  cny— Blues  iMy  Naughty  Siveetie 
Gives  To  Me  sung  by  Bill  Darnel  (Coral). 

BEAVER  VALLEr— J iug-a-Ling  by  the  Fontone 
Sisters*  (Victor),  Andrews  Sisters 
(Decca). 

You'll  like  this  theme  melody  from  the 
Walt  Disney  production,  written  by  Don 
Roye  end  sung  by  the  Fontone  gals  with 
Dick  Contino  and  the  Hugo  Winterholte' 
Orchestra.  The  Andrews'  version  is  backed 
by  a  revival  of  the  Parade  of  the  IVood 
en  Soldiers. 

LEMON  DROP  V.\0—Sik  er  Bells  by  Bing  Crosby 
ond   Carol    Richards*  (Decca). 

LET'S  DANCE— O/i  Thew  Dudes  by  Polly  Be- 
gen  (Victor). 

MR.  MUSIC — Life  is  So  Peculiar  by  Louis  Arm- 
strong ond  Louis  Jordon**  (Decca): 
Peggy  Lee*  (Capitol);  Lisa  Kirk*  (Vic- 
tor): Monica  Lewis*  (MGM). 
All  the  records  of  this  wonderful  Frank 
Loesser  song  ore  so  great  it's  hard  to 
pick  a  favorite — better  just  listen  to  all 
of  them. 

MY  FRIEND  IRMA  GOES  WEST — I'll  Alivavs 

Loie    You    by    Eileen   V/ilson    and  Don 

Cherry*  (Decca). 
ROGUES-  REGIMENT— for    a    While  by 

Mindy   Carson  (Victor). 
SAMSON  AND  DELILAH— 5o)!(7    of   Delilah  by 

Art  Lund*  (MGM). 
TWO  WEEKS  WITH  LOVE— original  cast  album* 

(MGM). 

This  set  of  slices  from  the  soundtrack 
brings  you  everything  but  the  Techni- 
color. Jane  Powell  does  four  of  the  six 
numbers  alone,  two  with  Corleton  Car- 
penter. Records  are  ovoiloble  on  all  three 
speeds. 

WEST  POINT  STORY— FoK  Love  Me  by  Gor- 
don  MacRae*  (Capitol). 

ALBUMS  &  LP'S 

JOE  BUSHKIN— Piano  Moods*  (Columbia  LP) 
Columbia  has  started  to  corner  the  piano 
market,  and  if  you're  in  the  mood  fo. 
pretty  keyboord  music  for  easy  listening 
there  ore  several  other  good  sets  by  Dor- 
donelle,  Walter  Gross  and  a  whole  bunch 
of  fine  pianists.  Best  of  oil  is  the  one  by 
Erroll  Garner. 

HARRY  JAMES— Your  Dance  Date*  (Columbia 
LP).  ^ 

Here's  another  of  those  dance  collections 
with  no  interruptions  between  tunes — just 
continuous  James  jazz  mostly  in  the  jump 
style  but  with  some  mighty  pretty  mo- 
ments, too. 

JEANETTE  MACDONALD— Favorites*  (Victor). 

Six  Jeanette  MocDonold  hits  including 
Ciribiribin,  One  Night  of  Love,  Only  a 
Rose. 

EZIO  PINZA— Enchanted  Melodies*  (Columbia 
LP). 


iSlli 


You  know  that  shiver  of  excitement  when 
you  suddenly  look  new?  A  delirious  dress 
can  do  it ...  or  a  once-in-a-million  hair-do 
. . .  that  lift  sends  you  dancing  up  to  the 
stars.  That's  exactly  the  way  you'll  feel 
when  you  first  wear  Dream  Stuff. 


This  brand  new  make-up  is  a  tinted  foun- 
dation and  powder  magically  blended  into 
one  make-up!  Not  a  drying  cake  or  a 
greasy  cream.  Pat  it  on  with  its  puff — it 
clings  for  hours.  Tuck  it  in  your  purse — 
it  cant  spill !  4  dreamy  shades. 


on 


y 


DREAM  STUFF  ^ 

New!  Tinted  Foundation  and  Powder  in  one 


of 


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push  the  cap'-' 
Have  lovelier "loohing 
hands  in  seconds t 


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unscrew,  replace,  or  lose. 


2.  No  Muss! 

Turn  bottle  upside  down. 
Press  gently  on  knob 
behind  spout  with  fore- 
finger to  dispense  lotion. 
Can't  spill,  bottle  never 
becomes  slippery. 


1^  ^ 

3.  No  Waste! 


When  exactly  desired 
amount  of  lotion  is  dis- 
pensed, release  pressure 
of  forefinger  and  replace 
bottle  upright.  Simple, 
convenient,  economical. 


■  "/  mill  never  disgrace  these  hallowed 

weapons  or  abandon  my  comrade 

by  whom  I  am  placed.  I  will  not  leave 

my  country  less  but  greater  by  sea  and  land. 

I  will  obey  the  appointed  rulers  and 

the  established  laws  and  whatever  new 

laws  the  state  may  lawfully 

establish.  And  if  anyone  attempts 

to  abolish  the  existing  laws  or  disobey 

them  I  -will  resist  him." — The  Athenian  Oath 

"Every  actor  who  makes  Hollywood 
synonymous  with  motion  pictures 
should  be  required  to  take  and  abide  by 
the  Athenian  Oath.  Hollywood  is  not 
and  never  has  been  as  wicked  as  outside 
critics  claim,  but  not  until  actors 
accept  their  responsibiUty  will  they 
take  the  club  out  of  the  hands  of  those 
critics.  So  far  they  have  tried  to  dodge 
their  responsibility  in  too  many  instances. 

"They  point  indignantly  to  the 
fact  that  only  one  out  of  six  has  been 
divorced  compared  to  like  divorce 
figures  in  other  cities;  that  their  night- 
clubbing  with  its  sprinkhng  of  fist  fights 
can  be  duplicated  in  some  other  places. 

"Perhaps  they  are  right,  but  they 
overlook  entirely  the  truth  that  their 
influence  is  too  great  for  them  to  regard 
themselves  as  anything  more  or  less 
than  important  and  richly  rewarded 
public  servants  who  must  be  above 
reproach.  No  such  actor  has 
the  right  to  claim  artistic  license 
to  flaunt  those  institutions  or  standards 
of  conduct  and  morals  in  which 
people  believe.  It  is  time  they  recognized 
this  and  took  themselves  more  seriously." 

These  are  not  the  words  of  a  space- 
grabbing  politician  nor  of  a  distant 
shouting  preacher  so  that  Hollywood 
can  sigh,  "What,  once  again?" 

They  are  the  {Continued  on  page  81) 


She  never  looks  back,  because  the  past  is  too  full  of  shadows  and  broken  dreams. 


■  When  they  told  Lana  at  the  hospital  that  she 
had  lost  a  baby  for  the  second  time,  she  died  a 
little.  And  when  the  shock  of  that  breathless, 
numb  moment  had  passed  and  her  tears  came,  it 
seemed  as  if  they  would  never  stop  .  .  .  tears  for 
this  unfulfilled  promise,  and  for  all  the  promises 
of  life  that  had  been  broken,  and  for  all  the 
sorrows  ...  If  Lana  Turner  had  ever  known 
happiness  at  its  fullest,  it  was  because  she  bad 
experienced  sadness  many  times  at  its  depth. 

On  that  Friday  night  last  October  when  she 
slipped  on  her  porch  and  lost  her  child,  another 
misfortune  was  added  to  her  lengthy  list.  If  there 
was  anything  that  she  had  wanted  then  or  now 
more  than  a  baby,  she  couldn't  name  it. 

Two  years  ago,  when  she  suffered  her  first 
miscarriage,  the  doctors  had  told  Lana  that  her 
chances  of  having  another  child  were  slim,  be- 
cause of  the  RH  factor.  "Your  blood  is  RH 
negative,"  the  doctors  pointed  out,  "and  Mr. 
Topping's  is  RH  positive.  A  child  of  yours 
might  be  bom,  but  it  probably  wouldn't  sur\'ive." 

This  RH  factor,  which  plays  a  great  role  in 
Lana's  life,  is  a  sub-type  of  four  major  blood 
types.  Nowadays,  before  blood  transfusions  are 
made,  the  blood  of  the  donor  is  matched  to  the 
blood  of  the  patient,  for  if  the  blood  doesn't 
match  after  the  second  transfusion,  dangerous 
shock  reactions  result.  These  reactions  also  occur  • 
if  the  RH  factor  doesn't  match,  too.  Most  of  the 
people  in  this  country  are  RH  positive;  a  small 
percentage  are  RH  negative,  and  do  not  contain 
the  RH  factor  in  their  blood  cells. 

During  her  first  pregnancy,  Lana's  body  man- 
aged to  tolerate  this  antagonistic  mixture  of 
blood,  and  despite  it,  she  gave  birth  to  Cheryl,  a 
healthy  child.  But  the  {Continued  on  page  84) 


THE 

SORROWS 
OF 

LANA 
TURNER 


STILL  GRIEF-STRICKEN   BT   THE  LOSS    OF    HER   BABY,  LANA,  REMAINING  GLAMOROUS,  MANAGES  TO  SMILE. 


I  had  never  seen 

a  romance  like  theirs,  it 

was  so  beautiful. 

And  even  now  that  it's 

over  for  Jane  and 

Ronnie,  the  ghost  of  their 

love  lingers  on  .  .  . 


HAUNTED  BY  THEIR 
PERFECT  Um  ? 


"I  introduced  them  twelve  years  ago  when  I 
invited  Ronnie  and  Jane  on  a  personal  ap- 
pearance tour.  Starlet  Jane  idolized  Ronnie." 


■  I  sincerely  believe  there's  not 
a  chance  in  the  world  of  Jane  Wyman  and 
Ronald  Reagan  being  married  lovers  again. 

And,  just  as  sincerely,  I  believe  they 
will  never  be  free  of  that  perfect  love  they  once  shared. 

If  this  were  not  true — how  does  it  happen  that 
neither  has  been  able  really  to  fall  in  love 
with  anyone  else  although  two  years  have  gone 
by  since  a  judge  handed  Janie  her  final 
divorce  decree,  and  their  separation  was  a  year  before  that? 

Oh,  yes,  I  know  that  Jane,  so  chic,  so  poised, 
so  much  a  woman  of  the  world  these  days,  has 
thought  she  was  ill  love  several  times. 

There  was  the  moody-broody  interlude  with  Lew  Ay  res. 

Wealthy  Mannie  Sachs  was  crazy  about 
her— and  Jane  was  flattered. 

Whether  they  admit  it  or  not,  a  spark 
ignited  briefly,  flared,  and  died  down 
between  Jane  and  good  looking  attorney,  Greg  Bautzer. 

As  for  Ronnie — he's  had  dates,  naturally. 
He's  good  looking,  successful  and — very  hum^n. 
But  never  for  a  minute  has  he  even  pretended  it  was  love. 

They  are  quite  sure,  Jane  and  Ronnie,  that 
their  love  is  dead,  cold  and  finished  without  the  tiniest 
ember  still  aglow.  But.  I  wonder  if  they 
are  equally  sure  that  what  they  once  had  shared 
has  not  made  the  other  loves  too  pale? 

I  say,  truthfully,  that  in  (Continued  on  page  73) 


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She  loved  being  called  Mrs.  Reagan;  she  was  the  happiest  married  woman     ever  knew,  and  her  career  took  second  spot  in  her  life.' 


nicky  hilton  tells  his  side 


BY  KIRTLEY  BASKETTE  Six  mornings  a  week,  at  8:30  on  the 
dot,  a  restlessly  energetic  young  man  in  a  neat  business  suit 
settles  his  six-foot  frame  behind  a  desk  in  his  office  at  Los 
Angeles'  Bel-Air  Hotel  where  he  is  part  owner  and  vice-president. 
On  his  desk  rests  a  copper  pen  stand  engraved  "Conrad  Nichol- 
son Hilton,  Jr.,"  also  stacks  of  paper  work  and  two  telephones 
which  start  clamoring  the  minute  he  sits  down. 

Nick  Hilton  juggles  the  receivers  from  ear  to  ear  and  wades 
into  his  work — checking  receipts,  scanning  color  schemes  for 
decoration,  jig-saw  puzzHng  reservations,  plotting  parties,  get- 
ting the  engineer  after  the  heater  that's  gone  out,  soothing  the 
fussy  lady  with  the  Pekingese.  The  hundred  fascinating  head- 
aches of  the  hotel  game  he  loves  gang  up  on  him  and  he's  happy. 

Then  comes  a  call,  from  a  friend,  hke  the  other  day. 

"Hello,  Nick?  Did  you  see  the  morning  paper?" 

"No — what?"  But  already  a  frown  is  planted  on  Nick  Hilton's 
pleasant,  boyish  face. 

".  .  .  Says  last  night  you  and  Elizabeth  had  a  row  in  a  night 
club  over  an  old  boy  friend  and  you  huffed  out  of  the  place. 
That  true?" 


"Last  night,"  repUes  Nick  wearily,  "Elizabeth  and  I  played 
canasta  with  my  brother  and  his  wife  at  their  house.  Nobody 
huffed  out  of  anywhere.  Look — how  can  people  make  up  such 
things,  how  can  they  print  them?  Isn't  there  some  way  to 
stop — ?"  Then  he  answers  himself— "No — if  you  talk  back,  you 
only  make  things  worse.  We'll  just  rise  above  this  one,  too." 

But  already  some  of  the  steam  is  out  of  his  morning.  His 
brown  eyes  burn.  He's  on  the  defensive  and  he's  sore.  Who 
wouldn't  be? 

Ever  since  he  married  Elizabeth  Taylor  last  May,  Nick  Hil- 
ton has  been  a  target  for  unjust,  even  slanderous  barbs.  From 
the  day  he  said  "I  do"  to  this  they  have  never  stopped  slam- 
ming away  with  outrageous  rumor  and  gossip  at  his  home,  and 
consistently  Nick  himself  has  been  made  out  the  villain  of  the 
piece.  Why,  is  pretty  hard  to  figure — unless  the  fact  that  he  cap- 
tured America's  most  sought  after  beauty  made  the  whole  world 
spitefully  jealous.  Whatever  the  reason,  this  good  natured, 
ambitious  and  hard  working  guy  Hilton  has  been  persistently 
pictured  as  a  fractious  playboy,  spendthrift  young  millionaire, 
gambler,  tippler,  glamor-struck  husband — a  sort  of  combination 


but  here  are  the  facts  he 


BY  SHEILAH  GRAHAM  By  the  time  you  read  this  health  chart 
on  the  marriage  state  of  Elizabeth  Taylor  and  Nicky  Hilton, 
anything  might  have  happened — a  big  argument,  a  bigger  recon- 
ciUation,  a  statement  of  undying  devotion,  or  a  visit  to  the 
lawyer.  But  whether  they  are  together  or  whether  they  are  apart," 
I'm  going  to  add  a  powerful  postscript — ^They'll  Still  Be  in 
Love! 

I've  written  about  Elizabeth  and  Nicky  before  but  it  was  like 
riding  a  horse  with  blinders  on — the  scenery  to  the  left  and  right 
could  only  be  guessed  at.  Now,  the  marriage  is  emerging  in  its 
sharp  outline.  Conjecture  can  be  replaced  by  clarification.  The 
honeymoon  is  over.  This  is  for  real.  And  reaUty  is  sometimes  a 
painful  pill  to  swallow.  So  are  facts.  But  because  I'm  convinced 
that  Elizabeth  and  Nicky  are  in  love,  I'll  be  presumptuous,  per- 
haps, and  measure  out  the  medicine.  And  I  hope  the  young 
Hiltons  will  swallow  it  with  an  open  mind — to  mix  metaphors. 

First  of  all,  Elizabeth  and  Nicky  have  been  behaving  like 
spoiled  children.  And  I'm  not  blaming  them  for  that.  They've 
both  had  everything  done  for  them  all  their  lives.  Nicky's 
father,  multi-millionaire  hotel  tycoon  Conrad  Hilton,  has  wor- 


shipped the  oldest  of  his  three  sons  ever  since  his  birth  23  years 
ago  in  Texas.  Nicky  had  only  to  ask,  to  get — a  pony — a  horse — a 
fishing  rod,  a  trust  fund,  travel.  The  child  of  divorced  parents, 
what  he  didn't  smooch  from  his  father,  he  smiled,  out  of  his 
mother.  They  gave  him  everything.  Everything  except  a  couple 
of  things  money,  not  even  milUons,  can  buy — consideration  for 
others,  emotional  happiness  for  himself. 

And  Elizabeth.  The  pretty  child  of  a  still  pretty  mother.  It 
must  be  hard  for  a  mama  to  keep  her  head  when  her  heart  is 
listening  to  the  lovely  sentence,  "Your  daughter  is  the  most 
beautiful  girl  in  the  world."  The  Taylors  weren't  and  aren't  as 
wealthy  as  the  Hiltons,  not  by  several  millions,  but  whatever 
they  had,  Elizabeth  had  most  of — rented  houses  at  the  beach, 
dresses,  devotion — dreams.  Topped  with  the  pink  icing  on  the 
white  cake — fame  as  a  movie  star  in  Elizabeth's  own  right. 

So,  the  famous  young  beauty  marries  the  handsome  rich 
Prince  Charming,  and  the  whole  world  smiles,  and  expects  them 
to  be  happy  ever  after.  Maybe  they  will  be — afterwards.  But 
right  now  they  are  learning,  and  very  painfully  I'm  afraid,  via 
spats  and  separations,  that  there's  more  to  living  than  loving, 


34 


II 


of  the  story.. 


Errol  Flynn,  gay  Tommy  Manville  and  "Bet-a-Million"  Gates. 

In  Paris,  on  his  honeymoon,  reporters  kept  his  telephone  at 
the  Georges  V.  hotel  janghng  day  and  night  until  he  had  to 
have  it  shut  off.  Then  they  buttonholed  him  in  the  lobby:  How 
many  millions  had  he  settled  on  his  bride?  What  did  his  Cadillac 
cost?  How  much  had  he  paid  for  her  furs — ^how  much  for  her 
jewels?  How  many  hundreds  of  shoes  had  he  bought  her?  Was 
it  true  he  was  ordering  Elizabeth  a  custom  made  evening  gown 
from  every  expensive  couturier  in  Paris?  And  so  on,  until — as 
Nick  recalls  disgustedly,  "I  wanted  to  poke  them  in  the  nose." 

London  was  worse.  There  Nick  got  even  more  absurd  and 
some  insulting  reactions.  Was  he  star  struck?  Was  he  after  a 
movie  career?' Did  he  long  to  make  a  picture  with  Elizabeth? 
One  paper  printed  a  news  shot  of  Nick  and  Elizabeth  with  the 
caption,  "Mister  Taylor  Is  All  Burned  Up!"  And  Mister  Hilton 
was  all  burned  up  when  he  saw  that — for  sure. 

At  Cannes,  in  the  south  of  France,  where  the  Hiltons  spent 
long  honeymoon  days,  most  vacationers  swim  in  the  morning, 
nap  in  the  afternoon,  visit  the  Casino  at  night — that's  about  all 
there  is  to  do.  But  when  Nick  Hilton  {Contimied  on  page  92) 


lias  to  lace 


especially  when  the  person  you  seem  to  love  most  is  the  one  who 
looks  back  at  you  in  the  mirror. 

Take  the  "help"  question.  The  servant  saga  in  the  Nicky 
Hilton,  household  is  hilarious  or  heartbreaking — depending  on 
your  sense  of  humor  this  morning.  Within  the  space  of  two 
months — from  September  when  Elizabeth  and  Nicky  so  bravely 
set  up  housekeeping  in  the  Pacific  Palisades  home  belonging  to 
his  younger  brother  Barron,  to  the  end  of  October  when  they 
decided  they  didn't,  after  all,  want  to  buy  the  house — Elizabeth 
hired,  fired,  or  was  plain  walked  out  on  by  six — count  'em — 
servants  !  And  they  might  never  have  had  a  seventh  (trouble 
travels  fast  on  the  exclusive  servant  circuit  in  Beverly  Hills  and 
points  west)  if  Joan  Bennett,  in  motherly  compassion  for  the 
young  flounderers,  hadn't  loaned  them  Jier  own  housekeeper! 

Who  is  to  blame  for  the  Hilton  help  problem?  I'm  not  saying. 
But  these  are  the  plain  ungamished  facts.  Servants  don't  usually 
leave  considerate  employers.  One  of  the  dissatisfied  six  told  me 
that  she  found  Elizabeth  and  Nicky  very  charming  to  work  for 
except  for  one  failing — "You  never  knew  when  they'd  suddenly 
appear  with  six  extra  guests  for  dinner  (Continued  on  page  96) 


The  public  pictures  movie 
stors  in  Russian  broadtail  negli- 
gees.   Ruth  Roman  would 
like  to  own  this  one,  but  won't 
soend  $6,000. 


You  can  get  a  reputation  for  glamour  overnight  if  yc 
bathe  in  leopard  skin.  But  Ruth's  made  her  reputatic 
by  acting  (see  her  in  Dallas),  doesn't  need  $900  prop 


Ruth  Roman  says: 
"It's  the  sense  in  'sensa- 
tional' that  counts. 
Why  buy  clothes  that 
look  good  enough 
to  eat  if  you  can't 
eat  enough  to  look  good?" 

BY  SUSAN  TRENT 


At  Fuhrman's,  Beverly  Hills'  fabulous  fur  shop,  Ruth  Roman  daydreams 
;lcj-  in  0  Royal  pastel  mink.  Unlike  the  dummy  next"  to  her,  she  could  walk 
%\:    out  v/ith  it,  but  she  borrows  minks  from  the  studio  for  public  appearances. 


Ruth  found  a  versatile  scarf  of  grey  Russian  lamb  with  dots  the  size 
of  silver  dollars.  It  con  be  worn  as  belt  or  turban.  All  in  all,  she 
tried  on  5150,000  worth  of  furs,  but  didn't  buy  even  an  ermine  tail. 


■  It  happened  the  night  of  one  of  her  first 
big  premieres.  There  were  lights  and  cam- 
eras and  hundreds  of  gorgeous  people  step- 
ping out  of  limousines.  Crowds  lined  the 
sidewalks — cheering  their  favorite  stars  as 
tbey  entered  the  theater.  Ruth  Roman 
stopped  to  give  an  autograph.  "Gosh,  Miss 
Roman,  you  look  just  wonderful,"  said  the 
little  girl  whose  book  she  held. 

Shyly,  the  girl  reached  out  and  touched 
the  sleeve  of  Ruth's  coat.  "Mink  .  .  ."  she 
sighed,  bhssfully. 
Ruth  sighed,  too,  before  she  grinned  her 


honest  grin  and  confessed.  "Honey,"  she 
said.  "It  goes  right  back  to  the  studio  to- 
morrow." 

"You  mean  it  doesn't  belong  to  you?" 
said  the  voice  of  utter  disillusionment. 
That's  when  Ruth  realized  that  she  had 
a  problem. 

Just  plain  Ruth  Roman  can  lounge 
around  in  denims.  She  can  even  walk  down 
Hollywood  Boulevard  in  a  simple  peasant 
outfit — as  long  as  no  one  recognizes  her. 
But  Ruth  R"oman,  movie  star,  is  obligated 
to  be  spectacular  most  of  the  time.  "It's 


expected,"  she  says.  "Stars  are  supposed  to 
have  more  imagination  about  clothes,  and 
more  money  to  spend  on  them.'' 

Occasionally.  you"ll  find  that  sensational 
clothes  pay  off — as  in  the  case  of  Rita  Hay- 
worth.  Rita  was  playing  one  smaU  role  after 
another.  Nobody  seemed  to  care.  Until  Ed 
Judson,  her  husband  at  the  time,  took  her 
shopping.  They  spent  a  few  thousand  dol- 
lars on  designs.  It  figured.  If  she  dressed 
the  part,  stardom  would  follow.  Rita  and 
her  gowns  got  the  pubhcity.  And  the  pub- 
hcity  launched  an  {Continued  on  page  97^ 


37 


what's  wrong 

with  the 
Clark  Gables? 


Ga"ble  at  a  fashion  show?  Sylvia 
frying  hamburgers?  It  looks  too  good. 
The  public  can't  help  wondering... 

By  SHEILAH  GRAHAM 

■  The  time  has  come  to  examine  the  marriage  of  the  Clark  Gables.  On  December  20th, 
1950,  Clark  and  Sylvia  passed  the  one  year  marriage  milestone.  That's  not  long,  but  al- 
ready there  have  been  some  insidious  whisperings  of  trouble  in  Paradise.  Are  they  true? 
Are  they  false?  And  why  and  how  do  rumors  like  this  start  in  the  first  place? 

It  may  be  presumptuous  for  an  outside  party  to  peer  into  the  personal  life  of  any  in- 
dividual, pubhc  or  private.  And  what  happens  behind  the  closed  doors  of  marriage  is 
really  no  business  of  mine  or  yours.  But  the  mating  of  a  movie  star  is  hke  the  score  board 
of  the  stock  market.  When  you're  an  investor,  you  naturally  watch  with  great  interest 
as  the  points  go  up  and  the  points  go  down.  The  fans  invest  love  and  loyalty  in  their 
film  favorites,  and  as  an  accredited  score-board  keeper,  I'm  going  to  do  my  best  to  give 
you  an  honest  accounting. 

Okay.  Rumor  number  one.  Sylvia  sent  her  favorite  maid  back  to  England  after  five 
years  of  devoted  service  simply  because  Clark  does  not  care  for  her  too  much.  At  least, 
that  is  the  story  I  hear  behind  the  story.  The  maid  did  go  back  to  England.  At  the  time, 
just  after  her  mistress  married  Mr.  Gable,  it  was  said  there  was  no  room  for  her  in 
Clark's  modest  Encino  ranch  home.  Since  then  there  has  been  an  extra  guest  house  added. 
The  maid  has  not  returned. 

Of  course,  if  Clark  really  does  prefer  Sylvia  without  her  maid,  she  is  smart  to  keep  her 
away.  And  take  it  from  me,  the  new  Mrs.  Gable  is  smart.  She  looks  like  a  piece  of  fragile 
china,  but  if  she  wants  this  marriage  to  last  forever — and  I'm  sure  she  does — it  would  be 
easier  to  break  a  bar  of  iron. 

When  Clark  drove  alone  in  his  big  car  to  Durango,  Colorado,  for  his  picture  Across 
The  Wide  Missouri,  and  Sylvia  went  solo  by  train  in  the  same  direction,  the  rumor  mongers 
clacked  busy  tongues  and  called  the  columnists  to  say  "This  proves  there  is  trouble." 
But  I  took  the  trouble  to  check  the  "why"  behind  the  brief  separation.  I  was  told  that 
Sylvia  does  not  like  long  auto  drives  through  the  heat  of  the  desert.  I  also  learned  that 
she  left  the  train  at  Gallup,  New  Mexico,  where  Clark  met  her,  and  drove  the  rest  of 
the  way  with  him,  so  they  could  join  the  others  of  the  company  together.  It's  also  true 
that  when  the  members  of  the  company  saw  the  svelte  Sylvia  {Continued  on  page  94) 


But  don't  feel 
sorry  for  Marilyn — - 
unless  you're  the  kind 
who  weeps  over 
Cleopatra,  and  pities 
a  girl  who  has 
so  much  glamor 
that  it  hurts. 


■  Before  I  was  born,  my  father  was  killed  in  an 
automobile  accident  during  a  business  trip  to  New 
York  City.  A  short  time  later,  my  mother  became 
critically  ill,  and  while  I  was  still  too  young  to  know- 
much  about  what  was  happening,  I  became  ah  orphan. 

Naturally,  that  fact  has  greatly  influenced  my  life. 
I  know  that  often,  in  moments  of  loneliness,  it  has 
been  the  cause  of  deep  personal  sadness  and  even,  at 
times,  self-pity.  But  I  also  like  to  think  that  it  is 
responsible,  at  least  in  part,  for  my  having  been  able 
to  realize  my  greatest  ambition — an  acting  career. 

I  don't  hke  to  dwell  on  the  confused  and  unsettled 
part  of  my  childhood.  When  I  was  orphaned,  the 
court,  as  is  customary  in  the  state  of  California, 
appointed  a  legal  guardian  for  me.  At  first  I  lived 
with  the  guardian,  but  because  she  had  a  family  of 
her  own,  it  became  necessary  for  me  to  live  with 
someone  else.  I  don't  suppose  I  need  to  remind 
anyone  that  the  1930's  were  difficult  times  for 
everybody. 

During  the  years  that  I  was  going  through  gram- 
mar school,  I  lived  with  a  number  of  different  fam- 
ilies all  over  Los  Angeles.  I'm  not  sure,  but  I  believe 
I  went  to  seven  different  grade  schools.  And  I  always 
attended  the  church  of  the  faith  of  the  family  I  was 
living  with  at  the  time. 

I  don't  believe  that  I  ever  really  gave  any  trouble 
to  the  people  I  lived  with.  I  was  a  shy  little  girl,  and 
while  I  was  still  very  young,  I  developed  a  make- 
believe  world  for  myself.  Every  afternoon  when  I 
took  my  naps,  I  would  pretend  things.  One  day,  I 
would  be  a  beautiful  princess  in  a  tower.  Or  a  boy 
with  a  dog.  Or  a  grandmother  with  snowy  white  hair. 
And  at  night,  I  would  lie  and  whisper  out,  ever  so 
softly,  the  situations  that  I  had  heard  on  the  radio 
before  bedtime.  I  don't  believe  that  I  minded  much 
being  alone.  In  fact,  I  rather  enjoyed  it. 

I  remember  a  vacant  lot  that  I  used  to  cross  on  my 
way  home  from  Bakman  Avenue  School  in  North 
Hollywood.  It  was  just  a  dirty  old  lot  overgrown 
with  weeds,  but  from  the  moment  I  stepped  onto  it, 
it  became  a  magic  and  private  place  where  I  could 
be  all  of  the  people  I  had  {Continued  on  page  64) 


Despite  her  high-flung  aspirations,  Marilyn  can't  deny  her  more 
earthy  assets  which  manage  to  make  even  shorts  and  shirt  look 
glamorous.     She  also  dresses  up  her  part  in  All  About  Eve. 


the  truth  about 


\               f  7 

hollywood's 

golden  circle 

Social  success  is 
assured  by  an  invita- 

tion fronn  one  of 

these  famous  star  hosts. 

Fred  Astaire 

Jack  Benny 

Claudette  Colbert 

Ronald  Colman 

,  Joan  Crawford. 

Clark  Gable 

Bob  Hope 

Barbara  Stanwyck 

Hollywood's  social  register  is  spelled  CASH,  and  a  green  check  will  pass  for  blue 


■  A  few  weeks  ago,  a  famous  star  walked  into 
Romanoff's  restaurant  for  lunch.  Prince  Roman- 
off greeted  him  cordially,  as  usual,  and  led  him 
to  a  table.  The  table  was  not  as  usual,  however. 
It  was  table  number  four,  instead  of  table 
number  one,  and  that  was  the  first  indication 
anyone  had  that  this  star's  option  had  been 
dropped.  What's  more,  if  someone  doesn't  pick 
up  his  option  soon,,  the  star  will  have  to  bring 
his  own  chair  along  if  he  wants  to  get  a  seat 
at  Romanoff's. 

There's  no  Blue  Book  in  Hollywood,  no  Lady 
Astor  to  determine  your  social  standing,  but 
go  to  Romanoff's  before  lunch  or  just  before 
dinner  and  stand  at  the  bar.  In  the  space  of  ah 
hour  you'll  know  who's  who  in  Hollj^ood 
society,  without  a  word  being  uttered. 


If  a  star  is  shunted  to  the  back  room  he's  on 
the  way  down.  If  he  has  to  wait  for  a  table,  he's 
all  washed  up.  If  he's  led  immediately  to  one 
of  the  booths  marked  "Reserved,"  he's  marching 
at  the  head  of  the  legion  of  honor,  temporarily 
at  least,  and  is  duly  noted  by  everyone  of  im- 
portance, or  their  informers,  as  a  "must"  on  all 
guest  lists.  Before  he's  finished  with  his  dessert 
a  platoon  of  agents  are  guaranteeing  him  more 
money  than  his  present  representative  is  getting 
him,  regardless  of  the  amount. 

There  are  two  factors  that  really  determine 
social  eminence  in  Hollywood — fame  and  the 
power  to  command  a  large  salary.  An  old  line 
Angeleno  socialite,  while  attending  one  of  Holly- 
wood's famous  polo  games  once  wr>'ly  remarked, 
"This  is  the  first  time  in  the  history  of  the  game 


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blood  any  day. 


that  the  horses  have  had  better  blood  than  the 
players." 

In  similar  vein,  a  fellow  wag  once  observed 
that  in  Hollj^wood  an  aristocrat  is  anyone  who 
can  trace  his  ancestry  back  to  his  father.  While 
both  these  boys  were  certainly  reaching  to  make 
a  point,  it  is  nonetheless  true  that  social  position 
in  Holljrwood  does  not  rest  upon  the  foundations 
that  support  it  in  most  other  communities. 

Sometimes  in  a  matter  of  two  or  three 
months,  fame,  fortune  and  a  fawning  public 
present  themselves  hke  a  dream  to  some  aspiring 
actor,  and  his  social  position  is  assured.  That  this 
position  can  be  reversed  in  an  equally  short  time 
is  a  matter  of  record.  Is  it  any  wonder  then  that 
a  session  among  Hollywood's  elite  gives  you  the 
impression    that    {Continued    on    page  86) 


The  woven  fence  around  Janet's  property  is  the  same  redwood  as  the  house 


with  a 

redwood 

fence 


Janet's  taste  in  decoration  is  simple.  Low-slung, 


Indoors  and  outdoors  ore  pleasantly  mingled  in  Janet's  Originally  designed  for  the  architect  himself,  the  house 
home  which  is  built  around  a  patio.  The  patio's  portable  is  planned  for  efficient  living.  The  modern  kitchen  has 
barbecue  and  bar  moke  entertaining  easy  and  gracious.      a  garbage  disposal,  snack  bar,  and  loads  of  cupboards. 


overstuffed  furniture  with  clean  lines,  set  in  conversational   groupings,   moke  for  uncluttered  comfort  in  the  living  room. 


When  is  a  house  a  castle?    When  a  princess  like  Janet  Leigh  lives  in  it — and  loves  it. 


■  They  call  her  Cinderella  Girl  so  much  she  almost  forgets 
her  name  is  Janet  Leigh.  And  even  if  she  still  hasn't  married 
her  prince,  this  Cinderella  has  a  castle — a  modem  castle  that's 
more  beautiful  than  spacious,  although  it  suits  her  family 
fine.  Around  it  there's  a  redwood  fence,  but  it  doesn't  keep 
the  world  from  her  door,  or  Tony  Curtis,  either.  Janet  doesn't 
mind.  Her  only  regret  is  that  she  didn't  think  of  buying  that 
castle  sooner. 

She  got  the  idea  over  one  Sunday's  breakfast.  She  was 
tired  that  morning.  There  was  no  sparkle  in  her  eyes,  no  lilt 
in  her  voice,  no  enthusiasm.  She'd  just  divorced  Stanley 
Reames  and  had  finished  her  eleventh  consecutive  movie.' 

Suddenly,  Janet  turned  to  her  father.  "Tell  me.  Dad,"  she 


said.  "Why  am  I  knocking  myself  out?  When  I'm  not  in 
front  of  the  cameras,  I'm  taking  ballet  lessons.  When  I'm 
not  taking  ballet,  I'm  studying  lines.  When  I  quit  studying 
lines,  I'm  off  on  publicity  junkets.  I  don't  even  have  time  to 
spend  the  money  I'm  earning." 

Her  father  told  her,  "All  that  is  the  price  of  fame."  Her 
mother  told  her  that  what  she  needed  was  a  nice  house  to 
come  home  to. 

"It  was  a  wonderful  idea,"  says  Janet  now.  "It  gave  my 
career,  all  the  hard  work,  a  purpose.  And  for  my  parents, 
well,  it  was  the  dream  of  a  lifetime." 

The  Morrison  family  launched  their  house-buying  project 
immediately.  But  it  took  more  than  a  year  to  find  a  place  that 


Tony  Curtis  is  a  frequent,  welcome  visitor  at  Janet  Leigh's  small 


castle.    He  likes  to  discuss  and  plan  other  dream  houses  with  her. 


castle  with  a  redwood  fence  continued 

suited  their  tastes  as  well  as  the  size  of  their  pocketbooks. 

"The  first  house  we  saw  was  beautiful,"  Janet  recalls.  "It 
would  have  been  perfect  if  I  had  discovered  oil  instead  of 
having  been  discovered  myself  by  Norma  Shearer.  It  was  a 
modest  California  bungalow.  I  think  it  cost  around  $37,500. 

"That's  a  lot  of  money,  but  it  was  the  upkeep  that  really 
bothered  us.  We  would  have  needed  a  hotel  staff.  The  real 
estate  agent  didn't  even  believe  me  when  I  told  her  we 
wanted  a  house  without  a  maid's  room. 

"She  looked  at  me  as  if  to  say,  'Sister,  you  can't  be  much 
of  an  actress  if  you  don't  even  have  a  maid.' 

"After  a  few  false  starts,  she  gave  up  calling  us.  I  guess 
she  figured  that  the  commission  she  made  on  any  house  we 
bought  wouldn't  fill  her  thimble. 

"For  months,  Dad  and.  Mom  and  I  spent  our  Sundays 
driving  through  residential  districts  we  liked.  It  got  s.o  that 
I  used  to  ask  my  dates  to  drive  me  home  'the  residential 


route'  so  that  I'd  be  sure  to  spot  the  latest  'for  sale'  signs. 

"We  looked  at  a  lot  of  beautiful  homes,  but  we're  sort  of 
an  idealistic  family,  and  we  decided  to  hold  out  until  we 
found  something  every  one  of  us  liked." 

Persistence  paid  off.  One  Sunday  when  Janet  was  driving 
around  Brentwood  in  her  Buick  convertible,  she  spied  a  new 
sign.  She  and  her  parents  hopped  out  of  the  car  and  inspected 
the  house. 

It  seemed  to  have  everything  they  wanted,  everything 
they  needed.  But  then  came  that  awful  moment  when. they 
had  to  ask  the  price. 

"You  won't  believe  it,"  Janet  says,  "but  even  the  price  was 
right.  We  saw  the  house  on  Sunday  and  bought  it  on  Monday. 
Maybe  you  won't  beheve  this,  but  honestly,  I  knew  the 
house  was  right  for  us  just  as  soon  as  I  saw  the  cute  fence 
out  front.  No  foohng." 

The  fence  that  first  caught  Janet's  (Continued  on  page  76) 


She  always  had  what  it 

took,  but  no  one  took  a  look- 

until  she  climbed  into 

a  corset.  Now  everybody's 

making  eyes  at  Janie  Powell. 


JANE  WILKIE 


■  Maybe  you've  heard  of  her.  Her  name's  Jane  Powell, 
the  girl  with  the  voice — and  plenty  more.  A  couple  of 
years  ago,  she'd  walk  along  the  street  and  people  would 
say,  "There  goes  Janie."  Not  now.  Now  the  people, 
particularly  the  men,  stop,  look — and  whistle. 

What  happened?  Well,  to  begin  with,  Janie  was  put 
into  a  corset  for  Two  Weeks  With  Love,  and  corsets 
don't  come  down  to  the  ankles.  Corsets  don't  hang  like 
potato  sacks.  The  people  on  the  set  had  an  awakening. 
Janie  wore  this  same  corset  to  the  Press  Photographers' 
Ball,  and  after  that  night  it  was  public  opinion  that  the 
glamor  girls  had  better  take  one  giant  step  for\vard  if 
they  want  to  keep  ahead  of  Jane  Powell. 

Metro-Goldwj-n-Mayer  is  really  excited.  All  the  time 
they  thought  they  had  just  a  cute  teen-ager  to  put  in 
Technicolor.  Now  they  have  a  woman,  and  so  much 
more  to  work  with. 

Most  people  are  surprised  at  this  new  Jane,  but  those 
who  know  her  well  could  have  predicted  what  would 
happen.  Even  when  she  first  came  out  to  Hollywood,  at 
14,  she  had  an  air  about  her.  Charles  Rogers,  who 
produced  her  first  movie.  Song  of  the  Open  Road,  will 
tell  you  that  she  might  have  been  a  little  scared,  a  little 
lonely,  but  it  didn't  interfere  with  her  performance. 

"In  the  picture,"  says  Mr.  Rogers,  "we  wanted  to 
make  her  look  older,  so  we  dressed  her  in  more  mature 
clothes.  It  was  surprising  to  see  how  naturally  she  wore" 
them.  Not  like  most  kids,  who  would  look  as  though 
they'd  swiped  their  mother's  wardrobe.  She  made  you 
believe  she  was  17." 

Despite  her  maturity  at  that  age,  Janie  was  a  lone- 
some, homesick  kid.  Lillian  Bums,  the  drama  coach  at 
MGM,  remembers  the  first  time  she  rehearsed  Janie  for 
a  scene.  It  called  for  tears.  But  Janie  said,  "I  don't  feel 
like  crying.'' 

So  Miss  Bums  began  talking  about  Jane's  home,  and 
the  friends  she'd  left  behind  in  Portland.  Janie  burst  into 
sobs.  "T  wint  to  go  home!"  she  waOed.  "I  want  to  go 
back  to  school  with  my  friends!" 

Holiday  in  Mexico  changed  all  that.  She  met  Roddy 
McDowall,  and  through  him,  a  lot  of  young  people  who 
lived  in  Holl\-wood.  Soon  she  was  happy  and  successful. 
Success  brought  enough  fame,  and  money  to  turn  any- 
one's head,  especially  a  teen-ager's,  but  even  now.  Roddy 
McDowall  says,  "I've  known  {Continued  on  page  76) 


Jane's  practicality  isn't  new.  She  started  a  scrapbook  of 
recipes  as  soon  as  she  beca.-ne  engaged,  systematically 
shopped  for  furniture  ond  never  let  a  bargain  get  away. 


Self-confidence  came  with  marriage  to  Geary  Steffen,  but 
Jane's  friends  say  that  otherwise  she  hasn't  changed.  She 
was  always  mature  for  her  years  and  always  considerate. 


49 


Audie  was  her 

first  love,  her  lost  love, 

and  the  scar 

was  deep.  But  now 

Wanda  knows  that  someday, 

i 

someone  else  will 
come  to  claim  her  .  .  . 


■  She  had  probably  never  said  it  before  to  anyone,  but 
she  said  it  right  out,  without  prompting  or  probing. 
"I'm  not  in  love.  Not  anymore.  But  I  want  to  be.  I 
will  be.  I  can  be — ^now." 

Ver\'  tiny,  elfin,  like  an  animated  piece  of  Dresden, 
Wanda  Hendrix  sat  across  from  your  Modern  Screen 
reporter  and  said  for  the  record  that  the  last  flicker  of 
her  love  for  Audie  Murphy  had  died.  If  there  was  any 
emotion  in  her  voice  it  was  one  of  simple  regret.  Her 
manner  was  candid,  and  there  was  no  roar  of  tumbling 
bulwarks  as  the  admission  was  made  that  a  marriage 
which  had  captured  the  romantic  imagination  of  the 
world  had  failed,  and  that  the  institution  has  suffered. 

Yes,  the  institution  of  marriage  has  suffered,  because 
when  a  lovely  young  actress  marries  a  boy  who  might 
well  go  down  in  American  histor>'  as  the  greatest  warrior 
of  them  all,  we  steep  ourselves  in  the  beauty  of  their 
love.  When  their  dreams  are  revealed  as  clay,  so  are 
ours  by  reflection;  and  when  their  marriage  words 
prove  as  sacred  as  evidence  in  a  trafl&c  court,  a  bit  of 
our  world  crumbles. 

A  report  is  in  order.  The.  prelude  to  Wanda's  love, 
which  was  secret  in  the  time  of  its  existence,  must  be 
played  again  and  viewed  in  retrospect,  for  we  are  all 
interested  parties. 

A  question  to  Miss  Hendrix;  "When  did  you  first 
love  Audie  Murphy?"  (^Continued  (yn  page  63) 


HER  MOTHER'S  HAPPINESS  COMES  FIRST.  BUT  VERA-ELLEN  ALSO  VALUES  A  SOCIAL  LIFE  OF  HER  OWN. 


Vera-Ellen  had  fun  with  Cesar  Romero 
at    the     British     Film    Garden  Party. 


Rock  hHudson  is  a  frequent  escort.  Last  year  they 
were  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Oscar  at  the  Photographers'  Ball. 


When  in  New  York,  Vera-Ellen  glamor- 
dates  Ernest  Byfield,  Jr.,  at  the  Stork  Club. 


She's  made  her  mother 

laugh  once  more ;  she's  conquered 

the  plumbing  and  the 

blues.  Now,  Vera-Ellen's  the  head 

of  the  house— ^and  the  heart  of  it. 

BY  ROBERT  PEER 


there's  a  man  in  the  house 


■  The  day  after  Vera-EUen  finished  her  starring 
role  opposite  David  Niven  in  Happy  Go  Lovely, 
she  headed  for  Self  ridges,  one  of  London's  oldest 
department  stores. 

The  girl  in  the  dress  department  recognized 
her  immediately.  "What  can  I  do  for  you,  Miss' 
Ellen?"  she  asked,  eagerly. 

"I  think  I'd  like  a  mother-daughter  outfit. 
Something  bright  and  gay  .  .  ." 

One  hour  later.  Vera-Ellen  raced  up  to  her 
room  at  the  Claridge  hotel,  a  big  carton  under 
her  arm.  "Mother — I  bought  us  something. 
Something  we've  always  wanted  .  .  ." 

Mrs.  Alma  Rohe  watched  her  daughter  unpack 
two  identical,  colorful  print  dresses.  "Don't  you 
think  it's  a  little  bright  for  a  woman  my  age?" 
she  said,  hesitantly. 

"Oh,  come  on,  mother.  Try  it  on.  I'll  bet  we'll 
look  like  sisters.  Tonight  we'll  go  out  and  paint 
the  town  red!" 

Well — they  didn't  exactly  paint  London  red. 
But  Mrs.  Rohe  put  on  the  dress.  And  that  after- 
noon, the  two  women,  chattering  cheerfully, 
went  to  the  Savoy  for  tea.  If  you'd  been  sitting 
nearby,  you  might  have  heard  the  sweet-faced 
blonde  girl  say, 

"You  look  wonderful,  mother,  and  honestly — 
isn't  this  fun?"  You  might  have  heard  the  lady 
sitting  opposite  her  answer,  a  bit  incredulously, 

"You  know.  I  really  feel  wonderful,  and — 
well,  this  is  fun.  Let's  do  it  often." 

That  afternoon  was  a  double  triumph  for 
Vera-Ellen.  She  had  won  two  battles,  which,  had 
she  lost,  would  have  ruined  her  career  as  well  as 
the  lives  of  two  people. 

Her  battle  started  in  the  late  summer  of 
1949,  when  life  was  over  for  Martin  Rohe,  Vera- 
Ellen's  quiet  mannered,  {Continued  on  page  60) 


She's  capable,  but  cute,  too — her  legs  are  valuable  studio  property. 


THE  OFF-AGAIN.  ON-AGAIN  HUTTON-BRISKIN  MARRIAGE  HAS  SURVIVED  AN  UNSTABLE  PAST  (SEE  PICTURES  BELOW). 


BETTY'S  FAMILY  liked  Ted.  Mrs.  Hutton 
and  sis+er  Marion  couldn't  have  been 
happier  when  she  married  him  in  1946. 


THEIR  CHILDREN    gave  the   Briskin  marriage  a  larger 
■  meaning.  Th.ey  both  would  do  anything  to  insure  happi- 
ness .for  Lindsay  Diane,  now  three,  and  Candice,  two. 


54 


HOLLYWOOD  NIGHTLIFE  bored  Ted,  though  Bet- 
ty loved  its  glitter.  However,  personality  clash- 
es went  much  deeper  than  their  party  tastes. 


week-end  Marrla 


They  want  to 

keep  their  marriage — 

even  at  a  distance  .  .  . 

Ted  and  Betty 

live  twenty-five  hundred 

miles  apart  but  they've 

never  been  closer. 

BY  MARY  JANE  LILLY 


■  They  were  separated  twice  and  reconciled  twice,  which  is 
itself  an  unusual  thing  in  Hollywood.  Now  they're  back 
together  again  in  a  new  kind  of  marriage — marriage  by  long 
distance. 

The  people  who  get  their  polish  and  most  of  their  informa- 
tion by  leaning  on  cafe  tables  say  it  won't  work.  How  can  it — 
they  ask — if  he  lives  in  Chicago,  she  has  a  house  in  Holly- 
wood, and  they  see  each  other  weekends,  some  weekends? 
Is  that  marriage? 

Betty  Hutton  thinks  it  is,  but  from  the  smile  on  her  face 
you  can't  tell  if  she's  serious.  She  smiled  the  same  way  after 
both  her  separations,  and  everyone  assumed  that  she  couldn't 
have  been  happier.  She  was  as  vivacious  as  ever  with  a 
goodbye-I'll-never-miss-you  gaiety.  Now  that  Ted's  back,  or 
at  least  within  communicable  distance,  she  talks  about  the 
past  with  a  hint  of  tears  in  her  voice. 

"This  must  be  for  real,"  says  one  gossiper  to  another.  The 
other  laughs,  "That's  what  you  said  when  they  parted." 

Nobody  knows  if  this  marriage  will  last.  Her  friends  hope 
it  will,  but  Betty's  hard  to  understand  and  she  plays  whatever 
role  she  wants  so  well  that  someday  she  may  even  fool 
herself. 

While  she  and  Ted  were  separated,  for  instance,  Betty 
attended  an  all-girl  birthday  party,  (Continued  on  page  90) 


THEYRE  BLISSFUL  AT  THE  MOMENT.  BUT  THEY'VE  BEEN  THAT  WAY  BEFORE.    WHAT'S  NEXT? 


<  MOTHER  AND  CHILDREN  helped  fill  the  gap  for  FUNLOVING  Betty  carried  on  her  socio  life  with  or  TOGETHER  AGAIN— but  only  for  week-ends. 
Betty  during  her  two  separations  from  Ted.,  without  Ted.  She  never  lacked  dates  a  ways  seemed  •  This  long-distance  marriage  is  the  only  solu- 
She   made   great  strides   in    her   career,   too.    exuberant.    Bob  Sterling's  name  was  linked  with  hers,    tion   that  Betty  thinks  will   ever  work  out. 


4 


55 


Suspects  or  corpse?  It's  in  the  cards  for  Virginia  Field,  Mono 
and  Pat  Nerney,  Rhonda  Fleming,  Mara  Lynn  and  Joan  Evans. 


Guess  who's  the  corpse?  Dick  loob  horrified,  but  he  planned 
it  that  way — maybe  red-haired  Rhonda  will  get  to  kill  him. 


  Jack  Grey  decides  to  cut  up  a  little,  but  Joan 

Evans  thinks  he  may  be  going  a  bit  too  far. 


ie  corpse  proudly  denounces  his  own  murderer  (poor  Richard)  while 
le  crowd  listens  to  his  story  with  bated  breath  and  mute  admiration. 


I 


I  gave  a  murder  party  for  my  friends,  and 
we  had  so  much  fun  that  I  died  laughing! 


■  I  never  speajc  to  June— June  Allyson,  my  happy 
little  wife — about  those  nightmares.  They  all  have  a 
violent  sameness.  I  am  the  corpse.  One  night  I'll  be 
the  corpse  propped  up  on  the  witness  stand  with  the 
district  attorney  yelling  at  me,  "Don't  you  sit  there 
trying  to  tell  the  court  that  the  defendant  is  guilty  just 
because  he  mowed  you  down  with  a  machine  gun.  You 
can't  prove  murder  without  maUce,  and  when  he  shot 
you  he  was  the  happiest  man  in  the  world!" 

Then  again  I'll  be  lying  stone  cold  in  a  pool  of  blood, 
knifed  to  death  by  the  butler.  Detectives  are  swarm- 
ing all  over  the  place,  suspecting  everybody  but  that 
sanctimonious  servant  standing  right  in  their  midst, 
stiletto  dripping  red,  laughing  out  loud  and  always 
looking  like  Orson  Welles.  When  I  try  to  tell  them 
who  did  it  they  turn  into  sneering  Boris  Karloffs  and 


MORE> 


The  Brown 
Derby  Recipe 
for  Cobb  Salad 

Lettuce 

Romaine 

Chicken 

Crisp  Bacon 

Hard  Boiled  Eggs 

Chives. 

■  Chop 

ingredients  fine.  Serve 

in  bowl.  Decorate 

with  avocado  balls,  tomato, 

and  eggs.  Sprinkle 

with  chopped  Roquefort 

cheese.  Serve  with 

old-fashioned 

French  dressing. 


The  murder  party  gathers  In  the  American  Room  at  Bob  Cobb's  Brown  Derby 
for  some  of  Cobb's  famous  salad  and  fixings.  Dick  Powell  (he's  still  alive,  you 
can  see  him  in  Cry  Danger],  is  a  model  host  to  Joan,  Mara  and  Rhonda. 


who  killed  me? 


it'd 


reply,  "Some  detective  you  are.  You're  just  a  ham  actor.  Besides,  every- 
body knows  the  butler  is  never  guilty." 

Well,  I  wake  up  in  the  middle  of  the  night  out  of  these  horrors  and 
look  over  at  Junie.  She's  always  smiling  in  her  sleep.  And  sometimes, 
giggling.  I'd  ask  her  what  she  dreams  about  but  she'd  only  ask  me  the 
same  thing  and  in  the  end  insist  that  I  go  to  a  psychiatrist,  or  at  least 
cut  out  those  late  hour  snacks  before  bedtime. 

That's  why  I  decided,  somewhat  humorously  you  understand,  to  do 
something  about  these  grim  nocturnal  visitations  of  mine.  I  figured  that 
if  I  could  concoct  a  plot  crazier  than  my  dreams  the  nightmares  would  go 
away  or  at  least  simmer  down.  So  I  called  up  the  editors  of  Modern 
Screen,  told  them  that  I  had  trapped  a  few  friends  into  coming  to  the 
studio  for  a  party  after  my  Tuesday  night  show.  Would  they  care  to 
come  around  with  cameras? 

They  would. 

We  had  a  good  radio  show  that  night.  If  I  do  say  so,  Richard  Diamond 
(that's  me). did  very  well.  He  got  kicked  around  quite  a  bit  but  in  the 


58 


end  he  solved  the  myster\'  and  look  his  bows,  the  big  ham.  Can't 
say  that  I  blame  him,  what  with  people  like  Virginia  Field,  Rich- 
ard Greene,  Mona  Freeman  and  Pat  Xemey,  Rhonda  Fleming. 
Mara  Lynn,  Joan  Evans,  and  that  elegant  new  young  actor,  Jack 
Grey,  for  an  audience. 

As  soon  as  the  announcer  said,  "This  is  NBC,"'  I  put  down  my 
script  and  took  up  my  guests,  most  of  whom  never  had  a  chance 
to  participate  in  that  wonderful  pastime — the  fine  art  of  murder. 
They  were  delighted.  June,  who  couldn't  be  on  hand  due  to  the 
pending  blessed  event,  had  written  the  word  suspect  on  little  slips 
of  paper.  One  for  each  guest,  except  for  a  lone  slip  on  which  was 
written  \ictim.  We  drew  the  slips  out  of  the  hat  and,  for  the 
sake  of  sta>-ing  in  character  with  my  nightmares,  I  palmed  the 
slip  so  I'd  be  the  corpse,  a  role  with  which  I'd  become  familiar. 

Then  my  guests  proceeded  to  a  large  stockpile  of  murder 
weapons  and  were  allowed  to  take  their  choice.  The  idea  behind 
all  this,  in  case  you,  too,  should  like  to  give  a  murder  party,  is  to 
confuse  the  \-ictim.  The  guests  get  in  a  huddle,  have  five  minutes 
to  decide  on  a  plot  and  who  among  them  did  it.  Then  the  victim 
stretches  himself  out  in  corpse  position.  If  he  can  find  out  who 
killed  him  he's  allowed  to  live — or  he  might  even  get  a  prize. 

I  guess  you  can  figure  out  the  rest.  The  pictures  practically  tell 
the  stor>-.  They  stretched  me  out  on  a  table  in  studio  C,  ran  me 
through  with  a  prop  sword  and  told  me  to  take  it  from  there. 

There  were  practically  no  clues  at  all.  Just  a  gang  of  innocent 
looking  characters.  Virginia  Field  for  instance.  She  looked  as  if 
she  had  a  halo  spinning  around  her  head,  but  I  passed  her  up  as  a 
suspect.  Too  beautiful.  I  saw  the '  Frankenstein-like  equipment 
Mona  Freeman  and  Pat  Xemey  were  toying  with  and  thought, 
"Well,  maybe.'' 

To  make  a  short  case  of  a  hilarious  party.  I  lined  up  aU  the 
suspects,  still  wearing  that  sword  through  my  middle.  (Don't 
worr>%  it  only  hurt  when  I  laughed.)  Before  long  I  had  the 
answ^er.  Dick  Greene  was  the  killer.  Why?  Well,  for  one  thing,  all 
detectives  (that's  me)  have  an  instinctive  hatred  for  Sherlock 
Holmes.  He  knows  too  much.  For  another.  Greene  is  an  expert 
fencer.  It  was  only  natural  that  he  should  choose  the  rapier  as  a 
murder  weapon.  The  motive?  When  Dick  confessed,  he  explained 
that  the  guests  figured  the  only  reasons  there  could  be  to  kill  a 
radio  detective  would  be  (1)  he  was  a  lousy  performer,  which 
they  Insisted  I  wasn't,  and  (2)  he  might  be  exposing  a  murder 
plot  on  his  shovt. 

Hence  the  solution:  Richard  Greene,  disguised  as  Sherlock 
Holmes,  planned  to  heist  a  jewelrv'  store.  He  was  tipped  off  that 
the  exact  crime  had  been  written  into  my  show  that  night  by  a 
writer  he  knew.  Result:  if  he  eliminated  me  and  stole  all  the  - 
scripts  the  cops  would  never  suspect  him.  And  how^  did  I  find  out? 
Very  simple,  my  dear  Watsons.  Looking  around  the  studio — I 
noticed  that  right  after  the  broadcast  every  script  had  dis- 
appeared, except  the  one  in  Dick  Greene's  pocket  I 

That  did  it.  I  want  to  point  out  that  actors  named  Greene, 
living  or  dead,  have  no  resemblance  to  guys  who  rob  jewelrj- 
stores.  Actors  do  Hke  to  raid  a  table  loaded  with  food,  though, 
because  all  of  us  have  been  hungry'  at  one  time  or  another  and 
figure  we'd  better  stoke  up  everj-  chance  we  get.  So  we  all  hiked 
over  to  Bjob  Cobb's  Vine  Street  Brown  Derby,  where  they  tossed 
a  fine  rejiast  for  the  people  who  killed  me. 

P,S.  I  ate  like  a  fool  but  I  don't  have  those  nightmares  any 
more.  After  all,  how  could  I  dream  up  a  plot  crazier  than  this.one? 
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there's  a  man  in  the  house 

{Continued  from  page  53)  soft  spoken, 
amiable  father.  He  had  died  in  his  sleep 
as  peacefully  as  he  had  lived  the  fifty- odd 
years  of  his  life. 

For  Vera -Ellen  it  was  the  start  of  a  new 
life,  and  new  responsibilities.  An  only 
child,  with  a  mother,  who,  after  three  dec- 
ades of  a  happily  married  Ufe,  seemed  un- 
able to  face  the  world  without  her  hus- 
band, Vera-Ellen  now  had  to  take  over 
the  full  burden  of  the  household.  She  be- 
came the  man  of  the  Rohe  hoiise. 

TTer  San  Fernando  home  is  situated  in  a 
sleepy,  out-of-the-way  section,  far 
from  traffic,  and  i>eople,  and  Hollywood. 
The  peacefulness  was  ideal  as  long  as  her 
father  was  still  alive.  But  when  he  passed 
away,  the  quiet  became  ominous. 

At  night,  every  falling  leaf  sounded  like 
a  heavy  footstep  thumping  closer  to  the 
house.  A  bird  chirping  in  the  trees  was 
like  the  turning  of  a  key  in  the  lock.  "How 
silly  you  are,"  Vera-EUen  told  herself  the 
first  night  the  two  women  were  alone  in 
the  house.  "How  utterly  stupid.  .  .  ."  Then 
she  quickly  locked  and  bolted  the  doors 
and  windows,  jumped  into  bed,  and  pulled 
the  sheets  over  her  head. 

In  addition  to  her  own  vivid  imagination, 
there  was,  unfortunately,  her  mother's  to 
cope  with,  too.  She  wotild  just  be  drop- 
ping off  into  a  jittery  imitation  of  sleep 
when  her  mother  would  tap  on  the  door 
quavering, 

"Did  you  hear  anything,  dear?" 

Oh  no,  Vera-Ellen  would  think  ner- 
vously. I  just  heard  a  giant  and  a  main 
climbing  up  the  trellis  and  two  thugs  pus- 
syfooting around  in  the  garden.  Quelling 
her  impuls§.  to  dial  the  police  immediately, 
she'd  manage  a  firm,  "Like  what,  mother?" 

"Well — like  people  in  the  cellar." 

After  a  few  hideous  nights,  they  got 
used  to  the  noises,  and  a  few  weeks  later 
ignored  them  as  completely  as  when  Mar- 
tin Rohe  was  still  alive. 

That,  Vera-Ellen  soon  discovered,  was 
only  the  beginning  of  the  period  of  ad- 
justment. For  herself  it  was  not  so  diffi- 
cult because  she  had  her  work  to  think 
about.  For  her  mother,  too  frail  and  spent 
with  grief  to  do  her  customary  cooking  and 
housework,  the  days  were  long  and  emp- 
ty. She  would  greet  Vera-Ellen  in  the 
evening,  red-eyed  and  haggard,  and  poor 
Vera-Ellen,  desperately  anxious  to  "see  her 
smile  again  would  tell  her  all  the  colorful 
and  amusing  little  details  of  her  own  day. 
She  got  into  the  habit  of  calling  her  al- 
most hourly  from  the  studio  and  sharing 
every  tiny  tidbit  of  news  with  her.  Then 
one  night  she  made  a  frightening  discov- 
ery. They  were  sitting  at  the  dinner-table 
together,  and  Vera-Ellen  said, 

"I  saw  a  dress  at  Bullock's,  darling,  that 
was  absolutely  made  for  you."  "There 
was  a  little  silence,  and  then  her  mother 
said, 

"But,  dear,  I'd  have  no  place  to  wear 
it.  You  get  that  pretty  dress  for  your- 
self." 

It's  true,  Vera-Ellen  thought,  shocked 
and  shaken.  I've  let  this  house  become 
her  world.  My  life  is  her  life.  Why,  if 
I  should  marry,  have  a  family  of  my  own, 
she'd  be  lost.  It's  all  wrong.  And  at  that 
moment,  Vera-Ellen,  with  only  her  stout 
heart  and  a  lot  of  good  common  sense  to 
guide  her,  undertook  a  job  that  might  have 
staggered  a  trained  psychiatrist. 

"But  you  have  some  place  to  go,"  she 
told  her  quickly.  "You've  a  heavy  date 
with  your  daughter  and  her  beau  tomor- 
row night.  Dinner  and  the  movies.  And 
Sunday,  lady,  we're  going  to  church,  you 
and  I." 

The  dinner  and  movie  date  coxild  hard- 


ly have  been  called  festive,  with  little 
Ahna  Rohe  scarcely  eating  at  all  and  con- 
tributing little  to  the  conversation.  But 
Vera-Ellen's  date  was  a  darling,  and  each 
time  he  made  her  smDe  he  would  grin  at 
Vera-Ellen,  pleased  as  a  small  boy.  The 
Sunday  church  service  was  more  success- 
ful. "The  sermon  lifted  their  hearts,  and 
the  friendly  nods  of  people  in  the  congre- 
gation, whom  they  knew  only  by  sight, 
made  them  feel  very  much  at  home.  As 
they  were  leaving  the  chirrch,  a-  famiUar- 
looking,  motherly  woman  rested  her  hand 
on  Vera-EUen's  arm. 

"Nice  to  see  you,  chUd,"  she  said.  "We've 
been  wanting  to  drop  in  on  you,  but  one 
hates  to  intrude.  How  are  you  getting 
on?"  It  was  one  of  the  neighbors  the  self- 
suMcient,  closely-knit  Rohe  family  had 
never  gotten  aro\ind  to  meeting. 

"Quite  well,  really,"  Vera-Ellen  smiled, 
and  they  all  walked  home  together  talk- 
ing easily  of  lawns  and  shrubs  and  the 
mysteries  of  changing  fuses  as  though 
they'd  been  friends  for  years. 

Taking  off  her  Sunday  hat  and  putting 
it  in  the  closet,  Mrs.  Rohe  said,  "It's  a 
good  feeling  having  such  nice  neighbors." 


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And  Vera-Ellen  knew  she  was  on  the  right 
track.  They  went  to  church  again  the 
next  Sunday  and  were  warmed  once  more 
by  the  greetings  of  their  fellow  wor- 
shippers. 

OoMEHOW,  after  that,  there  were  fre- 
^  quently  flowers  from  one  neighbor's 
garden  in  the  big  bowl  on  the  living- 
room  table,  a  batch  of  cookies  from  an- 
other new  friend's  oven  for  dessert.  Often 
now  there  were  two  coffee  cups  on  the 
kitchen  sink  when  Vera-Ellen  came  home, 
evidence  of  new-found  comradeship. 

Then,  one  golden  October  evening,  Vera- 
Ellen  came  home  to  find  the  house  as 
slick  as  a  whistle  and  a  big  fat  chocolate 
cake  for  dinner.  Her  mother  greeted  Jier 
at  the  door,  pink-cheeked  and  with  that 
slightly  breathless  air  of  one  who  has 
been  mighty  busy  all  day.  Vera-EUen  sat 
down,  prepared  to  give  her  usual  recital 
of  the  day's  rninutest  activities  right  down 
to  the  liverwurst  sandwich  she'd  had  for 
lunch,  but  to  her  astonishment  her  mother 
was  doing  the  talking. 

"And  then  some  of  the  ladies  dropped 
in,"  she  was  saying,  "and  we  had  tea  and 
cinnamon  toast."    In.  the  course  of  the 


afternoon,  Ahna  Rohe  had  learned  what, 
to  do  about  the  blight  on  their  rose  bushes,  i 
the  name  of  a  good  plumber  in  case  theyi 
ever  needed  one,  and  a  new  recipe  for! 
chocolate  icing.  | 

"Why,    you    cute    thing,"  Vera-Ellenf 
beamed,  giving  her  a  big  squeeze.  "You're' 
a  perfect  almanac  of  information."  And 
she  felt  happier  than  she'd  felt  in  months. 

The  most  miraculous  change  of  all,  it 
seemed  to  Vera-Ellen — and  of  coirrse  it 
didn't  come  overnight — was  her  mother's 
new  attitude  toward  household  catas- 
trophes. The  first  one  that  had  occurred 
(soon  after  Mr.  Rohe's  death)  had  shat- 
tered her  completely.  A  bathroom  faucet 
that  wouldn't  turn  off  had  flooded  the  hall, 
den  and  staircase  before  they'd  finally — 
after  endless  phone  calls— gotten  a  man 
from  the  Department  of  Water  and  Power 
to  come  and  fix  it.  It  had  cost  Vera-EUen 
a  week's  pay  to  repair  the  danaage,  but 
more  devastating  than  that  had  been  the 
damage  to  her  mother's  morale. 

"If  only  your  poor  father  were  stiU  alive 
these  things  wouldn't  happen,"  she  had 
wept  over  and  over,  and  for  days  had  in- 
dulged in  tearful  reminiscences  of  his 
ability  to  cope  with  any  situation. 

Now  she  began  to  take  current  crises 
in  stride.  Bringing  in  some  wood  for  the 
fireplace,  Vera-EUen  contrived  to  knock 
against  a  table  shattering  one  picture 
frame,  two  cups,  one  china  parrot  and  an 
old  and  treasured  vase.  "Oh,  and  you 
loved  those  things,"  she  murmured  con- 
tritely. 

"Well,  I'll  love  them  no  longer,"  said 
her  mother  cheerfully,  briskly  picking  up 
the  pieces.  Another  day,  when  her  daugh- 
ter— who  upon  her  father's  death  had 
inherited  the  heavy  and  difficult  job  of 
transferring  five  gallons  of  distilled  water 
from  a  huge  can  into  a  huge  bottle  twice 
a  week — spUled  the  water  all  over  poor 
Mrs.  Rohe,  she  burst  out  laughing.  There 
was  a  time,  Vera-EUen  thought,  when 
she'd  have  cried,  remembering  how  easUy 
dad  did  this  job. 

There  actually  came  a  day  when  they 
could  talk  about  Martin  Rohe  without 
tears.  "Remember,"  her  mother  said  to 
her  one  day  out  of  a  clear  sky,  "how 
impatient  Dad  would  get  over  some  of 
your  fan  letters?"  (He  had  taken  complete 
charge  of  answering  his  daughter's  maU.) 
"Like  the  ones  asking  for  locks  of  hair. 
Remember?  I  can  hear  him  growling 
now."  They  chuckled  softly  thinking 
about  it.    That  was  a  great  moment. 

A  NT)  in  the  summer  of  1950,^when  Vera- 
Ellen  went  abroad  for  her  first  star- 
ring role  in  a  British  picture,  on  her 
daughter's  urging,  Ahna  Rohe  went  along 
in  a  final  bid  for  a  new  life.  Her  efforts 
were  climaxed  the  afternoon  she  changed 
into  the  gay  mother-daughter  ensemble — 
when  her  thoughts  turned  from  the  past  to 
the  future. 

As  for  Vera-Ellen,  she  didn't  return 
from  England  just  as  the  breadwinner 
anymore.  Once  again  she  can  make  s 
quick  change  into  a  glamorous  evening 
dress  and  be  the  life  of  any  party,  be  it  in 
London,  New  York,  or  Hollywood.  She 
has  found  herself,  just  as  she  has  helped 
her  mother  regain  her  place  in  Ufe. 

The  evening  they  ,  arrived  back  at  theii' 
San  Fernando  Valley  home.  Alma  Rohe 
asked  Vera-Ellen  to  sit  down  in  the  com- 
fortable grey  chair  in  front  of  the  fire 
place.  Then  she  disappeared  for  a  couple 
of  minutes  and  returned  with  her  daugh- 
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I  can  love  again 


(Continued  from  page  51)  Her  answer:  "I 
don't  know.  I  can't  be  sure  now.  Maybe  the 
first  time  I  saw  him." 

A  question:  "And  when  did  you  lose 
him?" 

Her  answer:  "The  moment  I  married 
him.  That  very  moment.  I  heard  the  words 
'I  now  pronounce  you  man  and  wife,'  and 
I  turned  to  kiss  Audie  and  he  wasn't  there. 
A  man  who  looked  like  him  stood  before 
me,  but  Audie  wasn't  there.  He'd  run  away 
while  I  stood  by  his  side — and  he  never 
came  back." 

We  have  evidence  to  disprove  that,  of 
course.  Some  of  us  were  there,  and  we 
have  photographs  of  Audie  Murphy  and 
Wanda  Hendrix,  smiling  and  blissful,  wav- 
ing gaily  as  they  stepped  into  their  car 
to  drive  away  on  their  secret  honeymoon. 

A  question  to  Miss  Hendrix:  "But  what 
of  your  honeymoon?" 

Her  answer:  "There  was  no  honeymoon. 
You  must  remember  that  Audie  ran  away 
during  the  ceremony." 

Subtle?  Well,  rather.  Unusual?  Not  at 
all.  It  happens  every  day.  It  happens 
everywhere.  And  because  it  is  common- 
place it  can  be  spoken  of  freely,  and 
analyzed  openly.  After  two  years  Wanda 
Hendrix  knows  this  and  will  speak  of  it. 

"T  WAS  very  much  in  love  with  Audie," 

■■-  she  said.  "I  was  seventeen.  Even 
though  I  was  an  actress  I  didn't  know  very 
much,  particularly  about  boys.  Somebody 
said  he  wanted  to  meet  me  and  it  was  ar- 
ranged. Maybe  you  don't  think  he  is 
handsome.  But  I  did.  He  wasn't  very 
tall,  but  he  held  himself  straight  His  hair 
was  red — and  I  immediately  liked  red 
hair.  He  seemed  thin,  but  I  decided  right 
then  that  I  liked  a  man  thin.  His  features 
were  delicate,  which  surprised  me,  be- 
caiise  I  had  heard  that  he  was  the  fiercest 
soldier  in  the  war.  And  his  mouth  was 
fuU,  and  looked  generous  and  kind.  His 
eyes  were  soft,  and  all  about  him  there 
was  the  shyness  of  a  little  boy.  I  wanted 
to  touch  him,  but  I  was  afraid  it  would 
frighten  him." 

Living,  for  the  moment,  four  years  back 
into  her  life,  Wanda  Hendrix  was  nervous- 
ly animated  by  her  memories. 

"I  wasn't  very  pretty,"  she  said.  "At  least 
I  didn't  think  I  was.  And  this  wonderful 
boy  seemed  to  Uke  me.  At  first  he  was 
very  reserved.  He  would  call  me  on  the 
phone  and  hardly  talk — just  ask  me  if  he 
could  see  me,  or  if  we  could  have  dinner 
together  or  go  to  a  show.  As  time  went 
on  I  began  to  feel  very  close  to  him,  and 
there  was  a  restlessness  in  me.  I  thought 
he  was  never  going  to  kiss  me — and  I 
wanted  him  to. 

"Then  one  night  he  looked  at  me  differ- 
ently. His  eyes  weren't  clouded  with  re- 
spect. They  weren't  shy.  They  looked  at 
me  directly — all  of  me.  They  frightened 
me  a  little,  but  in  a  moment  they  sparkled 
with  devilment.  Then  he  kissed  me,  and  I 
thought  I'd  always  been  in  love  with  him. 

"After  that,"  sciid  Wanda,  "we  were  to- 
gether all  the  time.  Mvirph  was  going  to 
school,  studying  to  be  an  actor,  and  I 
was  working  at  Paramount.  Whenever  we 
could  we'd  meet  during  the  day,  and  at 
night  we'd  be  alone  together  always, 
generally  in  some  quiet  place.  We  talked  a 
lot,  about  everything,  but  mostly  about 
Murph.  He  didn't  talk  much  about  the 
war,  just  once  in  a  while,  but  he  told  me 
all  about  his  childhood  and  boyhood  and 
all  the  things  he  thought  about." 

Wanda  folded  her  hands  on  the  table  top, 
almost  as  if  she  were  clasping  a  handful 
of  dreams  that  she  wanted  to  examine  once 
again,  and  she  stared  at  her  hands  to  see 
the  dreams  better — and  make  sure  she 


wasn't  mistaken  about  them. 

"If  I  had  been  smarter,"  she  said,  "maybe 
I  could  have  seen  that  Audie  wasn't  ready 
for  marriage — at  least  not  to  me.  He  told 
me  that  his  father  had  died  when  he  was 
a  baby,  that  he  was  separated  from  his 
brothers  and  sisters,  and  that  all  he  could 
remember  was  the  will  to  have  enough  to 
eat  and  enough  to  wear — and  that  he  had 
never  been  loved,  except  by  his  mother. 
She  died  when  he  was  sixteen,  and  he 
went  off  to  war.  If  I  had  been  smarter,  I 
would  have  known  that  there  hadn't  been 
enough  living  in  his  life,  or  enough  love, 
to  make  him  ready  for  marriage  to  me. 

"I  never  knew  Audie  after  we  were 
married,"  Wanda  said  sadly.  "When  I 
turned  to  kiss  him,  he  was  gone.  The  man 
who  stood  in  his  place,  where  he  had  been 
standing  a  moment  before,  was  a  stranger, 
and  when  I  kissed  his  lips  he  didn't  kiss 
me  back.  I  was  different,  too.  We  stood 
hand  in  hand,  we  strangers,  and  posed  for 
photographers,  and  then  we  went  away 
together,  and  we  didn't  speak.  When  it 
became  necessary,  we  spoke  only  of  un- 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

We   were  at  a 
brooAcast  during 
the  war  when 
someone  in  the 
cast  asked  Alan 
Ladd  how  he  and 
his  daughter, 
Alana,  got  along. 
He  proudly  re- 
plied, "Fine,  ex- 
cept she  must  have 
seen   one   of  my 
pictures.  As  I  was  changing  her  diap- 
ers last  night  she  said,  'Watch  it,  Pop, 
you  can't  pin  anything  on  me.' " 
Mary  Schwager 
Santa  Ana,  California 


important  things,  miserable  details,  not 
at  all  like  lovers." 

A  PSYCHOLOGIST  could  explain  it  more 
elaborately,  but  the  simple  fact  is 
that  when  Wanda  Hendrix  turned  to  her 
groom  he  wasn't  there.  He  had  run  away. 
Audie  Murphy,  the  greatest  hero  of  his- 
tory, had  nm  away.  And  the  sad  part  of 
the  entire  tragedy  is  that  he  couldn't  help 
himself — nor  could  his  wife  help  him. 

"We  were  respectable  people  with  a  high 
regard  for  marriage,"  Wanda  said,  "and 
we  tried  to  adjvist  ourselves  to  it.  Maybe 
because  of  the  fact  that  we  were  well 
known  to  the  world,  and  because  we  felt, 
we  owed  it  to  the  people  who  had  placed 
such  faith  in  our  marriage,  we  tried 
harder  than  most  couples  would  have.  And 
it  was  harder  than  most.  It  seemed  that 
every  time  we  picked  up  a  paper  a  quarrel 
or  a  kiss  that  actually  belonged  only  to 
us  was  featiured.  When  we  separated,  we 
were  both  censured,  and  when  we  recon- 
ciled, we  were  both  publicly  presented  with 
the  responsibility  of  not  letting  a  separa- 
tion take  place  again.  And  then — it  seemed 
•so  fast,  although  it  must  have  taken  a 
a  long  time — it  was  all  over.  And  I  was 
very  unhappy  for  a  year — I'm  sure  Murph 
was,  too." 

This  writer's  conclusion  as  to  what 
happened  to  Audie  Murphy  is  based  on 
scientific  fact,  laboratory  tested  and  proven 
to  the  exact  science  of  psychiatry. 

In  a  magazine  article  printed  during  the 
early  part  of  his  marriage  to  Wanda 
Hendrix,  Audie  Murphy  was  quoted  as 
saying  that  he  objected  to  writers  labelling 
him  a  "psycho,"  the  G.I.  term  for  an  emo- 
tionally maladjusted  person!  He  had  a 


right  to  object.  The  word,  as  it  is  loosely 
used,  has  an  unsavory  connotation.  Dur- 
ing the  war,  it  meant,  popularly,  a  p>erson 
who  was  so  filled  with  the  dread  of  battle 
that  he  was  inefficient  in  combat — and  in 
some  circles  it  meant  coward.  In  that 
sense  it  is  a  laughable  term  to  apply  to 
Audie  Murphy. 

However,  spreading  the  word  to  its  full 
stretch,  psychopath,  it  becomes  not  at  cJl 
imkind  and,  even  though  not  fitting,  re- 
motely explanatory  of  a  condition  that  in- 
hibits all  men.  iliere  are  few  men  or 
women  alive  who  are  without  some  emo- 
tional instability.  There  are  none  with 
Audie  Murphy's  background.  , 

THERE  is  an  exact  psychiatric  formula  that 
can  trace  the  road  Audie  Mvirphy  took 
when  he  fled  from  Wanda,  his  wife,  but 
it  would  take  a  psychiatrist  to  explain  it 
and  another  to  understand  it.  But  Wanda 
Hendrix  Murphy,  a  good  woman  who 
wanted  to  be  a  good  wife,  searched  for 
the  answer,  for  she  felt  she  had  been  re- 
miss— and  she  found  it.  It  agrees  with 
the  accepted  beliefs  of  the  psychologists, 
and  is  presented  here  without  quotation 
marks,  for  Wanda's  path  is  traced  with  it. 

Take  a  boy,  bom  in  the  big,  sprawling, 
rich  and  rowdy  state  of  Texas,  where  a 
youngster  must  be  a  man  from  the  day  he 
first  tilts  his  big  hat  over  his  young  eyes 
and  spits  into  the  dust  belligerently.  A 
state  where  a  name,  used  as  often  as  "if" 
in  the  north,  means  a  fight,  even  with  a 
man's  best  friend.  A  state  where  pitiful 
poverty  squats  in  the  very  shadow  of 
fabulous  wealth.  Take  a  particularly  sensi- 
tive boy,  who,  by  circumstances,  is  born 
listed  in  the  gutter  registry.  "Take  his 
desire  for  love  and  confuse  it  by  spread- 
ing it  thin  among  a  lot  of  people  he's  not 
sure  he  has  the  right  to  love  then  leave 
him  only  one  hiaman  being  to  fix  his  love 
on  like  a  small  target,  his  mother.  Let  him 
know  that  only  one  human  being,  his 
mother,  has  the  duty  and  the  free  un- 
partisan  will  to  love  him,  and  maladjust- 
ment forms  like  a  boil. 

Take  his  mother  away  forever  at  sixteen, 
when  he  is  neither  a  boy  nor  a  man,  when 
the  gateway  to  his  life  has  just  swung 
wide,  when  the  crust  of  security  has  not 
yet  hardened  and  his  fears,  hates,  preju- 
dices, and  ambitions  are  in  a  molten  state 
of  flux.  He'll  explode  or  carry  the  hidden 
boil  to  his  death,  -unless  he  has  it  medi- 
cally, yes,  medically,  removed. 

Audie  Murphy's  behavior  in  the  war  was 
a  direct  result  of  his  childhood,  and  the 
addition  of  other  emotional  shocks  suffered 
in  combat.  His  patriotism  and  bravery  is 
beyond  question.  Privately,  however,  in 
conversation  and  in  his  own  book.  To  Hell 
and  Back,  he  admits  the  growth  of  the 
compulsion  to  destroy  without  passion  aU 
evil  in  his  path,  and  a  complete  and  im- 
natural  willingness,  that  was  almost  a 
desire,  to  die  in  the  process. 

It  is  to  be  gathered  from  reading  To  Hell 
and  Back  that  the  end  of  the  war  left  little 
hope  in  Murphy's  heart.  Could  it  have 
been  because  his  lover.  Battle,  had  left 
him  and  died,  too?  Could  it  have  been 
that  in  Battle  he  found  something  of  the 
security  he  felt  when  he  had  his  mother, 
a  reason  for  existing,  a  reason,  even,  for 
ceasing  to  exist?  At  any  rate,  poverty,  a 
single  fixed  love,  and  Battle  had  been  his 
life — and  he  was  at  a  stage  in  his  emo- 
tional life  when  he  might  have  rejected 
anything  or  anyone  else. 

That  was  when  Audie  Murphy  met 
Wanda  Hendrix. 

Wanda  Hendrix  was  a  poor  girl  fr6m 
a  large  family  in  the  incredibly  socially 
unbalanced  state  of  Florida.  Ix)ved  and 
protected  and  guided  intelligently  from  her 
earliest  childhood,  she  moved  toward 
maturity  on  an  even  keel,  emotionally 


63 


stable  and  unaware,  actually,  of  any 
"difference"  between  herself  and  her 
"betters."  She  was  without  frustrations,  at 
least  pain-inflicting  frustrations.  Her  goal 
was  a  career  as  an  actress,  and,  because 
she  was  talented,  lucky,  and  plucky  she 
travelled  toward  it  with  such  ease  that 
at  seventeen  she  was  riding  the  crest  of  a 
comber  headed  for  the  big  beach.  Her 
normal  appetites  to  love  and  be  loved  were 
well  satisfied — and  her  appetite  for  a  man 
of  her  own  was  normally  keen.  She  was 
ready  and  able  for  marriage. 

That  was  when  Wanda  Hendrix  met 
Audie  Murphy. 

THE  idolators,  you  and  I,  didn't  know 
their  backgrounds.  All  we  saw  was  a 
boy  and  a  girl  of  a  proper  age  for  one  an- 
other, uncommonly  attractive,  both  headed 
for  individual  successes — and,  according  to 
the  gossip,  very  much  in  love.  We  took 
nothing  else  into  consideration.  And  when 
they  failed  us,  we  took  nothing  else  but 
the  simple,  current  facts  into  our  thinking 
in  making  our  judgment.  Somebody  must 
have  been  at  fault,  we  thought.  He  must 
have  been  a  brute  to  her,  or  she  was  an 


inadequate  wife.  At  any  rate,  we  thought, 
they're  both  young,  they  should  forgive 
one  another  and  start  over  again. 

It  is  the  contention  of  qualified  medical 
authorities,  presented  with  their  problem 
by  your  reporter,  that  they  should  have 
both  seen  a  psychiatric  counselor,  and 
that  if  they  had,  they  would  probably  be 
together  today. 

I  wanted  Audie  to  see  a  doctor,"  Wanda 
said.  "Not  that  there  was  the  slightest 
idea  in  my  mind  that  there  was  anything 
terribly  wrong  with  him,  but  I  knew 
something  in  his  emotional  make-up  made 
him  reject  me.  And  that  such  a  rejection, 
after  all  we  had  been  to  each  other,  must 
have  been  based  on  something  that  had 
taken  place  before — maybe  in  his  child- 
hood, maybe  in  the  war.  If  we  only 
had.  .  .  ." 

However,  in  Hollywood,  as  in  other 
communities,  there  is  a  prejudice  against 
this  very  simple  procedure.  Even  in  this 
city,  with  an  intellectual  behind  every 
bush,  there  is  the  inclination  to  establish 
the  patient  of  the  psychiatrist  as  a  loony 
who  at  any  moment  might  strip  naked  and 
do  a  Spring  dance  in  the  middle  of  the 


street,  or  pull  a  knife  on  his  best  friend.  So 
Audie  Murphy  and  Wanda  Hendrix,  in- 
stead, went  to  see  a  couple  of  lawyers,  and 
they  both  suffered  through  a  divorce  that 
neither  actually  wanted. 

A  question  to  Miss  Hendrix:  "And  now 
is  your  life  ruined?  Do  you  fear  mar- 
riage?" 

Her  answer:  She  laughs,  "Certainly  not! 
I'm  only  twenty-one.  I'm  sorry  I  made  a 
mistake,  but  I  believe  in  marriage.  I  want 
to  marry  again,  maybe  to  an  older  man. 
Somebody  as  ready  for  me  as  I  am  for 
him.  I  don't  even  know  what  he  looks  like 
yet,  but  he'll  come  along  one  day  and  I'll 
know  him.  I  can  love  again." 

Wanda  seemed  relieved  that  she  had  said 
it  and  relieved  that  she  meant  it.  She  was 
brimming  with  good  humor  and  smiles  as 
she  picked  up  her  bag  and  excused  herself 
to  keep  an  appointment.  She  walked  off, 
toward  the  door,  and  she  stood  aside 
as  a  tall  young  man  smoking  a  pipe  held 
it  open  for  her.  She  looked  into  his  face, 
maybe  to  see  if  he  was  the  one — but  if 
he  weren't,  there  would  be  one,  sometime, 
somewhere  on  the  other  side  of  the  door. 
The  End 


I  was  an  orphan 

(Continued  from  page  41)  been  thinking 
about  all  day  in  the  classroom.  I  didn't 
need  much  else  to  be  happy  even  when  I 
had  to  live  in  an  orphanage  for  a  couple 
of  years. 

"W/"  HEN  I  was  about  12,  I  went  to  live  with 
'"^  the  woman  who  was  the  greatest  in- 
fluence in  my  life.  Her  name  was  Mrs. 
Anna  Lower,  and  she  was  the  only  person 
I  ever  really  loved. 

Aunt  Anna  lived  in  Sawtelle,  not  far 
from  the  Veterans'  Hospital.  It  wasn't  an 
elegant  neighborhood  by  any  standard. 
That  fall,  I  started  at  Emerson  Junior  High 
School,  and  was  just  at  the  age  when 
clothes  were  beginning  to  be  important. 
I  couldn't  help  but  notice  that  mine  weren't 
as  pretty  or  varied  as  the  other  girls'.  One 
day,  one  of  my  classmates  made  a  comment 
about  the  dress  I  was  wearing  and  I  came 
home  crying.  I  was  so  self-conscious  and 
miserable  that  I  never  wanted  to  go  back 
to  school.  Then  Aunt  Anna  started  reas- 
suring me,  and  I  began  to  feel  better.  "It 
doesn't  matter  if  other  children  make  fun 
of  your  clothes  or  where  you  live,"  she 
told  me.  "It's  what  you  are  that  counts. 
You  just  keep  being  your  own  self.  That's 
all  that  matters." 

At  first,  I  didn't  understand  a  lot  of  the 
things  she  told  me  when  I  was  feeling  blue. 
I  was  too  busy  being  miserable.  But  I 
knew  that  she  loved  me,  and  that  was  a 
wonderful  thing  in  itself.  Most  of  all. 
Aunt  Anna  tried  to  convince  me  that  there 
was  nothing  in  life  to  be  afraid  of.  "Live 
each  day  and  take  things  as  they  come. 
Face  everything,  work  hard  at  the  things 
you  want  to  accomplish,  and  you  will  have 
nothing  to  fear,"  she  would  say.  "Maybe 
you  don't  think  so  now,  but  you  will  find 
out  later  that  I'm  right." 

And  I  have.  I  can't  remember  Aunt  Anna 
without  thinking  how  fortunate  I  was  to 
have  had  her  wonderful  philosophy  as  an 
influence  in  my  life.  She  was  in  her  60's 
when  I  first  went  to  live  with  her,  but  she 
was  still  a  most  attractive  woman  with 
great  dignity  and  inner  reserve.  She  was 
most  tolerant  of  my  big  ambition  of  being 
an  actress. 

Tn  jimior  high  school,  I  was  completely 
movie-struck.  I  used  to  go  see  movies  I 
liked  three  or  four  times  when  I  could 
afford  it.  Ginger  Rogers  was  my.  favorite 

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star.  A  girl  who  lived  across  the  street 
subscribed  to  several  of  the  fan  magazines 
and  she  would  give  me  all  of  the  pictures 
of  Ginger.  I  had  several  dozen  of  her 
portraits  pirmed  up  around  my  room. 

I  remember  saying  to  one  of  the  families 
that  I  lived  with  that  I'd  like  to  be  an 
actress  like  Ginger.  "You'd  better  get  that 
silly  idea  out  of  your  head,"  I  was  told 
quickly.  Aunt  Anna  didn't  think  it  was 
silly.  In  fact,  she  encouraged  me  to  read 
aloud  to  her.  I  was  probably  pretty 
hammy  but  she  never  let  me  know  it. 

I  hved  with  Aunt  Anna  until  I  finished 
my  first  year  in  high  school,  and  then, 
when  she  was  called  East,  I  went  to  live 
with  a  family  in  the  San  Fernando  Valley. 
At  Van  Nuys  High  School,  I  tried  out  for 
several  of  the  school  plays,  but  I  was  too 
scared  even  to  do  a  decent  reading.  I 
never  got  a  part. 

Just  about  a  week  after  my  16th  birth- 
day, I  went  back  to  spend  the  summer 
vacation  with  Aunt  Amia,  and  it  seemed 
almost  as  if  I  hadn't  been  away.  That  sum- 
mer I  got  married.  I  know  now  that  I  was 
much  too  young  for  marriage,  but  at  the 
time,  it  seemed  sensible  enough.  My  hus- 
band, whom  I  had  met  through  my  guard- 
ian, was  six  years  my  senior,  and  we  liked 
one  another. 

I  went  back  to  Van  Nuys  High  School 
that  fall,  and  was  somewhat  of  a  curiosity 
to  the  other  girls  in  my  class.  "She's 
married!"  they  would  say,  in  an  awed  tone 
of  voice,  whenever  they  introduced  me  to 
someone  new. 

High  school  isn't  exactly  the  place  for 
a  married  woman,  and  I  was  very  happy 
when  I  graduated  the  following  June. 
None  of  my  classes  had  meant  much  to  me. 

Because  of  our  youth,  our  marriage  did 
not  have  much  chance  for  success.  Shortly 
after  I  graduated,  we  were  divorced,  and 
I  went  back  to  live  with  Aunt  Anna.  I  al- 
ways felt  that  I  had  a  home  with  her.  She 
made  me  feel  that  way.  I  remember  that 
summer  I  started  writing  a  long  narrative 
poem  based  on  the  theme  that  "Time  Heals 
Everything."  It  was  three  pages  long  when 
I  finally  decided  that  it  could  go  on  for- 
ever. 

Fortimately,  I  began  to  get  work  as  a 
model  soon  after'  I  registered  with  several 
of  the  top  agencies  in  Hollywood.  Within 
a  few  months,  I  had  been  photographed 
by  Andre  De  Diennes,  Willinger,  Tom 
Kelly,  and  most  of  the  leading  glamor 
photographers,  and  it  was  not  long  before 
I  received  a  screen  test  at  20th  Century- 


Fox  on  the  strength  of  these  photographs. 

I  was  sitting  on  top  of  the  world  when 
they  told  me  at  the  studio  that  my  test  was 
a  great  success  and  offered  me  a  long-term 
contract.  Aunt  Anna  was  thrilled  for  me. 
It  was  simply  too  wonderful  to  be  true. 

And  that  is  the  way  it  turned  out.  If  you 
saw  Scudda-Hoo,  Scudda-Hay,  and  were 
watching  June  Haver  closely,  you  might 
have  seen  a  67-second  closeup  of  my  back 
during  one  of  the  dance  numbers. 
2Cth  didn't  think  enough  of  my  back  to 
pick  up  my  option,  and  my  dream  came 
tumbling  down  as  quickly  as  it  had  been 
erected. 

T  LEARNED  something  from  that  exj>erience. 

When  I  first  was  signed  by  20th,  I 
decided  that  at  last  I  could  begin  afford- 
ing some  of  the  things  I  had  always 
wanted.  I  began  taking  dramatic  lessons 
(which  was  the  most  sensible  investment 
I  ever  have  made),  and  I  bought  a  beauti- 
ful radio-phonograph  combination  on  the 
installment  plan  (which  was  not).  When 
I  began  working  at  Fox,  I  also  moved  into 
a  small  apartment  near  the  studio.  And 
I  bought  a  used  car. 

Suddenly,  I  found  that  I  was  unable  to 
make  ends  meet.  One  day  when  I  got 
home,  I  found  a  man  waiting  to  pick  up 
my  radio-phonograph.  I  was  almost  heart- 
broken as  I  watched  him  carry  it  away, 
and  to  this  day  I  have  yet  to  see  a  more 
beautiful  cabinet  or  player.  Then,  a  few 
weeks  later,  I  had  to  give  up  my  apart- 
ment. I  didn't  feel  right  about  moving  back 
in  with  Atint  Anna,  so  I  got  a  room  at  the 
Studio  Club.  Under  no  circumstances,  I 
promised  myself,  would  I  give  up  my 
dramatic  lessons.  I  had  been  studying  for 
about  five  months  with  Natasha  Lytess, 
who  is  now  the  dramatic  coach  at  20th, 
and  I  felt  I  was  making  real  progress. 

So  I  went  back  to  modeling.  But  despite 
the  fact  that  I  was  working  hard  as  a 
model,  I  simply  wasn't  earning  enough 
money  to  pay  my  bills.  I'd  often  get  four 
or  five  weeks  behind  in  rent  at  the  Studio 
Club,  and  I  don't  know  what  I'd  have 
done  if  they  had  asked  me  to  move  out. 
For  about  a  year,  I  was  living  on  the  two 
meals  they  served  each  day — breakfast  and 
dinner. 

I  never  wUl  forget  the  moi-ning  I  went 
out  to  the  curb  where  I  had  parked  my 
jalopy  and  found  that  it  had  vanished.  I 
went  back  inside  and  called  the  Holly- 
wood Police  station  and  reported  that  my 
car  had  been  stolen.  They  called  me  back 


about  it  only  a  couple  of  hours  later. 

"Sorry,  Miss  Monroe,"  the  desk  sergeant 
told  me.  "Your  car  wasn't  stolen.  The 
finance  company  picked  it  up  last  night 
because  there  are  two  payments  due." 

I  finally  managed  to  bail  it  out,  and 
somehow  I  managed  to  keep  up  my  dra- 
matic lessons.  To  make  matters  worse, 
Aunt  Anna  passed  away  that  summer, 
and  I  was  left  without  anyone  to  take  my 
hopes  and  my  troubles  to.  I  was  miser- 
able. 

THEN  one  day,  Columbia  called  me  and 
ofTered  me  a  test,  and  suddenly  I  was 
caught  up  in  "the  big  plans"  the  studio 
had  for  my  career.  I  was  signed  to  a  long- 
term  contract  again  and  immediately  given 
a  role  in  a  B  musical  they  were  casting. 
I  worked  nine  days.  And  then  I  waited  for 
something  else  to  happen.  Came  option 
time  and  again  I  was  unemployed. 

This  time,  it  was  a  dress  shop  that  got 
me  into  hot  water.  Shortly  after  Columbia 
signed  me,  this  shop  sent  a  representative 
over  to  the  Studio  Club  to  see  me,  and 
offer  me  a  deal. 

"Miss  Monroe,"  he  said,  "our  shop  dresses 
a  good  many  of  the  young  starlets  in 
Hollywood.  We  would  like  you  to  feel  at 
liberty  to  come  in  £ind  select  a  wardrobe, 
and  take  as  long  as  you  like  to  pay.  We 
understand  how  difficult  it  is  for  a  young 
player  just  starting  out  to  manage  at  first, 
and  we  would  like  to  be  of  service  to  you 
by  setting  up  this  credit  for  you." 

I  have  never  been  clothes  crazy.  Aunt 
Anna's  good  sense  cured  me  of  that.  But 
I  thought  the  man's  offer  made  sense,  so 
I  went  in  and  bought  some  clothes.  Nothing 
fancy.  Just  two  serviceable  suits,  a  black 
dress,  some  shoes,  and  some  hosiery. 
About  two  hundred  dollars  worth  in  all. 
But  when  Columbia  dropped  my  contract, 
the  store's  sweet  tone  disappeared,  and  a 


few  months  later  I  walked  out  in  front 
of  the  Studio  Club  one  morning  to  find 
a  tow  truck  hauling  my  car  away  again. 
This  time,  it  was  a  collection  agency  pick- 
ing it  up  as  collateral  for  the  money  I 
owed  the  dress  shop.  Once  again  I  had  to 
scratch  enough  together  to  bail  it  out. 

I  went  back  to  modeling  to  keep  eating, 
and  I  worked  harder  than  ever  at  my 
dramatic  lessons.  It  \vas  several  months 
before  I  got  my  next  opportunity  to  try 
out  for  another  movie  role  .  .  .  this  time 
a  small  bit  in  the  Marx  Brothers'  Love 
Happy.  Groucho  chased  me  across  a  room 
and  I  was  on  the  screen  less  than  60 
seconds,  but  I  got  five  weeks  work  out 
of  the  part  by  going  on  the  P.  A.  tour, 
which  promoted  the  film  in  eight  major 
cities.  I  felt  guilty  about  appearing  on 
the  stage  when  I  had  such  an  insignificant 
role  in  the  film,  but  the  people  in  the 
audiences  didn't  seem  to  care. 

Shortly  after  I  returned  to  Hollywood,  I 
received  a  call  from  20th's  casting  office. 
"Do  you  dance?"  they  asked.  "Sure," 
I  said,  even  though  I  didn't  know  any 
fancy  steps.  I  went  out  to  see  them,  and 
ended  up  getting  five  weeks  work  in  Ticket 
to  Tomahawk. 

While  I  was  working  at  20th,  Lucille 
Ryman,  the  head  of  the  talent  depart- 
ment at  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer,  told  me 
that  I  ought  to  see  John  Huston.  I  went 
over  that  afternoon  and  Mr.  Huston  told 
me  about  The  Asphalt  Jungle.  "You're  the 
type,"  he  said.  "But  I  don't  know  whether 
you  can  do  the  part."  I  asked  him  to  let 
me  study  the  part  and  then  read  it  for 
him. 

I  studied  the  script,  and  when  I  went 
back  to  see  Mr.  Huston  later  in  the  week, 
I  felt  confident  that  I  could  play  the  role. 
Mr.  Huston  was  wonderful  when  I  read 
for  him.  I  was  scared  stiff,  but  he  did 
everything  he  could  to  put  me  at  ease.  I 


got  the  part.  And  as  I  walked  out  of  his 
office,  I  was  terribly  thankful  that  I  had 
kept  up  with  my  dramatic  lessons,  even 
when  things  were  tough,  because  they*  had 
paid  off  when  the  chips  were  down. 

Shortly  after  I  finished  The  Asphalt 
Jungle,  my  first  really  substantial  role,  I 
received  another  call  from  20th  to  read 
for  All  About  Eve.  I  met  Joseph  Man- 
kiewicz,  the  director,  who  gave  me  not 
only  the  part  of  Miss  Casswell,  but  great 
encouragement  and  help.  It  isn't  a  big 
part,  but  it  is  a  striking  character  I  play. 
When  Mr.  Zanuck  saw  the  first  day's 
rushes,  he  offered  me  a  new  seven-year 
contract. 

It's  a  great  joy  for  me  to  realize  these 
days  that  my  childhood  ambition  wasn't 
completely  foolish.  I  still  have  a  lot  to 
learn,  but  I'm  very  grateful  that  I  was 
able  to  sustain  that  ambition  and  profit 
from  the  mistakes  I  have  made  in  my  life. 
I  think  I  have  learned  a  lot.  For  instance, 
I  do  not  own  a  vast  unpaid-for  wardrobe. 
The  other  day,  I  splurged  on  two  black 
dresses,  but  I  paid  cash  for  them  both. 
Although  I  love  music,  I  do  not  own  a 
radio-phonograph,  in  cooperation  with  a 
finance  company.  Mine  is  an  inexpensive 
portable  covered  in  imitation  leather,  and 
it  is  mine,  all  mine.  I  own  a  Pontiac  coupe, 
not  a  Cadillac,  and  I  do  not  owe  a  single 
bill  which  will  not  be  paid  before  option 
time  rolls  around. 

And  I  have  learned,  too,  as  Aimt  Anna 
used  to  tell  me,  that  tTiere  is  nothing  to 
fear  if  you  face  Hfe  and  work  hard  at  the 
things  you  want  to  achieve.  Once  I 
wouldn't  have  dared  to  hope  for  what  I 
wanted  most.  Now  I  want  to  work  towards 
being  a  really  fine  actress.  Being  a  good 
actress  won't  quite  do.  I  want  to  be  a  fine 
actress,  and  I'd  hate  to  settle  for  less.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  and  for  the  record,  I  won't. 
The  End 


MOTHER  SAYS: 


Tint  SRAV  MAIRS  from  viev^ 
It's  safe  and  eastj  to  do  / 

^/IkiJ^  COLORTINT 


use 


DAUGHTER  SAYS: 


Rfnse  DRAB  HAIR  gleaming-dean 
Add  color-highlights  and  sheen/ 

COLORINSi 


use 


•  There's  no  age  limit  on  glamorous  hair! 
School  girl,  business  girl,  housewife,  mother 
. . .  they  all  look  more  beautiful  with  color- 
bright  hair.  Triple-strength  Nestle  Colortint 
hides  graying  hair  with  richer,  longer-lasting 
color.  Nestle  Colorinse  adds  glowing  color- 
highlights  and  sheen.  Both  absolutely  safe, 
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ORIGINATORS 
OF 

PERMANENT 
WAVING 


"I  fell  for  the 
same  man  12  times! 


says  RHONDA  FLEMING,  co-starring  in 
'THE*REDHEAD  AND  THE  COWBOY"  -  A  Paramount  Picture 


"This  scene  for  'The  Redhead  and  the  Cowboy*  was  rougher  on  my  hands 
than  housework.  The  director  liad  me  fall  12  times  before  he  said:  'Take!' 


Tugging  at  a  horseshoe  nail 
left  my  fingers  raw  . . . 


Being  a  liquid,  Jergens  is 
absorbed  by  thirsty  skin. 


But  I  smoothed  my  hands 
with  Jergens  Lotion  . . . 


CAN  YOUK  LOTION  OR  HAND 
CREAM  PASS  THIS  FILM  TEST? 

To  soften,  a  lotion  or  cream 
should  be  absorbed  by  upper 
layers  of  skin.  Water  won't 
"bead"on  hand  smoothed  with 
Jergens  Lotion.  It  contains 
quickly-absorbed  ingredients 
that  doctors  recommend,  no 
heavy  oils  that  merely  coat 
the  skin  with  oily  film. 


Prove  it  with  this  simple 
test  described  above  . . . 


So"  they  were  lovely  in  ro- 
mantic closeups." 


You'll  see  why  Jergens 
Lotion  is  my  beauty  secret. 


More  women  use  Jergens  Lotion  than  any  other  hand  care  in  the  world 

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let's  go 
to  the 
movies 

by  bobble  fog,  fashion  editor 

■  The  most  popular  date  all  over  the  coun- 
try is  an  invitation  to  the  movies.  Whether 
it  is  with  your  best  beau,  a  friend  or  a  mem- 
ber of  the  family ;  the  occasion  usually  calls 
forth  the  typical  feminine  complaint — I 
don't  have  a  thing  to  wear!  To  try  to  help 
you  cut  down  on  this  female  malady,  we 
are  devoting  this  entire  fashion  section  to 
Rite-Fit  half  size  dresses.  Just  in  case  you 
don't  know  it,  half  size  dresses  are  specially 
designed  for  women  5'5J^  or  imder  .  .  . 
(over  75%  of  the  women  in  America  are 
in  this  group.)  Rite-Fit  specializes  in 
creating  flattering  clothes  that  are  com- 
pletely price  perfect  and  have  a  special 
emphasis  on  FIT.  There  are  not  only  youth- 
ful fashions  but  styles  for  every  age  group. 
We  were  so  impressed  with  all  of  the  many 
features  of  these  half  size  dresses  that  we 
are  passing  the  exciting  story  of  half  size 
dresses  on  to  you.  (Continued  on  page  73) 


A  Double 
Feature  of 
Barbara  Lawrence 

■  Barbara  Lawrence,  currently  tri- 
umphing in  U  n  i  v  e  r  s  a  I's  Peggy, 
sparkles  prettily  in  brightly  colored 
frocks.  Both  of  these  all  occasion 
dresses  are  in  two  parts,  giving  the 
suity  look. 

Left:  Trim  and  tiny  checks  for 
now  and  later.  A  becoming  wing  col- 
lar, neatly  cuffed  sleeves,  with  self 
buttons  twice  punctuating  the  yoke 
and  parading  down  front.  The  skirt- 
pin  shm.  In  gray,  navy,  or  beige 
rayon  menswear.  Sizes  14J^-22J4. 
About  $8. 

Right:  Rosy  red,  the  pick  up  color 
for  a  blue  mood.  The  jacket  of  the 
two  piecer  stars  buttons  as  trim, 
three  side  pleats  for  hip  minimizing. 
A  slender  skirt.  In  rayon  gabardine 
in  navy,  gold,  aqua,  coral  and  beige. 
Sizes  14H-22J^.  About  $8. 

Both  dresses  by  Rite-Fit 
Flowers  by  Heineman 
Gloves  by  Wear  Right 


IN  A  BUTTONED  CASUAL 


Jczuclry  by  C&ro — Hats  by  Colby 


Fashion  decrees  buttons  and  buttons 

and  buttons,  for  utility  and  for  decoration. 

A  stalk  of  a  dress,  the  soft  lines 

broken  only  by  an  unpressed  pleat, 

the  slash  of  the  button  edged  pockets. 

To  top  all,  an  icing  white  collar 

of  cotton  lace.  In  black  or  navy  rayon 

crepe.  Sizes  123/^-20}4.  About  $8.  By  Rite-Fit 


Buttons  double  file  down  the 
bodice,  down  the  sectioned  skirt  and 
trim  the  collar  tabs.  A  good  long 
line  is  accentuated  by  the  up  and  down 
center  stitching.  In  navy,  aqua, 
gray  and  mauve.  Sizes  l6j4-24>^. 
About  $8.  By  Rite-Fit 


MODERN  SCREEN  Fashions  Photographed  at  the  Paris  Theater,  New  York  City. 


II 


MODERN  SCREES  Fashions.  Photoijraphcd  at  the  Sutton  Theater,  Xew  York  City. 


IN  A  PATTERNED  PRINT 


Gloves  hv  Crescendoe 


Get  an  edge  on  spring  and  appear 
early  in  a  print.  Horizontal  rows  of 
lily  sprays  circle  an  entire  dress  of  rayon  crepe. 
Rhinestones  stud  the  center  of  each  button. 
The  group  of  pleats  are  stitched  part  way  to 
insure  flat  hips.  In  na\y.  red.  black  and 
gray.  Sizes  14^-22^.  About  $8.  By  Rite-Fit 


A  daring  modernistic 

print  with  high  flying  collar, 

moderate  V  neck.  Gentle 

fullness  falls  below  the  strip-shallow 

pockets.  The  fabric  is  rayon 

crepe  in  red.  taupe,  gold  and  gray. 

Sizes  Uy2-20y2.  About  $8.  By  Rite-Fit 


THE  RITE-FIT  HALF-SIZE  DRESSES  ON  BOTH  PAGES  CAN  BE  BOUGHT  AT  YOUR  FAVORITE  STORE 

69 


IN  A  TWO  PIECE 


DRESS 


For  a  highly  successful 
performance — choose  a  bolero 
ensemble.  The  sleeves  are 
below  elbow,  the  front  is  tux- 
edo. Remove  the  bolero,  and 
there  is  a  short  sleeved  one 
piece  dress  with  a  two  piece 
look.  In  rayon  crepe;  black 
with  black,  navy  with  red, 
navy  with  navy.  Sizes  16J^- 
241^.  About  $8.  By  Rite-Fit 


The  suit  dress  destined 
for  a  long  and  busy  life, 
early  and  late.  Douljle . 
breasted,  with  the  newer  low 
revers,  the  side  flaps 
indicate  pockets  that  are 
non-existent.  Sleeve  length — 
three  quarter.  In  black 
or  navy  rayon  faille.  Sizes  12  J^- 
20J^.  About  $8.  By  Rite-Fit 


MODERN  SCREEN  Fashions 


IN  POLKA  DOTS 


MODERN  SCREES'  Fashions 


■  i 


The  latest  word  from  the 
fashion  front  puts  the  coat  dress 
out  in  front.  Here  it  is  smartly 
executed  in  polka  dot  rayon  crepe. 
Knife  thin  pleats  are  kept  to 
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MODERN  SCREEN  Fashions 


IN  A  SCROLLED  PASTEL 


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are  they  haunted  by  their  perfect  love? 


(Continued  jrom  page  32)  my  many  years 
of  reporting  Hollywood  love  stories,  I  have 
never  seen  two  people  more  deeply  and 
excitingly  in  love  than  Jane  and  Ronnie 
back  in  those  days  wh^en  they  first  met. 

T  INTRODUCED  them.  You  might  say  I 
practically  threw  them  together  when 
I  invited  them  to  come  out  with  me  on 
my  first  personal  appearance  tour  twelve 
years  ago.    (Can  it  really  be  that  long?) 

Ronnie,  already  a  leading  man  at  War- 
ners, was  my  most  "famous"  name  guest. 
Janie,  still  a  stock  player  on  the  same  lot, 
was  making  about  $75  a  week  and  play- 
ing bits.  Redheaded  and  ambitious  Susan 
Hayward  and  Joy  Hodges  were  also  just 
starting  and  mere  fledglings  careerwise. 

Janie  was  openly  and  enthusiastically 
pleased  at  being  invited  along,  and  even 
before  we  opened  our  act  in  San  Francisco 
it  was  obvious  that  she  was  especially 
pleased  at  being  in  such  close  proximity 
to  Ronnie,  whom  she  considered  a  "fa- 
mous star." 

Forget  for  a  moment  the  picture  you 
have  of  Jane  Wyman  as  she  is  today — the 
famed  actress  praised  by  critics  and  fans 
the  world  over,  winner  of  an  Oscar  for 
her  Johnny  Belinda;  forget  her  as  the  gay 
sophisticate  and  one  of  Hollywood's  "best 
dressed  women." 

Instead,  imagine  a  tall,  rather  bony 
girl,  very  young  aind  pert  with  a  shoulder- 
length  bob  bleached  taffy  blonde  and  a 
'  burning  desire  to  wear  -smart  clothes  and 
to  own  jewelry. 

Only  her  limited  income  kept  her  from 
buying  out  the  stores  in  every  town  we 
visited.  Her  dresses  and  suits,  while  not 
expensive  and  far  from  the  custom  frocks 
she  wears  today,  were  not  really  in  bad 
taste. 

She  had  no  real  jewelry.  That  was  to 
come  later — but  she  did  have  a  great 
assortment  of  costimie  jewelry.  You  could 
actually  hear  her  bracelets  rattle  two 
rooms  away.. 

JANE  had  a  one  track  mind  where  Ron- 
nie was  concerned,  and  no  plans  or 
ideas  were  separated  from  her  overwhelm- 
ing adoration  of  him.  She  was  cute  and 
pretty  rather  than  beautiful  with  an  in- 
gratiating manner,  almost  an  eagerness 
to  please,  which  won  her  friends  in- 
stantly. 

After  the  nightly  show,  I  used  to  take 
my  group  of  starlets  to  some  small  night- 
club cafe  and  when  Jane  wasn't  inch- 
ing herself  into  a  seat  next  to  Ronnie  at 
the  table,  she  was  at  the  piano  with  an 
admiring  group  around  her.  She  had  a 
sweet  voice  and  loved  to  sing. 

On  these  occasions,  Ronnie  would  look 
at  her  admiringly  and  I've  always  had  a 
hunch  she  wanted  to  sing  because  the 
lyrics  expressed  exactly  what  she  thought 
about  him! 

Jane's  great  friend  was  Joy  Hodges,  our 
singer  on  the  show,  and  she  and  Jane 
were  sort  of  teamed  up  against  Susan 
Hayward  and  Susie's  pal,  redheaded  Ar- 
lene  Whelan. 

I'm  sure  that  Jane  and  Susan  have 
laughed  about  this  "feud"  many  times 
since  those  days — but  at  that  time,  it 
was  hot! 

As  part  of  the  act,  Susan  ha4  to  slap 
Ronnie,  and  once  or  twice  I  had  to  speak 
to  her  laecause  she  hit  him  too  hard.  Jane, 
usually  fuming,  would  stand  in  the  wings 
and  watch. 

I  knew — and  I'm  sure  she  knew  I 
knew — she  was  there  to  protect  her  "in- 
terests." Jane  was  just  plain  jealous. 

One  day,  I  said  to  her,  "Jane — Susan 
says  it  makes  her  nervous  to  have  you 


watch  her  and  Ronnie." 

With  her  eyes  flashing,  Missy  Wyman 
tossed  her  blonde  head. 

"Too  bad  about  her,"  she  snipped.  "If 
I  don't  stand  and  watch,  she'll  knock 
.Ronnie  down!  She  hits  him  too  hard!" 

One  day,  when  I  was  resting  in  my 
dressing  room  in  Baltimore,  Jane  burst 
into  the  room  almost  breathless. 

"I  simply  won't  let  Ronnie  act  with 
that  Hayward  girl  any  more,"  she  stormed. 
"She  just  slaps  hirruthat  hard  because  she 
thinks  it  makes  me  mad.  Say,  do  you 
think  she'll  ever  be  a  great  star?" 

"Yes,  I  do,  Jane,"  I  told  her  barely 
able  to  keep  my  face  straight.  "I  think 
Susie  has  great  talent." 

"I  have  talent,  too,"  was  the  bombastic 
answer.  "I'm  going  places — you  wait  and 
see.  I'm  sick  of  playing  these  gum  chew- 
ing molls  and  when  I  get  back  to  Holly- 
wood I  am  going  to  walk  right  into  Jack 
Warner's  office  and  say,  "If  you  don't 
give  me  better  parts — -I'm  leaving!" 

We  had  been  on  the  road  about  three 
weeks  when  Jane  told  me  that  she  was 
madly  in  love  with  Ronnie  and  that  she 
was  going  to  marry  him  some  day. 

It  wasn't  as  easy  to  tell  whether  love 
had  struck  Ronnie  as  violently  as  it  had 
my  spunky  little  Jane.  A  quiet,  dignified 
type  of  boy — he  was  much  more  reserved. 

Rormie  hails  from  my  home  town,  Dixon, 
Illinois,  and  so,  from  the  first  there  was  a 
strong  bond  of  home  town  interests  be- 
tween us,  although  he  lived  there  long 
after  I'd  left  the  pretty  town  on  Rock 
River. 

We  used  to  have  long  talks  about  Dixon 
and  the  Dixon  folks,  never  realizing  that 
one  day  he  would  retxum  there  with  me 
for  Louella  Parsons'  Day  and  receive  an 
unforgettable  reception  which  warmed 
our  hearts. 

I  had  Ronnie  summed  up  as  a  very 
level-headed,  ambitioias,  young  actor  who 
plaimed  to  go  places  in  a  great,  big  way 
and  who  was  hardly  likely  to  be  side- 
tracked with  the  responsibilities  of  mar- 
riage so  early  in  his  career. 

That's  what  I  thought! 

/^NE  afternoon,  just  before  a  matinee,  I 
^  stepped  unexpectedly  out  of  my  dress- 
ing room.  Locked  in  an  embrace  that 
would  have  done  credit  to  Scarlett  O'Hara 
and  Rhett  Butler  were  Ronnie  and  Jane. 
Never  in  their  careers  have  they  played 
such  a  passionate  love  scene — and  seldom 
have  I  seen  the  likes  of  that  kiss! 

I  was  far  from  surprised  when  they 
came  to  me  in  New  York,  a  few  days 
before  Christmas,  and  said,  "Mom — .we're 
engaged!"  Then,  both  talking  at  once, 
they  poured  out  their  happy  plans: 

"We're  going  to  be  married  when  we 
get  back  to  Hollywood.  We  want  Dockie 
(my  husband,  Dr.  Harry  Martin)  to  give 
Janie  away" — and  they  were  two  de- 
lighted, eager  children  when  I  promised, 
"I'll  give  you  your  wedding  dinner  at 
our  hoiise!" 

My  Doctor,  so  happy  over  the  role  he 
was  going  to  play  in  the  wedding,  came 
on  to  New  York  to  join  us — and  I  am 
sure  that  none  of  us  will  ever  forget  that 
Christmas. 

While  we  were  busy  at  the  theater, 
Doctor  went  out  and  bought  a  tree  for 
my  gang  of  homesick  kids,  trimmed  and 
decorated  it  in  our  hotel  smte.  We  had 
the  gayest  of  gay  supper  parties  after  the 
show. 

It  was  wonderful  just  to  watch  Jane 
and  Ronnie.  The  strong  physical  attraction 
between  them  actually  sent  out  sparks. 
And  yet  we  were  all  conscious  of  some- 
thing stronger  than  just  sex  magnetism 


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between  the  handsome,  healthy  and  ambi- 
tious youngsters. 

There  was  a  new  tenderness  about  Jane 
that  gave  her  a  new  beauty  and  dignity — 
yes,  in  spite  of  the  bleached  hair  and  the 
bracelets  that  still  jingled. 

It  was  as  though  she  had  foimd  in 
Ronnie  someone  she  considered  almost 
a  god,  and  as  though  she  must  treat  the 
great  gift  of  his  love  with  reverence  and 
devotion. 

Jane's  imhappy  marriage  in  her  youth 
was  no  secret.  When  she  was  sixteen  and 
a  model  in  New  York  before  coming  to 
Hollywood,  she  had  impulsively  married 
a  yoTing  dress  manufacturer,  Myron  Fut- 
terman.  Although  the  marriage  dragged 
on  for  two  years,  both  realized  the  mis- 
take early.  When  Jane  came  to  Hollywood 
and  Futterman's  business  kept  him  in  New 
York — a  divorce  was  inevitable. 

My  eager-eyed,  peppy  little  girl  friend 
regretted  this  early  marriage  much  more 
than  the  youthful  mistake  deserved.  She ' 
wanted  so  much  that  Ronnie  should  be 
the  alpha  and  omega  of  her  emotional 
life.  She  wanted  everything  to  be  so 
shining,  so  wonderful,  so  first  with  both 
of  them. 

Ronnie  told  her  and  I  told  her  that 
nothing  mattered  now  except  the  two 
of  them.  By  refusing  to  let  her  even 
mention  her  previous  marriage,  I  believe 
it  really  began  to  fade  from  her  memory. 

"Ronnie  is  my  first  love,"  she  told  me, 
"and  he  will  be  the  last.  Do  you  think 
other  people  have  ever  been  so  much  in 
love  as  we?" 

I  didn't  have  the  heart  to  tell  her  that 
there  was  a  bare  possibility  others  had. 
There  was  something  so  touching  and 
tender  about  Jane  sincerely  believing  she 
had  found  something  so  wonderful  it 
could  not  be  shared. 

The  impulsive,  immature  girl  who  had 
started  this  trip  with  me  had  in  seven 
short  weeks  become  a  mature  and  fasci- 
nating woman — and  love  had  worked  the 
transformation. 

Ronnie  had  seen  through  her  pretended 
frivolous  exterior  before  any  of  us.  Even 
when  they  had  lovers'  quarrels  (she  was 
still  a  tiny  mite  jealous  of  Susan — or  any 
other  girl  he  happened  to  look  at),  he 
would  say  to  me: 

"There's  only  one  Jane.  Nobody  else 
like  her."  Another  time,  he  ruefully  ad- 
mitted after  one  of  her  explosions,  "I 
admit  it — it  takes  a  bit  of  iinderstanding — 
but  she  doesn't  fool  me.  Underneath  that 
fire  and  temperament — she's  solid  gold. 
She's  the  only  girl  in  the  world  for  me!" 

T^HEY  were  married  at  the  Wee  Xirk  of 
the  Heather  Chapel  on  a  chilly  after- 
noon in  January  and,  with  the  exception 
of  members  of  my  immediate  family,  I 
have  never  been  so  misty-eyed  at  a  mar- 
riage ceremony. 

Jane  wore  a  beige  suit,  trimmed  in  fur, 
and  a  small  fur  hat  on  her  head — still 
blonder  than  its  natural  color. 

My  Doctor  looked  so  happy  and  proud 
as  he  walked  down  the  aisle  with  Janie 
on  his  arm.  Ronnie  might  have  been  an 
illustration  of  a  happy  groom  from  a 
magazine  cover. 

What  a  gay  affair  it  was — not  big — just 
Jane's  and  Ronnie's  closest  friends  and 
Ronnie's  parents.  It  was  typical  of  Jane 
that  her  best  and  oldest  friend,  Betty 
Kaplan,  who  had  been  her  pal  for  years, 
was  her  matron  of  honor. 

The  champagne  corks  popped  festively 
as  we  toasted  the  bride  and  groom  or  any 
other  excuse  we  could  think  of  to  lift 
glasses  and  proclaim  our  happiness  to  the 
world. 

But  the  sweetest  moment  of  all  to  me 
was  just  before  my  "kids"  slipped  away. 
They   called   me   into   the   library  and 


whispered  they  were  leaving.  And,  then, 
with  tears  streaming  down  all  our  faces, 
they  threw  their  arms  around  me: 

"There  is  no  one  in  the  world  who 
could  have  given  us  such  a  perfect  day. 
We  love  you  very  much — and  you  will 
always  be  part  of  our  happiness." 

The  others  got  wind  that  the  newly- 
weds  were  stealing  away— out  came  the 
rice  and  there  was  much  shouting  and 
yelling  as  we  pelted  the  bride  and  groom 
in  the  old-fashioned  way.  There  were  still 
tears  of  halppiness  in  my  eyes  for  them 
as  I  watched  them  drive  away. 

'Mj'R.  and  Mrs.  Reagan  (how  she  loved 
being  called  Mrs.  Reagan)  took  an 
apartment  at  the  Sunset  Plaza  not  far 
from  our  Maple  Drive  home.  We  saw 
each  other  frequently  during  the  first 
months  of  their  honeymoon  but,  one  day, 
Jane's  voice  was  particularly  excited  as 
she  called  to  say  we  must  come  to  dinner. 
It  was  something  special. 

And  it  was!  She  had  just  found  out  she 
was  going  to  have  a  baby  (Maureen). 
That  is,  she  had  found  it  out  24  hours  be- 
fore, and  she  had  already  gone  out  and 
bought  baby  clothes  which  she  proudly 
showed  me. 

Happy?  They  were  both  in  heaven  and 
so  were  Doctor  and  I  for  them. 

By  this  time  Ronnie  was  going  ahead  by 
leaps  and  bounds  in  his  career.  Janie 


WAS  MY  FACE  RED 

■  John  Derek  was  performing  in  a 
Hollywood  bowling  alley  for  the  bene- 
fit of  a  magazine  photographer.  He  kept 
hearing  the  whispers  and  then  the  loud 
buzzing  "Look,  there's  John  Derek."  As 
the  crowds  begged  for  his  autograph, 
John  felt  mighty  set  up.  As  he  started 
to  leave,  he  heard  someone  ask  the 
cashier  what  the  crowd  was  about.  "Oh, 
they've  been  photographing  John  Derek, 
whoever  the  heck  he  is,"  the  cashier  un- 
knowingly slugged  John. — Kolnta  Flake. 


was  advancing,  too,  at  Warners.  But  now 
her  career  was  in  second  spot  in  her 
world.  Everything  was  the  baby,  the 
baby,  the  baby. 

I  once  asked  her  if  she  thought  she 
would  give  up  her  career  to  have  chil- 
dren and  be  just  Mrs.  Reagan. 

"Oh,  no,"  she  said.  "I  want  to  have 
both.  There  is  something  inside  me  I 
must  express.  Ronnie  understands.  He 
believes  in  me  as  much  as  I  believe  in 
myself." 

Some  months  later  we  were  again  in- 
vited to   the   Reagan  apartment. 

"Please  come  early,"  Janie  said.  "We 
want  you  and  Dockie  to  see  Maureen.  It's 
the  nurse's  night  out  and  I  am  taking 
care  of  her.  You  know,"  said  Jane,  "we 
are  calling  her  Maureen.  At  first,  we  had 
planned  to  name  her  Louella  but — "  she 
broke  off  a  little  shamefacedly  fearing  I 
might  be  hurt — "we  love  the  name 
Maureen." 

"It's  all  right,  dear,"  I  told  her,  "I  never 
really  liked  my  name  myself.  I  wouldn't 
call  my  own  child  Louella.  Besides  I  have 
a  namesake  in  my  niece." 

"Ronnie  and  I  thought  you  might  be 
offended  since, we  promised  to  name  our 
first  after  you,"  she  laughed. 

Dinner  that  night  was  served  while 
Maureen  slept.  Jane,  the  devoted  mother, 
kept  rurming  to  the  nursery  to  peek  at 
her.  Ronnie,  the  doting  father,  slipped 
away  while  we  were  having  dessert  to  be 
sure  she  was  covered.  The  nurse  had  told 


him  the  baby  mustn't  be  uncovered  and 
that  she  must  be  changed. 

"Aren't  they  sweet?"  I  asked  my  hus- 
band on  the  way  home. 

"They  are,  indeed,"  answered  my  favor- 
ite doctor.  "But  just  how  long  do  you 
think  Jane  is  going  to  play  this  scene 
of  perfect  domesticity?  That  girl  has 
genuine  talent  and  she  isn't  going  to 
rock  the  cradle  indefinitely." 

Wise  man,  that  doctor  husband  of  mine. 
Indeed,  Jane  wasn't  going  to  go  on  in- 
definitely rocking  the  cradle.  She  loved 
Roimie — she  adored  Maureen — but  she 
was  ambitious. 

Life  then  and  later  was  very  wonderful 
for  the  young  Reagans. 

'T'hen  came  the  war,  and  Ronnie  was 
J-  made  a  captain  in  the  infantry  and 
stationed  at  San  Francisco.  It  so  hap- 
pened that  Dr.  Martin  was  at  Letterman 
Hospital,  a  major  in  the  medical  corps. 
Both  Jane  and  I  very  often  went  to  the 
Bay  City  to  visit  our  Army  husbands 

One  night  I  remember  especially  we 
all  had  dinner  at  the  Fairmont  Hotel. 

Jane  was  unhappy  because  Ronnie  was 
not  stationed  closer  to  her  and  she  feared 
he  might  be  sent  overseas.  They  were  so 
much  in  love  that  they  actually  suffered 
at  the  thought  of  this  separation. 

But  Rormie's  eyes  were  not  good  (his 
vision  was  dim)  and  it  was  not  long 
before  he  was  transferred  to  an  office 
job  at  the  Roach  Studios  in  Los 
Angeles. 

It  was  then  that  the  Reagans  decided 
to  adopt  a  little  boy  to  keep  Mattreen 
company — httle  Michael.  He  was  as  dark 
as  she  was  fair,  and  Jane  and  Maureen 
and  Ronnie  showered  him  with  as  much 
love  as  though  he  were  their  own  blood. 

With  the  increase  in  their  family  they 
moved  into  a  beautiful  Colonial  home  in 
Holmby  Hills  and  were  thought  of  as  a 
"perfect"  married  couple. 

In  the  years  that  followed,  Jane  and 
Ronnie  had  so  much,  so  very  much.  They 
entertained  beautifully  and  were  part  of 
the  happy  married  set  numbering  the 
Jack  Bennys,  the  Johnny  Greenes,  Bar- 
bara Stanwyck  and  Bob  Taylor,  and  others. 
Ah,  indeed,  life  was  reaUy  beautiful. 

Janie  was  loaned  to  Paramount  to  co- 
star  in  The  Lost  Weekend  which  won  Ray 
Milland,  and  the  picture,  the  Academy 
Award.  Our  pretty  little  girl  was  rapidly 
becoming  an  actress  of  great  artistic 
stature.  No  longer  just  the  little  cutie 
who  broke  up  movie  homes,  she  was  re- 
garded as  a  rival  to  Bette  Davis,  then 
queen  of  the  Warner  lot. 

It  was  obvious  that  this  growth  pro- 
fessionally was  changing  her  person- 
ally. Gone  was  the  glamor  girl  blonde 
bob.  Instead,  Jane  had  cut  her  hair  short 
and  neat  and  let  it  go  back  to  its  natural 
dark  color  which  brought  out  her  dark, 
expressive  eyes  so  beautifully. 

Someway  our  lives  alwasrs  seemed  to 
dovetail.  Jane  was  borrowed  by  MGM 
for  The  Yearling.  The  company  went  to 
Lake  Arrowhead  for  the  exteriors.  Dr. 
Martin  and  I  had  rented  a  summer  heme 
on  the  lake  and  we  saw  Jane  a  number- 
of  times  while  she  was  making  the  picture 
— ^her  first  fling  into  sheer  characterization 
as  the  unglamorous  'mother. 

The  following  winter,  fate .  again 
brought  us  together.  Doctor,  who  hadn't 
been  very  well,  went  into  the  hospital  for 
a  complete  checkup.  In  the  next  room 
was  Ronnie  with  a  very  bad  case  of  virus 
flu.  Jane  came  every  day,  as  did  I  to  visit 
"our  boys." 

They  confided  that  Jane  was  expecting 
another  baby.    How  deeply  happy  they 
were  over  the  news.  There  was  Maureen  , 
and  Michael,  and  a  third  child  would  be  i 
very  welcome. 


Then,  one  day,  I  walked  into  the  hos- 
pital and  Ronnie's  nurse  told  me  he  had 
asked  to  see  me — privately.  He  told  me 
with  tears  in  his  eyes  that  Jane  had  lost 
the  baby  and  that  she  was  in  Queen  of 
the  Angels  Hospital  quite  ill. 

"I  feel  so  terrible,"  he'  said,  "because  I 
know  if  she  hadn't  had  to  make  this  long 
trip  to  see  me  every  day  after  work  this 
might  not  have  happened.  It  was  physi- 
cally too  much  for  her." 

Who  can't  say  that  the  loss  of  that 
baby  had  anjrthing  to  do  with  the  strain 
that  began  to  be  apparent  between  them — 
but  it  seemed  to  me  from  that  time  on 
there  was  a  change  in  their  attitude 
toward  each  other. 

JANE  seemed  to  actually  throw  herself 
into  her  career  and  Ronnie  was  rapidly 
becoming  one  of  our  most  active  citizens 
politically.  He  was  elected  president  of 
the  Screen  Actors'  Guild  and  he  attended 
meetings  night  after  night  leaving  Jane 
alone. 

Just  about  this  time,  Jane  started 
Johnny  Belinda,  the  picture  that  was  to 
wia  her  the  coveted  _  Oscar.  Ronnie  was 
busy  making  speeches.  She  talked  over 
this  wonderful  role  with  Lew  Ayres  who 
played  opposite  her. 

For  the  first  time,  Jane  and  Ronnie  were 
going  their  separate  ways.  Then,  like  a 
bolt  from  the  blue,  came  the  news  that 
Jane  and  Ronnie  had  parted. 

She  left  for  New  York,  and  over  the 
long  distance  telephone  told  me  the  bitter 
and  sad  news.  I  was  speechless.  I  just 
couldn't  believe  it. 

I  asked  Ronnie  to  come  and  see  me.  I'll 
never  forget  that  session. 

"I  am  married  to  a  strange  girl,  LoueUa, 
but  a  wonderful  one,"  he  said.  "No  one 
can  make  me  believe  that  all  we  have 
had  between  us  is  over. 

"Right  now,  Jane  is  so  deep  in  her 
work  that  she  is  actually  living  her  roles. 
She  brings  them  home  with  her.  She  is 
the  character  that  she  is  playing  on  the 
screen. 

"But  Jane  and  I  will  be  together  again. 
That  you  can  stake  your  life  on!" 

But  Ronnie  and  Jane  weren't  together 
again! 

I  lunched  with  her  when  she  came  back 
from  New  York.  She  was  smartly  dressed, 
she  was  gay.  But  she  would  not  discuss 
her  matrimonial  troubles  beyond  saying, 
"Ronnie  likes  his  work  as  president  of 
the  Guild.   He  isn't  imhappy." 

I  hoped  against  hope  they  would  kiss 
and  make  up.  But  the  months  dragged 
by — and  then  one  day,  Jane  filed  suit  for 
divorce. 

I  confess  I  am  baffled — ^more  baffled  than 
I  have  ever  been  by  a  Hollywood  love 
story. 

Not  long  ago,  I  went  to  a  dinner  party 
at  their  home  and  Maureen  came  in  to 
cut  her  birthday  cake.  Her  mother  and 
father  stood  by  her  side,  polite  to  each 
other  and  respectful — so  different  from 
those  gay  kids  who  went  barnstorming 
with  me.  I  turned  away  so  they  couldn't 
see  the  tears  in  my  eyes. 

Since  then,  when  I  see  Janie,  she  seems 
self-sufficient,  independent,  and,  oh,  so 
gay.  But  I  know  that  not  long  ago  she 
said  to  someone,  "What's  the  matter  with 
me?  I  can't  seem  to  pick  up  the  pieces 
of  my  life  again.  Will  I  ever  find  happi- 
ness ahead?" 

And,  one  of  the  lovely  girls  Ronnie 
seemed  interested  in  for  awhile  told  me 
he  recently  said  to  her,  "Sure,  I  like  you. 
I  like  you  fine.  But  I  think  I've  forgotten 
how  to  fall  in  love." 

I  wonder — do  those  embers  of  the  once 
perfect  love  they  shared  stUl  burn  deep 
with  haunting  memories  that  won't  let 
them  forget?  The  End 


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See  your  skin  come  alive  under  the  subtle 
flattery  of  this  delicate,  completely  natural 
foundation!  Before  you  powder,  smooth  on  a 
very  thin  film  of  Pond's  Vanishing  G-eam.  This 
satiny,  greaseless  Cream  gives  a  soft,  transparent 
finish  that  never  streaks  .  .  .  never  discolors  .  .  . 
never  looks  artificial.  A  powder  base  of  Pond's 
Vanishing  Cream  keeps  your  complexion  fresh, 
flawless  as  cream-velvet  for  hours! 


A  1-Minute  Mask  of  Pond's  Vanishing 
Cream  can  re-style  your  complexion ! 
Just  cover  your  face,  except  eyes,  with 
lavish  fingerfuls  of  the  Cream.  Delight 
in  its  snowy  coolness  as  "keratolytic" 
action  dissolves  off  clinging  dirt,  dead 
skin  flakes.  Tissue  off  after  1  minute. 
Right  away,  your  skin  looks  waked-up 
— clearer,  softer,  even  lighter!  Now, 
how  sweetly  make-up  smooths  on! 


This  charming  Duchess  has  an  exquisite  complexion — soft  and  delicate. 
She  says,  "Pond's  Vanishing  Cream  is  perfect  for  powder  base.  It  keeps  my 
powder  fresh  and  smooth  longer  than  any  other  base  I've  ever  used!" 


miss  whistle-bait  of  1951 

(Continued  from  page  49)  Janie  for  five 
years,  and  she  hasn't  changed  one  bit. 
Geary's  given  her  a  lot  of  self-confidence, 
I  think,  but  she's  still  the  same  as  she  was 
back  in  1945." 

As  for  the  new-found  sex  appeal — that 
makes  Lillian  Burns  laugh.  "The  first  time 
she  walked  into  my  office  she  had  the  same 
cuteness,  the  same  perkiness  she  has  now. 
If  you  remember  that  scene  in  Holiday  in 
Mexico  where  she  imitated  Ilona  Massey, 
I  don't  think  there's  any  doubt  in  your 
mind  that  she  had  sex  appeal.  And  she 
was  only  fifteen  then." 

Add  to  this  the  statement  of  a  former 
publicist  at  MGM,  and  you'll  be  even  more 
enlightened.  "As  svire  as  God  made  green 
apples,"  he  says.  "Janie  Powell  had  IT. 
Every  guy  at  the  studio  was  mooning 
aroimd  like  a  lovesick  calf.  She  didn't 
know  it — was  completely  unaware  of  it — 
but  not  because  she  was  naive.  She  had 
a  remarkable  shrewdness  about  her 
career,  and  about  people.  But  she  was 
always  a  lady." 

'T'he  wardrobe  department  was  never  un- 
aware  of  Janie's  charms.  "We  really  had 
to  tone  down  her  clothes,"  a  designer  says. 
"We  were  trying  to  make  her  look  yotmg, 
and  we  had  trouble  minimizing  her  allure. 
We  never  discussed  it  in  her  presence, 
though,  because  Janie  isn't  the  kind  of 
girl  who  takes  well  to  that  kind  of  talk. 
She  blushes  so  easily  -you  feel  sorry  for 
her." 

And  Joan  Wilcoxon  (wife  of  actor  Henry 
Wilcoxon)  who's  been  a  friend  of  Jane's 
for  some  time,  seems  a  bit  incensed  at  the 
studio's  claifn  of  new  glamor. 

"That's  silly,"  she  says  briskly.  "They're 
asking  us  to  believe  that  overnight  Jane's 
ready  to  be  a  leading  woman.  She's  been 
doing  that  since  she  was  born.  I  think  it's 
a  mistake  to  believe  that  by  spending  two 
days  or  two  months  in  the  hands  of  ex- 
perts, the  true  meaning  of  glamor  can  be 
achieved.  Plunging  necklines  and  new 
hairdos  can  make  a  girl  look  older,  but 
that  shouldn't  be  confused  with  glamor. 
Glamor's  a  dividend  that  MGM  can't  give 
to  Janie.  She  has  it  already.  God  gave  it 
to  her." 

Jane  Powell  has  had  the  same  trouble 
as  other  girls  who  started  off  early  in  a 
movie  career.  Despite  the  passing  years, 
people  tended  to  regard  her  as  a  child. 
They  wouldn't  let  her  grow  up,  at  least  in 
their  own  minds.  When  she  went  to  Sun 
Valley  on  a  vacation  a  few  years  ago, 
people  were  shocked  by  her  mature  be- 


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havior.  "Goodness,"  they  said  to  them- 
selves. "What  that  Hollywood  does  to 
children's  lives!  It  makes  them  old  before 
their  time." 

Janie  has  disregarded  these  opinions 
with  a  great  deal  of  equanimity.  "Older 
folks,"  she  has  said,  "never  let  kids  ma- 
ture. They  don't  even  give  them  credit 
for  having  good  sense." 

JANE  Powell  has  good  sense,  and  she's 
always  had  it.  She  almost  married 
Tommy  Batten  when  she  was  nineteen, 
but  she  was  wise  enough  to  recognize  it 
as  puppy  love,  and  told  him  she  wasn't 
ready  for  marriage,  or  even  an  engage- 
ment. She  was  never  interested  in  night- 
clubs, but  preferred  instead  the  smaller, 
quieter  spots  for  an  evening's  entertain- 
ment. She  never  gave  a  thought  to  leav- 
ing her  parents'  home  to  do  the  "accepted" 
thing  of  living  alone  because  she  was 
financially  independent.  She  never  felt 
she'd  die  if  she  didn't  get  certain  roles  at 
the  studio,  preferring  to  let  her  bosses 
choose  her  pictures,  and  performing  her 
job  with  a  minimum  of  temperament. 
She's  always  maintained  a  mature  atti- 
tude about  her  voice,  knowing  that  it's  a 
great  gift,  and  works  hard  at  perfecting  it. 
She  isn't  even  a  bit  superstitious,  and  has 
already  made  many  baby  clothes  and 
tucked  them  away  for  future  use. 

Her  outlook  on  everything  is  practical. 
At  the  time  she  became  engaged,  for  in- 


stance, MGM  was  whipping  up  her  wai'd- 
robe  for  Nancy  Goes  To  Rio.  After  she'd 
seen  the  sketches,  she  went  to  Dore  Schary 
and  announced  that  the  clothes  would 
make  a  perfect  trousseau.  This  broke  all 
precedent,  since  clothes  worn  by  the  stars 
are  tised  again  and  again  by  the  extras. 
But  Janie  figured  that  few  people  can  get 
into  clothes  made  for  her;  a  logical  con- 
clusion— she's  five-feet-two,  and  weighs 
ninety-eight  povmds.  She  got  the  trous- 
seau. 

T]F7hen  she  and  Geary  decided  on  the 
apartment  that  was  to  be  their  home 
after  the  wedding,  it  was  Janie  who  ar- 
ranged the  lease  and  got  the  rental 
reduced.  "I  sat  in  the  car  and  let  her  do 
the  talking,"  Geary  says. 

She  bought  their  furniture  at  bargain 
basements  and  auction  sales.  (Janie  will 
buy  anything  on  sale.)  Their  winnings 
from  Canasta  went  into  a  piggy  bank,  and 
their  honeymoon  came  out  of  it. 

With  a  wedding  in  sight,  Jane  was 
naturally  anxious  to  find  a  dreamhouse, 
but  she  refused  to  look  at  any  xmtil  a 
definite  wedding  date  was  set.  "We  might 
find  something  jjist  perfect,  and  then  break 
our  hearts  because  we  aren't  in  a  position 
to  buy  it  yet." 

The  Steffens  have  their  own  house  now, 
out  in  Brentwood,  and  whenever  new 
people  move  into  the  neighborhood,  young 
Mrs.  Steffen  gets  herself  gussied  up  and 
sets  out  to  call  on  them. 

This  consideration  for  others  is  another 
thing  that's  almost  as  old  as  Janie  is.  Pro- 
ducer Rogers  recalls  that,  at  fourteen,  Jane 
worried  quite  a  bit  about  the  money 
poured  into  her  film  debut.  "I  don't  under- 
stand," she  told  him,  "why  you  spend  so 
much  money  on  my  first  picture." 

"Most  kids,"  says  Rogers,  "would  be 
bragging  about  it,  instead  of  worrying.  An- 
other thing  about  Janie — she  was  so  ap- 
preciative. I  remember  that  I  gave  her  a 
small  watch  at  Christmas  that  year.  You'd 
have  thought  it  was  a  Cadillac  the  way  she 
raved  aboiit  it. 

"Janie's  never  forgotten  me,  either.  After 
the  picture  was  finished,  and  she  went 
back  to  Metro,  she  continued  to  write  me 
little  notes  on  Thanksgiving  and  Easter, 
etnd  other  holidays,  always  thanking  me 
for  what  I'd  done  for  her." 

"Changed?"  ask  the  stars  and  the  friends 
who've  always  known  her.  "She's  exactly 
the  same  as  she  always  was.  She's  always 
had  a  lot  of  sense  for  her  age,  and  a  lot  of 
glamor,  too.  But  now  that  the  years  are 
creeping  on  through  twenty,  the  glamor's 
beginning  to  show.  And  on  Janie,  it's  a 
wonderful  sight!"  The  End 


castle  witli  a  redwood  fence 

(Continued  from  page  46)  eye  is  a  series 
of  redwood  batons  woven  horizontally  in 
and  out  between  redwood  posts.  It's  par- 
ticularly efficient  because  it's  trim,  it's 
modem-looking,  and  it's  relatively  inex- 
pensive to  build.  It  also  provides  more 
privacy  than  a  picket  fence,  without  offer- 
ing a  solid  barrier  between  neighbors.  If 
you're  interested  in  fences  you  might  bear 
Janet's  in  mind. 

HPhe  house  behind  the  fence  is  also  made 
of  California  redwood.  Like  so  many 
houses  in  southern  California,  it's  built 
around  a  patio. 

To  insure  as  much  outdoor  living  as  pos- 
sible, one  whole  wall  of  the  living  room 
and  one  wall  of  Janet's  bedroom  is  a  series 
of  glass  doors  opening  on  the  patio. 

""This  outdoor  living,"  Janet  says,  "was  a 
little  hard  for  us  to  get  used  to.    I  mean 


that  for  years — in  fact,  all  our  lives — my 
parents  and  I  had  lived  in  apartments,  and 
for  the  first  few  weeks,  I  had  the  feeling 
that  the  neighbors  were  looking  in  on  us. 
I  knew  it  was  impossible  for  anyone  but  a 
giant  to  see  over  our  fence,  but  I  worried. 

"When  I  got  over  it,  I  started  to  leave 
all  the  doors  open,  and  one  day  a  bird  flew 
in.  We  had  one  crazy  time  trying  to  shoo 
him  out  again.  I've  decided  that  you  can 
live  just  so  close  to  nature,  before  nature 
moves  in  and  takes  over." 

Janet  and  her  family,  however,  are  gen- 
uinely enthusiastic  about  the  patio  prin- 
ciple. Matter  of  fact,  they  were  explain- 
ing it — at  least  Janet  was  to  Tony  Curtis — 
the  other  day.  -  Tony  is  a  frequent  visitor. 
He  spends  all  his  spare  time  at  her  house. 
Well,  Janet  was  giving  Tony  the  lowdown 
about  patio  living.  "If  you  buy  any  kind 
of  house,  a  good  patio  acts  as  a  second  liv- 
ing room,"  Janet  explained.  "It  also  makes 
the  house  seem  twice  as  large  and  it's 
wonderful  for  parties.     When  we  have 


company  we  simply  roll  the  portable  bar- 
becue onto  one  comer  of  the  patio  and  a 
bar  onto  the  other.  Then  we  set  up  card 
tables,  and  presto! — we're  set." 

As  a  sort  of  house  warming,  Janet  only 
recently  invited  two  dozen  of  her  friends 
over  to  the  house  for  a  buffet  dinner.  She 
and  her  mother  arranged  the  tables.  Her 
father  barbecued  a  turkey,  and  the  small 
house  took  care  of  the  crowd  with  ease. 

A  LTHOUGH  Janet's  new  redwood  house  ! 
lends  itself  to  parties,  she  is  no  veteran 
party- thrower.     Actually,   she's  a  home 
body,  who  is  sold  on  family-living. 

One  large  room  takes  care  of  that — the 
hving-dining  room.  At  one  end,  there's  a 
dining  area  which  looks  like  a  separate 
room  because  of  the  arrangement  of  the 
living  room  furniture.  The  furniture  turns  | 
its  back  on  the  dinner  table  and  chairs.  I 
The  rest  of  the  high-ceilinged  room  is  I 
arranged  for  comfort  and  home  entertain-  I 
ment.    The  over-scale  modern  furniture  r 


(all  pieces  from  a  former  apartment)  is 
grouped  in  front  of  a  corner  fireplace.  The 
particularly  comfortable  chairs  and  the 
large  couch  face  the  television  set.  Against 
the  wall  and  behind  the  couch  stands  a 
Magnavox  record  player  and  Janet's  col- 
lection of  albums. 

"It's  so  pleasant  sitting  here  listening  to 
records,"  Janet  explains,  "that  lots  of  times 
I  hate  to  go  out  at  night.  Unless  there's 
something  reaUy  special  taking  place  in 
Hollywood,  I  find  that  I  can  coax  my  date 
to  sit  at  home  with  me — you  know — just  in 
front  of  a  fire  listening  to  some  good  music. 
And  there's  never  any  trouble  about  the 
use  of  the  living  room,  either.  If  a  few 
kids  drop  in,  as  they  do  once  in  a  while, 
Mother  and  Dad  move  into  their  bedroom 
or  into  the  'office.'  " 

"The  office"  is  another  reason  why  the 
house  suits  Janet  and  her  family  so  well. 
Mr.  Morrison  is  an  insurance  broker,  and 
he  conducts  his  business  from  the  house. 
In  addition,  Janet's  increasing  popularity 
has  given  her  a  lot  more  fan  mail  to  an- 
swer, and  there's  a  good  deal  of  office  work 
to  be  done  by  a  movie  star. 

Thus  the  room  nearest  the  street  became 
"the  office."  It  has  its  own  entrance  onto 
the  street,  an  adjacent  lavatory  and  two 
desks.  Janet  uses  one  desk  and  her  father 
uses  the  other  for  insurance  matters.  Re- 
cently, a  secretary  came  to  help  them  both. 

Janet's  bedroom,  of  course,  is  the  room 
that  really  reflects  her  personality.  The 
furniture  is  the  exact  set  she  owned  when 
she  first  came  to  Hollywood  five  years  ago. 
So  is  the  blue  and  yellow  color  scheme. 
Only  the  draperies  and  the  view  are  new. 

Sitting  on  Janet's  bed  is  a  doll  given  her 
by  Naomi  Jaffee  Carroll.  Naomi  happened 
to  be  visiting  in  Santa  Cruz  when  Janet 
was  on  location  with  her  first  picture.  They 
met,  and  as  far  as  Janet  can  tell,  Naomi 
was  her  first  real  fan. 

Above  Janet's  bed  is  a  bulletin  board 
crammed  with  snapshots.  Janet  used  to 
tuck  these  around  her  dressing  table  mir- 
ror, but  with  more  and  more  success  the 
amount  of  available  mirror  space  grew 
smaller  and  smaller.  Finally,  her  father 
made  this  good-sized  bulletin  board  for 
her  candid  collection.  He  also  constructed 
the  extra  shelves  for  shoe  storage.  Janet 
has  a  weakness  for  shoes.  She  takes  good 
care  of  them,  too — shoe  trees,  polish,  heel 
repairs,  all  of  that.  She  owns  seventeen 
pairs  of  high  heels,  twelve  pairs  of  flats. 

In  a  prominent  place  over  her  dressing 
table  hangs  a  color  portrait  of  herself  with 
Van  Johnson.  It  was  taken  during  the 
making  of  Romance  of  Rosy  Ridge,  her 
first  picture.  Van  had  it  enlarged  and  gave 
it  to  her.  The  pictures  on  Janet's  bulletin 
board  reveal  the  whole  amazing  chronicle 
of  Janet  Leigh  in  Hollywood. 

When  Janet  was  asked  what  would  hap- 
pen to  the  house  in  case  she  should  sud- 
denly get  married,  she  answered  quite 
frankly  that  she  would  have  to  look  for 
another  home.  Her  parents  own  this  one. 

"But  I'd  want  it  to  be  practically  a  dupli- 
cate of  this  one,"  she  insisted.    "You  see, 
the  architect  who  designed  this  place  in- 
tended to  live  in  it  himself,  so  he  included 
all  the  practical  features.    For  example, 
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Don't  let  the  calendar  make  a 
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by  joan  evans 


Ah,  men!  Every  girl  has  an  eye  on  that 
special  one.  Want  to  know  how  to  get  him?  ■ 


T'm  going  to  let  you  in  on  a  secret — which 
*  may  not  be  the  thing  to  do.  But  if  you 
and  I  are  to  get  together,  you  should  know 
how  I  operate  this  department  for  Modern 
Screen. 

There  are  always  a  lot  of  big  problems  in 
the  letters — "How  do  I  get  thin?  How  do 
I  put  on  weight  ?  How  do  I  overcome  shy- 
ness? How  do  I  convince  my  parents  I'm 
old  enough  to  have  dates?" — but  the  most 
important  problem  is  the  boy  friend  situa- 
tion. Hundreds  of  letters  boil  down  to 
"How  do  I  get  the  boy  I  want?" 

After  reading  all  the  letters  that  come  to 
me,  I  decide  which  ones  seem  urgent.  Some- 
times I  can  answer  the  problems  myself.  For 
example,  the  time  I  talked  about  losing 
weight — brother,  that  was  something  I 
knew  all  about.  But  if  the  problems  are 
too  big  for  me  I  consult  either  my  parents 
or  someone  else  older  and  wiser  than  I 
am.  When  I  answered  the  "How  do  I  get  in 
the  movies?"  question,  I  talked  for  a 
long  time  to  my  dramatic  coach. 

When  the  "How  do  I  get  the  boy  I 
want?"  problem  reared  its  head,  I  thought, 
"Who  do  I  talk  to  about  this?"  I  didn't 
want  to  set  myself  up  as  a  big  authority 
on  this  subject.  Then  I  had  what  I  think 
is  a  bright  idea.  I  asked  a  lot  of  boys  I 
know  for  advice.  What  to  do  when  a  girl 
is  crazy  about  a  boy  who  doesn't  seem  crazy 
about  her.  And  how  a  girl  can  meet  a  boy 
who  is — say — a  year  ahead  of  her  in  school. 
What  I  found  out  from  my  one  girl  re- 
search was  very  interesting  and  helpful  to 
me.  Now  I  want  to  pass  it  along  to  you. 

ITIhe  most  fascinating  thing  is  to  realize 
^  that  the  boy  you're  yearning  for  may 
be  yearning  for  you,  too.  Although  the  boys 
may  seem  self-assured  and  hard  to  get, 
they  can  be  as  shy  as  you  are.  One  kid  con- 
fessed to  me  that  he  kind  of  swaggered 


around,  pretending  to  be  something  he  was 
not,  because  girls  terrified  him.  This  led 
me  to  the  conclusion  that  it's  up  to  the 
girl  to  take  the  first  step — to  put  the  boy 
at  his  ease. 

As  you  know,  Emily  Post  says  that  even 
if  you  know  a  boy  very  well,  it  is  always 
up  to  you  to  speak  first  if  you  bump  into 
him  on  the  street  or  in  the  halls  at  school. 
That  can  be  carried  a  little  further.  If  there's 
a  boy  you  want  to  meet,  and  you  have  no 
mutual  friend  to  introduce  you,  you  may 
go  up  to  him  in  the  school  hall,  for  example, 
or  after  church,  or  wherever  you  gather, 
and  say,  "My  name's  So  and  So.  I've 
seen  you  around  school  but  we've  never 
met.  A  bunch  of  the  kids  are  coming  over 
to  my  house  Friday  night.  If  you've  noth- 
ing better  to  do  I  wish  you'd  come." 

I  asked  the  shy  boy  if  this  wouldn't  be  a 
good  idea  and  he  said,  "Oh,  if  they  only 
would  do  that."  By  "they"  he  meant  us 
girls.  Remember,  of  course,  you  must  know 
who  the  boy  is,  and  that  you  must  intro- 
duce him  to  your  parents. 

Suppose  this  works.  Without  being  bold 
at  all  you  have  very  graciously  made  an 
introduction.  And  that's  the  first — and  most 
difficult  step — toward  winning  the  boy  you 
like. 

It  is  difficult,  because  it's  hard  to  go  up 
to  anybody  you  don't  know  and  introduce 
yourself.  A  year  ago  last  Christmas  I  was 
at  a  big  party  and  Olivia  de  Havilland  was 
there.  I  was  very  anxious  to  meet  her,  to 
talk  to  her — but  I  couldn't,  somehow.  My 
mother  said,  "Just  go  up  to  her  and  tell  her 
how  much  you  admire  her  work.  That's  al- 
ways very  endearing."  I  didn't,  and  I'm 
sorry  now.  I  did  so  admire  the  nice  kids 
who,  when  I  was  making  my  personal  ap- 
pearance tour  throughout  the  country,  were 
not  too  shy  to  come  up  to  me  and  say 
something  nice  and  friendly.  Above  all,  in 


your  dealings  with  boys,  don't  overlook  the 
fact  that  they  are  shy,  too. 

Now  suppose  the  boy  accepts  your  invita- 
tion and  arrives  on  Friday  night  with  the 
other  kids.  Here's  the  moment  not  to  be  over- 
anxious. I  don't  mean  that  you  must  play 
hard  to  get.  But  just  don't  scare  him  off  by 
letting  him  know  immediately  that  you're  crazy 
about  him. 

As  one  boy  said  to  me,  "If  a  fellow  knows 
right  away  that  a  girl  is  crazy  about  him,  he 
may  lose  interest."  I  interpret  his  words  to 
mean — don't  rush  the  boy.  Help  him  to  enter 
into  the  group — that's  just  the  common 
courtesy  of  a  hostess — but  don't  wear  your 
heart  smeared  all  over  your  sleeve.  And  when 
he  leaves,  naturally  you'll  say,  "I  hope  I  see 
you  again  soon." 

If,  after  that,  he  doesn't  call  or  make  a  date 
you'll  know  that  either  he  isn't  interested  or 
that  he  is  terribly  shy.  If  you're  convinced  that 
shyness  is  his  trouble,  you  can,  safely,  make 
one  more  pitch.  You  may  ask  him  to  your 
home  again,  or  perhaps  to  some  school  party 
where  the  girls  are  supposed  to  invite  boys. 
By  this  time,  if  you  haven't  become  good 
friends  and  started  seeing  a  lot  of  each  other, 
you'd  better  give  up  the  whole  idea. 

For  there's  one  thing  I  do  know,  boys  do 
not  like  girls  who  chase  them.  And  there's  a 
big  difference  between  just  being  friendly  to  a 
boy  and  chasing  after  him.  Chasing  will  never 
get  you  anywhere. 

I  received  a  lot  of  letters  from  boys  about 
the  article  I  wrote  that  had  to  do  with  the 
"parking"  and  "necking"  situation.  The  boys 
bawled  me  out  royally.  But  I  don't  care — I'm 
going  to  stick  my  neck  out  again  this  time  so 
the  girls  can  whittle  away  at  it.  (My  neck,  I 
mean.)  I  do  think  that  basically  boys  are  more 
honest  than  girls.  That's  why  they  don't  like 
the  hard-to-get  pose.  If  you  like  a  boy,  there's 
no  reason  why  you  shouldn't  let  him  know  it — 
if  you're  not  sloppy  about  it.  You  let  your 
girl  friends  know  you  like  them,  don't  you? 
You  are  just  being  honest  and  friendly. 

For  example,  don't  take  that  high  and  mighty 
attitude  of,  "I'm  not  going  to  call  him  because 
he  hasn't  called  me  for  two  days."  He  may 
be  busy  or  forgetful  or — again,  shy.  I  think 
that  for  a  girl  to  call  a  boy  just  to  gab  non- 
sense over  the  telephone  is  foolish.  But  there's 
no  reason  to  count  calls  if  you  have  some- 
thing to  say — such  as  asking  him  about  a  school 
problem,  or  inviting  him  to  some  get-together. 
For  heaven's  sake,  though,  don't  ever  make 
him  feel  guilty. 

Everybody — not  only  boys — hates  the  con- 
versation that  begins,  "Why  didn't  you  call 
me  when  you  said  you  would?"  or  "I  haven't 
seen  you  for  so  long;  I  thought  you  didn't  like 
me  any  more."  These  words  put  the  other  per- 
son on  the  defensive — and  that's  a  place  he 
doesn't  want  to  be.  This  applies  to  all  friends 
— but  principally  to  boys. 

I  was  kind  of  disturbed  to  see  several  let- 
ters this  month  from  girls  who  said,  in  effect, 
"The  boy  I  like  goes  around  with  my  girl 
friend.  How  can  I  get  him?"  Well,  I  think  it  is 
as  important  to  have  girl  friends  as  it  is  to 
have  boy  friends.  Sure,  you  can  try  a  lot  of 
tricks  to  take  a  boy  away  from  your  girl  friend. 
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it?  Is  the  loss  of  the  girl  friend's  respect  for 
you  worth  it?  And  suppose  you  succeed  in 
taking  the  boy  away  from  her — could  you  live 
with  yourself?  You  could  flatter  the  boy 
away — maybe.  But  if  he  left  her  for  you,  if 
you  got  him  away  by  these  methods,  would 
you  honestly  want  him?  Could  you  ever  trust 
him?  Wouldn't  you  be  afraid  that  the  next 
girl  who  came  along  could  take  him  away  from 
you  as  easily  as  you  did  from  your  friend? 

No,  kids,  this  is  not  good.  Nor  is  it  good  to 
convince  yourself  that  you're  crazy  about 
someone  unattainable.  A  lot  of  girls  write  me 
to  say  they're  madly  in  love  with  a  young 
man  in  pictures.  Now  it's  wonderful  to  admire 
a  movie  star,  to  enjoy  his  work  on  the  screen, 
and  to  feel  romantic  about  him.  But  as  for 
being  "madly  in  love"  with  him — well,  there 
is  a  milHon  to  one  chance  that  you'll  never  see 
him  personally.  Even  if  you  do,  what  are  your 
chances  for  getting  to  know  him?  So  be  real- 
istic. Don't  break  your  heart  by  pining  for  a 
boy  you  know  you  can't  get — and  this  applies 
to  married  men  and  men  much  older  than  you 
are.  Why  not  charm  someone  who's  eligible? 

And  if  this  isn't  good  advice,  don't  blame  me. 
Blame  the  boys  who  gave  me  the  advice. 

Now  here  are  some  other  letters. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  received  a  bad  reputation  about 
a  year  ago  and  haven't  been  able  to  live  it 
down.  My  girl  friends  believe  my  bad  repu- 
tation is  gone,  yet  I  can't  get  any  dates  be- 
cause the  boys  who  ask  me  out  get  teased  by 
their  boy  friends — M.D.  Detroit,  Mich." 

Well,  you  didn't  tell  me  what  you  did  to 
get  this  bad  reputation  so  it's  hard  for  me  to 
say.  If  whatever  happened  was  over  a  year  ago 
and  your  girl  friends  still  believe  in  you,  I 
would  suggest  that  you  double  date  for  a  while. 
Your  girl  friends  can  certainly  arrange  this, 
then  you  can  let  your  friend's  date  as  well  as 
yours  see  that  you  are  behaving  well.  And  in 
that  way  the  news  about  how  you  have 
changed  will  spread. 

"Dear  Miss  Evans:  I'm  in  the  Pacific  and  a 
girl  I  used  to  take  dancing  has  been  writing  to 
me.  I  like  to  get  her  letters,  but  now  she  is  too 
serious.  I  do  not  want  to  hurt  her  feelings  and 
spoil  our  friendship.  What  should  I  do? — Pfc. 
R.R.  care  postmaster  San  Francisco." 

This  is  certainly  a  switch.  So  many  of  the 
boys  overseas  complain  about  the  "Dear  John" 
letters,  about  the  girls  who  don't  write,  and 
the  girls  who  aren't  serious  enough.  If  I  were 
you  I'd  write  her,  explaining  how  young  you 
are,  and  I'd  tell  her  that  so  long  as  you  are  in 
the  Army  you  just  can't  get  serious  about  any 
girl.  Tell  her  that  nothing  can  be  decided  until 
you  get  home — but,  in  the  meantime,  you  en- 
joy her  friendly  letters. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  met  a  boy  last  year  and  went 
out  with  him  for  four  months.  It  was  my  fault 
we  broke  up,  but  I  still  like  him.  Do  you  think 
there  is  a  chance  of  his  liking  me  again? 
— B.J.M.  Auburn,  N.Y." 

If  I  were  you  I'd  go  to  him  and  admit  you 
are  sorry  and  that  the  break-up  was  all  your 
fault.  I  feel  sure  he  will  forgive  you,  unless,  of 
course,  he's  found  another  girl.  But  there's 
nothing  better  for  all  concerned  than  admitting 
you're  wrong  and  asking  a  person's  pardon. 


MARCH  OF  DIMES 


FIGHT 

INFANTILE 
PARALYSIS 


JANUARY  15-31 


"Dear  Joan:  I've  been  going  steady  with  a 
boy  for  nearly  six  months.  I  know  his  folks 
only  by  photographs  and  by  telephone.  They 
seem  nice.  How  can  I  let  my  boy  friend  know 
I  want  to  meet  his  family — without  his  think- 
ing me  forward? — N.P.  Everett,  Mass." 

The  fact  that  he  has  shown  you  their  pic- 
tures means  that  he  wants  you  to  know  what 
they're  like.  It  is  his  place  to  suggest  that  you 
come  to  the  house  to  meet  them.  Perhaps, 
though,  he  is  confused  and  thinks  you  should 
ask.  So  why  don't  you  say  something  like  this: 
"Look,  I  don't  want  to  be  pushy  but  your 
parents  look  so  nice  in  their  photographs  and 
sound  so  nice  on  the  telephone.  I'd  love  to 
meet  them  sometime."  This  is  certainly  not 
forward.  If  he  doesn't  respond — skip  it. 

"Dear  Joan:  How  do  I  go  about  asking  a  girl 
for  a  date?  I'm  very  bashful.  I'm  nineteen  years 
old.— A.D.  Denver,  Colo." 

Honestly,  it  isn't  so  difficult.  All  you  have 
to  say  after  you've  first  met  a  girl  is,  "It  was 
very  nice  to  have  met  you,  and  I  hope  to  see 
you  again."  Then  in  a  few  days  call  her  on  the 
telephone  and  say,  "If  you're  not  busy  next 
Friday  night,  I  wish  you'd  go  to  the  movies 
with  me."  After  that  it  gets  easier  and  easier. 
Shyness  is  a  terrible  thing.  A  good  way  to 
overcome  it  is  simply  to  rehearse  a  little  speech 
and  then  say  it  at  the  proper  time. 

And  that  winds  up  another  month.  I  do  wish 
I  could  answer  every  single  letter  personally 
but  I  simply  can't.  I  can  only  answer  in  the 
pages  of  Modern  Screen.  I  just  love  to  get 
your  letters — they  give  me  such  good  ideas 
about  how  to  carry  on  this  department.  So 
goodbye  for  now.  I'U  be  seeing  you ! 

Editor's  note:  Do  you  have  a  teen- 
ager problem?  If  so.  tell  it  to  Joan. 
Write  to  Joan  Evans.  1416  Queens 
Road.  West  Hollywood,  California. 


a  minister  looks  at  hoUywood 

(Continued  from  page  29)  words  of  Dr. 
Willsie  Martin,  who,  for  31  years  of  his 
half-cent\iry  as  a  Methodist  minister,  has 
shared  Hollywood's  growth  from  a  fly- 
by-night  industry  into  the  powerful  one  it 
has  become.  A  man  who  helped  secure 
for  his  community  such  outstanding  things 
as  the  Hollywood  Bowl  for  the  famous 
Symphonies  Under  the  Stars  and  inaugu- 
rated the  equally  famous  local  Easter 
Simrise  Services  there;  the  PUgrimage 
Bowl  and  its  remarkable  presentations  of 
the  Pilgrimage  Play.  A  man  who  came 
to  Hollywood  in  1919  as  pastor  of  the 
Hollywood  Methodist  Church  and  made 
that  church  a  reality.  So  successfully — 
it  is  one  of  the  finest  of  the  Methodist 
churches  today — that  eight  years  later  he 
was  sent  to  make  the  WUshire  Methodist 
Church,  just  2  miles  away,  a  reality  too. 
Upon  his  retirement  three  years  ago,  his 
congregation  numbered  over  2,000. 

THIRST,  Dr.  Martin  and  his  lovely  dark- 

■'-  haired,  green-eyed  wife  with  their  three 
daughters  saw  a  pleasant,  neighborly  Hol- 
ly^vood,  a  small  town,  from  their  modest 
home  on  Vine  Street  just  north  of  Holly- 
wood Boulevard.  They  could  smell  the 
fragrance  of  the  orange  grove  then  at 
Hollywood  and  Vine.  On  still  nights  they 
could  hear  the  lions  roaring  at  Lasky 
Studios  at  Sunset  and  Vine,  now  known 
as  Radio  Corner.  The  town  was  just  be- 
ginning to  grow  and  so  was  the  motion 
picture  industry. 

"While  we  were  urging  that  new  build- 
ings proposed  for  Hollywood  Boulevard 
be  set  back  far  enough  to  save  the  beau- 
tiful old  pepper  trees  with  their  grace  and 
character,"  Dr.  Martin  recalls,  "we  were 
vurging  the  picture  industry  to  let  the 
community  itself  answer  the  exaggerated 
and  unfair  attacks  being  levelled  against 
their  people  through  a  Roimd  Table  com- 
posed of  a  producer,  a  director,  an  actor, 
a  minister,  a  professor  and  other  com- 
munity leaders. 

"We  felt  that  by  meeting  once  a  month 
and  discussing  common  problems  we  could 
effectively  interpret  to  outsiders  the  true  ' 
facts  and  the  problems  of  motion  picture 
people,  thus  winning  s^mapathy  and  iinder- 
standing  for  them  instead  of  abuse.  We  also 
felt  we  could  give  the  industry  a  better  un- 
derstanding of  how  other  people  feel  about 
certain  things  so  they  could  see  that  some 
pictures  faUed  not  because  of  technical  im-  j 
perfections  but  because  they  lacked  hu- 
man ideals."  i 

He  thought  he  saw  the  dawn  of  such  ef- 
fort  by   the  movie   makers   when  they 
formed  an  organization  among  themselves 
and  brought  Will  Hays  to  head  it.  At  the 
banquet  given  in  1922  by  the  Holl\n,vood  i 
Chamber  of  Commerce  to  welcome  Mr. 
Hays,  Dr.  Martin  said  in  part,  "Holl\T.vood 
is  not  a  state  of  mind  nor  a  condition  of 
scandal.  It  is  not  a  literary  indigestion.  It  , 
is  not  a  place  east  of  Suez  where  there  | 
ain't  no  ten  commandments.   It  is  not  a  ; 
colony,  for  that  impUes  a  mother  country  j 
to  which  one  will  some  day  return.  It  is  a  I 
touTi  of  folks.  Some  act.  some  wTite,  some 
preach  and  some  do  nothing,  even  as  folks 
in  Indiana.    Hollywood  is  just  a  going 
American  commimity." 

Today  Dr.  Martin  says,  '"I  thought  at  the 
time  that  our  Round  Table  idea  was  to  be 
part  of  that  organization's  efforts.  Well,  a  , 
few  groups  like  the  PTA  are  permitted  to 
view  motion  pictiires  before  release.  Once  | 
in  awhile  oxir  suggestions  are  accepted,  but 
the  Round  Table,  as  we  visualized  it,  never 
has  been  used.  I  still  would  Uke  to  see  it 
tried.  i 
"I  feel  the  problems  of  the  motion  pic-  ' 
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problem  as  a  junior  high  school  which  we 
found  to  be  a  center  of  juvenile  delin- 
quents. The  leaders  of  78  community  or- 
ganizations surveyed  the  neighborhood's 
contributing  factors  and  suggested  answers 
for  correcting  them.  When  the  residents 
of  the  neighborhood  were  given  the  find- 
ings and  suggestions,  they  went  to  work. 
Today  that  neighborhood  is  no  longer  a 
trouble  spot. 

"The  movie  heads  should  not  overlook  or 
belittle,  as  they  do,  the  effectiveness  of  hav- 
ing responsible,  intelligent  groups  in  the 
community  survey  and  suggest  how  best 
to  eliminate  those  conditions  which  bring 
unfair  outside  criticism. 

"Understand,  I  do  not  believe  in  censor- 
ship nor  in  the  recent  government  pro- 
posal to  license  actors.  I  believe  the  things 
we  hope  for  out  of  censorship  can  be  ob- 
tained in  other  ways — democratic  ways  in- 
stead of  regimentation.  Government  offi- 
cials cannot  comprehend  .  accurately  the 
problems  of  so  highly  si>ecialized  an  in- 
dustry. And  actors,  producers,  directors, 
and  writers  have  the  same  right  as  minis- 
ters, lawyers,  doctors  and  other  profes- 
sional people  to  be  judged  and  disciplined 
within  their  own  profession.  They  should 
avail  themselves  of  that  right  by  effective- 
ly disciplining  those  among  them  who  vio- 
late the  principles  in  which  people  have 
faith  and  from  which  they  expect  decency. 
For  violators  provoke  outside  critics  to  con- 
demn so  unfairly  not  only  the  whole  pro- 
fession but  the  community  as  well." 

Dr.  Martin  spoke  of  the  movie  industry 
with  the  personal  objectivity  of  the  com- 
munity leader  he  is.  The  list  of  his  ef- 
fective activities  is  too  great  to  print  here 
but  they  include  social,  cultural,  industrial, 
and  civic  improvements. 

/^F  individual  movie  personalities  and 
. "  their  tmusual  problems  he  speaks  with 
such  warmth  and  sympathy  it  is  easy  to 
see  why  so  many  of  them  agree  with 
Jeanette  MacDonald  and  Gene  Rajrmond, 
who  say,  "Outside  our  immediate  family 
there  is  no  one  for  whom  we  have  greater 
appreciation,  affection,  and  regard  than 
Dr.  Willsie  Martin." 

Of  those  who  have  not  kept  the  marriage 
vows  they  spoke  before  Dr.  Martin,  he 
says,  "They  have  our  sympathv,  under- 
standing, and  concern.  How  difficult  it  is 
for  actors  to  have  a  happy,  contented  home 
life!  They  face  vmusual  strains.  The  simp- 
lest, human,  everyday  disagreement  be- 
tween them  is  so  magnified  by  that  horde 
of  gossiping  reporters  that  it  is  difficult  to 
keep  doubt  from  creeping  into  their  re- 
lationship. They  pay  a  great  personal  price 
for  their  fame  and  popularity." 

Speaking  of  one  star  whose  name  is 
familiar  to  millions,  he  shook  his  head 
sadly  as  he  said,  "When  they  came  to  ask 
me  to  perform  the  ceremony  I  was  im- 
pressed by  their  happiness  and  earnest- 
ness. The  young  man  told  me,  'We  intend 
to  have  a  real  private  life.'  Telling  him  I 
hoped  they  would,  I  warned,  "This  will  be 
very  difficult  because  publicity-  will  play 
on  you  pitilessly  all  the  time  and  many 
factors  will  try  hard  to  rob  you  of  that 
privacy  and  perhaps  your  happiness.' 

"They  did  lose  privacy  and  eventually 
their  happiness.  That  alone  was  not  the 
answer,  of  course.  Another  factor  prob- 
ably was  the  fact  the  yoimg  star  had  little 
backgrovmd  for  success.  It  takes  defeats, 
long  hard  work,  long  striving  toward  goals 
to  take  success  wisely  and  even  then  there 
is  no  guarantee  one  has  learned  to  '.  .  .  meet 
with  Triumph  and  Disaster  and  treat  those 
two  imposters  just  the  same  .  .  .'  as  Kipling 
puts  it. 

"Stardom  in  any  field  is  very  hard  on  the 
home.  If  the  home  is  to  be  maintained  in 
happiness  the  crown  of  a  star  must  be  re- 
moved like  the  costume  and  grease  paint 


of  the  actor  when  one  leaves  the  set.  Not 
aU  can  make  this  transition,  apparently. 
Home  is  the  place  to  be  one's  natural  best 
self.  The  wearing  of  halos  by  anybody  in 
public  or  at  home  is  a  mark  of  bad  taste 
and  poor  upbringing.  What  I'm  saying  is 
that  actors  and  actresses,  when  they  leave 
the  set,  should  act  like  human  beings, 
avoiding  adulation  and  the  limelight  or  the 
expectation  of  them,  remembering  that  the 
happy  crown  or  halo  is  in  the  eyes  of  the 
beholder  not  the  wearer.  Not  all  have 
learned  that  before  the  test — and  test  it  is 
for  an  actor — comes." 

His  troubled  face  indicated  depth  of 
sympathy  and  sorrow  that  in  achieving 
stardom  so  many  lose  personal  happiness. 

Asked  if  the  Methodist  Church  would 
permit  him  to  perform  the  ceremony  if  a 
divorced  actor  or  actress  came  to  him,  he 
said,  "My  church  permits  its  ministers  to 
marry  the  innocent  party  to  a  divorce  pro- 
vided the  divorce  has  been  secured  on  real 
grounds  like  infidelity,  drunkenness,  cruel- 
ty, etc.  In  such  situations  I  try  to  treat 
motion  picture  people  just  as  I  treat  other 
folks.  Indeed,  I  feel  that  motion  picture 
people  should  always  be  treated  and  re- 
garded as  fellow  citizens.  They  should  be 
accorded  neither  less  respect  nor  more  be- 
cause of  their  profession.  I'm  against  put- 
ting any  group  on  pedestals  or  pillorying 
any  group.  Treat  all  alike  is  my  theory." 

T^R.  Martin's  own  personal  happiness  is 
patently  evident.  He  met  Muriel  East- 
man at  the  University  of  California  at 
Berkeley  where  they  were  both  what 
teen-agers  call  "Big  Wheels"  on  the  cam- 
pus. Asked  if  she  were  good-looking  he 
said,  "She  was  very  pretty."  You  get  the 
feeling  she  was  the  prettiest  of  all.  Cer- 
tainly his  popularity,  talents  and  leadership 
would  have  made  him  welcome  in  any  pro- 
fession. Among  those  evidences  are  his 
membership  in  Psi  Upsilon,  Epsilon  chap- 
ter; the  Carnot  Medal  for  Debating;  mem- 
bership in  the  university's  honor  Golden 
Bear  Society;  and  presidency  of  his  Senior 
Class.  It  was  not  tmtil  -the  middle  of  his 
Senior  year  that  Willsie  Martin  thought  of 
becoming  a  minister.  Muriel  Eastman  be- 
longed to  Alpha  Omicron  Pi;  Prytanean 
Women's  Honor  Society;  the  Y.W.C.A.; 
and  she,  too,  was  class  president  the  first 
half  of  her  Senior  year.  They  wei-e  mar- 
ried at  her  home  in  Marysville,  California, 
three  years  after  his  graduation.  By  that 
time  he  had  served  as  a  Methodist  minister 
for  a  year  in  a  little  church  in  Sacramento, 
a  year  as  an  assistant  in  the  First  Church 
in  Oakland,  and  spent  a  year  studying  at 
the  Drew  Theological  Seminary  in  Madi- 
son, New  Jersey. 

Together  they  went  to  serve  at  Chico  and 
Alameda,  California;  then  Boise,  Idaho. 
While  in  Boise,  where  he  served  seven 
years.  Dr.  Martin  was  sent  overseas  on  a 
Y.M.C.A.  World  War  I  Mission.  Upon  his 
return  in  1919,  he  was  sent  to  Hollywood. 
The  Martins'  three  daughters  attended  and 
were  graduated  from  Hollywood  High 
School  and  went  on  to  Pomona  College 
where  all  three  were  graduated  with  hon- 
ors. Today  the  eldest  is  the  wife  of  Dr. 
John  M.  Ide,  Chief  Scientist  at  the  U.  S. 
Naval  Underwater  Sound  Laboratory  near 
New  London,  Connecticut.  The  Martin's 
second  daughter  is  now  Dr.  Helen  East- 
man Martin,  doctor  of  internal  medicine 
and  associate  professor  of  medicine  at  the 
University  of  Southern  California.  The 
youngest,  Elizabeth,  is  married  to  John  R. 
Wolfenden,  assistant  director  of  publicity 
at  Columbia  Studios.  She  has  succeeded 
her  mother  as  a  member  of  the  board  of 
the  Hollywood  Studio  Club,  a  boarding 
home  for  yoimg  women  entering  the  mo- 
tion picture  field.  Of  the  two  eldest  of  the 
Martins'  six  grandchildren,  one  is  a  stu- 
dent at  Stanford  and  the  other  at  Pomona. 


"We  have  led  a  very  normal  life,"  Dr. 
Martin  says.  "Not  at  all  what  the  news- 
pai>ers  insist  is  normal  here.  The  press 
everywhere  distorts  HolK^'ood.  I  was  in 
London  in  1937,  riding  along  on  a  bus, 
when  I  saw  newspaper  headlines  promis- 
ing an  expose  of  Hollywood's  horrible 
night  club  life.  I  bought  a  copy.  It  was 
the  same  kind  of  expose  of  which  a  part  of 
the  press  is  all  too  guilty  when  it  comes  to 
Holljrwood." 

■'Set  off  because  some  actor  was  in- 
volved in  a  fist  fight?"  I  asked  lightly. 

"I  do  not  believe  there  is  any  excuse  for 
an  actor  to  engage  in  a  fist  fight,"  Dr. 
Martin  said  sternly. 

With  that  I  took  exception.  From  my 
experience  as  a  publicist  in  studios  I  told 
him  of  the  husband  who  defended  his 
actress  wife  in  that  way.  Reprimanded  by 
the  studio — through  me — he  had  said  in- 
dignantly, "Just  because  my  wife's  an  ac- 
tress doesn't  mean  I  can't  protect  her  when 
a  perfect  stranger  insxilts  her." 

As  I  repeated  the  sacrilegious,  vulgar 
words  of  the  insult  Dr.  Martin  flushed. 

"I  have  a  good  Irish  temper,  '  he  said 
firmly,  "but  since  I  hold  a  responsible 
place  in  the  commimitj',  I  feel  I  should 
curb  it,  and  I  beUeve  every  actor  should 
feel  and  do  the  same.  I  don"t  believe  a 
night  club  fight  is  the  answer.  If  that  had 
been  said  to  my  wife,  I  would  have  taken 
action  all  right,  but  not  that  kind.  I  would 
have  called  the  management,  had  them  oust 
him,  and  if  possible  get  the  man's  name  and 
address.  Then  I  would  have  taken  legal 
action  in  the  democratic  way.  HoUj'^vood 
would  have  been  spared  the  notorietj'  of  a 
night  club  fight.  If  legal  action  had  re- 
ceived publicitj'  then  the  only  shame 
would  have  been  the  insulting  stranger's. 
The  public  would  have  given  sympathy  to 
the  actress  and  have  gained  some  imder- 
standing  of  the  problems  her  fame  creates." 

That's  the  kind  of  help  which  we  hoped 
to  give  the  motion  picture  people  with 
our  Round  Table.  Then  thej'  could  com- 
mand the  respect  they  have  earned  but  are 
not  given,  because  they  too  often  have 
shrugged  off  or  exploited  exactly  what  gives 
the  outside  critics  their  clubs.  Only  when 
every  person  of  importance  in  the  movie 
industry  is  reqiiired  by  the  industry  itself 
to  take  and  abide  by  the  Athenian  Oath, 
will  Hollywood  raise  its  profession  to  the 
dignity  to  which  it  is  entitled. 

"The  office  which  Mr.  Haj's  first  headed 
has  brought  considerable  improvement  to 
motion  pictures  themselves.  "There  are  now 
more  producers  like  Dore  Schar3',  who  so 
excellently  instUls  human  ideals  into  his 
pictures.  But  Hollj'wood  must  take  itself 
more  seriously  before  the  world  will  know 
Holly^vood  as  I  know  it,  with  such  fine 
people  as  Mr.  and  Mrs.  DeMUle,  Jean 
Hersholt,  William  Famum,  Jeanette  Mac- 
Donald,  Gene  Raymond,  Harold  Lloyd, 
Nelson  Eddy,  Dermis  Morgan,  Barbara 
Britton,  Shirley  Temple,  and  the  countless 
others  I  have  met  through  my  professional, 
social,  and  community  activities  and  found 
to  be  a  credit  to  their  profession  and  their 
^community." 

Concluding,  Dr.  Martin  said,  "My  ex- 
ii»perience  here  shows  me  we  have  a  tj'pical 
American  community  with  very  many 
splendid  interests,  fine  activities,  some  of 
the  best  service  clubs  of  any  in  the  coun- 
try, and  some  of  the  largest  church  mem- 
.berships.  These  great  congregations  which 
are  to  be  foiind  in  Hollywood  include  pro- 
ducers, directors,  writers  and  actors  as  well 
as  the  professional  men  and  their  families, 
along  with  other  citizens  from  many  walks 
of  life.  We  have  real  religion  here  in  Hol- 
Ijrwood.  Not  mawkish,  but  real  and  deep 
whether  Catholic,  Jewish,  or  Protestant. 

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(Continued  from  page  31)  body  can't  put 
up  that  same  fight  again,  and  future  preg- 
nancies usually  result  in  the  death  of  the 
infant  before  or  soon  after  birth.  Lana's 
second  child  was  lost  because  its  red 
blood  cells  had  been  destroyed  by  anti- 
bodies produced  in  Lana's  blood. 

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jected into  its  veins. 

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third  time  last  March,  her  obstetrician  told 
her  that  this  was  the  only  way  in  which 
she  might  give  birth  to  a  child  and  assure 
its  survival. 

As  part  of  the  regimen,  Lana  herself 
would  have  to  take  three  or  four  injec- 
tions per  week.  "I  want  another  baby 
more  than  anything  else,"  Lana  said, 
"and  I'll  do  anything  possible  to  make 
sure  it's  healthy." 

The  chances  of  any  married  couple's 
having  RH  factor  trouble  are  only  one  in 
500.  It's  Lana's  luck  to  be  that  particular 
longshot — but  all  during  the  six  months 
of  her  last  pregnancy,  she  never  once 
complained. 

WHILE  she  was  undergoing  medical 
treatment,  praying  that  her  baby 
might  be  born  alive  so  that  it  might  be 
transfused  with  new  blood,  she  was  mak- 
ing Mr.  Imperium,  with  Ezio  Pinza. 

Everyone  was  excited  about  the  great 
Pinza,  everyone  but  Lana.  During  the  pic- 
ture's filming,  many  people  began  to  think 
that  Lana  had  grown  jaded.  She  seemed 
to  have  an  almost  cathedral-like  self- 
sufficiency  about  her.  Few  people  knew 
of  the  heavy,  hopeful  secret  she  carried 
in  her  heart. 

One  afternoon,  a  reporter  came  up  to  her 
on  the  set.  "Darling!"  the  reporter  ex- 
claimed. "I've  just  spoken  to  Pinza  and  he 
tells  me  that  he  falls  in  love  with  all  his 
leading  ladies." 

Lana  merely  smiled.  In  the  old  days  of 
1937  and  '38,  she  might  have  made  a 
snappy  retort  like,  "That's  nothing.  I  al- 
ways fall  in  love  with  all  my  leading  men." 
This  time  she  was  sUent. 

When  Pinza  planted  his  first  kiss  on  her, 
instead  of  complimenting  the  58-year-old 
lover  on  his  technique  as  she  once  surely 
might  have,  Lana  didn't  say  a  word.  When 
she  left  the  set,  she  turned  to  her  makeup 
man  and  said  good-naturedly,  "If  he 
kisses  me  like  that  all  the  time,  I'm  going 
to  look  like  a  Ubangi.  How  about  getting 
me  some  protection?" 

A  few  minutes  later,  her  lips  were  being 
covered  by  a  protective  padding  of  un- 
detectable plastic.  In  the  old  days  Lana 
never  sought  cover  from  the  lips  of  any  of 
her  leading  meii. 

All  during  the  film's  production,  she  was 
careful,  sedate,  and  lady-like.  No  temper 
tantrums.  No  scenes.  No  flare-ups. 

When  a  reporter  interviewed  her  and 
asked  about  her  future  plans,  Lana  said 
simply,  "I've  always  loved  children,  and 
I  don't  want  to  raise  Cheryl  as  an  only 
child.  That's  why  my  husband  and  I  are 
looking  forward  so  anxiously  to  the  birth 
of  this  child." 

"I  understand,"  the  reporter  continued, 
"that  this  is  going  to  be  your  last  picture. 
I  heard  on  the  radio  the  other  night  that 
the  only  reasoft  you're  making  this  one  is 
because  you  want  to  buy  your  mother  an 
insurance  annuity." 

"That's  not  true  at  all,"  Lana  answered. 
"My  mother  doesn't  need  an  annuity,  and 
I  have  no  intention  of  retiring  even  after 
my  child  is  born." 

But  the  child  Lana  was  carrying — as  we 


all  know  now — was  never  born.  Three 
weeks  after  Mr.  Imperium  was  finished, 
Lana  slipped  on  her  floor  at  home.  Bob 
Topping  rushed  her  to  St.  John's  Hospital 
in  Santa  Monica,  and  Lana  had  no  chance 
of  determining  whether  the  child  might 
have  lived  with  transfusions  of  new  blood. 

Fortunately  for  Lana,  she  never  gives 
up  or  gives  in.  She  never  runs  away  from 
life.  She  runs  to  meet  it  no  matter  what 
it  has  to  ofifer. 

Less  than  a  month  after  her  miscarriage, 
she  attended  the  premiere  of  All  About 
Eve.  Escorted  by  Bob,  she  looked  as  glam- 
orous and  beautiful  as  ever,  although  in- 
wardly she  may  have  changed. 

She's  no  longer  the  young  girl  who 
obeys  her  every  impulse,  who  lives  with 
a  feverish  gaiety,  who  airs  all  her  troubles, 
who  lives  her  private  life  in  public.  "I've 
given  up  night-clubbing,"  she  says.  "We're 
furnishing  our  home  in  Holmby  Hills  and 
we  may  build  a  vacation  place  up  in  Mon- 
terey or  Oregon." 

Lana  will  not  permit  her  home  to  be 
photographed,  and  she  will  no  longer 
submit  to  the  outlandish  sweater  stunts 
which  brought  in  her  first  publicity.  Her 
"planned"  romance  with  young  leading 
men  like  Peter  Lawford  is  a  thing  of  the 
past. 

She  has  also  had  her  name  legally 
changed  from  Julia  Jean  Mildred  Frances 
Turner  to  plain  Lana  Turner,  and  has 
cloaked  all  her  recent  actions  with  a  new 
dignity. 

T  IFE  has  always  treated  Lana  Turner 
roughly.  Her  father,  Virgil  Turner, 
was  an  itinerant  miner.  He  was  working 
in  Wallace,  Idaho,  population  3,634,  when 
Lana  was  born.  One  night  when  Lana  was 
ten,  and  the  family  lived  in  San  Francisco, 
Virgil  Turner  was  mugged  and  murdered 
on  a  side  street  near  the  bay. 

Fatherless  and  virtually  penniless,  with 
her  mother  working,  ten-year-old  Lana 
knew  none  of  the  comforts  or  the  small 
luxuries  that  young  girls  should  know — 
a  new  dress,  an  ice  cream  soda,  a  birthday 
party  were  rare,  fantastic  pleasures. 

By  the  time  Lana  was  13,  her  mother 
decided  to  try  their  luck  in  Los  Angeles. 
They  packed  three  cheap  suit  cases  with 
all  their  worldly  possessions,  and  bor- 
rowed a  friend's  car.  Five  miles  out  of 
Paso  Robles,  it  suddenly  began  ^  to  pour. 
The  old  car  skidded,  hit  a  soft  shoulder, 
teetered  recklessly,  and  then  turned  over. 

Two  ribs  broken,  her  face  cut  and 
bleeding,  Lana  managed  to  limp  away  from 
the  wreck.  "So  long  as  I  live,"  she  once 
told  friends,  "I'll  never  forget  that  day. 
I  wanted  to  cry,  but  I  knew  that  crying 
wouldn't  do  any  good,  so  I  got  up  and  I 
tried  to  flag  some  cars.  Finally,  a  truck- 
driver  stopped  and  took  us  into  Holly- 
wood. That's  the  way  I  got  here — and  I'll 
never  forget  it." 

THERE  is  no  point  in  going  over  Lana's 
entire  career.  What  is  significant,  how- 
ever, is  the  perverse  and  recurrently  bad 
luck  that  has  constantly  hounded  her  per- 
sonal life.  Every  time  Lana  made  a  suc- 
cessful picture  or  her  contract  at  the 
studio  was  re-optioned,  she  somehow  | 
found  herself  involved  in  an  unhappy  lovel 
affair.  f 

There  was  Greg  Bautzer,  the  popular 
Hollywood  lawyer,  now  rumored  in  love 
with  Ginger  Rogers.  Greg  got  hold  of 
Lana  when  she  was  17,  and  she  fell  tem- 
pestuously in  love  with  him.  She  even 
told  Joan  Crawford,  "I  hope  to  marry 
Greg."  The  hope  was  never  fulfilled.  Lana 
ran  off  to  Las  Vegas  with  Artie  Shaw. 

This  marriage  is  listed  in  the  books  asj 
one  of  the  great  mis-matings  of  all  time. 
"If  you  put  sex  aside,"  a  friend  of  Artie's] 
said,  "these  two  had  absolutely  nothing^ 


in  common."  Shaw  is  primarily  an  intel- 
lectual. Lana  is  not.  She  attended  Holly- 
wood High  School  for  fifteen  days — no 
more — before  she  left. 

Lana's  marriage  to  Shaw  lasted  seven 
months.  Her  second  marriage  to  Steve 
Crane  lasted  six  months.  She  filed  for 
an  annulment  but  when  she  discovered 
that  she  was  pregnant  by  Crane,  she  re- 
married him  on  the  night  before  he  left 
for  his  Army  induction.  "I  want  my  baby 
to  have  a  normal  life,"  she  explained. 

The  normal  life  never  materialized. 
Crane's  acting  ambitions,  it  was  rumored, 
lay  behind  the  dissolution  of  marriage 
nimiber  two.  "Acting  just  isn't  right  for 
most  men,"  Lana  said  at  the  time. 

At  this  point,  Lana's  career  began  to 
bloom.  Her  love-life  did  not.  Of  Turhan 
Bey,  who  courted  her  violently  for  a  time 
and  then  stopped,  she  had  this  to  say:  "I 
don't  know  whether  I  did  something  or 
someone  told  him  something  or  what.  He 
said  he  would  call  me  and  he  never  called 
and  I  never  heard  from  him  again  .  .  .  It's 
so  bad  for  me  with  Cheryl  growing  up  to 
have  everyone  think  I  don't  know  my  own 
mind.  I  knew  my  mind  for  a  long  time 
about  Turhan.  Because  of  my  little  girl, 
I  don't  want  it  said  that  I  turn  lightly  and 
frivolously  from   one   man  to  another." 

CERTAINLY,  Lana's  love  for  Tyrone  Power 
wasn't  frivolous.  She  endangered  her 
career  by  flying  to  Mexico  to  be  with  him. 
Supposedly,  this  was  the  great  love  match 
of  the  century.  Lana,  who  used  to  wear 
her  heart  on  her  sleeve,  held  it  in  out- 
stretched hands  for  him.  When  Linda 
Christian  married  Ty,  Lana  was  crushed. 

She  tried  not  to  show  it,  but  her  friends 
knew  the  truth.  This  was  another  kick  in 
the  teeth.  Then,  Lana  met  and  married 
Bob  Topping.  The  Hollywood  wise-guys 
said  she  was  marrying  on  the  reboxmd, 
that  the  marriage  would  never  last. 
They're  still  saying  it,  only  they're  not  so 
sure  any  more. 

When  Lana  honeymooned  in  England, 
the  press  raked  her  over  the  coals  be- 
cause she  came  late  to  a  conference.  When 
she  returned  to  Bob's  family  home  in 
Connecticut,  the  gossips  said  she  was  ill- 
prepared  to  be  mistress  of  the  tremendous 
Topping  mansion.  When  she  went  to  21, 
or  the  Colony,  or  the  Copacabana  in  New 
York,  it  was  said  of  Bob  and  Lana  that 
they  were  constantly  quarreling,  that  the 
quarrels  must  end  in  divorce. 

When  Lana  found  herself  pregnant  by 
husband  Topping  the  first  time,  she  knew 
nothing  about  the  RH  factor.  When  she 
found  out  about  it — it  was  too  late.  The 
baby   had  died. 

When  she  learned  about  the  RH  factor 
and  tried  to  save  this  last  child  by  trans- 
fusions of  whole  blood — she  never  got 
the  chance. 

If  anyone  ought  to  be  sore  at  life,  it 
should  be  Lana  Turner.  It's  given  her 
money  and  fame  but  precious  little  hap- 
piness. However,  she  refuses  to  look  back 
upon  the  past. 

"When  you're  as  happy  as  I  am,"  she 
said  three  weeks  before  she  lost  her  baby, 
"you  have  no  thoughts  for  the  past." 

Whether  that  still  holds  true,  no  one 
can  say. 

A  friend  who  has  known  her  ever  since 
she  first  arrived  in  Hollywood,  said  re- 
cently, "Lana  has  been  smart  enough 
never  to  sit  dovm  and  take  inventory  of 
her  life.  There  has  been  too  much  sadness, 
too  many  men,  too  much  death  and  love, 
and  because  of  love,  too  much  pain.  For 
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{ContinmA  from  page  43)  everyone  is 
walking  on  eggs?  The  whole  structure  can 
crack  up  at  any  minute. 

One  piece  of  bad  publicity  or  two  poor 
pictures  and  the  toasts  of  one  month  have 
been  transformed  into  the  crumbs  of  the 
next.  As  for  money,  only  the  continued 
power  to  command  a  large  salary  coimts, 
for  under  the  present  tax  laws  it's  im- 
possible to  set  aside — out  of  a  salary — 
a  fortune  or  even  a  nest  egg  that  will  see 
anyone  much  past  his  productive  years. 
These  productive  years,  with  a  few  notable 
exceptions,  average  about  five. 

With  these  facts  in  mind  it  isn't  difficult 
to  understand  why  Hollywood  society  is 
frantic,  ostentatious,  and  in  a  constant 
state  of  flux.  Except  for  the  syndicated 
columnists,  the  entrenched  studio  heads, 
and  the  boys — largely  Easterners— who 
hold  the  purse  strings,  everyone  is  sitting 
on  a  time  bomb,  and  knows  it.  What  no 
one  knows  is  when  the  bomb  is  going  to 
explode.  That  is  largely  the  reason  why 
Hollywood  society  is  fabulous,  extrava- 
gant, and  almost  a  caricature  of  the  stories 
outsiders  hear  about  it. 

WHERE  but  in  Hollywood  could  a  self- 
styled  prince,  who  has  spent  half  his 
life  living  off  the  gullible  rich,  make  the 
rich  like  it?  And  make  every  phony  fear 
his  stern  appraisal?  Because  of  his  amaz- 
ing personality  and  a  curiously  deep  re- 
spect for  the  truth,  Mike  Romanoff,  noble- 
man by  choice,  has  achieved  a  unique 
position  as  social  arbiter  in  Hollywood. 
And  has  made  a  business  of  it. 

A  few  years  ago,  Mike  Romanoff  was 
a  modestly-paid  writer  at  one  of  the 
major  studios.  At  that  time,  the  Clover 
Club,  a  plush  night  spot  with  complete 
gambling  facilities,  was  planning  to  re- 
open. Obviously,  the  club  owners  couldn't 
advertise,  and  they  couldn't  just  open  it 
like  a  super  market.  But  opening  night 
still  had  to  have  a  turnout  of  the  right 
people  with  the  right  bank  balances. 

One  of  the  guiding  geniuses  of  the  club 
hit  upon  the  idea  of  giving  a  lavish  party 
in  honor  of  Prince  Mike  Romanoff,  at 
which  he  would  be  titular  host.  It  was  to 
be  a  great  party  with  no  expense  spared, 
and  the  engraved  invitations  were  highly 
prized  by  those  who  got  them  and  deftly 
maneuvered  for  by  those  who  didn't.  At 
that  time,  the  studio  for  which  Romanoff 
was  working  had  bought  a  story  from 
Elsa  Maxwell,  had  employed  her  as  an 
adviser,  and  had  planned  to  use  her 
name  in  the  title  of  the  picture.  It  was 
here  that  Romanoff  came  a  cropper.  A 
reporter  from  Time  magazine,  writing  up 
the  forthcoming  Clover  party,  asked  Ro- 
manoff if  he  intended  to  invite  Miss 
Maxwell.  "Certainly  not,"  was  the  im- 
perial reply.   "There  are  to  be  no  phonies." 

Time  printed  the  interview — which 
naturally  resulted  in  Romanoff's  instant 
dismissal  from  his  studio  job.  But,  as  is 
often  the  case,  it  was  a  blessing  in  disguise; 
for  it  led  to  the  birth  of  Romanoff's  res- 
taurant. -On  $7,500  which  Romanoff  "al- 
lowed" his  friends  to  lend  him,  he  opened 
his  tavern.  By  1947,  he  was  netting 
$87,000  a  year  and  his  establishment  had 
achieved  a  social  pre-eminence  that  now 
rivals  the  royal  enclosure  at  Ascot. 

Another  field  of  social  activity  in  Holly- 
wood which  serves  as  an  indicator  of  social 
desirability  is  the  party  where  just  some 
of  the  people  are  invited.  After  all,  any- 
one can  walk  into  Romanoff's.  Maybe  you 
can't  get  a  table,  but  you  can  get  in.  A 
more  restricted  institution  is  the  tradi- 
tional Hollywood  set  party.  These  are 
given  at  the  completion  of  the  shooting  of 
a  picture  and  are  paid  for  by  the  stars, 
the  producer,  the  director  or  a  combina- 


tion of  them.  The  guests  are  all  those 
who  worked  on  the  making  of  the  picture — 
grips,  electricians,  cameramen,  actors, 
cutters,  anyone  actually  connected  with 
ushering  the  epic  into  this  world.  These 
parties  are  generally  filled  with  a  kind  of 
camaraderie  that  promises  to  be  eternal 
at  the  time,  but  evaporates  within  a  few 
days.  They  serve  a  healthy  purpose,  for 
often  the  frictions  that  sometimes  build 
up  over  several  weeks  of  high  pressure 
work  are  dragged  out  for  discussion  and 
what  might  have  been  an  enmity  becomes 
an  understanding.  There  are  rules  about  set 
parties  too,  unspoken  but  almost  always 
obeyed.  The  cardinal  rule  is  that  no  out- 
siders attend.  They  are  strictly  for  the 
"family"  that  made  the  picture.  This 
applies  to  the  husbands  and  wives  of 
those  involved  in  the  picture.  The  spouses 
are  not  welcome  and  their  arrival,  im- 
expected  or  otherwise,  has  often  led  to 
trouble.  A  recent  example  of  this  was 
the  fracas  created  when  William  Grant 
Sherry  attempted  to  crash  a  set  party 
given  for  his  wife  Bette  Davis  after  she'd 
completed  The  Story  Of  A  Divorce.  Re- 
fused admittance,  Sherry  rebelled  and 
woimd  up  in  fisticuffs  with  Barry  Sullivan, 
the  leading  man  in  the  picture.  There 
are  some  who  say  that  this  incident 
precipitated  Miss  Davis'  immediate  suit 
for  divorce.  Certainly  it  was  more  than 
a  plug  for  the  title  of  the  picture  since 
the  divorce  is  now  final  and  both  have 
remarried. 

'T'he  problem  of  the  visiting  celebrity  is 
one  which  has  caused  many  bitter 
tests  of  power  and  many  lasting  feuds. 
Not  too  many  years  ago,  anyone  who  got 
off  the  super-chief  with  spats,  a  walking 
stick,  and  an  English  accent  became  the 
immediate  object  of  a  race  among  the 
town's  hostesses  to  see  who  could  first 
land  him  as  a  guest  of  honor  for  a  lavish 
party.  Of  late  this  situation  has  lost 
much  of  its  international  aspect.  The 
Maharaja  of  Cooch-Behar  can  come  and 
go  and  is  largely  left  to  his  own  devices. 
And  the  Shah  of  Iran  was  recently  al- 
lowed to  conduct  whatever  business  he 
had  here  without  any  audible  roar  from 
the  town's  social  lions. 

People  on  allied  business — like  maga- 
zine editors  from  the  East,  are  subjected 
to  a  rigorous  caste  system.  Minor  editors 
are  invited  to  tour  the  studios  and  to 
spend  a  couple  of  minutes  with  the  heads 
of  the  publicity  departments.  Important 
editors  have  limousines  placed  at  their 
disposal  and  are  often  given  parties  at 
Giro's  or  one  of  the  other  big  night  clubs. 
The  top  brass,  the  men  who  not  only  edit 
a  magazine  but  probably  own  the  publish- 
ing company  as  well,  get  their  limousines 
even  faster — in  Chicago,  for  instance, 
where  the  Super  Chief  has  a  two-hour 
layover.  There,  a  chauffeur  snaps  to  at- 
tention, and  offers  convoy  to  a  hotel 
where  the  traveling  celebrity  can  take  a 
shower  and  a  nap  before  continuing  his 
journey. 

Lately,  the  celebrity  ballyhoo  seems  to 
have  narrowed  down  to  those  identified 
with  the  arts.  Of  course  there  was  a 
great  to-do  as  to  who  would  have  the 
honor  of  giving  the  first  Hollywood  party 
for  Ezio  Pinza,  the  famed  singing  star  of 
South  Pacific. 

Actually,  it  wasn't  much  of  a  contest — 
not  in  the  great  old  dog-eat-dog  tradition 
of  the  past — for  Pinza  had  been  signed 
by  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  and  so  his  un- 
veiling fell  quite  quietly  into  the  capable 
hands  of  the  comparatively  recent  Mrs. 
Louis  B.  Mayer. 

Far  keener  campaigns  were  waged  when 
Sir  Laurence  Olivier  and  his  wife,  Vivien 


Leigh  arrived  a  few  weeks  ago.  They 
presented  a  plum  that  was  botn  artistic 
and  international  with  the  additional  over- 
tone of  involving  knighthood.  When  the 
votes  were  counted  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Danny 
Kaye  had  won  and  the  party  they  gave 
for  the  Oliviers  was  a  lulu.  Missing  was 
the  crude  flamboyance  of  earlier  eras,  the 
noise,  the  backslapping,  and  the  earthy 
jokes  in  mixed  company.  Gone,  indeed, 
was  the  most  revered  bulwark  of  all 
Hollywood  functions — the  time  honored 
battery  of  press  photographers.  They 
were  not  permitted  to  attend.  This  stroke 
marked  a  new  level  of  class,  aimed  to  set 
the  tone  of  the  entire  affair. 

Mrs.  Kaye,  quite  naturally,  went  over 
the  guest  list  with  a  microscope,  and 
probably  litmus  paper  as  well.  If  a  "must 
be  invited"  single  woman  had  invited  an 
escort  ineligible  in  the  Kaye  view,  the 
escort  was  changed  for  someone  more 
acceptable.  Well  in  advance  of  the  party 
she  checked  with  all  the  women  guests 
as  to  the  gowns  they  were  wearing.  One 
reason  for  this  was  that  the  proper  details 
might  be  released  to  the  newspapers  and 
other  interested  publications.  Another 
was  a  desire '  to  avoid  any  duplication 
among  the  govras.  Still  another,  it  is 
rumored,  was  the  intention  to  eliminate 
any  gown  that  might  tend  to  lower  the 
level  of  the  party's  general  decor. 

A  NOTHER  remembered  afTair  was  the 
party  given  by  Nunnally  Johnson 
(but  paid  for  by  Universal-International) 
honoring,  for  some  now  unfathomable 
reason,  a  picture  he  made  with  William 
Powell  called  Mr.  Peahody  and  The 
Mermaid.  There  were  buffet  tables  half 
a  block  long.  A  circus  tent  converted  the 
entire  back  lawn  and  gardens  into  a 
night  club  complete  with  a  hardwood 
dance   floor.    There,   models   dressed  as 


mermaids,  posed  behind  thin  screens  of 
gauze.  It  was  impossible  to  finish  a  glass 
of  champagne,  for  it  was  refilled  scarcely 
before  it  left  your  hand.  The  party  may 
not  have  cost  as  much  as  the  picture  it 
honored,  but  it's  a  safe  bet  that  it  cost 
every  bit  as  much  as  the  picture  made. 

As  they  say  in  the  gossip  columns — 
"everyone  who  is  anyone  was  there."  In 
fact,  once  during  the  evening,  one  of 
Johnson's  friends  spotted  him  leaning 
rather  disconsolately  against  one  of  the 
many  bars  and  asked  him  how  many  of 
the  guests  present  he  thought  he  knew 
personally.  After  a  pause  Johnson  an- 
swered, "I  figure  one  out  of  every  ten  is 
about  my  average." 

To  a  single  girl  who  has  really  made  the 
grade  on  the  Hollywood  social  ladder,  it 
is  obvious  that  the  expense  of  dressing  is 
no  minor  consideration.  She  may  go  to 
two  or  three  gala  affairs  a  week,  and  no 
salary  can  support  an  expensive  new 
dress  and  a  different  fur  for  each.  Yet  she 
is  certainly  marked  as  being  on  the  skids 
if  her  wardrobe  isn't  on  a  par  with  the 
others.  This  has  led  to  many  a  dodge,  a 
trade,  and  a  borrowing.  The  fine  stores  of 
the  community — Magnin's,  Saks,  and  the 
others  have  long  been  in  the  habit  of 
sending  out  dresses,  fur  coats  and  such  to 
their  customers  on  approval.  This  phrase, 
of  course,  means  to  look  at,  possibly  to 
touch,  but  never  to  wear.  For  a  long 
time  one  of  the  stars  had  been  suspected 
of  carrying  the  "on  approval"  privilege 
somewhat  beyond  the  store's  intention. 
One  day,  she  ordered  a  mink  cape  sent 
out  "on  approval."  It  was  returned  to 
the  store  bright  and  early  the  next  day, 
and  the  star  was  properly  horrified  when 
the  cape  together  with  a  two  thousand 
dollar  bill  reached  her  before  noon.  She 
indignEintly  called  the  store.  But  they 
had  her  dead  to  rights.    She'd  worn  the 


cape  to  a  premiere  the  previous  evening. 
The  store  had  taken  the  precaution  of 
having  a  photographer  there,  and  in  a 
crystal  clear  eight  by  ten  portrait  was 
the  star  languidly  swathed  in  the  store's 
mink  cape.  Clearly,  there  was  nothing 
she  could  do  but  pay  the  bill. 

SEATING  arrangements  have  caused  many 
a  sleepless  night  among  Hollywood 
hostesses,  for  the  problems  thus  pre- 
sented can  be  many  and  varied.  It's  a 
safe  bet,  for  example,  that  Arline  Judge 
will  have  been  married  to  at  least  two 
of  the  gentleman  present  at  anything 
larger  than  a  bridge  party,  and  a  thought- 
ful party  giver  would  never  put  Gene 
Markey  in  the  same  group  with  Hedy 
Lamarr,  Joan  Bennett  or  Myrna  Loy.  And 
there  are,  of  course,  the  feuds,  such 
as  the  one  between  Olivia  de  Havilland 
and  her  sister,  Joan  Fontaine.  More  diffi- 
cult to  keep  up  with  are  those  that  develop 
from  day  to  day  between  rival  columnists, 
rival  agents  who  accuse  each  other  of 
stealing  their  actors,  and  rival  producers 
who  have  done  just  that. 

Probably  Hollywood's  most  powerful 
and  unique  group  of  social  arbiters  is  a 
relatively  small  number  of  men  not 
formally  organized,  yet  whose  social 
whims  are  law  to  many  of  Hollywood's 
greater  names.  Hollywood  refers  to  them 
as  the  Honorary  Association  of  Stars' 
Husbands — HASH  for  short.  Generally, 
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star  doesn't  put  a  man  into  the 
Honorary  Association.  In  HoUywoodese, 
membership  in  the  association  is  limited 
to  those  who  deliberately  exploit  their 
wives'  fame  and  power  for  their  own 
interest.  There  is,  indeed,  an  imposing 
list  of  men  who  married  stars  and  went 
on  to  well  earned  and  lasting  success 
strictly  on  their  own  merit.  Among  these 
can  be  included  William  Dozier,  previ- 
ously story  editor  of  Paramount,  who 
married  Joan  Fontaine  and  has  gone  on 
to  win  deserved  laurels  as  a  producer. 
Tom  Lewis,  now  happily  married  to 
Loretta  Young,  was  a  successful  adver- 
tising man  and  has  made  himself  a  motion 
picture  producer  of  note.  Freddie  Brisson 
was  an  able  talent  agent  when  he  married 
Rosalind  Russell.  Now,  sifter  an  ad- 
mirable war  record,  he  has  become  an 


executive  and  producer  in  his  own  pro- 
duction company.  There  is  Jack  Briggs 
who,  since  his  separation  from  Ginger 
Rogers,  is  being  offered  more  acting  plums 
than  ever  before.  Collier  Young,  onetime 
agent  and  story  editor,  has  formed  a  vastly 
successful  independent  production  com- 
pany with  his  ex-wife,  Ida  Lupino.  These 
are  but  a  few  examples  on  the  credit  side 
of  the  ledger  and  should  serve  to  offset  the 
typical,  but  non-honorable  members  of 
the  "Honorary  Association  of  Stars'  Hus- 
bands." 

Obviously,  Hollywood  can  have  no  so- 
ciety in  the  sense  that  the  old  lineal 
communities  of  the  nation  have.  As  one 
observer  puts  it,  "It  is  only  in  its  efforts 
to  be  like  other  places  that  Hollywood 
falls  flat  on  its  face."  In  other  communities, 
shapes  and  values  have  been  set.  But  to 
be  in  society  in  Hollywood  is  like  climbing 
into  a  Waring  mixer — no  one  knows  who 
is  on  top  imtil  someone  turns  off  the 
switch,  and  no  one  has  quite  enough  nerve 
to  do  that.  The  End 


they're  talking  about  the  powers 


{,Continued  from  page  14)  sprinkling  of 
royal  names.  In  other  words,  Mrs.  Power 
is  having  a  whale  of  a  time  in  London 
town,  and  so  far  Mr.  Power  is  not  en- 
joying it  with  her.  She  doesn't  go  alone, 
though.  Attractive  men,  Montgomery 
Clift  among  them,  have  been  escorting 
the  elf-like  redhead  hither  and  yon. 

It  is  possible  that  in  the  case  of  Clift 
this  was  merely  business  (not  difficult  to 
take,  you  might  say),  when  he  and  Linda 
appeared  together  at  the  recent  command 
performance  of  The  Mudlark. 

People  here  are  still  wondering  about 
that  command  performance  date.  Linda 
Christian  is  not  a  star  in  her  own  right. 
Why  was  it  necessary  for  her  to  appear 
at  all,  much  less  be  provided  officially  with 
an  escort?  Or,  take  it  the  other  way 
around.  Clift  is  a  star  big  enough  to  war- 
rant his  being  there,  but  wouldn't  he  have 
gone  stag  if  he'd  wanted  to  do  so?  Fur- 
thermore, if  it  were  absolutely  vital  that 
he  appear  with  someone,  why  not  an 
eligible  lovely? 

The  explanation  may  be  that  Montgom- 
ery Clift  is  leery  of  publicity  romances, 
and  prefers  to  play  it  safe  from  the 
rimior-mills.  Probably  no  one  would  think 
much  of  Clift's  escorting  just  any  mar- 
ried woman  to  The  Mudlark,  but  few 
women  are  as  provocative  as  Linda.  And 
as  for  Linda,  this  was  not  the  first  time, 
or  the  second  either,  that  she  was  seen 
partying   without  her  husband. 

It  is  common  knowledge,  in  London, 
not  mere  rumor  or  gossip,  that  Linda 
Christian  Power  is  seeing  the  town  with 
other  men.  Furthermore,  the  gossips  are 
specific  in  saying  that  there  is  one  man 
in  particular  who  interests  her  very  much. 
He  is  not  a  famous  name  but  -  a  private 
citizen  who  is  either  a  Mexican,  lives  in 
Mexico,  or  has  recently  traveled  there. 

But  where  is  Ty  while  all  this  is  going 
on?  Six  evenings  a  week  he  stars  in  Mr. 
Roberts,  in  the  part  Henry  Fonda  made 
famous  on  Broadway. 

Ty's  playing  Mr.  Roberts  may  well  be 
the  reason  for  the  situation.  It  is  possible 
that  Linda's  escorts  are  handpicked  by  Ty 
himself  to  keep  .his  vivacious  little  wife 
entertained  while  he  is  busy  each  evening 
playing  to  packed  houses. 

This  is  not  the  only  possible  explanation. 
The  other  is  a  matter  of  tradition  and  goes 
very  deep.  To  understand  it,  you  must 
also  imderstand  an  old  Continental  cus- 
tom that  arose  from  Europe's  perennial 
oversupply  of  women. 


TAKINGS  were  different  in  America  when 
it  was  yoimg.  The  early  settlers  of  the 
seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries 
needed  wives  and  mothers  to  build  up 
families  in  the  Colonies,  and  European 
coimtries  were  ready  and  willing  to  fiU 
market  orders  for  brides.  Marriageable 
women  were  so  much  in  demand  that  even 
widows  were  snatched  out  of  their  mourn- 
ing before  their  tears  were  dry. 

It  is  easy  to  see  how  America  developed 
a  tradition  whereby  wives  do  not  go  out 
freely  with  other  men.  On  the  other  hand, 
Europe  has  developed  the  opposite  idea. 
If  her  husband  does  not  enjoy  social  fes- 
tivities, it  is  perfectly  acceptable  for  a 
wife  go  to  balls  or  the  theater  wirh 
another  man.  But  do  not  be  misled  by 
this,  for  while  a  wife  usually  chooses  her 
escorts,  it  is  all  in  perfect  order  with  her 
husband.  The  situation  parallels  a  father 
sending  his  daughter  out  to  a  party  say- 
ing, "Have  a  good  time,"  and  telling  the 
young  man  when  to  bring  her  home. 

It  may  be  like  this  with  the  Powers 
since  both  of  them  definitely  have  out- 
looks that  are  more  Continental  than 
American. 

Essentially,  Linda  is  European.  Although 
she  belongs  to  the  generation  of  teen- 
agers whose  life  was  restricted  by  war, 
by  1939  she  had  seen  enough  of  the  world 
to  know  it  as  well  as  anyone  of  14  or  15 
could  know  it.  Her  father,  a  Hollander, 
had  taken  her  everywhere  as  he  traveled 
in  his  oil  business.  Like  most  true  cos- 
mopolitans she  speaks  many  languages  . . . 
even  Arabic. 

As  you  know,  although  Christian  is  her 
real  name,  Linda  is  not.  It  is  actually 
Bianca,  a  tip-off  to  her  Mexican  maternal 
heritage.  Her  warm  olive  skin  indicates 
this  Latin  strain  and  complements  her 
Dutch-like  light  hair.  She  is  one  of  those 
lucky  children  from  two  widely  different 
ancestries  who  cqmbines  the  handsomest 
qualities  of  each. 

Tyrone,  too,  is  a  contradiction.  He  cotild 
scarcely  look  more  Ail-American.  But  his 
solemn  behavior  and  decorous  attitude 
are  the  essence  of  the  European  type  who 
lives  with  silence  and  dignity.  This  may 
come  as  a  blow  if  you  think  that  the  Con- 
tinental is  forever  sipping  wdne  in  a  side- 
walk cafe  and  paying  outrageous  compli- 
ments to  each  lady  he  meets.  Characters 
like  that  are  to  be  fovmd  only  in  novels  and 
(Heaven  help  us!)  in  the  movies.  Ty's 
reserve,  staunch  personal  dignity,  and  his 
two  marriages,  first  to  French  Annabella, 


now  to  Latin  Linda,  plus  his  preference 
for  Eiirope  as  a  home  are  greatly  reveal- 
ing. They  all  indicate  that  Tyrone  Power, 
in  temperament,  is  a  Continental,  too. 

Co,  we  can  grant  the  Powers  some  bene- 
^  fit  of  the  doubt,  considering  that  Linda's 
going  about  with  other  men  is  what  a 
European  wife  might  do  if  her  husband 
were  busy  or  would  rather  stay  at  home. 

However,  if  something  really  is  wrong, 
and  if  you  enjoy  reading  profound  mean- 
ings into  things,  you  can  say  that  the 
loss  of  Linda's  baby,  born  dead  almost  a 
year  ago,  hurt  them  both  so  deeply  that 
a  strain  started  between  them.  Others 
have  said  so.  Who  knows?  There  may  be 
something  to  it,  but  it  seems  unlikely  for 
a  healthy  young  woman  and  her  under- 
standing husband. 

To  judge  her  fairly,  it  is  important  to 
realize  that  Linda,  besides  having  sophis- 
tication and  genuine  glamor,  also  has 
elemental  earthiness  and  simplicity. 

Back  in  1945,  for  example,  when  the 
Hollywood  Athletic  Club  was  still  con- 
centrating on  sports,  the  swimming  coach 
conducted  the  marathon  swim  that  was 
the  custom  each  winter.  There  was  a 
large  map  of  the  world  on  the  wall  on 
which  were  stuck  many  pins,  each  with  a 
Uttle  flag  bearing  the  name  of  a  com- 
petitor. In  order  to  move  his  pin  out  of 
Los  Angeles,  a  contestant  was  required  to 
swim  a  certain  number  of  lengths  which 
corresponded  to  the  distance  to  the  next 
port.  The  goal  was  to  swim  "around  the 
world"  in  this  fashion,  or  as  far  as  you 
could  in  the  few  months  of  the  contest. 

As  you  might  imagine,  such  a  game 
would  appeal  to  eager  youngsters,  deter- 
mined housewives,  and  health-conscious 
old  men.  Glamor  girls  were  hardly  ex- 
pected to  be  interested.  So,  when  golden- 
brown  Linda  appeared,  wearing  a  Bikini 
bathing-suit  that  looked  better  in  reality 
than  it  did  in  sketch-books,  she  caused 
quite  a  stir  when  she  set  out  for  Honolulu. 

As  she  was  then  under  contract  with 
MGM,  her  effort  was  expected  to  last  only 
as  long  as  it  took  to  take  publicity  pic- 
tures. However,  no  photographer  showed 
up.  To  everyone's  added  surprise,  through 
the  winter  the  pin  marked  "L.  Christian" 
kept  pushing  along  over  oceans  and  around 
continents,  and  in  April  finally  hove  into 
Los  Angeles  harbor  just  behind  the  one. 
marked  "J.  WeissmuUer." 

By  the  end  of  the  race,  a  month  later, 
only  a  fifteen-year-old  boy  had  "finished"; 
everyone  else  was  declared  "drowned" 
and  received  a  "nice  try"  medal.  Linda 
carried  home  a  waist  high  trophy  for  her 
victory.  "Pretty  good  for  a  soft  glamor- 
girl,"  everyone  agreed. 

No  one  quite  knows  why  she  is  as  well 
known  by  the  name  Linda  Christian  as 
by  Mrs.  Tyrone  Power.  She  wasn't  that 
well  known  in  pictures.  When  she  declared 
she  would  give  up  her  caree'r  for  mar- 
riage, more  than  a  few  people  asked  "What 
career?"  Evidently  she  meant  that  she 
would  give  up  her  efforts  at  a  career  in 
pictures  for  her  new  ambition  to  settle 
down  and  have  many,  many  babies. 

Part  of  this  plan  was  blasted  when,  un- 
fortunately, she  lost  her  first  baby.  But 
was  this  responsible  for  her  not  settling 
down?  Or  has  she  changed  her  mind 
about  being  the  best  of  wives?  Have  Linda 
and  Tyrone  Power  a  friendly  Uttle  agree- 
ment continental-style? 

Are  they  still  happy  together  and  are 
their  so-called  intimates  shedding  silly 
tears  when  they  weep,  "How  can  she  do 
this  to  Ty?   He's  so  wonderful!" 

I  don't  know.  But  that's  the  way  things 
stand  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic.  Maybe 
you  could  tell  us.  What  do  you  think? 

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(Continued  from  page  55)  where  she,  as 
usual,  was  the  Uveliest  guest.  While  the 
candles  were  being  blown  out,  a  Para- 
mount designer  turned  to  Betty  and  re- 
marked, "I've  never  seen  you  so  gay, 
Betty." 

Betty  flashed  her  a  big  grin. 

"Going  out  with  Bob  tonight?"  the  de- 
signer asked.  (She  was  referring  to  Bob 
Sterling,  whom  the  gossip  columnists  were 
referring  to  daily  as  Betty's  next  husband.) 

"I  certainly  am.  He's  fun." 

"I  know  he  is,"  said  the  designer.  "But 
I  never  thought  you  two  would  get  to- 
gether." 

"Why  not?  He's  a  grand  guy.  And  he 
talks  my  language." 

Betty's  language  doesn't  have  much  to 
do  with  casual  conversation.  It's  intensely 
involved  with  show  business,  and  her  long 
struggle  to  make  a  place  for  herself  in  that 
extravagant  world  has  lessened  her  inter- 
est in  many  other  mimdane  matters. 

Ted  Briskin  may  have  tried  to  talk 
Betty's  language,  but  it  was  always  hard 
for  him.  He  could  never  take  to  Holly- 
wood and  its  glamorous,  brittle  goings- 
on.  And  he  couldn't  take  to  the  constant 
demands  on  Betty's  time  by  other  people 
whose  pleasure  it  was  to  build  a  star  into 
a  whole  constellation. 

He  feels  at  home  in  Chicago  where  he's 
taken  over  his  father's  business.  He's  top- 
man  there,  which  is  what  he  enjoys. 

But  business  makes  its  social  demands, 
too.  It's  nice  to  have  a  wife  around  the 
house  to  help  swing  a  deal  or  charm  a 
dealer.  Ted  can't  have  that  now  unless 
he  invites  Betty  a  week  in  advance.  Even 
then,  her  work  might  not  let  her  get  away. 

Betty  has  a  social  life,  too — that's  part  of 
her  job.  There  are  all  sorts  of  functions 
a  famous  star  has  to  attend,  and  not  always 
unescorted.  During  their  separations,  Betty 
never  lacked  dates.  And  even  now,  another 
escort  besides  Ted  might  have  to  step  in. 

ONLY  recently,  Betty  flew  to  New  York 
for  a  few  days,  but  Ted  didn't — even 
though  Chicago's  only  four  flying  hours 
away.  One  night,  during  her  stay,  she 
dined  at  21,  and  the  diners  almost  spilled 
their  vichysoisse  when  they  noticed  that 
the  man  she  was  with  was  not  Ted  Briskin. 

As  she  and  her  escort  were  being  seated, 
Betty  recognized  a  friend  at  the  next  table 
and  leaned  over  to  say  hello. 

"Darling,  it's  wonderful  to  see  you,"  her 
friend  cried.  "How  long  are  you  going 
to  be  in  town?" 

"Not  as  long  as  I'd  like  to  be,"  Betty 
laughingly  replied. 

"But  where's  Ted?"  her  friend  asked. 
Betty's  smile  faltered  momentarily.  "Oh, 
he  couldn't  make  the  trip  this  time." 

Probably  he  couldn't,  but  it  didn't  help 
public  relations  with  the  newsprint  an- 
nouncing their  reconciliation  hardly  dry. 
Betty  was  in  New  York  without  him,  and 
that's  not  the  way  their  agreement  read. 
The  agreement  said  they'd  spend  week- 
ends together.  He'd  fly  to  Hollywood,  or 
she'd  bundle  up  the  children  and  take 
them  to  Chicago.  But  from  Chicago  to 
New  York  is  the  shortest  trip  of  all.  .  .  . 

This  was  the  first  time,  but  certainly  not 
the  last  that  his  business  commitments 
or  her  career  would  stand  between  them. 
He  doesn't  like  being  alone;  she  likes  it 
even  less.  Their  search  for  companion- 
ship is  apt  to  widen  the  rift  between  them, 
and  they  may  find  that  they're  strangers. 
It  may  even  add  up  to  a  case  of  absence 
making  the  heart  grow  fonder — of  some- 
one else. 

If  a  clash  of  personalities  separated 
them— Hollywood  thinkers  suggest — why 
should  it  bring  them  together  again?  Cer- 


tainly their  personalities  haven't  changed. 
And  if  their  love  is  so  strong,  why  can't 
they  manage  to  keep  it  in  one  state? 
California's  big  enough  for  two,  so  is  Illi- 
nois. Maybe  they're  doing  it  for  the 
children.  The  gossipers  think  that  that 
makes  a  cute  story.  Betty's  not  in  love, 
they  say,  she's  a  martyr.  And  isn't  it  sweet 
to  be  a  martyr  for  one's  children?  Unfor- 
tunately, a  "weekend-marriage"  can  do 
the  children  more  harm  than  no  marriage 
at  all. 

Lindy  and  Candy  are  old  enough  to 
notice  their  father's  prolonged  absences. 
They're  beginning  to  wonder  why  they 
have  to  pack  a  valise  almost  every  time 
they  see  him.  The  contrast  between  their 
way  of  life  and  that  of  their  friends  wiU 
become  increasingly  apparent  to  them  as 
the  months  go  on.  Cfdldren  are  pretty 
simple  about  complicated  problems.  We 
have  a  daddy — they  think — why  isn't  he 
home?  Children  alone  can't  hold  a  mar- 
riage together;  they  need  assistance  from 
their  parents. 

All  the  sympathy  and  advice  in  the 
world  can't  stop  two  people  from  losing 
their  tempers  if  that's  what  they  want  to 
lose.    And  even  the  nicest  of  in-laws — 


HOLLYWOOD. 


HERE  I  COME 

Hollywood  had 
just  become  aware 
of  Gregory  Peck, 
and  it  began  a 
long  siege  of 
phone  calls  against 
Leland  Hayward, 
Peck's  well-known 
agent. 

Casey  Robinson, 
a  motion-picture 
writer  who  wanted 
to  become  a  motion-picture  producer, 
started  the  ball  rolling  one  day. 

"You  handle  a  boy  named  Peck," 
stated  Robinson. 

"Do  I?"  Hayward  asked. 
"You  do,"  Robinson  said.  "I've  just 
seen  him  in  a  show,  and  he's  good. 
Hal  Wallis  is  going  to  call  you,  too,  to 
try  to  sign  him  for  Warner  Brothers, 
but  I'm  first.  I  want  Peck  exclusive." 

Hayward  didn't  know  what  Robin- 
son was  talking  about.  He'd  never 
heard  of  Peck.  So  he  stalled.  "Of 
course,  he'll  want  time  off  to  appear 
in  an  occasional  stage  play,"  he  sug- 
gested. 

That  didn't  faze  Robinson,  so  Hay- 
ward took  a  deep  breath,  said,  "He 
won't  make  tests,  either,"  and  waited 
for  the  outraged  howls.  But  Robinson 
took  that  one  in  his  stHde  too.  Hay- 
ward began  to  mention  things  that 
were  ordinarily  like  flapping  red  flags 
in  a  producer's  face.  "He  must  have 
approval  of  the  first  two  or  three  pic- 
tures he  does  .  .  .  You  can't  sign  him 
for  more  than  three  years  .  .  .  He  must 
get  a  thousand  a  week  for  his  first 
picture,  fifteen  hundred  for  his  second 
and  two  thousand  for  his  third."  He 
sat  back  and  waited  for  the  wires  to 
melt  as  they  carried  Robinson's  reply 
westward.  But  Robinson  merely  said 
"Okay,"  and  hung  up. 

The  phone  rang  again.  This  time  it 
was  Hal  Wallis.  Hayward  went 
through  his  list  of  Peck-won't-do- 
this-and-Peck-won't-do-that  again. 
They  bothered  Wallis  no  more  than 
they  had  Robinson.  The  same  thing 
happened  with  two  more  producers. 

Greg  Peck  was  on  his  way. —  (Pete 
Martin,  from  Hollywood  Without 
Makeup) 


the  Briskins,  and  Betty's  mother  and  sister 
— can't  deliver  any  of  the  happiness  they'd 
like  to  bring  into  Ted's  and  Betty's  hearts. 
It's  up  to  them  alone  to  be  faithful  to  the 
vows  they  made  four  years  ago.  They're 
trying  the  only  way  they  think  will  work, 
but  the  problems  they  had  before  are  still 
around. 

Ted  can  be  very  thoughtless,  especially 
when  he's  doing  something  he  enjoys.  One 
incident,  which  must  have  had  a  definite 
bearing  on  their  separation,  occurred  when 
Ted  flew  down  to  the  Del  Mar  race  track 
for  the  day,  with  his  brother. 

On  this  particular  day,  Ted  was  having 
a  run  of  bad  luck,  and  he  didn't  want 
to  go  until  he'd  recouped  his  losses.  He 
was  too  excited  to  make  a  note  of  when  his 
plane  was  to  leave — and  he  missed  it. 

When  he  called  Betty  to  explain,  Betty 
wasn't  in  a  listening  mood.  They  were 
expecting  guests  for  dinner  that  night,  and 
she'd  taken  special  pains  to  see  that  the 
affair  would  be  a  lovely  one. 

Maybe  other  wives  would  have  tossed 
the  incident  off  lightly.  "My  husband's 
crazy,"  other  wives  might  have  said.  "He'd 
lose  his  head  if  it  weren't  attached."  But 
those  wives  you  can  count  on  your  fingers 
after  you  make  a  fist. 

Betty  cried,  and  Ted  bristled.  He'd  have 
to  miss  the  dinner.  So  he  might  as  well 
stay  down  at  Del  Mar  for  two  more  days. 

He  must  have  been  trying  to  prove 
something — maybe  that  his  desires  were 
as  important  as  anything  for  which  Betty 
might  demand  his  presence,  maybe  that 
his  luck  would  change.  Whatever  it  was, 
it  wasn't  for  the  best. 

If  a  similar  situation  arose  now,  what 
would  Betty  do?  She's  too  strong  a  per- 
sonality to  back  down  on  principles.  He's 
no  weakling,  either.  It's  hardly  likely 
that  a  miraculous  change  will  take  place 
in  the  habits  of  a  lifetime.  Adjustments 
always  have  to  be  made  in  marriage,  but 
this  marriage  is  something  unique.  Ted 
and  Betty  were  reared  in  worlds  apart. 
She's  a  harum-scarum  girl  who  loves  gay 
parties  and  crowds  of  people.  Ted  can  do 
without  both. 

He  can  do  without  both  in  Chicago.  It 
might  work  out,  if  they  really  want  it  to. 
Betty  seems  to  want  it.  She's  tackling  the 
problem  like  the  whole  Army  team. 

At  this  writing,  Ted  is  with  Betty  and 
the  children  in  Sarasota,  Florida.  She's 
doing  personal  appearances  there  for  Cecil 
B.  DeMille's  The  Greatest  Show  On  Earth. 
They're  calling  this  time  between  the  acts 
together  their  "second  honeymoon,"  but 
really,  it's  their  third.  Maybe  for  Betty, 
the  third  time  will  be  the  charm. 

Her  friends  say,  "We  haven't  seen  Betty 
this  happy  for  months.  Her  enthusiasm 
is  wonderful;  it's  contagious." 

But  people  are  always  saying  that  about 
Betty.  She  doesn't  stop  smiling  till  the 
lights  go  out,  then  there  may  be  a  differ- 
ent face  on  the  girl.  A  face  that  would 
reveal  a  truer  answer  than  anyone  could 

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{Continued  from  page  35)  went  there  wild 
stories  flew  out — that  he  was  drinking  and 
gambling  huge  stakes  nightly — and  one 
Hollywood  columnist  even  penned  that 
Nick  had  angrily  tossed  a  stack  of  chips  at 
Elizabeth  when  she  begged  him  to  stop! 

Even  as  the  Queen  Elizabeth,  bearing 
them  home,  approached  New  York  harbor, 
Nick  had  a  shore-to-ship  call  before  he 
even  landed — for  the  unkindest  cut  of  all. 
It  was  a  New  York  reporter  demanding, 
"Is  it  true  that  you  knocked  your  wife 
down  in  a  drunken  brawl?"  That  left  Nick 
Hilton  speechless,  as  well  it  might  anyone. 
He  did  manage  to  retort  though,  "What  a 
fine  way  to  be  welcomed  home  this  is!" 
And  wasn't  it? 

But  since  they've  come  back  to  Holly- 
wood, where  you'd  think  people  would 
know  better  and  want  to  see  them  happily 
home,  has  the  tune  changed?  Unfortunate- 
ly, no.  Nick  can't  look  sidewise  at  Eliza- 
beth, or  vice  versa,  without  someone  an- 
novincing  a  dreamed  up  domestic  battle. 
No  remote  opportunity  is  missed  to  needle 
the  man  who  married  Elizabeth  Taylor. 
Only  the  other  day  a  gossip  writer  stated 
as  fact,  "People  are  wondering  why  Nicky 
Hilton  isn't  in  the  service."  What  people 
were  wondering?  And  why?  Former  Sea- 
man First  Clsiss  Hilton  owns  an  honorable 
Navy  record  in  the  last  war  and,  like  all 
veterans,  he's  classified  4-A.  If  they  want 
him  they'll  reclassify  and  call  him,  like 
they  will  millions  of  other  young  men, 
and  he'll  go  gladly. 

None  of  this,  I  can  report,  is  making 
Nick  Hilton  stay  awake  nights.  He's  too 
busy  to  get  insomnia  from  reckless  ru- 
mors even  about  himself.  He's  too  good- 
natured  to  fly  into  a  rage  of  denials,  too 
smart  to  lower  his  dignity  to  a  cat  fight  of 
answering  back.  If  there  are  too  many 
phone  calls  with  irritating  gossip  for  his 
ears,  there's  one  regular  one  from  Eliza- 
beth every  morning  to  say,  "I  love  you," 
making  the  others  seem  passing  stuff  and 
nonsense  which,  of  course,  they  are.  Be- 
sides, as  Nick  will  tell  you,  "I  knew  when 
I  married  a  star  what  I  was  in  for,  al- 
though I  didn't  expect  this  much  made  of 
everything  I  do — or  this  kind  of  things  said 
about  me.  It's  not  very  pleasant,"  he  grins 
wryly,  "to  be  made  out  a  louse." 

"V/Taybe  it's  time  to  have  a  good  look  at 
-L'-*-  the  real  man  Elizabeth  Taylor  mar- 
ried. Maybe  it's  time  to  add  Nick  Hilton 
up  right  and  see  if  he's  the  hooper  dooper 
all  this  hullabaloo  has  made  him — or  if  he's 
someone  you  might  recognize — and  like. 
Nick  himself  would  be  the  last  person  to 
ask  for  any  such  break,  but  perhaps  it's 
time  to  tell  his  side  of  the  story. 

Nick  Hilton  is  a  young  man  on  his  way. 
He  has  his  own  career  and  a  future  every 
bit  as  big,  maybe  bigger,  than  his  famous 
wife's.  Someday  he  might  take  over  the 
multimillion  dollar  hotel  empire  which  his 
dad,  "Connie"  Hilton  runs.  Right  now  he 
has  his  hands  full  with  the  Bel-Air,  which 
Nick  proudly  calls  "the  most  beautiful 
hotel  in  the  world."  It  may  be;  it  certainly 
is  to  Conrad  N.  Hilton,  Junior.  Because 
he  owns  part  of  it,  it's  his  baby,  his  first 
sole  business  venture  (the  Bel-Air  is  not 
a  part  of  the  Hilton  chain) — and  Nick  Hil- 
ton woiild  rather  be  a  successful  hotel  man 
than  President  of  the  United  States.  Or 
Clark  Gable. 

Just  as  some  kids  want  to  be  a  cop  or  a 
fireman  when  they  grow  up,  young  Nick 
wanted  to  rim  a  hotel.  "I  never  considered 
anything  else,"  he  says.  "And  I  still  don't, 
why,  it's  the  most  fascinating  business  in 
the  world!  There's  not  one  day  like  an- 
other or  one  problem  like  the  one  before. 
I'd  rather  be  in  a  hotel  than  in  a  palace— 


or  even  a  movie  studio,"  he  laughs. 

In  Dallas,  Texas,  where  he  was  born, 
the  home  he  remembers  fondly  was  a  little 
hotel  called — of  all  things — the  Waldorf, 
which  his  dad  bought.  When  he  was  ten 
he  had  his  first  hotel  job — running  errands 
around  the  lodge  at  Cloudcroft,  New  Mex- 
ico, a  summer  resort.  He  started  working 
simimers  regularly  at  fourteen,  first  at  the 
Hilton  hotel  in  El  Paso,  where  Nick  hauled 
ice,  helped  the  engineer,  fixed  lamps,  and 
did  odd  jobs  in  the  rooms. 

After  two  summers  at  El  Paso,  Nick 
travelled  on  at  sixteen  for  jobs  at  the 
Town  House  in  Los  Angeles  and  the 
Stevens  in  Chicago,  clerking,  working  in 
the  accounting  office,  commissary,  repair 
shop.  Los  Angeles  was  officially  Nick's 
home,  he'd  gone  to  St.  Paul  the  Apostle's 
parochial  school  there  and  Loyola  High, 
but  actually  he  spent  most  of  his  teen 
years  around  hotels  or  away  at  another 
school,  New  Mexico  Military  Institute.  He 
was  hustling  and  self  reliant  early. 

The  Navy  grabbed  Nick  after  one  year 
at  Loyola  University  in  Los  Angeles  where 
he'd  started  a  Business  Administration 
course.  He  was  eighteen,  six  feet  tall, 
weighing  around  160.  He  played  football, 
hunted  and  fished;  there  was  nothing 
wrong  with  him.  He  was  a  boot  in  San 
Diego,  studied  radar  at  the  Pearl  Harbor 
Pacific  Fleet  School,  was  assigned  to  the 
U.S.S.  North  Carolina,  and  took  part  in  the 
coastal  bombardment  of  Japan.  He  came 
out  a  seaman  first  class  after  twenty 
months'  service.  He  tried  one  semester 
back  at  Loyola  U,  but  it  didn't  take.  He 
told  his  dad,  "I'm  too  restless  to  go  back 
to  school.  I  want  to  go  to  work."  "Connie" 
Hilton  nodded  approval  and  sent  him  off  to 
the  Stevens  in  Chicago,  the  biggest  hotel 
in  the  world. 

Nick  was  there  a  year  helping  stream- 
line the  food  controls  and  set  up  a  new- 
system  of  housekeeping.  Then  he  tore  into 
a  survey  of  the  whole  Hilton  chain,  from 
Los  Angeles  to  New  York,  room  by  room. 
Nick  Hilton  has  probably  seen  more  hotel 
rooms  than  any  man  aUve.  He  inspected 
and  reported  on  12,000  of  them  with  dia- 
grams. But  he  didn't  think  he  knew 
enough  even  then. 

So  in  '48  Nick  took  off  for  Europe, 
studied  five  months  at  the  Ecole  Hoteliere 
(Hotel  School)  in  Lausanne,  Switzerland. 
He  got  a  job  after  that  at  the  Hotel  Scribe 
in  Paris,  compared  European  operations 
with  the  Hilton  system,  gave  talks  about  it 
at  manager's  meetings  back  in  America. 
He  went  to  the  Southwest  as  assistant  to 
the  vice  president  of  the  Hilton  Corpora- 
tion, helped  put  in  the  new  ideas  he'd 
doped  out  at  the  Hilton  Hotels  in  Albu- 
querque, El  Paso  and  Lubbock,  Texas.  He 
had  moved  on  to  the  Hilton  office  in  Bev- 
erly Hills  when  he  met  Elizabeth  and  fell 
in  love. 

T?7as  he  in  love  with  her  movie  star 
^  glamor  as  has  been  hinted?  Does  a  go- 
getting  record  like  that  suggest  that  Nick 
Hilton  wanted  to  bask  in  anybody's  re- 
flected glory? 

"That's  the  funniest  one,"  Nick  ponders. 
"I  didn't  know  a  single  Hollywood  movie 
star.  I  wasn't  even  a  fan.  Fd  never  seen 
Elizabeth  in  a  picture  before  I  saw  her  in 
person."  Somebody  asked  Nick  once, 
"What  attracted  you  to  Elizabeth?"  and 
he  couldn't  believe  his  ears.  "Migosh."  he 
exclaimed,  "what  attracts  anyone  to  Eliza- 
beth— I  mean — what  doesn't?" 

He  thought  she  was  the  most  beautifiil 
girl  he'd  ever  seen  and  he  wanted  a  date, 
so  he  pulled  some  strings  with  his  friend, 
"Pete"  Freeman,  whose  father,  Frank 
Freeman,  is  a  Paramount  bigshot.  Elizabeth 
was  over  there  making  A  Place  in  the  Sun. 
What  happened  then  everyone  knows. 
They  had  lunch  at  the  studio,  their  first 


date  at  Nick's  brother,  Barron's  house, 
and  a  week-end  at  the  Hilton's  Lake 
Arrowhead  lodge  along  with  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Taylor,  Elizabeth's  brother,  Howard,  and 
his  girl.  "It  was  a  pretty  romantic  setting 
— moonlight,  a  mountain  lake,"  Nick  re- 
calls, "so  I  just  popped  the  question.  I 
wasn't  exactly  discouraged."  But  he  was 
surprised  when,  even  before  he  came  down 
out  of  the  mountains,  the  newspapers  had 
him  engaged  to  Elizabeth  Taylor.  She 
hadn't  said  "Yes"  then.  Nick's  been  sur- 
prised at  almost  everything  he's  read 
about  himself  and  Elizabeth  since. 

The  first  time  Nick  stepped  otit  in  pub- 
lic with  Elizabeth  was  at  a  charity  benefit 
at  the  Biltmore  Hotel  in  Los  Angeles. 
Elizabeth  was  a  cigarette  girl  but  she 
didn't  peddle  many  cigarettes.  Mostly,  she 
was  trapped  at  Nick's  side  while  flash 
bulbs  crackled.,  Nick  asked  his  fiancee, 
"Is  it  always  like  this?"  and  she  smiled, 
"You'll  get  used  to  it." 

Well,  he  did.  But  he  never  enjoyed  it. 
If  he  had,  Nick  wouldn't  have  nixed  inter- 
views about  Elizabeth  or  refused  to  pose 
for  lovey-dovey  pictures.  Nick  didn't  act  up 
— but  he  didn't  get  in  on  the  act,  either.  He 
was  just  a  nice  yoimg  guy  in  love  with 
a  girl,  not  her  glamor. 

T  ASKED  Nick  if  he'd  ever  take  that 
long  a  honeymoon  tour  if  he  had  to  do  it 
over.  He  shook  his  head.  "No,  I  wouldn't. 
Elizabeth  and  I  probably  wouldn't  take 
that  long  a  trip  again  on  any  occasion. 
Maybe  when  we're  older,  when  I'm  more 
established  in  business.  But  three  months 
is  too  long  just  to  lie  around.  You  feel 
like  you're  not  accomplishing  anything — 
and  it  gets  you  jumpy.  Elizabeth  works 
very  hard  when  she  makes  a  picture,"  he 
added,  "but  she  feels  the  same  way.  If 
she'd  been  home  she  could  have  been  fix- 
ing up  things  around  the  house."  Nick 
never  forgot  his  business  even  on  his 
honeymoon.  He  came  back  lugging  hotel 
gadgets  and  ideas  he  collected  wherever 
they  had  stopped.  One,  a  trick  ashtray  he 
found  in  Switzerland,  is  already  in  Bel-Air 
rooms.  It  keeps  a  cigarette,  left  burning, 
from  falling  out  and  setting  the  place  on 
fire. 

But  no  gadget  has  yet  been  invented  to 
keep  people  from  starting  fires  and  rais- 
ing smoke  about  screen  stars  and  the  men 
they  marry.  Nobody  knows  that  better 
than  Nick. 

Besides  rimning  a  successful  hotel,  Nick 
Hilton's  one  ambition  in  life  right  now  is 
to  make  Elizabeth  Taylor  happy.  "That's 
the  idea  of  marriage,  isn't  it?"  he  asks. 
He's  crazy  about  fishing  and  golf.  He  took 
her  out  fishing — she  fell  asleep  in  the 
boat.  He  bought  her  a  matched  set  of 
Patty  Berg  clubs — they  still  sit  new  and 
shiny  in  the  garage.  Few  husbands  indeed 
have  worked  a  wife  into  their  Sunday 
sports,  but  in  the  things  that  coxmt  Nick 
has  changed  more  than  one  idea  he  owned 
to  please  his  bride. 

He  wanted  to  live  at  the  Bel-Air  when 
they  came  back  home.  Nick  never  stops 
being  a  militant  hotel  man  for  one  minute, 
and  he's  convinced  that  it's  cheaper,  more 
comfortable,  and  handier  to  liye  in  them 
than  run  a  house.  But  the  suite  they'd 
picked  out  wasn't  ready,  so  they  moved 
into  the  Pacific  Palisades  house  that  Bar- 
ron and  Marylin  and  their  multiplying 
family  outgrew.  The  night  they  moved  in 
there  weren't  any  sheets  or  blankets,  or 
much  of  anything  else,  so  while  Elizabeth 
unpacked,  Nick  raced  around  in  his  car  to 
his  dad's  house,  to  the  hotel,  to  Barron  and 
Marylin's  new  place  and  came  back  with 
the  bedding  and  enough  pots  and  pans  to 
cook  breakfast. 

Domesticity  has  seemed  to  take  with 
Liz,  so  now  the  Hilton  living  plans  are 
changed.   Nick's  hunting  a  house  to  buy. 


and  he  has  a  deal  on  for  one  he  thinks 
will  fill  the  bill.  "What  changed  your 
mind?"  I  asked  him.  "Nothing,"  maintains 
Nick.  "But  Elizabeth  wants  a  house — and 
she's  going  to  have  one.  She  wants  to  try 
her  hand  at  cooking  and  housekeeping  for 
a  while."  They're  going  ahead  and  re- 
decorating the  Bel-Air  suite  just  the 
same,  and  just  in  case  Elizabeth  discovers 
what  Nick  suspects  she  will — that  making 
pictures  and  running  a  house  are  two  full 
time  jobs. 

Right  now  the  Hiltons  live  in  Pacific 
Palisades  with  a  maid,  a  gardener,  and 
"Gi-Gi,"  the  French  poodle  which  Nick 
bought  Elizabeth  to  replace  her  beloved 
"Butch"  who  died  while  they  were  away. 
They're  home  most  nights  when  they 
aren't  carrying  on  a  canasta  feud  with 
Barron  and  Marylin,  and  sometimes  Eliz- 
abeth cooks  dinner.  Lamb  chops,  potatoes 
and  peas  were  her  first  bridal  effort,  which 
suited  Nick  fine  because  he's  strictly  a 
meat  and  potato  boy.  Outside  of  the  ballet, 
a  few  concerts  and  a  preview  or  two,  they 
haven't  made  any  kind  of  a  stir  socially — • 
and  that's  perfectly  all  right  with  Nick. 

"We're  too  busy — and  too  tired,"  ex- 
plains Nick.  "We're  both  working  and  if 
we  have  time  to  unpack  a  few  wedding 
presents  we're  lucky.  We've  got  a  lot  of 
catching  up  to  do  getting  settled." 

"Doth  Nick  and  Elizabeth  roll  out  of  bed 
at  6:30  when  she's  working.  It's  a  ten- 
minute  drive  to  his  hotel,  fifteen  to  MGM 
for  Elizabeth.  But  when  they  kiss  good-by 
in  the  morning  they  enter  separate  worlds. 
Nick  has  been  to  MGM  just  once,  for  lunch 
with  his  wife.  He  hasn't  been  on  the  set 
of  Father's  Little  Dividend  and  he  isn't 
planning  to  go  just  to  rubberneck  around. 
"How  would  I  find  the  time?"  he  asks. 
"Besides,  I'd  just  be  in  the  way.  I  don't 
know  anything  about  movies  or  acting.  I 
know  what  I  like  to  see  Elizabeth  in — 
I  liked  Father  of  the  Bride  and,  of  course. 
National  Velvet.  But  I'm  no  critic." 

Sometimes  Elizabeth  comes  by  the  hotel 
for  dinner,  but  she  feels  the  same  way 
about  Nick's  hotel.  That's  his  job.  He's 
busy  right  now  redecorating  all  the  rooms 
and  the  other  day  he  asked  her  advice 
about  colors.  It  was  pretty  good  until  she 
added,  "And  of  course,  light  carpets."  Nick 
shook  his  head.  "Honey,"  he  said,  "you 
may  know  colors,  but  you  don't  know 
hotels."  Light  carpets,  he  explained,  would 
show  every  footstep. 

The  way  Nick  Hilton  feels  about  Eliza- 
beth's career  is  exactly  as  he  says,  "I  think 
it's  fine  and  I'm  all  for  it — as  long  as  it 
doesn't  interfere  with  our  having  a  fam- 
ily." Because  Nick  Hilton  is  a  famUy  boy 
himself  and  he's  crazy  about  kids. 

"Three  will  be  enough,"  thinks  Nick, 
"but  more  if  we're  lucky.  I  want  some  boys 
to  take  hunting.  Elizabeth  wants  some  girls 
to  dress  up."  Nick's  only  twenty-three 
and  Elizabeth's  pushing  nineteen,  but  he 
still  thinks  he's  way  behind.  Barron,  two 
years  younger,  has  three.  Maybe  Elizabeth 
will  have  something  to  say  about  how 
many  and  when — a  family's  something  no 
mere  rumor  in  a  column  can  start — al- 
though there  have  been  those  rumors,  too. 
But  they  didn't  make  Nick  sore.  He  kind 
of  hoped  they  were  true. 

Nick  Hilton  is  not  really  mad  at  any- 
body. He's  too  happily  married  and  too 
wrapped  up  in  every  detail  of  his  job  and 
business  interests.  He's  chasing  success 
and  the  solid  things  of  life,  but  he's  no 
character  out  of  Horatio  Alger.  He's  no 
plaster  saint  and  he  doesn't  pretend  to  be. 

"I  like  fun,  sure,"  he'll  tell  you — although 
you  don't  have  to  ask  that  after  a  look  at 
his  restless  eyes  and  quick  grin — "but  not 
the  kind  of  fun  sometimes  they  say  I  like 
— if  that's  fun,  I  wouldn't  know." 

Nick  will  risk  a  buck  or  two  on  a  wager. 


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like  any  normal  Jo.  He  likes  to  watch  the 
horses  run,  see  football  games,  play  poker 
and  canasta.  He  smokes,  takes  a  drink  or 
sometimes  two.  He's  a  chip  off  his  life- 
loving  dad,  "Connie,"  and  his  bringing  up 
around  hotels,  where  there's  always  some- 
thing buzzing,  has  made  him  a  regular 
guy,  but  he  wasn't  bom  yesterday.  Smart- 
ies  are  always  approaching  Nick  with 
"deals,"  "tips"  or  "sure  things,"  but- he  can 
spot  a  racket  a  mile  off.  Although  Nick 
has  even  broken  up  plenty  of  them  right 
in  his  hotel  jobs,  the  idea  hangs  around 
that  he's  a  young  sucker.  And  he  knows 
he  can  expect  to  be  baited  and  badgered 
for  sensational  headlines  no  matter  what 
he  and  Elizabeth  do,  or  don't  do,  although 
he  admits  that  after  a  while  the  wallops 
make  him  wary  and  subconsciously  on 
the  defensive. 

A  while  back,  Nick  took  his  sister-in- 
law,  Marylin,  out  to  the  airport  to  meet 
Barron,  flying  in  from  Mexico.  Elizabeth 
was  busy  and  couldn't  make  it,  so  the  two 
of  them  stood  at  the  gate  sweating  the 
plane  in.  Nick  found  himself  looking 
nervously  around  the  crowd  expecting 
something,  he  didn't  know  what. 

Finally  it  struck  him  and  he  had  to 
laugh.  A  few  weeks  before  a  demented 
husband  got  caught  planting  a  bomb  on 
an  airliner,  along  with  his  pregnant  wife 
and  kids,  to  blow  them  all  to  glory. 

"Marylin,"  whispered  Nick,  "maybe  I'd 
better  stand  a  little  farther  away  from 
you.  Somebody  might  see  us  and  say  that 
I  was  out  at  the  airport  getting  rid  of  a 
pregnant  woman!" 

It  hasn't  gotten  as  fantastic  as  that,  of 
course,  not  yet,  and  if  it  does  Nick  Hilton's 
sense  of  humor  can  save  him.  But  it 
would  be  awfully  welcome,  just  for  a 
change,  he  thinks,  and  maybe  high  time 
too,  for  someone  to  say  that  Nick  and 
Elizabeth  Hilton  were  two  nice  and  normal 
young  married  people  starting  out  in  life 
happy,  ambitious,  in  love,  and  hoping  to 
stay  that  way.  The  End 


what's  wrong  with  the  gahles? 


(Continued  from  page  39)  in  her  immacu- 
late two-piece  suit  by  Adrian,  and  five-inch 
high  heels.  They  wondered  how  in  heck 
she  would  survive  the  really  rugged  life 
on  location.  She  surprised  them. 

IVTow  the  married  life  of  Mr.  and  Mrs. 

"  Gable  takes  on  a  sweetly  rustic  note. 
They  lived  in  a  log  cabin,  a  long  drive 
from  the  nearest  village.  Clark  has  never 
been  afraid  to  rough  it.  Neither,  strangely 
enough,  has  Sylvia — as  long  as  it  isn't  too 
rough.  First  of  all,  she  changed  into  some 
fetching  shorts  and  fancy  plaid  western 
shirts.  Then  she  unpacked  the  trunks  she 
had  thoughtfully  brought  with  her  on  the 
train.  In  them,  Sylvia  had  stashed  away 
her  best  table  silver  and  her  best  bed 
linen.  So  there  they  were — in  the  wilder- 
ness, with  soft  sheets  and  shining  silver. 
To  add  one  more  touch  of  home,  Sylvia 
bought  up  most  of  the  grass  thereabouts 
and  surrounded  the  hut  with  greenery. 

"She  got  up  every  morning  to  have 
breakfast  with  me,"  Clark  states,  in  a  kind 
of  awed  wonder,  "at  5:30  AM!"  "And  I 
was  in  bed  nearly  every  night  at  8:30," 
adds  Sylvia,  the  sophisticate,  who  hasn't 
been  abed  by  8:30  since  she  was  five  years 
old.  She  cooked  for  him;  she's  in  heaven 
with  hamburgers  sizzling  on  the  stove. 
Economical,  too.  The  stores  in  Durango 
reported  "one  pound  of  ground  round, 
please"  purchased  at  a  time.  "I  ate  the 
lousiest  hamburger,"  Clark  would  say  later 
in  Sylvia's  presence.   But  with  a  smile. 

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who  will  never  see  forty  again,  just 
has  to  be  in  love  with  her  husband  to  get 
up  with  him  in  the  dark,  retire  with  him 
before  it's  dark,  cook  for  him,  and  even — 
yes,  she  did  this  too — wash  his  shirts  for 
him.  Everyone,  including  Clark,  would 
have  understood  absolutely  if  Sylvia  had 
preferred  to  stay  behind  in  comfort. 

"This  just  has  to  be  love,"  reported  this 
reporter  emphatically  at  that  time.  ''But 
didn't  you  think  it  odd  when  Sylvia  went 
to  England  without  Clark?"  I  was  then 
reminded.  Yes,  I  remember  thinking  so  for 
a  fleeting  moment.  Clark  was  then  doing 
his  To  Please  A  Lady  picture  in  Indiana, 
and  the  reason  I  was  surprised  was  be- 
cause only  a  few  weeks  previously  Sylvia 
had  told  me  that  when  the  movie  was  fin- 
ished, she  and  Clark  would  both  go  to 
London,  where  Sylvia  owns  a  house  in  the 
smartest  section  of  Mayfair. 

No  one  quite  knows  why  Sylvia  didn't 
wait  for  Clark.  You'd  have  thought  she 
would  have  wanted  him  to  meet  her 
friends — Lord  Beaverbrook,  Winston  Chur- 
chill, and  other  top  drawer  personalities. 
But  apart  from  selling  her  Rolls  Royce  car, 
there  is  nothing  too  tangible  to  accoxmt  for 
the  British  trip.  Clark  met  her  in  New 
York,  and  by  the  time  they  retiimed  to 
Hollj'wood,  Sylvia  was  wearing  a  huge 
new  diamond  ring.  I'm  not  sure  whether 
she  bought  it  or  Clark  bought  it.  If  he  did, 
it's  the  biggest, '  most  expensive  present 
Gable  has  ever  given  any  woman  in  his 
life.  I  do  know  for  sure,  however,  that  he 
gifted  Sylvia  with  a  gold,  bejewelled  ciga- 
rette case  that  she  recently  showed  to  me. 

THAT  Clark  is  trying  to  make  this  mar- 
riage his  last  is  very  obvious.  I  nearly 
fainted  when  I  saw  him  all  dressed  up  with 
Svlvia  at  the  first  night  of  the  Sadler's 
Wells  Ballet.  Clark  doesn't  know  one  end 
of  a  ballet  shoe  from  the  other.  He  went  to 
please  Sylvia,  of  course.  And  the  fashion 
showsl  It's  fascinating  to  see  Clark  at  Syl- 
via's side,  hob-nobbing  with  the  elegant 
dress  designers.  He  even  bought  a  suit  for 
her  at  one  of  the  fashion  flings. 

Clark  has  never  been  a  man  for  parties 
in  his  home.  But  Sylvia  is  a  girl  who  likes 
to  have  people  aroimd,  so  Clark  has  en- 
larged what  used  to  be  the  combination 
tap  room  and  dining  room.  Now  they 
have  one  big  room,  and  most  Saturday  and 
Sunday  nights  they  have  quite  a  gang  in 
— mostly  Sylvia's  friends. 

And  Sylvia,  if  she  misses  the  non-stop 
traveling  to  the  gay  playgrounds  of  the 
fcishionable  world — well,  at  least  she  hasn't 
been  heard  to  complain.  I  haven't  seen 
her  in  a  night  club  with  Clark  since  the 
marriage.  And  she  passes  her  days  in  the 
garden,  fixing  up  the  roses,  or  absorbed  in 
her  needlework.  Sylvia  has  a  "green 
thvmib."  Everything  she  touches  blooms. 
Her  roses  are  all  over  the  place  and  very 
beautiful.  The  8  by  6  rug  in  the  living 
room,  she  designed  and  made  herself. 

A  week  before  the  surprise  elopement 
of  Clark  with  the  girl  who  was  then  Lady 
Sylvia  Stanley — before  that,  as  you  know, 
she  was  Mrs.  Douglas  Fairbanks,  Senior, 
and  before  that,  Lady  Ashley,  daughter- 
in-law  of  the  Earl  of  Shaftesbury — a 
coltunnist  printed  the  story  that  ever  since 
the  tragic  death  of  Carole  Lombard  in  a 
plane  crash,  Clark  had  kept  the  bedroom 
of  the  wife  he  adored,  untouched.  Everj' 
dress  was  in  the  same  place.  The  per- 
fume was  undisturbed  on  the  blonde  col- 
ored dressing  table.  Clark  was  furious 
when  he  read  the  story.  "It's  completely 
false  and  ridiculous,"  he  stormed.  The 
dresses  and  personal  belongings  had  been 
ssnt  to  Carole's  relatives.  But  the  furni- 
ture and  decor  was  left  as  Carole  had 
olanned  it.  Why  not?  Clark  wasn't  going 
to  marry  again,  so  why  redecorate? 
No  one  wants  to  live  with  a  ghost.  The 


new  Mrs.  Gable,  with  Clark's  complete 
agreement,  recently  called  in  a  top  deco- 
rator to  turn  her  bedroom  into  a  gay  green 
and  white  affair,  which  matches  her  color- 
ing and  complements  her  personality.  The 
drapes  and  coverings  are  in  English  im- 
ported chintz  with  a  white  background. 
The  chairs  are  quilted  with  the  same 
expensive  material.  And  to  please  his 
lady,  Clark  gave  up  his  office  and  turned 
it  into  a  sitting  room  for  Sylvia.  All  this, 
plus  the  newly  built  guest  house.  And  a 
bam  converted  into  a  studio  for  Sylvia 
who  loves  to  paint.  This  doesn't  seem  to 
add  up  to  trouble  in  the  marriage,  does  it? 

/^F  course,  any  couple  has  to  make  an 
^  adjustment.  And  Clark  and  Sylvia 
aren't  kids.  They  are  mature  people  and 
with  completely  different  backgrounds. 
Clark,  American  to  the  core,  outdoor,  sim- 
ple, without  too  much  book  stuff — unless 
they're  about  guns  or  fishing.  Sylvia — bom 
on  the  wrong  side  of  the  tracks  in  London. 
Some  say  her  father  was  a  pub  keeper, 
others  that  he  was  a  footman  in  an  aristo- 
cratic home.  Sylvia  says  he  was  a  retired 
army  man.  She  started  as  a  manicurist,  a 
model,  and  became  a  show  girl  on  the 
stage.  But  all  her  grown  up  life  after  that 
has  been  played  agEiinst  a  "smart  set" 
back-drop.  So,  of  course,  there  have  been 
some  differences  of  opinion  and  outlook. 
But  this  is  the  fourth  marriage  for  both, 
and  you  can  lay  odds  that  their  life  to- 
gether would  have  to  get  completely  im- 
possible before  they  would  ever  part. 

This  is  how  the  future  seems  to  be  shap- 
ing up  for  them.  Career-wise — Syhaa  is 
rather  vague  about  motion  pictures.  At 
Clark's  last  preview,  she  sat  with  him  at 
the  back  of  the  theater,  giggled  a  lot,  then 
summed  up,  "It  was  very  gay."  But  she 
plans  to  be  with  him  again  on  the  next 
location  trip.  This  will  be  Lone  Star  for 
his  own  independent  company.  The  plan 
now  is  to  shoot  it  in  Texas.  So  once  again 
Sylvia  will  pack  the  linen  and  the  silver 
and  go  by  train,  probably,  while  Clark 
drives  alone.  And  that,  I  suppose,  will 
start  some  more  "trouble"  talk. 

Before  the  picture,  they  will  have  had 
the  trip  to  Nassau  and  New  York.  Clark 
was  always  dashing  off  to  New  York  prior 
to  his  marriage  with  Sylvia.  But  in  those 
days  he  was  bored  in  HoUy^wood  between 
pictures.  The  reason  for  the  last  jaunt,  I 
am  sure,  was  to  give  Sylvia  a  change. 

It's  a  surprising  thing  but,  since  the  mar- 
riage, Clark  has  become  much  more  ambi- 
tious. This  year  (1951)  he  will  star  in 
three  pictures.  Since  Gone  With  The  Wind,. 
Clark  has  never  made  more  than  two  a 
year,  usually  one.  It  can't  be  that  he 
needs  the  money.  Clark  was  earning  half 
a  million  dollars  a  year  in  the  old  easy  tax 
days.  And  he  has  always  lived  modestly 
and  saved  his  dollars.  I'd  guess  today  he 
is  worth  a  couple  of  million  dollars,  apart 
from  the  anniiities  and  his  $25,000  a  year 
Metro  pension. 

So  it  isn't  money  that  makes  Clark  want 
to  work  so  hard.  It  coiild  be  a  desire  to 
re-establish  himself  in  some  good  pictures. 
They've  given  him  some  pretty  mediocre 
stuff  in  the  past  four  years,  and  some  of 
the  new  generation  have  been  heard  to 
question  "What's  so  hot  about  Gable?" 
(Brother!) 

And  it  could  be  restlessness,  persoTial 
restlessness.  Why  work  at  all,  when  you 
have  all  the  fame  and  fortune  you'll  ever 
need,  and  when  not  working  means  you 
can  spend  all  your  time  with  the  woman 
you  love? 

But  we  have  finished  looking  over  the 
shoulder  of  the  Gables,  toting  up  the 
ledgers — the  red  columns  and  the  black. 
I'd  say  it  adds  up  to  a  pretty  good  mar- 
riage. And  I  hope  it  will  stay  that  way 
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(Continued  from  page  35)  — or  when  they'd 
appear  at  all  for  dinner."  This  last  minute 
meal  business  is  nothing  new  for  Eliza- 
beth, of  course.  At  her  mother's  house, 
dinner  might  be  mentioned  for  eight 
o'clock,  and  sometimes  it  would  be  ten  be- 
fore Elizabeth  appeared  with  her  guests. 
Then  it  was  Mrs.  Taylor's  job  to  soothe  the 
servants.  Elizabeth  will  have  to  take  les- 
sons from  her  mom  in  that  highly  special- 
ized department. 

Nicky  and  Elizabeth  are  either  very 
trusting  or  very  careless  about  their  per- 
sonal possessions.  They  invariably  leave 
the  front  door  of  their  house,  not  only  im- 
locked,  but  open!  And  inside  all  their 
silver  and  jewelry  remain  unguarded. 
(Memo  to  Liz  and  Nicky:  For  heaven's 
sake  put  a  strong  lock  and  an  alarm  on 
the  door  now  or  you  will  be  burglarized.) 

Then  there's  the  smoking.  Don't  get  me 
wrong.  I'm  all  for  it,  if  that's  what  a  girl 
wants  to  do.  But  Elizabeth's  current  ciga- 
rette sessions  are  very  much  frowned  on 
by  her  mother,  who  would  rather  Elizabeth 
stayed  as  fresh  and  imspoiled  for  as  long 
as  possible.  Well,  I've  news  for  Mrs.  Tay- 
lor, and  I  hope  it  won't  be  a  shock.  Eliza- 
beth did  smoke  before  the  marriage  and 
it  was  none  of  Nicky's  doings.  She  just 
wanted  to,  like  most  young  girls  do.  But 
she  didn't  want  to  hurt  her  mother's  feel- 
ings, so  she  smoked  secretly  like  thou- 
sands of  dutiful  daughters  before  her  and 
after  her.  Personally,  I  think  if  she  wants 
to  smoke,  it's  better  to  do  it  in  the  open. 

Tf^HENEVER  the  story  gets  on  the  air  or 
into  print  that  Elizabeth  and  Nicky 
have  had  another  battle,  the  four  people 
most  upset  are  the  two  mothers  and  the  two 
fathers  of  the  spatting  couple.  Especially 
Mrs.  Taylor,  because  she  has  lived  her 
whole  life  for  and  with  Elizabeth,  and  she 
cannot  conceive  of  anyone  in  the  world 
who  would  dare  to  hurt  her  little  girl. 

Even  before  the  marriage,  Mrs.  Taylor 
was  so  upset  at  something  Nicky  said  to 
Elizabeth  that  she  went  off  somewhere 
and  no  one  could  find  her.  When  her 
daughter  returned  to  Hollywood  from 
Europe  accompanied  by  those  hard-to-im- 
derstand  stories  of  the  beautiful  bride  neg- 
lected while  the  groom  gambled,  Mrs.  Tay- 
lor was  beside  herself,  and  desperately  un- 
happy. Elizabeth,  always  loyal  to  Nicky, 
defended  him  to  her  mother  and  denied 
everything. 

Actually,  despite  the  arguments  they 
may  have,  they  do  love  each  other,  and  if 
only  they  can  learn  to  keep  the  battles  in 
the  boudoir  where  no  one  can  hear  them, 
they  might  have  a  real  chance  for  happi- 
ness. Because  as  it  is,  stories  about  them 
spread  like  wildfire.  And  if  Liz  isn't  care- 
ful, people  may  start  saying  that  the 
bruises  she  received  in  a  recent  airplane 
accident  were  administered  by  Nicky  him- 
self. (The  plane,  heading  for  New  York, 
crashed  through  a  wooden  fence  at  the  end 
of  a  rain-soaked  runway  and  made  an 
emergency  landing  at  Long  Beach,  Cali- 
fornia.) That  brush  with  death,  incidental- 
ly, is  doing  more  right  now  than  all  the 
doting  advice  in  the  world  to  make  these 
two  realize  that  only  their  love  is  im- 
portant, and  that  all  the  spats,  tempera- 
mental outbursts,  and  the  like  are  just  plain 
trivia.  Naturally,  they  valued  their  love 
before  this  accident.  So  far,  after  every 
fight,  they  have  kissed  and  made  up,  and 
Nicky  couldn't  do  enough  for  Elizabeth. 
He  showered  her  with  all  sorts  of  expen- 
sive presents  to  say  he  was  sorry.  But  the 
realization  that  a  power  not  in  their  con- 
trol is  capable  of  separating  them,  should 
bring  them  m.aturity,  and  less  and  less 
things  to  be  sorry  for. 


Nicky,  for  whom  life  was  always  so 
simple — when  he  used  to  gamble,  no  one 
made  a  headline  of  it;  when  he  quarrelled 
with  a  girl,  no  one  cared — can't  seem  to 
accept  the  fact  that  marriage  to  a  movie 
star  makes  him  news.  I've  heard  it  said — 
never  from  Nicky  or  Elizabeth — that  in 
order  to  stop  the  non-stop  rumors,  he 
will  ask  his  wife  to  give  up  her  career.  If 
anything  else  were  needed  to  break  Mrs. 
Taylor's  heart,  this  would  be  it.  But  I 
don't  beUeve  Nicky  would  ever  ask  this 
sacrifice.  I  think  he  enjoys  being  married 
to  such  a  beautiful  and  famous  movie 
star.  I  also  believe  that  he  wants  the 
marriage  to  last  "until  death  do  them 
part."  Nicky  is  very  reUgious — ^he  attends 
Mass  regularly.  It  would  be  a  very  serious 
matter  for  Nicky  with  his  chiurch  if  his 
marriage  vows  were  to  be  lightly  tossed 
aside. 

That  is  why,  as  soon  as  the  separation 
stories  reappeared  recently  when  he  was 
in  Las  Vegas  without  Elizabeth,  who  was 
in  Palm  Springs  without  Nicky,  he  cut 
short  the  hotel  business  which  he  said  had 
taken  him  there.  He  then  drove  to  the 
desert  and  spent  one  whole  day  with  his 
wife,  hand-holding  by  the  pool  of  the 
Racquet  Club — "so  that  everyone  can  see 
that  we  have  not  separated."  Then  he  re- 
turned alone  to  their  home  here. 

But  when  I  talked  to  Elizabeth  on  the 
telephone  next  day,  she  told  me,  "I'm 
coming  home  from  Palm  Springs.  I  needed 
the  rest,  but  I  want  to  stop  the  rumors 
that  we  are  separated."  "The  "rumors" 
were  potent  enough  to  bring  Elizabeth's 
mother  rushing  back  from  New  York  to 
be  close  at  hand  in  case  of  a  call  for  help 
from  her  daughter. 

But  I  don't  think  Elizabeth  is  ever  go- 
ing to  give  that  "yoo  hoo."  She's  very 
proud,  and  as  of  this  writing,  she's  more 
sure  than  ever  that  Mrs.  Nicky  Hilton 
will  be  her  name  for  keeps.  Although, 
with  Elizabeth,  or  with  any  bewUdered 
child,  you  can't  predict. 

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New  York  that  time  when  the  honey- 
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mother  for  suggesting  any  such  thing! 

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has  broken  with  her  motiier  and  is  refus- 
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when  I  talked  to  Mrs.  Taylor  yesterday 
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and  plush  living.  Elizabeth's  salary  at 
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though it  will  be  when  she  negotiates 
that  new  contract — in  two  years. 

But  in  a  rather  belated  attempt  to  teach 
his  son  the  value  of  a  dollar,  the  senior  Mr. 
Hilton  is  withholding,  so  I  am  told,  any 
further  financial  help.  So  Nicky  has  to 
get  along  on  his  trust  fund  and  what  he 
makes  as  manager  of  the  Bel  Air  Hotel. 
And  if  he's  the  smart  boy  I  take  him  to  be, 
he  will  learn  how  lucky  he  is  to  have  so 
much  of  the  world's  good  fort^me. 

And  for  the  future  of  their  future,  I 
hope  he  won't  have  Elizabeth  dashing  all 
over  the  place  on  trips  to  New  York,  trips 
to  here,  trips  to  there.  She  is  still  ex- 
hausted from  her  hectic  honeymoon.  And 
I  was  saddened  but  not  surprised  when 
she  collapsed  at  the  conclusion  of  her 
Metro  picture  Father's  Little  Dividend. 
Her  fainting,  of  course,  rekindled  the  ru- 
mors of  a  mother's  little  dividend,  but 
Elizabeth  and  Nicky  don't  expect  that 
happy  promise  to  come  true  just  yet. 

I  wish  it  would.  The  responsibility  of 
a  baby  could  prove  just  what  the  doctor 
ordered.  A  child  would  give  them  both 
something  to  live  for  besides  their  very 
charming  selves.  One  thing  I'm  sure  of. 
This  baby  will  not  only  not  be  pam- 
pered— but  never  spoiled.  It  always  hap- 
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Champion  came  in  for  its  share  of  atten- 
tion. However,  when  Warners  offered  her 
a  contract,  they  didn't  agree  to  throw  in 
Fort  Knox.  And  under  these  circum- 
stances, a  girl  can't  very  well  go  dashing 
out  for  a  Dior  original  every  time  she's 
invited  to  dinner.  Even  though  she  realizes 
that  a  star  and  her  wardrobe  should  be 
sensational,  she  knows  even  better  that 
you  can't  tear  a  paycheck  in  half  and  have 
twice  as  much  money. 

RUTH  can  prove  that  you  needn't  leave 
a  year's  salary  as  down  payment  on  a 
gown  to  have  it  appreciated.  For  instance, 
scores  of  friends  and  strangers  told  her 
how  perfectly  stunning  she  looked  as  she 
made  a  presentation  on  last  year's  Acad- 
emy Award  program.  Magazines  and 
newspapers  commented  on  her  appear- 
ance. Ruth  thanked  one  and  all.  Then 
Life  ran  a  photograph  taken  during  the 
Academy  festivities.  The  text  mentioned 
the  price  of  Ruth's  dress.  Seems  she'd 
found  it  on  a  rack  for  $28.00. 

Her  friends  were  astounded.  So  were 
her  fans,  and  the  mail  poured  in.  Every- 
one wanted  to  know  whether  the  gown 
could  possibly  have  been  that  inexpen- 
sive. "They  thought  I  was  lying,"  Ruth 
moans. 

The  dress  was  white  and  strapless,  sim- 
plicity' itself.  It  will  be  seen  again  on  the 
Roman  frame.  But  chances  are  that  few 
will  recognize  it.  There'll  be  a  flower  here 
and  there.  Or  an  tmusual  belt.  Or  per- 
haps an  addition  of  lace  to  give  a  Spanish 
effect.  And  most  likely  a  second  and 
third  round  of  compliments.  "Why  not 
have  five  dresses  for  the  price  of  one?" 
Ruth  wants  to  know. 

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opens  the  door  she  spies  it  and  wonders, 
"Now  why  in  the  world  did  I  buy  that?" 
If  she  ever  wears  it,  she's  merely  sooth- 
ing a  troubled  conscience. 

Generally,  she's  more  conservative.  She's 
been  a  firm  believer  in  sales  since  her 
leaner  days  in  Boston.  And  to  Ruth 
there's  something  sentimental  about  a  bar- 
gain basement — that's  where  she  bought 
her  first  formal.  At  the  time,  she  was  a 
student  at  Bishop  Lee  Dramatic  School. 
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rushed  dovra  to  Filene's  basement  and 
carefully  cased  the  stock.  She  chose  a 
chartreuse  gown.  With  it  came  a  Kelly 
green  cape.  The  complete  outfit  set  her 
back  $3.00. 

Ruth  can't  help  wondering  how  friends 
and  fans  would  react  to  that  one.  She 
really  takes  their  opinions  to  heart.  On 
one  occasion  when  photographers  came 
calling,  they  found  that  she  had  recently 
moved  into  a  brand  new  home.  Since 
Ruth  was  working  on  a  picture  and  deco- 
rating at  the  same  time,  progress  on  the 
interior  of  the  house  was  going  slowly. 
"Let's  have  a  kitchen  shot,"  suggested  one 
of  the  lensmen.  Ruth  obligingly  posed. 

When  the  photograph  appeared  in  print, 
she  received  an  indignant  communique. 
"Whatsa  matter?"  the  writer  wanted  to 
know.  "Can't  you  afford  kitchen  curtains?" 

She  went  out  and  bought  some.  Cur- 
tains, or  clothes,  she  concludes,  a  star 
must  have  them.  And  everything  with 
flair.  "I  have  been  tempted  to  wear  cur- 
tains," she  confesses. 

That  temptation  was  strongest  one  sum- 
mer when  she  was  in  stock.  She  had  an 
important  date  and  her  trunk  hadn't  ar- 
rived. Fortunately,  necessity  did  prove 
the  mother  of  invention.  Ruth  looked 
around  her  room.  She  eyed  the  curtains 
thoughtfully,  but  decided  the  pattern 
might  seem  too  familiar  if  she  met  the 
landlady  on  her  way  out.  So  Ruth  pulled 
a  sheet  from  the  bed.  She  whipped  out 
needle,  thread,  and  scissors.  A  short 
time  later,  Ruth  had  herself  a  dress.  But 
her  poor  date  couldn't  understand  why 
the  girl  had  hysterics  when  all  he  said 
was,  "How  attractive  you  look." 

D  UTH  dresses  according  to  compliments. 
*  *■  She's  noticed  that  she  receives  the 
most  when  she  sticks  to  vivid  colors.  When 
she  comes  out  in  navy  blue  or  black, 
there's  a  dead  silence. 

She  prefers  tailored  things  to  frills  be- 
cause she  thinks  the  person  shovdd  wear 
the  clothes  and  not  vice-versa.  "A  dress 
itself  shouldn't  be  outstanding,"  she  main- 
tains. "It  should  simply  help  to  complete 
a  pretty  picture." 

And  for  a  movie  star,  the  picture  as  a 
whole  should  provide  the  spectacular. 
Ruth's  working  toward  that  goal,  but  it's 
difficult.  One  afternoon  a  friend  stopped 
by  at  her  house.  "I'm  in  the  market  for 
a  sable,"  she  said.   "Want  to  come  along?" 

"Sure,"  Ruth  answered. 

So  they  drove  out  to  Fuhrman's  in  Bev- 
erly Hills.  Seconds  after  she'd  stepped 
into  the  store,  Ruth  eyed  a  stole.  She  closed 
her  eyes  and  mentally  juggled  her  bank 
balance.  "I  think  I'll  wait  in  the  car,"  she 
said,  being  a  girl  who  likes  to  avoid  temp- 
tation. 

Then  she  stopped  to  think  it  over. 
"Ruth,"  she  told  herself,  "you  can't  go 
running  away  ,  from  every  mink-lined 
shop  window  you  see." 

She  stayed.  With  thoughts  of  the  fu- 
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$150,000  worth  of  it.  But  when  her  friend 
departed  with  sable,  Ruth  followed  with 
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knee  to  no  one.  It's  not  cm  exciting  picture 
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something  so  beautiful  about  an  intellect  like 
Holmes',  the  pure,  fine  sweep  of  it,  the  wonder- 
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and  when  somebody  asked  him  why,  he  said, 
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poodles,  falls  in  love  with  a  widowed  bronco 
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Alan  Ladd,  a  no-count,  shiftless  saddle 
tramp,  meets  a  murdering  thief  (Robert  Keith), 
and  they  go  into  business  together.  They  fix 
Ladd  up  with  a  phony  birthmark,  then  send 
him  to  sell  himself  as  the  long-lost  son  of  a 
wealthy  rancher.  (Son  was  kidnapped  by 
Keith  20  years  before,  so  Keith  knows  there's 
no  danger  of  his  showing  up.)  Alan  pulls  off 
the  coup,  but- then  he  gets  religion.  His  foster 
mother  is  so  nice,  and  his  foster  father  is  so 
nice,  and  his  foster  sister  (Mona  Freeman) 
is  so,  well,  not  exactly  nice,  but  boy,  she  got 
some  curves,  hey.  Alan  goes  and  fetches  pa 
and  ma  their  own  boy  back — it's  not  as  easy 
as  it  soiinds — and  he  marries  Mona,  and  that 
is  that. 

Casf:  Alan  Ladd,  Mona  Freeman,  Charles 
Bicktord,  Robert  Keith. — Paramount. 

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Because  I  expected  something  really  un- 
usual from  Stanley  Kramer  (he  produced 
Home  of  fhe  Brave,  The  Men,  Champion^,  I 
was  a  little  disappointed  in  Cyrano.  It's  simply 
a  beautiful  filming  of  what  seems  to  be  a 
terribly  dated,  old-fashioned  kind  of  play. 
Cyrano  was  always  a  one-man  show,  and 
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read  lines  well,  and  he  knows  how  to  use 
his  physical  presence  well — the  fighting,  the 
sweeping  gestures,  are  all  there — but  none  of 
it  was  real  to  me.  I  never  once  felt  the  heart 
of  a  man  beating  under  the  wordy  exterior. 


and  the  whole  business  seemed  a  cross  be- 
tween inferior  Shakespeare  (the  singing, 
poetic  lines)  and  an  Errol  Flynn  movie  (the 
swashbuckling).  I  feel  this  is  a  fairly  stock 
Cyrano,  played  the  way  almost  any  com- 
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have  played  it.  If  I'm  wrong,  I  apologize. 
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it,  I  have  to  admit  I  have  no  real  grounds  for 
comparison. 

Casf:  Jose  Ferrer,  Mala  Powers,  William 
Prince,  Morris  Carnovsky. — United  Artists. 

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stolen  weeks  together  in  sunny  Italy  before 
they  decide  that  honor,  duty,  and  the  Hays 
(excuse  me,  Johnston)  office  come  before  love 
and  kisses.  Joe's  an  engineer,  separated  from 
his  wife  (Jessica  Tandy);  Joan's  a  concert 
pianist.  They  miss  a  plane  in  which  they're 
supposed  to  fly  back  to  the  States,  the  plane 
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alive,  and  Joe  and  Joan  can't  be  any  less  noble 
than  she,  so  the  whole  idyll  goes  pfft.  Spelled 
pfft. 

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Rosay,  Jessica  Tandy. — Paramount. 

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Gary  Cooper,  an  ex-Confederate  colonel 
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government,  what  there  is  left  of  it,  is  angry 
about  his  guerrilla  actions)  shows  up  in 
Dallas,  Texas,  a'lookin'  fer  trouble.  The  Mar- 
low  brothers  (Raymond  Massey,  Steve  Coch- 
ran, Zon  Murray)  a  bunch  of  cut-thioats  and 
wuss,  are  the  ones  who  ruined  Gary's  home 
and  family  during  the  Civil  War,  and  now 
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him,  Gary,  play  U.  S.  Marshal,  because  Erick- 
son is  fresh  from  Boston,  and  with  what  he 
knows  about  guns,  he  can  get  killed  out  here. 
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brothers,  takes  Erickson's  girl  away,  receives 
himself  a  government  pardon,  and  generally 
acts  like  only  Gary  Cooper  can.  You  know 
what  that  means — lean,  closemouthed,  and 
powerful  powerful. 

Casf;  Gary  Cooper,  Ruth  Roman,  Steve  Coch- 
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The  newsreel  shots  in  Breakthrough  are 
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the  rest  of  the  picture  can't  live  up  to  them, 
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through  the  corny  narration,  and  touches  you; 
there  are  times  when  the  war  seems  all  too 
real,  and  close  again. 

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Camay's  so  mild— soquick  with  its 
gentle  lather!  And  the  "Beauty- 
Bath"  size  is  Camay  at  its  luxuri- 
ous best.  Big  and  economical  — 
that's  the  size  of  it!  More  rich 
lather— that's  the  beauty  of  it! 


the  Soap  of  Beautiful  Women 


The  kiss  of  a  Klansman...! 


IS  IS 


story  of  a 
pretty  girl  who  spends 

jthe  night  in  a'Triendly'* 
little  town...  Suddenly 
out  of  the  dark  she 
is  faced  with  the  fear 
only  a  girl  can  know. 
Here  is  a  picture  more 
tense  than  words 
f  can  describe-- 
as  fresh  as  the  ink  on 
tomorrow's  headlines! 


.  Warner  Bros 


NOT  A  STORY  OF  TEN  YEARS  AGO- OR  TEN  MONTHS  AGO"A  STORY  OF  TODAY! 


PRODUCED  BY 


JERRY  WALD  written  by  Daniel  FuchS  and  Rii 


ichard  Brooks   DIRECTED  BY 


STUART  HEISLER 


READER'S  DIGEST*  Reported  The  Same 
Research  Which  Proves  That  Brushing  Teeth 
Right  After  Eating  with 

COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST 

Reader's  Digest  recently  reported  the 
same  research  which  proves  tne  Colgate 
way  of  brushing  teeth  right  after  eating 
stops  tooth  decay  best!  The  most  thor- 
oughly proved  and  accepted  home  meth- 
od of  oral  hygiene  known  today! 

Yes,  and  2  years'  research  showed  the 
Colgate  way  stopped  more  decay  for  more 
people  than  ever  before  reported  in  denti- 
frice history!  No  other  dentifrice,  ammo- 
niated  or  not,  offers  such  conclusive  proof! 


lATfR— Thanb  lo  Colgate  Dental  Cream  ' 


*YOU  SHOULD  KNOW!  While  not  mentioned  by  name, 
Colgate's  was  the  only  toothpaste  used  in  the  research 
on  tooth  decay  recently  reported  in  Reader's  Digest. 


MARCH.  1951 

modern  screen 


SPECIAL 

ANNOUNCEMENT 

GIRLS  WANTED!  ......^  ;   16 

stories 

HOUR  OF  DARKNESS  (Burt  Lancaster)  by  Cynthia  Miller  18 

WHO'S  A  FREAK?  (Montgomery  Clift)  by  Leslie  Snyder  28 

BRINGING  HOME  BABY  (Esther  Williams)  by  Jane  WUkie  30 

MODERN  SCREEN'S  PARTY  OF  THE  YEAR   32 

ENJOY  YOURSELF!  (Gordon  MacRae)  ..'  by  Frances  Clark  36 

■^NE- WOMAN  MAN  (Tony  Curtis)  by  Imogene  Collins  38 

"WATCH  YOUR  STEP,  FARLEY!"  by  Jim  Burton  40 

SOMETHING  SORT  OF  GRANDISH  (David  Wayne)  by  Marva  Peterson  42 

HOLLYWOOD'S  TEN  MOST  FASCINATING  MEN  by  Hedda  Hopper  46 

PORTRAIT  OF  DOMERGUE  by  Louis  Pollock  48 

"I  CRIED  FOR  YOU"  (Liz  Taylor-Nicky  Hilton)  by  Sheilah  Graham  50 

A  WORLD  APART  (Barbara  Stanwyck-Robert  Taylor)  by  Marsha  Saunders  50 

NOW  AND  FOREVER  (Shirley  Temple-Charles  Black)  by  Susan  Trent  52 

A  MAN  OF  HER  OWN  (Ruth  Roman-Mortimer  Hall)  by  Jim  Henaghan  52 

THIS  I  REMEMBER   by  June  Haver  54 

HANDS  OFF  MY  HEART  (John  Agar)  by  Patricia  Monroe  56 

I  FOUND  MY  WAY  by  BUI  Lundigan  58 

LONELIEST  MAN  IN  TOWN  (Howard  Duff)  by  Steve  Cronin  60 

features 

THE  INSIDE  STORY   4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS  ,   6 

EDITORIAL:  AN  OPEN  LETTER  TO  SHIRLEY  TEMPLE   27 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers)  80 

departments 

MOVIE  REVIEWS  ..by  Christopher  Kane  12 

BETTY  HUTTON,  YOUR  HOLLYWOOD  SHOPPER   21 

FASHION    68 


ON  THE  COVER:  Color  Portrait  of  MGM's  Esther  Williams  by  Nickolas  Miuay. 
Other  Picture  Credits  on  page  17 


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9.  Is  it  true  that  Judy  Garland  is  call- 
ing an  end  to  her  marriage?  If  so,  is 
there  another  man  in  the  picture? 

— A.  F.,  Miami,  Florida. 

A.  Judy  Garland's  announcement  two 
days  before  Xmas  that  she  had  ar- 
ranged a  final  separation  from  her  hus- 
band, director  Vincente  MinnelU,  came 
as  no  surprise  to  anyone  in  Hollywood. 
The  inside  story  is  that  ten  days  before 
she  made  the  announcement — -and  issued 
it  through  Ben  Holzman,  a  representive 
of  the  Williatn  Morris  Agency — Judy 
had  moved  out  of  her  picturesque  home 
in  the  Hollywood  Hills  and  had  begun 
dating  Sid  Luft,  the  handsome,  brown- 
haired  actors'  agent  and  one-time  hus- 
band of  actress  Lynn  Bari.  These  two 
were  seen  in  Chasen's,  Romcuioff's  and 
other  fashionable  restaurants  every 
night.  Despite  this,  when  reporters  asked 
Judy  if  she  and  her  husband  were  still 
happy,  Judy  insisted  that  they  were. 
When  the  gossip  concerning  her  and 
Luft  became  strong,  however,  she  was 
compelled  to  make  some  clarifying  state- 
ment— a}id  she  admitted  that  she  and 
MinnelU  had  come  to  the  parting  of  ways. 
While  no  divorce  had  been  discussed, 
MinnelU  said,  "If  a  divorce  will  make 
Judy  happy  she  certainly  can  have  it. 
My  every  thought  has  been  for  her  hap- 
piness and  I  will  not  stand  in  her  way." 
Judy  said:  "I  have  nothing  very  much 
to  say.  It's  just  one  of  those  things  that's 
happened  before  and  I  have  no  plans  for 
the  future." 

p.  Is  it  true  that  Sue  and  Alan  Ladd 
try  to  hide  the  fact  that  they  both  have 
children  by  their  previous  marriages? 
Aren't  some  of  the  Ladd  children  college 
students?        .  — R.  T.,  Tulsa,  Okla. 

At  the  time  of  the  Ladds'  marriage 
in  1942  each  had  a  child.  No  attempt 
was  made  to  hide  their  existence  al- 
though little,  publicity  surrounds  them. 
At  the  moment,  Sue's  oldest  daughter  is 
attending  the  University  of  California. 
Alan's  oldest  son  goes  to  junior  high 
school.  The  other  two  Ladd  children  are 
Alana,  7,  and  David,  4. 

9.  What  are  the  duties  of  a  movie  star's 
private  secretary — Joan  Crawford's,  for 
example?  — T.  C,  Dublin,  N.  H. 

A.  Joan's  secretary  is  Mrs.  Margaret 
Colby.  She  answers  fan  mail,  business 
letters,  takes  dictation  between  scenes, 
accompanies  Miss  Crawford  to  the 
studio,  oversees  the  housekeeping,  sees 


that  Joan's  poodle,  Cliquot,  takes  a  bath 
every  Saturday,  keeps  track  of  appoint- 
ments for  the  four  Crawford  children, 
makes  certain  the  cook  knows  how 
many  guests  are  expected  for  dinner — 
in  short,  acts  as  a  girl  Friday  both 
professionally  and  personally. 

9.  Can  you  tell  me  the  minimum  sal- 
ary extras  receive  in  Hollywood? 

— R.  T.,  ToPEKA,  Kajt. 

A.  $1S.56  per  day. 

9.  Is  the  Lana  Turner-Bob  Topping 
marriage  on  the  rocks?  Why  do  stars 
den}-  shaky  marriages,  anyway?  They 
say  that  everything  is  swell,  and  the 
next  thing  you  know  they're  getting  a 
divorce.  — T.  D.,  Denver,  Colo. 

A.  There  have  been  many  tall  tales  of 
disputes  between  Lana  and  her  husband, 
but  at  this  writing  they  both  insist 
they're  very  happy.  The  reason  stars 
deny  shaky  marriages  is  that  they  hope 
to  strengthen  them.  Frequently,  these 
hopes  aren't  fulfilled. 

9. 1  hear  that  there's  a  good  chance  for 
a  reconciliation  between  Kathryn  Gray- 
son and  Johnny  Johnston.  True  or 
false?  — J.  F.,  Bridgeport,  Conn. 

A.  False. 

9.  Do  Kirk  Douglas,  Mario  Lanza,  and 
Edward  G.  Robinson  wear  lifts  in  their 
shoes?  — R.  R.,  Raleigh,  N.  C. 

A.  Only  in  films  when  they  play  oppo- 
site girls  who  are  taller. 

9.  How  can  Ingrid  Bergman  bear  not 
to  see  her  .daughter,  Pia,  for  two  whole 
years?  — E.  C.,  New  York  City 

A.  Ingrid,  of  course,  wants  to  see  her 
daughter  more  than  anything  else  in  the 
world.  She  must  first  obtain  the  permis- 
sion of  the  California  Superior  Court 
before  Pia  may  leave  the  state.  Dr. 
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to  leave  either  the  state  of  California  or 
the  United  States.  He  wants  Pia  to  see 
pn'1  visit  with  her  mother,  but  he  would 
much  prefer  Ingrid  to  come  to  the  U..  S. 
This,  Miss  Bergman  would  like  to  do, 
but  she  feels  that  the  people  here  would 
not  accept  her  current  husband,  Roberto 
Rossellini.  In  all  probability.  Dr.  Lind- 
strom will  take  Pia  to  Paris  some  time 
during  the  spring  and  arrange  for  a 
meeting  with  Ingrid. 


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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 


about  something  he  thought  I  might  print 
in  my  column  about  them. 

When  a  gent  starts  worrying  about  a  lady's 
publicity — boys,  that's  worth  looking  into. 

■  I  "HIS  month  I  wish  I  did  not  have  to  say 

that  Judy  Garland  walked  out  of  her  home 
and  left  her  husband,  Vincente  Minnelli.  who 
has  shielded  and  guarded  her  through  all 
her  troubles. 

But,  Judy — who  as  I  write  this  Is  having  a 
big  romance  with  Sid  Luft  (Lynn  Bari's  re- 
cently divorced  husband) — has  left  both  Vince 
and  her  beautiful  little  daughter,  Lisa. 

We  shouldn't  judge  the  unhappy  girl  who 
cannot  seem  to  find  herself.  Judy,  who  was 
ill  for  so  long,  is  trying  to  forget  her  dis- 
appointments in  having  what  she  thinks  is  a 
good  time.  She's  letting  herself  go  and  putting 
on  far  too  much  weight. 

Every  night  Judy  and  Luft  are  on  the  town, 
usually  closing  up  the  stay-up-late  places 
where  Judy  puts  on  a  show  for  an  hour  or 
so  singing  all  her  popular  songs.  There's 
something  so  pitiful  in  Judy's  great  talent 
being  wasted  on  the  night  club  air. 

1  wish  I  could  feel  she'll  be  happy  night- 
clubbing  with  Luft — but  I  can't. 

Perhaps  by  the  time  this  is  printed,  Judy 
will  have  gone  back  to  her  husband  and 
little  girl.  I  hope  so. 

■  I  "HE  Sunday  after  Liz  Taylor  formally  an- 
"  nounced  that  she  was  ending  her  less 

than  eight  months'  marriage  to  Nick  Hilton 
Jr. — she  was  out  at  the  Coliseum  rooting 
like  crazy  for  her  ex-beau,  Qlenn  Davis,  as 
he  scooted  for  touchdowns  with  the  Rams 
pro  football  team. 

No,  I  don't  think  this  former  spark  will 
burst  into  flame  again.  But  you  can't  blame 
a  girl  for  getting  excited  when  an  ex-boy 
friend  is  going  great  guns  in  a  football  game. 

I've  already  talked  with  you  about  why 
I  think  Liz  and  Nicky  couldn't  make  a  go  of 
it :-  They  were  too  young,  too  inexperienced 
to  have  patience  with  one  another.  And  they 
had  too  much  of  everything  with  too  little 
discipline. 

But,  with  her  divorce,  Liz  establishes  sev- 
eral records: 

She  will  be  Hollywood's  youngest  "gross 
widow"  at  eighteen. 

Her  marriage  was  tragically  the  shortest 
lived  even  among  the  child-star  marriages — 
notoriously  short. 

Deanna  Durbin's  marriage  to  her  first  hus- 
band, Vaughn  Paul,  lasted  two  years. 

Judy  Garland  stuck  it  out  with  her  first, 
Dave  Rose,  for  three  years.  She  was  married, 
to  Vincente  Minnelli  for  six  years. 

Shirley  Temple  made  it  four  with  John 
Agar. 

I SAW  Farley  Granger  out  with  Shelley 
Winters  for  dinner  at  Dave  Chasen's — 
and  whether  these  two  are  still  crazy  about 
one  another  or  not — no  one  makes  Farley 
laugh  the  way  Shelley  does. 

He  could  hardly  eat  for  having  to  bend 
double  at  her  quips,  which  seems  to  disprove 
something  about  men  not  liking  the  girl  friend 
to  crack  wise. 

I'm  glad  Farley  and  his  boss,  Sam  Gold- 
wyn,  have  ended  their  feud.  He  is  far  too 
good  an  actor  to  be  talking  or  thinking  about 
giving  up  his  career. 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

■  I  »HE  Stork  is  certainly  seeing  double  looking 
^  at  our  Hollywood  families.  Twins  have 
been  predicted  for  Jimmy  Stewart  and  his 
,  lovely  Gloria.  Also  for  Joan  Leslie  and  Dr. 
William  Caldwell. 

Gloria  did  not  even  suspect  this  exciting 
news  until  she  returned  to  Hollywood  in 
advance  of  Jimmy,  who  stayed  in  London 
to  finish  No  Highway. 

The  minute  she  heard  from  her  doctor  that 
their  little  family  was  almost  sure  to  be  in- 
creased by  two — she  started  calling  Jimmy 
immediately  and  couldn't  get  him. 

When  the  call  finally  cleared  through 
Trans-Atlantic  Telephone,  Jimmy  was  the 
most  excited  papa-to-be  on  two  continents. 

SHIRLEY  Temple's  new-found  happiness — 
and  I  mean  happiness — with  good-look- 
ing millionaire  Charles  Black  means  bad  news 
to  her  movie  fans. 

I  can  tell  you  that  Shirley  will  give  up  her 
screen  career  because  her  bridegroom  wants 
her  to.  She  may  do  an  occasional  television 
or  radio  show — but  as  for  movies,  she  is  no 
longer  interested. 

More  than  anything  else  in  the  world  now, 
I  think  Shirley  wants  a  happy  marriage.  It's 
almost  amazing,  isn't  it,  to  say  of  a  girl  barely 
22  years-of-age — she  has  had  fame,  wealth, 
adulation  and  success  for  18  years. 

Now  she  wants  happiness  as  a  woman. 
In  a  quiet  and  sweet  way,  because  he 
loves  her  very  much.  Black  is  very  much  the 
boss.  It  is  he  who  decided  that  it  would  be 
best  to  put  Shirley's  home  up  for  sale  and 
start  their  married  life  completely  on  their 
own.  Even  when  she  was  married  to  John 
Agar,  Shirley  remained  in  the  remodeled 
guest  house  on  the  estate  of  her  parents. 

Even  if  her  husband,  who  was  a  lieutenant 
in  the  last  war  and  was  cited  for  bravery, 
is  called  back  for  service  (as  he  may  be 
any  day)  Shirley  does  not  want  to  be  tied 
down  by  her  career.  As  long  as  he  remains 
in  this  country  she  will  follow  him  wherever 
he  is. 

Shirley's  daughter,  Linda  Sue,  is  three  years 
old  and,  of  course,  she  is  in  kindergarten.' 

Two  deep  loves  has  Shirley  today — her 
husband  and  her  baby — and  as  much  as  we 
hate  to  lose  her,  none  can  help  but  wish 
her  the  brightest  and  shiniest  happiness  for- 
ever and  forever. 

The  Letter  Box:  Jeff  Chandler,  Peggy  Dow 
and  little  Debra  Paget  (on  the  strength  of 
one  picture,  BroJcen  Arrow),  all  took  a  spurt 
in  last  month's  mail.  So  did  Nancy  Olson. 
That's  all  the  tip  I  need.  Next  month,  I'll  make 
a  special  effort  to  have  some  news  about 
all  of  them  for  you. 

Interest  over  June  Allyson's  baby  is  extra 
special.  Well,  he  was  born  on  December  24th 
and  his  name  is  Richard  Kieth.  One  girl  in 
Michigan  asks:  "Will  June  love  this  baby 
more  than  the  little  girl  she  adopted  because 
it  is  her  own?"  Of  course  not.  June  and  Dick 
Powell  couldn't  love  little  Pam  more  if  she, 
too,  were  their  very  own. 

To  the  many  who  ask  if  Frank  Sinatra  and 
Ava  Gardner  are  cooling — the  answer  is 
"No." 

There  were  several  kind,  understanding 
letters  about  Ingrid  Bergman  asking  when 
she  is  making  another  picture.  Answer:  In 
May — in  Paris — for  her  favorite  director, 
Rossellini. 

Guess  that's  all  this  month.  Be  seeing  you. 


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■  This  is  the  story  of  a  10-year-old  orphan  called 
Wheeler  (Andrew  Ray),  who,  scavenging  in  the 
mud  along  the  Thames  River,  finds  a  locket  with  a 
picture  of  Queen  Victoria  (Irene  Dunne).  He's  never 
had  a  mother,  the  queen  looks  like  a  mother  to  him, 
so  he  determines  to  go  to  Windsor  Castle  and  see 
her.  The  forlorn  little  boy's  travels,  his  experiences  in 
the  castle  until  he's  captured,  the  way  the  press  takes 
up  the  story  and  decides  Wheeler  is  involved  in  a 
sinister  Irish  plot  against  the  queen's  life,  are  all 
part  of  a  delightful  picture.  The  queen,  who  hasn't 
stirred  out  of  Windsor  since  the  death  of  her  hus- 
band, 15  years  before,  despite  the  displeasure  of 
her  subjects,  is  jarred  out  of  her  rut.  The  prime 
minister,  Disraeli  (Alec  Guinness),  uses  the  case  of 
the  boy.  Wheeler,  as  a  springboard  to  plead  mov- 
ingly for  all  the  unloved,  unwanted  children  in  Eng- 
land, and  everything  has  a  nice  ending.  Finlay 
Currie  plays  an  old  Scotch  handyman  who's  been 
Prince  Albert's  favorite;  the  cast  is  superior;  the 
whole  picture  makes  a  pleasant  warmness  on  a 
winter's  day. 
(Please  turn  to  page  14  for  more  Movie  Reviews) 


For  15  years  the  bitter,  widowed  Queen  Vic- 
toria (Irene  Dunne)  has  remained  in  seclusion. 
England  needs  her  octive  help  but  she  refuses. 


Wheeler  (Andrew  Ray)  finds  a  picture  of  the 
queen  while  digging  in  the  mud.  Sneaking 
into  the  castle,  he  overhears  a  plot  against  her. 


The  mudlark  is  suspected  of  being  part  of  the 
Irish  rebellion,  but  is  cleared.  His  case  is  used 
politically  to  attract  Queen  Victoria's  interest. 


Prime  Minister  Disraeli  (Alec  Guinness)  and 
Wheeler  convince  the  queen  that  she  must 
come  to  the  help  of  her  subjects  once  more. 


He  strayed... 
and  he  paid  ! 
She  saw  to  that  f 


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If 


says 

Paulette 
Goddard 


How  to  Lose  Weight 
and  Look  Lovelier 

Now!  Lose  weight  the  way  Natvire 
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way  with  no  risk  to  health.  With  the 
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look  better  while  reducing — and  have 
a  lovelier  figvire! 

When  you  take  Ayds  before  meals, 
as  directed,  you  can  eat  what  you 
want . .  .  aU  you  want.  Ayds  con- 
tains no  harmful  drugs  .  .  .  calls  for 
no  strenuous  diet. 

Ayds  is  a  specially  made  candy 
containing  health- giving  vitamins 
and  minerals.  It  acts  by  reducing 
yo;ar  desire  for  those  extra  fattening 
calories  . . .  works  almost  like  magic. 
Easily  and  naturally  you  should  be- 
gin to  look  shmmer,  more  beautiful 
day  by  day. 

Users  report  losing  up  to  10  poimds 
with  the  very  first  box.  In  fact  you 
must  lose  weight  with  the  first  box 
($2.98)  or  your  money  back. 


•  "Every  day  more  and  more 
women  are  finding  the  Ayds 
Way  really  works,"  says  lovely 
movie  star,  Paulette  Goddard. 
"You  see,  it's  such  an  easy, 
pleasant  way  to  reduce.  The 
comforting  thing  about  taking 
Ayds  is  that  you  reduce  the 
way  nature  intended  you  to.  I 
recommend  it  to  all  my  friends 
who  want  to  lose  weight !" 


The  Loveiiest  Women  in  ihe  World  take  AYDS 


HALLS  OF  MONTEZUMA 

Halls  of  Montezuma  tells  about  marines 
capturing  Jap-held  islands  during  the  last  war. 
Richard  Widmark  is  cast  as  a  marine  lieu- 
tenant who  refuses  to  go  home  though  he  has 
headaches  which  render  him  almost  immobile. 
The  Jap  island  he  and  his  crew  are  trying  to 
take  is  loaded  with  Japs  shooting  rocket 
bombs.  ,( As  the  Americans  remark  to  each 
other  bitterly,  "It's  just  a  mirage.  The  Japs 
don't  have  rockets;  headquarters  says  so.") 
The  problem  becomes  that  of  finding  out 
where  the  Japs  are  hiding  their  rockets.  Wid- 
mark and  his  boys  have  to  go  and  capture 
some  prisoners  and  bring  them  back  for 
questioning.  If  information  about  the  rockets 
isn't  forthcoming,  whole  platoons  will  be 
wiped  out,  because  a  general  attack  is  sched- 
uled and  can't  be  called  off.  Picture's  tense, 
well-acted,  and  doesn't  have  more  than  the 
usual  number  of  cliches  when  it  comes  to 
"types"  of  soldiers. 

Casf;  Richard  Widmark,  Walter  (/ack)  PaJ- 
ance,  fleginaJd  Gardiner. — 20th  Century-Fox. 

THE  FLYING  MISSILE 

In  the  course  of  this  movie,  submarine  com- 
mander Glenn  Ford  1 :  proves  he's-  smarter 
than  the  whole  U.  S.  Navy  (he  knows  guided 
missiles  are  the  way  to  sink  destroyers,  but 
the  Navy's  not  so  sure);  2:  has  his  men  steal 
a  lot  of  naval  equipment  to  make  a  launching 
platform  so  a  missile  can  be  fired  from  a  sub; 
3:  double-crosses  the  woman  he  loves  (an 
admiral's  secretary)  by  taking  advantage  of 
secret  information  she  lets  slip;  and  carries 
on  like  an  eager  beaver  skunk.  Strangely 
enough,  the  Navy  rewards  him  for  all  his 
misconduct  by  allowing  him  to  fire  his  darn 
old  missUe,  and  there's  a  frightful  accident, 
and  one  of  Glenn's  crew  is  killed.  Glenn 
develops  a  psychic  paralysis,  because  he 
feels  it's  all  his  fault.  It  is  all  his  fault,  too. 
Cast:  Glenn  Ford,  Viveca  Lindfors,  Henry 
O'Neill.  Carl  Benton  Fteid. — Columbia. 

WATCH  THE  BIRDIE 

For  some  completely  unaccountable  reason, 
beautiful,  rich  Arlene  Dahl  falls  in  love  with 
Red  Skelton,  a  nit-wit  photographer  who's 
about  to  lose  his  photographic  store.  Suddenly 
business  booms,  and  Red  doesn't  understand 
why,  but  you  and  I  do.  On  the  side,  Arlene's 
building  a  housing  project,  only  the  foreman 
in  charge  of  things  is  a  crook  who's  planning 
to  cheat  Arlene  out  of  her  fortune.  Red  foils 
the  dastardly  plot  with  his  little  motion  pic- 
ture camera.  He  furthermore  finds  time  to 
play  several  different  parts  (his  father  and 
his  grandfather  as  well  as  himself)  in  the 
picture.  Ann  Miller  also  runs. 
Cast:  Red  Skelton,  Ann  Miller,  Arlene  Dahl. 
— MGM. 

AT  WAR  WITH  THE  ARMY 

Without  Jerry  Lewis  this  picture  would  have 
been  nothing.  With  Jerry  Lewis  it  manages 
to  be  exceedingly  funny.  As  a  poor  shmoe  of  a 
private  who's  trying  to  get  a  furlough  so  he 
can  go  home  and  look  at  his  new-born  baby, 
Jerry  jumps,  mugs,  sings  (if  you  can  call  it 
that),  dances,  shadow-boxes,  imitates  Barry 
Fitzgerald,  wears  a  lady's  wig  and  an  off- 
the-shoulder  evening  gown  and  makes  sure 
you'll  never  forget  him.  If  you  don't  like  him 
one  way,  wait  a  minute.  He  switches  fast. 


Dean  Martin  sings  well,  and  plays  a  sergeant, 
but  nothing's  really  important  except  Lewis. 
Cast:  Dean  Maitin,  Jeiry  Lewis,  Mike  Kellin, 
JimiriY  Dundee. — Paramount. 

RATON  PASS 

Adventuress  Patricia  Neal  arrives  in  Raton 
(New  Mexico)  determined  to  marry  herself 
a  large  piece  of  the  territory.  Dennis  Morgan 
is  heir  to  most  of  the  land  thereabouts,  so 
he'll  do.  His  old  paw,  BasU  Ruysdael,  who 
talks  inore  and  says  less  than  almost  any- 
body, approves  of  Pat  the  minute  she  wiggles 
her  hips  out  of  the  stage  coach.  "That  one's 
all  woman,"  he  opines.  "Ah  married  mah 
woman  same  night  I  met  her.  Go  to  it,  boy." 
Dennis  goes  to  it,  but  Pat's  a  schemer.  Once 
she's  legally  Dennis'  wife,  she  gets  a  Chicago 
banker  (a  regular  dude)  to  fall  in  love  with 
her  and  offer  to  buy  Dennis  out  of  Ms  half 
of  the  land.  (Paw  has  given  Pat  and  Dennis 
deed  to  the  property  as  a  wedding  present.) 
Well,  Dennis  is  burning  for  revenge.  He's 
going  to  sell  Pat  the  ranch  at  an  exorbitant 
price,  and  then  cut  off  the  grazing  land  (he 
holds  a  personal  lease  on  that),  and  Pat  and 
the  dude'll  be  dead.  Then  there's  a  big  range 
war  (Pat  hires  some  murderers,  and  Dennis 
has  his  own)  and  in  the  end  nearly  every- 
body gets  killed,  including  Pat,  the  dude,  xind 
Paw.  Paw's  dying  words  are  advice  to  Dennis 
and  a  beautiful  Spanish  girl  who's  loved  him 
all  her  life.  "Don't  give  him  tortillas  for  break- 
fast," Paw  says.  "That  ain't  right."  You'd 
think  after  the  way  his  last  match-making 
came  off,  he'd  have  the  grace  to  shut  up. 
Cast:  Dennis  Morgan,  Patricia  Neal,  Steve 
Cochran,  Scott  Forbes. — Warners. 

KIM 

Kipling's  famous  story  is  about  the  little  Brit- 
ish orphan  in  India  who  grows  up  as  a  native 
urchin,  does  some  spying  for  the  Empire  (the 
Empire  always  needed  spies  in  India),  until 
somebody  discovers  he's  a  white  child,  not  an 
Injun  child,  and  then  he  gets  sent  away  to 
school.  A  lama  (Paul  Lukas)  whom  Kim 
(Dean  Stockwell)  has  loved  and  followed 
manages  the  money  for  his  education.  Part  of 
his  instruction  includes  being  sent  to  a  wild- 
eyed  man  named  Durgan  (Arnold  Moss) 
who'd  scare  the  supper  out  of  a  normal  boy, 
but  who  teaches  Kim  to  be  observant,  crafty, 
vicious  and  all  other  things  a  hot  spy  needs 
to  be.  Errol  Flynn  plays  Mahbub  Ali,  The 
Red  Beard,  and  he's  a  native  (we  should  all 
live  so  long  till  you  believe  it)  who  also  spys 
for  the  British  goveriunent.  Errol  kills  people 
without  blinking  an  eyelash,  and  right  after- 
ward, he  can  eat  candy.  It's  a  display  of 
manliness  you'll  find  hard  to  match  in  other 
pictures.  The  plot  is  so  interlarded  with  border 
skirmishes,  Russian  spies,  etc.,  that  I  won't 
attempt  to  deal  with  it,  but  the  Technicolor 
is  blazing,  and  there's  plenty  of  excitement. 
Cast:  £rroJ  Fiynn,  Dean  Stockwell,  Paul  Lukas, 
Robert  Douglas. — MGM. 

TERESA 

Teresa  explores  the  problems  of  a  young 
GI  and  his  Italian  war  bride.  Teresa's  just  a 
baby,  tiny  and  gentle,  who  still  takes  a  doll 
to  bed  with  her;  Philip's  a  boy  who's  been 
mother-dominated,  and  isn't  ready  to  accept 
responsibility.  Once  out  of  the  Army,  his  efforts 
to  find  work  are  ineffectual;  his  reaction  to 
the  news  that  he  and  Teresa  ore  going  to 
(^Continued  on  page  J 7) 


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at  $17'). 00  per  week  will  be  guaranteed  each  of  the  winners 
as  well  as  transportation  expenses  to  and  from  Hollywood. 

■  Wald-Krasna  Productions,  Inc.,  is  conducting  the  vast  talent 
search,  through  Modern  Screen,  for  ten  girls  to 

appear  in  Girls  Wanted,  an  original  screenplay  by  Lloyd  Shearer. 
Previous  dramatic  experience  is  not  necessary — 
the  ten  thinners  will  be  selected  only  from  entries  received 
from  Modem  Screen  readers. 

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1:  Entries  are  limited  to  Modern  Screen  readers  between  the 

ages  of  16  and  40.  All  entries  must  be 

accompanied  by  a  full  length  photograph  of  the  entrant. 

2:  All  entries  must  be  postmarked  not  later  than 
midnight,  April  15,  1951.  All  entries  will  become  the  property 
of  Wald-Krasna  Productions,  Inc.,  and  none  will  be 
acknowledged  or  returned.  Winners  will  be  announced  in 
Modern  Screen  at  a  later  date. 

3 :  The  judges  are  Jerry  Wald,  Norman  Krasna,  and  the  editors 
of  Modern  Screen.  Judges'  decisions  are  final.  Ten  winners 
will  be  selected  and  hired  by  Wald-Krasna 

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week  and  at  the  same  rate  each  succeeding  week. 
Transportation  to  and  from  Hollywood  will  be  paid  for  by 
Wald-Krasna  Productions,  Inc.  Transportation  for  guardian  will 
also  be  provided  if  winner  is  a  minor. 


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(^Continued  horn  page  15)  have  a  baby  is 
one  of  horror.  Life  in  the  apartment  with  his 
mother,  sister  and  broken-spirited  father  is  a 
nightmare.  The  picturt  starts  in  Italy  (where 
the  beginning  was  actually  filmed),  and 
transfers  to  New  York.  The  acting  is  all 
good,  but  Pier  Aageli,  the  little  Italian  girl 
who  plays  the  title  role,  is  the  standout.  She's 
fragile,  sensitive,  and  very  appealing. 
Cast:  Pier  Angeli,  John  Eiicson,  Patricia  Col- 
linge,  Richard  Bishop. — MGJVf. 

GROUNDS  FOR  MARRIAGE 

Van  Johnson,  happily  divorced  from  Kathryn 
Grayson,  is  a  doctor,  affianced  to  Paula  Ray- 
mond. But  Kathryn  comes  home  from  abroad 
(she's  an  opera  singer)  and  decides  she 
wants  to  play  house  some  more.  Van  says 
no.  You  was  childish  then,  you're  childish 
now,  and  good  riddance.  This  causes  Kathryn 
to  come  down  with  a  dreadful  mental  malady 
which  makes  her  unable  to  open  her  yap. 
That  is,  she  can  open  it,  but  no  sound  comes 
out  (and  her  the  Metropolitan's  newest  star!). 
Van  feels  annoyed  but  responsible,  so  he 
tries  to  help  out,  and  maybe  you  can  guess 
the  ending.  For  which  I  give  you  no  medals. 
It  isn't  hard.  It's  a  funny  picture,  with  a  hi- 
larious dream  sequence,  and  nice  perform- 
ances all  around. 

Cast:  Van  Johnson,  Kathryn  Grayson,  Barry 
SuUivan.  Paula  Raymond. — MOM. 

THE  COMPANY  SHE  KEEPS 

Out  of  the  state  pen  and  into  the  fire  goes 
Jane  Greer,  in  this  saga  of  nobility  and  mis- 
trust among  the  cons  and  feds.  Jane  is  paroled 
after  serving  two  years  of  a  five-year  sentence 
for  passing  a  bad  check.  Lizabeth  Scott,  her 
parole  officer,  tries  to  help  Jane,  but  Jane  is 
ungrateful.  She  doesn't  want  to  be  a  nurse's 
aide  every  night;  she  wants  to  go  stepping 
with  men,  and  wear  minks.  The  only  man 
that  interests  her  turns  out  to  be  Lizabeth's 
fiance,  and  he  reciprocates  the  interest.  Liza- 
beth is  hurt  but  understanding,  and  the  fiance 
is  also  understanding,  even  after  he  finds 
out  the  woman  he  loves  is  a  parolee.  Jane 
gets  into  a  scrape  in  the  hospital  and  nearly 
finds  herself  back  in  the  coop.  You  watch  her 
throughout  this  picture  resisting  the  impulse  to 
swipe,  drink,  and  do  other  things  a  good 
parolee  mustn't,  but  she's  very  pretty,  so  you 
don't  mind  too  much.  Lizabeth  is  definitely 
second-fiddle  here,  in  case  you're  one  of  her 
fans,  and  Dennis  O'Keefe  is  the  man. 
Cast:  Lizabeth  Scott,  ]ane  Greer,  Dennis 
O'Jfeefe.— RKO. 


WHATEVER  ELSE  YOU  DO,  call  on 
Listerine  Antiseptic  at  the  first 
sign  of  a  sniffle  or  scratchy  throat. 
Its  effectiveness  and  its  safety  are  a 
matter  of  record. 

This  prompt  precaution,  taken  early 
and  often,  may  nip  colds  or  sore 
throats  due  to  colds  in  the  bud,  or 
lessen  their  severity,  once  started. 

That  is  because  Listerine  Antiseptic 
goes  directly  to  the  seat  of  the  trouble 
.  .  .  threatening  bacteria,  called  Sec- 
ondary Invaders,  growing  on  mouth 
and  throat  surfaces. 

Listerine  Antiseptic  kills  them  by 
millions  .  .  .  attacks  them  before  they 
attack  you  .  .  .  helps  keep  them  from 
invading  the  tissue  to  cause  miserable 
cold  symptoms. 


Listerine  Antiseptic  is  no  Johnny- 
come-lately  in  the  field  of  cold  therapy 
.  .  .  no  strong  miracle  drug  that 
promises  overnight  results.  A  twelve- 
year  period  of  clinical  testing  showed 
fewer  colds,  and  generally  milder 
colds,  for  its  twice-a-day  users  than 
for  those  who  did  not  gargle. 

And  Listerine  Antiseptic  is  abso- 
lutely safe  .  .  .  even  for  children.  No 
dangerous  side-effects.  No  drowsi- 
ness. No  blurred  vision.  No  dizzi- 
ness. Because  Listerine  Antiseptic 
does  not  enter  the  blood  stream.  It 
works  only  externally  .  .  .  directly 
attacks  germs  that  cause  so  much  of 
a  cold's  misery. 

So,  at  the  first  sign  of  trouble,  it's 
Listerine  Antiseptic  .  .  .  Quick! 

Lambert  Ph.\rmacal  Co.,  St.  Louis,  Mo. 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by  page 
the  photos  which  appear  in  this  issue. 

6  Acme — 7  L.T.&B.  Associated  Press — R.T. 
Acme — 18  Wamer  Bros. — 28  T.  MS  staff; 
C.,B.  Paramount — 30  R.T.  Wide  World — 31  MS 
staff — 32  Bob  Beerman-Bert  Parry — 33  Schuy- 
ler Crail — 34-35  Bob  Beerman-Bert  Parry — 36- 
37  Bob  Beerman — 38  Bob  Beerman-Bert  Parry 
— 41  Graybill,  Warner  Bros.  42-45  Bob  Beer- 
man-Bert Parry  46  L.T.    R.K.O:,   R.T.  Fox, 

L.B.  Universal,  R.B.  MS  staff — 47  L.T.  United 
Artists,  C.T.  Bert  Parry,  R.T.  Studio,  L.B.  Re- 
public, C.B.  Ted  Weisbarth,  R.B.   Studio  48 

R.K.O. — 49  Dave  Cicero — 50  T.  Bert  Parry,  B. 
Donald  Arden — 52  T.  Acme,  B.  Wide  World — 
54  Bert  Six — 55  T.  INS,  B.  Wide  World — 56-57 
Bert  Parry-Bob  Beerman — 58  Bert  Parry — 61 
Bob  Beerman — 69  Pagano — 70-74  Derujinsky 
Studios — 77-78  Carmen  Schiavoni. 


Abbreviations:  L.,  Left;  R.,  Right;  C,  Center; 
T.,  Top;  B.,  Bottom. 


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Everyone  who  has 
ever  dreaded  the  word 
"Polio"  will  draw  courage 
from  this  story  of 
the  Lancaster  family. 

BY  CYNTHIA  MILLER 


arkness 


Burt  Lancaster  will  soon  be  seen  in  Warner  Brothers'  Jim  Thorpe,  All-Anterican. 


■  Little  has  ever  been  written,  about 
the  family  who  lives  in  the  gabled, 
stone-front  American  Colonial  house 
set  high  on  a  Bel  Air  hill.  The  house 
belongs  to  Burt  Lancaster  and  his 
family. 

Mrs.  Lancaster,  one  of  the  really 
handsome  women  in  a  city  of  many 
beautiful  girls,  is  tall,  blonde,  brown- 
eyed.  Her  flashing  smile  is  framed  by 
two  giant  dimples,  and  her  days  are 
taken  up  by  her  three  young  children. 

There's  blond,  four-year-old  James 
Lancaster  who  has  his  father's  wide- 
slanted  blue  eyes.  A  shy  introvert, 
"Jimbo,"  as  he  is  affectionately  called, 
has  an  amazing  passion  for  music  and 
books  with  a  photographic  mind  for 
lyric,  tune  or  verse.  Most  of  the  time 
he's  lost  in  song,  gaily  dancing  about 
the  living  room  and  side-stepping  the 
playpen  which  belongs  to  16-month-old 
Susan. 

Taffy- haired,  brown- eyed  Susan 
giggles  as  she  trails  behind  Jimbo. 
Too  young  to  have  much  of  a  vocabu- 
lary, she  happily  throws  kisses  in  place 
of  words,  and  occasionally  lurches  with 
a  dimpled  grin  into  the  arms  of  her 
mother  or  father. 

Mother,  Father,  Jimbo  and  Susan — 
what  about  the  fifth  member  of  the 
wheel?   His  name  is  Billy. 

In  November,  the  newspapers  car- 
ried a  story  about  him  which  sent 
fear  into  the  hearts  of  every  parent 
who  read  it.  Yet  little  is  actually 
known  of  what  happened  on  that 
Thursday  night. 

A  week  before,  Burt,  working  ex- 
haustively on  a  movie  of  the  life  of 
Jim  Thorpe,  America's  all-time  ath- 
lete, suggested  that  his  famUy  take  a 
vacation  at  Apple  Valley  Inn. 

Norma  bundled  her  three  children 
for  the  drive  to  the  Inn  and  filled  them 
with  stories  about  the  fun  they'd  have 
in  the  swimming  pool,  and  in  the  sun. 
The  children  were  happy  and  excited. 
Three  days  later,  though,  they  were 
cross  and  touchy  for  no  apparent  rea- 
son. Norma  brought  them  home  to 
nurse  what  she  (Continued  on  page  19) 


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considered  just  common  colds. 

Susan  was  put  to  bed,  but  Jimbo  and 
Bill  stayed  up  to  watch  television  with 
considerable  noisiness,  whooping  and  rest- 
lessness. Suddenly,  Norma  noticed  that 
Billy  seemed  to  be  dragging  his  left  foot. 
Racing  after  him  into  the  kitchen,  she 
overheard  him  say  plaintively  to  the  maid, 
"Alice,  I've  just  cut  my  head  off!"  Ob- 
viously, he  had  a  splitting  headache. 

IV/Trs.  Lancaster  immediately  called  pe- 
diatrician  Dr.  Russell  Sands,  of  Santa 
Monica.  While  the  doctor  was  enroute, 
Billy  continued  playing  and  jumping 
around  with  his  brother,  apparently  un- 
aware of  the  almost  complete  drag  of 
his  side. 

When  Dr.  Sands  came,  his  diagnosis 
was  tentative  but  immediate.  Quietly  he 
turned  to  Norma  with  the  dread  words  on 
his  lips — polio.  Gently  he  explained  that 
he  was  being  precautionary  in  asking  for 
immediate  laboratory  tests. 

With  astonishing  calm,  Norma  Lancaster 
lifted  her  son  into  her  automobile  and 
raced  twenty  miles  to  Los  Angeles  County 
General  Hospital.  Burt  soon  joined  his 
wife  there,  and  Norma's  strength,  in  this 
dark  hour,  reached  out  to  her  child  as  she 
stood  by  the  small  bed,  and  to  her 
husband. 

William  Henry  Lancaster,  the  gay  ex- 
trovert, who  held  Jimbo's  preoccupation 
with  music  and  jig-saw  puzzles  in  great 
disdain,  talked  about  his  Hopalong  Cas- 
sidy  pistols,  while  trained  hands  gave 
quick  attention  to  his  sturdy  body. 

Burt  and  Norma  looked  with  courage 
and  hope  aroxmd  the  corridors  of  one  of 
the  finest  polio  centers  in  the  United 
States.  And  in  the  night,  holding  on  to 
each  other,  praying  silently,  they  were 
reassured  as  they  looked  out  over  the 
many  acres  covered  with  nursing  cottages 
and  medical  buildings. 

The  Lancasters  walked  alongside  their 
almost  three-year-old  son  as  he  was 
wheeled  into  a  general  admittance  ward. 
Their  thoughts  flying  back  to  their  other 
boy  who  had  worn  leg  braces  for  two 
years.  Jimmy  had  shed  these  braces  only 
a  short  time  ago  and  had  run  with  laugh- 
ter through  the  house. 

There  were  twelve  beds  in  the  ward, 
twelve  stricken  children.  Norma  and  Burt 
passed  from  one  bed  to  the  other,  gently 
touching  the  children  in  them,  feeling  so 
close  to  them  and  to  the  parents  who  were 
strangers  now  only  in  name. 

For  twenty-four  hours,  the  Lancasters 
remained  at  the  hos^Dital  telling  each  other 
all  they'd  ever  known  about  polio,  which 
was  not  very  much,  and  reassuring  each 
other  that  not  all  cases  were  serious,  or 
dangerous.  Meanwhile  a  spinal  test  was 
taken,  and  all  they  could  do  was  wait 
for  the  results. 

WTiTH  overwhelming  relief,  and  a  great 
"  sense  of  weariness,  the  Lancasters 
heard  their  doctor  say  that  Billy's  case 
was  mild,  and  non-contagious. 

Silently,  they  started  the  drive  home, 
with  hands  clasped,  and  hearts  too  full 
to  speak  .  .  . 

Today,  Burt  speaks  eagerly  of  the  Gen- 
eral Hospital.  He  praises  the  way  it 
serves  all  people  without  discrimination, 
as  it  has  been  doing  since  its  creation 
in  1887.  Burt  would  also  like  to  help 
banish  the  fear  that  springs  up  with  the 
word  polio,  for  all  polio  is  not  fatal  or 
permanently  disabling. 

As  in  his  son's  case,  many  children 
have  only  a  slight  case  which  first  ex- 
hibits itself  as  a  flu  or  a  nasty  cold.  In 
hundreds  of  cases,  polio  is  so  light  that 
its  effects  pass  away  in  a  few  days.  Over- 
active Billy  felt  it  strongly  in  his  left  leg 
and  foot,  and    {Continued  on  page  76) 


Soaping  dulls  liair_ 
Halo  glorifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  your  hair  with 
even  finest  liquid  or  oily  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oUs. 
Thus  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo — America's 
favorite  shampoo — at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  coimter! 


Gives  fragrant 
"soft-water"  lather 
^needs  no 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable— 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights  !^^ 


Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair! 


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''I  cracked  up 
the  same  plane  lO  tim 


"We  retook  the  plane  crash  for  'The  Groom^^ore  Spurs'  ten  times.  The 
director  made  me  twist  and  turn  the  wheel  'til  my  hands  were  stinging  red! 


And  roping 'the  villain' was  But  I  smoothed  them  with  It  kept  them  soft  and  lovely 
tough  on  my  hands  again . . .     soothing  Jergens  Lotion  .  . .     for  romantic  closeups ! " 


CAH  YOUR  LOTION  OR  KAHO 
CREAM  PASS  THIS  FILM  TEST? 

To  softeA,  a  lotion  or  cream 
sttould  be  absorbed  by  upper 
layers  of  skin.  Water  won't 
"bead" on  hand  smoothed  with 
Jergens  Lotion.  It  contains 
quicl<ly- absorbed  ingredients 
that  doctors  recommend,  no 
heavy  oils  that  merely  coat 
the  skin  with  oily  film. 


Being  a  liquid,  Jergens  is 
absorbed  by  thirsty  skin. 


Prove  it  with  this  simple 
test  described  above  .  .  . 


You'll  see  why  Jergens 
Lotion  is  my  beauty  secret. 


More  women  use  Jergens  Lotion  than  any  other  hand  care  in  the  world 

STILL  lOc  TO  $1.00  IPLUS  TAX) 


a 


Hollywood 

goes 

shopping 


■  The  chief  difference  between  a 
star  on  a  shopping  tour  and  the 
average  woman  is  that  the  star's 
Main  Street  is  continent-long.  She 
can,  and  does,  search  from  coast  to 
coast  for  the  most  style-wise,  budg- 
et-wise buys  for  her  house,  her 
wardrobe,  and  her  friends.  What's 
right  for  her  is  right  for  you — for 
your  taste  and  your  pocketbook. 

To  get  any  of  these  star-selected 
items,  just  write  to  the  shops  men- 
tioned below  each  picture,  enclosing 
a  check  or  money  order  (and  gift 
card  if  you  like).  Your  selection  will 
be  rushed  to  any  address  you  name. 
Modern  Screen  guarantees  deliv- 
ery. Prices  all  include  postage  and 
tax  where  necessary.  Money  will 
be  returned  on  any  items  that  are 
returned  within  10  days  after  de- 
livery. Only  monogrammed  mer- 
chandise cannot  be  returned. 


betty  button 
your  hdllywood  shopper 

for  march 


■  As  the  lady  on  the  flying  trapeze, 
I've  really  been  getting  around  lately. 
But  I  haven't  confined  quite  all  my 
time  to  our  Big  Top  picture,  The 
Greatest  Show  On  Earth  (that's  a 
plug,  Mr.  DeMille).  When  Modern 
Screen  asked  me  to  locate  some  of 
the  greatest  bargains  on  earth  I  ac- 
cepted in  a  hurry.  I've  discovered  that 
it  takes  a  good  deal  of  training  to  be 
able  to  fly  through  the  air  circus-style. 
And  I  learned  it  also  took  practice  to 
keep  my  feet  on  the  ground  in  the 
many  shops  I  visited. 

As  your  Hollywood  shopper  I 
hunted  for  the  keenest  buys  (for  you 
and  me  both)  in  the  finest  shops  in 
the  land. 

I  managed  to  travel  the  Southern 
territory  while  on  a  trip  to  Sarasota 
and  virtually  "did"  New  York  while 
I  was  in  that  dazzling  town. 

I've  come  up  with  a  pretty  prize 
collection  of  bargains  (said  she  mod- 
estly! )  .  .  .  things  for  the  home,  for 
kids  like  Candy  and  Lindsay,  some 
personal  items  and  of  course  some 
super  special  Easter  gifts. 

Just  write  directly  to  the  stores 
mentioned  for  anything  and  every- 
thing that  tempts  you.  They'll  cheer- 
fully refund  your  money  within  ten 
days,  except  on  personalized  items. 


Betty  Hutton  returns  from  one  of  lier  buying  sprees  all  loaded  down  with  shopper  items. 


IF  THE  SHOE  FITS,  and  it's  sure  to,  you'll  want 
to  live  in  these  boots.  An  inch-thick  foam 
rubber  sole  gives  you  the  lift  you  need 
after  a  long  day.  I  loved  slipping  into 
them  between  takes  of  my  next  Paramount 
film.  The  Greatest  Show  on  Earth.  They 
come  in  white  terry  cloth  or  faded  blue 
denim  with  crisp  red  or  blue  piping. 
Small,  medium,  large  sizes,  $2.98.  Betty 
Coed,  6402  Hollywood  Blvd.,  Hollyu'ood 
28,  California. 


THREE  SILENT  MESSENGERS  TO  BEGUILE  YOU  with 
their  subtle  fragrance  each  with  a  distinct 
personality.  Tweed,  by  day,  is  light  and 
gay,  adds  dash  to  your  suits.  Shanghai,  by 
night,  is  just  right,  sultry  yet  sweet,  and 
warmed  with  spice.  Confetti,  still  a  differ- 
ent mood,  is  gala  and  carefree  leaving  an 
aura  of  laughter  about.  Group  of  all 
three  2  oz.  flacons  of  toilet  water  boxed 
elegantly,  $3.00.  Lentheric,  745  Fifth  Ave., 
New  York  22. 


A  DOUBLE  RING  CEREMONY  is  the  order  of  the 
day,  whether  for  keeps  Or  for  special  Val- 
entine sweethearts.  Captivating  twin 
friendship  bands  in  sterling  silver,  each 
handsomely  chased  to  give  a  link  effect. 
Wider  band  is  for  him,  the  narrower  one 
for  her.  Price  includes  three  initials  en- 
graved on  each  ring,  and  tax.  His  ring 
$3.50,  hers  $2.50.  Send  ring  size  and 
initials.  Hyde's,  Inc.,  Dept.  MS-3,  135-37 
Northern  Blvd.,  Flushing,  N.  Y. 


21 


you 


betty  hutton 

hollywood  shopper 


THEY'LL  M03  THIS  AUTOGRAPH  HOUND  to  get  to 

put  their  "John  Hancocks"  on  him.  Set  this 
irresistible  dachshund  in  the  living  room 
and  watch  the  gang  flock  immediately 
around  him.  They'll  want  to  sign  their 
own  names  and  look  at  everyone  else's. 
Made  of  a  specially  treated  ivhite  fabric, 
he  takes  ink  happily.  All  of  our  friends 
sign  our  doggie  so  we'll  always  have  a 
permanent  record.  $2.95.  M.  C.  Flynn, 
■13  E.  59  St.,  New  York  22. 


for  march 


It's  fun  buying 
gifts  for  you  and  my 
daughters.  I 
really  went  wild—in 
stores  all  over  the 
country. 


THERE'S  NO  QUESTION  ABOUT  IT,  this  clever 
plastic  slocking  dryer  competently  solves 
the  difficult  problem  of  what  to  do  with 
just-washed  undies,  stockings  or  baby 
things  so  the\  won't  fall,  rust  or  snag. 
Just  slip  the  flexible  hook  over  a  shower 
or  towel  rod.  Each  sturdy  clothes  pin 
gripper  holds  several  garnients  easily.  In 
blue,  rose,  green.  6  for  ,S1.00.  Essential 
Gifts,  3500  Griffith  Park  Blvd.,  Los  An- 
geles 27,  California. 


MY  CANDY  LOOKS  GOOD  ENOUGH  TO  EAT  m 

this  crisp,  lace-edged  pinafore  of  fro/hv 
yellow  polka-dot  organdy  that  slips  over 
any  dress  and  ties  in  a  big  'bow  at  the 
back.  The  pocket  is  cuffed  in  white  and 
has  my  little  one's  name  printed  on  it  in 
green  to  match  two  green  bows.  There  is  a 
bell  that  tinkles  as  Candy  skips  along. 
Send  your  child's  name.  Sizes  2-3,  $3.95; 
sizes  4-6,  $4.95.  Elizabeth  McCaffrey,  200 
W.  16  Street.  Neu'  York  8. 


I'M  GIVING  A  CIRCUS  PARTY  right  at  home  for 
Candy  and  Lindsay  with  a  67-piece  pre- 
planned party  box.  There  are  elephant 
invitations,  envelopes,  a  bright  red  table- 
cloth 54"  X  90",  a  centerpiece,  paper  plates 
and  cups  icith  handles,  hats  and  favors  in- 
side fringed  snappers,  animal  and  clown 
nut  cups  and  foil  horns.  Also  "Pin  the  Tail 
on  the  Lion"  game  and  a  party  suggestion 
folder.  Service  for  S.  $3.95.  Maymac  Co., 
660  Locust  Street,  Mt.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 


A  REAL  CONVERSATION  (CENTER)   PIECE.  Use 

this  clever  plastic  candlevase  to  circle  your 
candles  with  flowers.  Uniquely  shaped,  it 
sits  on  top  of  the  candlestick,  anchored  by 
the  candle  which  slips  through  the  built- 
up  circle  of  the  vase's  center  and  into  the 
candlestick.  The  vase  holds  water  for  your 
favorite  greens  or  posies.  Buy  flowers  that 
will  blend  with  your  table-setting  or  room 
colors.  Pair  $1 .25.  Cauman,  151  Lexington 
Ave.,  New  York  16. 


YOU'LL  HEAD  THE  EASTER  PARADE  in  this  cun- 
ning chucker-shaped  straw  topped  off  with 
a  semi-circle  of  colorful  forget-me-nots,  as 
gay  as  Spring  itself.  This  charming  cha- 
peau,  worn  with  your  favorite  ensemble, 
will  be  your  crowning  glory.  Comfortable, 
it  hugs  the  head  and  has  a  mere  suspicion 
of  front  brim.  Navy,  black,  brown,  white, 
pastels.  By  Madcaps.  $5.00  (add  15c 
postage  out  of  N.Y.C.).  Bloomingdale's, 
59th  St.  &  Lexington  Ave.,  New  York  22. 


THE  TIME  OF  YOUR  LIFE  awaits  you  in  this 
lantern  alarm  clock  that  steals  the  charm 
of  its  early  American  ancestor.  Has  an 
enameled  case  in  brilliant  red,  green,  yel- 
low and  sky  blue  with  polished  brass  trim, 
a  Roman  numeral  dial,  distinct  hands  and 
tiny  feet.  3i/^-inch  diameter.  Guaranteed 
30  hour  Ingraham  movement  with  single 
wind  key  for  both  time  and  clear  alarm. 
$4.35.  Harley's  Clock  Shop,  1209  Grand 
Ave.,  Kansas  City  6E,  Missouri. 


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A  GLIMPSE  OF  GAY  PAREE  right  in  your  own 
ho.me  .  .  .  these  colorful  little  gems  are 
authentic  street  scenes  of  Montmartre ,  the 
most  atmospheric  section  of  that  fabulous 
city.  There  are  eight  different  colorful 
miniatures  beautifully  executed  by  Charles 
Cobelle  in  a  brilliant  silk  screen  technique. 
Each  picture,  sized  734"  x  8y^"  comes  in 
a  smart  green  wooden  frame  15/^"  wide. 
S3.50  each.  FAR  Gallery,  l-i6  Madison 
Avenue,  N.  Y.  21. 


TRY  SOME  SLEIGHT  OF  HAND.  A  charming  scat- 
ter pin  turns  into  a  handsome  dinner  ring 
at  a  whim's  notice.  Start  with  a  flower- 
like rhinestone  brooch  which  pins  easily 
onto  a  specially  designed  ring  band  and 
presto  .  .  .  an  unusual  scatter  pin  ring. 
The  pin,  of  course,  does  beautifully  on  its 
own.  Ring  band  takes  to  any  other  small 
pin.  Ring  and  pin  $3.60;  ring  alone  SI. 20; 
pin  alone  $2.40.  Eunice  Novelties,  Box  41, 
Re  go  Park,  Nem  York. 


THIS  TRAY  SERVES  ME  WELL.  Straight  from 
Sweden,  this  beautifully  crafted  tray  in 
finest  Swedish  birch  wood  would  be  a  de- 
lightful surprise  gift  to  anyone.  Simple 
and  elegant  in  the  fashionable  Sicedish 
modern  design,  it  is  lacquered  in  clear 
varnish  to  accent  the  beautiful  birch  grain. 
Lightweight,  yet  sturdy,  and  treated  to 
withstand  water  and  stains.  11"  x  14"  tray, 
$3.25.  13"  X  17",  $4.00.  The  Maglar  Co., 
La  Porte,  Ind. 


AN  EASTIR  PET  FOR  LINDSAY!  /  found  this 

wonderful  mechanical  wizzard  to  amuse 
Lindsay  on  Easter  morn.  Guaranteed  to 
give  parents  an  extra  hour's  sleep  any  day, 
this  captivating  pet,  beautifully  litho- 
graphed, will  be  a  tot's  constant  com- 
panion. A  twist  of  the  wrist  winds  up  the  - 
sturdy  metal  duck  and  he  goes  off  quack- 
ing and  waddling  like  a  real  barnyard  pet. 
$1.75.  QT  Novelty  Co.,  P.O.  Box  '54,  Mur- 
ray Hill  Station,  New  York  16. 


HIS  PIPE  DREAMS  COME  TRUE!  I'm  sure  your 
best  beau  never  imagined  he  could  receive 
a  whole  collection  of  six  of  the  finest  im- 
ported, hand-made  Mediterranean  Briar 
pipes  in  one  gift.  Set  includes  Dublin,  pot, 
pear,  regular  bent,  egg  and  billiard  shapes, 
expertly  finished  in  French  or  walnut,  all 
fitted  with  a  sturdy  mouthpiece  and  alum- 
inum filter.  They're  sure  to  please.  $2.98 
for  all  six  pipes.  C.  &  W.  Products,  202 
Grand  Street,  Brooklyn,  New  York. 


THESE  TURTLES  ARE  FAST  WORKERS.  Just  put  a 
China  turtle  in  an  ashtray  and  see  your 
cigarette  snuffed  out  in  a  jiffy.  No  more 
smouldering  butts  to  cause  ugly  table  and 
nasty  carpet  burns.  The  turtle  is  a  fine 
cigarette  rest  and  will  even  act  as  a  pipe 
tamp.  They're  cunning  little  fellows  to 
have  arou7jd  the  house. ^  Three  assorted 
colored  turtles  (ashtrays  not  included). 
$1.00.  Gel  them  at  Lyons  Specialties,  Yard- 
ville,  Neu'  Jersey. 


LADY,  YOUR  CHARMS  ARE  SHOWING  wlien  you're 
wearing  this  group  of  bangles  on  a  smart 
charm  bracelet.  Not  atone  a  handsome 
piece  of  jewelry  in  non-tarnishable  brass, 
but  it  also  holds  a  quartet  of  useful  cap- 
sule charms  ...  a  metal  money  holder,  a 
bright  lipstick  in  its  case,  a  perfume  appli- 
cator, and  a  telescoping  cigarette  holder 
that  fits  in  its  own  sanitary  case,  and  all 
for  only  $3.25.  Princess  Eve,  48  E.  43  St., 
New  York  17. 


THE  KEYS  TO  YOUR  KINGDOM  are  constantly 
on  tap  with  the  handbag  keycaddy  that 
clips  firmly  onto  the  inner  pocket  of  your 
purse  and  prevents  your  keys  from  slith- 
ering out  of  reach.  This  keeper  of  your 
keys  even  clips  onto  a  belt  or  pocket.  The 
ring,  smartly  stirrup-shaped  in  gold  plate, 
is  attached  to  a  two-tone  patterned  spring 
clip.  It  comes  boxed  in  a  cardboard  replica 
of  a  handbag.  $1.08.  Dept.  49  D,  Mandel 
Bros.,  Chicago,  III. 


LINDSAY'S  CRAZY  FOR  A  CARRIDOLL  to  accom- 
pany her  in  the  Easter  Parade,  so  this  cute 
little  doll-handbag  will  be  our  Easter 
present  to  her.  The  doll's  a  yellow-haired 
miss  with  checked  taffeta  dress  belted  by 
plaid  drawstring  arms  (and  hands)  that 
open  and  close  the  skirt  to  form  a  bag.  A 
bonnet  and  shoes  in  matching  plaid  with 
velvet  trim  complete  her  outfit.  A  comb 
and  mirror  are  inside.  $5.00.  Carridoll, 
P.O.  Box  11114,  New  Orleans,  La. 


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betty  button 


THEY'RE  CERTAINLY  yVORTH  THEIR  SALT.  Beauti- 
ful crystal  salt  dishes  and  solid  sterling 
silver  spoons  to  charm  your  dinner  guests 
and  serve  them  elegantly.  The  open  salt 
dishes  are  exquisitely  cut  to  add  sparkle 
to  your  table.  The  spoons  are  tiny  repro- 
ductions of  a  handsome  English  teaspoon. 
You  can  get  them  in  a  gift  box  contain- 
ing two  salt  dishes  arid  two  spoons,  $2.50. 
Set  of  four  $4.50.  Fleetwood  Silversmiths, 
36  Cliff  Avenue,  Yonkers  5,  New  York. 


BUY,  BUY  BLACKBIRDS  or  birds  of  dove  white 
plastic  with  gleaming  rhinestone  eyes  to 
perch  glamorously  on  your  ears.  Birds  of  a 
feather  usually  flock  together,  but  some- 
times go  astray  xuith  fascinating  results— a 
blackbird  on  one  ear,  a  white  one  on  the 
other.  Try  a  pair  of  earrings  in  each  color 
for  three-way  variety.  They're  comfort- 
able screw-ons.  Pair,  $2.50;  two  pairs,  $4.75. 
Gift  Sources,  2  Columbus  Circle,  New 
York  19,  New  York. 


THE  SALT  OF  THE  EARTH!  This  attractive  reed 
basket  filled  with  seven  assorted  seasonings 
will  delight  the  most  fastidious  cook.  In 
ijt  are  salts  and  peppers  gathered  from  all 
over  the  world.  The  seven  vials  hold  a 
variety  of  fascinating,  flavor-giving  spicy 
salts  and  hot  peppers.  A  pinch  of  any 
of  these  will  add  spice  to  your  favorite 
homemade  dish.  It's  a  perfect  gift  for  a 
bride's  kitchen  shower.  $2.25.  Hoff  Condi- 
ments, RD  5,  York,  Pennsylvania, 


IF  THEY'RE  SPORT  FANS  FROM  WAY  BACK,  they're 
sure  to  go  wild  over  these  shorts  with 
authentic  sports  records  printed  over  them! 
Handsomely  tailored  of  durable  rayon, 
they  have  real  newspaper  sports  sections 
reprinted  on  them.  From  fencing  to  foot- 
ball, this  lively  job  features  everything  to 
interest  a  sportsminded  man  .  .  .  or  even 
some  oomphy  females.  Sizes  28-40.  $1.95. 
Same  fabric  in  sportshirt,  s,  m,  ml,  I  $5.95; 
pajamas  $7.95.  Alex  Loeb,  Meridian,  Miss. 


THIS  LUGGAGE  NEEDS  NO  "REDCAP".  These 
travel-iuise  purse  accessories,  of  real  saddle 
leather,  are  covered  with  numerous  color- 
ful authentic  travel  stickers  of  Air  France, 
the  French  Line  and  famous  continental 
hotels.  At  left  is  a  "2-Suiter"  compact  with 
handles  $4.50.  Cigarette  trunk  at  right  is 
metal  lined,  $5J)0.  Sewing-kit,  lipstick- 
shaped  $3.00.  Key  chain  with  pill  barrel 
charm,  $1.50.  James  Stuart,  410  Delaware 
Avenue,  Wilmington,  Delaware. 


DO  YOU  KNOW  THE  SCORE?  Canasta  friends 
will  be  delighted  by  this  riew  Canasta  score 
board,  a  handy  device  that  eliminates  the 
use  of  pencil  and  paper  and  does  your 
arithmetic  for  you.  The  wooden  board, 
3y^"  X  lOy^",  is  visible  at  all  times  to  each 
player.  Small  colored  plastic  pegs,  which 
can  be  stored  right  inside  the  board,  do 
the  work.  An  instruction  sheet  is  included. 
$2.00  Get  it  at  Birkdales,  260  Fifth  Ave- 
nue, Neiv  York  1,  New  York. 


DOZE,  AND  OFF  IT  GOES!  It's  a  remarkable 
little  reading  light  that  clamps  on  to  your 
book.  When  you  enter  the  land  of  nod  and 
drop  the  book,  the  light  goes  out  auto- 
matically. Light-weight  plastic,  carefully 
insulated,  with  an  eight-foot  cord  and 
bulb.  Uses  little  electricity,  as  the  light  is 
conceyitrated  directly  on  your  reading  and 
not  on  your  spouse.  Get  it  for  $1.50  at 
Eagle  Electric  Mfg.  Co.,  23-10  Bridge  Plaza 
S.,  Long  Island  City  1,  New  York. 


"I'VE  GOT  A  LITTLE  LIST"  to  hang  on  my 
kitchen  wall.  It  doubles  as  a  ktjife  rack 
and  triples  as  a  bread  board.  Made  of 
wood,  and  gayly  colored  with  red  trim,  it 
serves  as  a  permanent  grocery  check  list, 
with  pegs  to  plug  in  when  you're  about  to 
run  short.  A  fitted  space  behind  the  board 
is  ample  room  for  a  knife  rack.  Or  the 
panel  slides  out  completely  to  ?nake  a 
bread  board.  $3.95.  Unique  Arts,  Box  4, 
Kensington  Station,  Brooklyn  18,  N.  Y. 


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Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10.  days,  except  where  monogrammed. 


c:ute:?il  pearl  bri 


liance 


the  new  iridescent  nail  polish 
worn  by  the  Hollywood  stars 


It's  more  than  a  new  color . .  .  it's  an  entirely  new  kind  of  nail  polish.  And  it's 
called  Pearl  Brilliance  —  exclusive,  of  course,  with  CUTEX.  All  Hollywood  is 
wearing  this  new,  lovelier  iridescent  type  of  polish  that  makes  fingertips  shimmer 
like  jewels.  And  this  is  the  only  iridescent  polish  so  amazingly  low-priced,  that 
has  all  the  gleaming  beauty  of  the  most  expensive  you  can  buy.  Any  woman  can 
afford  to  wear  it  all  the  time.  Try  a  bottle  of  CUTEX  PEARL  BRILLIANCE 
today.  In  six  high-fashion  shades.  Matching  lipstick. 


IIS  IS  THE 


FASHION  PLATE 


V 


LOOK 


Smart  women  just  know  it,  for  no  look 
is  like  it!  There's  never  been  a  face  make-up 
like  Revlon's  "Fashion  Plate."  Just 
;       fiiigerstroke  it  on,  then  fluff  on  matching 

Revlon  powder. ..  (like  peaches  and  cream, 
they're  made  for  each  other!)  Instantly  your  skin 
seems  flawless,  blemish-free,  radiant  with  color.  Suddenly  you 
have  the  "Fashion  Plate"  look— and  it's  fabulous  ! 

the  only  cream-wafer  face  make-up  in  the  world 


Matcliing  Face  Powder— in  raving-beauty  colors 


An  open 
letter  to 
Shirley  Temple 


Dear  Shirley, 

First,  we'd  like  to  wish  you  happiness.  As 
Mrs.  Charles  Black  we're  sure  you'll  find  it.  This  year  you  made  a 
.-nomentous  decision — ^you  made  a  choice  between  a  career 
and  marriage,  knowing  that  in  your  case,  at  least,  the 
two  couldn't  go  together.  For  unlike  many  other  Hollywood 
careers,  yours  has  been  a  legend.  Adoration,  not  the  or- 
dinary but  important  kind  of  love  is  reserved  for 
legendary  figures.  You  chose  wisely,  we  think,  and  Hollywood's 
loss  will  be  your  well-earned  gain  .  .  .  This  has  been  a 
time  of  many  decisions  .  .  .  We  know  that  you  were  as  shocked  as 
we  when  Elizabeth  Taylor  announced  her  separation  from 
Nicky  Hilton.  Elizabeth  had  created  a  world  of  dreams  for  other 
people.  When  her  marriage  failed,  belief  was  shattered  .  .  . 
if  Elizabeth,  who  had  everything,  could  not  be  happy,  why 
should  others  go  on  dreaming  .  .  .?  But  not  only 
young  love  has  foundered.  Even  you,  in  your  contentment, 
must  be  a  little  fearful  at  the  news  of  Barbara  Stanwyck's  decision. 
If  there  had  ever  been  real  devotion  in  Hollywood  it  existed  in 
her  marriage  to  Robert  Taylor.  When  other  marriages 
went  the  way  of  divorce  there  was  always  this  one  to 
point  to.  Now,  after  eleven  years,  people  must 
look  elsewhere  for  confirmation.  They  will  look  to  you  and  to  others 
who  have  won  their  admiration.  They  will  look  to  Ruth  Roman 
because  she  is  more  than  a  rising  Hollywood  personality.  She  has 
an  inner  solidity  of  spirit  developed  through  years  of 
seeking  a  goal  seemingly  out  of  reach.  Ruth  reached  her 
goal,  unchanged,  as  evidenced  by  her  marriage  this  month. 
Bypassing  the  route  of  many  engagements  and  many  estrangements, 
she  chose  a  man  removed  from  Hollywood  glitter.  Now 
Mrs.  Mortimer  Hall,  her  future  seems  solid  and  secure  ...  In  this 
month,  too.  Colleen  Townsend  sealed  her  decision  to  leave  Hol- 
lywood by  marrying  a  divinity  student.  It  is  to  her  credit 
that  she  was  true  to  herself,  for  success  in  Hollywood  is  a  jealous 
suitor  eager  to  turn  its  back  on  half-hearted  lovers  ... 
This  indeed,  has  been  a  time  of  decisions — ^happy,  sad,  humorous, 
pathetic.  You've  heard  of  them;  you've  been  part 
of  them.  We've  written  about  them  all  in  this  issue — the  stories 
behind  the  headlines,  your  story,  too,  which  we  present  with  special  pride 


modern  screen/march  1951 


and  all  good  wishes. 


EDITOR 


27 


Monty  prefers  outdoor  sports  to  night  life. 


He  dates  girls  who  aren't  in  the  limelight. 


He  likes  oil  sorts  of  people  and  places. 


If  Monty  Clift's 

a  freak  so  is  everyone 

who  lives  in  a 

home  he  can  afford, 

and  pulls  down 

the  shades  when  he  wants 

to  be  alone. 

BY  LESLIE  SNYDER 


■  You  know  what  they  say  about  Monty  Clift — the  only 

suit  he  has  is  on  his  back;  he  lives  in  a  New  York  apartment  so  small  that 

when  he  stands  his  head  hits  the  ceiling;  he's  about  as 

sociable  as  a  bear  in  the  middle  of  winter.  I'm  here  to  tell  you  it's 

all  a  lie.  That's  right.  A  lie.  I  was  there;  I  spoke 

to  the  man;  he  even  lit  my  cigarette.  And  I  was  charmed 

right  out  of  my  senses. 

Hard  to  interview,  huh?  I  called  him  up  from  a  phone  booth.  "I've 
been  asked  to  write  a  story  about  you  for  Modern 
Screen,"  I  said. 

"Well!"  he  exclaimed.  "Ding,  ding,  ding,  send  out  the 
news !" 

"Exactly  what  I  want  to  do,"  I  told  him,  and  he  invited  me  over. 

He  greeted  me  in  the  doorway  of  his  East  Side  apartment.  He 
was  wearing  a  white  shirt  open  at  the  neck,  brown  slacks  and  a  grin 
that  weakened  my  ankles.  He  shook  hands  with  me  in  a  nice, 
firm  way  and  ushered  me  into  the  living  room. 

So  far,  so  fine.  He  hadn't  leered,  sneered  or  smirked,  and  it  didn't 
look  as  if  he  were  going  to.  He  was  acting  normal,  maybe  even 
a  little  better  than  normal,  and  I 'was  stumped  with  the  $64  question — who's 
a  freak?  Not  Monty  Clift.  You  can  bet  on  that. 

I  settled  myself  in  an  easy  chair  and  Monty  said,  "They'.ve  written 
enough  stories  about  me.  Don't  tell  me  they've  left  out  something." 

"Guess  they  have,"  I  told  him.  {Continued  on  page  84) 


riMm 


!  1.V 


home 
baby 


A  fellow's  first  haircut  is  important, 
Benjie  Gage  got  expert  Eddie  Poole 
to  do  the  job  on  Mom's  movie  set. 


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Callers  won't 

find  Mama  Williams 

in  lace  on 

satin  pillows.  She's 
receiving  in  overalls, 
on  a  ladder. 

BY  JANE  WILKIE 


Esther  made  the- cozy  gingham-trimmed  lamp,  The  Gages  rushed  to  get  the  baby  s  room 
but  not  the  glamorous,  formal  dresses.  Ben  ready  by  December.  Kim,  their  second  son, 
approves  both — and  her  home-again  figure,     surprised  them  by  coming  2  months  eariy. 


Ben  and   Esther  take  time  off  from  the   new   house,    Benjie  and    the    new    baby,    Kimball,    to    relax    and    count   their  blessings 


■  According  to  novelists,  scenario  writers  and  dear  old  ladies, 
the  weeks  following  the  birth  of  a  baby  are  the  loveliest  a  new 
mother  can  experience.  She  Ues  abed  and  languishes  in  the 
luxury  of  having  friends  and  family  attend  her  every  need. 
She  wears  fluffy  pink  things,  and  sips  orange  juice  daintily. 
Above  all,  nothing  disturbs  her  peace  of  mind,  and  her  world 
is  rosily  sheltered  until  her  strength  returns. 

This  has  not  been  the  case  with  Esther  WilUams.  Since 
the  birth  of  Kimball  Austin  Gage  back  in  October,  Esther's 
thoughts  have  been  taken  up  with  cement  mixers,  sewer  pipes, 
crossed  telephone  lines,  and  firescreens  suitable  for  people 
twenty-four  inches  tall. 

It  isn't  due  to  any  lack  of  planning.  As  anybody  knows, 
when  a  baby  is  expected  it  is  only  common  sense  to  move  into 
a  new  house  before  the  infant  arrives.  This  bit  of  logic  was 
duly  considered  by  Esther  and  plans  made  accordingly.  But 
things  have  been  ganging  a-gley  with  the  Gages. 

It  was  in  May  of  last  year,  when  Esther  was  in  Hawaii 
making  Pagan  Love  Song,  that  she  first  knew  she  was  pregnant. 
On  her  return  home,  the  house  in  the  Pacific  Palisades  seemed 
to  have  shrunk  alarmingly.  Benjie  was  walking  now,  and 
every  time  Esther  put  her  foot  down,  he  was  under  it.  So  she 


and  Ben  started  working  on  floor  plans  for  the  house  they  had 
always  wanted  to  build  on  their  property  near  the  ocean.  In 
August  they  held  a  family  conference.  If  they  didn't  begin 
building  immediately  it  would  be  too  late,  for  the  baby  was 
expected  in  December.  By  September  they  decided  to  rent  a 
place  for  a  year  or  so,  and  then  build  their  house.  And  on  a 
Sunday  late  in  that  month  they  found  the  house  in  Mande- 
ville  Valley  and  bought  it  on  the  spot. 

It's  a  big,  rambling  frame  house,  painted  a  bright  yellow, 
and  there  are  two  bedrooms  on  the  ground  floor  for  the  boys, 
a  master  bedroom  upstairs,  and  an  attic  that  can  be  converted 
later  into  another  bedroom.  There  is  a  garage  with  attached 
servant  quarters  out  back.  But  the  nice  thing  about  this  house 
is  that  it  is  made  for  tall  people.  It  has  hght  and  air  and  the 
ceilings  are  high,  and  most  important,  it's  a  comfortable  house. 

"If  we  move  in  by  October,"  said  Esther,  "we  can  have  all 
the  painting  done,  the  pool  and  dressing  rooms  built  in  the 
back,  the  kitchen  fixed  up  like  a  real  farmhouse  kitchen,  and 
the  driveway  finished — everything  by  the  time  the  baby 
comes."  They  got  busy  with  a  new  set  of  plans,  and  soon  were 
so  engrossed  that  they  decided  they'd  keep  this  place  for 
many  more  years  to  come.         (Continued  on  page  102) 


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MODERN  SCREEN  publisher,  George  T.  Delacorte,  Jr.,  beams  as  June  Allyson  and  Alan  Ladd  congratulate  each  other  on  winning  MS'  popularity  poll. 


modern  screejji^ 

FABTY  ism  m 


HOLLYWOOD  IS  USED  TO  PARTIES.  THEY  HAVE  THEM  EVERY  DAY.  BUT  WHEN  LOUELLA  PARSONS  GIVES  ONE— 
EVERYBODY  COMES.   SO  PULL  UP  A  CHAIR  AND  HELP  FETE  THE  WINNERS  OF  MODERN  SCREEN'S  POPULARITY  POLL. 


■  You  should  have  been  there.  You  really  should  have, 
because  it  is  the  readers  of  Modern  Screen  who  are  really 
responsible  for  the  big,  enchanting  Giro's  party  Louella  Par- 
sons tossed  for  June^  AUyson  and  Alan  Ladd  and  the  other 
twenty  top  popularity  winners  in  the  world-wide  poll. 

It  would  have  been  impossible,  though,  to  have  had  you 
all  there  at  Giro's,  even  if  proprietor  Herman  Hover  had 
knocked  out  the  walls.  He  almost  had  to  at  that,  for  this  was 
the  party  of  the  year.  More  than  three  hundred  of  Holly- 
wood's top  stars,  many  of  whom  hadn't  even  met  each  other 
before,  flocked  through  the  famous  Giro's  doors. 

Let's  turn  back  the  clock  to  that  gala  evening.  Our  hostess, 
Louella,  really  knows  how  to  give  a  party.  "I  don't  want 
anyone  to  make  a  speech  to  the  popularity  winners,"  she  said. 


"Just  tell  ever>'body  to  come  and  have  a  good  time." 

That's  exactly  what  they  did.  There  were  no  speeches, 
but  if  all  the  animated  conversation  between  new  and  old 
friends  were  bottled  up  it  would  last  Hollywood  a  lifetime 
of  champagne. 

June  Allyson  was  one  of  the  first  to  arrive.  "Golly,"  she 
exclaimed,  "look  at  all  the  movie  stars!" 
"Where's  Dick?"  someone  asked. 

"My  dear  husband,  Mr.  Powell?"  June  replied.  "Damit, 
he's  home  in  bed  suffering  from  that  'ricuHtous'  or  whatever 
you  call  it.  No  joking — it's  awfully  painful,  but  he  insisted 
that  I  shouldn't  miss  the  party  of  the  year." 

Positively  beaming,  June  congratulated  Alan  Ladd  on 
winning  for  the  third  straight  year  and  (Cont'd  on  next  page) 


Dana  and  Mary  Andrews,  married  I  I  years,  typify 
Hollywood's  happy  families.  They  held  hands  most 
of  evening,  chatted  with  agent  Charles  Feldman. 


As  Ruth  Roman  laughed  with  Arthur  Kennedy,  she 
gave  no  hint  that  she  would  pull  the  surprise  of 
the  year  by  marrying  Mort  Hall  on  December  17. 


John  Dereic  wants  to  know  how  to  win  a 
popularity  cup.  So  he  asks  the  man  who 
owns  three,  Alan  Ladd.  Sue  Ladd  listens  in. 


Everybody  was  at  Giro's  from  starlets  to  well- 
loved,  established  stars  like  Lloyd  Nolan  and 
Edward  G.  Robinson,  two  who  are  ever-popular. 


Vic  and  Dorothy  Mature  circulated  like  mad  all 
evening  getting  tips  on  building  their  new  house. 
Everybody  but  Mr.  Blondings  gave  them  advice. 


Newsworthy  Shelley  Winters  come  alone, 
split  her  attention  between  reporters 
Louella    Parsons    and    Sheilah  Graham. 


MORE>. 


modern  screen's 


PAfiTT  OF  TEE  TEAR 


continued- 


exclaimed,  "Let  me  in  on  the  secret,  Alan.  I'd  like  to  fill 
my  house  up  with  those  beautiful  silver  cups,  too!"  (She 
may,  at  that,  with  the  way  this  year's  votes  are  already 
coming  in.) 

There's  something  magical  about  the  parties  Louella 
gives.  One  moment  the  room  is  completely  empty.  The 
next  it's  fuU  of  more  stars  than  you'll  see  on  opening 
night.  It's  hard  to  say  who  attracted  the  most  attention, 
but  when  silver-haired  Bill  (Hopalong  C^issidy)  Boyd 
arrived  with  his  lovely  wife,  Grace  Bradley,  on  his  arm, 
all  eyes  were  turned  his  way.  "Look  at  him!"  one  starlet 
exclaimed.  "Up  to  now  Clark  Gable  was  my  favorite,  but 
you  can  givd  me  that  Hoppy  for  a  leading  man.  Say,  did 
anyone  ever  think  of  putting  him  in  a  picture  without  a 
cowboy  suit?  That  would  be  something!" 

"Men!  Men!  Men!"  Marilyn  Monroe  exulted,  "There 
are  so  many  handsomes  here  I'd  like  to  put  each  one 
on  a  desert  island  and  commute  back  and  forth  by  speed 
boat  the  rest  of  my  life." 

If  Marilyn  thought  she  was  looking  at  the  men  she 
should  have  seen  how  the  men  were  looking  at  her. 
This  is  the  child  who  is  now  the  sweetheart  discovery  of 
20th  Century-Fox.  She  has  the  same  Wow  appeal  that 
made  Lana  Turner  the  Number  One  glamor  girl.  Same 
sort  of  look,  too.  When  she  cast  her  baby  eyes  at  Scott 
Brady,  who  came  to  the  party  with  Ann  Blyth,  he  stag- 
gered a  little  and  promptly  asked  her  for  a  date. 

That's  what  happens  at  any  real  party.  Romances  are 
born  in  a  hurry.  "I  don't  know  if  I  should  really  be  here 
at  Giro's,"'  Bill  Lundigan  explained,  looking  fondly  at 
his  pert  little  wife,  Rena.  "You  know,  it's  our  anniver- 
sary, and  I  always  like  to  propose  all  over  again  in  the 
same  night  club.  Do  you  suppose  that  Herman  Hover 
would  mind  too  much  if  I  took  a  run  over  to  Mocambo 
later?"  Rena  said  she  didn't  think  they  should  leave,  so 
Bill  proposed  right  there.  Mrs.  Lundigan  sighed,  "I  think 
husbands  should  always  ask  their  wives  to  marry  them 
at  least  once  a  year." 

As  for  romance,  it  was  everywhere  on  this  night  of 
nights.  Consider  Arlene  Dahl  and  Lex  Barker.  No 
people  looked  more  in  love. 

Someone  said,  "I  don't  think  there's-  ever  been  a 
more  interesting  love  situation  in  Hollywood  than  what 
goes  on  between  Tony  Curtis  and  Janet  Leigh.  It  reminds 
me  of  the  time  when  Rita  Hay  worth  and  Lana  Turner 
used  to  be  in  high  gear  and  keeping  columnists  awake 
nights  trying  to  figure  would  they  or  would  they  not 
marry."  {The  Curtis-Leigh  story  is  too  long  to  tell  here. 
See  page  38.) 

That's  just  the  situation  that  was  bothering  lovely 
Sally  Forrest,  although  she  didn't  show  her  feehngs  at 
the  party.  She  came  with  handsome  agent  Milo  Frank, 
the  ex-Marine.  Everyone  has  expected  them  to  marry, 
but  now  it  looks  as  though  it's  all  off  because  Frank  may 
soon  go  back  into  service  and  apparently  doesn't  want 
to  pick  up  Sally's  option  when  he  can't  be  around  for 
the  full  term  contract. 

In  the  midst  of  the  festivity  Louella  Parsons  beamed 
and  was  heard  to  say,  "Gee,  I'm  glad  I'm  a  reporter. 
(And  how  she  is!)  Where  else  could  you  meet  so  many 
exciting  people?"  Then  she  {Continued  on  page  98) 


IT 


Piper  Laurie  orrived  at  the  Giro's  party  with  Dick  Long  and  a  chic 
new  hairdo.  Dick  will  give  up  his  movie  cdreer  to  join  the  army. 
Piper  is  awaiting  the  Modern  Screen  contest  results  out  next  month. 


Loretta  Young  drew  murmurs  of  appreciation  for  her  gay  white  hat. 
"You  should  have  seen  it  before  I  gave  it  a  haircut,"  she  told  ad- 
mirers. Seems  thot  the  feathers  threatened  to  block  her  party-view. 


No  couple  there  looked  more  in  love  than  Arlene  Dahl  and  Lex  Barker 
Shortly  after  this  party  they  announced  their  engagement.  They'l 
honeymoon  in  France  when  she  finishes  MSM's  No  Questions  Asked 


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1 


Petite  Vera-Ellen's  dancing  with  Rock  Hudson  had  -on-lookers  predicting 
that  they'd  soon  be  waltzing  down  the  aisle.  This  was  before  their  romance 
started  on  its  on-again-off-agoin  track,  which  has  Hollywood  second-guessing. 


Hostess  Louella  Parsons  and  Publisher  George  T.  Delacorte  wel- 
conne  John  Hodiak,  Anne  Baxter,  Broderick  and  Kay  Crawford 
at   the    party    for    Modern    Screen's    Popularity    Poll  winners. 


When  the  girls  saw  Macdonald  Carey  walk  in  alone  they  powdered  their  noses. 
But  Macdonald  stagged  only  because  his  wife  was  ill.  Ida  Lupino  also  conne 
alone,  mat  Macdonald  over  the  hors  d'oeuvres,  and  left  with  Charles  Feldman. 


It  was  "happy-married-couples"  night  also  in  many  corners  of 
Ciro's.  The  Jeff  Chandlers  shared  a  table  with  Van  Heflin  and  his 
wife,    Frances,    who    were   the    party's   champion  hand-holders. 


John  Derek  gives  wjfe  Patti  a  nickel  so  she  can  call  home  to  check  with  son  Scott  Brady  brought  Ann  Blyth  and  managed  to  surround  himself 
Russell's  baby-sitter.  Ciro's  hat-check  girl  moaned:  "Too  bad  he's  married,  with  other  lovely  girls.  He  took  one  look  at  Marilyn  Monroe  and 
but  he   couldn't   hove   found   a   more   attractive   girl   .   .   ."   John   agrees.      asked  for  a  date.  Here,  he  smiles  down  approvingly  at  Joan  Evans. 


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rself 


■  It  was  an  occasion  on  which  *even  grown 
men  weep.  But  the  teen-aged  lad  sat  stark- 
ly dry-eyed,  listening  to  the  words  which 
promised  that  death  could  not  really  end 
the  meaning  of  his  father's  life.  He  had, 
and  still  has,  deep  faith  in  those  words. 
Nonetheless,  the  thought  kept  recurring 
that  his  father  was  too  young  to  go. 

At  47,  his  father  had  been  ready  to  re- 
tire from  active  management  of  his  fac- 
tory so  that  he  could  relax  and  leisurely 
enjoy  the  luxuries  he'd  earned  for  his 
family.  Not  the  luxury  of  jewels  and  furs, 
but  of  good,  vital,  secure  living — a 
gracious,  spacious,  happy  home,  two  good 
cars,  good  schools  for  his  son  and  daugh- 
ter, trips  to  Europe  and  elsewhere,  ample 
financial  security  for  the  future.  It  was 
quite  a  lot  to  have  achieved  at  his  age.  In- 
stead of  enjoying  it  leisurely,  he  simply 
left  an  impressive  heritage  for  his  family. 

In  the  months  which  followed,  there 
must  have  been  some  of  his  father's  busi- 
ness associates  in  Syracuse,  New  York, 
who  watched  the  boy  with  dismay.  Instead 
of  going  to  Amherst  College  as  planned, 
he  went  off  to  New  York  City. 

"Singing  in  a  chorus  at  the  World's 
Fair!"  they  exclaimed  first.  Then,  "Tr>'ing 
to  be  an  actor  at  some  little  theater  .  .  . 
earns  only  $5.00  a  week  so  his  mother 
has  to  give  him  an  allowance  .  .  .  charges 
things  to  her  account  .  .  .  uses  her  car  all 
the  time  .  .  .  not  21  yet  or  even  earning  a 
living  and  he  wants  to  get  married  to  a 
16-year-old  actress.  .  . 


It's  easier 

than  you  think.  Ask 
Gordon  MacRae 
who  started  out  with 
a  smile  on  his  face  and 
a  happy-go-lucky  air. 
Now  his  life  is  as  sweet 
as  the  songs  he  sings. 

BY  FRANCES  CLARK 


Gordon  and  his  Sheila  married  in  1941;  now  have  a  MacRae  clan  of  three  kids. 


If  SO,  they  were  gossiping  true.  But 
their  fears  weren't  fulfilled.  Today  the  boy 
is  known  as  a  star  of  radio,  stage,  screen 
and  juke-box.  His  name  is  Gordon 
MacRae. 

"Back  then,"  Gordon  says,  "I  decided 
I  was  going  to  observe  the  MacRae's  clan 
motto,  'We  bum  but  are  not  consumed.' 
I'd  make  a  profession  of  what  I  loved  to 
do  and  so  be  relaxed,  enjoying  life  no 
matter  when,  where  or  what." 

Gordon's  interpretation  of  being  re- 
laxed, however,  is  rather  staggering. 

One  recent,  typical  day  went  like  this. 
In  the  wee  hours  of  that  morning  he  left 
a  wildly  applauding  audience  at  El  Rancho 
Vegas  in  Nevada,  to  take  a  six  hour  train 
ride  (planes  were  grounded  by  fog)  to 
Hollywood  where  he's  star  of  NBC's  "The 
Railroad  Hour."  Rehearsals  started  at 
noon.  The  ofiBcial  broadcast  ended  at  5:30 
o'clock,  Hollywood  time.  Then  Gordon 
was  due  back  in  Las  Vegas  for  an  eve- 
ning performance.  Fog  was  still  holding 
up  planes  and  the  trains  weren't  scheduled 
right.  So  it  looked  as  though  he  might 
have  to  drive  himself,  a  mere  matter  of 
290  miles! 

But  such  a  relaxed  character  you  never 
saw!  And  everything  went  according  to 
is  own  schedule — the  way  everything  al- 
ways has  gone. 
"Instead  of  going  on  to  Amherst,"  Gor- 
Idon  says,  "I  decided  to  get  going  on  my 
Icareer   right   away.    I'd   always  made 
straight  A's  in  the  drama  and  music 


classes  at  Deerfield  Academy,  but  I  had 
to  spend  an  extra  year  there  to  make  up 
for  any  poor  grades  in  geometry,  Latin 
and  French  to  qualify  for  Amherst. 

"Dad  had  given  up  the  idea  of  my  go- 
ing into  business  with  him  the  summer 
before  I  graduated  from  Deerfield.  I  spent 
that  summer  vacation  working  in  the  fac- 
tory with  the  lathes,  power  presses,  drill 
presses  and  the  other  things  which  he 
felt  would  give  me  a  fair  idea  of  what 
was  ahead  for  me.  But  I  didn't  do  very 
well  and  I  didn't  like  it  a  bit.  After  that, 
be  agreed  I  ought  to  try  what  I  wanted 
to  do  after  I  finished  Amherst.  The  next 
summer  he  sent  me  on  a  YMCA  tour  of 
Europe.  Shortly  after  I  came  home,  he 
was  gone.  So  I  just  struck  out  sooner 
than  we'd  planned." 

None  of  the  singers  he  worked  with  at 
the  World's  Fair  were  famous,  although 
one  is  pretty  well-known  today  as  Dick 
Haymes.  After  the  Fair,  Gordon  decided 
to  learn  more  about  acting.  He  landed  a 
$5.00  job  with  room  and  board  at  the 
Millpond  Playhouse  in  Rosljm,  Long 
Island.  His  mother  gave  him  $25.00  a 
week  allowance,  access  to  charge  ac- 
counts and  the  use  of  her  car. 

Soon  Sheila  Stephens,  a  very  pretty  girl, 
shared  the  rides  with  him.  And  it  didn't 
take  him  long  to  decide  he  wanted  to 
share  everything  with  her  from  then  on. 
But  the  lovely  English-bom  girl's  parents 
objected  strenuously  to  their  daughter's 
marrying  at  16.  So  the  two  just  studied 


together,  played  together  and  dreamed  to- 
gether until  his  mother  decided  it  was 
high  time  her  handsome  son  had  a  taste 
of  work  to  shape  his  character. 

"I  don't  care  what  you  do,"  she  told 
him,  "Just  so  it's  decent." 

When  he  landed  a  job  as  a  page  at  NBC 
in  New  York,  she  was  somewhat  taken 
aback  but  Gordon  knew  that  it  took  luck 
as  well  as  ability  to  get  a  big-league  job  in 
radio.  He  waited  for  his  lucky  moment. 
Whenever  anyone  who  might  do  him  any 
good  came  into  NBC,  Gordon  sang  at  his 
work. 

Horace  Heidt  was  the  first  to  give  him  a 
second  ear.  He  liked  what  he  heard  and 
saw  and  hired  Gordon  to  sing  with  his 
orchestra. 

Gordon  hurried  to  Sheila  with  the  news. 
Once  again  they  took  up  the  matter  of 
marriage  with  her  parents.  Still  they 
couldn't  get  approval,  Gordon  went  out 
on  the  road  with  Horace  Heidt's  troupe. 
In  May,  Sheila  joined  the  troupe  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  to  visit  him. 

"I'd  tried  to  get  my  parents  to  let  me 
make  it  a  wedding  trip,"  Sheila  recalls. 
"But  they  still  wouldn't  consent.  I  was 
only  18,  of  course.  They  adored  Gordon 
but  they  thought  we  should  wait  until  we 
were  older." 

"Sheila,  Gordon's  no  good  to  me,"  Hor- 
ace Heidt  told  her  on  her  arrival.  "He's 
thinking  about  you  all  the  time.  Why  don't 
you  get  married  here  and  now?  Then  he'll 
hit  his  stride."  (Continued  on  page  106) 


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him.  But  Tony  just  dates  Janet  and  now  at  last  he's  really  living.   •    by  imogene  Collins 


■  Three  years  ago,  when  Tony  Curtis  first  came  out  to 
Hollywood,  an  old-time  publicity  man  offered  him  some 
advice. 

"Son,"  he  said,  "don't  tie  yourself  down  with  any  one  gal. 
Play  the  field  and  you'll  be  okay.  Stick  with  one  dame,  and 
you're  dead." 

Tony  was  politely  doubtful.  "I  don't  understand,"  he  said, 
"what's  wrong  in  going  with  one  girl?" 

"Now,  look,  kid,"  the  veteran  tub-thumper  explained,  "if 
you  concentrate  on  one  dame  the  newspapers  will  mention  it 
four  or  five  times.  You're  out  at  Universal,  right?  So,  say  you 
start  going  with  Ann  Blyth.  Curtis  and  Blyth,  that's  the 
combination.  Well,  it  makes  the  gossip  columns  a  few  times, 
and  then  you're  finished.  Everybody  thinks  you're  tied  up, 
and  you  can't  get  a  date.  The  best  thing  for  a  young  actor  is 
to  get  around  with  a  lot  of  girls.  Makes  people  think  you're 
a  great  lover." 

Curtis  who  is  young,  trusting  and  naive  started  following 
this  advice  to  the  letter. 

His  first  date  at  Universal,  strangely  enough,  was  with  Ann 
Blyth.  "She's  a  wonderful  girl,"  Tony  says,  "and  I  had  a  fine 
evening  with  her — only  I  found  out  early  that  we  had  ver}- 
little  in  common.  Ann  is  very  sweet,  you  know,  verj^  demure 
and  pious.  She's  quiet  and  sedate,  and  well,  I  guess  I'm  not. 
I'm  the  kind  of  guy  who  likes  to  live  each  day  as  if  it's  his 
last.  Ann  and  I  are  opposites  in  temperament,  background, 
and  outlook." 

When  Tony  stopped  dating  Ann,  he  began  seeing  Shelley 
Winters  occasionally.  But  here  again,  there  was  no  mutual 
attraction.  "Shelle}-,"  according  to  Tony,  "is  absolutely  fan- 
tastic. She's  a  dynamo,  a  volcano  in  eruption.  I  couldn't  keep 
up  with  her." 

The  fact  that  Tony  had  dated  Ann  Blyth  and  Shelley  Win- 
ters immediately  made  him  column  bait — as  the  publicity 
man  had  predicted — and  the  next  thing  he  knew,  Tony  began 
receiving  phone  calls  from  young  starlets.  "How  about  being 
my  escort  next  Thursday  night?"  or,  "Wouldn't  you  like  to 
take  me  to  Arthur's  party?"  they'd  ask. 

"Maybe  I'm  just  plain  dumb,''  Tony  says  now,  "but  I 
thought  these  girls  were  calling  because  they  were  interested 
in  me.  1  found  out  later  they  weren't  interested  in  me.  They 
just  wanted  to  use  my  name. 

"I  took  one  starlet  out  and  she  said,  T  hear  you  know  Mr. 
Goldwyn.  How  about  introducing  me  some  time?'  I  don't 
know  Mr.  Goldwyn  at  all. 

"I  went  out  with  another  and  she  said,  'Look,  Tony,  you 
take  care  of  me  and  I'll  take  care  of  you.'  Honest.  I  didn't 
know  what  she  meant.  Later,  I  learned  she  wanted  to  meet 
a  producer  on  the  lot. 

"The  experiences  I  had  playing  the  field — ^v-ou  wouldn't 
believe  them.  Never  have  I  met  such  career-conscious  girls. 
They  all  want  to  get  ahead.  I  couldn't  tell  if  they  hked  me 
or  they  were  using  me.  It  was  funny,  too,  because  I  had  no 


influence  with  anyone  at  the  time,  and  I  still  don't.  With 
ten  cents  I  can  buy  a  cup  of  coffee. 

"I  remember  the  time  I  took  this  young  actress  to  a  party. 
I'm  not  going  to  mention  her  name.  I  happened  to  meet  a 
gentleman  there  who  was  in  the  hardware  business.  I  told 
my  date  that  he  was  a  big  producer.  Maybe  you  won't  believe 
this,  but  you  know,  she  dropped  me  flat  and  she  hung 
around  this  guy's  neck  all  evening.  Maybe  I  should've 
laughed,  but  honest,  I  was  disillusioned.  Where,  I  kept 
asking  myself,  can  an  actor  meet  one  sincere  girl?" 

Speaking  of  disillusion,  all  Hollywood  remembers  the  time 
Tony  took  Geraldine  Brooks  to  a  party  thrown  by  Farley 
Granger.  At  this  party,  Tony  didn't  like  the  way  Farley  was 
looking  at  Geraldine,  and  he  didn't  particularly  Uke  the  way 
Geraldine  was  gazing  at  Farley. 

Presently,  Tony  sat  down  beside  Geraldine.  She  was 
smiling  at  Farley,  and  Tony  was  rapidly  burning. 

"Gerrj-,"  said  Tony,  "I  want  to  talk  to  you — in  the 
other  room." 

"What  do  you  mean?"  Geraldine  allegedly  replied. 

"Get  in  the  other  room!"  Curtis  stormed.  And  then  he 
whirled  on  Granger.  "And  you,  too,  Farley,"  he  barked. 

After  the  three  of  them  went  into  another  room,  Tony 
locked  the  door.  Furious,  he  turned  on  Granger.  "What  kind 
of  an  idiot  do  you  think  I  am,  Farley?"  he  shouted.  "Don't 
you  think  I  have  eyes?  Don't  you  think  I  can  see  what's 
going  on  between  you  two?  If  you  want  to  date  Gerry,  all 
you  have  to  do  is  ask  me.  You  want  to  take  her  home,  go 
ahead  take  her  home." 

Then  Tony  opened  the  door  and  walked  out. 

Farley  took  Geraldine  home,  and  the  friendship  between 
these  two  can  be  dated  from  that  night. 

This  incident  happened  some  time  ago — so  at  least  legend 
has  it — and  today  Curtis  and  Granger  are  good  friends.  The 
point  to  be  made,  however,  is  this — playing  the  Hollywood 
field  turned  Tony  Curtis  into  a  one-woman  man. 

"I  was  played  for  a  sucker  so  many  times,"  Tony  said, 
"that  I  began  being  suspicious  of  all  girls.  They  must  want 
something,  I  told  myself,  or  they  wouldn't  go  out  with  me. 
And  the  funniest  part  of  it  all  is  that  I  can't  even  help  my 
own  career,  never  mind  helping  someone  else's.  I'm  still  a 
beginner  out  here.  I've  got  lots  to  learn,  but  back  then  I 
didn't  even  know  how  to  drive  to  the  studio. 

"The  luckiest  thing  that  ever  happened  to  me  was  meeting 
Janet  Leigh.  Here  was  an  actress  who's  fifty  times  more 
important,  more  experienced,  and  more  valuable  than  I  am. 

"I've  been  going  with  Janet  almost  a  year  now,  and  do  you 
know,  she's  never  once  asked  me  to  take  her  to  a  night  club 
or  suggested  that  it  might  be  a  good  idea  if  we  were  seen  at 
such  and  such  a  place. 

"Maybe  I'm  kidding  myself,  but  I  think  Janet  is  interested 
in  me  as  a  person.  She  knows  there's  nothing  I  can  do  for  her 
career-wise.  She  has  more  money,  {Continued  on  page  79) 


Your  career's  at 
the  crossroads, 
and  Hollywood 
wiseacres  know  it. 


■  Some  weeks  ago,  a  motion  picture  director,  toiling  over 
the  script  of  his  next  epic,  halted  his  work  for  a  moment  as  a 
producer  entered  his  ofi&ce. 

"Just  a  minute,"  he  said,  "I  want  to  finish  this  kitchen 
scene  between  Granger  and  the  girl." 

"Save  yourself  the  trouble,"  said  the  producer,  "Granger's 
not  going  to  play  it." 

The  director  looked  up  in  surprise. 

"You're  kidding,"  he  said. 

"No,"  said  the  producer.  "He  doesn't  want  to  do  it." 

"But  it's  him,"  said  the  director.  "It's  perfect  for  him." 

The  producer  shrugged  his  shoulders. 

"I've  got  to  go  look  for  another  boy,"  he  said. 

The  director  sat  and  scratched  his  head  and  meditated 
upon  the  unpredictability  of  actors. 

"Just  imagine,"  he  muttered  to  himself.  "Now  Farley 
Granger  is  turning  down  pictures." 

Except  for  the  last  line  in  this  little  sketch,  it  is  a 
pretty  stock  situation  in  Hollywood.  Actors,  for  any 
number  of  reasons,  have  been  turning  down  scripts  since 
motion  pictures  began.  But  when  a  boy  as  unusually 
lucky  in  his  selection  of  roles,  and  as  unusually  grateful  as 
Farley  Granger  has  been,  starts  turning  them  down,  the 
situation  confuses  even  {Continued  on  page  89) 


The  sprawling  sunroom  v/ith  its  many  windows  Is  typical  of  the   David  Wayne  home.    It  wos  built  a  generation  ago  when  taxes  were 


sometaity  sort  oj 

gRANDlSH 

This  is  the  h 


■  "I  want  a  house  so  big,"  David  Wayne  used  to  tell  his 
wife,  "that  you'll  have  to  send  a  St.  Bernard  to  call  me  for 
meals." 

And  now  they  have  one — a  house  so  large  and  beautiful 
that  a  St.  Bernard  would  need  a  friend  to  lead  him  around. 
It's  a  far  cry  from  their  basement  apartment  in  New  York's 
Greenwich  Village.  That  apartment  was  the  reconverted 
second  kitchen  of  what  had  been  an  elegant  town  house.  It 
was  one  room  with  a  converted  woodshed  for  sleeping 


ouse  of  ishes  come  true,  the  house  that  David  Wayne  dreamed 


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almost  non-existent  and   glcmcr    ^/as   at  an   all-time  high. 


quarters,  and  a  refrigerator  under  the  sink.  The  Wajmes 
laughingly  referred  to  the  place  as  home. 

The  laugh  froze  on  David's  lips  the  day  an  obstetrician 
invited  him  into  his  office.  "Mr.  Wayne,"  said  the  obste- 
trician, "I  have  a  big  surprise  for  you." 

David  arranged  his  face  in  a  nervous  smile.  "Yes, 
doctor?" 

"Wayne,"  the  obstetrician  boomed.  "By  next  week  you 
should  be  the  father  of  twins !"  (Continued  on  next  page) 


about — something  sort  of  swellis/i,  largeis/i,  lavis/i 


The  luxuriously  furnished  entrance  hall  and  stairway  reflect  the  feel- 
ing of  the  house.  Neutral  tones  in  carpeting  and  upholstery,  and 
blonde  furniture  are  planned  to  blend   into  the  overall-  decor. 


Next  to  the  master  bedroom  is  an  upstairs  living  room  reserved  for 
intimate  family  affairs  and  TV  showings.  Pine-paneled  and  simple, 
it's  a  bonus  room  that  comes  only  in  large,  old-fashioned  houses. 


The  dining  room,  opening  on  a  camellia  garden,  looks  modern  but 
is  furnished  in  antique  Chinese  Chippendale,  a  forerunner  of  con- 
temporary design.  Mirrored  wolls  seem  to  Increase  the  room's  size. 


MORE>- 


David  once  was  a  leprechaun  on  the  s+age — perfect  training 
as  a  playmate  for  Melinda  and  Susan.  The  playroom  is  decorated 
in  red  with  white  window  shutters  and  red  and  white  scatter  ruqs. 


Melinda  and  Susan,  the  twins,  and  blonde  Timmie  love  to  corner 
their  father  in  the  sunroom  for  games  and  read-alouds.  Their 
mother,  Jane,  is  the  daughter  of  Jean  Gordon,  a  Met  opera  star. 


something  sort  of  grandish  cont'd 


David  had  known  he  was  going  to  be  a  father.  He'd 
even  thought  he  could  talk  one  baby  into  living  in  the 
basement — but  two?  That  second  baby  might  walk 
out  on  him. 

•  His  wife  offered  a  suggestion  having  to  do  with 
magic.  David  was  appearing  as  a  leprechaun  in 
Broadway's  Finian's  Rainbow,  and  his  wife  said, 
"Why  don't  you  just  conjure  up  a  second  bedroom?" 

"Darling,"  David  said  helplessly,  "we'll  just  have 
to  ad  lib  it." 

Melinda  and  Susan,  the  twins,  arrived  on  time. 
And  their  parents  felt  so  gay  that  they  all  managed  to 
survive  even  without  another  bedroom.  In  fact,  Ogi,  a 
nurse,  came  around  a  lot,  too.  It  was  always  as  busy 
as  bargain  day  down  in  that  basement. 

David  started  having  dreams  of  grandeur.  "This 
house  we're  going  to  get,"  he'd  say,  "this  house  will 
be  the  largest,  roomiest,  most  spacious  house  you 
ever  saw." 

When  MGM  brought  David  out  to  Hollywood  at 
the  request  of  Katherine  Hepburn,  who  wanted  him 
in  Adam's  Rib,  David  finally  got  a  chance  to  carry 
out  his  aim.  That  was  two  Octobers  ago,  and  the 
Wayne  family  had  been  increased  by  Timmie,  a  son. 

"When  I  told  the  real  estate  agents  that  I  was  in 
the  market  for  a  house  with  five  bedrooms,"  David 
says,  "they  really  rubbed  their  hands  with  glee.  Now- 
adays, you  know,  ever>'one  wants  small  houses, 
intimate  places,  keeps  the  overhead  down. 

"I  could  see  what  was  going  through  the  minds  of 
those  real  estate  boys.  Here  I  was,  an  ignorant  fish 
from  the  East.  This  was  their  opportunity  to  unload 
a  big  white  elephant.  You  should've  seen  some  of  the 
jobs  they  showed  Jane  and  me.  The  At  water  Kent 
estate,  the  Doheny  mansion,  places  that  looked  like 
the  Museum  of  Natural  History.  'Look  Jack,'  I  final- 
ly said  to  one  of  these  boys,  'we're  in  the  market 
for  a  big  family  house,  but  we're  not  looking  for 
stables,  swimming  pools  and  a  hundred  acres  of 
citrus  fruit.'  " 

After  inspecting  the  various  offers,  David  and 
Jane  decided  that  it  would  be  more  economical  to 
take  an  old  house  and  fix  it  up  than  to  mortgage  their 
future  and  buy  a  new  one. 

The  house  they  finally  selected  is  in  the  "Sunset 
Boulevard"  section  of  Hollywood.  It  was  built  a  gen- 
eration ago  when  Gloria  Swanson  was  a  young 
woman  and  income  taxes  were  negligible.  The  house 
reflects  both  influences. 

To  begin  with,  it  is  tremendous — a  three  story 
structure  with  thirteen  rooms,  and  five  baths.  The 
acre  and  a  half  that  surrounds  the  house  is  beauti- 
fully landscaped  -with  evergreens  and  magnificent 
eucalyptus  trees.  There  is  also  a  tennis  court,  a 
pond  jammed  with  gold  fish,  and  a  patch  of  lawn 
large  enough  for  David  {Continued  on  page  91) 


44 


A  Their  elegantly  appointed  living  room  is  a  far  cry  from  the  all-in- 
one  basement  job  in  New  York.  The  house  has  thirteen  rooms  and  five 
baths  with  an  acre  of  landscoped   grounds,  and  a  tennis  court. 

^  David's  corner  of  the  library  is  mode  for  a  man  with  pipe  and 
book.  He  reads  everything  from  Spinoza  to  golf  tips.  Jean's  unique 
collection  of  china   banks  was  started  by  her  mother  years  ago. 

^  The  formal  library  is  book-crammed  and  designed  for  reading. 
Done  in  soft  green,  its  monotone  effect  is  easy  on  the  eyes  and 
relaxing.  Tall  Chinese  vases  give  light  and  dignity  to  the  room. 


i  41 


H' 


45 


hollywood's  ten  most 


Yoii  bet  Hollywood 

men  aren't  what  they  used 

to  be!  They're  more 

exciting  than  ever.  , 

For  instance, 

take  these  ten — 

and  who  wouldn't? 


■  The  good  looking  guy  sat  on  my 
sofa  telling  the  story  with  gestures 
while  I  almost  rolled  all  over  my  best 
Oriental  rug.  He  was  recalling  the 
time  when  the  late  John  Barrymore 
came  to  his  house  for  dinner — and 
stayed  six  riotous  days.  Every  min- 
ute that  week  was  a  howl,  every  hour 
a  fantastic  adventure. 

"You  just  can't  beheve  what  a 
fascinating  person  Jack  was,"  sighed 
my  guest,  as  I  doubled  up  at  the  un- 
printable pranks.  "I  never  had  a 
more  wonderful  time  in  my  life.  But 
Hedda,"  he  lamented,  "you  know, 
they've  quit  breeding  stars  like 
Barrymore  around  here.  There  just 
aren't  fascinating  men  in  Hollj^vood 
any  more." 

But  before  he  had  those  words  out 
of  his  mouth,  I  had  the  mirror 
whipped  out  of  my  compact  and  up 
before  his  handsome,  startled  face. 

"Take  a  good  look,"  I  told  Errol 
Flynn,  "and  maybe  you'll  see  one 
right  about  now!" 

"Stop  kidding,"  he  protested.  But, 
beheve  me,  kidding  was  the  last  thing 
on  my  mind. 

Almost  every  day,  it  seems,  some- 
one comes  my  way  with  a  complaint 
like  this:   (Continued  on  page  92) 


'■FARLEY  GRANGER,  an  exciting  taun-like  creature,  "TYRONE  POWER  is  a  nnodel  gentleman, 
has  a  ravenous  hunger  to  live  and  learn.  He's  like  His  manly  authority  is  blended  with  in- 
springtime,  ready  to  bust  out  all  over  one  fine  day."  ■   credible  handsomeness,  clean-cut  charm." 


"TONY  CURTIS  has  eyes  you  could  get  lost  in.  He's  "ERROL  FLYNN  is  a  scamp  who  should 
a  flinty  fighter  who  doesn't  let  anything  stand  in  have  lived  in  the  flamboyant  16th  cen- 
his  woy,  yet  Tony  is  tender  as  well  as  tough."      tury.  He's  ruthless,  conceited,  irresistible." 


46 


1 


"MARLON  BRANDO,  a  brilliant  brat,  is  all  wrapped  "HOWARD  DUFF  is  the  pipe  type.  He's  patient  and  "STEWART  GRANGER,  the  essence  ot 
UD  in  acting.  Possibly  the  greatest  genius  since  philosophical,  slow  but  sure.  One  star  says,  He  has  sophistication  and  British  charm,  has 
Barrymore,  he's  complex,  unorthodox,  hard  to  know."    the   greatest   physical    magnetism    I've   ever  felt'."    romance  and  virility  in  every  glance." 


"ROBERT  MITCHUM,  that  reckless  slugger  of  life,  "MONTGOMERY  CLIFT  is  lazy  and  likes  to  loaf,  but  "VICTOR  MATURE  is  like  a  brass  band, 
is  a  poet,  too.  He  does  what  he  wonts  when  he  he's  a  brilliant  personality.  A  free  soul,  he  despises  He's  frank,  he's  original,  he's  never  dull, 
wants  to,  and  no  matter  what  it  is,  he's  lovable."    glamor,  and  remains  unimpressed  and  indifferent."    And  what  a  'gorgeous  hunk  of  man'." 


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DOMERGUE 

When  you  think  of  Faith 

you  think  of 

tangos  in  the  moonlight, 

the  scent  of  perfume, 

the  lustre  of 

black  satin 

and  pearls  .  .  . 

BY  LOUIS  POLLOCK 


"They  come  first," 
says  Faith  of  director- 
husband  Hugo  and 
baby  Diana. 


■  More  than  six  years  ago  Merle  Oberon 
was  dancing  at  the  old  Trocadero  when  she 
suddenly  turned  away  from  her  partner 
to  put  her  hand  on  the  arm  of  a  young  girl 
nearby.  Merle  spoke  to  her  in  open  admiration. 

"I  beg  your  pardon,"  she  said.  "But 
how  pretty  you  are." 

The  younger  girl,  slim,  dark  like  Merle, 
brown-eyed  and  with  a  Latin  glow, 
blushed  and  seemed  to  hesitate  about 
answering.  When  she  did  speak  it  was 
with  a  noticeable  hsp.  "Thank  you,"  she  repUed. 

The  girl  had  wanted  to  say  more. 
She  had  wanted  to  say  (and  this  is  her 
first  opportunity  to  do  so  pubhcly) 
that  ever  since  she  was  in  her  'teens  and 
saw  Merle  in  Wiithering  Heights  she  modeled 
herself  after  her.  In  fact,  she  converted 
her  neighborhood  into  the  Highlands  in  her 
imagination  and  for  months  it  rang 
with  her  hsping  cries  of  "Heathcliffe ! " 

The  girl,  as  you  may  have  guessed, 
was  Faith  Domergue.  Today  Faith,  who 
plays  opposite  Bob  Mitchum  in  RKO's 
Where  Danger  Lies,  is  headed  for  stardom. 
She  brings  to  this  career  her  unusual 
brunette  beauty  and  a  long, 
intensive  preparation  for  her  work. 
However,  she  does  not  leave  behind  the 
hfe  she  has  been  living — the  most 
important  side. of  her  hfe,  she  says.  What- 
ever happens  to  her  professionally, 
she  wants  always  to  continue  a  role  she  began 
more  than  three  years  ago — the  role 
of  a  young  wife,  and  now,  young  mother. 

Faith  lives  with  her  husband, 
Hugo  Fregonese,  and  her  baby  daughter, 
Diana,  in  a  two-bedroom,  duplex  apartment 
resembling  hundreds  of  other  small  apart- 
ments in  West  Los  Angeles.  Like 
many  of  the  young  wives  in  the  area  she 
has  a  cleaning  woman  come  in  two 
or  three  days  a  week,  but  otherwise  does  her 
own  housework  and  cooking.  Though 
she  is  blessed  by  the  fact  that  her  parents 
occupy  the  lower  half  of  the  duplex 
and  constantly  volunteer  to  baby-sit,  she  and 
Hugo  do  not  go  out  very  often.  When 
they  do,  it  is  generally  to  the  home 
of  friends  for  an  evening  of  talk  or 
perhaps  cards.  They're  seldom 
seen  at  large  parties  or  night  clubs. 

Bom  in  New  Orleans,  Faith  was  brought 
to  California  by  her  parents  when  she 
was  five  and  grew  up  right  in  Beverly  Hills. 
Her  playmates  started  to  laugh  early  at 
her  lisp,  on  the  street,  and  in  school 
when  she  insisted  on  trying  out  for 
parts  in  class  theatricals.  Even 
worse,  her  teachers  used  to  try  to 
dissuade  her,  diplomatically,  of  course, 
from  trj'ing  to  be  an  actress. 

This  was  when  a  discouraged  Faith 
used  to  run  away  from  school  .  .  .  but 
rarely  to  anywhere  else  but  her  home.  She 
doesn't  think  this  was  odd  on  her  part. 

"After  all,  what  {Continued  on  page  104) 


49 


Marriage  and 
divorce  are  common 
in  Hollywood;  the  public 
takes  them  both  with 
a  shrug  of  the 
shoulders.  But  these  two 
marriages  were 
different;  these  two 
divorces  were  shocking 
blows.  Elizabeth  Taylor, 
beautiful  and  blessed, 
found  her  prince 
and  spun  golden  dreams 
for  all  the  girls 
in  the  world  . . . 
Barbara  Stanwyck 
married  Robert  Taylor 
and  for  eleven  years 
set  an  example 
of  mature  devotion  ... 
When  these  marriages 
ended,  belief  ended,  and 
now  people  wonder: 
can  love  ever  last  in 
Hollywood? 


"I  cried  for  you" 


BY  SHEILAH  GRAHAM  It  was  a  bleak 
Wednesday  evening  in  December.  Lights 
were  glowing  softly  all  over  Bel  Air  where 
people  live  in  luxurious  contentment.  Sud- 
denly, a  black  Cadillac  convertible  whizzed 
up  a  winding  road.  It  slid  to  a  stop  before  a 
huge  and  stately  mansion.  For  a  moment 
nothing  stirred. 

Knuckles  white  as  she  grasped  the  steer- 
ing wheel,  EUzabeth  Taylor  sat  and  stared 
straight  ahead,  as  if  gathering  courage  for 
a  momentous  decision.  Then  she  swung 
open  the  car  door  and  walked  toward  the 
sumptuous  home  of  Conrad  Hilton.  Inside 
her  husband,  Nicky  Hilton,  waited. 

Now  they  were  alone  together.  Complete- 
ly alone  for  the  first  time  in  weeks.  These 
two  for  whom  there  were  such  high  hopes 
were  strangers  now.  Formally,  they  faced 


each  other  across  the  long  dining  room  table 
and  Nicky  might  well  have  imagined  that 
the  traces  of  hurriedly  removed  makeup  on 
his  wife's  face  were  stained  by  tears. 

They  talked  in  low  tones,  as  though  re- 
porters were  lurking  behind  the  paneled 
walls.  But  there  was  no  one  to  eavesdrop  on 
the  things  they  said.  There  was  as  much 
intimacy  in  their  disenchantment  as  there 
had  been  in  the  first  thrills  of  married  love 
eight  months  before. 

"Come  back  to  me!" 

There  is  a  desolate  hopelessness  in  those 
words.  Nicky  Hilton  may  doubt  that  he 
ever  uttered  them.  Elizabeth  will  never  say 
whether  he  did  or  not.  The  actual  truth  is 
that  hg  said  more  than  that.  He  talked  to 
Elizabeth  for  hours  as  a  man  will  when  he 
knows  he  is  losing  the  woman  he  really 


A  world  apart 


BY  MARSHA  SAUNDERS  After  eleven 
years  of  a  marriage  that  supposedly  was 
one  of  the  most  idyllic  in  Hollywood  his- 
tory, Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Robert  Taylor 
agreed  to  divorce. 

Oddly  enough,  they  decided  to  dissolve 
their  union  on  the  very  same  day  that  Shir- 
ley Temple  and  Charles  Black  decided  to 
marry,  nine  days  before  Christmas  of  1950. 
(For  the  story  of  Shirley^s  marriage  see 
page  52). 

The  announcement  by  Barbara  and  Bob 
that  their  marriage  had  been  a  failure,  that 
they  could  not  go  on  living  as  they  had  in 
the  past,  that  their  only  recourse  was  the 
divorce  court,  came  as  a  shock  to  the  entire 
screen  colony. 

As  you  probably  know,  the  film  colony 
doesn't  shock  easily.  Last  year  for  example, 


Frank  and  Nancy  Sinatra,  Evelyn  Keyes, 
Kirk  Douglas,  Betty  Hutton,  Bette  Davis, 
and  half  a  dozen  other  noteworthy  stars 
all  decided  to  call  off  their  marital  ventures. 
No  one  seemed  surprised  at  any  of  these. 
But  the  Stanwyck-Taylor  admission  that 
their  marriage  was  no-go — that  was  a  gen- 
uine shocker,  because  for  a  decade  now 
Bob  and  Barbara  have  been  pointed  out  as 
the  perfect  mates. 

They  were  two  mature  people — not  kids 
like  Liz  Taylor  and  Nicky  Hilton.  The  Tay- 
lors knew  the  score.  They  went  around  with 
each  other  for  two  years  before  they  eloped 
to  San  Diego  in  1939.  Each  of  them  had 
ample  time  to  learn  everything  they  needed 
to  know  about  the  other. 

What  went  wrong  with  this  "perfect" 
marriage.? 


loves.  It  is  as  true  of  young  Nicky  Hilton 
as  it  has  been  of  many  men  that  by  careless 
words  and  deeds  he  can  reject  a  woman, 
and  then  want  her  terribly. 

On  the  other  hand,  it  is  as  true  of  Eliza- 
beth Taylor  as  it  is  of  many  women  that 
she  can  come  to  the  time  when,  no  matter 
how  strong  her  love  for  a  man  is,  she  will 
no  longer  allow  that  love  to  be  treated  with 
disdain,  beaten,  nm  over  for  aU  the  world 
to  see. 

There  was  a  time  when,  swallowing  her 
pride,  Elizabeth  could  come  back,  warm  and 
forgiving  after  a  bitter  quarrel.  But  now 
she  was  strong,  even  cold  in  her  decision. 
As  for  Nicky,  it  seemed  when  he  talked  as 
though  he  were  a  gambler  losing  his  life's 
stake.  He  reasoned  feverishly,  then  humbly 
with  his  bride.  (Continued  on  page  101) 


L!z  and  Nicky's  glamorous  union  ron  its  course  in  seven  tempestuous  months 


For  I  I  years,  Bob  and  Barbara  had  set  an  example  by  their  "perfect  marrioqe 


The  statement  issued  by  Barbara  and 
Bob  says:  "In  the  last  few  years,  because 
of  our  professional  requirements,  we  have 
been  separated  just  too  often  and  too  long. 
Our  sincere  and  continued  efforts  to  main- 
tain our  marriage  have  failed.  We  are  deep- 
ly disappointed  that  we  could  not  solve 
our  problems.  We  really  tried.  We  un- 
happily and  reluctantly  admit  what  we 
have  denied  to  even  our  closest  friends,  be- 
cause we  wanted  to  work  things  out  to- 
gether in  as  much  privacy  as  possible. 
There  will  be  a  California  divorce.  Neither 
of  us  have  any  other  romantic  interest 
whatsoever." 

That's  the  official  statement — and  for 
what  it's  worth,  it  was  handed  out  to  the 
press  by  Barbara's  press  agent,  Helen 
Ferguson.  {Continued  on  page  88) 


two 

happy 

marriages 

The  romances  were 
private;  the  weddings  were 
simple.  Shirley  Temple 
became  Mrs.  Charles 
Black,  and  the  unreal 
splendor  of  her 
childhood,  the 
unfortunate  interlude 
of  her  first  marriage 
became  memories . . . 
Ruth  Roman  became 
Mrs.  Mort  Hall,  and  her 
long  struggle  toward 
stardom,  her  battle 
against  loneliness  became 
memories,  too.  For  each, 
this  is  a  new  beginning. 
Shirley  leaves  her  legendary 
past;  Ruth  continues 
to  build  her  career- 
both  move  forward  alike 
in  their  security  of  love 
and  understanding. 


Now  and  forever 


BY  SUSAN  TRENT  Several  years  ago 
when  Shirley  Temple  was  making  Since 
You  Went  Away  with  Claudette  Colbert, 
both  girls  were  discussing  career  versus 
marriage. 

"A  career,"  Claudette  admitted,  "is  a 
very  wonderful  accomplishment — only  you 
can't  sit  down  beside  it  at  breakfast." 

Shirley  has  never  forgotten  those  words. 
A  few  weeks  ago  when  the  time  came  for 
her  to  make  her  choice,  she  chose  marriage 
without  the  slightest  hesitation — marriage 
to  Charles  Black,  the  handsome,  30-year-old 
son  of  a  San  Francisco  utilities  company 
president. 

The  ceremony,  Shirley's  second,  was  in 
direct  contrast  to  the  Temple-Agar  wedding 
of  September,  1945. 

This  time  Shirley  was  no  longer  a  wide- 
eyed,  innocent  chUd  taking  part  in  a  gigan- 


tic public  spectacle;  nor  was  she  an  Ameri- 
can institution,  the  darling  of  57  million 
movie  fans,  who  called  all  the  shots. 

In  wedding  number  two,  publicity-shy, 
Charles  Black  was  calling  the  shots. 

A  few  days  before  Shirley  and  Charles 
were  married  in  a  sijiple  ceremony,  she  was 
invited  to  attend  the  Modern  Screen  party 
at  Ciro's. 

"I'd  love  to  come,"  she  said,  "hut  Charles 
doesn't  like  publicity,  and  I  want  to  do  what 
he  likes — so  this  time,  please  excuse  me." 

Even  before  then,  everyone  in  Hollywood 
knew  who  would  wear  the  pants  in  that 
family.  A  little  while  after  he  had  come  to 
Los  Angeles  to  be  near  Shirley  and  had 
taken  a  job  with  TV  station  KTTV,  Charies 
told  a  newspaper  reporter: 

"Look,  I  come  from  San  Francisco,  and 
up  around  there  we  don't  believe  in  all  this 


A  man  of  her  own 


BY  JIM  HENAGHAN  The  romance  be- 
tween Ruth  Roman  and  Mortimer  Hall  be- 
gan in  New  York  City  early  last  fall.  Ruth, 
still  flushed  with  the  first  glow  of  success, 
was  on  a  jaunt  East,  sampling  the  cafe 
society  hfe  she  hadn't  been  able  to  afford 
during  her  embryo*  da3rs  as  an  actress  in 
Gotham.  She  was  dining  with  a  girl  friend 
at  the  "21"  Club.  At  her  elbow,  at  the  next 
table,  a  dark,  handsome  young  man  was 
eating  alone.  They  laugh  at  it  now,  but 
Ruth  admits  that  during  her  dinner  she 
thought  the  attractive  lad  at  the  next  table 
was  having  some  sort  of  a  fit.  And  the 
young  man  admits  that  he  did  just  about 
everything  but  stand  on  his  head  to  attract 
the  movie  star's  attention. 

Diimer  was  almost  finished  when  a  man 
stopped  at  Ruth  Roman's  table  to  say  hello. 


Like  an  ambitious  quarterback,  who  had 
just  found  a  hole  in  a  tough  line,  the  man  at 
the  next  table  leaped  to  his  feet,  shook 
hands  with  the  stranger  and  demanded  an 
introduction. 

"Ruth  Roman,  this  is  Mortimer  Hall," 
said  the  visitor.  And  he  excused  himself 
and  left,  little  realizing  that  he  was  a 
vagrant  agent  of  Cupid. 

Without  an  invitation,  Morty  Hall  sat 
down  and  joined  the  girls.  They  sipped 
coffee  while  Morty  wracked  his  brain  trying 
to  think  of  some  way  of  prolonging  his 
presence.  He  might  have  saved  himself  the 
trouble.  As  they  were  about  to  leave,  Ruth 
turned  to  him, 

"What  are  you  doing  tonight?"  she  said. 

"I  beg  your  pardon,"  said  Morty. 

"I've  got  a  couple  of  tickets  to  a  show. 


rah-rah  and  publicity.  We  believe  in  a  little 
privacy.  If  it's  okay  with  you,  just  say 
I  served  in  the  Na\'y  and  let  it  go  at  that. 
The  movie  magazines  have  been  after  me 
to  talk  about  my  future  ■^\ith  Shirley  ever 
since  I  got  here.  I'm  not  talking  to  anyone. 
I  give  you  my  word." 

Black  kept  his  word,  too.  Eleven  days 
after  Shirley  received  her  final  divorce 
papers,  this  former  Naval  Intelligence  ofiEi- 
cer  and  millionaire's  son  picked  up  his 
bride-to-be,  sneaked  out  of  Holl>T\-ood,  and 
obtained  a  wedding  license  at  Salinas, 
California. 

He  asked  Superior  Judge  Henry  Jorgen- 
son  to  perform  the  marriage  at  his  parents' 
white  California  ranch-st>'le  home  on  the 
Monterrey  Peninsula.  The  Judge  happUy 
agreed,  and  at  (Continued  on  page  64) 


Her  marriage  to  Charles  Black  on  Dec.  16  marked  the  end  of  Shiriey  s  screen  career. 


Ruth  Roman  surprised  Hollywood  by  eloping  with  radio  executive  Mort  Hall  on  Dec.  !7. 


Would  you  likp  to  come  see  it  with  me?"' 
Morty  HaU  never  did  get  his  answer  but 
but  Ruth  Roman  knew  he  was  tr>dng  to  say 
yes.  And  so  it  happened  that  when  Ruth 
Roman,  former  carnival  girl,  met  Mortimer 
Hall,  darling  of  Westport  society,  she  took 
Itim  to  a  show — and  he  loved  it. 

Less  than  six  months  later,  they  were 
married.  The  Associated  Press  Wire  service 
handled  the  storj'  in  a  \try  unexcited,  mat- 
ter of  fact  manner.  "Dateline.  Las  Vegas, 
Nevada,  December  17,  1950:  Ruth  Roman, 
Warner  Brothers  actress,  today  married 
Mortimer  Hall,  wealthy  New  Yorker,  in  a 
surprise  elopement." 

Of  course,  the  newspapers  expanded  on 
this  information  considerably,  but  none  of 
them  told  the  real  tale — the  Cinderella 
story  of  a  poor  (  Continued  on  page  62) 


A  fat  cat  snoozing 
on  a  Montmartre  bar 
neat  Israeli  farms  .  .  . 
the  serenity  of 
the  Holy  City  .  .  . 
and  the  many,  many 
faces  shining 
with  friendliness. 


This  I  Remember 


At  St.  Peter's  Basilica,  June  Hover  adds 
to  her  movie  record  of  her  pilgrimage 
.  to  Rome  and  the  near  East. 


June  traveled  simply,  made  friends 
everywhere.  Here  she  chats  with  an  Arab 
policeman  in  Jerusalem. 


■  This  will  be  the  audience  in  my  heart  from  now  on 
whenever  I  step  in  front  of  the  camera: 

The  white-haired,  delicately  old  monk  weeping  with  joy  at 
having  finally  reached  the  shores  of  the  Sea  of  Galilee  .  .  . 

The  young  guide  of  Killamey  whose  farewell  was,  "Come 
back  to  Ireland  and  get  yourself  an  Irish  husband  .  . 

The  little  French  boy  with  his  long  loaf  of  bread  whom  I  met 
on  my  way  to  early  morning  Mass  in  Paris'  "wicked"  Montmartre  .  .  .  • 

The  bronzed  girls  and  youths  of  Israel;  the 
intense,  dramatic  people  of  Italy;  my  beloved  Father  Xavier 
of  India;  these  and  hundreds  of  others  .  .  . 

I  don't  think  I'll  ever  say  or  sing  another  Hne  in 
a  picture,  or  dance  a  step,  without  wondering  if 
they  mil  like  what  I  am  doing,  and  whether  it  will  help 
them  know  Hollywood  and  America  better. 

According  to  the  dictionary  a  pilgrimage  is  "A  long 
and  weary  journey  .  .  ."  Mine,  which  I  took  this  winter  to  Rome 
and  the  Holy  Land,  was  a  joy,  and  even  though  I 
traveled  by  plane,  I  think  I  could  have  walked  all  the  way 
and  still  come  back  as  inspired  as  I  am  now. 

My  mood  was  such,  in  fact,  that  I  refused  to  be 
disturbed,  on  my  return,  when  I  learned  that  some  newspaper 
people  had  ascribed  other  reasons  for  the  trip — 
that  I  had  gone,  as  one  columnist  reported,  to  discuss  entering  a 
convent,  or  as  another  stated,  to  get  a  Church  annulment  of 
my  former  marriage.  It  was  a  little  saddening  that  the  simple  truth  did 
not  occur  to  these  writers;  that  I  had  gone  for  the  same  reason 
thousands  of  other  Americans  had — to  know  better  the  source  of  the  peace 
and  inspiration  we  had  found  in  our  faith.  (Continued  on  page  86) 


55 


hands  off 


John  Agar's  in 
love  all  right  .  .  . 
with  his  career, 
and  the  only  girl 
in  his  life  just 
now  is  Susie  Agar, 
age  three. 

BY  PATRICIA  MONROE 


John  and  Ruth  Roman  were  a  surprise  twosome  before  she  wed. 


■  John  Agar  is  doing  just  fine. 

In  a  slow  methodical  way,  which  is  characteristic 
of  him,  he  has  steadily  ignored  gossip,  set 
each  one  of  his  goals  slightly  higher  than 
the  one  before,  and  is  hoisting  himself  gently  up 
the  glass  mountain  to  Hollywood  success. 

"Next  to  my  daughter,  my  career  is  the  most  important 
thing  in  my  life,''  he  says  bluntly. 

Maybe  he  says  it  a  little  bit  too  forcefully. 
Maybe  there's  an  edge  to  his  words.  Maybe  you  get 
a  feeling  he's  daring  you  to  doubt.  If  so 
he  has  cause. 

The  night  Fort  Apache  was  prexaewed  was  a 
heart-breaker.  It  was  his  first  picture.  The  sun  had 
taken  62  hours  to  go  down  that  day.  In  the 
afternoon  someone  had  suggested  golf  as  a 
sedative.  Every  ball  he  shot  landed  in  the  rough. 
Dinner  tasted  like  mildewed  sawdust  and  his 
seat  in  the  theater  wasn't  built  to  hide  a 
6'2"  growing  boy. 

In  the  lobbj'  some  clabber-mouthed  pseudo-critic 
pointed  at  him  and  said  to  his  girl  friend,  "That's 
Agar.  All  those  horse  scenes  were  done  by  a 
double.  The  kid's  got  nothing  but  pretty  blue  eyes." 

Those  pretty  blue  eyes  registered  the  poisoned 
crack,  and  turned  to  blue-black.  His  fists  were  clenched 
and  his  jaw  looked  like  Fearless  Fosdick's.  But 
not  one  sound  came  from  his  tightened  lips. 

When  John  Ford  asked  him  to  play  in  Fort 
Apache,  John  admitted  that  he  {Continued  on  page  66) 


56 


I  could  take 
what  life  dished  out, 
but  taking  it  gracefully 
was  another  matter. 
First  I  had  to  learn 
to  accept  myself  ,  .  . 


No.  ZW   in  a  series: 

HOW  THE  STARS  FOUND  FAITH 


I  FOUND  MY  WAY 


7 


Rena  and  Bill  rnorried  in  1945  after  he  left  the 
Marines.  Bill's  career  got  a  new  start  in  Pinky;  now 
he's  in  20th's  I'd  Climb  The  Highest  Mountain. 


■  How  do  you  find  your  way? 

When  you  are  young  you  confidently  take 
what  you  think  is  the  right  step  and  it  is  the 
first  of  a  hundred  wrong  ones.  You  look  ahead 
and  with  youthful  arrogance  peg  yourself  a 
high  place  in  the  world,  and  the  time  comes 
when  the  peg  won't  even  stick  in  a  low  one. 

I  was  to  be  a  lawyer  once.  I  was  to  be  a 
radio  somebody  once.  I  was  on  the  way  to 
becoming  an  established  actor  once.  And  sud- 
denly I  found  myself  a  soldier  willing  to  settle 
for  only  one  thing  .  .  .  that  I  wouldn't  show 
fear  and  run  in  front  of  my  buddies.  Nothing 
else  was  as  important,  not  even  dying.  It 
couldn't  have  been  ...  or  I  would  have  run. 

I  believe  that  that  was  when  I  earnestly 
started  to  think  about  the  "way,"  and  it 
seemed  to  me  that  it  was  not  a  matter  of  the 
direction  my  life  was  taking  but  of  my  attitude 
toward  it,  regardless  of  direction,  and  some- 
times even  regardless  of  happening. 

I  remembered  a  rainy  December  night  in 
San  Diego  when  a  Marine  rookie  sat  in  a 
convertible  on  a  Christmas  tree  lot  and  cursed 
with  hiisery  because  the  top  leaked  a  bit  and 
some  water  was  running  down  his  neck.  I  was 
that  Marine.  The  trees  belonged  to  me  and  two 
other  fellows  in  my  outfit.  We  had  bought 
them  to  make  a  killing  (which  we  didn't)  and 
every  night  one  of  us  had  to  be  on  hand  to 
watch  things.  Less  than  a  year  after  that  I 
was  under  enemy  fire  on  the  beach  at  Peleliu, 
with  only  fifteen  feet  of  land  behind  me  and 
all  hell  in  front.  But  I  was  able  to  experience 
a  thankful  and  happy  moment.  It  came  when 
I  succeeded  in  digging  {Continued  on  page  99) 


58 


JANE  POWELL 

CO-STARRING  IN 
METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER'S 
Technicolor  Musical 

"ROYAL  WEDDING" 


ml 


Here's  the  beauty  care  that  guards  her  mi 


This  radiant  young  star  has  a 
beauty  tip  for  you.  "My  Lux 
Soap  facials  Jo  wonders  for 
the  skin,"  says  Jane  Powell. 
"I  just  smooth  on  the  rich 
lather  and  work  it  well  in. 


"Next  I  rinse  with  warm  water  and 
follow  with  a  auick  cold  rinse. 
Right  away  njy  skin  feels  so  much 
softer  and  smoother."  That''s  be- 
cause active  lather  cleanses  thor- 
oughly but  very  gently,  too. 


"To  dry  I  pat  my  face  with  a 
soft  towel.  I  can  always  de- 
pend on  this  easy  care  for 
quick  new  beauty."  See  what 
this  Lux  Soap  care  lovely  screen 
stars  recommend  can  do  for  you! 


lonight!  Be  his  dream  g 


Tonight!  Show  him  how  much  lovelier 
your  hair  can  look. ..after  a 


BETTER  THAN 
SOAPS 


Leaves  hair  sparkling,  starry-bright ...  no  dulling 

soap  film  with  Lustre-Creme  Shampoo!  And  it  lathers  lavishly 

even  in  hardest  water. 


BETTER  THAN       Leaves  hair  fragrantly  clean,  free  of  loose  dandruff.  Unlike 
OILS  many  oil  shampoos,  Lustre-Creme  needs  no  special  rinse. 


BETTER  THAN 
LIQUIDS 


Leaves  hair  silken  soft,  manageable,  easy  to  curl.  Lustre-Creme 
is  easier  to  use.  Contains  LANOLIN  ...  is  not  harsh  or  drying. 
Try  Lustre-Creme  Shampoo  today  —  be  his  dream  girl  tonight! 


60 


World's  finest  shampoo— a  beauty  creme-blend  with  LANOLIN 


loneliest 
man 


t 


OUTSIDERS    SAY    THE  WORLD'S 


■  Most  Hollywood  actors  have  a  favorite 
hobby — talking  about  other  actors. 

Several  weeks  ago  two  gentlemen  of  the 
screen  were  avidly  engaged  in  this  hobby, 
rhey  were  dissecting  Howard  Duff. 

"I  really  envy  Duff,"  said  the  first  actor, 
'even  though  he  has  a  face  like  a  Sherman 
tank." 

"This  is  no  time  for  flatter\',"  said  the 
second  lead.  "Tell  me  more." 

"Well,"  said  the  first  actor.  "Duff  has  a 
contract  at  Universal.  He  makes  about  a 


HIS  OYSTER,  BUT  THEY  DON'T  KNOW  HOW  TOUGH  IT  IS  FOR  DUFF— WHO  HAS  TO  OPEN  IT  ALONE    •    BY  STEVE  CRONIN 


thousand  bucks  a  week.  He  owns  a  Cadil- 
lac. He  rents  two  houses,  one  in  the  hills 
and  one  down  at  the  beach.  He  has  all  the 
dates  he  wants — ^Yvonne  De  Carlo,  Ava 
Gardner,  Gloria  de  Haven,  Marta  Toren, 
Piper  Laurie  and  Ida  Lupino.  He's  single 
and  has  no  responsibihties.  In  short,  the 
fuy  is  leading  the  perfect  life." 

Oddly  enough,  this  is  the  usual  consensus 
af  opinion  concerning  Duff.  This,  plus  the 
impression  that  he  is  cold,  virile,  stoical,  a 
man  of  few  words,  and  in  general  the 


personification  of  Sam  Spade,  the  private 
eye  he  has  played  on  radio  for  four  years. 

This  opinion  is  about  as  right  as  Stalin. 

Howard  Duff  doesn't  show  it,  but  he's 
probably  the  loneliest  man  in  town.  He's  a 
warm,  kind-hearted  guy  who's  put  up  a 
false  front  to  protect  himself,  to  cover  up 
the  scars  on  his  heart. 

This  may  sound  overly-dramatic,  but  the 
truth  is  that  Howard  Duff  has  played  hard 
at  love  and  lost. 

The  two  women  he  wanted  most  to 


marry:  Ava  Gardner,  and  another  who  will 
remain  nameless  because  she  is  now  happily 
married,  both  turned  him  down.  Some- 
how their  refusals  caused  such  a  deep  hurt 
that  Howard  constructed  a  wall  of  stolid- 
ness  to  assuage  it,  a  wall  which  hides  the 
real  Howard  Duff  from  the  world. 

Of  course,  he  doesn't  like  to  talk  about 
it,  but  six  years  ago  when  he  was  an  Army 
sergeant  in  the  Pacific,  he  received  a  "Dear 
John"  letter  from  his  "nameless"  girl  friend. 
In  the  letter  she  (Continued  on  page  107) 


61 


'.2 


THIS  EASY  WAY  , 

Here's  a  special  opportunity  for  ambitious 
women  who  want  to  earn  money  during  spare 
moments.  Without  previous  experience  you  can 
make  up  to  S2 3  a  week  with  ease— just  by  taking 
orders  for  Fashion  Frocks,  and  you  don't  invest  a 
penny  of  your  own.  These  stunning  new  crea- 
tions are  such  unbeatable  values,  you  simply 
can't  stop  women  from  ordering  them! 
,  Amazing  variety  of  styles,  colors,  weaves  and 
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{Continued  from,  page  53)  girl  who  rose 
to  stardom  without  anyone's  help,  and  then 
married  one  of  the  handsomest,  richest 
young  men  in  America. 

And  if  the  Cinderella  legend  sticks  to 
the  script,  they  will  live  a  long  and  happy 
life  together,  although  none  of  these  things 
seemed  likely  in  the  beginning  of  Ruth's 
life. 

T?  UTH  Roman's  first  meeting  with  a  movie 
actor  was  on  the  same  casual  level 
as  her  meeting  with  her  present  hiosband. 
She  had  just  arrived  in  California.  It  had 
been  a  long  trip  West  in  a  chair  car, 
catching  cat  naps  on  a  small  piUow 
propped  against  a  hard  upright  seat,  be- 
cause she  didn't  have  any  money  to 
squander  on  a  berth.  She  stepped  from 
the  Los  Angeles  Union  Station  into  the 
bright  California  svmshine  and  with  an 
extravagant  gesture,  employed  a  taxi 
driver  to  deliver  her  to  a  small  hotel  in 
the  land  of  her  dreams — Hollywood. 

An  hour  later  Ruth  Roman,  washed  and 
refreshed,  stepj>ed  into  Hollywood  Boule- 
vard for  the  first  time.  There  were  so 
many  sights  to  see,  so  many  things  to  do. 
The  first  thing  she  wanted  to  do  was  find 
Grauman's  Chinese  Theater  and  stand  in 
the  cement  footprints  of  some  of  her 
idols.  She  saw  a  tall,  dark-haired  young 
fellow  leaning  against  a  building  and  she 
asked  for  directions.  The  man  grinned. 

"You're  new  here,  aren't  you?"  he 
asked. 

"I  won't  be  for  long,"  she  said. 

Before  telling  her  where  Grauman's 
Chinese  was,  the  young  man  spent  fifteen 
minutes  telling  her  what  a  waste  of  time 
the  whole  thing  was,  and  elaborating  on 
the  flimsy  character  of  fame.  He  con- 
fessed that  he,  too,  was  an  actor,  had 
been  aroxmd  for  a  little  while  and,  at  the 
present  moment,  didn't  have  the  price  of 
a  cup  -  of  coffee. 

Ruth  bought  coffee  for  both  of  them, 
then  reached  down  into  the  hoard  of 
$100  she  had  in  her  pvuse  and  loaned 
her  new  friend  $5.  The  man  said  he 
would  pay  it  back — someday. 

Just  before  Ruth  Roman  married  Mor- 
timer Hall,  she  completed  a  picture  called 
Tomorrow  Is  Another  Day.  Her  co-star 
was  Steve  Cochran.  He  hasn't  changed 
much  from  the  day  he  first  met  Ruth, 
standing  against  the  building  on  Holly- 
wood Boulevard— but  he  does  admit  that 
he  never  gave  her  back  the  $5. 

"When  I  saw  her  again,"  he  said,  "she 
didn't  need  it." 

Both  of  these  stories  illustrate  quite 
graphically  the  splendid  character  of  Ruth 
Roman  that  has  brought  to  her  success  in 
the  movies  and  in  love,  for  they  show 
that  she  is  without  guile  and  that  she 
meets  all  people  and  situations  on  an  equal 
basis. 

"D  EGARDLESS  of  what  you  have  read,  the 
cciu-ting  of  Ruth  Roman  by  Morty  Hall 
was  neither  a  casual  nor  a  hasty  matter. 
After  the  night  at  the  theater,  liiere  was 
never  a  day  that  a  dozen  roses  didn't  ar- 
rive at  her  hotel  room  with  his  name  on 
them.  And  when  she  went  back  to  Holly- 
wood, Morty  kept  the  Western  Union 
Flowers  by  Wire  department  well  occu- 
pied with  his  business. 

Some  p>eople  say,  and  it  might  well  be 
believed,  that  after  two  months  of  separa- 
tion, it  was  Morty's  love  for  Ruth  that 
made  him  give  up  his  job  as  Business  Man- 
ager of  the  New  York  Post  to  take  a 
position  as  an  executive  of  his  family's 
television  station  in  Los  Angeles.  At  any 
rate,  Morty  moved  to  the  coast  and  set 
about  making  something  permanent  of 
their  relationship.  Some  of  the  coliunnists 


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said  he  was  doing  fine  from  the  very  be- 
ginning, but  it  can  be  told  now  that  this 
was  not  so;  that  not  until  a  couple  of 
hours  before  they  got  into  an  automobile 
to  drive  to  Las  Vegas  to  be  married  was 
Ruth  Roman  sure  she  wanted  to  take  him 
for  a  husband. 

I A  Modern  Screen  reporter  talked  to 
them  both  at  that  time,  checking  a  rimior 
that  there  was  a  possible  marriage  coming 
up.  Morty  had  one  thing  to  say  and  he  said 
it  often. 

"I  want  to  get  married." 

Ruth  wasn't  sure  and  it  was  a  con- 
firmed fact  when  the  reporter  hxmg  up, 
that  there  would  be  no  wedding  in  the 
near  future. 

A  couple  of  hoirrs  later  a  Warner  Bros, 
publicity  man  in  Hollywood  telephoned 
WUbur  Clark,  host  at  the  Desert  Inn  in 
Las  Vegas. 

"Dust  off  the  bridal  suite,  Wilbur,"  he 
said,  "cool  the  champagne,  and  wake  up  a 
judge.  We're  going  to  have  a  wedding." 

Clark,  who  is  used  to  such  assignments, 
made  all  the  arrangements  and  at  3: 45  a.m. 
Ruth  Roman  and  Mortimer  Hall  arrived  for 
the  ceremony.  Sleepy-eyed  and  tired  from 
the  long  drive,  they  were  led  to  the 
courthouse,  where  they  picked  up  the  li- 
cense. They  sat  around  for  an  hour  while 
someone  was  dispatched  for  the  Judge 
and  then  in  the  quiet  of  the  Nevada  dawn, 
Ruth  and  Morty  became  man  and  wife. 

Eight  hours  later,  and  without  a  honey- 
moon, Ruth  was  back  at  Warner  Bros, 
working  in  Strangers  On  A  Train.  An 
actor,  late  to  arrive  on  the  set,  when  in- 
formed of  the  speedy  marriage,  said,  quite 
appropriately.  "They  ought  to  change  the 
title  of  this  picture  to  'Lovers  On  A 
Rocket.' " 

It's  a  pretty  stock  story  when  you 
read  it  back,  but  this  msirriage  has 
something  very  different  about  it.  It's  not 
the  standard  union  of  a  movie  star  and  a 
rich  man,  but  the  blending  of  two  lives 
which  appear  to  be  very  different  but 
which  are  alike  in  one  respect.  They  have 
both  had  a  double  share  of  loneliness. 

"DxjTH  Roman  wstsn't  an  orphan  but  she 
was  very  close  to  it.  A  nagging  desire 
to  get  out  into  the  world  and  make  a 
ncime  for  herself  far  away  from  the  rather 
imhappy  world  of  the  carnival  in  which 
she  had  been  raised,  made  lier  leave  her 
family  at  a  very  early  age.  At  a  time  in 
her  life  when  most  girls  are  enjoying  the 
leisure  pleasures  of  adolescence,  and  high 
school  courses  are  the  biggest  problems  of 
the  day,  Ruth  Roman  was  trudging  the 
cold  wet  streets  of  New  York,  hungry  and 
often  without  a  bed. 

When  most  girls  of  her  age  were  in- 
dulging in  the  casual,  exploratory  ro- 
mances of  youth,  looking  for  an  eventual 
mate,  Ruth  was  sitting  in  agents'  offices 
looking  for  a  job  that  would  raise  her  so- 
cial and  financial  status.  It  was  a  hard, 
lonely  existence,  with  not  too  much  pos- 
sibility of  a  rosy  future,  but  Ruth  stuck 
it  out. 

The  stories  that  you've  heard  about  her 
rise  to  stardom  in  Hollywood  the  hard 
way  are  in  her  case  not  phony — but  as 
true  and  as  diflBcult  as  you've  been  led  to 
believe.  It  was  no  wonder,  then,  that  you 
seldom  read  about  Ruth,  the  star,  having 
the  flighty  romances  most  women  stars 
seem  addicted  to.  There  were  rumors  for  a 
long  while  that  she  was  married  to  BUI 
Walsh,  her  constant  companion,  and  f^w 
people  believed  her  when  she  said  that  he 
was  just  her  good  friend.  A  thorough  look 
back  through  the  record  of  her  career  in 
pictures  will  disclose  the  fact  that  she 
never  had  or  pretended  to  have  a  ro- 
mance before  Morty  Hall. 
I  Mortimer  HaU,  on  the  other  hand,  was 
I  'the  son  of  a  very  rich  woman,  Mrs.  Doro- 
thy Schiff,  the  owner  of  the  New  York 


Post.  His  father,  separated  from  his  mother, 
was  a  stockbroker,  and  Morty  didn't  have 
very  much  family  life  either.  He  attended 
several  of  the  better  prep  schools,  enrolled 
at  Carnegie  Tech  and  then  was  snatched 
up  by  the  Army.  As  he  tells  it,  the  Army 
Ufe  was  lonely,  too — until  one  day  on  a 
furlough,  he  met  a  Conover  model  named 
Mary  Ann  'Parker.  They  were  married 
shortly  after  that,  and  rumor  has  it  that 
it  was  against  the  wishes  of  his  family. 

In  Mary  Ann  Parker,  Morty  Hall  might 
have  found  the  home  and  companionship 
he  sought  in  his  youth.  But  tragedy  struck. 
Mary  Ann  Hall  went  on  a  routine  visit  to 
a  New  York  dentist.  She  was  given  an  in- 
jection of  a  very  common  pain  killer  to 
which,  without  her  knowledge,  she  was 
acutely  allergic — and  she  died  in  the  den- 
tist's chair. 

For  the  next  four  years  Morty  Hall  lived 
a  rather  vagabond  life.  It  is  to  be  said  to 
his  credit  that  he  didn't  drift  into  the  sad 
status  of  the  dilettante  idle  rich,  but 
worked  at  many  kinds  of  employment  and 
earned  his  own  keep.  But  he  was  known 
as  a  solitary  lad,  not  too  much  interested 
in  girls  and  definitely  not  the  marrying 
type.  In  1948  and  part  of  1949,  Morty 
lived  in  Hollywood  and  was  seen  con- 
stantly with  Lizabeth  Scott.  Many  re- 
porters covering  movietown  were  sure 
they  wotdd  be  married,  but  Morty's  pals 
didn't  think  so. 

Tiring  of  Hollywood  and  its  tinsel 
glamor,  Morty  returned  to  New  York  in 
1949  to  go  to  work  as  Business  Manager 
on  his  mother's  newspaper.  He  had  made 
up  his  mind  to  make  newspapering  his 
career  and  keep  away  from  Hollywood 
for  good.  That  was  before  he  met  Ruth 
Roman. 

When  U.P.'s  Virginia  MacPhers«n  asked 
'  Shelley  Winters  whether  she  wanted  to  get 
married,  Shelley  replied,  "Sometimes  1 
think  i  do — other  times  1  just  think  I  think 
i  do." 

In  these  two  lives  there  is  a  great  simi- 
larity. In  the  way  Ruth  Roman  waited 
for  her  man — and  in  the  way  Morty  Hall 
waited  for  his  girl;  in  the  way  Ruth  Ro- 
man trudged  the  streets  of  New  York  and 
lived  in  the  backyard  of  Hollywood,  a 
lonely  woman — -and  the  way  Morty  Hall 
worked  at  menial  jobs  to  find  his  place  in 
life,  there  is  a  story  that  wovild  require 
little  changing  to  make  them  both  the 
same  tale.  It  is  the  story  of  the  young 
person  looking  for  his  home,  not  knowing 
the  address,  but  believing  it  is  there  to  be 
fotmd  some  day  if  the  search  is  not 
abandoned. 

Today,  Mortimer  and  Ruth  HaU,  he  a 
young  business  executive,  she  a  top  movie 
star,  are  making  adjustments  .that  will 
give  them  both  their  dreams.  Ruth  has 
given  up  the  house  she  decorated  herself 
in  the  San  Fernando  Valley  and  has 
moved  into  Beverly  Hills  where  Morty 
lives,  high  above  the  Sunset  Strip,  above 
the  lights  that  shine  in  the  streets  of 
Hollywood. 

"I'm  not  going  to  have  anything  to  do 
with  the  movie  business,  or  Ruth's  work," 
Hall  told  Modern  Screen.  "It  will  just  be 
coincident  in  our  lives  that  Ruth  is  a 
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"And  I'm  going  to  be  an  actress  from 
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"When  I  come  home  at  night,  I'm  just 
going  to  be  Mrs.  Hall.  The  girl  who  can 
cook  the  best  pies  in  the  block." 

And  you  can  bet  it  is  going  to  be  so. 
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(Continued  from  page  53)  4:30  p.m.  the 
next  afternoon,  the  22-year-old  actress 
who  had  grown  from  a  dimpled  cherub 
into  a  beautiful  woman,  stood  before  a 
fireplace  bedecked  with  pine  boughs  and 
flowers.  She  was  dressed  in  a  gray  suit 
and  matching  hat  as  she  promised  softly 
to  "love,  honor,  and  cherish"  Charles 
Black. 

Present  at  the  ceremony  were  Shirley's 
parents,  her  brother  Jack  and  his  wife, 
the  bridegroom's  parents,  and  his  brother 
James,  Jr.,  with  his  wife  and  three  chil- 
dren. 

After  the  ceremony,  when  Shirley  and 
Charles  had  driven  off  on  their  honey- 
moon— which  they  spent  in  Monterrey — 
Judge  Jorgenson  said,  "In  my  23  years  of 
marrying  people  I've  never  seen  a  happier 
couple.  "That  marriage  should  last  for- 
ever." 

Shirley's  secretary,  Mrs.  Earl  Dral^e, 
said,  "This  time  I  think  she's  going  to  be 
really  happy." 

Back  in  Hollywood  when  he  heard  of 
the  marriage,  actor  John  Agar,  Shirley's 
first  husband,  said  gallantly,  "I  hope  her 
marriage  will  be  very  happy.  I  don't  know 
what  else  I  could  say." 

Of  course,  if  he'd  wanted  to.  Jack  Agar 
might  have  said  a  good  deal.  He  might 
have  talked  about  Shirley's  hopes  and 
dreams,  because  he  knew  them  all — the 
ones  that  came  true  and  the  ones  that 
never  did,  largely  because  Shirley  and 
Jack  were  mis-mated  from  the  beginning, 
and  unprepared  for  marriage. 

WHEN  Shirley  divorced  Jack  and  went 
to  Honolulu  with  little  Linda  Sue  last 
year,  she  realized  that.  Basically,  Shirley 
is  a  sensible  young  woman  with  all  the 
right  instincts,  and  while  she  may  have 
blamed  Agar  for  his  inconsideratibn  at 
times,  she  knew  in  her  heart  that  so  long 
as  she  remained  a  prominent  actress,  siny 
man  she  might  marry  would  have  to  tak^  a 
back  seat  to  her.  She  knew  that  by  doing 
this  his  Vcinity  would  be  hurt  and  he  would 
compensate  for  that  hurt. 

After  her  divorce  Shirley  knew,  and 
knows  now  that  if  her  marriage  is  to  be 
lasting,  she  must  give  up  her  acting  ca- 
reer. This  she  is  fully  prepared  to  do. 
"I've  made  pictures  long  enough,"  Shirley 
said  at  her  one  recent  press  conference. 
"Nineteen  of  my  22  years  were  spent  that 
way — ^that's  enough  career  for  any  girl.  I 
want  to  be  free  now  to  go  where  Charles 
goes.  My  little  girl  needs  me.  In  fact,  she 
needs  a  lot  of  both  of  us." 

"This  doesn't  mean  that  marriage  and 
movies  don't  mix,"  added  Charles,  in  a 
rare  statement  to  the  press.  "It's  just  that 
in  our  case,  we've  decided  that  this  is  the 
best  way." 

Charles  Black  isn't  the  type  of  man 
who'll  give  up  his  job  in  order  to  follow 
his  wife  on  location,  nor  will  he  permit 
himself  the  luxury  of  becoming  a  mere 
consort.  From  here  on  in,  Shirley  Temple 
will  be  a  wife  and  mother  only. 

Aside  from  one  special  press  conference 
at  which  they  made  the  above  remarks, 
Charles  keeps  the  press  at  bay.  During 
their  honeymoon,  reporters  spotted  Black's 
convertible  parked  outside  a  seafood  res- 
tavu-ant  on  the  Monterrey  waterfront.  They 
waited  for  Shirley  and  her  groom  to  finish 
their  3:00  p.m.  "breakfast"  of  bacon  and 
eggs,  cracked  crab  and  seafood  cocktails, 
and  approached  them  as  they  came  out  of 
the  restaurant. 

"Give  us  a  statement,  any  kind  of  a 
statement,"  the  reporters  said. 

Black  stepped  in  front  of  Shirley  aod 
said,  "Sorry,  no  statement." 
Shirley  smiled,  but  following  her  hus- 


band's lead,  she,  too,  refused  to  say  any- 
thing. 

Earlier  last  year  when  she  and  Black 
began  going  together  steadily,  and  every- 
one predicted  the  inevitable  marriage, 
it  was  Black  who  said  that  he  didn't 
particularly  like  night  clubs.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  neither  does  Shirley,  although  she 
used  to  go  along  to  keep  John  Agar  com- 
pany. Last  year,  however,  she  came  right 
out  and  said,  "Charles  and  I  have  a  pact 
not  to  appear  in  night  spots.  He  just 
doesn't  like  them." 

Shirley  also  had  an  agreement  with 
Charles  not  to  armoimce  their  engagement 
\mtil  after  she  had  received  her  final  di- 
vorce. During  the  one-year  waiting  period 
she  dated  no  one  but  Black  and  said  over 
and  over  again,  "Charles  and  I  want  no 
publicity  about  oiu"  romance."  And  no 
matter  how  long  and  hard  most  reporters 
tried,  Shirley  would  not  talk  about 
Charles  Black. 

Of  course,  they  never  did  annoimce 
their  engagement;  they  just  went  out  and 
got  married.  The  reason  for  that  is 
Black's  membership  in  the  Naval  Reserve. 
He  may  be  called  at  any  time,  and  it  was 
only  natural  that  he  and  Shirley  should 
want  to  spend  as  much  time  together  as 
pHjssible. 

Black  never  speaks  about  it^  but  he 
pulled  some  heroic  duty  in  the  Navy  both 
aboard  PT  boats  and  landing  on  enemy 
islands  to  radio  intelligence  reports  back 
to  the  fleet. 

A  friend  who  knows  him  well  says, 
"He's  a  shrewd,  intelligent  guy  who's  been 
around.  He's  well-educated,  more  so  than 
Temple — ^money  means  very  little  to  him 
because  he's  been  aroimd  it  most  of  his 
life.  He  gets  along  very  well  with  people. 
He's  independent  and  self-reliant,  and  I 
can  assure  you  he's  not  going  to  deterior- 
ate into  the  typical  Hollywood  husband. 

"I  understand  that  Selznick  offered  to 
re-make  Shirley  into  a  dramatic  actress 
like  Jermifer  Jones — you  know,  send  h^r 
abroad  and  have  a  European  coach  give 
her  a  new  dramatic  personality  and  a 
whole  new  career.  You've  got  to  hand  it  to 
Shirley.  She  said  no,  and  I  don't  blame 
her.  Black  is  a  much  better  bet.  Besides, 
she  had  a  successful  career,  and  it's  a  wise 
girl  who  knows  when  to  call  it  quits. 

"Matter  of  fact,  Shirley  should  have 
quit  after  she  married  Agar.  She  was  at 
the  peak  of  her  popularity  then,  and  she 
should've  retired  as  the  undefeated  cham- 
pion. Instead,  she  pulled  a  Joe  Louis. 
Under  Black's  tutelage  she's  become  a 
whole  lot  smarter." 

Under  Black's  sponsorship,  Shirley  is 
also  seUing  her  home  and  that  of  her 
parents.  Both  houses  occupy  the  same 
large  estate.  Black  refuses  to  move  into  a 
home  which  Shirley  owns  and  paid  for. 

No  matter  what  the  professional  women 
say,  and  even  if  there  are  a  few  excep- 
tions— Shirley  Temple  thinks  that  a  career 
and  marriage  do  not  mix  .  .  especially  in 
Holljrwood.  The  End 

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When  Betty 
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hands  off  my  heart 

(Continued  from  page  56)  hadn't  been  on 
a  horse  since  he  was  10. 

"You  hold  yourself  fine,  boy,"  Mr.  Ford 
had  told  him.  This  was  after  Ford  had 
squads-righted,  squads-lefted  John  up 
and  down  his  office.  "We  start  shooting 
in  a  month." 

John  rushed  home,  excitement  locked  in 
him.  As  he  placed  a  long  distance  call  to 
Texas,  he  tried  to  rescue  some  logic  from 
his  whirling  thoughts. 

"Hello,  hello.  Uncle  Ted?"  he  screamed 
into  the  phone. 

"What's  the  matter,  Jack?" 

John  felt  like  a  dope.  He  tried  again — 
sotto  voce.  "Uncle  Ted,  I've  just  been  given 
a  role  in  a  motion  picture,"  he  explained 
quietly. 

"Fine,"  Uncle  Ted  shouted. 

"I'm  supposed  to  play  a  cavalryman,  and 
I  haven't  ridden  in  years." 

"Learn  bareback." 

One  month  later  John  Agar  could  jump, 
gallop,  walk,  rein-in,  or  stumble  anything 
on  four  legs.  To  test  his  ability  John 
entered  a  local  rodeo  in  San  Fernando 
Valley.  No  medals,  but  a  pro  invited  him 
to  bust  broncos  in  Cheyenne. 

"I'd  learn  to  be  a  human  fly  if  John 
Ford  asked  me,"  John  insists.  And  that  un- 
qualified adoration  is  his  tribute  to  the 
man  who  gave  him  his  first  break. 

No  highly  skilled,  highly  paid  stunt  man 
rode  the  length  of  Monimient  Valley  at 
full  gallop  in  Fort  Apache.  The  rider  was 
paid,  but  he  was  John  Agar. 

TNTENsirsf  and  sincerity  are  the  two  qual- 

ities  John  brings  to  everything.  His  face 
is  impassive  when  taking  direction.  Then, 
in  an  instant,  it  breaks  into  a  boyish,  shy 
smile.  Directors  have  wondered  how  a  kid 
can  absorb  so  many  details. 

But  any  faith  placed  in  John  is  rewarded 
with  interest.  The  minute  he  starts  his 
job,  the  "kid"  vanishes  and  the  man  takes 
over.  It's  his  genuine  likeableness  and 
liking  for  the  things  he  does  that's  en- 
dearing. Any  of  his  boyhood  pals  could 
have  prophesied  the  kind  of  man  he'd  be. 

"He  could  charm  the  math  prof  out  of 
homework.  But  he'd  make  the  coach  pour 
on  training,"  one  of  them  recalls.  "Yeah, 
I  got  awful  grades,"  John  v^rryly  admits. 
"But  I  was  pretty  good  at  sports." 

At  Pawling  Preparatory  School  in  New 
■VorK,  his  alma  mater,  "pretty  good"  was 
spelled  BMOC.  He  not  only  played  varsity 
football  and  basketball,  but  he  was  a  five- 
event  man  in  track,  broadjump,  discus, 
hammer  throw,  highjump  and  shot  put. 

The  same  kind  of  modesty  won  him  un- 
spoken praise  from  the  cast  of  The  Magic 
Carpet,  his  most  recent  picture. 

It  was  one  of  those  melodramatic, 
death-defying  wall  escapes.  A  stunt  man, 
dressed  in  John's  flaming  red  costume, 
was  supposed  to  scale  a  20-foot  stone  bar- 
ricade on  a  rope  tied  to  a  white  stallion. 

Almost  imperceptibly  the  cast  became 
aware  that  John  himself  was  starting  up 
the  rope.  Tense  clusters  of  harem  girls, 
grimy  electricians  and  burnoosed  horse- 
men watched  and  wondered.  Director  Lou 
Landers  tried  to  relax  in  his  chair,  but 
finally  he  too  was  caught  up  in  the  spell. 
Oblivious  that  his  ascent  was  being  ob- 
served John  competently  moved,  hand- 
over-hand to  the  ledge  until  Landers,  in 
relief,  shouted  "Cut!" 

John  didn't  know  why  one  of  the 
grips  offered  him  a  prized  baked  potato 
when  he  got  off  the  ledge.  This  is  an  honor 
accorded  few  actors.  The  perforated  metal 
frames  which  surround  the  1000-watt  bulbs 
lighting  a  set  get  so  hot  that  the  crews 
bake  potatoes  on  top  of  them.  These  spuds 
are  reserved  for  them  that  works. 


No  one  John  has  worked  with  fails  to 
enjoy  his  company.  He  mixes  easily.  Yet 
there's  an  aloneness  about  him.  He  is  hard 
to  really  get  near.  A  clue  to  his  fierce 
independence  slipped  out  once.  It  was  an 
unguarded  moment  at  a  party.  Hollywood's 
yoimg  set  had  gathered  for  a  few  laughs. 
Jack  was  sitting  in  the  comer,  as  usual. 
He  wasn't  saying  much,  as  usual. 

"Agar,  you're  nothing  but  a  jumbo 
sponge,"  one  of  the  fellows  growled. 

John  grinned.  "You  can't  learn  from  talk- 
ing," he  drawled  back.    "So  I  just  listen." 

As  the  evening  mellowed  so  did  the 
party.  Nostalgia  replaced  the  wisecracks. 
Even  John  came  down  with  the  fever. 

"When  I  was  a  kid  I  had  only  one  am- 
bition. To  grow  up!"  The  words  sounded 


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imnecessarily  defensive.  Everyone  was  a 
little  surprised.  They'd  thought  John's 
sole  and  unswerving  aim  was  to  be  a 
meat  packer,  like  his  dad.  Besides,  who 
would  want  to  outgrow  the  perfect  child- 
hood John  had? 

Cprawling  Lake  Forest,  Illinois,  was  a 
^  made-to-order  playgroxmd  for  a  small 
boy's  imaginative  pranks.  The  big,  bearish 
house  John  lived  in  creaked  with  the 
laughter  and  living  of  his  sister,  two 
brothers  and  his  mother  and  father.  Love 
oozed  out  of  the  clapboard  shutters.  Four 
generations  of  Agars  had  made  their 
living  at  meat  packing.  A  generoiis  living, 
which  had  nurtured  such  by-products  as 
security,  freedom  to  choose  any  kind  of 
life  and  a  name  which  fostered  respect. 


Nobody  took  a  more  loving  pride  in 
all  this  than  John,  the  oldest  boy.  With  it, 
though,  John  also  inherited  an  out-size 
sense  of  responsibility. 

On  the  day  his  father  died — John  was 
14 — his  world  caved  in.  With  Ping  Pong,  his 
red  chow,  he  scuffed  into  the  house  after 
the  funeral.  As  he  entered  his  very  own 
den  John  released  all  the  tears  he'd  had 
to  check  for  his  mother's  sake. 

Once  before  he  had  been  in  tears,  but 
for  a  different  reason. 

It  was  on  his  12th  birthday.  In  the  morn- 
ing he'd  lain  in  bed  visualizing  all  his 
gifts.  Then  he'd  squirmed  and  turned  over 
because  that  happy  feeling  was  too  good 
in  such  a  lump.  Now  his  golden  day  was 
turning  into  a  nightmare.  No  "Happy 
Birthday"  shouts.  No  fake  spankings  and 
real  hugs  and  kisses.  And  no  presents! 

Jack  dawdled  his  way  downstairs.  The 
breakfast  table  was  set,  but  no  family. 
"Hey,"  he  called  out.  "Hey  yourself,"  his 
dad  echped.  Jack  traced  the  voice  to  the 
cellar. 

He  opened  the  door  and  a  chorus  of 
Agars  started  chirping  "Happy  Birthday  to 
you."  Jack  let  out  an  animal  yowl  of 
sheer  joy.  The  entire  cellar  had  been  con- 
verted into  a  game  room.  Knotty  pine 
paneling  covered  the  cement  walls.  A  new 
gun  case  held  his  rifles,  from  the  first 
BB-gun  to  his  latest  Remington.  A  dart 
board,  archery  target  and  his  beloved 
golf  clubs  rested  in  each  corner. 

"Hope  you  like  it  son,"  his  father  said. 

In  the  center  of  the  room  a  small  four- 
legged  object,  wearing  a  red  fur  coat 
yapped  for  attention.  John  gathered  him 
up  in  his  arms.  "What's  his  name.  Dad?" 

"You  name  him." 

"Ping.  Here  Ping,"  John  said  almost 
immediately. 

And  now  Ping,  his  father's  gift  of  two 
years  before  shared  his  misery.  Ping, 
mute  and  loving  heard  the  vows  Jack 
made.  To  be  the  "man  of  the  family."  To 
provide  for  his  mom  and  the  kids.  To 
make  them  as  proud  of  him  as  they  had 
been  of  Dad. 

T)  UT  at  14  you're  more  child  than  man. 

That's  why  John  wished  to  grow  up 
more  than  anything  else.  He  felt  he  had  to. 
Unfortvmately,  growing  up  on  the  outside 
isn't  much  good  without  growing  up  in- 
side. Inside  growth  turns  into  maturity. 
And  maturity  takes  experiences  and  an 
honest  evaluation  of  your  failings.  Both  of 
these  are  riding  herd  on  John  Agar.  And 
he  likes  his  riding  companions. 

John  has  never  accepted  any  job  without 
integrity  and  a  monvunental  will  to  suc- 
ceed. If  his  marriage  broke  up  there  was 
a  reason.  What  the  cynics  can't  accept  is 
an  unpretentious  fact.  A  simple  old- 
fashioned  trait  known  as  "being  a  gentle- 
man," John  is  a  gentleman.  And  gentle- 
men don't  talk. 

But  John  is  beginning  to  achieve  that 
maturity  he  pleaded  with  God  for. 

Up  until  his  marriage  to  Shirley  Temple, 
his  family  and  friends  bestowed  love  and 
approval  on  him.  He  was  rich  with  them. 
After  the  marriage  a  world-full  of  film- 
goers  gifted  him  with  their  friendship. 
By  now  he  was  a  millionaire,  with  a  for- 
tune of  good  will. 

Divorce  might  have  turned  him  into  a 
pauper.  After  all,  being  rejected  by  an 
unseen  jury  isn't  easy  on  the  ego.  Par- 
ticularly in  Hollywood.  And  it  was  in 
Hollywood  he  decided  to  fight  it  out. 

He  wanted  a  movie  career.  He  wanted 
to  make  the  name  "Agar"  as  respected  in 
his  new  neighborhood  as  it  has  been  in 
Chicago.  He  had  to  learn  a  new  set  of 
rules.  And  he  had  to  learn  fast- — before 
the  slight  dent  he'd  made  in  pictiu-es  was 
washed  out  by  a  torrent  of  vicious  gossip. 

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"I  don't  feel  anyone  has  intentionally  mis- 
understood me,"  he  says  simply. 

With  cotirage  and  common  sense  John 
has  sifted  out  his  fundamental  needs 
from  the  superficial.  First  of  all  he  moved 
back  with  his  mother  in  Beverly  Hills. 
Her  love  and  approval  came  unstinted  to 
help  heal  the  bitter  reality  of  divorce. 

He  increased  his  dramatic  lessons,  and 
his  screen  performances  have  mirrored 
his  growth  as  an  actor. 

Hollywood  is  the  biggest  adjustment 
John  will  ever  face  in  his  life.  Not  just 
the  business  of  making  pictures.  The  part 
of  Hollywood  that  bothers  him  is  the 
gnawing,  gossiping  part  that  feeds  off  the 
private  lives  of  its  stars. 

"Hollywood  is  hke  any  other  kind  of 
business,"  he  says,  "you  have  to  learn. 
You  have  to  work  hard.  And  you  can't 
run  the  business  until  you  understand  it. 

"Everyone  asks  me  if  I  have  any  opin- 
ions .  .  .  about  acting,  about  directing, 
about  scripts.  I  haven't  any  opinions.  I 
just  don't  know  enough  yet."  But  he's 
learning  something  new  every  minute. 

Recently  he  was  posing  for  some  stills 
on  his  latest  picture.  The  Magic  Carpet. 
He  had  his  face  against  the  magnificent 
white  horse  he  rides  in  the  film  when  sud- 
denly the  horse  reared. 

John  grabbed  the  reins  and  sank  his 
heels  into  the  ground.  As  the  horse  came 
down  it  neighed  and  tried  to  shake  its 
head  from  John's  grasp. 

"Get  that  shot,"  John  shouted  at  the 
cameraman  as  he  struggled  with  the  re- 
bellious white  steed. 

"Whaddaya  mean,  get  that  shot?" 
screamed  the  photographer  who  had  dived 
behind  a  wood  platform. 

Directors  find  John  a  refreshing  oasis 
of  flexibility.  This  doesn't  mean  Jack  is 
a  goody-goody  boy.  He's  a  rebel  at  heart. 
But  he  knows  when  to  rebel. 

ABOUT  the  most  painful  thing  John  has 
to  face  is  talking  about  himself.  "I'm 
so  dull.  I  can't  even  stand  to  hear  myself 
on  the  screen." 

Information  about  his  tastes,  or  his 
plans  or  his  date  last  night  is  yielded  only 
tmder  the  threat,  "It's  good  for  your 
career." 

He  grits  his  teeth,  holds  his  breath  and 
tries.  "I  like  women,"  he  manages  to  say. 

"What  about  your  date  with  Ruth 
Roman  before  she  married?" 

"Well  what  about  it?"  he  slings  back. 
"We  had  dinner  and  went  to  a  movie." 
Then  suddenly  he  remembers  the  dinner, 
and  his  face  opens  up  a  little  bit.  "We 
had  a  swell  spaghetti  dinner.  I  sure  like 
spaghetti." 

Some  insight  into  the  depth  of  his  feel- 
ings can  be  gleaned  when  he  talks  about 
his  baby  daughter. 

"Susie  is  really  special."  And  when  John 
says  this  all  the  determined  steely  lines 
around  his  eyes  soften  out.  His  face  takes 
on  a  look  of  wonderment  that  this  sweet 
child  belongs  to  him.  There's  a  hint  of 
fear — fear  for  her  future  in  his  words. 

"I  want  Susie  to  have  all  the  chance  in 
the  world  to  be  whatever  she  likes.  I  hope 
she'll  wait  until  she's  grown  up  before 
making  her  choice.  And  I  know  Shirley 
feels  the  same  way  about  it. 

"You  know,  my  colUe  Lannie  lives  with 
Susie." 

And  in  that  ordinary  fact  John's  love 
is  illumined.  Dogs,  or  any  kind  of  animal, 
are  pretty  important  in  his  Ufe.  A  part  of 
him  still  feels  like  that  puppy  Ping, 
playful  and  carefree.  And  Lannie,  too,  satis- 
fies the  everlasting  wish  to  return  to  child- 
hood. Giving  Lannie  to  Susie  was  like 
giving  her  the  most  important  gift  he  could 
tender — part  of  himself. 

And  giving  of  yourself  is  really  being 
grown-up.  The  End 


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Certified  Cosmetics  of  the  Stars.  We 

certify  that  the  cosmetics  sold  under  our 
name  are  exactly  the  same  cosmetics  we 
use  to  make  Hollywood's  famous  stars 
more  beautiful  on  and  oCf  the  screen. 


Frank  Westmore  Wally  Westmore     Bud  Westmore 
Famous  Make-Up    Make-Up  Director  Make-Up  Director 
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She  thought  her  face  was  clean . 


Until  she  took  the  ''tissue  testi 


The  "Tissue  Test"  convinced  Virginia 
Mayo,  co-star  of  Warner  Bros.'  "Captain 
Horatio  Hornblower"  that  there  really  is 
a  difference  in  cleansing  creams. 

We  asked  her  to  clean  her  face  with 
her  regular  cleansing  cream.  Then  to  try 
Woodbury  Cold  Cream  on  her  "immacu- 
lately clean"  face  and  handed  her  a 
tissue  to  take  it  off. 

The  tissue  told  a  startling  story!  Wood- 
bury Cold  Cream  floated  out  hidden  dirt ! 


Why  is  Woodbury  so  different?  Because 
it  has  Penaten,  a  new  miracle  ingredient 
that  actually  penetrates  deeper  into  your 
pores  ...  lets  Woodbury's  wonderful 
cleansing  oils  loosen  every  trace  of  grime 
and  make-up. 

It's  wonder-working  Penaten,  too,  that 
helps  Woodbury  to  smooth  your  skin  more 
effectively.  Tiny  dry -skin  lines,  little  rough 
flakes  just  melt  away. 

Buy  a  jar  today — 25^  to  97^,  plus  tax. 


11  Woodbury 


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Woodbury 
Cold  Cream 

floats  out  hidden  dirt, . 


penetrates  deeper  because  it  contains  Penaten 


miami 

previews 

warm 

weather 

fashions 


mercedes 
mc  Cambridge 
wears  red 

■  Mercedes  McCambridge,  soon  to 
be  seen  as  star  of  MGM's  "Inside 
Straight,"  faces  the  summer  season 
in  an  outfit  that  is  a  true  red  red. 
The  sculptured  blouse,  zipper  con- 
trolled, has  a  minimum  of  arm 
coverage  for  daytime — evenings, 
push  the  straps  off  shoulder.  In 
Fabricana's  broadcloth  in  red,  navy, 
green,  black  or  white.  $4.98. 
The  swirling  stepladder  print  skirt 
is  in  Cohama's  woven  waffle  pique 
in  colors  to  match  the  blouse.  $7.98. 
Both  blouse  and  skirt  in  sizes  9-15. 

JAY  ORIGINALS  BY  MEL  WARSHAW 
OF  MIAMI. 

Shoes  by  Mademoiselle 
White  jewelry  by  Karu. 

THIS  MIAMI-MADE  FASHION  MAY 
BE  PURCHASED  IN  PERSON  OR  OR- 
DERED BY  MAIL  FROM  BURDINES, 
MIAMI  30,  FLORIDA.  FOR  HOW  TO 
ORDER  SEE  PAGE  75. 


Flats  and  Pumps  by  Mademoiselle 
Jewelry  by  Karu 


GOING  PROSPECTING? 
OR  BICYCLING? 


Or  just  aiming  to  look  trig?  Here  are  the  works,  in 
a  three  piece,  double  breasted  ensemble.  A  jackety  top 
with  a  double  sailor  collar  (one  comes  away  for  launder- 
ing) $8.98.  A  twice  pocketed  skirt,  $10.98.  The  snappy  cuffed 
shorts,  pleated  for  action,  $5.98.  Fabric:  Celanese 
prospector  Town  and  Country.  In  coral  with  white,  navy 

with  white,  white  with  navy.  Sizes  9-15.  miss  miami  by  myron  Warsaw  of  ml4mi. 


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MIAMI  MAKES 
HEADLINES 
IN  FASHION 


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The  Navy  has  been  invaded  and  up  comes 

the  trim  details  from  a  sailor's  uniform.  A  two  piecer  with  a 

sleeveless  middy,  white  bound  and  laced — the 

SHIP    AHOY!  nautical  collar,  deep  and  squared.  A  pouffed  out  pocket 

makes  a  triangle  at  the  side  of  the  wide  flared  skirt. 

SAILOR   GIRL!  pique,  white  with  navy;  navy  with  white.  Sizes  10-16.  $8.98. 

BEST  MODE  SPORTSWEAR  OF  MIAMI 


ORDERED  BY  MAIL  FROM  BURDINES.  MIAMI  30,  FLORIDA.  FOR  HOW  TO  ORDER,  SEE  PAGE  75 


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MIAMI  MAKES 
HEADLINES 
IN  FASHIONS 


A  beau  catcher  and  an 
eye   stopper.    Six  grosgrain 
bows,  each  adjustable, 
shce  across  the  provoca- 
tive shoulder  line  of  a 
dancy  cotton  frock.  A  neckline 
that  is  just  low  enough  and 
a  skirt  that  is  just  full 
enough.  In  Pima  broadcloth  and 
WASHABLE.  The  exciting 
colors  are  purple,  black,  tangerine, 
navy,  cypress  green  with 
white  bows;  or  powder  blue, 
pink,  lime  bittersweet 
with  navy  grosgrain  bows. 
Sizes  10-18;  9-lS;  14>^-22J^.  $12.95 
BUNNY'S  CASUALS  OF  ML\MI 


White  cotton  lace  piiml's  by  Mademoiselle 


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PAGES  MAY  BE  PURCHASED  IN  PERSON  OR  ORDERED  BY 

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FLORIDA.  FOR  HOW  TO  ORDER  SEE  PAGE  75 


The  news  is  in  the  oblique 

closing.  Velveteen  buttons  begin  at 

top  side  and  continue  on 

the  slant  all  the  way  down  to  the 

hem.  The  combination. 

of  cotton  and  velveteen  is  a 

fresh  idea  too — and  when 

the  cotton  is  Peter  Pan's 

Glasboro  woven  houndstooth  check, 

that's  good !  There  is  a  velveteen 

belt  to  match  the  buttons  and 

a  sailor  collar  to  blow.  In  black, 

green  or  red  with  white.  Sizes 

9-15.  $14.95.  LINDA  LEE  BY 

B.  S.  KAHN  OF  MIAMI 


modern  screen  fashions 


MIAMI  MAKES  HEADLINES  IN  FASHION 


The  Footsie  Coat— "This  little  pig  went 
to  market"  ...  a  new  way  to  amuse 
you  and  your  child.  Corduroy 
feet  are  appliqued  on  the  back,  front 
and  pocket  of  a  shortie  terry 
cloth  coat.  Not  only  for  beach 
wear,  but  a  handy  one  to  use  in 
the  bedroom  or  around  the 
house.  Misses'  sizes  10-18.  $8.98. 
Children's  $5.98.  Girls'  $6.98. 
Teens'  $7.98.  All  hi  small,  medium 
or  large.  Giant  size  matching  terry  cloth 
towel,  also  with  appliqued  feet  $3.98.  In 
white  or  light  blue  with  red 
feet,  or  yellow  with  blue 
feet. 


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THE  ORIGINAL  FOOTSIE  COAT  BY  SHORELAND  DRESS  CORP.  OF  MIAMI.  THIS  MIAMI-MADE  FASHION  MAY  BE 
PURCHASED  IN  PERSON  OR  ORDERED  BY  MAIL  FROM  BURDINES.  MIAMI  30.  FLORIDA.  FOR  HOW  TO  ORDER  SEE  PAGE  75 


miami  previews 
warm  weather 
fashions 

bobbie  fog,  fashion  editor 

■  Florida  has  befen  long  known  as  the  land 
of  sunshine — the  place  to  go  for  that  long 
awaited  vacation,  whether  it  is  for  a  winter 
warm-up  or  a  gay  few  weeks  in  the  summer. 
When  you  think  of  Florida,  naturally  the 
first  place  that  jumps  to  mind  is  Miami, 
where  the  palm  trees  grow,  where  beauty 
abounds,  where  there  is  an  abundance  of 
sunshine  and  fun  all  year  round. 
With  all  of  this  wonderful  atmosphere  and 
superb  weather,  what  could  be  a  more 
natural  place  to  design  and  manufacture  the 
very  clothes  that  are  to  be  worn  all  around 
the  country. 

The  Miami  Fashion  Council  had  this  very 
idea  and  decided  to  make  Miami  even  more 
famous,  this  time  as  a  part  of  the  country 
known  as  the  home  of  top  fashions  for  all 
occasions.  Here  in  a  sun  drenched  spot, 
fabrics  are  studied — everyone  is  interested 
in  those  materials  used  to  make  clothes  at- 
tractive, unweighty  and,  of  course,  packable. 
Colors  are  judged  and  selected  for  afiinity 
with  the  sun  and  thfe  sky,  for  the  least 
possibility  of  fading.  And  fashion!  Fashion 
is  evident  in  every  spanking  new  detail. 
Prices  are  the  usual  bugaboo — but  these 
too  have  been  kept  to  the  minimum  by 
Burdines. 

The  colorful  creations  by  members  of  the 
Miami  Fashion  Council  in  this  issue  are  so 
great  that  we  want  you  to  have  a  sneak  pre- 
view of  what  the  season  has  in  store  for 
you.  It's  all  bright  and  pretty  and  balmy. 


how  to  order 
modern  screen 
fashions  by  mail 

from 

burdines 

miami  30,  florida 

1.  Send  check  or  money  order 
to  Burdines;  or  order  C.O.D. 

2.  Add  25c  for  postage  beyond 
Burdines'  motor  delivery  area. 

3.  Add  3%  sales  tax  if  you  live 
in  Florida. 

4.  Specify  size  and  color. 


LATTICED  TAFFETA... 

for  the  *  Young  Cosmopolitan. . . 
demurely  sophisticated... crisp, 
rustlint  Celanese*  taffeta 
with  latticed  neckline  and 
matching  sleeves... sweeping 
center  pleated  skirt... 
Navy,  grey,  slate  blue 
or  black. 

Sizes  9-11-13-15 
$1295 

'Trademark 


Mail  orders  lilled.  Address  Section  6. 
Pleose  order  by  style  number  MS4.  Give  first  ond  second  color  thoke.  Postoge  prepoid  everywhere  in  the  U.  S 


FOR 

A  MISS 


You're  set  to  steal  the 

fashion  scene  in  this  pert 

little  casual  topper; 

touched   with  a 

subtle   pattern  of 

shadowed  dominoes. 

Done   in   butter-soft  pure 

imported  Farnsworth  wool, 

with  the  muted  flash  of  a 

full  fine  satin  lining. 

A  lovely,  lovely  topper 

from  the  new  pyramid  shoulder 

to  the  precisely 

beautiful  detailing. 

In  white,  gold,  pink,  lime, 

tofify,  red  or  navy. 

Sizes  8-16  or  9-15. 

About  $22.00 


Available  at  these  fine  stores  .  . 


BluBilMrg's,  Dcthon,  Ala.  •  Fleischman't  Big  Store,  Foy«tlcville,  N.  C.  •  Standord  Clook  Co.,  Sporlonburg,  S.  C. 
House  of  Golden,  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.  •  Leonard's,  Miami,  Flo.  •  Rosenberg  Bros.,  Albany,  Go.  •  Le  Baron's, 
(rond  Rapids,  Mich.  •  Sovage  Juliette,  Springfield,  Me.  •  The  Helen  Shop,  Memphis,  Tenn. 


MODES  CORP. 225  West  37th  Street,  New  York,  N.  Y. 


A  ffluffffy-light,  greaselest  base 


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If  your  skin  looks  "made-up"  .  . .  older  .  .  .  under 
a  heavy  foundation — you'll  thrill  to  the  soft 
flattery  of  this  different  base !  It's  made  to  take 
powder  flawlessly  without  "caking"!  Before 
powder,  smooth  on  a  light  touch  of  Pond's  • 
Vanishing  Cream.  See  it  disappear,  leaving  no 
trace  of  oily  shine.  No  streaking  ...  no  shade 
problem.  This  sheer,  greaseless  cream  leaves  only 
a  transparent  film  that  protects  your  skin  .  .  . 
holds  your  powder ! 


Glamorizing  1-Minute  Masic 

Tonight — dissolve  the  marks  of  winter  from  your 
skin  .  .  .  re-style  your  complexion  with  a  1-Minute 
Mask  of  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream.  Swathe  your 
whole  face — except  eyes — with  a  lavish  Mask  of 
the  snow-cool  Cream.  Its  "keratolytic"  action 
loosens  and  dissolves  off" chapped  flakiness  roughed 
up  by  wintry  winds.  Leave  Mask  on  1  minute — 
then  tissue  off".  Now — how  soft  and  clear  and 
springtime  fresh  your  skin  looks — and  how 
divinely  it  takes  and  holds  make-up! 


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Tor  a  completely  natural  make-up,  I  find  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream 
a  perfect  powder  base,"  says  the  Comtesse  Alain  de  la  Faiaise. 


hour  of  darkness 


(Continued,  from  page  19)  immediately 
after  hospital  admittance  a  stricture  in  his 
left  arm  passed  quickly.  A  crick  in  his  neck 
was  diagnosed  as  inflamed  tonsils,  and  his 
response  to  treatment  quickly  cleared  it. 

As  Norma's  visits  to  the  ward  identified 
her  to  her  child's  roommates,  she  soon 
became  friendly  with  them,  £ind  familiar 
with  the  twenty-four  hour  ward  activity. 
The  air  of  efficiency  was  reassuring — as 
was  the  look  on  Billy's  face. 

He  shared  his  games  and  cut-outs 
with  his  new  companions,  cUid  soon  he 
was  his  cheerful  self,  carrying  on  con- 
versations across  the  room.  A  few  days 
before  he  left  the  hospital  he  turned  to 
his  mother  with  a  happy,  "Mommie,  plcEise 
bring  lis  some  good  flowers  to  smell." 

His  treatment,  identical  to  others  in 
his  ward,  was  patiently  applied.  Hot  packs, 
massage,  and  his  quick  response  made  it 
possible  for  his  speedy  release. 

'T'he  Lancasters'  home,  undergoing  ex- 
pansion  during  Billy's  illness,  pleased 
him  immensely.  Norma  had  a  day  bed 
placed  in  front  of  the  living  room  fire- 
place, and  here  each  morning  a  therapist 
massages  him.  Soon  he  was  given  muscle 
exercise  in  a  heated  swimming  pool. 

BiUy  gleefully  examined  his  special 
bed,  but  reserved  his  delight  for  the 
evening  of  Friday,  November  17th. 
"Mommie,"  he  laughed  then,  "I  know 
what  day  it  is!"  As  the  dirmer  hour  drew 
near,  the  Lancasters  gathered  with  more 
in  their  hearts  than  a  simple  birthday 
celebration. 

Burt  set  the  hearth  ablaze  and  the 
Lancaster  clan  soon  arrived.  Grandad, 
Burt's  father,  Aunt  Ruth,  Burt's  acrobat 
partner,  Nick  Cravat  and  Mrs.  Cravat, 
Susan  and  Jimmy.  Billy's  eyes  grew  as 
the  buffet  table  was  set  before  his  living 
room  window,  and  he  demanded  the 
candles  be  lit  immediately. 

Swinging  around  his  bed  with  glee,  he 
grinned  delightedly  as  a  profusion  of 
gaily  colored  wrappings  and  ribbons  was 
brought  to  him.  Within  a  matter  of 
minutes  Billy  ordered  "Daddy"  to  help 
him,  and  out  tumbled  puzzles,  musical 
circuses.  Sheriff's  badges,  Hopalong  Cas- 
sidy  guns  and  holsters,  blocks,  puppets, 
and  the  largest  gift  of  all,  his  daddy's 
giant-sized  clown  which  reached  above 
his  three-year- old  head. 

Throughout  the  simple  yet  gay  cele- 
bration, Norma  moved  with  platters  of 
shrimps  and  ham  and  milk,  and  in  the 
center  of  the  rug  Btirt  sat  helping  his  son 
Jimmy  put  a  puzzle  together.  Tiny  Susan 
ran  gaily  from  one  celebrant  to  another, 
and  occasionally  stepped  up  to  Billy'g 
bed  and  patted  his  legs. 

Jimmy  in  amazing  childish  pretense, 
firmly  ignored  his  brother's  bed.  But 
soon  Burt  and  Norma  were  quietly  smil- 
ing as  they  noticed  Jimmy's  inquisitive 
glances  towards  the  out-of-place  bed,  and 
then  his  darting  to  his  brother's  side  to  pat 
his  leg  before  quickly  returning  to  his 
puzzle. 

Though  Bill's  leg  is  still  slightly  para- 
lyzed, no  emphasis  is  made  on  his  illness. 
His  love  of  high  proteins  makes  feed- 
ing him  quite  simple.  Billy  celebrated  his 
birthday  with  gusto.  As  dinner  plates 
were  cleared  Norma,  with  a  gentle  hap- 
piness, scurried  into  the  kitchen,  and 
Burt  lifted  his  son  to  his  arms  as  they 
walked  to  meet  a  birthday  cake  ablaze 
with  three  giant  candles. 

His  eyes  aglow  with  excitement,  Billy 
took  his  father's  hand,  looked  quickly 
around  the  room,  and  chuckled,  "Mommie, 
it's  just  like  it's  Christmas  all  the  time." 
The  End 


VACATION 
COTTONS 


MONICA  LEWIS,  singing  star 
of  M.G.M.'s  "Excuse  My  Dust," 
realizes   the   wisdom  of 
buying  summer  clothes  early. 
The   selection   is   best  and  you 
don't  have  to  fight  your  way 
through  the  crowds.  Here  she 
appears  in  an  any-time- 
of-the-day  dress  of  imported 
Egyptian  pima  cotton.  A  classic 
shirtwaist    top,  semi-circular 
skirt    of   generous  proportions 
corded  for  decoration.    In  navy, 
gold,  pink,  turquoise  or 
green.  Sizes   10-18.  $14.95 
By  Henry  Rosenfeld 


BUY  IN  PERSON  OR  BY 
MAIL  FROM  BURDINES,  MIAMI 
30.  FLORIDA.  FOR  HOW  TO 
ORUER:  SEE  PASF  75 


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modern  scretH  josliions 


Mademoiselle  shoes 


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modern  screen  fashions 


VACATION 
COTTONS 


Monica  Lewis  models  a  creation 

that  is  as  versatile  as  anything  can  be. 

A  dress  and  a  jacket  that  can  be 

worn  inside  out.  One  side  is 

a  solid  color,  reverse  it  and  there  Is  a 

dainty  print  on  a  white  background. 

With  this  brain  storm  of  an 

ensemble   it  is  possible   to  make 

six  changes.  Another  thing  to  remember, 

no  slip  is  necessary — the  double 

layers  of  material  and  the 

boned  bodice  take  care  of  that.  The 

big  feature — the  price,  about 

$9.    In  Cheshire  cotton,  navy,  red, 

green  or  rust  with  matching 

prints.  Sizes  9-15. 

By  Junior  Clique 


shoes  by  Mademoiselle 


BUY  IN  PERSON  OR  ORDER  BY 
MAIL  FROM  BURDINES,  MIAMI  30. 
FLORIDA;  STERN  BROS.,  NEW  YORK  CITY. 


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one-woman  man 

(Continued  from  page  39)  more  influence, 
more  contacts,  and  yet  she  dates  me. 

"It's  always  been  that  way  between  the 
two  of  us  ever  since  the  beginning,  and 
that's  why  I'm  the  happiest  guy  in  the 
world.  I  don't  have  to  play  the  field.  If  I 
want  to  date  a  pretty  girl,  I  have  Janet 
for  beauty.  If  I  want  to  discuss  some  act- 
ing problems,  I  have  Janet  to  give  me  ad- 
vice. If  I  want  to  go  out  dancing,  I  have 
Janet  who  dances  like  an  angel. 

"Why  should  I  play  the  field?  For  pub- 
licity's sake?  It's  taken  me  three  years 
to  find  it  out,  but  the  guy  who  gave  me 
that  advice  about  not  going  steady  is  all 
wet.   At  least  as  far  as  I'm  concerned." 

When  Tony  looks  back  nowadays  on  his 
first  two  years  in  Hollywood  he's  a  little 
chagrined  about  his  conduct  and  feelings 
and  suspicions.  He  tells  you  frankly  that  he 
was  probably  all  wrong  about  Geraldine 
and  Farley,  that  they  were  just  being 
friendly  towards  each  other.  But  it's  easy 
to  understand  the  thought  process  of  a 
young  fellow  who  comes  to  Hollywood, 
dates  the  prettiest  girls,  imagines  they're 
genuinely  fond  of  him,  and  then  wakes  up 
one  morning  to  discover  that  he's  been 
duped. 

Tony's  realization  that  one  good  girl  is 
better  than  a  dozen  ambition-ridden 
women  has  been  part  of  his  growing  up. 

No  one  understands  that  better  than 
Janet  Leigh.  "We  all  go  through  the 
stages  Tony  underwent,"  she  says.  "I  did 
myself.  You  have  a  lot  of  dates  and  they 
make  you  feel  like  the  belle  of  the  ball, 
and  then  suddenly  you  wake  up  and 
realize  that  it's  all  been  pretty  shallow 
and  that  the  only  meaning  in  life  lies  in  a 
deep  human  relationship.  That's  why  I've 
gone  with  one  boy  at  a  time.  People  are 
pretty  complex  and  involved  and  it  takes  a 
long  time  to  know  them.  You  just  can't 
have  a  variety  of  dates  and  ever  wind  up 
with  a  good,  solid  friend.  In  short,  when  it 
comes  to  dates,  quality  is  much  more  im- 
portant than  quantity. 

"Tony  has  found  that  out  and  so  have 
I.  That's  why  I'm  a  one-man  woman,  and 
he's  a  one-woman  man."  The  End 

(You'll  see  Tony  soon  in  U-I's  The 
Prince  Who  Was  A  Thief.  Janet  Leigh's 
at  work  on  MGM's  It's  A  Big  Country.) 


HOW  TIME  FLIES! 

■  Since  Olivia  de  Havilland  and  Jimmy 
Stewart  are  mum  on  their  romantic 
status,  we've  taken  to  doing  a  little 
quiet  sleuthing  on  our  own  hook  and 
have  one  clue  •  to  report.  Olivia  is 
patronizing  a  well-known  Boulevard 
tailor,  and  has  ordered  two  dashing 
aviatrix  outfits.  Though  Jimmy  has 
been  "grounded"  by  studio  orders  until 
his  current  picture  is  completed,  he's 
planning  on  taking  off  for  Mexico  City 
the  moment  the  ban  is  lifted.  We 
haven't  caught  Olivia  boning  up  on 
Spanish — but  quien  sabe? — August,  1940, 
Modern  Screen. 


TPOTH 


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You  underweight?  Here's  a  diet  I'd  love 
to  follow  if  I  were  in  your  shoes. 


BEFORE  I  Start  on  the  big  problem  this 
month  I  want  to  tell  all  you  kids  how 
grateful  I  am  for  the  way  you  defended 
me  against  "R.  H."  She  was  the  girl  from 
Billings,  Montana,  who  wrote  that  I  was 
"a  Stuck-up,  painted-up  doll  who  couldn't 
act."  She  said  I  didn't  have  "the  guts"  to 
print  her  letter. 

Well,  I'm  not  a  very  sentimental  person, 
but  I  got  real  sentimental  when  so  many 
of  you  wrote  in  to  cheer  me  up.  From  J.  B., 
Detroit,  Mich.,  "I  think  that  person  is  very 
rude  to  write  such  a  letter  to  such  a  nice 
girl."  From  B.  J.,  Gloucester,  Mass.,  "Please 
don't  let  that  letter  from  R.  H.  upset  you. 
There  are  twelve  girls  in  my  gang  who 
think  the  way  you  answered  was  wonder- 
ful." From  T.  R.,  Butte,  Montana,  "Please 
don't  think  that  all  people  from  Montana 
are  rude.  R.  H.  is  a  disgrace  to  us  teen- 
agers." From  J.  K.,  New  York  City,  "I 
never  wrote  to  a  magazine  before  and  I 
haven't  any  problem  but  that  letter  from 
R.  H.  got  me  so  mad  that  I  had  to  tell  you 
not  to  worry.  She  is  just  jealous." 

I  could  go  on  and  on.  I'm  sorry  I  can't 
quote  all  the  letters.  But,  believe  me,  I 
appreciate  every  one.  And  from  the  bottom 
of  my  heart  I  say  a  very  sincere,  "Thank 
you." 

In  the  December  issue  of  Modern  Screen 
I  have  a  couple  of  diets  to  take  off  weight. 
A  lot  of  kids  wrote  in  to  tell  me  that  they 
worked.  I'm  going  to  re-print  the  reducing 
diets  at  the  end  of  this  column.  But  in  the 
meantime,  I've  had  letters  from  a  lot  of 
girls  who  want  to  put  on  weight. 

As  I've  told  you  before,  when  I'm  stuck 
with  a  problem  I  consult  someone  wiser 
than  I  am.  So,  when  I  discovered  that  the 
big  problem  this  month  was  gaining  weight, 
I  called  my  swell  doctor  who'd  given  me 
the  reducing  diet.  I  said,  "How  do  you  put 
on  weight,  doctor?"  And  he  asked,  "Are 
you  kidding?  Why  do  you  want  to  gain?" 


Well,  I  explained  that  it  wasn't  for  me; 
it  was  for  you.  So  he  gave  me  three  basic 
.  things  to  consider  when  you  want  to  gain. 
1.  Rest.  2.  Food.  3.  Exercise. 

The  main  thing  is  to  get  rest  and  plenty 
of  it.  Get  ten  hours  sleep  a  night.  Even  if 
you  can't  actually  sleep  ten  hours,  lying 
in  bed  that  long  will  help  you. 

As  for  diet,  the  thing  to  do  is  to  skip 
the  idea  of  the  conventional  three  meals  a 
day.  You  skinny  kids  must  have  six  meals 
a  day.  Here's  a  typical  weight-gaining  diet. 
Breakfast 
Fruit  juice  or  fruit 
Toast  with  butter 
Bacon  and  eggs 
Coffee  with  cream  and  sugar 

Mid-morning 
Hard-boiled  egg 
Cottage  cheese 

Lunch 

Green  salad 
Meat  sandwich 
Milk 

Mid-afternoon 
Malted  Milk 
Fruit 

Dinner 

Meat 

Potatoes  or  macaroni  or  spaghetti 

Green  vegetable 

Ice  cream  or  cake  or  pie 

Milk 

Before  going  to  bed 
Cottage  cheese 
Bread  and  butter 
Milk 

■  I  ■  HERE  is  one  thing  that  skinny  people 
*  don't  realize  and  that  is  that  it  is  not 
the  amount  of  food  you  eat  that  counts,  but 
how  much  you  assimilate.  So  many  letters 
this  month  said,  "I  just  stuff  myself  with 
meat  and  potatoes  and  I  can't  seem  to 
gain."  Well,  the  trouble  is  that  you  stuff 


yourself.  Your  body  can't  possibly  turn  all  that 
food  into  weight.  Give  your  body  a  chance 
by  eating  often  and  not  so  much  at  a  time. 

I  know  that  the  eating  between  meals  is 
hard  if  you're  taking  your  lunch  to  school.  But 
you  can  space  it  so  that  you  eat  part  of  your 
lunch  at  the  morning  recess,  and  the  rest  at 
lunch  time.  And  then  have  the  malted  mUk 
after  school. 

Now  for  the  third  point.  Exercise.  Skinny 
kids  should  never  exercise  to  the  point  of  ex- 
haustion. Instead  of  doing  vigorous  exercises 
they  should  do  balanced  exercise.  I  go  to  a 
gym  three  times  a  week  and  I  do  sit-ups  and 
leg-raises  vigorously.  But  there  are  several 
very  thin  girls  who  come  to  the  gym  to  put 
on  weight.  All  they  want  to  do  is  to  build 
up  muscle. 

If  you  don't  have  access  to  a  gym  you  can 
take  exercise  at  home.  To  build  up  your  legs, 
put  a  big  book  on  the  floor  and,  with  the 
ball  of  your  foot  on  the  book,  raise  yourself 
very,  very  slowly,  first  on  one  foot,  then  on  the 
other  and  then  on  both.  Begin  by  doing  this 
ten  times  and  work  up  to  twenty-five. 

To  build  up  the  arms  and  chest,  lie  on  the 
floor  or  a  flat  surface.  With  a  heavy  book  in 
each  hand,  slowly  bring  your  arms  out  and  then 
bring  the  hands  together  above  your  head.  Be 
sure  the  book  or  whatever  you  use  is  very 
heavy  so  it  will  do  some  good. 

As  you  know,  the  best  exercise  for  anyone  is 
swimming.  Swimming  builds  muscles  and  it 
also  reduces.  If  you  possibly  caii,  swim  three 
times  a  week. 

And  now  I'd  Uke  to  repeat  the  reducing 
diet.  I'll  give  you  the  quick  way  and  the 
sensible  way.  But  let  me  warn  you  again. 
Before  you  go  on  either  of  these  diets,  ask 
your  doctor  if  it's  all  right  for  you: 

THE  QUICK  WAY 
Breakfast 
Grapefruit  juice 

Coffee  or  tea  (without  sugar  or  cream) 

Lunch 
Two  scrambled  eggs 
Three  slices  of  tomato  with  lemon 
juice 

Dinner 

Small  steak  (no  fat)  or  lamb  chops 
Green  beans  or  spinach 
Cottage  cheese 
Celery 

Now  the  other  diet,  which  doesn't  take  it 
off  quite  so  fast,  but  is  the  sensible  way: 
Breakfast 
Grapefruit  juice 

Thin  slice  well-done,  lightly-buttered 
toast 

One  egg  (any  way  but  fried) 
Lunch 

(You  can  have  fruit  salad  with  no 
dressing  or  cottage  cheese  and  pine- 
apple or  lettuce  and  tomato  with 
lemon  juice) 

Skimmed  milk 

Dinner 

Steak  or  lamb  chops  or  lean  roast 

beef  or  leg  of  lamb 
Two  green  vegetables 
Green  salad  (with  lemon  juice) 
Fruit 

I  had  a  letter  from  an  overweight  girl  who 


as  snow 


"Snowflalte"  Bcntley, 

tke  Iiomespun  \^errnont  scientisl, 
proved  vd\\x  tKousaiuls  of  pictures 

no  two  snowllakes  are  exactly  alil<e. 
Millions  of  housewives, 
in  more  million^;  of  washings,  have  provedl 
ifiere's  no  soap  exactly  like  Fels-Naptha 
,  .  .  nothing  else  that  washes  sheets,  shirts, 
and  all  while  goods  literally  "as  while  as  snow.  ' 
For  downright  ahihty  to  keep  clothes  clean  there's 

nolfilng  hke  soap  .  ,  .  and  no  soap  like  Fels-Naptha. 
Use  Fels-Naptha  Chipi>  in  your  machine  or  tuh. 
Keep  Fcls-Naplha  Bar  handy  for  high-spotting  collars, 
cuffs  and  other  heavily  soiled  articles. 

Rememher  only  }  els-Naptha  gives  you 

1,  Mild,  golden  soap.  ✓  '  ' 

2.  Gentle,  active  naptha. 

5.  "Sunshine    ingrt^dients  for 
whiter  whites—brighter  colors. 


BANISHES 
"TAT  TLB-TALE 
GRAY" 


81 


Why  risk  his  health  with 
temporary  disinfectants? 

-     -        -,  *  v'^ 


germ-fighting 
action  continues 
between  cleanings! 


TODAY— "flu"  in  your  neighborhood. 
Tomorrow,  this  dread  virus  may  enter 
your  home!  Influenza  virus  may  sur- 
vive in  dust  for  days  or  weeks.  So 
guard  your  family  with  the  disinfectant 
that  spreads  an  anti-bacterial  blanket 
with  continuing,  not  just  temporary 
action. 

HAVE  "lysol"  brand  disinfectant  in 
your  cleaning  water  every  time  you 
clean — in  baby's  room,  in  your  kitchen. 


bathroom . . .  every  room  in  your  house ! 

UNLIKE  BLEACHES,  which  Call  far  thor- 
ough cleaning  befare  disinfacting,  and 
which  even  then  act  only  temporarily, 
"Lysol"  kills  germs  as  you  clean.  And 
regular  use  of  "Lysol"  leaves  an  anti- 
germ  blanket  between  cleanings! 

ECONOMICAL.  So  highly  concentrated, 
you  need  only  23>^  tablespoonfuls  to  1 
gallon  of  water.  Ask  today  for  "Lysol," 
world's  largest-selling  germ  killer ! 


signed  herself,  "T.  C."  She  was  from  New 
York  City.  She  said,  "For  lunch  I  must  eat 
a  sandwich  since  I  bring  my  lunch  to  school. 
I  stick  to  your  six-day  diet  without  the  lunch 
you  had.  I  only  eat  breakfast  and  dinner." 

Now,  look,  this  is  no  problem.  And  this 
letter  I'd  like  to  answer  for  all  the  kids  who 
bring  their  lunch  to  school.  Instead  of 
scrambled  eggs  bring  a  couple  of  hard-boiled 
eggs  and  a  raw  tomato.  That's  eisy  enough, 
isn't  it? 

-A.  ND  now  for  some  other  problems: 

"Dear  Joan:  What  time  of  day  should  you 
take  exercises?— E.  W.,  Hillsboro,  N.  H." 

It  doesn't  matter.  Just  take  exercise  when 
you  can.  First  thing  in  the  morning  or  last 
thing  at  night.  Just  so  long  as  you  don't 
exercise  right  after  eating  it's  all  right. 

"Dear  Joan:  Do  you  think  yourself  superior  to 
other  kids?  How  late  do  you  stay  out  on 
dates?  Do  you  smoke?  Do  you  wear  glasses? 
— E.  B.,  New  York  City." 

I  certainly  don't  think  myself  superior  to 
other  kids.  I'm  a  sixteen-year-old  girl  trying 
to  do  a  good  job,  trying  to  be  a  good  actress. 
I  hope  I'll  be  a  good  actress  some  day.  As  for 
how  late  I  stay  out,  that  depends  on  what  I 
have  to  do  the  next  day.  If  I  have  an  occasion- 
al week-night  date  I  get  home  by  ten-thirty. 
On  Friday  and  Saturday  nights  I  can,  if  I'm 
lucky  enough  to  have  a  date,  stay  out  until 
twelve  or  twelve-thirty.  I  don't  smoke.  I  wear 
glasses  for  reading  and  for  playing  the  piano 
and  at  movies  because  I'm  nearsighted. 

"Dear  Joan:  I'm  fifteen  years  old,  five  feet, 
seven  and  a  half  inches  tall.  Am  I  too  tail  to 
wear  high  heels? — B.  H.,  Gloucester  Point,  Va." 

I'd  suggest  that  at  school  you  wear  low 
heels.  I  think  every  girl  should  wear  low  heels 
at  school.  But  for  formal  occasions,  such  as 
when  you're  going  to  a  dance,  I  think  you 
should  wear  high  heels,  if  your  parents  permit. 
Dramatize  your  height  instead  of  trying  to  play 
it  down.  Hold  your  shoulders  up.  Stand  well. 
Be  proud  that  you're  a  tall  girl.  I  wish  I  were. 

"Dear  Joan:  I'm  in  love  with  a  girl  and  I  am 
in  the  service.  Before  she  knew  I  was  in  the 
service  she  was  in  love  with  me.  Now  that 
I'm  in  uniform  she  hardly  speaks  to  me. — S.  A., 
Bermuda  Island."  ' 
If  you  want  my  real  opinion,  I  think  this 
girl  is  terrible  and  not  worth  bothering  about. 
There  are  so  many  nice  girls  who  realize  how- 
important  servicemen  are  and  who  like  to  go 
out  with  them,  that  I  think  you  should  just 
skip  this  girl  and  find  another  girl  who  ap- 
preciates you. 

"Dear  Joan:  In  school  we  recite  essays  and 
fables.  I  love  to  memorize  these,  but  I  get  ter- 
ribly scared  and  blush  in  front  of  the  class 
What  can  I  do?— M.  A.  C,  Middlefield,  Ohio." 

Oh  boy,  don't  I  know  just  how  you  feel! 
How  do  you  think  I  feel  when  I  get  up  in 
front  of  the  camera  and  have  to  say  lines  in  a 
scene?  I'm  just  scared  to  death.  If  it  helps  you 
any  to  know  this — ^it's  the  old  misery  loves 
company  theory — this  is  my  problem,  too.  But 
the  point  is  that  you  have  to  do  it.  Whether  it's 


saying  lines  or  reciting  essays  and  fables,  it's 
frightening.  But  this  is  what  I  do.  I  swallow 
hard  and  I  say  to  myself,  "Joan,  you're  silly. 
You  can  read  this  line  as  well  as  anyone."  And 
then  I  do  it  to  the  best  of  my  ability.  It  may 
not  be  perfect,  but  it's  the  best  I  can  do.  Why 
don't  you  try  this  the  next  time  you  have  to 
read  an  essay? 

"Dear  Joan:  My  problem  is  that  I  can't  follow 
boys  when  we're  dancing.  Would  you  suggest 
something  I  could  do?  I  don't  have  a  big 
brother.— M.  K.,  Dallas,  Tex." 

Dancing  school  helps  but  it  doesn't  help 
enough,  for  boys  just  seem  to  take  off  in  their 
own  way  and  we're  supposed  to  keep  up  with 
them.  I  suggest  that  you  practice  alone  to 
records  or  the  radio  to  get  the  rhythm  of  the 
music.  When  the  boys  don't  have  the  right 
rhythm,  then  all  you  can  do  is  relax.  Let  them 
lead  you.  Don't  try  anything  fancy,  and  if  you 
can't  follow  don't  worry.  Boys  should  know 
how  to  dance  better  than  they  do.  It  wouldn't 
hurt  a  lot  of  them  to  take  a  few  basic  lessons. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  like  a  certain  boy  who  is  two 
inches  shorter  than  I  am.  He  has  told  me  that 
it  makes  no  difference  to  him,  but  I  can't  help 
feeling  self-conscious  when  we  are  out  with  a 
group  of  kids  or  when  we're  dancing.  Do  you 
think  I'm  being  silly  about  this  difference? — 
S.  N.,  Seattle,  Wash." 

Yes,  I  do  think  you're  being  silly.  Did  j'ou 
see  a  wonderful  movie  called  The  Hasty 
Heart?  In  it,  Patricia  Neal  was  taller  than 
Richard  Todd,  and  it  was  so  great  to  see  on 
the  screen  what  you  see  so  often  in  real  life — 
that  is,  the  girl  being  taller  than  the  boy.  It 
isn't  looks  or  size  that  counts.  It's  whether  or 
not  you  like  this  boy.  And,  for  heaven's  sake, 
if  he  doesn't  care,  why  should  you?  It  seems 
to  me  you're  very  lucky. 

■'Dear  Joan:  My  mother  allows  me  to  have 
gatherings,  but  on  those  nights  she  invites  her 
friends  and  they  start  playing  cards.  I  feel 
funny  if  I  invite  my  friends  because  they 
might  think  my  parents  gamble.  They  don't 
really,  but  you  know  how  kids  are. — M.  R., 
Brooklyn,  N.  Y." 

Yes,  I  know  how  kids  are — very  intolerant. 
What  difference  does  it  make  to  you  whether 
or  not  your  parents  play  a  game  of  cards?  My 
parents  love  to  play  bridge,  and  I  wish  I 
could  learn.  They've  tried  to  teach  me,  but  I'm 
afraid  I'm  not  bright  enough  to  master  the 
game.  So  when  they're  having  a  bridge  party 
and  I  want  friends  over,  I  invite  them.  I  think 
so  many  kids  feel  that  they  have  to  apologize 
for  their  parents  or  they  feel  that  other  kids  are 
talking  about  their  parents.  Honestly,  all  you 
have  to  do  is  to  live  and  let  live. 

Well,  that's  all  for  now.  Thanks  for  listening 
and  thanks  ever  so  much  for  writing.  And 
please  read  the  notice  below. 


An  incorrect  mailing  address 
was  published  by  mistake  in  re- 
cent issues.  If  you  have  a  prob- 
lem or  a  pertinent  subject  that 
you  want  Joan  Evans  to  discuss, 
write  to  her.  Box  93,  Beverly 
Hills.  California. 


Timely  Tips  by  Little  Lulu 

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(Continued  from  page  28)  "For  instance, 
everyone  knows  you  live  in  this  modest 
little  walk-up,  but  you've  never  said  why." 

"That's  because  nobody  ever  asked  me. 
You  know,  I  used  to  read  stories  about 
myself  living  in  a  walk-up.  They  said  I 
wanted  to  be  different.  Some  of  them  even 
intimated  that  I  lived  in  a  slum."  He  waved 
his  arm.  "Is  this  so  bad?" 

It  wasn't  so  bad.  In  fact,  a  lot  of  people 
would  have  settled  for  it — a  tastefully  fur- 
nished flat  in  one  of  the  most  fashionable 
neighborhoods  in  New  York. 

"Well,"  I  said  lamely,  "I  guess  it  isn't 
up  to  movie  star  standards." 

"I  know  it,"  he  said,  "and  for  a  while, 
I  let  that  argument  get  under  my  skin. 
Why,  I  even  listened  to  a  lot  of  foolish 
advice.  I  was  told  that  a  movie  star  was 
supposed  to  live  the  way  the  public  thought 
he  should.  I  ccfuldn't  be  an  individual.  I 
was  sacrificing  my  career." 

"And  then  what?"  I  prompted. 

"I  did  what  they  wanted  me  to  do.  A  few 
months  ago  I  moved  to  a  four  hundred 
dollar  a  month  apartment,  went  to  all  the 
smart  places,  and  threw  cocktail  parties 
for  the  right  people.  And  do  you  know 
what  happened?" 

I  shook  my  head,  "No." 

"I  lost  all  my  friends.  They  thought  I 
was  going  'high  hat.'  And  not  only  that," 
he  added  vehemently,  "I  almost  went 
broke  paying  the  bills!" 

"Well  anyway,  you  didn't  stay  on  that 
'kick'  very  long,"  I  said,  consolingly. 

"You  bet  I  didn't,"  he  said.  "I'd  rather 
have  my  friends  and  a  little  money  in 
the  bank  than  change  my  way  of  living 
just  to  conform  to  some  imaginary  rule." 

TTe  frowned  intensely. 

"Who  makes  up  the  rules,  anyway?" 
he  demanded.  "Who's  to  say  how  a  movie 
star  should  conduct  his  life?  Who's  to 
say  where  he  should  live;  whom  he  should 
take  out;  and  where  he  should  go?" 

I  shrugged  my  shoulders  for  want  of  a 
better  reply.  But  is  there  a  better  one? 
Monty  Clift  lives  the  way  he  wants  to  live. 
No  one  is  going  to  tell  him  when,  where, 
or  how  to  manage  his  private  life.  And 
what's  wrong  with  that?  Those  very  quali- 
ties of  determination  £ind  .  independence 
were  the  driving  force  behind  his  success 
and  they  are  the  factors  that  will  keep 
him  on  top. 

When  I  asked  him  who  his  friends  were 
— the  ones  who  thought  he  was  going  high 
hat — he  smiled. 

"You  wouldn't  know  them,"  he  said. 
"They're  just  plain,  everyday  fellows  and 
gals.  You  see,  I  don't  pal  around  with 
show  people  or  go  to  their  hangouts." 

"Well,  what  do  you  do?"  I  asked  him. 
"Don't  you  ever  go  to  '21'  for  lunch,  or  go 
dancing  at  El  Morocco  or  the  Stork  CIuId? 
Haven't  you  ever  dropped  into  Sardi's  for 
a  late  snack?" 

"Sardi's,"  he  repeated.  "The  place  where 
legitimate  actors  and  their  ulcers  stay  up 
all  night  waiting  for  their  reviews  in  the 
morning  papers?" 

I  nodded. 

"Never  go  there,"  he  assured  me.  "And 
the  same  thing  goes  for  Giro's  and  Mo- 
cambo  in  Hollywood.  Wait  a  minute,"  he 
corrected  himself.  "I  went  to  Giro's  once. 
Just  once.  I  took  a  girl  I  had  known  in 
New  York.  I  thought  she'd  get  a  kick  olit 
of  seeing  it.  Well,  we  got  a  table  and 
ordered  a  bottle  of  wine.  The  room  was 
crowded,  noisy,  and  hot  as  the  devil.  My 
collar  was  starting  to  wilt,  and  so  was  my 
energy.  After  about  twenty  minutes,  my 
girl  friend  leaned  over  and  tapped  me  on 
the  arm.  'Monty,'  she  said,  'you  were 
sweet  to  bring  me  here,  but  I  just  can't 


stand  to  see  you  suffering.  So,  let's  go.' 

■  Don't  get  me  wrong,"  he  continued.  "I 
have  nothing  against  Giro's.  I  know  it's 
one  of  the  finest  cafes  in  the  country.  But 
it's  just  not  my  kind  of  fun." 

And  don't  get  the  idea  that  Monty's  a 
stay-at-home — although  he  looks  good  in 
an  easy  chair.  He  likes  to  go  out  as  well 
as  anyone.  He  particularly  likes  shows, 
bars,  restaurants,  or  even  a  walk  in  the 
park.  But,  the  bars  and  the  restaurants 
will  be  neighborhood  places,  he'll  tell  you. 
He  knows  who's  going  to  be  at  the  Colony 
in  New  York  and  Romanoff's  in  Beverly 
Hills.  What's  more,  he  knows  what  they're 
going  to  say  and  it  bores  him.  As  he  puts 
it,  "I  get  much  more  enjoyment  in  the 
little  out-of-the-way  places  where  the 
customers  want  to  have  a  good  time  and 
aren't  worried  about  impressing  anybody." 

There's  nothing  he  likes  better  than 
"picking  up"  with  people  whether  it's  in 
a  bar,  on  a  street  corner,  or  at  the  beach. 
"I  love  to  find  out  what  makes  them 
tick,"  he  told  me.  "I  take  long  walks  in 
the  park,  sit  down  on  benches  and  start 
conversations  with  strangers.  I  find  out 
what  they  think  and  how  they  feel.  You 
never  know  what  it'll  bring.  Sometimes 
it's  darned  exciting." 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

When  my  small 
daughter  and  1 
were  returning 
home  hy  plane,  we 
met  a  young  girl 
and  her  mother. 
The  girl  admired 
my  daughter  and 
tried  to  pick  her 
up .  When  my 
daughter  refused, 
the  girl  was  gen- 
uinely disappointed.  Today  my  daugh- 
ter is  the  disappointed  one  since  "that 
girl"  was  our  favorite,  Jane  Powell. 

Mrs.  Rosemary  Noli 
Tucson,  Arizona 


T  REMEMBERED  a  story  someone  once  told 
me  about  him.  Monty  was  taking  one  of 
his  casual  walks  and  happened  to  pass 
by  the  Stork  Club.  It  was  a  warm  night; 
and  he  was  jacketless  and  had  his  sleeves 
rolled  up.  He  stood  in  front  of  the  glamor- 
ous club,  and  with  a  cynical  grin  watched 
the  fashionable  customers  walk  in  and  out. 
A  sailor,  out  sightseeing,  came  along  and 
paused  near  Monty.  "I  bet  you'd  love  to 
go  in  there,"  the  sailor  said.  "I  know  I 
sure  would." 

"Not  me,"  Monty  answered.  "You 
couldn't  drag  me  in  there." 

The  sailor  regarded  him  skeptically. 
"Why're  you  saying  that?  Because  you 
haven't  got  the  money?" 

"It's  not  the  money,"  Monty  assured 
him. 

"Aaah,  tell  it  to  the  Marines,"  said  the 
sailor. 

"On  the  level,"  insisted  Monty.  "And  if 
you  don't  believe  it,  come  on  across  the 
street  and  I'll  buy  you  a  drink." 

The  sailor  didn't  mind.  He  and  Monty 
went  to  a  little  bar  where  they  sat  and 
talked  for  hours  over  their  beer.  Or  rather, 
the  sailor  did  the  talking  with  Monty 
drawing  him  out.  As  Monty  paid  the 
check,  the  sailor  stuck  out  his  hand  ap- 
preciatively. "Thanks,  Mac,"  he  said  grate- 
fully. "Say,  I  been  so  busy  enjoying  my- 
self I  didn't  get  your  name." 

"It's  Montgomery  Clift,"  Monty  told  him. 

"The  movie  star?"  gasped  the  sailor. 

"Yes,"  Monty  admitted.  "I  hope  you 
won't  hold  it  agaiinst  me." 


IVroNTY's  next  question  interrupted  my 
iVX  reverie.  "Anything  else  I  can  tell 
you?"  he  asked. 

"Sure,"  I  answered,  blithely.  "What  do 
you  talk  about  with  these  people  you  meet?" 

"Anything,  everything,  just  as  long  as 
its  not  about  the  picture  business  all  the 
time,"  he  answered.  "I  can  gab  with  a 
man  six-feet-four  about  religion,  or  a 
girl  five-feet-two  about  her  love  life.  I've 
talked  about  sports  with  a  Salvation  Army 
drummer  and  physics  with  a  steam  shovel 
operator." 

"You  ought  to  write  a  book,"  I  told  him. 
"I'm  almost  finished  with  my  first  one 
right  now,"  he  informed  me. 
"What's  it  about?" 

Monty  shook  his  head.  "If  I  told  you 
that,  you  wouldn't  buy  it." 

"I  promise  to  buy  it,"  I  said,  but  he 
wouldn't  talk. 

"What's  new  in  the  girl  department?" 
I  asked  him. 

"Absolutely  nothing,"  he  answered.  "You 
know  I  take  out  a  lot  of  girls  but  there 
hasn't  been  anything  serious  yet." 

"How  about  some  names?"  I  prodded. 

"These  names  wouldn't  mean  anything 
to  your  story,"  he  said.  "They're  nobodies 
as  far  as  the  public  is  concerned.  Sales- 
girls, secretaries,  elevator  operators,  and 
maybe  a  stripteaser  or  two,"  he  added, 
with  a  glint  in  his  eye. 

"Stripteasers?"  I  squeaked. 

"Why  not?  They  live  breathe,  think, 
and  dream,  don't  they?  And  some  of  them 
have  led  really  interesting  lives." 

He  got  up  and  started  to  walk  around 
the  room  and  I  almost  dislocated  my  neck 
trying  to  keep  my  eyes  on  that  profile. 

"You  know,"  Monty  went  on,  "I  don't 
have  to  be  in  love  with  every  girl  I  take 
out.  Believe  me,  it's  going  to  be  quite  a 
while  before  I  get  married  and  drop  out 
of  circulation.  Anyway,  that's  the  way  I 
feel  today.  Tomorrow,  who  knows?" 

"Oh,"  I  said  slyly,  "and  how  do  you  feel 
about  Pocahontas  Crowfoot?" 

He  grinned. 

"Isn't  that  a  name  for  you?"  he  said. 

"A  name  that's  been  coupled  with  yours 
in  the  gossip  columns,"  I  replied. 

He  explained  that  very  simply.  It  seems 
that  Monty  enjoys  the  Martinique — prob- 
ably the  only  cafe  so  honored.  Pocahontas 
Crowfoot  is  a  dancer  there — a  very  attrac- 
tive Indian  girl  with  a  wide  reputation  for 
her  wit  and  personality.  One  evening, 
Monty  dropped  in  with  a  friend  and  when 
the  show  was  over,  Pocahontas  joined  them 
for  a  drink.  It  made  all  the  papers.  "And 
the  funny  part  of  it  is,"  Monty  said,  "I'd 
been  in  that  club  a  half  dozen  times,  and 
with  attractive  girls,  too,  and  not  one  of 
the  newspapers  mentioned  it." 

"But,  aren't  you  even  a  little  bit  in  love 
with  her?"  I  begged. 

"Sorry,"  he  smiled.  "I'm  still  waiting 
to  meet  my  light  of  love,  and  Pocahontas — 
well,  I  guess  she's  waiting  for  John 
Smith." 

"Your  light  of  love,"  I  repeated,  ro- 
mantically. "Monty,  how  do  you  picture  the 
girl  you're  waiting  for?  Does  she  have  to 
be  tall  and  stately  like  Hedy  Lamarr,  or 
small  and  cute,  like  Betty  Grable?" 

He  sighed,  a  little  wistfully,  "If  I  knew, 
I'd  probably  be  a  happier  guy." 

I  pulled  myself  together  and  rose  to 
leave.  He  walked  me  to  the  door  with  that 
friendly  smile. 

"Sorry  I  couldn't  be  more  helpful,"  he 
apologized.  "I  guess  there  just  isn't  much 
to  write  about  me." 

Oh,  no?  I  could  write  reams.  I  could 
write  symphonies.  Talk  about  Monty — he 
doesn't  know  it,  but  he's  my  type  of  man. 
The  End 

(Montgomery  Clift  will  soon  he  seen  in 
Paramounfs  A  Place  In  The  Sun.) 


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(Continued  from  page  55)  It  is  only  this 
which  is  worth  talking  about:  that  froip 
the  beginning  to  the  end  of  my  pilgrimage, 
I  found  what  I  wanted  to  find — good 
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All  that  the  Pope  asked,  smilingly,  when 
Cardinal  Spelknan  presented  me  was,  "Are 
you  a  good  actress?" 

All  that  a  Scandinavian  priest  inquired 
was  whether  I  was  happy  in  my  work. 

All  that  a  bearded  Hebrew  guide  in  old 
Jerusalem  was  moved  to  do  was  to  present 
me  with  a  lovely  gift — an  Egyptian  scarab. 

I  was  not  Jime  Haver  to  any  of  these, 
I  was  a  devotee,  come  a  long  way,  as  they 
were,  and  I  cannot  describe  the  exultation 
to  be  just  that  .  .  .  and  no  more. 

'T'he  morning  after  the  attempted  assas- 

sination  of  President  Truman,  I  was 
in  Rome  and  attended  a  special  Mass  cele- 
brated by  Cardinal  Spellman  to  ofEer  pray- 
ers for  his  protection.  Following  this,  a 
group  of  us  were  taken  to  the  private  study 
of  the  Pope  and  suddenly  he  was  there, 
talking  to  each  in  turn.  I  had  a  special 
assignment  for  this  visit.  With  me  I  carried 
a  pair  of  cuff  links  bearing  the  likeness  of 
St.  Genesius,  patron  saint  of  actors,  and 
belonging  to  William  Limdigan.  He  now 
has  them  back — blessed  by  the  Pope. 

I  also  brought  back  a  message  for  Holly- 
wood that  was  given  to  me  by  everyone  I 
met:  how  much  good  our  pictures  can  do 
for  the  people  of  foreign  nations  if  we 
put  our  best  into  them,  how  much  they 
can  let  them  down  if  we  don't.  It  was  best 
explained  to  me  on  the  Rome  to  Haifa 
plane  on  which  36  of  us,  assembled 
in  one  group  by  the  Franciscan  Fathers, 
made  the  Holy  Land  flight.  I  sat  down 
next  to  a  priest  from  India  and  immediate- 
ly recognized  him  as  a  man  I  had  heard 
speak  at  home,  right  in  St.  Paul's  West- 
wood  Church!  He  was  Father  Xavier 
(born  S.  Thani  Nayajam)  of  Tuticorn, 
South  India.  We  became  not  only  special 
friends  on  the  tour,  but  today  he  is  my 
"Mission  Father,"  the  one  to  whom  I  dedi- 
cate an  hour  of  prayer  every  Saturday. 

Imagine  Catholic  children  singing  a 
hymn  set  to  the  tune  of  "It  Was  on  the 
Isle  of  Capri  That  I  Met  Her."  Yet  this 
is  so  in  South  India.  They  fell  in  love 
with  the  melody  after  hearing  it  in  one  of 
our  pictures. 

Father  Xavier  told  me  about  his  work 
and  his  people,  and  the  uplifting  effect  a 
good  screen  story  has  on  them.  He  ex- 
plained how  the  difference  in  their  climate 
can  affect  the  language  of  prayer  so  that 
sometimes  the  religious  phrases  they  hear 
in  our  pictures  puzzle  them.  They  do  not 
say,  for  instance,  "In  the  light  of  God." 
Because  they  are  almost  always  under 
the  rays  of  a  dazzling  sun  they  find,  "In 
the  shade  of  God,"  infinitely  more  pleas- 
ing and  understandable. 

I  sang  aboard  that  Haifa-boimd  plane, 
not  alone,  but  with  a  priest  from  Chicago, 
Father  Carroll  Riedel.  We  were  all  asked 
to  sing  our  favorite  songs  from  our  home- 
land and  as  the  only  two  Americans  we 
got  together  on  "God  Bless  America." 

Another  time  I  sang,  this  time  solo,  was 
for  our  Army  boys  stationed  in  Paris.  But 
the  star  of  that  show  was  a  cake  the  boys 
had  ready  for  the  occasion.  It  was  an 
"objet  d'art"  I  hated  to  cut.  And  the  third 
time  there  was  singing  on  my  trip  was 
on  the  bus  from  Cork  to  Killarney  in 
Ireland,  and  I  didn't  do  any  of  it.  A  ban- 
tam-sized old  Irishman  climbed  aboard 
at  one  of  the  stops,  annoimced  that  he 
certainly  would  enjoy  a  drink  of  good 


Irish  whiskey,  and  then  proceeded  to  en- 
tertain us  with  a  series  of  Irish  ditties  all 
the  way  to  Killarney. 

TVTaturally,  on  a  personal  trip,  as  my 
-'-  '  pilgrimage  was,  I  asked  the  studio  not 
to  make  any  publicity  arrangements.  And 
I  had  a  hope  that  I  would  not  be  recog- 
nized, either.  All  through  the  Holy  Land, 
for  instance,  I  wore  a  navy  blue  snood  over 
my  hair  to  make  sure,  and  also  becaiise  I 
didn't  want  to  be  a  contrast  in  a  country 
where  most  of  the  people  are  dark.  But 
when  we  left  Rome,  the  airline  people 
wired  ahead  and  Israel  newspapermen 
were  waiting  when  our  plane  landed.  Pho- 
tographers even  followed  me  into  one  of 
the  temples  and,  fearing  that  the  rabbi 
would  be  offended,  I  asked  him  to  speak 
to  them  about  it.  From  that  time  on  they 
respected  my  request  and  took  pictures 
only  when  I  was  outdoors. 

The  effect  of  the  stories  became  appar- 
ent whenever  we  arrived  at  the  different 
towns  and  places  on  our  itinerary.  Delega- 
tions of  young  people  would  be  waiting. 
They  told  me,  as  luck  would  have  it,  too, 
that  one  of  my  pictures.  Look  For  the  Sil- 
ver Lining,  was  playing  in  Tel-Aviv  at 
the  time. 

I  could  not  help  but  be  impressed  by 
the  confidence  of  the  people  of  Israel  in 
their  future.  It  is  evident  in  their  maruier, 
in  their  talk  and  in  their  works.  But  I 
was  saddened  by  some  aspects  of  their 
communal  existence  in  the  outlying  farms, 
particularly  by  the  nursery  life  which 
their  children  must  live  because  their 
mothers  and  fathers  are  busy  in  the  fields. 
It  seems  to  me  that  neither  children  nor 
parents  can  ever  make  up  the  love  gone 
to  waste  because  they  are  apart  so  much. 

Father  Xavier  went  wading  with  me  in 
the  Sea  of  Galilee,  and  it  was  there  that 
I  saw  the  old  monk  who  was  so  moved 
by  the  biblical  scenes  aroimd  him  that 
his  eyes  were  filled  with  tears.  He,  too, 
had  his  shoes  off,  and  sat  on  a  rock  dan- 
gling his  feet  in  the  water.  I  smiled  at 
him  but  he  saw  only  the  wondrous  waters 
and  the  distant,  ancient  hills. 

Before  I  left  Rome  I  had  seen  another 
monk  I  will  never  forget,  this  one  a  young 
fun-fUled  lad  even  if  he  did  wear  the 
traditional  robe  and  cord,  and  his  head 
was  shaven.  I  was  leaving  the  office  of  the 
Franciscan  Fathers  when  I  noticed  him 
just  ahead  of  me,  carrying  an  vmibreUa. 
As  he  reached  a  quiet,  cloistered  part  of 
the  hall,  he  flipped  the  imnbrella  upwards 
in  his  hand  and  balanced  it  blithely  on 
his  chin.  And  in  this  manner  he  gained 
the  street  and  went  on  his  way  happily! 

Today  travel  through  both  Israel  and 
the  Arab  areas  is  mostly  by  bus  and  train, 
but  there  are  still  some  who  journey,  by 
donkey.  We  met  one  of  these  natives  at 
a  little  village  on  the  road  to  Jericho.  He 
was  a  nine-year-old  Arab  boy  and  I  am 
not  going  to  forget  him  in  a  hiirry.  He 
was  standing  beside  his  donkey  when  our 
bus  stopped  for  a  few  minutes.  I  got  out 
and  asked  him  if  he  would  get  on  the 
animal  and  let  me  take  a  picture.  I  should 
say  that  I  communicated  with  him  in  sign 
language.  He  understood  all  right.  He 
nodded,  but  held  out  his  hand  and  said, 
"Baksheesh." 

This  meant  he  wanted  money  first,  the 
others  told  me.  But  I  carried  no  money 
on  this  trip  and  shook  my  head.  I  could 
see  his  dark  face  actually  get  darker,  and 
he  looked  about  on  the  ground  as  if  he 
were  seeking  a  weapon — which  he  found! 
Of  all  things,  there  lay  a  broken  Coca- 
Cola  bottle  at  his  feet.  He  snatched  it  up 
and  pulled  his  hand  back  to  swing  it  at 
me.  I  went  flying  back  to  the  bus.  He 
had  made  himself  perfectly  plain.  No 
"Baksheesh" — ^no  picture. 

Curiously  enough,  I  felt  that  this  little 


boy  was  not  without  dignity,  and  if  he 
enforced  it  savagely  it  was  the  only  way 
be  knew.  By  his  code  if  I  deemed  a  pic- 
ture of  him  and  his  donkey  valuable  I 
should  pay  for  it.  I  had  been  put  in  my 
place  and  was  probably  the  better  for  it. 

"VfY  first  stop  on  the  trip  after  leaving  the 
United  States  was  Paris,  and  something 
[  saw  there  reminded  me  of  the  one- 
sided impression  the  world  has  of  HoUy- 
t>/ood.  I  visited  the  Montmartre  twice.  The 
5rst  time  was  on  a  Saturday  night  and 
saw  and  heard  what  I  had  been  led  to 
2xpect:  jostling,  laughing  groups  in  an 
;xcited  coming  and  going,  as  if  everyone 
ivas  nervously  afraid  the  music  and  wine- 
:hickened  atmosphere  would  suddenly 
:lear  up  cind  leave  them  strainded. 

My  second  visit  was  just  a  few  hours 
ater  when  I  walked  through  on  my  way  to 
;arly  Sunday  Mass.  Now  the  Montmartre 
was  playing  a  different  role.  The  night 
jaiety  was  gone.  Instead  it  was  stirring 
azily  in  the  early,  pale  simshine. 

The  doors  of  a  night  club  lay  open  and 
nside  there  was  nothing  to  be  seen  but 
i  long  bar  on  which  snoozed  a  fat  cat. 
from  a  gate  emerged  a  black-shawled 
)Id  woman  holding  an  empty  milk  pitcher. 
SVhen  she  turned  a  comer  and  was  gone 
Jie  street  was  deserted  xmtil  a  small  boy 
:ame  along  carrying  a  long,  French  loaf  of 
aread  for  his  breakfast.  His  fresh  face 
ind  clear  eyes  told  plainly  that  he  had 
Deen  asleep  long  before  the  first  roisterer 
lad  arrived  in  the  area  the  night  before. 
3e  stopped  to  peek  in  at  the  cat  (he 
;eemed  to  know  it  would  be  there)  and 
10,  "P'ssst!"  He  acknowledged  my  presence 
with  a  knowing,  little  smile  as  if  to  say, 
'Well,  we  are  the  only  ones  up  and  about 
;o  far,  eh?"  And  then  he  went  along, 
vhistling  in  a  way  that  revealed  he  had 
lot  quite  learned  how,  but  was  trying. 


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I  felt  like  protesting.  Why  hadn't  anyone 
given  me  this  picture  of  the  Montmartre? 
It  was  a  lovely,  quaint  place  as  I  was 
seeing  it  now.  And,  of  course,  I  knew  the 
answer.  The  ordinary  Uves  its  people  live 
are  of  no  interest.  Jxist  as  the  Hoil>'wood 
in  which  stars  have  babies  to  put  to  bed, 
meals  and  other  household  duties  to  at- 
tend to,  and  a  lot  of  plain,  everj'day  liv- 
ing to  do,  is  not  news. 

I didn't  have  to  ask  that  little  French 
boy  to  know  that  he  loved  the  Mont- 
martre; just  as  I  and  dozens  of  my  friends 
love  the  Hollywood  we  know,  the  Holly- 
wood  that   means   our   homes   and  our 


loved  ones,  and  all  the  things  we  hold  so 
dear. 

Well,  the  French  boy  loves  his  Mont- 
martre. In  the  eyes  of  an  old  Jewish 
patriarch  come  at  last  to  his  beloved  home- 
land of  Jerusalem  I  have  seen  love  shin- 
ing plainly.  The  Irish  lad  who  was  sure 
the  best  husbands  are  only  to  be  found  in 
Ireland  loved  his  land.  They  reinforced 
my  love  for  mine. 

They  did  this,  and  they  did  more  for 
me.  They  gave  me  new  incentive. 

I  wish  I  were  as  brave  as  the  people  of 
Israel. 

I  wish  I  could  smile  like  the  Italians  do. 
Or  even  get  as  much  real  living  out  of  an 
hour  of  my  day  as  they  seem  able  to 
squeeze  out  of  an  instant. 

I  wish  I  had  the  mcinner  and  elan  of 
the  French,  from  the  most  distinguished 
of  its  citizens  to  anyone  you  chance  to 
speak  to  on  the  street. 

I  wish  I  had  the  simple  faith  of  the 
old,  paralyzed  man  I  saw  in  a  wheel  chair 
at  the  Grotto  of  Lourdes  in  France.  His 
nurse  told  me  that  he  has  sat  every 
day  for  years  at  the  shrine  with  his  paral- 
ysis uncured.  "But  he  has  been  cured 
otherwise.  Madame,"  she  said.  "You  have 
only  to  look  at  his  face  to  become  con- 
vinced of  that."  And  she  was  right.  His 
face  shone  with  the  health  of  his  soul. 

I  wish  I  could  read  between  the  lines 
of  life  for  the  poetry  that  is  there  as  the 
Irish  do. 

Like  the  little  French  boy  again,  with 
his  whistling,  I  haven't  quite  made  it. 
But  I.  too.  am  trying. 

A  pilgrim  msikes  his  journey  to  the  Holy 
Land  to  kneel  before  the  resvurection  place 
of  his  Lord.  I  did.  And  in  return  I  saw 
Christ's  glory  reflected  in  the  faces  of  His 
people  who  showed  me  how  rich  and  re- 
sourceful and  loving  the  human  spirit 
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(Continued  from  page  51)  Barbara 
wouldn't  talk  to  any  reporters  about  her 
divorce,  and  Taylor,  when  the  news  was 
made  public,  was  flying  around  Palm 
Springs  in  his  private  plane. 

Two  weeks  previously  he  had  been 
operated  on  in  San  Francisco  for  a  double 
hernia.  Barbara  had  gone  up  there  to  be 
with  him.  Bob's  operation  lasted  three 
hours.  "Those  three  hours,"  Barbara  later 
said,  "were  the  longest  hours  in  my  life." 

The  operation  proved  successful.  When 
it  was  over,  Barbara  confided  to  a  reporter 
that  she  had  bought  her  husband  a  new 
Cadillac  convertible  for  Christmas  and  that 
she  was  going  to  act  as  his  chauffevir. 

Barbara  was  so  solicitous,  so  genuinely 
interested  in  Bob's  health  that  no  one  ex- 
pected a  divorce  announcement  two  weeks 
later. 

Actually  and  truthfully,  it  had  been 
forthcoming  since  the  end  of  World  War  II. 

THE  story  that  professional  requirements 
were  responsible  for  the  split-up  may 
in  part  be  true.  But  actually,  Stanwyck 
and  Taylor  are  big  enough  stars  to  make 
any  picture  where  and  when  they  want. 

tJarbara  is  in  demand  by  so  many  film 
companies  that  she  never  has  to  go  on 
location  if  she  doesn't  want  to.  Moreover, 
if  she  felt  that  geography  were  ruining  her 
marriage,  she  could  have  quit  anywhere 
along  the  line. 

She's  been  in  the  big-time  for  more  than 
twenty  years.  She  has  plenty  of  money. 
Taylor's  salary  hits  $3,000  a  week,  cer- 
tainly enough  to  support  any  wife. 

Not  only  that,  but  Barbara  and  Bob  just 
finished  touring  Italy  together.  The  Jan- 
uary issue  of  Modern  Screen  ran  a  large 
story,  profusely  illustrated,  on  these  two 
stars  enjoying  the  sights  of  Rome. 

This  excuse  of  being  separated  "too  often 
and  too  long"  is  just  not  good  enough. 

What  happened  to  Barbara  and  Bob 
happens  to  many  couples  who  have  no 
children.  (Barbara  had  one  by  her  former 
husband,  Frank  Fay.)  They  find  after  a 
decade  of  marriage  when  the  sex  attraction 
has  subsided,  that  there  is  no  common 
bond  to  hold  the  marriage  together.  One 
of  the  few  things  Bob  and  Barbara  had  in 
common  was  the  motion  picture  industry, 
and  to  this  common  profession,  this  mutual 
avocation  is  ascribed  the  cause  of  their 
divorce.    It  just  doesn't  ring  true. 

What  does  ring  true  is  that  Bob  Taylor 
is  an  aviation  sportsman.  He  loves  to  fly. 
He  flies  all  the  time.  Stanwyck  detests 
planes.  She  died  a  thpusand  deaths  this 
past  sumnler  when  she  flew  to  Rome  to 
be  with  Bob. 

In  Rome  the  Italian  newspapers  carried 
the  story  that  Bob  and  a  yo\ing  Italian 
actress  were  quite  the  thing.  It  was  a 
ridiculous  story.  Members  of  the  Quo 
Vadis  cast  said  later  that  the  girl  in  ques- 
tion was  a  publicity-seeking  extra,  who 
meant  nothing  to  Taylor. 

The  Stanwyck-Taylor  marriage  did  not 
go  on  the  rocks  because  of  any  third 
parties.  It  went  on  the  rocks  because 
Barbara  and  Bob  could  find  nothing 
mutual  to  do  in  their  spare  time. 

To  say  that  they  had  no  spare  time  is  to 
hedge  the  point,  because  Barbara  has 
enough  money  and  position  to  obtain  as 
much  spare  time  as  she  desires.  The  fact 
she  constantly  chose  to  work  was  an  indi- 
cation to  a  handful  of  shrewd  insiders  that 
all  was  not  well  at  the  Taylor  menage. 

One  reporter,  tired  of  the  constant  pub- 
licity drivel  about  how  beautifully  two 
maior  stars  could  get  along,  once  asked 
Barbara  if  she  and  her  husband  ever 
quarreled.  "Sure,"  Barbara  said,  "we  have 
disagreements   but   I   like   it   that  way. 


Sometimes  we  get  so  mad  at  each  other  we 
don't  speak  for  days.  That's  better  than 
these  lovey-dovey  things." 

A  friend  of  Barbara's  says:  "If  she  would 
only  learn  to  fly,  if  she  would  only  learn 
to  like  planes,  I  think  she  and  Bob  might 
still  make  a  go  of  it." 

"Tt's  not  as  simple  as  that,"  says  one  of 
A  Taylor's  intimates.  "Sometimes  a  mar- 
riage drags  on  when  i,t  should  have  ended 
several  years  previously.  Something  hap- 
pens. The  glamor  is  gone.  The  passion 
fades.  A  couple  find  they  don't  care  to 
do  the  same  thing.  They  keep  going  to- 
gether. Maybe  the  spark  will  light,  the 
embers.  Maybe  the  fire  will  flare  up  again. 
Such  things  rarely  happen.  The  marriage 
begins  to  diminish  in  intensity.  The  ex- 
citement dies  down.  A  husband  and  wife 
no  longer  enjoy  each  other. 

"Taylor  goes  to  London  to  do  Conspira- 
tor. Stanwyck  stays  behind  to  work  for 
Hal  Wallis.  There  are  loads  of  long  dis- 
tance calls,  but  these  are  bom  more  out 
of  consideration  than  love. 

"My  own  analysis  is  that  Bob  and  Bar- 
bara got  tired  of  each  other.  It's  as  simple 
as  that.  If  they  enjoyed  each  other's  hob- 
bies, it  might've  been  different.  But  as 
grown-up  folks,  each  went  his  own  way. 
Barbara  has  a  17 -year-old  son,  Dion,  by 
Frank  Fay.  Maybe  if  she  and  Bob  had 
adopted  some  kids  it  would  have  been 
different. 

"All  I  can  say  is  that  they're  wonderful 
people  who  have  no  recriminations.  Bob, 
you  know,  was  a  flying  instructor  for  three 
years  in  the  Navy.  I  don't  think  the  war 
changed  him  appreciably,  but  it  heightened 
his  love  of  aviation.  Barbara  suffers  from 
a  constitutional  fear  of  planes,  and  there's 
nothing  anyone  can  do  about  it.  She  never 
begrudged  Bob  his  hobby,  but  she  never 
shared  it,  either." 

No  one  would  be  foolish  enough  to  say 
that  Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Bob  Taylor 
are  divorcing  because  he  likes  to  fly,  and 
she  doesn't.  Disagreements,  at  least  mari- 
tal, are  seldom  that  simple.  It's  the  annual 
increment  of  a  million  little  things  that 
eventually  wrecks  a  marriage. 

The  most  successful  Hollywood  mar- 
riages are  those  in  which  (1)  the  wife  has 
abandoned  her  career  in  favor. of  becom- 
ing a  housewife;  (2)  those  in  which  the 
marriage  is  blessed  by  the  quick  arrival  of 
children;  (3)  those  in  which  the  husband 
and  wife  do  not  partake  in  the  same  occu 
pation;  and  (4)  those  in  which  the  husband 
and  wife  share  a  number  of  major  hobbies. 

The   Stanwyck -Taylor  marriage  failed 
to  meet  any  of  these  requirements — and 
therein  lies  the  answer  to  its  dissolution. 
The  End 


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{Continued  from  page  40)  the  most  cyn- 
ical of  the  Hollj'wood  executives. 

In  itself  even  the  unwillingness  to  do  a 
story  which  the  wise  men  in  the  produc- 
tion department  believe  is  just  right  for 
him  is  not  a  matter  of  serious  moment. 
This,  however,  linked  with  Farley  Gran- 
ger's rather  erratic  behavior  dxiring  the 
past  few  months  seems  to  make  it  neces- 
sary for  some  friend  to  clap  him  on  the 
back  and  say,  "Watch  your  step,  Farley— 
the  road  ahead  is  rosy  and  strewn  with 
flowers  and  gold,  but  it  is  filled  with  enor- 
mous, hidden  pitfalls.  Beware,  my  boy,  and 
rake  a  long  look  back  before  you  venture 
further.  Watch  your  step,  Farley,  because 
from  now  on  more  and  more  people  will  be 
waiting  for  you  to  blunder.  That's  how 
they  are  in  Hollywood." 

There  is  a  tale,  tmiversally  believed  in 
Sim  circles,  that  when  one  of  his  "people" 
says  "no"  to  Mr.  Samuel  Gold'W'jTi.  the 
movie-making  genius'  flies  into  "such  a 
tizzj'  of  rage  that  within  a  square  mile 
radius  of  his  office  strong  men  crawl 
beneath  their  desks  and  shiver  in  fear.  It 
is  also  an  accepted  belief  that  when  one 
of  his  "discoveries"  shows  the  slightest 
tendency  toward  "ingratitude",  Mr.  Gold- 
wyn  becomes  Savage  Sammy. 

The  necessity  for  the  above  information 
is  to  establish  the  fact  that  when  Farley 
Granger  got  involved  in  a  dispute  with 
Mr.  Goldwyn  last  year,  it  was  immedi- 
ately deduced  that  he  was  either  attempt- 
ing suicide,  or  he  had  a  beef  so  legitimate 
it  could  not  be  ignored,  or  (and  most 
popularly  believed)  he  had  reached  that 
stage  of  movie-stardom  where  aU  is  con- 
fusion. It  was  vmthinkable  that  such  a 
quarrel  could  take  place. 

r^AELEY  Granger  will  probably  never 
^  forget  the  first  time  he  saw  Samuel 
Goldwyn  smile.  Farley  was  seventeen,  a  tall, 
rather  gangling,  trembling  seeker-of-a-job 
when  he  entered  Mr.  Goldwyn's  office. 
Goldwyn  smiled,  and  the  world  became 
filled  with  beautj'.  The  youngster,  flanked 
by  his  mother  and  father,  sat  and  basked 
in  the  splendor  of  the  occasion — assured 
now,  by  some  strange  miracle  that  at  that 
moment  he  had  been  made  a  movie  star; 
:  and  in  his  heart  he  undoubtedly  vowed 
[  eternal  obedience,  fidelity  and  loyalty  to 
I  Samuel  Goldwyn.  Such  was  the  wonder 
of  the  event — and  the  magic  of  Mr.  Gold- 
wyn's personality. 

Seven  years  later,  the  same  Mr.  Gold- 
wyn almost  uprooted  every  tree  in  West 
Los  Angeles  with  the  wind  of  his  wrath 
against  Farley  Granger — and  Farley  calmly 
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The  first  seven  years  of  any  actor's  life 
is  a  dangerous  period.  It  is  in  this  space 
of  time  that  the  average  actor  serves  out 
his  first  contract.  It  is  generally  at  the  con- 
clusion of  his  first  contract  that  the  actor 
either  makes  a  quick  series  of  mistakes 
which  plunge  him  to  oblivion,  or  sets  up  his 
fumre  so  tnat  he  can  go  on  with  a  life- 
time of  picture-making.  It  goes  without 
:  saying  that  most  actors  take  the  plunge, 
j      Very  little  of  Farley   Granger's  early 
:  career  as  an   actor  is  worth  recording. 

When  he  was  in  his  teens  he  made  two 
i  films.   The   North   Star  and   The  Purple 
Heart,  then  the  Na\T  swallowed  him  up 
and  he  was  gone  for  a  year  and  a  half. 
When  he  returned,  he  went  another  year 
j  and  a  half  without  a  part.  As  Goldwyn 
:  explained  it  once,  he  was  being  paid  to 
grow  up.  Farley's  real  life  as  a  movie  star 
began  when  he  appeared  one  day  with  a 
moustache — and  girls  all  over  the  world 
began  collapsing  at  the  sight  of  him. 

It  is  an  odd  fact  that  millions  of  fans 
fall  in  love  with  Farley  Granger  because 
of  the  things  they  read  about  him  in  the 
magazines,  the  gay,  silly  things  that  a  cer- 
tain kind  of  girl  likes.  While,  on  the  other 
hand,  other  millions  fall  for  him  because 
of  the  off-beat,  degraded  characters  he 
plays  in  most  pictures.  Farley,  in  other 
words,  gets  them  all. 

A  T  the  age  of  25,  Farley  Granger  is 
physically  a  rather  splendid  speci- 
men. He  is  six  feet,  one  inch  in  height, 
sturdy,  athletic — although  tending  to  lean- 
ness— and  brimming  with  good  health.  He 
wears  his  clothes  with  a  rare  style,  not 
like  Beau  Brummel,  but  like  a  college  man 
with  expensive  good  taste.  You  can  get 
into  an  argument  about  his  face.  There 
are  many  women  who  will  tell  you  that 
he  has  the  most  classic  set  of  features 
since  the  yoimg  BarrjTnore.  Others  say 
there  is  much  of  Lincoln's  ugliness  in  his 
face,  but  that  a  gentle  warmth  of  expres- 
sion lends  him  handsomeness. 

These  things  are  not  quite  enough  to 
make  a  man  a  movie  star.  There  must  be 
talent,  which  Farley  imquestionably  has, 
and  there  must  be  the  animal  element. 
Veteran  starmakers  will  tell  you  it  is  this 
animal  something  that  makes  the  difference 
between  an  actor  and  an  idol. 

Farley  Granger  has  this  masculine  mag- 
netism, he  has  the  face,  the  figure,  the 
flair,  the  talent,  the  position.  But  he  will 
not  five  as  a  movie  star  for  very  long  if 
people  begin  to  believe  that  he  has  too 
great  a  love  for  Farley  Granger,  or  too 
reckless  a  disregard  for  HolljnA'ood. 

It  is  a  fact  that  people  have  begun  to 
siispect  this.    But  are  thej'  right? 

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o£  Farley  and  Shelley  Winters  was  amazed 
to  see  them  dancing  down  a  Hollywood 
street,  some  time  after  dusk,  like  a  couple 
of  celebrating  gazelles. 

"What  is  the  matter  with  you  two?"  he 
asked,  sniffing  tlie  air  for  the  reek  of  the 
beverage  that  leads  to  exuberance. 

"Nothing.  Why?"  chorused  Farley  and 
Shelley. 

"Then  where  are  you  going  so  all-fired 
enthusiastically?"  asked  the  frierid,  fail- 
ing to  smell  anything  but  the  night  air. 

"To  the  movies,"  said  Farley. 

And  arm  in  arm,  Farley  and  Shelley 
skipped  off,  bounding  high  into  the  air, 
dancing  from  side  to  side,  and  screaming 
with  glee.  Traffic  halted,  pedestrians  got  out 
of  the  way — and  Farley  and  Shelley  con- 
tinued on  their  happy,  uninhibited  way. 

That  was  a  couple  of  years  ago. 

A  couple  of  months  ago,  Farley  Gran- 
ger, a  coat  thrown  over  his  shoulders 
against  the  nippy  air  on  a  night  location, 
stalked  through  a  group  of  extras  to  the 
locale  of  the  next  shot.  Without  reason, 
one  of  the  extras  nudged  another  and 
said,  "Get  him!"  Without  explanation,  this 
would  be  a  terribly  imfair  incident  to 
note,  for  it  can  be  misleading  by  implica- 
tion. It  is  told  only  to  picture  the  change 
in  public  manner  of  the  man,  and  the 
agility  with  which  casual  observers  can 
spot  the  most  subtle  of  transformations 
and  exaggerate  on  them. 

Tt    could    be   that   Farley    Granger  is 

more  aware  of  his  importance  than  he 
used  to  be  two  years  ago;  and  it  may  be 
that  it  is  just  that  he  is  two  years  older, 
has  been  broadened  by  travel,  and  has 
decided  that  public  exuberance  should  be 
curbed.  At  any  rate,  he  is  different.  But 
what  people  may  unfairly  believe  is  that 
he  has  changed  for  the  worst. 

In  any  circumstance,  a  man  of  25  is  not 
as  filled  with  emotional  gratitude  as  a  boy 
of  17.  And  growing  up  into  a  movie  star 
has  nothing  to  do  with  it.  Few  junior 
executives  in  commerce  pay  the  same 
homage  to  opportunity  and  the  front  of- 
fice that  they  did  when  they  were  green, 
multi-thumbed  office  boys. 

To  Farley's  credit  list  the  fact  that  his 
fans  support  him  avidly  in  both  magazine 
polls  and  at  the  box  office,  which  gives 
him  a  sledge  hammer  of  an  argument.  It 
gives  him  the  economic  whip  hand,  for  he 
has  something  to  sell  for  profit,  something 
that  is  highly  resalable  at  a  profit.  He 
controls  this  commodity  which  is  Farley 
Granger.  He  is,  in  truth,  a  highly  reliable 
actor,  always  on  time,  always  up  in  his 
lines,  and  always  dependable  in  the  per- 
formance of  his  craft;  He  can  become  as 
arrogant  as  Bugs  Bunny,  and  he'll  still 
be  able  to  peddle  Farley  Granger  tomor- 
row at  a  fine  fee  per  peek. 

But  Farley  must  remember  for  future 
use  that  no  star  in  the  history  of  the 
movies  has  ever  fought  City  Hall  and 
got  away  with  it;  that  no  star  has 
ever  worn  a  hat  bigger  than  his  most 
humble  associate  for  very  long  and  not 
been  toppled  by  the  combined  hatred  of 
his  ill-wishers;  that  no  star  has  ever  re- 
mained bright  once  his  fans  ceased  caring 
to  identify  themselves  with  his  personal 
as  well  as  his  screen  life. 

To  get  closer  to  any  possible  "change"  in 
Farley  Granger,  we  ought  to  examine 
his  work  more  closely.  Not  the  maneuvers 
of  acting,  nor  the  readings,  but  the  spirit 
of  the  work.  Players  who  did  pictures 
with  him  in  his  more  eager  days,  say  that 
it  was  easy  to  ^o  scenes  with  him,  for  he 
was  anxious  to  please  and  cooperate  and 
it  came  across  to  them.  Recently,  this 
writer  felt  obliged  to  ask  actors  currently 
working  with  him  how  they  liked  it.  In 
most  cases,  those  questioned  said,  "fine." 
But  a  couple  said,  "It's  hard  playing  a 


scene  with  him  because  he  doesn't  give." 

To  those  unfamiliar  with  movie-making 
and  its  terminology,  this  expression  will 
mean  little.  But  to  the  wise,  it  means  a 
good  deal.  It  means  that  an  actor  has 
lost  zest  for  the  play  and  has  gained  a 
lot  for  the  part.  It  means  that  he  is  so 
engrossed  in  his  own  performance  that 
he  plays  it  like  a  block  of  ice,  coldly  and 
with  the  ultimate  in  jealous  precision. 
Alone,  he  prances  and  mouths  his  words 
— and  by  the  great  Lord  Harry,  alone  he 
would  find  himself  on  the  film.  It  is  this 
awareness  of  self  that  will,  if  not  purged  in 
time,  drive  any  actor  who  turns  conceited 
into  certain  mediocrity. 

To  exactly  what  degree  Farley  Granger 
has  changed  is  something  that  at  this 
point  he  alone  knows.  It  is  apparent  that 
when  he  is  not  working  in  Hollywood,  he 
likes  to  get  out  of  town,  or,  better,  out 
of  the  country.  This  may  be  just  an  earnest 
desire  to  bone  up  on  foreign  culture.  It 
is  apparent  that  Farley  doesn't  have  as 
much  fun  with  Hollywood  people  as  he 
used  to  have.  It  might  be  that  he  has 
suddenly  foimd  them  dull  and  tame — or 
it  might  be  that  he  has  just  grown  out  of 
the  playful  age.  Who,  but  Farley  can 
honestly  say? 

A  LTHOUGH  it  is  not  widely  known, 
Farley  has  turned  down  pictures 
which  have  been  selected  for  him  by 
experts  who  have  been  in  the  business  for 
a  good  many  years  longer  than  he  has 
lived.  And  it  must  be  admitted  that  these 
experts,  with  a  stake  in  his  earning  pow- 
ers, would  cut  off  their  right  arms  before 
they  would  make  a  deliberate  error  that 
would  detract  from  Farley's  future  po- 
tential. In  Farley's  favor  in  these  in- 
stances, it  must  be  realized  that  he,  too, 
has  a  stake  in  his  future,  and  that  a  man 
sometimes  has  to  trust  his  own  judgment 
above  that  of  all  others.  If,  by  exercising 
this  judgment,  he  exposes  himself  to  crit- 
icism, he  must  be  mature  enough  to  take 
it  on  the  chin,  holding  his  ground,  without 
losing  his  head. 

This  is  why  it  is  time  for  a  friend  to  ask 
Farley  to  take  stock  of  himself  and,  by 
his  own  attitude,  to  destroy  every  vestige 
of  doubt  as  to  his  worth.  For  when  people 
begin,  even  idly,  to  question  his  behavior, 
the  unrest  which  is  created  is  as  potent 
as  outright  accusations. 

Farley  Granger  mellowed  Samuel  Gold- 
wyn  into  his  triple-whammy  smile  and 
captivated  the  hearts  of  millions  of  movie- 
goers seven  years  ago.  He  grew  a  mous- 
tache and  all  over  America  heartbeats 
quickened.  He  had  his  picture  taken  in 
the  front  seat  of  his  first  convertible,  and 
countless  young  girls  sighed,  "Gosh,  I  wish 
he  were  my  guy." 

•  He  skipped  down  the  streets  of  Holly- 
wood with  his  favorite  date  and  enchanted 
a  sated  town  with  his  youthful  enthusiasm 
for  living,  and  his  ability  to  have  a  mar- 
velous time  just  going  to  a  movie. 

He  acted  the  play  and  not  the  part,  and 
spines  tingled  at  the  touch  of  his  fingers 
on  the  flesh  of  the  mass  girlhood  of  the 
world.  His  hazel- eyed  likeness  has  been 
hung  lovingly  on  the  walls  of  innumerable 
adolescent  bedrooms,  and  has  been  the  in- 
spiration for  more  gasps  than  all  the 
asthma  of  the  universe. 

At  the  age  of  22,  Farley  Granger  had  the 
world  by  the  tail,  more  homage  in  his  daily 
mail  than  a  king,  a  brighter  future  than 
the  son  of  the  richest  of  the  Du  Ponts- 
and  as  many  true  friends  as  a  man  could 
count  if  he  totaled  from  now  till  the  newest 
tree  on  earth  falls  from  old  age.  Let  us 
hope  that  he  keeps  them  all  fair,  square 
and  secure,  for  many  many  years  to  come. 

He  can  do  it.  And  he  can  destroy  the 
whispered  accusations  of  his  inability  by 
being  careful  now.  The  End 


something  sort  of  grandish 

(Continued  from  page  44)  to  practice  his 
golf  chip  shots. 

The  interior  is  equally  lavish.  The  light- 
ing fixtures  in  the  drawing  room — it's  too 
romantic  to  be  called  a  living  room — are 
fitted  only  for  candles.  The  butler's  pantry 
is  so  well-equipped  with  cabinets  cind 
counter  space  that  it  would  delight  the 
heart  of  an  Army  quartermaster.  The 
master  suite  has  a  bath  and  dressing  room 
for  the  lady  of  the  house  and  a  combined 
bath  and  dressing  room  for  the  gentleman. 

"Those  first  weeks  after  we  moved  in," 
David  says — "well,  we  were  all  slightly 
hysterical  with  our  new  sense  of  freedom. 
The  children  didn't  know  where  to  play, 
in  the  nursery  or  in  the  sunroom.  A  few 
minutes  in  both  and  they'd  rush  out  of  the 
nearest  door  like  mad,  grab  their  bikes, 
and  pedal  furiously  around  the  termis 
courts.  They  were  like  three  flaming 
comets,  and  I  knew  we'd  made  a  good 
choice  with  the  house.  It  was  for  us." 

According  to  Jane  Wayne,  "David  went 
slightly  nuts  himself.  This  was  just  about 
the  first  privacy  he'd  known  in  eight  years 
of  marriage,  and  he  wallowed  in  it.  He 
spent  hours  singing  in  the  bathroom,  and 
whenever  I  wanted  him,  I'd  have  to  search 
through  the  whole  house.  I  usually  found 
him  reading  in  some  new  book  nook. 

"As  for  me,  I  went  closet-happy.  I 
plunged  into  unpacking  our  possessions 
so  fast  that  I  lost  track  of  which  closet 
contained  what.  It's  taken  me  months  to 
discover  where  I  put  things  during  that 
first  flush  of  housekeeping." 

The  Wayne  home  life  has  now  sim- 
mered down  into  a  more  orderly  pattern. 
Grock,  the  French  poodle,  lives  in  a  dog 
house  in  the  service  pantry.    The  twins 


share  a  bedroom  next  to  their  parents. 
Timmie  sleeps  in  one  corner  of  the  nurs- 
ery near  his  Scotch  nurse,  Margo. 

TOURING  the  day,  Grock  and  the  children 
play  in  the  large  playroom  on  the 
second  floor.  This  room  is  done  in  red 
and  white,  two  colors  particularly  gay  and 
child-like.  One  end  of  the  room  consists 
entirely  of  windows,  but  instead  of  fussy 
draperies,  Jane  had  it  fitted  with  white 
shutters  that  can  be  tightly  closed  at  night 
and  during  nap  time.  Jane  also  covered 
the  floor  with  a  number  of  fluffy  red  and 
white  scatter  rugs  which  can  be  easily 
picked  up  and  laundered.  Three  straight 
chairs,  two  red  toy  chests  for  the  girls,  a 
small  cabinet  for  Timmie's  treasures,  and 


HE  CHANGED  HIS  MIND 
Hollywood  is  an  amazing  place  and  1 
wander  around  popeyed  in  wonder  at  its 
technical  facilities.  But  I've  promised  my- 
self never  to  make  any  permanent  alli- 
ance or  buy  a  home  there. — Dav'id  Wayne 
quoted  by  Irving  Holfman  in  The  Ho//y- 
wood  Reporter. 


one  comfortable  couch  for  the  parent  who 
reads  bedtime  stories  complete  the  room. 

David  and  Jane  love  their  new  way  of 
living.  When  they  sit  in  the  library,  they're 
filled  with  peace  of  mind.  Jane  looks  up 
from  her  book  at  the  walls  and  woodworlc 
and  lamps  and  upholstered  pieces — all  a 
soft  shade  of  green,  and  she  knows  it's 
just'  perfect — calm  and  relaxing. 

The  Waynes,  cramped  for  space  for  so 
many  years,  not  only  have  a  living  room 
downstairs,  but  a  living  room  upstairs. 
"It's  an  extra  bonus,"  Jane  says,  "I  guess 


to  compensate  us  for  all  those  basement 
years  in  New  York."  The  room  is  pine- 
paneled,  and  is  used  for  intimate  family 
gatherings  around  the  fireplace  or  for 
television  showings. 

Actually,  their  household— once  the 
residence  of  Frances  Marion,  the  scenario 
writer — is  designed  for  large-scale  en- 
tertaining, the  kind  of  entertaining  typi- 
cal of  Hollywood  in  the  Rudolph  Valen- 
tino-Pola  Negri  era.  So  far  the  Waynes 
haven't  had  much  time  for  parties,  largely 
because  David  has  starred  in  six  pictures 
within  one  year.  A  few  weeks  ago,  how- 
ever, they  tried  one  small  dinner. 

WHILE  David  was  making  Up  Front,  he 
met  Berti,  the  Italian  actress,  who  of- 
fered to  cook  him  a  real  spaghetti  dinner. 
David  was  willing,  and  Jane  was  thrilled. 
They  invited  friends  for  morning  tennis 
and  set  the  spaghetti  feast  for  one  o'clock. 

Came  one  o'clock  and  Berti  hadn't  ar- 
rived. Came  two  o'clock,  and  no  Berti. 
The  Waynes  started  to  get  uneasy  as 
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{Continued  from  page  46)  "Where  are  all 
the  new  HcUyw^ood  charmers?  Where 
are  the  fascinating,  irresistible  young 
men?  Don't  they  grow  'em  any  more?" 

And  my  rude  answer  to  that  is,  "Dar- 
ling, you  are  growing  old!"  Sure,  the 
Rudy  Valentinos  and  the  Jack  Gilberts 
are  dead  and  gone.  But  did  fascination 
fade  from  fashion  with  those  characters? 
No  fascinating  young  men  in  Hollywood 
today?  Applesauce!  The  Hollywoods  is 
full  of  them.  I  caii  count  a  couple  of  fists 
full  without  half  trying — and  since  I've 
got  ten  fingers,  I'll  rattle  off  ten  right  now, 
like  this — 

Farley'  Granger,  Tony  Curtis,  Howard 
Duff,  Robert  Mitchum,  Victor  Mature, 
Marlon  Brando,  Tyrone  Power,  Montgom- 
ery Clift,  Stewart  Granger — and  yes — 
years  don't  bother  him — that  latter  day 
Barrymore  himself,  Errol  Flynn!  Every 
one  of  those  charmers  can  make  my  heart 
do  naughty  nip-ups,  and  I'm  not  the  only 
romantic  gal  in  the  world. 

But  first,  just  what  are  we  looking  for? 
What  is  fascination  anyway?  Webster 
calls  it,  "enchantment;  unseen,  inexplica- 
ble influence."  I  can  say  it  with  stronger 
synonyms:  Fascination — masculine  noun — 
is  sex.  It's  virility,  mystery  too,  action, 
daring,  danger  and  suspense.  It's  charac- 
ter, guts,  authority.  It's  charm,  gaiety, 
sophistication,  a  flair.  It's  being  thrill- 
ingly  noble — and  it's  being  bad  as  a  lead 
nickel,  too.  It's  personality — or,  as  we 
used  to  say  in  Hollywood,  it's  "It." 

Everyone  of  my  ten  terrifies  has  some- 
thing dif?erent  but  it  comes  up  fasci- 
nation all  the  same.  Take  Farley  Gran- 
ger— and  I  think  every  girl  who  reads  this 
would  take  him,  if  she  had  the  chance. 
She'd  love  to  find  out  what's  going  to 
grow  out  of  this  feverish  faun-like  crea- 
ture, what  lurks  behind  his  dark  eyes, 
what  it  is  he's  seeking  so  eagerly — so  she 
could  help  him  find  it.  And  me,  I'd  like 
to  help  him  myself. 

Farley  Granger  is  like  a  Christmas  box 
that  arrives  early — gorgeous  on  the  out- 
side, but  the  thrilling  surprise  is  to  come 
when  you  open  it,  and  you  can  hardly 
wait.  Farley  couldn't  be  more  handsome, 
but  that's  not  why  he's  at  the  top  of  my 
list.  It's  his  ravenous  hunger  to  Uve  and 
learn  that  makes  him  so  super-exciting. 

Farley  was  mama's  boy,  but  he  broke 
away  fast  to  find  out  things  for  himself. 
He  got  his  own  house,  collected  his  ovm 
romances,  his  own  adventures,  travelling 
alone  far  out  from  the  cozy  world  he 
knew.  He  bucked  not  only  the  silver  cord 
to  do  it,  but  the  boss  who  made  him — a 
tough,  paternal  boss  that  few  fair-haired 
boys  he's  fostered  have  dared  stand  up  to, 
Sam  Goldwyn.  But  Farley  said  "No"  to 
Sam  to  fly,  off  to  Rome  and  Paris — cities 
that  can  teach  a  young  man  plenty — and 
took  suspension  to  do  it.  He  didn't  come 
back  until  money  ran  out  either,  and  $2000 
of  it  ran  out  collecting  paintings;  so  that 
he  had  to  borrow  $100  eating  money  from 
Shelley  Winters  until  his  salary  check 
came  in  again! 

I  used  to  tease  Shelley  when  that  gay 
fireball  was  first  teaching  Farley  to  love 
and  laugh,  wising  him  up  on  women  and 
their  ways.  "How's  that  Boy  Beautiful 
you're  bringing  up?"  I'd  ask  her.  I  pulled 
that  the  other  -  day'  and  she  came  back, 
"Don't  you  worry  about  Farley.  He's  no 
boy,  he's  all  man — and  right  now  he's 
bringing  me  up,  or  wearing  me  down,  I 
don't  know  which.  He  wants  to  stay  up 
all  night  and  how  can  you  catch  any 
beauty  sleep  after  five  a.m.?"  But  Shelley, 
like  some  other  Hollywood  girls  too,  isn't 


fooling  herself.  She  knows  that  Granger 
isn't  going  moony  and  soft  and  getting 
married  right  away.  Not  even  girls,  at 
this  point,  can  satisfy  the  craving  he  has 
for  the  things  he  still  hasn't  savored — this 
boy  who  didn't  go  to  college,  and  got  to  be 
a  star  before  he  got  east  of  Palm  Springs. 

Farley  Granger's  fascination  is  wrapned 
up  in  one  wonderful  word — Promise.  He's 
like  springtime,  ready  to  bust  out  all  over 
one  of  these  days — and  if  you  don't  think 
that  comes  across  as  a  potent  spell — tell 
me  what  does. 

Tt's  rough  on  the  girls  when  a  man  out- 
shines  them,  but  it  happens  whenever 
they  buck  up  against  a  Hollywood  male 
with  a  sexy  wallop — and  they're  likely 
to  be  all  aroxmd  you  in  Hollywood  these 
days.  Lois  Andrews  found  that  out  not 
long  ago — and  the  result  was  a  new  star 
with  as  much  push  and  power  as  an  F-80 
Jet.    I  mean  Tony  Curtis. 

I  ran  into  Lois,  seems  only  yesterday, 
and  heard  her  sigh,  "Golly,  I  wish  I  owned 
a  piece  of  Tony  Curtis'  contract." 

"Tony  Curtis?"  I  puzzled.  "Who  in  the 
world  is  that?"  I'd  never  heard  of  the 
guy.  Well,  he  was,  Lois  explained,  just 
about  the  most  wallopy  hunk  of  young 
man  she'd  ever  run  up  against  and  what 
had  happened  was  slightly  sensational. 

The  studio  had  sent  him  along  for  the 
ride  on  a  Seattle  junket  to  open  The  Kan- 
sas Raiders.  Tony  had  a  bit  in  the  picture 
— Lois,  Scott  Brady  and  Audie  Murphy 
were  the  stars.  But  you  wouldn't  have 
known  it.  "The  mob  passed  us  by  like 
a  taxi  in  the  rain,"  grinned  Lois.  "And 
they  almost  tore  the  clothes  off  that  Curtis. 
What  has  he  got?  Everything!" 

That's  a  lot — but  Tony  has  it — as  I've 
since  discovered,  along  with  a  million 
other  sighing  girls — and  Janet  Leigh  in 
particular.  Men  like  him,  too.  The  first 
time  I  met  Tony  was  at  a  benefit.  As  he 
entered,  I  perked  up  in  my  seat  and  said, 
"Who's  that?"  And  Pat  Nerney,  who's 
Mona  Freeman's  husband,  and  an  old 
friend  of  mine,  told  me.  What's  more  he 
kept  telling  me — in  raves— for  a  solid  half 
hour.  "Heavens — you  so\ind  like  you're 
in  love  with  the  guy,"  I  kidded  him.  "I 
would  be,  you  can  bet,  if  I  were  a  woman." 
said  Pat.  And  that  about  says  it — for  all 
the  girls.  What's  the  reason?  Sex  appeal. 
The  rugged  kind. 

Tony  has  black  curls  you  long  to  rfimole 
and  big  eyes  you'd  love  to  get  lost  in.  But 
hack  of  them  is  a  flinty  fighter  from  New 
York's  East  Side  who'd  just  as  soon  shove 
you  over  as  look  at  you — if  you  got  in  his 
way.  That's  his  fascination,  mixed  with  a 
surprising  sweetness.  Janet  Leigh  tells  me 
that's  what  makes  Tony  tops  with  her.  "I 
can't  say  hello  to  Tony  Curtis  without 
getting  a  flock  of  flowers,  or  a  present," 
she  protests — but  not  too  much.  That's 
true — Tony  has  good  manners;  he's  kind, 
thoughtful  and  tender.  And  when  you  mix 
tenderness  with  toughness — look  out,  la- 
dies! Remember  Clark  Gable? 

Now,  that  soimds  like  a  pretty  irresis- 
tible dish  of  wolf,  but  in  that  department 
even  Tony  Curtis  can't  match  a  certain 
quiet,  unpretentious  star  who  came  on  my 
radio  show  the  other  night.  He  arrived 
on  crutches  with  a  beautiful  blonde  to 
help  him  on  one  side  and  Ida  Lupino — in 
the  sexiest  gown  I've  ever  seen  her  wear — 
on  the  other.  I  don't  blame  her,  with  the 
competition,  because  when  Howard  Duff 
sat  down  at  my  broadcasting  table  I  had 
to  ask  the  announcer,  "Move  him  to  an- 
other mike,  please!  I  can't  settle  down 
to  my  work."  There's  something  about 
that  dangerous  Duff  that  quietly  moves  in 


on  you — the  minute  he  gets  near.  And 
believe  me,  Howard  has  moved  in  on  some 
of  the  sexiest  girls  in  this  town. 

How  come?  Duff's  no  Adonis  or  per- 
sonality boy.  He  doesn't  go  to  parties — if 
there's  more  than  one  other  person  pres- 
ent, meaning  a  lovely  girl.  But  back  of 
his  piercing  blue  eyes  there's  a  come- 
hither  which  was  described  to  me  the 
other  day  by  a  very  beautiful,  smitten 
and  experienced  star  as,  "the  greatest 
physical  magnetism  I've  ever  felt  in  a 
man."  When  Howard  played  Sam  Spade 
on  the  air,  his  voice  was  so  sexy  that  girls 
who'd  never  seen  him  wrote  him,  wired 
him,  called  him  and  begged  to  surrender! 

Howard's  the  pipe  type,  the  quiet,  re- 
flective, lonely  soul  with  his  books — it  says 
here — and  that  makes  every  girl  in  town 
long  to  mother  the  poor  bachelor,  until 
they  realize  their  feelings  aren't  maternal 
at  all.  He's  patient  and  philosophical,  slow 
but  sure,  and  he  seldom  slips  up.  Maybe 
he  did  when  he  got  those  crutches.  I 
asked  Duff  how  it  happened. 

"I  fell  down  some  stairs,"  he  said. 

"Sure  you  weren't  pushed?"  I  pressed. 
"Maybe  by  a  pair  of  Uly  white  hands  when 
you  got  too  close?" 

"I  fell  down  some  stairs,"  repeated 
Howard.  But  back  in  those  baby  blue 
eyes  I  caught  a  fascinating  glint.  I  wish  1 
knew  his  secret,  that  sly  one — but  I  don't 
think  I  ever  will,  nor  will  anyone  else. 
He's  keeping  it  where  it  does  Howard 
Duff  the  most  good. 

ON  the  other  hand,  Victor  Mature  is 
about  as  mysterious  and  secret  as  a 
brass  band — yet  to  me  Vic's  a  fantastically 
attractive  guy  and  always  will  be.  I 
didn't  think  so  when  I  first  met  him.  I 
thought  then,  "Migosh,  why  doesn't  some- 
body lead  him  aroimd  with  a  chain?"  He 
looked  and  acted  like  a  St.  Bernard  dog. 


Bill   Lundigan  helps  advertise  a  worthy  cause. 

a  clumsy  clovm  falling  all  over  himself. 

For  two  years  I  feuded  with  Mature. 
Then  one  day  he  called  me  and  we  patched 
up.  I  said  I'd  come  up  to  his  house.  1 
never  saw  anyone  so  jittery.  "I'd  like  to 
look  aroimd  your  place,"  I  suggested. 
"N-n-n-n-O-uh — it's  all  torn  up,"  pro- 
tested Vic.  Back  home,  I  called  him  to 
say  I'd  enjoyed  my  visit.  "But,"  I  had  to 
ask  him,  "what's  happened  to  you  any- 
way? You  ought  to  relax.  You  acted  like 
you  had  a  redhead  stashed  away." 

"As  a  matter  of  fact,"  Vic  blurted  out, 
"I  had." 

You  can't  help  liking  a  character  like 
that.  Vic's  frank,  he's  original,  he's  never 
duU.  He's  the  hub  of  any  party  and 
wowing  everyone  aroimd  him.  He's  got  a 
big  heart,  loves  everyone,  especially  if 
they're  all  mixed  up.  He  set  a  war-buddy 
of  his  up  in  business  and  it's  booming 
now.    He's  a  darling  to  his  steps6?i — he 


kept  two  new  cars  out  in  the  rain  all  last 
winter  so  the  kid  could  have  a  garage 
playroom — and  if  he  could  remember  to 
come  home  on  time,  he'd  be  the  ideal  hus- 
band to  his  wife,  Dorothy. 

I  don't  know  any  one  at  any  studio 
who  doesn't  love  Vic  Mature  now.  He's 
become  a  rattling  good  actor  and  I  think 
a  very  handsome  man.  Don't  think  Cecil 
DeMille  would  have  picked  him  for  Sam- 
son if  he  couldn't  pull  the  ladies  in.  Still 
he's  the  same  guileless  guy,  who  acts  as 
he  pleases,  says  what  he  pleases,  lives  as 
he  pleases.  He's  never  conformed  or 
changed  his  style — and  that  style  to  me 
is  terrific. 

nPffiERE's  another  non-conformist  named 
Bob  Mitchum  who  intrigues  me  too — 
and  about  everyone  else — but  for  a  com- 
pletely different  reason.  Bob  has  the  fatal 
fascination  of  a  bomb  with  the  fuse  sput- 
tering. You  never  know  when  he's  going 
to  explode  and  blow  himself  right  off  the 
map.  Mitchum's  the  most  dangerous  man 
I've  ever  known  around  Hollywood. 

He's  suspense  walking.  He's  a  haymaker 
cocked  and  ready  to  fly.  He's  a  rogue 
male  on  the  loose,  and  yet  he'll  never  hurt 
anyone  but  himself.  That  belligerent, 
mocking  dare  which  comes  at  you  on  the 
screen  is  real.  He  could  go  back  to  driv- 
ing a  truck  tomorrow  and  be  just  as  happy 
— maybe  happier — than  he  is  as  a  Holly- 
wood star.  He's  told  me,  "I'm  just  here 
between  freight  trains."  Once  I  asked 
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"Oh,  I'd  have  wound  up  in  the  poor- 
house — where  I'll  wind  up  anyway." 

Bob  has  flouted  every  Hollywood  taboo. 
He's  punched  producers  in  the  nose.  He's 
shocked  interviewers  silly  with  too  frank 
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Bob  collected  a  gang  of  no-good  Holly- 
wood hangers-on  because  he  likes  to 
please  everyone.  They  led  him  to  trouble, 
real  trouble,  but  it  didn't  wreck  him  as  a 
star — and  Bob  Mitchum  is  the  only  man 
I  can  imagine  who  could  come  out  of  a 
mess  smelling  like  a  rose. 

Bob  Mitchum  is  a  reckless  slugger  of 
life — but  a  poet  and  troubadour,  too. 
Money  means  nothing  to  him.  He  makes 
$4250  a  week — and  he's  usually  broke.  But 
when  his  business  manager  swindled  him 
out  of  $80,000— all  he  had  saved  in  the 
world — he  refused  to  prosecute.  Bob's  so 
loaded  with  sex  he's  scary.  He's  muscled 
like  a  stevedore,  and  his  angular  face  and 
disdainful  eyes  say,  "Watch  out,"  to  every 
gal  who  sees  them.  He  knows  that  power 
but  it  doesn't  bother  him — or  his  wife, 
Dorothy,  the  one  girl  in  the  world  who 
really  understands  him. 

Bob  and  Dorothy  came  to  a  party  at  my 
house  last  year.  Errol  Flynn  was  there 
with  his  fiancee  of  the  moment,  Princess 
Ghica.  Bob  sized  her  up.  "She's  no  dame 
for  Flynn,"  he  announced.  "The  corners 
of  her  mouth  turn  down.  Watch  me  break 
this  up." 

Dorothy  heard  him  and  laughed  to  me, 
"He'll  do  it,  too."  Bob  sauntered  over.  In 
a  few  minutes,  the  Princess'  mouth  was 
down  to  her  shoulders  and  she  was  ready 
to  crown  Flynn.  Bob  had  casually  brought 
up  all  the  escapades  in  Flynn's  past  and 
Eirol  was  roaring  himself  right  out  of 
romance.  And  yet — that  day  Bob  was 
trying  to  be  on  his  very  best  behavior. 

I  wouldn't  gamble  a  plugged  penny  on 
what  Robert  Mitchum  will  do  from  one 
minute  to  the  next.  But  I'll  always  risk 
my  roll  on  this:  he'll  do  it  if  he  feels  like 
it — and  he'll  be  fascinating,  good  or  bad. 
Maybe  it's  because  he's  so  bad  that  he's 
thrilling.  I'll  have  to  ask  my  psychia- 
trist about  that. 

I'd  sic  him,  too,  on  those  two  brilliant 
brats,  Marlon  Brando  and  Montgomery 
Clift — if  I  weren't  already  pretty  sure 
why  they're  such  fascinating  odd  bodies. 
Neither  of  them  are  just  playing  hard  to 
get.    They  are. 

"Bud"  Brando  and  Monty  Clift  are  two 
of  a  kind — yet  they're  very  different.  Both 
despise  glarnor,  both  are  wrapped  up  in 
their  acting.  Both  attract  women  like 
sugar  draws  flies.  But  Monty  Clift  is 
merely  a  self-assured,  complete  free  soul, 
independent  and  imimpressed;  while  Mar- 
lon is  a  legitimate,  working  screwball, 
complex  and  unorthodox,  maybe  the 
first  genuine  all-out  acting  genius  since 
Barrymore.  Either  way,  they're  both 
loaded  with  male  power  and  sex. 

TI/Tarlon  looks  like  a  statue— chiseled 
face,  sinewy  torso — and  he  dresses 
like  a  cow-college  campus  kid.  "Glamor 
in  a  tee-shirt,"  someone  tagged  him — but 
it's  only  part  of  his  smoldering  rebellion 
against  flattery. 

Shelley  Winters  dropped  by  a  set  party 
when  Marlon  was  making  Street  Car 
Named  Desire — and  Marlon  likes  Shelley 
and  vice  versa.  So  Winters  got  herself 
gussied  up.  Brando  completely  ignored 
her — although  they'd  been  out  on  dates. 
The  next  time  she  dropped  by  in  Levis 
with  her  hair  tiunbling  down.  Marlon 
grabbed  her  by  the  arm  and  they  climbed 
the  studio  fence,  getting  out  of  there  to- 
gether— fast.  Shelley  cooked  dinner  for 
him  that  night.   He  wouldn't  buy  her  one. 

Monty  Clift  took  Liz  Taylor  (before 
Nicky)  to  The  Heiress  premiere,  you'll  re- 
meniber,  and  had  to  rent  a  dinner  jacket 
to  do  it.  The  studio  gave  him  a  car, 
driver  and  publicity  man.  On  the  way 
to  the  formal  affair,  Monty  pulled  into  a 
drive-in  and  bought  Liz  a  hamburger  for 


her  dinner.  Afterwards,  he  was  more  in- 
terested in  escorting  the  publicity  man 
home  than  he  was  Liz — and  that  was  when 
Elizabeth  Taylor  was  mighty  pretty  and 
unattached. 

I  had  a  dinner  date  with  Monty  Clift 
one  night  at  Lucey's.  He  showed  up  im- 
peccably dressed.  But  the  minute  we  got 
back  in  a  booth,  he  asked,  "Can  I  take 
off  my  coat?"  I  nodded — he  rolled  up  his 
sleeves,  jerked  his  tie  and  grinned.  "Now," 
he  said,  "we  can  get  going."  We  did — and 
I  found  out  why  it  takes  $100,000  to  lure 
Clift  to  Hollywood  for  a  picture.  "I'm 
lazy,"  he  said.  "I  like  to  loaf,  I  want  to 
travel  and  hum  around.  If  I  don't  do 
something  right  now  I'll  catch  myself 
breezing  away." 

That's  not  Brando.  He's  wrapped  up  in 
his  work.  Where  Monty  loses  himself  in 
the  Maine  woods  between  pictures,  Mar- 
lon goes  to  school.  I  met  him  first  on  the 
set  of  The  Men.  When  I  talked  to  him 
he  didn't  answer — just  stared  o£E  into 
space.  "Run  along.  Sonny,"  I  snapped, 
"you're  no  good  to  me."  He  came  to. 
"Oh,"  he  said,  "were  you  talking  to  me? 
I  was  thinking  about  my  next  scene."  And 
you  know,  I  knew  he  was  and  I  couldn't 
get  mad. 

Neither  Marlon  Brando  nor  Monty  Clift 
will  ever  want  for  women's  sighs.  Both 
keep  walk-up  flats  in  New  York,  and  have 
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are  dying  to  find  out,  and  that's  exactly 
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model  a  man  as  you'd  want  to  meet  but 
still  a  potent  personality,  too.  Ty  has 
turned  his  youthful  charm  into  manly 
authority.  He's  gone  through  Hollywood 
and  taken  the  best  from  it— but  he's  left 
his  own  best,  too. 

I  remember  when  Ty  walked  into  a  bit 
scene,  unbilled,  in  Girls  Dormitory  with  a 
dazzling  smile  and  the  words,  "Well,  here 
I  am."  And  there  he  was,  for  sure,  and 
there  wasn't  anyone  around  like  him.  In 
the  preview  audience  that  night  there  was 
one  mass  gasp,  "Who  is  he?"  He  was 
every  girl's  dream  man,  that's  who,  and 
from  then  on  he  was  a  star.  Ty's  fan 
mail  record  is  still  unequalled  at  Twen- 
tieth Century-Fox.    And  why? 

Gorgeous  looks.  Inherited  acting  ability. 
Shining  youth.  Sex — sure.  But,  largely, 
too,  a  straight,  clean,  clear-cut  American 
charm. 

Ty's  had  his  girls — Sonia  Henie  was  his 
most  sizzling  affair,  but  there  were  plenty 
more.  He  always  treats  them  right.  When 
he  split  with  Annabella  he  gave  her  most 
of  his  money.  The  only  girl  I  thought  he 
was  rough  on  was  Lana  Turner.  But  love's 
love,  and  he'd  met  Linda  Christian  when 
he  left  Lana  fiat.  Even  then,  when  I  took 
Lana's  side,  Ty  admitted,  "I  don't  blame 
you,  Hedda." 

There's  fascination,  plenty,  in  Ty's  kind 
of  character.  Tyrone  Power  is  not  only 
one  of  our  all-time  great  stars  but  he's  the 
best  ambassador  Hollywood  ever  sent 
abroad.  His  studio  paid  for  those  South 
American  good-wiU  flights  of  his,  even 
bought  the  plane  Ty  flew.  Happy  tp.  Ty's 
the  best  salesman  there  Hollywood  ever 
had.  He  charms  wherever  he  goes.  They 
practically  declared  a  Roman  holiday  when 
he  married  Linda  in  that  high  church 
ceremony.  They  think  he's  an  American 
prince  there  today  after  Prince  of  Foxes: 
when  he  rides  through  the  streets  he  gets 
"Vivas."  The  English  loved  him  after 
The  Black  Rose,  too.  Those  long  locations 
for  Ty  are  more  than  for  making  pictures; 
he  also  makes  character  for  his  studio  and 
for  Hollywood.  Right  now  he's  tackling 
Mister  Roberts  on  the  London  stage — a 
tough  one — but  he'll  be  more  of  a  darling 
in  England  when  he  closes.  He's  a  natu- 
ral diplomat — he  represents  Hollywood  and 
America  at  its  best.  That's  fascinating 
enough  for  me. 

IVTow,  let  me  whirl  and  bow  to  the  British 
-'-^  for  a  charmer  they've  sent  in  re- 
turn— Stewart  Granger.  Stewart  is  the 
essence  of  sophistication  and  British 
charm — and  we've  never  lacked  a  tumble 
for  that  around  our  town.  Stewart  has 
romance,  and  adventure,  and  polished 
virility  in  every  glance  of  his  blue  eyes, 
every  move  of  his  arm  and  quiver  of  his 
full  lips.  If  you  like  your  gentlemen 
English  (and  that's  a  world-wide  weak- 
ness) Stewart's  your  man. 

I  first  met  him  when  he  played  the 
ravishing  Marc  Antony  in  Antony  and 
Cleopatra.  I  was  in  London  one  day.  He 
asked  me  to  lunch  in  his  Savoy  Hotel 
suite,  overlooking  the  Thames.  He  could 
have  been  a  duke  entertaining.  The  table 
was  loaded  with  delicacies,  the  wines  at 
the  right  temperature,  the  service  abso- 
lutely faultless. 

I  picked  up  a  plover's  egg  and  cracked 
it — ugh!  "Tt-t-tastes_  like  a  seagull!"  I 
sputtered.  But  if  my  face  looked  pained, 
Stewart's  looked  downright  desolate.  He 
tasted  one  himself.  "Oh,  my  God,"  he 
cried,  "they're  bad!  Here,  spit  it  out," 
he  begged,  "here,  in  my  hand."  Well,  I 
did — and  I'm  sure  Sir  Walter  Raleigh 
couldn't  have  looked  more  gallant  when 
he  tossed  his  cloak  in  the  mud  for  Queen 
Elizabeth.  And  I'll  bet  he  wasn't  half  as 
handsome,  either! 

Anyone  who  can  sweep  that  twenty- 


year-old  beauty,  Jean  Simmons,  off  her 
feet  and  marry  her  is  romantic  enough  for 
me.  Jean  is  Britain's  loveliest,  their  Eliz- 
abeth Taylor.  Any  beau  in  the  Isles 
would  have  given  his  tea  ration  and  title 
to  marry  her.  But  Stewart  captured  the 
prize.  Right  now,  after  King  Solomon's 
Mines,  he's  the  hottest  male  star  at  Metro. 
They're  aiming  him  shamelessly  to  draw 
in  the  ladies  in  their  choicest  romantic 
parts — and  they  aren't  aiming  wrong.  Yet 
Stewart  Granger's  no  lace  cuff  laddie.  You 
don't  have  to  take  my  word  for  that. 

He  sweltered  and  risked  his  neck  half  a 
year  in  Africa  along  with  the  rest  to  make 
King  Solomon's  Mines.  Dick  Carlson  told 
me  how  Stewart  slapped  down  a  cobra 
without  batting  an  eye  in  one  chilling 
scene  that  you  saw.  And  when  the  movie 
safari  was  over,  what  did  Granger  do  but 
pack  up  and  join  a  real  big  game  safari 
for  another  two  months  of  tangling  with 
lions,  rhinos  and  bull  elephants.  He  was 
too  busy  shooting  pictures  the  first  time  to 
get  the  risky  action  he  craved.  I  think 
he'll  do  as  a  fascinating  Hollywood  man 
of  distinction — without  the  highball. 

Well — I  knew  when  I  started  this  fasci- 
nating business  I'd  never  get  past  the 
Irish — so  sure  enough,  here  I  am  winding 
up  with  that  disarming  guy  who  started 
me  off  on  this  ramble  in  the  first  place.  I 
never  know  whether  I  want  to  kiss  Errol, 
or  kill  him. 

OF  COURSE,  Fl3Tin's  a  scamp.  Of  coixrse, 
he's  ruthless,  conceited,  spoiled,  dis- 
dainful. Errol  should  have  lived  in  the 
Sixteenth  Century.  He's  a  buccaneer  at 
heart — and  what  a  pirate  he'd  have  made! 
They'd  all  have  walked  the  plank,  you  can 
bet,  at  the  point  of  his  swashbuckling 
sword — but  he'd  have  sailed  off  with  the 
beautiful  maid.  Errol's  selfish.  He  pleases 
only  one  person — Errol.    When  his  baby 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

During  the 
March  of  Dimes 
campaign,  my 
friend  said  to  a 
man  who  made  a 
contribution,  "You 
know,  you  look 
like  Charles  Boy- 
er."  The  man 
looked  amused. 
"Come  to  the  Cas- 
bah  with  me,"  he 

began,  and  he  went  through  the  whole 
scene  from  the  picture.  My  friend 
played  along.  When  he  left,  she  said, 
"He  does  a  perfect  imitation  of  Charles 
Boyer."  A  passerby  overheard.  "He 
ought  to,"  he  said.  "He  is  Charles 
Boyer." 

Geraldine  Shay 
New  York  City 


was  born,  he  didn't  even  show  up  at  the 
hospital — yet,  today  when  ten-year-old 
Sean  is  interesting,  he  adores  him.  Errol 
lived  across  the  street  from  me  when  Lili 
Damita  was  his  bride — cind  I  used  to  have 
to  smother  nights  with  my  windows  shut 
to  keep  out  the  noise  of  their  battles.  Yet 
he  let  Lili  take  him  for  his  bankroll  when 
they  split  up.  He  discarded  little  Nora 
Eddington  like  the  deuce  of  hearts — yet  her 
parents  rim  his  Hollywood  house  today 
and  they  love  him  madly. 

He's  had  girls,  girls,  girls,  girls.  They 
won't  leave  him  alone,  because  he  won't 
leave  them  alone  either.  He  could  have 
married  Barbara  Hutton  if  he'd  wanted 
to.  He  knows  all  the  countesses  and  heir- 
esses in  the  world.  Doris  Duke's  a  chum. 
He's  lived  chronically  beyond  his  means, 
yet  he's  never  married  for  money.  He's 


been  broke  and  in  debt — but  he's  always 
lived  like  a  lord,  yachts  and  everything. 
He  stocked  his  place  with  wild  game  once, 
at  a  fabulous  price.  He  dresses  like  the 
Duke  of  Windsor. 

I  asked  Errol  once,  "Why  for  heaven's 
sake,  with  your  rich  tastes,  do  you  marry 
all  those  poor  girls?  You  don't  have  to, 
you  know." 

Flynn  shrugged  charmingly.  "I  love 
'em,"  he  said,  "and  when  I  love  'em  I 
want  'em  and  so  I  marry  'em." 

Well — there's  something  about  a  man 
like  that — that  you  go  for.  Don't  ask  me 
why.  But  I'm  a  woman  and  I  say  it's  true. 
He's  got  something.  Dashing's  the  word 
for  Flynn  I  suppose.  Handsome — of  course. 
Sexy — sure.  Impulsive — naturally.  I  hard- 
ly knew  he  was  out  of  love  with  Prin- 
cess Ghica — and  I  wonder  if  he  did  either 
— before  he  was  engaged  to  Pat  Wymore. 

Call  him  a  cad,  a  cavalier,  a  cocksure 
conscienceless  character  out  of  a  paper- 
back novel  if  you  like — but  never  call  him 
dull.  And  if  he  lives  to  be  a  hundred 
(which  wouldn't  surprise  me  a  bit)  he'll 
still  be  in  there  chasing  romance,  even 
if  he's  pushed  in  a  wheel  chair. 

Not  too  long  ago,  there  was  one  of  those 
parties  at  my  house  and  along  toward  the 
end  I  spied  a  dainty  purse,  left  on  the 
sofa.  At  the  same  time  I  spied  it,  Errol 
did  too.  I  looked  at  Flynn;  I  looked  at  the 
piirse.  "Maybe  you're  missing  some- 
thing," I  said.  He  was  engaged  to  some- 
body then,  I've  forgotten  who. 

"Excuse  me,  Hedda,"  bustled  Errol, 
snatching  the  perfumed  handbag,  "I'll  be 
right  back."  In  a  minute  my  cocked  ear 
caught  the  roar  of  a  motor  as  a  car  raced 
away.  He  didn't  come-back.  I  didn't  ex- 
pect him  to. 

Jack  Barrymore  would  have  loved  that. 
I  know  I  did.  I'll  bet  the  lady  did,  too. 
The  End 


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est critics  could  be  here — those  who  say 
that  people  can't  stay  happily  married 
when  they  are  stars." 

Louella  was  looking  in  the  direction  of 
Dana  Andrews  who  was  seated  nearby, 
grinning  happily  at  his  charming  wife, 
Mary.  Van  Heflin  and  his  little  woman, 
Frances  Neal,  were  holding  hands,  and 
across  the  table  the  Jeff  Chandlers  were 
doing  likewise.  Vic  and  Dorothy  Mature 
must  have  bent  a  million  ears  telling 
about  the  plans  for  the  Bel-Air  home 
they're  going  to  build.  And  by  the  end 
of  the  party,  they'd  gotten  enough  advice 
to  cover  a  dozen  houses.  The  Bob  Cum- 
mings',  thinking  of  their  own  experiences, 
offered  sympathy.  Their  own  home's 
been  under  construction  for  too,  ,many 
months  to  count. 

The  David  Waynes  joined  forces  with 
.Kay  and  Brod  Crawford  and  it  was  old 
home  week  in  Ciro's  corner  booth.  All 
you  had  to  do  was  look  around  to  dis- 
cover that  Ciro's  seemed  to  be  a  haven 
for  Hollywood's  haopily  marrieds. 

Watching  Vera-Ellen  and  Rock  Hudson 
whirl  around  the  dance  floor,  the  match- 
makers were  certain  that  before  long 
they'd  be  waltzing  down  the  aisle.  Now, 
of  course,  they're  not  so  sure. 

Speaking  of  matchmakers,  well — we  all 
had  a  field  day.  Why  not?  Take  the  way 
Piper  Laurie  and  Dick  Long  were  gazing 
into  each  other's  eyes.  "Scoop!"  we 
thought.  But  Beerman  and  Parry,  our 
photo  friends,  did  their  best  to  break  it 
up.  "Piper,"  they  kept  declaring  to  that 
gorgeous  redhead,  "we  love  you." 

A  few  people  away  were  John  Agar 
and  Gloria  De  Haven.  But  you  can't  tell 
about  John.  Just  a  couple  of  nights  ago 
he  was  dating  a  luscious  Powers  model. 

In  the  crowd  that  surrounded  LoueUa, 
we  glimpsed  Joan  Evans  and  Roddy  Mc- 
Dowall.  Joan  was  glamor  personified  in 
a  wine-colored  satin  cocktail  dress.  A 
Voguish  "little  hat"  completed  the  outfit 
and  made  her  a  candidate  for  everyone's 
best  dressed  list.  Loretta  Yovmg  looked — 
as  usual — like  a  dream.  She  was  laugh- 
ing at  one  of  the  verbal  reactions  to  the 
creation  she  wore  on  her  head.  "If  you 
think  my  hat's  complicated  now — you 
should  have  seen  it  before  I  gave  it  a 
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dency to  hide  her  face.  So  before  the 
party,  she  got  out  the  scissors  and  reme- 
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at  Loretta,  another  dream  walked  by  with 
a  man  who  is  so  handsome  it's  almost 
against  the  law.  This  was  John  Hodiak  with 
Ann  Baxter.  She  was  wearing  red  velvet 
and  a  white  beret.  The  photographers  took 
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Somebody  said  she  was  there  to  meet 
Bob  Neal,  but  if  so,  how  come  she  left 
later  with  that  handsome  agent,  Charlie 
Feldmah?  Everybody  kept  asking  who 
Ruth  Roman  was  with.  They  even  asked 
her,  but  she  just  grinned  in  a  pagan  sort 
of  way  and  departed  for  a  late  date  (who 
may  well  have  been  radio  executive  Mort 
Hall,  the  man  she  married  on  December 
17  in  Las  Vegas). 

Talking  about  pretty  women — they 
weren't  all  movie  stars.  There  was  Mrs. 
Pat  O'Brien  who  arrived  on  the  arm  of 
her  great  Irishman.  She  should  know 
that  there  is  a  Modern  Screen  editor  who 
says  he's  never  going  to  marry  because 
he  can't  find  a  woman  as  lovely  as  Mrs. 
Pat.  This  boy  is  really  in  trouble.  He 
is  also  simultaneously  in  love  with  Dinah 
Shore  who  is  so  completely  Mrs.  George 
Montgomery.  Dinah,  chatting  underneath 
Hedda  Hopper's  sensational  hat  which 
was  only  slightly  smaller  than  the  Holly- 
wood Bowl,  looked  as  lovely  as  one  of 
her  songs. 

Okay,  okay.  So  all  the  ladies  were 
pretty.  Take  Esther  Williams,  who,  as 
always,  is  right  up  there  in  the  top  ten  in 
popularity.  She  retired  to  a  booth  and 
acted  as  if  she'd  just  met  Ben  Gage  ten 
minutes  ago.  And  speaking  of  such  kin- 
dred subjects  as  who  has  a  crush  on  whom, 
the  cigarette  girl  at  Giro's  has  one  on 
John  Derek.  "Too  bad  he's  married,"  she 
moaned,  "but  he  couldn't  have  foxmd  a 
more  attractive  girl  than  Patti." 

And  so  it  went,  far  on  into  the  evening, 
with  the  orchestra  playing  and  the  huge 
room  looking  like  a  mink  coat  version  of 
the  subway  rush  hour.  It  wouldn't  be 
fair  to  say  that  one  girl  was  prettier  than 
the  next,  or  one  guy  more  exciting. 

Everybody  did  agree,  though,  that  the 


I  found  my  way 

{Continued  jrom  page  58)  a  foxhole  in  the 
sand  without  getting  hit.  And  after  that,  I 
didn't  mind  at  all  that  every  time  the  tide 
came  in,  water  not  only  slopped  over  the 
edge,  but  welled  up  from  below  as  well. 

If  I  could  exult  in  the  bathtub  of  a  fox- 
hole and  moan  in  a  convertible,  wouldn't 
it  be  better  to  adjust  myself  to  accept  life 
so  it  wouldn't  continually  either  throw 
me  or  thrill  me?  Why  not  try  to  establish 
a  level  of  well-being  inside?  And  just 
about  the  time  I  made  this  startling  dis- 
covery, I  realized  that  I  had  heard  it  said 
differently,  and  better,  ever  since  I  was  a 
kid.  "Happiness  comes  from  within,"  is  the 
way  it  went.  I  decided  to  try  to  make 
that  my  way. 

I  had  a  great  chance  to  try  it  out  when 
I  got  back  to  Hollywood,  Rena  Morgan, 
whom  I  had  first  seen  as  a  teen-ager  at 


nicest  thing  that  happened  at  the  whole 
party  was  the  arrival  of  Dixie  Lee  Crosby. 
Looking  sweet  and  lovely,  she  arrived 
with  Mrs.  Lyn  Howard,  wife  of  the  famous 
sportsman  who  is  Bing  Crosby's  racing 
stable  partner.  Modest  Dixie  sat  quietly 
in  the  corner  greeting  old  friends  while 
Bing  was  still  working  overtime  on  the 
set  of  Here  Comes  the  Groom. 

'Twas  a  gay  and  gala  night,  friends. 
Like  we  said  in  the  beginning.  You 
should-'a  been  there! 

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So  many  people  gathered  to  honor  June 
AUyson  and  Alan  Ladd  at  Louella  Par- 
sons' party  that  the  editors  can't  resist 
presenting  their  names  with  thanks  for 
helping  make  the  evening  a  happy 
occasion. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dana  Andrews,  Lew 
Ayres,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Desi  Arnaz,  John 
Agar,  Katharine  Albert,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Noah  Beery,  Jr.,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William 
Boyd,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Bendix, 
Ann  Blyth,  Scott  Brady,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Keefe  Brasselle,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rand 
Brooks,  Mr.  Lex  Barker,  Macdonald 
Carey,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert  Cummings, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Broderick  Crawford,  Tony 
Curtis,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jeff  Chandler,  Her- 
man Citron,  Arlene  Dahl,  Vic  Damone, 
Faith  Domergue,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Derek,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Dem- 
arest,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Don  DeFore,  Nancy 
Davis,  Joan  Evans,  Virginia  Field,  Sally 
Forrest,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Glenn  Ford,  Charles 
Feldman,  Mitzi  Gaynor,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ben 
Gage,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tay  Garnett,  Sheilah 
Graham,  Edith  Gwynn,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John 
Hodiak,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Van  Hefiin,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  John  Ireland,  Hedda  Hopper,  Rock 
Hudson,  Gloria  DeHaven,  Arthur  Ken- 
nedy, Ida  Lupino,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alan 
Ladd,  Burt  Lancaster,  Janet  Leigh,  Piper 
Laurie,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  William  Lund- 
igan,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tom  Lewis,  Dick 
Long,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Victor  Mature,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ricardo  Montalban,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Murphy,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pat  Nerney, 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  George  Marshall,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  Montgomery,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lloyd  Nolan,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dennis 
O'Keefe,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pat  O'Brien,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Joe  Pasternak,  June  AUyson, 
Ruth  Roman,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edward  G. 
Robinson,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Norman  Taurog, 
Bob  Stack,  Estelle  Taylor,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Marshall  Thompson,  Vera-Ellen,  Shelley 
Winters,  Lew  Wasserman,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
David  Wayne,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  James  Whit- 
more,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jerry  Wald.  .  .  . 

If  we  missed  anybody  it's  just  because 
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Schwab's  drug  store  on  Sunset  Boulevard 
(she  says  I  couldn't  "see"  her  then)  and 
later  met  and  fell  in  love  with  when  she 
visited  Quantico,  before  I  went  overseas, 
was  waiting  for  me.  We  went  to  the  Mo- 
cambo  where  I  proposed  to  her.  We  went 
to  Huntington  Beach  where  a  priest,  who 
is  an  old  friend  of  mine,  married  us.  We 
went  to  San  Diego  where  we  honeymooned 
while  I  was  waiting  to  get  mustered  out  of 
the  Marine  service.  And  then  we  went  to 
Hollywood  where  my  career  was  impa- 
tiently waiting  for  me  ...  or  at  least  I 
thought  it  was. 

Months  passed.  Nothing.  A  year.  Still 
nothing  worthwhile.  We  were  living  in  a 
tiny  apartment.  You  couldn't  take  a  half- 
dozen  steps  without  either  banging  into  a 
wall  or  going  through  the  window.  An- 
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In  New  York  there  is  another  small, 
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player,  I  hoped.  As  anything  if  it  had  to  be. 

I  wouldn't  come  to  this  decision  immedi- 
ately. I  went  to  my  agent  first  and  sug- 
gested, a  little  regally,  I'm  afraid,  that  he 
arrange  a  personal  appearance  tour  for  me. 

He  pulled  the  props  right  out  from  under 
me.  He  pointed  out  that  it  had  been  several 
years  since  I  had  been  in  any  important 
picture  and  thus  I  had  no  identification 
worth  anything  at  the  box  office.  I  had 
not  had  enough  stage  work  to  be  sure  of 
presenting  effective  entertainment  as  an 
act,  so  I  would  impress  few  people  and 
instead  of  helping  the  commercial  value  of 
my  name,  would  probably  wash  it  out 
altogether.  No,  I  had  but  two  choices.  Start 
fresh  some  place  else,  or  just  hang  on  in 
Hollywood  until  there  was  a  call  for  me. . . . 

"From  a  studio,  you  mean?"  I  asked. 

He  shrugged.  "From  a  studio,  or  .  .  . 
from  a  service  station  to  help  pump  gas," 
he  said.  "I'll  keep  after  the  studios.  You 
keep  your  eyes  open  for  the  other." 

That  was  cruel,  maybe,  but  it  was 
honest.  He  is  still  my  agent  and  that's  why 
he's  my  agent.  But  that  was  when  the 
New  York  idea  was  born.  It  had  to  be  that 
or  the  gas  station  .  .  .  and  if  we  hadn't 
the  money  for  the  New  York  trip,  it 
could  have  been  the  gas  station  and  I 
wouldn't  have  blown  my  top. 

It  turned  out  to  be  neither.  It  was  Pinky 
instead.  I  had  my  fresh  start.  .  .  . 

A  CTUALLY,  John  Ford,  the  director,  wasn't 
completely  satisfied  with  me  in  the  test 
I  had  to  make  for  the  picture.  But  he  was 
able  to  put  his  finger  on  what  displeased 
him.  It  was  my  hair.  He  was  certain  I 
would  do  if  it  were  cut  more  severely — a 
semi-butch.  But  supposing  he  hadn't 
bothered  to  figure  it  out,  or  it  just  didn't 
strike  him?  Or,  supposing  Darryl  Zanuck, 
head  of  20th  Century-Fox,  wasn't  the  kind 
of  man  to  take  a  gamble  with  a  production 
of  the  importance  and  scope  of  Pinky? 
Nine  times  out  of  ten,  for  a  top  role  like 
this,  a  studio  head  would  insist  on  either 
a  brand  new  face  or  a  big  name  actor.  I 
was  neither.  Well,  I  would  have  let  my 
career  hang  on  such  a  detail,  but  not  my 
happiness.  Rena  and  I  have  both  decided 
that  the  one  must  be  kept  apart  from  the 
other;  otherwise  a  person's  real  life  be- 
comes a  sort  of  football,  kicked  here  or 
there  by  the  winds  of  fate. 

Right  from  the  start,  life  can  give  you 
a  see-saw  ride  emotionally  if  you  can't  find 
your  own  balance. 

I  remember  a  day  in  Syracuse  as, a  kid 
when  I  felt  great  imtil  a  chance  remark 
suddenly  took  all  the  joy  out  of  me.  I  was 
fifteen  and  was  going  to  visit  a  high  school 
girl  friend  who  was  recovering  from  ill- 
ness in  the  hospital.  As  I  walked  into 
the  room  I  was  wearing  a  blue  suit, 
white  spats,  chesterfield  coat,  black  Hom- 
burg  hat  (which  I  purposely  kept  on)  and 
white  silk  scarf  tied  Ascot  style.  Boy,  I 
felt  sharp!  I  felt  so  sharp  I  didn't  even 
notice  her  aunt  who  was  visiting  as  well 
and  was  standing  to  one  side.  But  I  heard 
her  the  next  second.  She  sort  of  gasped 
and  blurted  out,-  "Oh,  my!  What's  this?" 

The  next  second  she  caught  herself,  and 
smiled  sweet  welcome,  but  it  was  too  late. 
Her  exclamation  has  punctured  me.  I  mum- 
bled my  way  out  of  there  in  less  than  a 
minute  to  drag  myself  home. 

It  can  happen  even  more  quickly  than 
that.  Once,  as  a  younger  kid,  I  picked  a 
fight  with  another  boy.  I  wanted  to  exalt 


myself  in  the  eyes  of  others.  I  thought 
it  could  only  be  done  through  physical 
combat.  I  was  lucky.  I  landed  a  punch  and 
the  other  kid  went  down.  The  second  when 
my  fist  hit  a  sense  of  triumph  flashed 
through  me,  but  the  next  second  I  heard 
the  side  of  his  head  smack  against  a  rock 
and  I  was  horrified.  I  knew  that  instant, 
instinctively,  that  I  had  done  nothing  for 
myself,  nothing.  I  knew  that  outward 
events  were  not  to  be  trusted;  that  what- 
ever I  sought  had  to  come  from  within 
not  from  without.  The  incident  faded  away 
but  the  impression  was  there,  and  there 
were  many  times  when  it  had  its  effect  on 
me.    I  have  never  picked  a  fight  since. 

When  I  made  Pinky  a  lot  of  praise  came 
my  way  for  which  I  was,  and  still  am, 
grateful.  But  I  was  also  prepared  for  the 
opposite.  I  think  that  from  now  on  I  al- 
ways will  be.  After  all,  there  were  almost 
ten  years  of  ups  and  downs  in  Hollywood 
for  me  before  Pinky.  And  there  had  been 
uncomfortable  times  prior  to  that. 

Because  I  had  gotten  into  radio  early 
back  in  Syracuse,  speaking  lines  when  I 
was  hardly  ten,  I  was  supposed  to  be  a 
boy  wonder.  I  remember  the  boy  wonder 
growing  up  a  bit  and  finally  getting  a 
regular  announcer's  berth  and  then  pro- 
ceeding to  bog  up  the  whole  works  of  the 
station.  Why  had  I  swallowed  whole  all 
the  praise  that  came  my  way  just  be- 
cause I  had  managed  to  utter  a  few  well 
rehearsed  lines  without  a  mistake?  The 
minute  this  happened  I  was  placing  my 
well-being  in  the  hands  of  others.  And 
when  I  proved  to  be  a  boy  mess  instead  of 
a  boy  wonder  in  the  face  of  real  pressure, 
the  crash  was  awful. 

I  no  longer  want  to  be  a  boy  wonder, 
or  a  man  wonder  either,  for  that  matter. 
I  think  life  is  better  evened  out  a  little. 

Vou're  aboard  a  transport  at  night  off  a 
beautiful  tropical  island  (Ulithi,  it  was, 
this  time  I  have  in  mind)  and  the  sky 
shines  with  star- glory.  Nothing  could  be 
more  peaceful,  more  inspiring.  The  next 
morning  you're  pitched  into  a  hellish 
inferno  with  death  smashing  out  the  lives 
of  fellows  you've  lived  and  laughed  with. 
Ten  of  us  fellows  gave  a  show  aboard  the 
transport  that  night  I  speak  about.  With- 
in two  weeks  six  were  dead;  the  guitar 
player,  two  of  the  comedians,  the  singer  

Who  can  pick  out  when  to  laugh  and 
when  to  cry  from  that  which  happens 
without?  On  Okinawa  one  afternoon  I  was 
flattened  out  on  a  hill  under  fire  when  I 
turned  around  and  saw  Leif  Ericson  next 
to  me.  He  was  in  the  Navy,  but  had  come 
ashore  for  observational  photographs. 
"Hello,  Willie,"  he  said  casually. 

"Hello,"  I  returned.  "What  are  you  do- 
ing here?" 

"I'm  beginning  to  wonder,"  he  replied. 

The  next  time  I  saw  him  was  when  we 
both  worked  in  Mother  Didn't  Tell  Me, 
with  Dorothy  McGuire  and  June  Havoc. 
The  contrast  was  a  little  odd.  I  think  a 
fellow  needs  help  to  accept  what  each 
day  can  bring.  With  the  help  of  the  faith 
I  was  born  in  and  with  the  help  of  my  wife 
I  think  I  am  beginning  to  learn  how. 

I  knew  Rena  only  a  few  weeks  before  I 
sailed  for  the  south  Pacific.  I  proposed  to 
her  the  first  night  I  got  back.  I  proposed 
because  I  had  never  really  left  her — or 
rather,  she  had  never  left  me. 

For  two  and  a  half  years,  she  wrote  me 
almost  daily  about  everything  imaginable, 
about  a  lot  that  might  seem  to  you  like 
little  things;  yet  heat,  rain,  sweat,  aches 
and  aU  the  deadly  monotony  between  fight- 
ing would  disappear  the  second  I  opened 
one  of  her  envelopes.  It  was  actually  like 
leaving  one  life  and  slipping  into  another, 
one  that  made  sense  and  had  warmth  and 
in  which  only  we  two  lived.  Do  you  blame 
me  for  saying  that  it's  the  one  I  want  to 
continue  to  live  in  always?  The  End 


*1  cried  for  you" 


(Continued  from  page  51 )  Without  triumph, 
but  with  quiet  determination,  she  resisted 
every  appeal. 

"No,  Nicky,  no!"  The  words  were  spoken 
quietly,  firmly.  The  next  morning,  without 
consulting  her  parents  or  best  friends, 
Elizabeth  Hilton  asked  her  studio  to  an- 
nounce that  she  would  sue  for  divorce. 

When  I  was  called  with  the  news  I  was 
neither  shocked  nor  surprised.  As  I 
have  said  in  earlier  Modern  Screen  stories, 
keeping  an  unhappy  death  watch  on  this 
marriage,  the  end  seemed  to  be  in  sight 
but  everyone  hoped  for  a  miracle. 

Remember,  I  watched  Elizabeth  grow 
up.  I  could  forgive  anyone  for  not  telling 
the  real  truth  when  the  most  important 
emotion  in  life  is  involved.  The  fact  is 
that  only  a  few  days  before  the  abrupt  an- 
nouncement came  that  Elizabeth  had  asked 
her  agent  and  attorney,  Jules  Goldstone, 
to  file  papers,  I  had  talked  with  her  mother. 
Brief  hours  before,  Elizabeth  had  told  me, 
"I  love  Nicky.  We  won't  divorce.  Some- 
how we'll  work  it  all  out." 

Elizabeth's  mother  and  I  talked  about 
her  daughter's  old  room.  It  had  been  re- 
decorated. The  walls  had  been  repainted 
in  soft  grey,  to  match  the  carpet  which 
had  been  dyed  a  deep  burgundy. 

"Then  you  did  expect  the  breakup?"  I'd 
asked. 

"Oh  no,"  Mrs.  Taylor  had  assured  me, 
"We  had  to  dye  the  carpet  a  dark  color. 
There  were  spots  where  Elizabeth  had 
tried  a  little  unsuccessfully  to  train  her 
dog.  We  had  no  idea  that  this  would 
happen.  We  hoped  that  the  problems 
would  be  settled." 

Then  Mrs.  Taylor  refused  to  tell  me 
more.  I  cannot  find  it  in  my  heart  to 
blame  her.  She  has  been  wrongfully  ac- 
cused of  trying  to  break  up  the  marriage. 
Her  one  job  now  is  to  help  rebuild  Eliza- 
beth's health  and  spirit. 

So  it  is  that  Elizabeth  did  go  back  to  her 
old  room  at  home.  New  closets  were  built 
to  hold  all  the  clothes  she  had  bought  with 
such  pride  and  high  hope.  Everything 
was  changed,  except  for  the  big,  worn 
teddy  bear  of  her  childhood..  He  sat  on 
the  edge  of  the  bed  as  always,  his  arms 
open  in  comic  welcome. 

A  ND  what  of  the  beautiful  wedding  gown? 
-'^  That  bitter  memory,  packed  in  a  trunk 
with  the  vow  that  it  would  never  be 
opened  until  Elizabeth  should  give  away 
a  daughter  of  her  own,  now  rests  in  a 
dark  room  at  Bekins  Storage  Company. 
No  one  relishes  the  recording  of  so  dismal 
a  commentary  on  modern  marriage,  yet 
sometimes  the  doors  to  these  dark  rooms 
do  open  and  sometimes  love  is  reborn. 

Can  this  be  so  with  Nicky  and  Eliza- 
beth Hilton?  Well,  for  one  thing  I  recall 
my  own  words  printed  on  these  pages: 
"Whether  they  are  together  or  apart, 
they'll  still  be  in  love!" 

Now,  however,  the  unconsciously  cruel 
"little  things"  enter  into  the  picture.  Things 
like  that  occurrence  of  an  evening  not  long 
ago  when  Elizabeth's  brother,  Howard,  and 
some  friends  dropped  by  the  house.  Some- 
one picked  up  a  leather  book  and  asked, 
innocently,  "What's  this?" 

Liz  looked  up,  caught  her  breath  and 
replied,  "That  is  a  picture  book — the  story 
of  our  wedding." 

Silence  fell.  Someone  laughed  in  em- 
barrassment. Then  Liz  joined  in  the 
laughter  to  show  that  she  could  take  it. 

Somehow,  the  false  bravery  every 
woman  must  summon  to  her  aid  in  cases 
like  this  is  a  little  pitiful.  I  was  a  visitor 
at  Metro  the  day  after  the  marriage  failure 
was  admitted.  Everyone  joked  about  the 
title  of  the  new  Elizabeth  Taylor  picture, 


Love  Is  Better  Than  Ever.  At  luncheon, 
Liz  came  into  the  commissary,  trying  to 
appear  unperturbed. 

I  knew  that  although  she  had  not  missed 
a  day  on  the  set,  outwardly  appearing  to  be 
her  old  gay  self,  she  was  actually  in  deep 
depression. 

But  here  in  the  midst  of  co-workers  she 
was  playing  a  double  part  as  her  character 
in  the  picture,  and  as  the  girl  who  had 
put  part  of  her  private  life  out  of  mind.  I 
sat  down  at  the  luncheon  table  with  Liz 
and  we  talked  casually. 

Someone  spoke  about  a  red  dress  the 
studio  wanted  to  give  her — one  modeled 
after  her  dance  costume  in  the  picture. 
Liz  said,  "I  won't  be  needing  another  new 
evening  gown.  I  don't  expect  to  be  going 
out  very  much." 

That  is  true  in  the  extreme.  For  one 
thing,  Liz  is  not  at  all  well.  She  lost 
twenty  pounds  on  her  honeymoon;  not,  as 
we  know  now,  from  happy  excitement 
but  from  steeling  herself  against  the  many 
bitter  quarrels.  Every  day  now,  Liz  goes 
to  the  doctor  for  liver  and  vitamin  shots. 
She  has  gained  back  a  few  pounds,  but 
her  nerves  are  on  edge.  In  fact,  some  of 
her  friends  are  worried  that  she  may  col- 
lapse. Liz  doesn't  think  so.  "All  I  want 
to  do  is  work,"  she  says,  "and  I  never 
want  to  travel  again." 

A  s  I  once  wrote  hopefully  that  this  mar- 
riage  would  right  itself,  I  now  must 
record  a  more  dismal  picture.  Elizabeth 
Taylor  is  no  longer  the  girl  Nicky  Hilton 
married.  She  is  a  wiser,  if  sadder  woman. 
Nicky,  despite  outward  appearances,  is 
the  same  carefree  boy  in  my  private  opin- 
ion. Only  the  barest  chance  exists  for  a 
permanent  reconciliation,  for  although  it 
is  possible  for  a  woman  to  change  abruptly 
through  sudden  shock,  a  man's  emotional 
set-up  is  more  deeply  rooted.  For  Nicky  to 
change  so  that  Liz  will  be  convinced  that 
change  is  permanent,  for  him  even  to  be 
able  to  fully  realize  how  different  she  has 
become,  seems  well  nigh  impossible. 

Yet  there  is  that  chance.  In  California, 
there  is  a  year's  period  of  grace  between 
the  first  and  final  decree  of  divorce.  This 
provides  a  year  during  which  the  man 
and  wife  may  reconsider. 

In  this  modern  age  there  is  much  wink- 
ing at  California  divorce  law.  Some  peo- 
ple even  rush  off  to  Mexico  and  marry 
again  before  the  decree  is  final.  Then 
there  is  the  exception,  as  in  the  case  of 
Shirley  Temple  who  during  this  entire 
period  kept  herself  above  reproach.  I  am 
certain  that  Elizabeth  Taylor  will  follow 
the  same  pattern. 

Meantime,  plans  have  been  made  for 
her  to  take  a  hovise  at  Malibu  in  early 
spring.  Elizabeth  used  to  live  there  during 
every  summer  season  and  loved  it.  Now, 
however,  her  friends  are  scattered.  Such 
old  buddies  as  Marsh  Thompson  are  mar- 
ried. Dick  Long,  another  casual  boy  friend 
of  those  days,  is  off  for  the  Army.  If  one 
can  imagine  it,  Elizabeth  Taylor  is  due  for 
some  lonely  hours.  True,  there  will  be 
many  men  who  will  want  to  help  her  for- 
get, but  they  will  be  older,  much  older. 
The  young  men,  Nicky  Hilton  among  them, 
will  be  headed  for  service. 

As  this  is  written,  Elizabeth  Taylor 
wants  nothing  from  her  husband.  No  ali- 
mony, no  favors,  only  to  be  left  alone.  I 
think  the  best  commentary  on  the  situation 
comes  from  a  friend  of  the  Taylors'  who 
said,  "I  never  saw  anyone  try  harder  to 
make  a  go  of  marriage  than  EHzabeth,  and 
it  will  be  months  before  she  can  regain  her 
emotional  stability  enough  to  think  clearly. 
For  this  reason  I  hope  that  they  don't  try 
a  reconciliation  now.   It  may  be  too  soon." 

I  for  one  feel  as  everyone  does  on  wit- 
nessing the  failure  of  young  love,  "I  hope 
it  is  not  too  late!"  The  End 


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bringing  iiome  baby 


(Continued  jrom  page  31)  Ben's  birthday 
fell  on  a  Sunday  in  October  and  they 
planned  to  move  in  the  day  before.  The 
moving  men  came  on  Saturday  afternoon 
and  worked  well  into  the  night.  Esther 
stood  in  the  driveway  directing '  the  men 
as  they  unloaded  the  vans,  and  steered 
most  of  the  furniture  into  the  middle  of 
the  living  room.  The  nioving  men,  no- 
ticing that  Esther  was  obviously  pregnant, 
were  solicitous  of  her  health.  "You'd  bet- 
ter sit  down,  ma'am,"  they  told  her. 

"I'm  fine,"  said  Esther.  "Stop  worrying. 
Put  that  barrel  into  the  garage,  please — 
and  that  chest  into  the  kitchen." 

At  six  o'clock  a  group  of  friends  arrived. 
"We've  come  to  help,"  they  announced. 
They  didn't  help  much,  but  at  nine  o'clock 
Esther  cooked  dinner  for  them  by  candle- 
light and  the  kitchen  fireplace,  because  the 
electrician  was  learning  to  be  a  chiropo- 
dist at  night  school  and  was  no  longer  pay- 
ing attention  to  fuses  and  wires. 

The  next  morning  the  moving  men  re- 
turned to  help  place  the  furniture,  and 
after  they  finally  left,  Esther  got  busy  with 
shelf  paper. 

"Look,"  said  Ben.  "You'll  just  have  to 
get  off  that  ladder.  I  know  the  baby  isn't 
due  for  six  weeks  yet,  but — " 

"I'm  all  right,"  said  Esther.  "Today  is 
your  birthday  and  there's  going  to  be  a 
dinner  party  tonight,  and  I  want  the  house 
in  order  when  the  gang  gets  her.e." 

"But  they'll  never  see  shelf  paper!"  ex- 
ploded Ben. 

"Sh-h,"  said  Esther. 

When  the  guests  began  to  arrive  that 
evening,  they  found  a  house  that  looked 
as  though  it  had  been  lived  in  and  loved 
for  many  years.  And  there  was  shelf 
paper  on  the  shelves.  Esther  cooked  din- 
ner for  twenty  people  in  the  farm  kitchen. 


A  theater  which  followed  Dial  1119  with 
Soufhside  1-1000  had  o  call  from  a  patron 
oskinq,  "What  number  are  you  running  to- 
night?"— Herb  Stein  in  The  Hollywood 
Reporter. 


The  next  morning  at  six  o'clock  Esther 
stirred  slightly  in  her  bed  and  reached 
for  the  clock  on  the  night  table.  A  bit 
later  she  nudged  Ben.  "I  think  we'd  better 
call  the  doctor,"  she  said. 

"Hmmm?"  murmured  Ben. 

"Darling — call  the  doctor,"  she  said. 

Mr.  Gage  was  sleeping  the  sleep  of  the 
dead,  but  he  answered  her  anyway. 
"Honey,"  he  said,  "you've  had  a  hard  day. 
But  we're  moved  in  now  and  it'll  be 
easier  for  you.    Just  take  a  seltzer." 

When  he  did  wake  up,  of  course,  he 
almost  had  a  stroke.  At  ten-fifteen  they 
reached  the  hospital,  and  a  half  hour  later 
Kim  Gage  made  his  appearance. 

Esther  was  fine,  but  Ben  was  a  wreck. 
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things  to  be  done.  He  tottered  into  the 
living  room,  proudly  holding  over  his 
head  a  mop,  the  working  end  of  which 
was  enveloped  in  flames.  "Hi,"  he  said, 
making  full  use  of  his  vocabulary.  Esther 
screamed  and  Ben  dived  the  length  of 
the  room  to  capture  the  flaming  mop. 

The  fireplace  in  the  kitchen  is  set  high 
into  the  wall  and  while  they  had  supposed 
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when  you  are  fourteen  months  old.  So 
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"I  want  one,"  Esther  told  the  salesman, 
"that  will  keep  a  child  out  of  the  fire." 

"Our  item  number  nine,  pictured  here, 
is  quite  attractive,"  said  the  salesman. 

"But  a  baby  could  go  right  through 
that.  I  want  something  that's  secure  at 
the  bottom  as  well  as  the  top." 

"May  I  suggest  this  one?"  The  sales- 
man pointed  out  a  dainty  job. 

"Won't  do,"  said  Esther.  "He  could 
tear  it  to  shreds." 

Loftily  the  man  said,  "Madam,  have  you 
ever  thought  of  training  your  child?" 

Esther  squinted  at  him.  "How  many 
children  do  you  have?"  she  said. 

The  man  drew  himself  up.  "I,"  he  said, 
"am  a  bachelor." 

So  Esther  found  a  dealer  who  had  five 
children,  and  a  Benjie-proof  firescreen 
was  ordered  forthwith. 

The  next  morning  she  woke  to  find  the 
whole  house  shuddering. 

"Go  back  to  sleep,"  said  Ben.  "It's  only 
a  bulldozer." 

"That's  what  I  like  about  you,"  said 
Esther.  "You're  so  lucid.  What  are  we 
doing  with  a  bulldozer?" 

"There  are  two  bulldozers,"  said  Ben. 
"And  how  else  do  you  expect  us  to  have 
a  driveway  through  those  trees  out  front?" 

The  door  opened  then,  and  a  stranger 
poked  his  head  into  the  room.  "Good  morn- 
ing," he  said  cheerily. 

From  the  depths  of  their  bed,  Esther 
and  Ben  looked  at  him  blankly. 

"I'm  the  electrician,"  said  the  man. 
".You're  having  a  heater  put  in  here.  Sorry. 
Got  to  get  to  work." 

THE  workmen  became  fast  friends  of  the 
Gages.  Esther  and  the  carpenters  had 
one  great  thing  in  common,  and  that  was 
a  love  of  fine  woodwork.  The  Gages  had 
put  their  big  Dutch  cupboard  (circa  1700) 
into  the  house  long  before  they  moved 
in  themselves.  It  was  set  along  the  wall 
of  the  immense  living  room,  and  day  after 
day  Esther  watched  with  delight  the 
workmen's  reaction  to  it.  They  never 
passed  the  cupboard  that  they  didn't  run 
their  fingers  over  it  lovingly. 

"Our  house,"  she  had  told  Ben,  "miist  be 
built  around  that  cupboard." 

That  meant  gracious  living  and  above 
all,  comfort.  Esther  wanted  a  house  that 
spelled  "home"  the  minute  the  front  door 
was  open,  and  in  a  few  instances  she  had 
to  fight  to  make  it  that  way.  The  uphol- 
sterer who  made  her  window  seat,  for  in- 
stance, put  up  a  battle.  He  brought  the 
seat  and  the  cushions  that  went  with  it, 
and  placed  them  carefully  in  their  niche,  the 
cushions  standing  primly  upright. 
"Hov/s  that?"  he  said. 
Esther  marched  to  the  window  where 
she  picked  up  the  cushions  and  uncere- 
moniously jammed  them  into  corners. 
"Just  fine,"  she  said. 

"But  you  can't  do  that,"  he  said.  "They're 
supposed  to  stand  straight  up." 
"Not  in  my  house,"  said  Esther. 
This  same  man  was  given  carte  blanche 
to  make  a  lamp  from  a  large  crock  and 
a  milking  stool.  When  he  brought  it  back, 
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"But  it  isn't  right,"  said  Esther. 

The  man  bristled  slightly.  "What  do 
you  mean,  it  isn't  right?" 

"It's  too  perfect,"  Esther  said.  "I  want 
it  to  look  as  though  I  made  it." 

"Like  thatV  He  pointed  to  an  old  lamp- 
shade on  which  Esther  had  tacked  a  red 
gingham  border  about  five  years  ago.  The 
material  was  falling  down  in  spjots. 

"Like  that,"  said  Esther.  "And  further- 
more, I'm  going  to  keep  it  just  that  way.  It 
has  sentimental  value,  and  besides,  nobody 
could  be  imcomfortable  with  that  staring 
them  in  the  face." 

The  phone  rang  then.  It  was  the  studio 
calling,  and  in  the  middle  of  the  conversa- 
tion an  ear-splitting  noise  came  from  the 
back  of  the  house.  "Excuse  me,"  said 
Esther  into  the  phone,  and  went  to  the 
open  window.  A  moment  later  she  picked 
up  the  phone  again.  "I'll  have  to  call  you 
back,"  she  said.  "A  bulldozer  just  cut 
through  a  water  pipe." 

Just  then  a  wail  went  through  the  house 
and  Esther  looked  apologetically  at  the 
upholsterer.  "Now  which  baby  is  that? 
Oh,  it's  Behjie,"  she  said,  and  left  the  room. 

When  she  returned  she  steered  for  the 
telephone.  "I'm  sorry,"  she  told  the  man, 
"but  I  have  to  call  the  doctor.  Benjie  has 
a  fever." 

The  man  sat  down  and  lit  a  cigarette 
and  while  Esther  was  talking,  Annie  the 
maid  came  into  the  room  and  stood  waiting 
for  an  end  to  the  conversation. 

"Mrs.  Gage,"  she  said,  "there's  a  man 


out  back  who  wants  to  know  where  to  put 
the  firewood,  and  one  of  the  men  says  he 
can't  find  the  window  glass  for  the  dressing 
room,  and  somebody  just  knocked  a  bucket 
of  paint  into  the  pool,  and  there's  a  boy 
out  front  who  wants  to  know  if  we're  going 
to  take  any  papers."  She  spread  her  hands 
in  a  helpless  gesture.  "We  don't  want  any 
papers,  do  we?" 

The  upholsterer  ground  out  his  cigarette 
and  stood  up.  "Tell  you  what,"  he  said 
to  Esther.  "I  can  see  your  point.  I'll  take 
that  lamp  home  and  beat  on  it  for  a 
while  with  a  hammer." 

She  saw  him  to  the  door,  and  .looked 
past  his  shoulder  to  the  driveway  still  be- 
ing shaped  by  bulldozers. 

"You  know,"  she  said,  "I'm  worried  about 
that  driveway.  It's  too  big— too  elegant." 

The  man  smiled.  "You  can't  expect  the 
driveway  to  look  as  though  you  made  it. 
Besides,"  he  said,  "with  all  the  friends 
you'll  have  in  this  house,  you'll  need  a 
highway  out  front." 

"Thank  you,"  said  Esther.  "Just  you  go 
home  and  give  that  lamp  a  shabby  touch." 

When  Ben  came  home  from  work  late 
that  night,  he  looked  at  Esther  closely.  "I 
know  this  sounds  silly,  knowing  you  as 
I  do,"  he  said,  "but  you  look  a  bit  tired.  I 
^wish  you'd  take  it  easier." 

"I'm  all  right,"  she  said.  "I  promise  you 
— when  the  next  baby  comes — I'll  lie  down, 
and  Annie  can  bring  me  orange  juice 
when  I  ring  my  little  silver  bell.  Now, 
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portrait  of  domergue 


{Continued  from  page  49)  I  wanted  was 
comforting,  not  adventure,"  she  points  out. 

You  might  say  that  Faith  first  discovered 
herself  because  of  the  lisp.  She'd  heard 
that  if  you  were  signed  by  a  film  studio 
they  placed  you  in  the  hands  of  speech 
experts.  She  was  fifteen  and  nearly  her 
present  height  of  five-feet-six  inches, 
when  she  applied  to  Warner  Brothers  for 
a  test  without  telling  her  parents  about 
it.  The  talent  head  put  his  fingers  in  his 
ears  when  she  talked  but  he  kept  his  eyes 
open  and  that  sold  him. 

ONLY  a  few  weeks  later  her  father,  Leo 
Domergue,  who  is  a  car  dealer  in 
Beverly  Hills,  took  a  summer  place  in  Bal- 
boa; and  not  two  days  after  Faith  got  there 
with  her  mother  she  was  invited  aboard  a 
saihng  yacht  for  luncheon  by  some  studio 
friends.  She  was  child  enough  to  inno- 
cently approach  a  man  of  about  thirty-five 
who  seemed  lonely  standing  by  himself. 
They  talked  about  the  weather,  and  about 
sailing  and  then  she  was  called  away. 

Later  one  of  her  friends  asked  Faith 
if  she  knew  that  the  man  she'd  been 
talking  to  was  Howard  Hughes. 

"Oh,  you're  kidding!"  replied  Faith,  not 
too  sure  just  who  he  was.  At  any  rate, 
Howard  Hughes  proceeded  to  buy  her  con- 
tract from  Warner  Brothers,  and  held  on 
to  it  for  the  better  part  of  ten  years. 

At  RKO,  where  Hughes  placed  Faith,  a 
voice  expert  by  the  name  of  Bob  Paris 
went  to  work  on  her  diction,  using  tooth- 
picks as  mechanical  aids.  He  built  a  sort 
of  gate  of  them  in  her  mouth  to  keep  her 
tongue  where  it  belonged,  and  set  her  to 
reading  aloud.  At  the  end  of  a  year's 
pushing  against  the  barrier  her  tongue  be- 
gan to  stay  put.  She  completed  her  regu- 
lar schooling  in  the  studio,  and  had  stiff 
dramatic  training  as  well. 

Then  she  was  ready  for  her  movie  debut 
in  Vendetta,  which  has  recently  been  re- 
leased. She  also  married  Ted  Stauffer,  a 
hotel  man,  after  knowing  him  for  18  days. 
A  separation  swiftly  followed. 

Faith  says  that  her  youthful  marriage 
to  Stauffer  was  a  mistake  for  which  they 


were  equally  to  blame,  and  that  they  both 
agree  on  this  now.  In  1947,  more  than  a 
year  after  their  separation,  she  went  to  a 
Beverly  Hills  party  and  met  Hugo,  an 
Argentinean  movie  director.  She  had 
barely  entered  the  door,  she  says,  when 
her  gaze  caught  the  eyes  of  a  man  across 
the  room  and  she  felt  herself  taking  off 
from  an  everyday  world  for  something 
far,  far  better.  The  eyes  belonged  to  Hugo, 
of  course,  and  she  remembers  that  they 
not  only  seemed  to  be  saying,  "At 
last  .  .  ."  but  that  when  he  took  her  hand 
she  knew  he  wasn't  going  to  let  it  go. 

Faith  reports  she  finds  herself  still 
watching  Hugo's  eyes  these  days  when  he 
talks  to  her.  "He  can  be  asking  me  why  I 
didn't  send  his  shirts  out  to  the  laundry," 
she  says,  "but  his  eyes  wiU  be  saying, 
'What  do  I  care  about  some  old  shirts  as 
long  as  I  have  you?'  " 

As  may  be  imagined,  the  marriage  re- 
lationship in  the  Fregonese  household  is  on 
an  old-fashioned  basis.  "I  don't  wear  the 
pants  in  our  family,"  says  Faith.  "I  am 
wife  and  mother  first,  an  actress  after- 
ward." 

When  she  was  expecting  Diana,  Hugo, 
now  with  Universal-International,  had 
contracts  to  fulfill  in  Buenos  Aires.  They 
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Her  apartment  is  furnished  in  modern 
style.  She  dresses  it  as  she  dresses  her- 
self, in  soft  tones  touched  off  with  bright 
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wore  a  black,  dull  satin  dress,  with  red 
handbag  and  pins,  and  he  remarked  that 
she  was  the  most  feminine  looking  woman 
he  had  ever  seen.  She  has  since  ordered 
three  more  dresses  exactly  like  that  one. 

aith's  general  reputation  rates  her  a 
J-  person  of  quiet  affability,  with  an  im- 
pulsive way  of  talking.  She  complained  to 
a  writer  once  because  his  script  had  her 
nibbling  at  her  nails  while  the  man  she 
loved  was  fighting  the  villain. 

"What  would  you  do?"  asked  the  writer. 

"I'd  jump  in  and  chew  his  fingers!" 

On  her  recent  personal  appearance  tours 
by  plane  she  began  faithfully  to  buy  insur- 
ance on  every  trip  from  the  spesial  coin- 
slot  machines  provided  for  this  purpose  in 

Didja  catch  Colbert  photographed  on  the 
wrong  side  of  her  face  in  that  20th  news- 
reel?  Couldn't  yell  at  the  cameraman 
either,  who  caught  her  curtsying  to  the 
Queen,  at  the  Command  Performance  of 
The  Mudlark— Herb  Stein  in  The  Holly- 
wood Reporter. 

the  airline  offices.  But  one  day  on  a  flight 
from  New  York  to  Cincinnati,  it  slipped 
her  mind.  Nearing  Cincinnati  the  steward- 
ess announced  that  an  emergency  landing 
might  have  to  be  made  because  of  a  snow- 
storm. Faith  cried  back,  "Oh,  no!  That 
isn't  fair.    I  forgot  to  buy  my  insurance!" 

Faith  is  a  pet  of  RKO's  publicity  de- 
partment because  she  accepts  all  arrange- 
ments for  trips  exactly  as  made. 

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who  generally  accompanies  Faith.  "A  com- 
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time  to  go  to  sleep  is  all  she  needs.  Then 
I  can  keep  the  light  on  to  finish  my  re- 
ports, or  even  read." 

Faith  spends  a  lot  of  time  with  Pamela 
Mason  (James  Mason's  wife),  whose 
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as  Diana.  Pamela  has  all  the  scientific 
books  on  child-raising  and  Faith  consults 
her  a  lot.  One  day  she  called  Pamela  about 
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(Continued  jrom  page  37)  That  decided 
it  for  Sheila.  She  notified  her  folks  and 
married  Gordon  in  Cleveland's  Old  Stone 
Church  on  May  21,  1941,  with  Horace 
Heidt  and  his  wife  in  attendance. 

"Every  man  miost  have  a  good  wife  if 
he's  to  be  happy,"  Gordon  says.  Then  adds, 
"She's  the  talent  in  oiir  family.  When  you 
meet  her,  you  meet  me." 

When  they  finally  returned  to  New  York, 
Gordon  landed  a  place  in  Ray  Bloch's 
radio  chorus  and  a  role  in  the  Broadway 
production  Junior  Miss.  The  young  Mac- 
Raes  dined  on  steaks  in  the  best  restau- 
rants, were  at  home  at  a  good  address  and 
went  around  in  Cadillacs.  This  came  to 
an  end  and  they  found  themselves  living 
part  of  the  time  with  Gordon's  mother  and 
part  of  the  time  with  Sheila's  family.  The 
future  didn't  look  rosy. 

Gordon  finally  landed  a  sustaining  (non- 
sponsored,  therefore  not  very  lucrative) 
radio  program.  He  loved  the  work.  Dick 
Haymes  and  Frank  Sinatra,  who'd  had 
that  job  before  him,  were  really  up  there 
now. 

But  instead  of  the  name  "Gordon  Mac- 
Rae"  being  bandied  about  in  celebrity  cir- 
cles, it  was  lost  in  the  Army  three  months 
later. 

"What's  your  first  name,"  a  sergeant 
barked  at  the  new  recruit  that  June  day 
in  1943. 

"Gordon,"  MacRae  answered  quickly. 

"Then  what's  this  A.  Gordon  MacRae 
here  on  this  form?" 

Startled,  Gordon  answered,  "Well,  sir, 
my  first  name's  really  Albert,  but  I've  nev- 
er been.  .  .  ." 

"You're  in  the  Army  now.  From  now  on 
you're  Albert  G.  MacRae,"  the  sergeant 
informed  him  coldly. 

So  Sheila  followed  Albert  G.  MacRae 
whenever  and  wherever  she  could — even 
when  his  intensive  war-time  training 
period  allowed  him  only  one  hour  a  week 
with  her.  Not  until  Sheila  was  in  a  Hous- 
ton, Texas,  hospital  for  the  arrival  of  their 
first  child  did  Albert  G.  MacRae  get  any 
special  leave  from  his  nearby  base.  And 
then  it  came  only  an  hour  before  their 
daughter  arrived.  After  that  event  it  was 
two  weeks  before  he  and  Sheila  had 
enough  time  together  to  settle  on  Mere- 
dith Lynn  as  the  baby's  name. 

Albert  G.  MacRae  advanced  from  pri- 
vate to  lieutenant.  When  he  was  dis- 
charged, he  had  spent  some  time  flying 
the  south  Atlantic  as  navigator  for  the 
Military  Transport  Command's  C-47's  and 
C-43's. 

THE  Gordon  MacRae  who  returned  to 
New  York  was  two  inches  taller  than 
the  one  who  left.  He  found  his  name  aU 
but  forgotten.  Not  until  he  landed  a 
sponsored  show,  NBC's  "Teentimers,"  did 
people  begin  talking  about  him  again. 
Then  he  got  a  part  in  the  Broadway  musi- 
cal Three  To  Make  Ready.  That  brought 
offers  from  Capitol  Records  and  Warner 
Brothers  studio,  both  of  which  he  accepted. 
But  he  was  no  overnight  sensation  and 
it's  quite  possible  he  might  still  be  trying 
to  achieve  success  except  for  a  teen-age 
girl,  the  daughter  of  an  advertising 
executive. 

One  night  this  executive  unburdened 
himself  to  his  family  at  his  own  dinner 
table. 

The  dignified  American  Association  of 
Railroads,  one  of  his  firm's  most  im- 
portant accoimts,  had  never  utilized  the 
radio  medixmi  in  their  public  relations 
campaign.  Now  suddenly  they'd  decided 
to  try  it.  They  wanted  a  dignified  program 
presenting  a  young  singer.  Someone  with 
unmistakably  great  promise;  someone  who 


was  now  virtually  unknawn,  who  would 
develop  along  with  the  program.  He  had  to 
be  a  clean-cut  young  American  whose 
private  life  would  stand  the  severest  scru- 
tiny. Further,  he  had  to  be  unbelievably 
versatile,  able  to  sing  the  latest  popular 
songs  and  the  most  demanding  classics 
with  equal  ease. 

"Now  just  where  am  I  going  to  find 
someone  like  that?"  the  executive  de- 
manded of  his  family. 

"Oh,  Daddy,  get  Gordon  MacRae!  He's 
yum-m-m-ee!"  his  teen-age  daughter  ex- 
claimed rapturously. 
"Who?"  the  man  asked  blankly. 
"Gordon   MacRae,"   she   repeated,  her 
face  filled  with  blind  enthusiasm. 

"Well,"  the  executive  says  now,  "I 
thought  he'd  turn  out  to  be  another  one 
of  those  crooners  with  limited  ability.  But 
I  couldn't  face  my  girl  again  if  I  didn't 
at  least  listen  to  her  latest  rave.  HappUy, 
I'm  an  indulgent  father." 

"So  far  Gordon  has  sung  54  completely 
different  musical  comedy,  light  opera  or 
operetta  roles  on  "The  Railroad  Hour's" 
winter  shows  alone.  They've  ranged  from 
19th  century  hits  through  the  latest  cur- 
rent ones  we're  permitted  to  broadcast. 
The  only  criticism  we  get  is  that  the 
show  isn't  long  enough.  I've  been  in 
this  business  a  long  time  but  never  be- 
fore have  I  seen  a  personality  get  so  many 
letters  which  start  out,  'I've  never  written 
anyone  like  this  before  but  .  .  .'  Well, 
you  can  see  he's  far  more  thsin  fulfilled 
our  early  expectations  of  anyone." 

ordon's  first  three  pictures  at  Warner 
Brothers  brought  only  a  so-so  re- 
sponse, but  when  Tea  For  Two  came  out  in 
September  of  1950,  his  fan  mail  zoomed 
him  right  up  among  the  top  three  atten- 
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Story  hadn't  had  time  to  show  up  at  the 
time  this  was  written.  Now  he's  making 
Moonlight  Bay  with  Doris  Day. 

Outsiders  figuring  conservatively  esti- 
mate Gordon's  earnings  for  1950  can't  be 
less  than  $250,000. 

He  has  followed  in  his  father's  footsteps 
pretty  well.  At  29,  he  has  provided  his 
family  with  the  same  kind  of  luxury.  Not 
the  luxury  of  jewels  and  furs.  Sheila,  to 
whom  he  is  so  deeply  devoted,  doesn't 
have  a  fur  coat  and  doesn't  care  about 
having  one.  !§he  wears  rhinestones  rather 
than  diamonds.  But  they  do  enjoy  a  gra- 
cious, spacious  home  with  their  two 
daughters  and  one  son.  There'll  be  good 
schools  for  those  youngsters.  There'll  be 
wonderful  trips  to  Europe  and  elsewhere. 
And  there'll  be  ample  financial  security 
for  them  all  if  Uncle  Sam  doesn't  decide 
he  needs  Albert  G.  MacRae  more  than 
Gordon  MacRae. 

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loudly,  "Mommy, 
can  I  go  up  on  the 
stage?"  Mr.  Mac- 
Rae heard  her  and 
said,  "Of  course 
you  can  honey."  He  knelt  down,  lifted 
her  onto  the  stage,  spoke  with  her, 
and  then  held  her  in  his  arms  while 
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long  he'll  add  a  concert  tour  to  his  al- 
ready crowded  activities.  Even  then  he 
won't  have  tapped  the  full  potential  of  his 
voice.  William  Brady,  with  whom  he 
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order  to  gain  that  achievement.  And 
Brady  agrees,  saying,  "Do  whatever  you 
love." 

That's  exactly  what  Gordon  determined 
to  do  in  those  days  following  his  father's 
death. 

"My  father  was  happiest  on  Sundays," 
Gordon  says.  "At  least  that's  the  way  I 
remember.  In  the  afternoons  he'd  usually 
go  to  Schenectady  where  as  'Wee  Willie' 
MacRae  he  sang  over  Station  WGY.  Then 
Sunday  evenings,  we'd  gather  in  the  living 
room  to  listen  to  the  'Ford  Symphony 
Hour.'  When  that  was  over,  we'd  create 
our  own  music.  Good  music.  Mother  had 
studied  to  become  a  concert  pianist.  Oc- 
casionally others  joined  us,  but  usually  it 
was  just  mother,  father,  my  sister  Jane 
and  me.  Father  was  so  completely  relaxed 
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pictures,  radio,  recordings  and  personal 
appearances,  Gordon  has  appeared  at  more 
than  100  benefit  performances  in  the  past 
year  besides  cutting  approximately  an 
equal  number  of  transcriptions  for  other 
benefit  and  community  drives  to  use  in 
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(Cc?iti7iued  from  page  61)  said  simply,  yet 
tenderly,  that  in  Howard's  absence  she'd 
found  another  boy  friend.  She  was  very 
sorry,  she  said,  but  she  was  now  in  love 
and  had  to  take  happiness  when  she  could 
find  it. 

The  letter  broke  him  up.  After  he  read  it, 
the  momentary  shock  was  so  great  that  he 
showed  no  reaction.  At  first  he  couldn't 
beUeve  it.  When  he  read  it  the  second  time, 
the  truth  began  to  penetrate  and  hurt,  be- 
cause if  ever  a  man  were  in  love,  that  man 
was  Howard  Duff. 

She  was  a  tall,  willowy  brunette  with  soft 
blue  eyes.  Howard  had  first  met  her  in  Los 
Angeles  where  she  worked  for  a  recording 
studio,  and  he  had  fallen  in  love  with  her 
slowly.  This  in  itself  was  unusual,  for  the 
time  was  1943  and  emotions  everywhere 
were  heightened  to  the  point  where  one 
date  meant  romance  and  two  meant  mar- 
riage. Only  Howard  and  his  girl  seemed 
unaware  of  the  panic.  It  was  as  if  they  were 
sure  of  what  they  had,  sure  that  time  could 
not  ever  diminish  their  deep  feeUngs  for 
each  other. 

Duff  was  in  the  Army,  stationed  in  Los 
Angeles,  and  at  night  he  would  call  for 
her  and  they  would  dine  at  Brittingham's 
or  walk  along  Sunset  Boulevard,  or  on 
Sundays  go  do\\Ti  to  the  beach,  always 
held  by  the  wonder  of  their  love. 

All  this  must  have  passed  in  a  moment 
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in  the  Pacific. 

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still  think  of  her  from  time  to  time.  But 
I've  gotten  over  it.  At  least,  I  think  I've 
gotten  over  it.  After  all,  it's  been  six  years." 

In  those  six  years.  Duff  has  dated  dozens 
of-  girls,  and  practically  all  of  them  will  tell 
you  that,  "He's  a  strange  date." 

One  actress  says,  "When  you  go  out  with 
Howard,  the  thing  that  surprises  you  most 
about  him  is  his  economy  of  speech.  You  get 
the  feeling  that  he  knows  so  much  and  that 
he  really  wants  to  talk,  only  there's  some- 
thing holding  him  back.  He  was  born  in 
Seattle,  I  know,  and  he's  not  British,  but 
there's  almost  a  British  kind  of  reserve 
about  him. 

"I  understand  that  he  was  very  much  in 
love  once,  and  I  guess  he  was  hurt  because 
he  somehow  always  manages  to  keep  his 
distance,  as  if  he's  not  going  to  get  burned 
a  second  time." 

This  restraint  was  something  which 
Yvorme  De  Carlo  never  understood  about 
Duff.  After  the  war  when  he  signed  a  con- 
tract with  Universal,  he  and  Yvonne  began 
to  see  a  lot  of  each  other.  These  two  were 
bright,  young  players  being  groomed 
for  stardom,  and  their  similar  environment 
threw  them  together;  anyway,  a  wholesome 
affection  sprung  up  between  them. 

Those  who  knew  Duff  intimately  felt 
that  his  romance  with  Yvonne  was  just  a 
case  of  rebound — but  Yvonne  never  felt 
that  way. 

The  general  opinion  is  that  she  was  really 
in  love  with  Duff  and  attributed  his  lacka- 
daisical courting  technique  to  his  basic 
manner  of  behavior. 

She  didn't  know  about  Howard's  resolve 
not  to  get  hurt  again;  and  the  sad  result 
was  that  when  her  romance  with  Howard 
began  to  fade,  it  was  she  who  was  hurt. 
Fortunately,  her  career  was  going  great 
guns  at  the  time  and  she  took  the  bit  of 
pain  in  stride. 

Similarly,  Howard  had  to  prove  his 
mettle  three  years  later  when,  after  going 
with  Ava  Gardner  on  and  off  for  33  months, 
the  beautiful  brunette  replaced  him  in  her 
heart  with  Frank  Sinatra. 

F^UFF  was  daffy  about  Ava  from  the  very 
first  moment  he  met  her  at  a  Mark 
Hellinger  party  in  New  York.  Ava  is  very 
easy  to  be  daffy  about.  She  is  not  only 
physically  irresistible,  but  what  men  like 
most  about  her  is  her  honesty.  She  puts 
on  no  airs.  When  she  doesn't  know  a  thing, 
she  comes  out  and  says  flatly,  "I  never 
heard  of  it."  She  never  acts  the  Holly- 
wood actress.  She  is  plain,  down-to-earth, 
and  seemingly  incapable  of  the  usual  fem- 
inine coyness.  She  also  believes  in  letting 
her  escort  take  the  lead  in  conversation, 
and  she  makes  no  demands  upon  his  time 
or  money. 

Men  see  in  Ava  the  potential  perfect 
wife.  And  that's  what  Howard  saw  in  her. 

Unfortunately,  when  Ava  met  Duff  she 
had  been  hurt  badly  by  two  marital  mis- 
adventures: one  to  Mickey  Rooney  who's 
about  as  shy  and  introverted  as  a  Con- 
gressman campaigning  for  re-election,  and 
one  to  the  high-strung  Artie  Shaw. 

She  therefore  made  it  a  point  not  to  get 
serious  with  Howard.  Whenever  anyone 
asked  her  about  her  marital  intentions,  she 
usually  came  up  wit]^,  "Oh!  We're  just  go- 
ing around  for  laughs." 

And  between  Ava  and  Howard  there 
were  thousands  of  them.  They  went  every- 
where and  did  everything  together.  Ava 
thawed  Howard  out.  He  became  the  old 
Duff,  more  smiles,  more  expansive,  more 
fun.  He  rented  a  house  down  at  the  beach. 
On  Sundays,  he  and  Ava  always  had  a 
crowd  down.  They'd  spin  records,  dance, 
picnic  on  the  beach. 

Duff  fell  in  love  with  Ava.  He  didn't 
want  to.  But  a  man  can't  help  loving,  and 
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However,  Ava  didn't  feel  for  Duf?  what 
Duf?  felt  for  Ava.  She  liked  him,  and  she 
still  likes  him — but  when  it  came  to  mar- 
riage, Howard  wasn't  what  Ava  wanted. 

Just  what  that  is,  Ava  herself  cannot 
say.  "I  want  to  get  married  and  raise  a 
lot  of  babies,"  she  always  says.  "And  I  know 
that  men  who  aren't  in  show  business  make 
better  husbands  than  men  who  are.  But  I 
was  never  really  serious  about  Howard, 
and  maybe  he  wasn't  about  me.  We're 
still  good  friends  and  I  talk  to  him  a  lot." 

When  Ava  started  seeing  a  good  deal 
of  Frank  Sinatra — after  Frank's  separa- 
tion from  Nancy — Duff  was  hurt.  He  never 
said  anything  about  it,  and  he  tried  not  to 
show  it — but  for  the  second  time  in  his 
short  life,  his  love  had  gone  unrequited. 

Since  Ava,  Howard  has  dated  Marta 
Toren,  Piper  Laurie,  Gloria  De  Haven,  and 
Ida  Lxipino.  The  Piper  Laurie  and  DeHaven 
dates  have  been  publicity  shows. 

As  for  Marta  Toren  and  Ida  Lupino — 
Duff  is  exceedingly  fond  of  them  both,  and 
it  is  significant  that  neither  of  these  two 
girls  is  American.  Marta  is  Swedish  and 
Ida  is  British,  and  between  the  two  of  them 
they  have  an  enormous  amount  of  savoir- 
faire  and  continental  charm. 

The  columnists  insist  that  Ida  will  be- 
come the  first  Mrs.  Howard  Duff,  and  Ida 
insists  that  these  same  coliimnists  have 
rocks  in  their  heads. 

As  for  Duff,  now  recovering  from  a 
broken  leg — he  sits  in  his  house  down  at 
the  beach,  alone  and  a  bachelor,  fixing  his 
own  meals,  reading,  smoking  his  pipe,  and 
plajdng  his  records. 

"Of  course  I  should  be  mai-ried,"  he  says, 
"but  maybe  marriage  has  passed  me  by. 
Who  knows?  All  I  know  is  that  if  I  don't  get 
married  within  the  next  year  or  two,  I'll 
probably  never  get  hitched.  A  man  gets 
used  to  one  sort  of  life  and  then  it's  tough 
to  change. 

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this  business.  Girls  who  come  out  here  are 
more  interested  in  careers  than  husbands. 

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of  people  think  I  lead  the  perfect  life  be- 
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we  talk  and  have  a  bite  to  eat,  but  it's  no 
love  affair,  and  it's  nothing  serious. 

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READER'S  DIGEST*  Reported  The  Same 
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stories 

WHAT  HAPPENED  TO  LANA'S  MARRIAGE?  (Lana  Turner)  by  Steve  Cronin  27 

THE  BING  CROSBY  STORY  (Part  I)  by  Tom  Carlile  28 

NEVER  LOST  A  FATHER  (June  Allyson-Dick  Powell)  by  Jane  Wilkie  32 

IT'S  A  MARSHMALLOW  WHIRL  (Vera-Ellen,  Rock  Hudson,  Dick  Long, 

Peggy  Dow)   by  Beverly  Ott  34 

THE  FAITH  NO  ONE  COULD  TEACH  ME  by  Dan  Duryea  37 

HOLLYWOOD'S  TEN  BEST  CITIZENS  by  Herb  Stein  38 

SECOND  HEARTBREAK  (Barbara  Stanwyck)  by  Frances  Clark  40 

ALL  ABOUT  EDEN  (Anne  Baxter-John  Hodiak)  by  Marva  Peterson  40 

WHAT  HAPPENED  WHEN  HUTTON  HIT  MICHIGAN!  (Betty  Hutton)   55 


special  section 


MODERN  SCREEN  REPORTS  ON  LOVE  IN  HOLLYWOOD   46 

A  PSYCHOLOGIST  LOOKS  AT  LIZ  TAYLOR   48 

AND  AN  EX-SWEETHEART  LOOKS  BACK  (Peter  Lawford)   48 

THEY  TOOK  THEIR  LOVE  TO  LAS  VEGAS  by  John  Maynard  50 

THE  REAL  VICTIMS  OF  HOLLYWOOD  LOVE  by  Consuelo  Anderson  52 


CHARTING  HOLLYWOOD  LOVE   54 

features 


THE  INSIDE  STORY  

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS  

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers). 


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departments 


MOVIE  REVIEWS  by  Christopher  Kane  16 

PIPER  LAURIE,  YOUR  HOLLYWOOD  SHOPPER   20 

FASHION   86 

ON  THE  COVER:  Color  portrait  of  MGM's  Elizabeth  Taylor  by  Nickolas  Muray. 
Other  Picture  Credits  on  page  19 


CHARLES  D.  SAXON,  editor 


DURBIN  L.  HORNER,  mcmaging  editor 
FLORENCE  EPSTEIN,  story  editor 
SUZANNE  EPPES,  associate  editor 
FERNANDO  TEXIDOR,  art  director 
BILL  WEINBERGER,  art  editor 
BARBARA  FOG,  fashion  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  reviewer 


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BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
BOB  BEERMAN,  staff  photographer 
BERT  PARRY,  staff  photographer 
LIZ  SMITH,  assistant  editor 
IRENE  TURNER,  research  editor 
CAROL  CARTER,  beauty  editor 


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Here's  the  truth  about  the  stars — as  you  asked  for  it.  Want  to 
spike  more  rumors?  Want  more  facts?  Write  to  THE  INSIDE 
STORY,  Modern  Screen,  1046  N.  Carol  Drive,  Hollywood,  Cal. 

9.  Is  it  true  that  Dixie  Lee  Crosby  is 
planning  to  divorce  Bing  in  the  near 
future? — T.  T.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 


A.  No  truth  to  this  whatever.  As  Mod- 
ern Screen  predicted  last  year  when 
rumors  oj  the  Crosby  marital  strife  were 
rampant,  Bing  is  spending  more  time 
with  his  wife  these  days  than  ever  be- 
fore. To  start  the  New  Year  right,  he 
threw  a  large  Western  party  for  150 
friends.  It  was  at  this  party  that  his 
brother  and  business  manager,  Everett, 
buried  the  hatchet  with  Dixie,  thereby 
ending  a  lengthy  family  feud.  Bing's  at- 
titude toward  the  press  has  also  changed, 
and  he  is  currently  the  sweet,  affable 
charmer  of  the  old  days.  Now  that  Gary, 
Phil,  and  Dennis,  the  three  oldest  Crosby 
boys,  have  gone  off  to  prep  school-  at 
Bellarmine  in  San  Jose,  Dixie  and  Bing 
are  re-discovering  each  other. 

9.  Will  Rita  Hayworth  have  to  return 
to  Hollywood  because  her  husband  is 
broke?  — R.  R.,  Reno,  Nev, 

A.  Aly  Khan  is  far  from  broke.  In  fact, 
he  will  never  be  broke  as  long  as  his 
father,  the  Aga  Khan,  remains  spiritual 
ruler  of  the  Moslems.  As  for  Rita's  re- 
turn to  Hollywood,  she  has  now  post- 
poned that  indefinitely.  When  reached 
in  Mombasa,  Africa,  recently,  this  is 
what  she  had  to  say:  "I  suppose  I 
wouldn't  be  adverse  to  making  another 
film,  but  there  just  doesn't  seem  to  be  a 
suitable  vehicle."  Columbia  Studios, 
which  has  Rita  under  contract  until 
1953,  has  been  searching  desperately  for 
a  suitable  script.  Rita  is  difficult  to  cast 
since  she  is  essentially  a  dancer  and  not 
a  dramatic  actress. 

Q.  I  have  received  many  autographed 
pictures  from  stars.  Do  they  sign  their 
names  on  these  photographs  or  does 
someone  else? — C.   G.,  Chicago,  III. 

A.  Most  do,  though  some  have  their 
secretaries  sign  for  them. 

9.  Is  there  anything  serious  between 
Ann  Blyth  and  Glenn  Davis,  the  foot- 
ball player  who  used  to  go  with  Liz 
Taylor?  —A.  V.,  Dover,  Del. 

A.  They've  dated  twice,  but  Glenn  is 
now  playing  the  field. 

9.  I  understand  that  June  Allyson  is 
Dick  Powell's  third  wife,  and  that  he's 
almost  twice  as  old  as  she  is.  I  also 
understand  that  June's  cute  little-girl  act 


is  a  cover-up  for  her  hard-as-nails  per- 
sonality. How  much  of  this  is  true? 

— V.  D.,  Denver,  Col. 

A.  June  is  half  Dick's  age,  and  she  is  his 
third  wife.  As  regards  her  so  called 
"hard-as-nails  personality,"  this  is 
neither  true  nor  fair.  June  didn't  have 
a  father  when  she  was  a  young  girl,  and 
had  to  make  her  own  way  in  life.  As  a 
result  she  has  developed  an  extraordi- 
nary amount  of  self-reliance.  But  she 
never  stepped  on  anyone's  heart  as  she 
climbed  her  ladder  of  success. 

9-  Who  has  Elizabeth  Taylor  been 
dating  now  that  she  and  Nicky  Hilton 
have  parted? — T.  C,  Hartford,  Conn. 

A.  Liz  has  been  too  sick  to  date  any- 
one lately.  In  f-act,  for  several  days  she 
was  checked  into  the  Cedars  of  Lebanon 
Hospital  in  Hollywood  under  the  name 
of  Jones.  For  a  time,  doctors  thought 
she  might  be  suffering  from  a  stomach 
ulcer.  It  was  decided  eventually,  how- 
ever, that  her  illness  was  psychsomatic 
in  origin — purely  mental  with  physical 
manifestations  brought  on  because  of 
her  impending  divorce  from  Nicky.  You 
may  expect  Vic  Dam<ine  to  resume  his 
courting  of  Liz  soon,  and  Stanley 
Donen,  Liz's  director  of  Love  Is  Better 
Than  Ever,  is  very  interested  in  her. 

9-  I  read  in  the  papers  that  John  Agar 
and  Jackie  Coogan  have  been  arrested 
for  drunken  driving.  Why  do  these 
young  Hollywood  actors  drink  so  much  ? 
What's  wrong  with  Agar,  anyway? 

— D.  Y.,  Philadelphia,  Pa. 

A.  Young  Hollywood  actors  drink  no 
more  or  less  than  young  men  in  any 
other  community.  Agar  suffers  from  an 
inferiority  complex,  and  is  not  particu- 
larly happy.  ' 

Q.  I  have  a  bet  with  my  husband.  He 
says  Hopalong  Cassidy  has  been  mar- 
ried four  times.  I  say  Billy  Boyd  who  is 
Hopalong  has  been  married  only  once. 
Who  wins?— T.  G.,  San  Diego,  Cal. 

A.  Your  husband. 

9-  Is  it  true  that  directors  have  a  hard 
time  directing  Marlon  Brando  and 
Monty  Clift?     — C.  D.,  Moline,  III. 

A.  It's  true.  Both  refuse  to  perform  any 
sort  of  action  in  front  of  a  camera  which 
they  consider  not  in  line  with  the  char- 
acterization they  are  trying  to  make  real 
Each  prefers  the  stage  to  the  screen. 


LOUIS  JOXJRD  AN  DEBRA  PAGET  ^EFF  CHANDLER 

EVERETT  SLOANE  •  MAURICE  SCHWARTZ  •  JACK  ELAM  .  PRINCE  LEI  LANI  •  OTTO  WALDIS  •  ALFRED  ZEISLER 
Written  and  DirecteJ  ty  D ELMER  DAVES  *  Assocjate  ProJucer  HARMON  JONES 


2a 

CENTURY'FOX 


Ava  Gardner  and  Ka+hryn  Grayson  became  close  friends  while 
working  on  Show  Boat.  At  Kay  Tlionnpson's  Mocambo  opening 
they  were  guests  of  Howard  Keel.    Ava's  date  wos  Roger  Eden. 


Sid  Luft  brought  Judy  Garland,  22  pounds  heavier  than  usual,  to 
the  Thompson  opening.  Kay,  once  vocal  coach  at  MGM,  and  Judy 
are  old  friends.  Gloria  De  Haven  dropped  by  to  tell  them  a  story. 


LOUELLA 
PARSONS 


Ronald  Reagan,  who  claims  he  isn't  carrying  a  torch  for  ex-wife  Jone 
Wyman,  looked  convincing  as  he  escorted  Nancy  Davis  to  the  pre- 
miere of  Operation  Pacific.    Nancy  dates  Bob  Walker  and  Ronnie. 


THE  CROSBY'S  THROW  A  PARTY 


BY  the  time  you  readers  scan  this  edition  of 
Modern  Screen,  Doris  Day  will  probably 
be  married  to  Marty  Melcher,  Hollywood  agent. 
When  I  asked  them  about  their  plans,  both 
were  very  frank  in  telling  me  they  will  marry 
just  as  soon  as  Marty's  divorce  from  Patti  An- 
drews (of  the  Andrews  Sisters)  is  final. 

There  had  been  a  lot  of  talk  that  Doris  and 
Marty  would  slip  across  the  border  for  a  Mexi- 
can marriage  without  waiting  for  the  Califor- 
nia divorce  to  become  final.  So  I  asked  them 
about  this  gossip. 

"That  will  never  happen,"  Doris  told  me. 
"I  want  my  marriage  to  Marty  to  be  light. 
I  couldn't  do  that  to  my  little  son.  Marty  loves 
him.  We  never  want  the  slightest  question 
about  the  legality  of  our  marriage  to  come  up." 

Doris'  mother  lives  with  her  and  looks  after 
the  child.  She  approves  of  Marty  who  likes 
her  too — so  there  will  be  no  trouble  in  that 
direction. 

"Mom  will  live  with  us,"  Doris  said.  "Both 
Marty  and  I  want  it  that  way.  I  feel  my  son 
needs  her  while  I  am  busy  at  the  studio." 

I  had  a  completely  different  idea  of  Doris 
until  I  had  her  on  my  radio  show  and  grew 
to  know  her.  She  is  not  the  harum-scarum  girl 
I  had  pictured.  She  has  worked  hard  all  her 
life  and  is  a  very  level-headed  person. 

GREEN  Room  lunchers  at  Warners  were  sur- 
prised to  walk  in  the  cafe  and  find  Farley 
Granger  and  Patricia  Hitchcock  crawling 
around  a  table  on  their  hands  and  knees! 

They  were  looking  for  Pat's  tooth — a  loose 
and  detachable  molar  formerly  anchored  to 
the  mouth  of  pretty  Pat  until  she  bit  into  a  hard 
roll  and  sent  it  spinning! 


John  Agar  and  rising  young  Metro  star,  Paula  Raymond  are  a  So  many  Good  Neics  readers  have  written  asking  v/hat  Mrs.  Louis  B.  Mayer, 
new  twosome.  He  took  her  to  the  premiere  of  Operation  Pacific,  thot  delightful  party-giver,  looks  like  that  we've  captured  this  picture  of  her. 
starring  John   Wayne.     Agar's   latest  is   The  Magic   Carpet.       Louella  always  calls  her  "the  lovely  Lorena"  and  now  you  know  the  reason  why. 


MORE  ABOUT  UNHAPPY  LIZ  TAYLOR  .  . 


"I  think  it  landed  over  here,"  said  Farley 
politely,  still  on  all  fours. 

"No,"  mumbled  Miss  H.,  who  is  thriller- 
director.  Alfred  Hitchcock's  daughter,  "I  think 
it  bounced  thisoway." 

But  it  was  Farley  who  found  it. 

"Isn't  it  wonderful  that  we  aren't  in  love?" 
Pat  giggled.  "This  is  embarrassing  enough  to 
ruin  any  romance." 

THE  loss  of  Lana  Turner's  baby  (the  second 
time  she  has  lost  an  expected  child  since 
her  inairiage  to  Bob  Topping)  is  not  going  to 
deter  her  from  trying  again.  She  told  me  that 
her  doctors  assure  her  that  it  is  completely 
possible  for  her  to  bear  a  child.  "Unless,  of 
course,  I  should  fall  again,  or  suffer  a  similar 
accident.  But  next  time  I'm  going  to  sit  in  a 
wheelchair  or  stay  in  bed  most  of  the  time," 
she  said. 

Olivia  DeHavilland  remained  in  bed  seven 
months  before  the  birth  of  her  baby,  remember? 

In  spite  of  their  disappointment  over  the  loss 
of  the  baby,  Lana  is  again  being  besieged 
with  a  barrage  of  rumors  that  she  and  Bob  are 
on  the  verge  of  separating.  "That  won't  hap- 
pen." Lana  said.  "We've  been  married  for  three 
years  and  our  quarrels  are  not  any  more  serious 
or  even  as  serious  as  many  rnarried  people 
have."  (For  another  view  ot  Lana's  marriage, 
see  page  27. — Ed.) 

SHIRLEY  Temple  is  radiantly  happy  with  her 
bridegroom,  Charles  Black,  and  their  home 
life  is  ideal.  Should  Charles  be  called  back  to 
the  Navy,  which  seems  likely  as  he  was  a  Lt. 
Commander  in  the  last  war  and  is  in  the  Re- 
serves. Shirley  will  follow  him  wherever  he  is 
stationed. 


.  CHARMIN'  SHARMAN   TAKES  A  JOB  . 


She  was  very  upset  over  the  arrest  of  John 
Agar  on  a  drunk-driving  charge,  not  because 
there  is  the  slightest  flicker  of  feeling  still  burn- 
ing, but  because  he  is  the  father  of  her  little 
Linda  Sue. 

Although  John  has  permission  to  visit  the 
little  girl,  he  seldom  does.  But  Shirley  is  a  wise 
girl.  As  much  as  she  would  like  the  baby  to 
be  adopted  by  her  present  husband,  she  will 
make  no  move  in  that  direction;  at  least,  not 
right  away. 

JANE  Powell  insisted  on  finishing  Rich, 
Young  and  Pretty  when  she  was  a  very 
sick  girl.  The  singing  star's  pregnancy  (she 
and  Geary  Steffen  expect  a  baby  in  the 
Spring)  is  complicated  by  a  stomach  ulcer. 

Yet,  in  spite  of  the  fact  that  she  was  fre- 
quently in  pain  during  the  final  week  of  the 
picture,  and  was  in  a  generally  run  down  con- 
dition, she  refused  to  ask  for  a  leave  of  ab- 
sence because,  "too  many  people  on  the  picture 
would  be  taken  off  salary." 

They  really  love  little  Janie  on  the  MGM  lot 
from  the  front  office  to  the  back  gate. 

"Tf  she  thinks  she's  going  to  tell  me  how  to 
dress  and  conduct  myself,  she  has  another 
guess  coming,"  snapped  an  RKO  starlet  follow- 
ing word  that  Sharman  Douglas,  our  ex-am- 
bassador's daughter,  had  signed  with  that 
studio  as  a  "special  public  relations  consultant" 
— press  agent  in  less  fancy  terms. 

Now  isn't  that  silly?  In  the  first  place,  Shar- 
man's  job  is  not  that  of  a  monitor.  But  wouldn't 
you  think  any  girl  starting  out  on  a  career  would 
be  giad  to  get  the  advice  of  a  young  woman 
with  Sherman's  good  taste?  When  the  Doug- 


.  .  COCKTAILS  AT  THE  HODIAKS'  .  .  . 


lases  were  living  in  London,  charmin'  Sharman 
was  the  closest  girl  friend  of  Princess  Margaret. 

The  young  lady  who  made  the  remark  that 
she  didn't  want  or  need  any  help  could  actually 
stand  some  advice.  Her  gowns  are  cut  much 
too  low  for  such  a  young  girl,  and  she  wears 
too  much  makeup. 

ytvA  Gardner  and  Kathryn  Grayson  became 
the  best  of  friends  making  Show  Boat.  The 
two  beauties  go  to  London  this  Spring  for  a 
joint  appearance  at  the  Palladium.  And  they 
are  just  as  pally  socially  as  they  are  profes- 
sionally, which  ain't  always  the  case  when 
two  glamor  girls  work  together. 

They  came  together  to  a  big  party  hosted 
by  the  Howard  Keels  when  Kay  Thompson 
opened  at  the  Mocambo.  What  eyefuls — Kath- 
ryn in  strapless  velvet,  and  Ava  in  a  sleek, 
black,  backless  gown. 

Ava's  escort  was  Roger  Eden,  but  she  spent 
most  of  her  time  in  the  telephone  booth  tele- 
phoning Frank  Sinatra  in  New  York. 

Speaking  of  Show  Boat,  there's  an  amusing 
romantic  tangling-up  on  that  picture.  Bob 
Sterling,  who  makes  love  to  Ava  in  the  movie, 
is  Nancy  Sinatra's  devoted  beau  in  private 
life.  Many  people  believe  that  Nancy  and  Bob 
are  becoming  so  serious  she  may  change  her 
mind  about  not  divorcing  Frankie — clearing  the 
way  for  him  to  marry  Ava. 

I  asked  a  private  spy  how  Bob  (he  is  Ann 
Sothern's  ex,  you  know)  and  Ava  got  along 
on  the  set  considering  the.  shall  we  say,  "em« 
barrassment"  of  their  private  affections? 

"They  got  along  beautifully,"  was  the  an- 
swer. "Had  lots  of  laughs  and  liked  each  other 
very  much.  But  I  don't  believe  that  the  name  7 


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Halo  glorifies  it ! 


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not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
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soap  film! 


Gives  fragrant 
"soft-water"  lather 
—needs  no 
special  rinse! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  yoiir  hair  wdth 
even  finest  liquid  or  oily  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thvis  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo— America's 
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soft,  manageable- 
shining  with  colorful 
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Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair! 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

'Sinatra' — either  Mr.  or  Mrs. — was  ever  men- 
tioned between  them." 

JUDY  Garland  has  put  on  22  pounds — and 
it  isn't  becoming.  But  her  friends  hesitate 
to  suggest  that  she  diet  because  it  makes  her 
very  nervous. 

Almost  every  night  Judy  is  nightclubbing 
with  Sid  Luft  and  they  act  very  much  in  love. 
I  hear  that  Vincente  Minnelli  said,  after  Judy 
announced  their  separation,  "This  time  it's  lor 
keeps.  I've  done  all  I  can."  No  one  will  deny 
that.  He  was  an  angel  to  Judy  all  through  her 
trouble. 

One  thing  that  hasn't  changed  about  her — is 
her  voice.  Frequently,  in  the  wee  early  hours 
of  the  morniflg,  when  the  clubs  are  almost  de- 
serted, Judy  gets  up  on  the  bandstand  and 
sings  as  thrillingly  and  wonderfully  as  ever. 

And  there's  something  so  sad  about  all  this 
wasted  great  talent. 

■  I  •  HE  best  news  out  of  Hollywood  in  a  long 
*  time  is  the  way  Dixie  and  Bing  Crosby  are 
getting  along  these  days. 

They  hosted  their  first  Hollywood  party  in 
six  years  when  they  opened  wide  the  doors 
of  their  big  house  overlooking  the  Los  Angeles 
Country  Club  golf  links  and  invited  their  pals 
for  a  "western  shindig"  honoring  Dixie's  best 
friend,  Kitty  Sexton. 

Kitty  and  her  husband  used  to  manage  the 
Crosby  ranch  at  Elko.  Now  they  have  bought 
adjoining  property — a  ranch  of  their  own. 

The  party  was  a  whizz.  Of  course.  Sue  and 
Alan  Ladd  were  there — they  are  such  close 
friends  of  Dixie.  Also  Lana  Turner  and  Bob 
Topping,  Pat  Dane  and  Bill  Morrow,  the  Bob 
Crosbys  and  Everett  Crosby.  Yes,  Everett 
(who  manages  Bing's  affairs)  and  Dixie  have 
kissed  and  made  up  after  a  family  feud  that 
lasted  too  long. 

Of  course,  everyone  was  waiting  for  the 
Crosbys  to  start  singing — which  they  did. 
Bing  introduced  his  big  boy  Gary  as  "the 
competition." 

Way  late  in  the  morning,  Bing  and  Dixie 
were  in  the  kitchen  scrambling  eggs  and  fry- 
ing ham  steaks  for  the  stragglers  and  singing 
duets,  just  like  in  the  good  old  days. 

Could  anything  be  grander? 

I DINED  with  the  newlywed  Stewart  Grangers 
— Mrs.  G.  is  the  former  Jean  Simmons, 
don'tcha  know — and  never  laughed  harder 
than  over  "Jimmy's"  (that's  his  real  name 
and  what  Jean  calls  him)  account  of  their 
early  romance  in  England. 

"Jean  was  a  little  girl  of  about  13  or  14 
when  I  first  saw  her  around  the  studios,"  he 
told  me.  "And  she  was  batting  those  beauti- 
ful big  eyes  of  hers  at  me  right  frorii  the 
start." 

"I  was  in  love  with  him  from  the  moment 
I  saw  him,"  nodded  the  new  Mrs.  Granger, 
who  is  now  just  19 — the  same  age  as  Eliza- 
beth Taylor — but  she  is  far  more  mature  than 
our  Liz. 

"I  was  terrified,"  Granger  went  on.  "I 
thought  everyone  would  be  thinking  'look  at 
that  nasty  old  man — flirting  with  that  child!' " 

But,  Jean  grew  up  and  got  her  man — and 
I've  seldom  seen  two  happier  people. 

The  big  house  they  bought  in  Bel  Air  is 
only  half-furnished.  "We  have  no  stove  or  ice 
box,"  the  bridegroom  explained,  "but  we 
already  have  a  house  guest,  Michael  Wilding, 
our  best  man.  No  unfurnished  home  should 
be  without  a  guest!"  v  Continued  on  page  JO) 


<^  o  o  o  ?o 

O       V  r\  ^  o 

'  o  § 

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8.ZSAKALL-  BILLY DE  WOLFE  GLADYS  GEORGE-OAVID  BUTLER -WILLIAM  JACOBS  ^rsiw,™" 


Musical  Direction  by  Ray  Heindorl 


Sonja  Henie 

says 


How  to  Lose  Weight  and 
Look  Lovelier 

Now!  Reduce — and  look  lovelier  while 
you  are  doing  it!  Lose  weight  the  way 
Nature  intended  you  to !  A  quick,  natviral 
way  with  no  risk  to  health.  If  you  follow 
the  Ayds  plan  you  should  feel  healthier, 
look  better  while  reducing — and  have  a 
lovelier  figvire! 

This  is  because  the  Ayds  way  to  re- 
duce is  a  natural  way.  When  you  take 
Ayds  before  meals,  as  directed^  you  can 
eat  what  you  want  ...  all  you  want. 
Ayds  contains  no  harmful  drugs.  It  calls 
for  no  strenuous  diet ...  no  massage  .  .  . 
no  exercise. 

Ayds  is  a  specially  made  candy  con- 
taining health  giving  vitamins  and  min- 
erals. It  acts  by  reducing  your  desire  for 
those  extra  fattening  calories  .  .  .  works 
almost  like  magic.  Easily  and  natiu-ally 
you  should  begin  to  look  slimmer,  more 
beautiful  day  by  day,  when  you  follow 
the  Ayds  Plan. 

Women  all  over  America  now  have 
lovelier  figvires  with  the  help  of  Ayds. 
Users  report  losses  up  to  10  pounds  with 
the  very  first  box.  In  fact,  you  lose 
weight  with  the  first  box  ($2.98)  or  your 
rnoney  back.  Get  Ayds  from  your  drug- 
gist or  department  store,  today — a  fvdl 
month's  supply,  $2.98. 


•  "I  do  recommend  Ayds  to  any 
woman  who  has  a  problem  with  her 
figure,"  says  Sonja  Henie,  Star  of 
the  Sonja  Henie  Hollywood  Ice  Re- 
view. "I  keep  myself  in  trim  all  the 
time  with  the  help  of  Ayds.  I  can^t 
think  of  a  better  way  to  reduce." 


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mm  PARSONS'  good  news 

He  says  that  he  and  Jean  and  Michael  take 
most  of  their  meals  at  drug  store  counters  in 
Beverly  Hills.  "It's  delicious  and  the  service 
is  so  immediate  you  can  already  have  indi- 
gestion by  the  time  the  average  restaurant 
is  serving  your  soup." 

I  noticed  that  the  young  Grangers  (yep, 
he  is  young  even  if  he  is  listed  as  37  on  his 
studio  biog.)  laugh  a  great  deal  together. 
That's  one  of  the  best  recipes  I  know  for  a 
happy,  happy  marriage. 

ELIZABETH  Taylor  feels  now,  more  than 
ever,  that  she  is  living  in  a  goldfish  bowl. 
That  was  what  she  told  me  when  she  and 
Nicky  Hilton  came  to  my  home  before  their 
trouble.  Now  that  she  and  Nicky  are  di- 
vorced, every  move  that  she  makes  becomes 
a  "news"  event. 

My  young  friend  Liz  doesn't  always  use 
good  sense.  Put  that  down  to  youth. 

For  instance,  it  was  not  at  all  necessary 
for  her  to  use  the  assumed  name  of  "Rebecca 
Jones"  when  she  had  to  go  to  the  hospital  for 
a  few  days.  Of  course,  it  got  out — and  much 
more  of  a  to-do  was  made  than  if  Elizabeth 
had  just  gone  into  the  hospital  for  her  cold 
like  any  other  person. 

She  received  many  calls  from  a  "Mr.  Mills" 
— who,  it  turns  out,  was  Stanley  Donen,  good 
looking,  attractive  young  MGM  director  on 
her  picture  Love  Is  Better  Than  Evei. 

Just  how  serious  it  is  between  Elizabeth 
and  Stan  I  don't  know.  Who  does  know  with 
Liz?  But  as  1  write  this,  he's  the  one  in  her 
life.  She  has  gone  out  a  few  times  with  Vic 
Damone,  but  that  is  no  more  serious  than  it 
was  in  the  old  days. 

Liz  would  like  to  live  her  own  life,  but  her 
studio  insisted  she  go  back  home,  which  must 
have  made  her  parents  very  happy.  They 
were  very  worried  over  Elizabeth's  unhappy 
matrimonial  experience  and  her  decision  to 
live  away  from  their  home,  until  MGM  changed 
her  mind. 

THE  cocktail  party  and  buffet  dinner  hosted 
by  Anne  Baxter  and  John  Hodiak  was  one 
of  the  nicest  of  the  season.  Their  home  is  so 
attractive — liveable  and  comfortable  and  yet 
very  modern  in  its  furnishings.  (For  more 
about  their  home  see  page  42. — Ed.) 

Anne,  who  is  blooming  like  a  rose  over  all 
the  praise  she  has  received  for  her  perform- 
ance in  All  About  Eve,  wore  a  becoming  blue 
hostess  gown.  John,  formerly  a  lone  wolf,  has 
changed  a  lot  since  his  marriage  and  really 
enjoys  social  events.  He  was  a  perfect  host, 
with  that  marvelous  quality  of  making  each 
guest  feel  he  or  she  is  the  one  person  he 
wishes  to  have  an  especially  good  time. 

I  think  there  is  a  better  understanding  be- 
tween Anne  and  John  than  at  any  time  in 
their  married  life.  She  told  me  one  day  when 
I  was  talking  to  her,  "You  know — like  most 
married  people  we  have  grown  closer  with 
the  years  and  our  interests  are  more  united." 

John  is  very  popular,  too,  with  his  mother- 
in-law,  which  is  high  praise.  Anne's  family 
were  at  first  opposed  to  the  marriage. 

In  addition  to  all  the  stars  at  the  Hodiak 
party,  I  noticed  so  many  people  with  whom 
Anne  and  John  work  among  the  guests.  They 
are  really  such  sincere  people. 

CLOSE-UP  of  Janet  Leigh:  She  worries  her- 
self because  she  seems  capable  of  being 
in  love  with  two  men  at  the  same  time.  When 
she's  in  Hollywood,  (Continued  on  page  J 2) 


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LOUELIA  PARSONS'  pod  news 

she  loves  Tony  Curtis  best.  When  she's  in 
New  York,  it's  goodlooking  TV  actor.  Bob 
Quarrie.  .  .  .  Her  closest  girl  friend  is  Nancy 
Sinatra.  She  frequently  spends  the  night  at 
Nancy's  home  and  they  sit  up  all  hours 
talking  "girl  talk".  .  .  .  She  doesn't  like  to 
drink,  but  now  and  then  celebrates  a  special 
event  with  champagne.  .  .  .  She  owns  more 
elaborate  bathing  suits  than  Esther  Williams 
— her  favorite  being  a  gorgeous  pink  satin.  .  .  . 
She  likes  to  be  suntanned,  but  not  burned. 
Thinks  skin  too  "burned  up"  is  not  attractive 
to  men.  .  .  .  She  likes  jokes  if  they  are  silly, 
not  naughty.  .  .  .  Her  mother  and  father  live 
with  her  in  her  new  home  because  she  likes 
them  better  than  anybody  else  in  the  world. 
She  has  no  desire  for  a  bachelor  apartment. 
.  .  .  She  cooks  fairly  well  and  doesn't  mind 
cleaning  up  afterward.  .  .  .  Hard  work  doesn't 
bother  her.  She's  restless  when  she  is  idle. 
.  .  .  She  is  a  great  admirer  of  other  screen 
stars.  Thinks  Lana  Turner  is  "gorgeous"; 
Bette  Davis  "wonderful";  Esther  Williams'  fig- 
ure "divine."  .  .  .  She  uses  very  little  makeup, 
but  loves  lipstick  so  much  she  puts  it  on  be- 
fore going  to  bed.  .  .  .  She  can  wear  all  colors 
but  prefers  pink,  pale  green,  white  in  the 
order  named.  .  .  .  She  is  very  honest  but  can 
fib  a  little  if  it  means  saving  someone's  feel- 
ings from  being  hurt.  Maybe  that's  how  she 
frequently  finds  herself  in  the  bewildering 
spot  of  not  being  able  to  hurt  her  beaux — 
any  of  them! 

THE  Louis  B.  Mayer  party  for  the  Quo 
Vadis  returnees  (Robert  Taylor,  Deborah 
Kerr,  Mervyn  Le  Roy  and  Sam  Zimbalist)  was 
already  scheduled  and  invitations  were  out 
when,  just  two  days  before  the  gala  event, 
Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Bob  Taylor  armounced 
their  separation.  QRead  "Second  Heartbreak," 
the  story  of  fhe  Taylor  marriage,  on  page  40. 
—Ed.) 

It  was  a  sad  beginning  for  a  perfectly  won- 
derful evening.  Neither  Bob  nor  Barbara  was 
in  a  partying  mood  and  both  sent  their  regrets 
to  the  Mayers.  Everyone  felt  very  bad 
about  this  break-up  of  two  popular  people 
after  11  years  of  marriage.  But  no  one  men- 
tioned it,  and  the  party  Mayfair  Room  in  the 
Beverly  Wilshire  Hotel,  where  the  social  affair 
was  held,  swung  into  high  gear  early  in  the 
evening. 

I  sat  at  the  table  with  my  lovely  hostess, 
Lorena,  Mervyn  Le  Roy,  and  producer  Sam 
Zimbalist.  Claudette  Colbert  was  also  with 
us  and  her  gown  was  beautiful  beyond  de- 
scription— bouffant  bronze  lace  it  was,  with 
gold  threads — absolutely  gorgeous. 

Another  eyeful  was  honor  guest  Deborah 
Kerr,  in  pink  with  a  full  train  made  of  tiny 
pink  ruffles. 

It  was  the  first  big  party  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Douglas  Fairbanks,  Jr.,  -had  attended  since 
their  return  from  Europe,  and  Mrs.  Fairbanks 
was  much  admired  in  a  white  gown  with  a 
sparkling  diamond  tiara  on  her  sleek  dark  hair. 

Mervyn  Le  Roy,  my  dinner  partner,  told  me 
that  it  was  so  hot  in  Rome  during  the  making 
of  Quo  Vadis  that  the  cast  and  crew  lost 
an  average  of  15  pounds  apiece. 

I  sew  Esther  Williams,  in  a  low  cut  white 
satin  gown,  dancing  time  after  time  with  Ben 
Gage — who  else?  That  is  one  gal  who  adores 
"her  man"  and  doesn't  care  if  the  whole 
world  knows  it. 

jR^KD  that's  all  this  month.  Be  seeing  you. 


Ar^  you  In  the  know? 


What  helps  smooth  out 
too-curly  locks? 

I  I  Softening 
I  I  Stretching 
I   I  Brushing 

If  you're  a  frizz-kid,  don't  fret.  Have  your 
locks  shaped  and  thinned  out.  After  each 
washing,  use  a  softening  rinse;  apply  wave 
set  to  s-t-r-e-t-c-h  hair  while  putting  into 
pin  curls.  And  you'll  find  constant  brushing 
can  help  smooth  those  problem  tresses. 
Of  course,  you  can  smooth  away  problem- 
day  cares  — with  the  comfort  of  Kotex  to 
keep  you  at  ease.  Because  Kotex  is  made  to 
stay  soft  while  you  wear  it.  Gives  softness 
that  holds  its  shape. 


Is  "snooper" 
the  word  for  a  — 

I   I  School  paper  columnist 
I  I  Choperone 
I   I  Chapeau 

You  could  check  all  3  answers  and  who'd 
argue?  Main  thing,  though,  is  the  chapeau. 
Sharp  as  Sherlock  and  twice  as  newsy,  this 
"snooper"  cap's  a  date-stalker!  Comes  in 
chintz,  calico,  tie  silk,  etc.— to  suit  your 
different  spring  togs.  And  for  certain  times, 
so  you  can  choose  just  the  kind  of  sanitary 
protection  to  suit  you  — Kotex  comes  in 
3  absorbencies  (different  sizes,  for  different 
days).  By  trying  Regular,  Junior,  Super, 
you'll  find  the  very  one  for  you. 


What's  your  reaction  to  lost-minute  bids? 

I  I  Eager  beover  Q  Thumbs  down  Q  Think  it  over 


Ee-magine!  Being  asked  to  tomorrow  night's 
shindig  on  such  short  notice!  Should  you 
gals  say  nay?  Think  it  over.  If  the  boys  have 
jobs,  it  may  be  hard  for  them  to  plan  ahead; 
or  could  be  they're  low  on  loot.  If  there's 
no  excuse,  better  squelch  eleventh-hour 


Have  you  tried  Delsey? 

Delsey*  is  the  new  bathroom  tissue 
that's  safer  because  it's  softer. 
A  product  as  superior  as  Kotex  .  .  . 
a  tissue  as  soft  and  absorbent  as 
Kleenex.*  (We  think  that's  the 
nicest  compliment  there  is.) 


bids.  But  just  because  it's  calendar  time, 
you've  no  excuse  for  date  dodging.  Learn  to 
count  on  Kotex  for  confidence.  You'll  never 
know  how  poised  you  can  be  — until  you 
discover  those  ^ai pressed  ends  really  prevent 
revealing  outlines! 


When  leaving  a  vehicle, 
which  is  correct? 

I  I  Ladies  first 
I  I  Ladies  last 
I   I  look  before  you  leap 

When  you  leave  a  bus,  street  car,  taxi  or 
jalopy  —  ladies  last  is  the  rule.  That's  so 
your  squire  can  assist  you  to  a  safe  land- 
ing. To  owl  up  fast  on  etiquette,  dating, 
grooming,  fashions  — send  for  the  free  book- 
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How  to  prepare 
for 

"certain"  days? 


□  Circle  your  calendar 

□  Perk  up  your  wardrobe 

□  Buy  a  new  belt 

Before  "that"  time,  be  ready! 
All  3  answers  above  can  help. 
But  to  assure  extra  comfort,  buy 
a  new  Kotex  sanitary  belt.  Made 
with  soft-stretch  elastic -this 
strong,  lightweight  Kotex  belt's 
non-twisting  .  .  .  non-curling. 
Stays  flat  even  after  many  wash- 
ings. Dries  pronto !  So  don't  wait 
till  the  last  minute:  buy  a  new 
Kotex  belt  now.  (Why  not  buy 
two  — for  a  change?) 


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Which  ^irl has  the  natural  curl . . .  and 

which  girl  has  IheToni? 


Meet  charming  Jane  Cartwright  and  Nellie  Jane 
Cannon  of  New  York  City.  The  one  with  the 
Toni  says,  "My  wave  is  soft  as  silk  and  it  takes 
no  more  care  than  naturally  curly  hair." 
Can  you  tell  the  naturally  curly  hair  from 
the  Toni  wave?  See  answer  below. 


Now— Toni  with  Permafix  guarantees  a  wave  you 
.  can't  tell  from  naturally  curly  hair 


Look  closely!  Compare  the  silky-softness  — the  deep,  rippling 
waves  and  the  natural  -  looking  curls.  Which  is  which? 
You  just  can't  tell!  No— you  can't  tell  a  Toni  wave  from 
naturally  curly  hair.  That's  because  Toni  has  the  gentlest 
waving  lotion  known  .  .  .  plus  a  new  wonder  neutralizer, 
Permafix,  that  actually  conditions  your  hair . . .  leaves  your 
wave  soft  and  natural  from  the  very  first  day.  And  your 
Toni  with  Permafix  lasts  longer  — /ar  longer. 

Remember,  Toni  is  used  by  more  women  than  all  other 
home  permanents  combined.  Only  Toni  has  the  new  wonder 
neutralizer,  Permafix.  And  only  Toni  guarantees  a  wave  you 
can't  tell  from  naturally  curly  hair. 

Have  a  Toni  with  Permafix  today  and  tonight  discover 
how  thrilling  it  is  to  have  a  wave  so  silky  soft,  so  naturally 
lovely,  people  ask  you  if  you  have  naturally  curly  hair! 
Jane  Cartwright,  the  beautiful  blonde,  has  the  Toni. 


Hair  styles  by  Shirlee  Collins 

Which  Ticin  Has  The  Toni?  Compare  Ann 
Shumaker's  Toni  (at  the  right)  with  her  sister  Roxie's 
beauty  shop  permanent,  and  you'll  agree  that  even 
the  most  expensive  wave  can't  surpass  the  natural 
beauty  of  a  Toni  Home  Permanent. 

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from  naturally  curly  hair. 


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Reverend  (Bill  Lundigan),  o  new  circuit- 
rider,  introduces  his  city-bred  bride  (Susan) 
to  the   North   Georgia   nnountoin  country. 


Susan  and  Bill  are  synnpathetic  toward  village 
play-boy  (Rory  Calhoun)  who  crashes  their  first 
party  to  see  his  girl  against  her  parents'  wishes. 


The  preocher  is  faced  with  mony  worries,  including  an 
epidemic.  Then  when  the  village  atheist's  son  drowns  at  a 
Sunday  school  picnic,  even  Susan  loses  faith  in  Bill's  religion. 


Susan  comes  back  to  her  senses 
and  takes  a  constructive  part  in 
the  work  of  the  missionary  society. 


I'D  CLIMB  THE  HIGHEST  MOUNTAIN 


■  There's  something  very  nice  and  warm  about 
this  picture.  It  deals  with  a  country  preacher 
(William  Lundigan)  and  his  new  wife  (Susan 
Hayward),  and  his  new  assignment  on  what's 
known  as  "the  Mossy  Creek  circuit."  William's 
route  is  studded  with  characters — Gene  Lock- 
hart,  the  parish  skinflint  (he's  rich  and  he 
aims  to  stay  that  way);  Alexander  Knox,  an 
atheist  who  won't  let  his  children  believe  in 
Santa  Clous;  and  Rory  Calhoun,  the  neighbor- 
hood black  sheep — to  mention  a  few.  Rory,  by 
the  way,  is  the  biggest  milksop  of  a  black 
sheep  I  ever  set  eyes  on.  Wickedest  thing  he 
does  is  make  eyes  at  a  pretty  girl,  and  at  that. 


he  wants  to  marry  her.  So  it  goes.  There  are 
tragedies  for  the  young  minister  and  his  wife 
to  face — an  epidemic  which  kills  many  of 
their  parishioners,  a  Sunday  school  picnic  that 
ends  in  disaster  when  a  little  boy  drowns,  the 
loss  of  their  own  new-born  baby — but  they 
come  through  their  trials  shiningly.  The  hill 
people,  the  kind  of  parties  they  hold,  the  way 
they  talk  and  look,  the  scene  where  the 
mourners  at  a  small  funeral  walk  along  slowly 
singing  an  old  hymn — these  seemed  wonder- 
fully authentic  and  flavorful  to  me.  I  liked 
I'd  Climb  The  Highest  Mountain. — 20th-Fox. 
(For  more  reviews  please  turn  to  page  J 8.) 


The  savage 

charm  and 
reckless 

escapades  of 

RUDOLPH  VALENTINO- 

the  greatest 
romantic  idol 
of  them  all! 


COLUMBIA  PICTURES 

presents 


VALENTINO 


An 


EDWARO  SMALL 


Production  starring 


ELEANOR  PARKER 


DEXTER 


with  Richard  Carlson  •  Patricia  Medina  •  Joseph  Calleia 
,  /      Written  by  George  Bruce  *  Produced  by  EDWARD  Sr^ALL 
Associate  of  Producer-JAN  GiUPPO  •  Directed  by  LEWIS  ALLEN 


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Amazing  shampoo 
guaranteed  not  to  rob 
hair  of  natural  oils 

Shasta  lathers  out  beauty-dulling  film- 
Leaves  in  glamour-giving  natural  oils  that  make  hair. . . 


New  Shasta,  enriched  with  lanoh'n  —  that 
marvelous  emollient  from  nature — does  what 
women  have  always  wanted  from  a  shampoo 
. . .  lathers  out  beauty-dulling  film,  leaves  in 
glamour-giving  natural  oils. 
Shasta  is  guaranteed  not  to  rob  hair  of 
precious,  glamour- giving  oils  which  keep 
your  hair  naturally  shiny,  soft,  healthy, 
easier-  to  -  manage. 

See  how  Shasta  persuades  even  hair  that 
seems  dull  and  dry  to  look  softer^  silkier; 
sparkle  with  gleaming  highlights.  Try  new 
lanolin -enriched  Shasta  today.  Remember, 
Shasta  doesn't  rob  hair  of  its  natural  oils. 

PROCTER  &  GAMBLE  GUARANTEE  :  Shasta  does  not  ^ 
rob  hair  of  natural  oils.  Procter  &  Gamble  guarantees 
this  or  money  back  when  unused  portion  is  returned. 

ENRICHED  Shasta  """Shampoo 

DOESN'T  ROB  HAIR  OF  NATURAL  OILS 


THE  GROOM  WORE  SPURS 

For  sheer  lots  of  plot,  this  picture  deserves 
some  special  kind  of  prize.  First  we've  got 
lawyer  A.  J.  Fumival  hired  to  represent  cow- 
boy movie  star  Jack  Carson.  Surprise!  "A.  J." 
turns  out  to  be  a  woman.  Ginger  Rogers.  Car- 
son's in  gambling  debt  trouble,  marries  Gin- 
ger, only  to  have  her  find  out  it  was  because 
the  guy  he  owed  the  money  to  was  an  old 
friend  of  her  father.  Debt's  canceled.  So  is 
marriage.  Ginger's  still  Carson's  lawyer, 
though,  gets  his  option  picked  up  by  his  studio. 
Then  gambler  who  canceled  debt  is  shot,  and 
Jack's  indicted  for  murder,  and  Ginger  has  to 
go  visit  her  father's  "underworld  contacts"  and 
track  down  the  real  killer.  Maybe  you  had 
enough?  Maybe  you  had  too  much?  Carson 
mugs  and  double-takes  more  than  seems 
quite  human,  and  I  felt  sorry  for  Ginger. 
Cast:  Gingei  Rogers,  Jack  Cazson,  Joan  Davis, 
Stanley  Ridges. — Universal-International. 

ONLY  THE  VALIANT 

After  the  Civil  War,  Gregory  Peck  did  not 
lay  down  his  arms,  he  went  off  to  New  Mexico 
and  fought  the  Apaches.  As  a  cavalry  captain 
whose  men  hate  him  (he's  a  strict  disciplinar- 
ian). Peck's  got  his  work  cut  out.  There's  this 
mountain  pass,  see,  and  he's  got  to  hold  the 
Injuns  back  of  the  pass,  until  reinforcements 
arrive,  otherwise  them  Indians  are  gonna  come 
whooping  through  and  shoot  up  every  man, 
woman  and  child  at  the  nearby  fort  and  in  the 
surrounding  territory.  Gregory's  handful  of 
malcontents  start  from  the  fort  toward  the 
pass,  but  instead  of  fighting  Indians,  they  be- 
labor one  another,  and  in  the  end,  Greg  prac- 
tically has  to  win  the  whole  Indian  war 
single-handed  (except  for  a  machine  gun 
which  arrives  in  the  nick  of  time).  As  if  this 
wasn't  enough,  Greg's  girl  doesn't  understand 
him.  She — buxom,  blonde  Barbara  Payton — 
thinks  he's  sent  his  best  friend  off  to  get 
slaughtered  in  his  place.  Gregory's  upper  lip 
comes  out  on  top,  and  I'm  glad.  He's  the  pret- 
tiest man  I  ever  did  see.  Cast  includes  Lon 
Chaney  as  a  soldier  whose  facial  contortions 
and  wild  grunts  would  horrify  a  live  lion; 
Ward  Bond  as  a  soldier  who  drinks  loo  much; 
Jeff  Corey  as  an  Indian  Scout. 
Cast:  Gregory  Peck,  Barbara  Payton,  Ward 
Bond,  Gig  young,  Lon  Chaney. — Warner  Bros. 

BEDTIME  FOR  BONZO 

College  professor  Ronald  Reagan,  son  of  a 
light-fingered  Louis  who  spent  much  of  his 
time  in  one  pen  and  another,  decides  to  make 
an  experiment  to  prove  it's  environment  and 
not  heredity  that  really  counts.  He  wishes  to 
marry  the  dean's  daughter,  which  gives  him 
incentive  for  the  experiment.  The  dean's  old- 
fashioned,  he  believes  like  this:  Your  father's 
a  dip?  You're  a  dip.  Or  something.  Reagar 
adopts  a  chimp,  hires  a  girl  (Diana  Lynn)  to 
be  its  mother,  and  proceeds  to  teach  it  right 
from  wrong.  And  is  that  chimp  cute!  It  wears 
pajamas,  rides  a  bike,  returns  things  that 
don't  belong  to  it,  and  out-acts  the  more  prc- 
fessional  union  members.  Not  that  Reagan  and 
Diana  don't  do  nicely,  just  that  they've  gel 
some  kind  of  sickening  momma-poppa  dic' 
logue  to  contend  with.  Naturally,  Diana  falls 
in  love  with  Reagan,  who  doesn't  realize  it 
He's  the  thickest  psychiatrist  in  the  world- 
needs  things  spelled  out  for  him,  and  signec 
by  Kinsey.  The  picture's  certainly  enjoyable 
and  Bonzo's  terrific. 

Cast:  Ronald  Reagan,  Diana  Lynn,  Walte 
Slezak. — Universal-International. 


RAWHIDE 

Tyrone  Power,  whose  father  owns  a  stage- 
coach line,  is  out  at  a  godforsaken  station 
called  Rawhide,  learning  the  business,  when 
things  bust  loose.  First  Susan  Hayward  and 
her  dead  sister's  baby  arrive  in  on  the  East- 
bound  stage,  and  Susan  pulls  a  tantrum  when 
she  finds  she'll  have  to  stay  in  Rawhide  over- 
night. Reason  for  this:  Four  desperadoes  have 
broken  out  of  a  nearby  jail,  and  they  may 
attack  the  stage.  Not  safe  for  a  lady  to  ride. 
(Susan  doesn't  exactly  act  like  a  lady,  but 
who  cares?)  Well,  where  do  you  suppose 
those  desperadoes  show  up?  Right!  Rawhide 
Station.  Villains  include  Hugh  Marlowe  (he's 
educated,  but  a  murderer).  Dean  Jagger  (he's 
flea-bitten,  and  his  feet  hurt),  George  Tobias 
(he  doesn't  say  much,  and  when  he  does,  it's 
with  an  accent).  Fourth  desperado  is  Jack 
Elam,  a  sex  maniac  type  who  goes  around  all 
but  drooling.  Tyrone  and  Susan,  who  have 
nothing  to  cling  to  but  each  other  and  a  long- 
handled  kitchen  knife,  make  do,  and  come  oiit 
all  right,  but  plenty  of  folks  get  kilt  first. 
Cast:  Tyione  Power,  Susan  Hcryward,  Hugh 
Marlowe,  Dean  /agger. — 20th  Centiuy-Fox. 


CALL  ME  MISTER 

First  Fox  buys  the  rights  to  a  rousing  Broad- 
way hit  like  Call  Me  Mister,  full  of  wonderful 
music,  skits,  etc.;  then  it  throws  away  most  of 
the  music,  skits,  etc.,  and  starts  out  fresh.  Of 
the  eight  songs  in  this  picture,  only  three  are 
from  the  show,  and  one  of  these  has  a  revised 
lyric.  Call  Me  Mister  (movie  version)  is  just 
another  of  life's  little  disappointments,  I  guess. 
Story  deals  with  actress  Betty  Grable  out  in 
Japan  to  put  on  a  show  for  the  troops,  of  the 
troops  and  by  the  troops.  She  needs  40  men, 
and  she  gets  them,  including  one  she  doesn't 
want  in  the  person  of  AWOL  Sergeant  Dan 
Dodley,  her  not-yet-divorced  husband.  Dan 
used  to  have  a  roving  eye,  but  Betty  still  loves 
him,  and  they  kick  this  situation  back  and 
forth  until  you  get  the  general  idea;  and  Danny 
Thomas,  the  comedian,  does  the  one  classy 
piece  of  work  in  the  whole  business.  He's 
funny  every  time  they  give  him  a  chance. 
It's  in  Technicolor. 

Cast:  Betty  Grable,  Dan  Dailey,  Danny  Thomas, 
Dale  Robertson. — 20th  Centiiry-Fox. 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  pa^e  by  page  the 
photos  which  appear  in  this  issue. 

6  Bert  Parry — 7  L.  Bert  Parry,  R.  John  Engstead 
— 20-21  Bert  Parry-Bob  Beerman — 27  Bert  Par- 
ry— 30  T.  Paramount,  B.  Bob  Beerman — 31 
T.  Bob  Beerman,  C.  Bert  Parry,  B.  Joe  Heppner 
— 33  Bob  Beerman — 34-36  Bert  Parry-Bob 
Beerman — 37  Universal — 38  T.  Hollj-wood  Pic- 
torial Service,  C.  Staff,  B.  INP  SoundPhoto — 
39  T.L.  Bob  Beerman,  T.R.  Stafi,  C.L.  Bert 
Parry,  C.R.  Acme,  B.L.  Wide  World,  B.C.  Al- 
borough,  B.R.  Staff — 40  Nelson  Morris — 42-45 

Bert  Parry-Bob  Beerman  48  Globe  49  Bob 

Beerman — 50  T.L.,  T.R.,  C.R.,  B.C.  Wide 
World,  B.L.  Press  Association,  B.R.  Bert  Parry, 
C.L.  Bert  Parrj-Bob  Beerman — 51  T.R.  Wide 
World,  B.L.  Bert  Parry-Bob  Beerman,  T.L.,  B.R. 
Steve  Hannagan  Ass'n — 52-53  Staff — 55-59  Joe 
Heppner — 66-72  Carmen  Schiavone. 

Abbreviations:  B.,  Bottom;  T.,  Top;  L.,  Left; 
C,  Center;  R.,  Right. 


FIRST  NEW  KIND  OF  GIRDLE  in  11  years,  tte  amazing 
Pla^-tex  FAB-LINED  Girdle  has  all  the  famous  Playtex  figure- 
slimming  power  and  freedom  plus  the  extra  coolness  and 
comjort  of  fabric  next  to  your  skin! 


Paris 
Designer 


EmpliasizesAfertical  Line  in  his 
Slim  l^Gw  Silhouette ,  recommends 

Playtex  FABLINED  GinUe 

c/  mamm  fabric  next  to  yoik  skin 


"AMERICAN  -(N-ith  French  ac- 
cent is  my  new  fashion,"  says 
Balmain.  "It's  a  slender  sil- 
houette that  comes  naturally 
when  you  wear  Playtex.®" 


ON  TV  PLAYTEX  presents 


starring 
ILKA  CHASE 

Top  afternoon  entertain- 
ment on  CBS-TV'  Network 
(see  local  papers  for  time  and  channel) 

INTERNATIONAL  LATEX  CORP'N. 

Playtex  Park  sissi  Dover  Del« 

PLAYTEX  LTD.  Montreal  Canada 


IT  CARESSES  YOU  to  new  slimness!  For  the  new  Playtex 
FAB-LIXED  Girdle  has  a  cloud-soft  fabric  lining  fused  to  the 
smooth  latex  sheath  wthout  a  seam,  stitch  or  bone!  And 
it  washes  in  seconds,  dries  in  a  flash. 


In  SLIM,  golden  tubes, 

PLAYTEX  FAB-LDiED  CffiDLES  $5.95  tO  $6.95 

In  SLIM,  shimmering  pink  tubes, 

PL-i^iTEX  PIXK-ICE  GIRDLES  .  $4.95  tO  $5.95 

In  SLIM,  silvery  tubes, 

PLAYTEX  LHTSG^  GIRDLES  . .  $3.95  tO  $4.95 

(All prices  slightly  higher  in  Canada  and  Foreign  Countries.) 

Sizes:  extra-small,  small,  mediuip,  large 

Extra-large  sizes,  slightly  higher 
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Universal  star,  Piper  Laurie,  is  a  home-body.  Only  18,  she's  already  a  veteran  bargain  hunter. 


IT  WORKS  LIKE  A  CHARM!  Just  slip  on  this  eye- 
catching bracelet  and  you'll  have  all  the 
hoys  flocking  round  to  identify  all  the 
fascinating  little  charms.  More  than  a 
dozen  unique  conversation  pieces  linked 
together  to  form  a  most  unusual  bit  of 
jewelry.  Heart  and  keys,  scissors,  true-false 
scale  and  canasta  score  board  are  but  a  few 
of  my  favorites.  The  gold  or  silver  colored 
metal  danglers  are  only  $1.23  each.  Charm 
Creations,  2  E.  23  Street,  New  York  10. 


THIS  IS  JUST  MY  DISH!  It's  a  gay  20-piece  set 
of  modern  plastic  dinnerware.  Smart  yet 
sturdy,  this  place-setting  for  four  is  per- 
fect for  the  times  xuhen  Sis  and  I  entertain, 
and  practical  ivhen  we're  dining  solo. 
Square-shaped  and  made  to  be  treated 
casually,  they  come  in  any  combination  of 
chartreuse,  wine,  emerald  and  grey,  or  a 
whole  set  in  one  color.  They're  truly  stun- 
ning on  colored  cloths.  $5.95  for  the  set. 
Horizon  House,  Box  628,  Sum7nit,  N.  J. 


■  As  an  actress,  I'm  a  newcomer.  But 
as  a  shopper,  I'm  quite  an  old-timer. 
That's  because,  through  the  years,  my 
mother  has  carefully  taught  me  to  recog- 
nize a  bargain  when  I  see  one. 

I'm  in  my  glory  when  a  birthday  or 
some  other  special  event  comes  along 
for  Dad,  Mother,  sister  Sherry,  or 
brother-in-law  Mel.  And,  of  course, 
every  time  I  go  near  a  toy  department, 
I  find  at  least  ten  playthings  I'd  like  for 
my  five-year-old  cousin  Linda. 

The  only  trouble  is,  I'm  inclined  to 
spot  too  many  bargains  and  have  an 
awfully  hard-  time  getting  out  of  the 
stores  without  an  armload  of  packages 
piled  sky  high.  When  Modern  Screen 
asked  me  to  be  the  Hollywood  Shopper 
for  April,  I  explained  my  problem. 
"Don't  worry  a  bit,"  was  the  reassuring 
reply.  "We  have' millions  of  readers!" 

So  for  you  (and  me,  too!)  I  went 
traveling.  With  one  eye  on  Easter  and 
the  other  on  Spring,  I  found  loads  of  ter- 
rific buys  in  the  finest  shops  in  the 
country. 

And  now  Modern  Screen  brings  you 
the  results — prize  plums  for  your  folks, 
friends  and  home — as  well  as  you.  Take 
your  pick,  then  order  directly  from  the 
store  mentioned  under  each  picture. 

Have  a  wonderful  time  choosing  your 
gifts.  And  I  hope  the  Easter  bunny  will 
be  extra  good  to  you ! 


ALL  IN  A  NUTSHELL.  In  a  fat  golden  walnut 
you'll  find  all  the  essentials  of  a  portable 
emergency  sewing  kit.  It  comes  equipped 
with  a  thimble,  assorted  pins,  needles-  and 
thread...  so  you're  well  supplied.  I  cer- 
tainly found  it  handy  making  The  Prince 
Who  Was  A  Thief.  It  takes  up  so  very  little 
room,  and  is  always  ready  for  service.  It's 
saved  my  life  just  dozens  of  times  and  costs 
a  mere  $1.00.  Goubaud  de  Paris,  743  Fifth 
Ave.,  New  York  22. 


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In  TAe  Prince 
Who  Was  A  Thief  I  play 
the  part  of  a 
robber.  But  these  real- 
life  bargains 
turned  the  tables  and 
stole  my  heart  away. 


TO  MAKE  ANY  GAL  TRIGGER-HAPPY!  Sure  to 
knock  'em  dead,  this  tiny  pistol  atomizer 
quickly  loads  your  best  scent.  A  mere  pull 
on  the  trigger  sets  off  a  sweet  spray.  Worn 
as  a  brooch,  or  on  a  bracelet  or  belt,  this 
leak-proof  wonder  is  a  real  "scent-sation". 
Finest  gold  plate  with  cobra  grips  and 
holster.  Easy  to  fill.  $3.00.  With  plain  hol- 
ster, $2.00.  It  even  comes  with  pearl  grips, 
chamois  holster,  $3.50.  The  Aladin,  16  E. 
52  St.,  Xew  York  22. 


APRIL  SHOWERS  BRING  MAY  FLOWERS,  but  to 

any  fashion  fan,  they  bring  on  a  flurry  of 
smart  umbrellas— usable  or  wearable. 
Here's  a  chic  parasol  pin,  designed  in 
Paris.  A  fine  leather  case  with  perky  bow 
conceals  a  long  gold-plated  umbrella  that 
is  a  lead  pencil  in  disguise.  A  captivating 
lapel  pin  and  very  handy  gadget.  It  comes 
in  smart  bright  shades  of  red,  blue,  green 
leather.  $2.34.  Spencer  Gifts,  1117  Atlantic 
Avenue,  Atlantic  City,  N.  J. 


THE  DOLL  WITH  A  THOUSAND  FACES  depends  on 
your  tot's  artistic  ability.  Scribbles,  the 
doll  with  a  washable,  wipable  plastic  face 
and  body,  is  easily  crayonned  into  any 
mood.  A  line  here  or  there  has  her  laugh- 
ing, crying  or  pouting.  She  statids  15"  high, 
wearing  a  cute  polka  dot  bonnet  and 
matching  dress.  She  sports  a  shoulder  strap 
plastic  bag  of  crayons.  She  will  provide 
hours  of  fun  for  your  youngster.  $2.98.  The 
Toy  Chest,  408  Second  Ave.,  Neiv  York  10. 


TO  EACH  A  WELCOME  "BLOW".  Handkerchiefs 
are  always  a  welcome  gift  for  the  folks  at 
Easter,  and  these  are  really  prize-packaged. 
Pert  parasols  made  out  of  three  imported 
Swiss  hankies  in  assorted  prints  to  thrill 
Mom  and  Sis;  fairy  tales  for  kiddies.  For 
Dad  and  Junior,  one  nice  white  hankie 
rolled  to  resemble  a  Corona  cigar.  Mom's 
$2.98;  Sis'  $1.98;  Dad's  $1.25;  Junior's  654. 
Walter  Thomas,  716  Wilshire  Blvd.,  Santa 
Monica  36,  Calif. 


FOR  GALS  WHO  CRY  WOLF.  A  charming  and 
useful  trinket  that  should  dispel  any  fear 
of  venturing  out  after  dark.  A  handy  gold- 
toned  combo  key-ring  and  policeman's 
whistle  that  is  an  immediate  and  audible 
SOS  as  well  as  being  a  practical  custodian 
of  your  keys.  A  useful  gadget— a  piece  that 
should  get  an  appreciative  luhistle  from 
your  favorite  luolf.  In  fact  he  might  very 
well  want  one  himself.  $1.00.  Dextor,  53 
West  49  Street,  New  York  19. 


SURE  TO  TIE  THE  KNOT.  These  handsome  cra- 
vats luill  thrill  your  one-and-orily  at 
Easter  ...  a  pure  silk  regimental  stripe 
in  28  different  color  combos,  here  in  red 
and  silver;  a  neat  silk  foulard  for  a  conser- 
vative swain  in  a  tri-colored  pattern  (pic- 
tured here  in  royal,  grey  and  white);  or  a 
smart  broion  rayon  tie  with  a  bold  horsy 
print.  Fine  wool  linings.  You  can  literally 
name  your  ouni  colors.  $1.00  ea.  Cardinal, 
557  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  17. 


THEY'RE   DESIGNED  FOR  GRACIOUS  LIVING.  A 

massive  crystal  ash  tray  specked  with  tiny 
air  bubbles  is  mated  with  a  fine  cigarette 
cup.  Modern  in  shape,  the  tray  is  roundish 
and  ii'ill  take  care  of  several  smokers.  The 
cup  is  smart  and  square  shaped.  Easv  to 
see  they're  handmade  .  .  .  by  Erickson.  In 
vibrant  shades  of  grey,  champagne,  amber 
and  clear,  to  add  to  any  decor.  Ashtray 
$4.50,  cup  $3.50.  Designed  For  Living,  131 
E.  57  Street,  Nexu  York  22. 


To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  ivrite  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


WATERING  CANS  THAT  SPRINKLE  SPICES!  This 

tnist\  twosome  keeps  salt  and  pepper  right 
on  tap.  These  miniature  sprinklers  are 
made  with  aluminum  tops  and  bottoms, 
and  plastic  bodies.  The\  do  a  fine  job  of 
table  decoration,  and  I  think  they're  smart 
as  individual  place  settings,  too.  Perfect 
as  a  hostess  gift  and  one  that  rates  another 
inx'itation.  Or  whs  not  use  them  as  bridge 
and  canasta  prizes?  Set  of  two  only,  Sl.OO. 
Carlo  Jill  Studios,  Xorthport,  L.  I. 


A  COLLEaiON  OF  HORSELESS  CARRIAGES.  Eight 

fine  color  prints,  6".\8\/2",  of  early  buggies 
to  delight  the  man  in  the  house  (and  his 
missus  too'.).  Recognize  the  Cadillac,  Ford, 
Olds  or  Packard?  You  see  the  earliest 
models  dating  from  1877.  Quaint  and 
charming  today,  a  terrific  set  of  prints  to 
frame  and  decorate  your  living  room  or 
library  wall.  Framed  or  unframed,  they 
make  a  grand  gift.  Set  $3.50  (unframed). 
Creste-Andover,  2  Park  Ave.,  Xew  York  16. 


FOR  YOUR  FAVORITE  SHUTTER-BUG  (and  it 
might  very  well  be  you).  It's  the  complete 
works  for  the  young  photographer,  includ- 
ing the  prime  prerequisite — a  fine  little 
camera.  The  set  also  contains  a  roll  of 
127  Kodak  film  and  chemicals,  equipment 
and  paper  for  printing  your  prize  pictures. 
A  cinch  to  operate  and  much  more  fun 
than  just  watching  the  birdie.  You'll  love 
this  hobby.  S7.95.  Howard  Products,  301 
South  Eighth  Street,  Boise,  Idaho. 


PRECIOUS  PIXIES  FOR  YOUR  MASCOTS!  These 
-winsome  little  folk  come  straight  from 
California  to  bring  you  good  luck  and  for- 
tune and  lots  of  chuckles.  With  hand- 
painted  faces  and  highly  glazed  bodies, 
these  ceramic  cuties  take  over  your  mantel, 
table  or  any  spot  on  which  they  happen 
to  perch.  They  love  an  indoor  rock  garden. 
Four  poses  in  chartreuse,  red  or  green. 
You'll  find  them  irresistible.  $1.00  each. 
Cliff's  Trading  Post,  Crestline,  California. 


"Il^riiiitiiffi 

A  MUST  FOR  ANY  MOTORIST.  Whether  you're 
off  on  a  coast-to-coast  junket  or  just  cruis- 
ing, you'll  find  this  car  kit  handy.  An 
attractive  plastic  kit  with  owner's  name  or 
initials  stamped  in  gold,  it  fits  in  the  gloi'e 
compartment.  Has  windshield  scraper, 
bottle  opener,  four  screw  drivers  on  a  disk, 
dust  cloth,  comb  and  clothes  brush.  You'll 
wonder  how  you  managed  without  it.  Blue 
black,  brown  and  tan.  $2.75.  Greenland 
Studios,  Squirrel  Hill,  Pittsburgh  17,  Pa. 


CHOOSE  YOUR  MAN'S  FAVORITE  WEAPON  and 

see  what  a  hit  it  makes  with  him  as  an 
unusual  tie  holder.  Whether  he's  at  work 
or  play,  the  hunting  gun,  riding  crop  and 
golf  stick,  in  finest  gold  plate,  are  smartly 
styled  by  Manleigh  to  show  off  to  their 
best  advantage  when  they're  on  the  job.  If 
you  can't  decide  which  tie  clip  to  give, 
I'm  sure  he'd  like  all  three  of  them.  $2.00 
each.  Irvington  Shirt  Shop,  1515  Broad- 
way, Xew  York  18. 


FOR  YOUR  "SUNDAY  BEST"  (and  I  do  mean 
Easter).  Here's  a  -cersatile,  short-sleeved 
blouse  inspired  by  the  United  Xations. 
A  line-up  of  three  gayly  colored  flags  ac- 
cented in  gold,  and  a  smart  center  stripe 
gi-ve  this  blouse  real  zip.  In  rayon  tissue 
faille  by  Tanbro,  it  comes  in  six  heavenly 
color  schemes,  featuring  white,  black,  naz>y, 
grey,  red  and  yellow  backgrounds.  Sizes  32 
to  '38,  S6.N.  Franklin  Simon,  Fifth  Ave., 
C-  38  St.,  .\ew  York  18. 


MAKE  A  GAME  OF  SAVING  with  this  terrific 
basketball  bubble  bank,  and  have  the  kids 
hoarding  their  pennies  to  play.  The  bank's 
made  of  durable  red  plastic  and  comes 
with  50  balls  of  multi-colored  bubble  gum. 
Just  slip  a  penny,  nickel  or  dime  in  the 
slot,  then  shoot  for  a  basket  with  gum  for 
your  ball.  Score  a  hit  and  out  it  comes, 
a  delicious  prize  (miss  and  it  goes  back). 
$2.00,  gum  refills,  25e  each.  Bloomingdale 
Bros.,  Lexington  Ave.  ir  59  St.,  Xew  York  22. 


THREE  CHEERS  FOR  POLLY  PUSHCART!  She's  a 
saucy  little  miss  who's  always  ready  to  pro- 
tect your  private  paraphernalia.  Her  cart 
stands  3"  high,  a  perfect  size  for  a  load 
of  cigarettes,  bobby  pins,  toothpicks  or  even 
candies.  Hand-painted  wood  in  bright, 
bright  colors,  she's  an  adorable  addition  to 
any  household,  and  a  must  for  your  dress- 
ing table.  Polly  makes  a  cute  inexpensive 
gift,  too.  $1.25,  Green  Gable  Gifts,  Grade 
Station,  Xew  York  28. 


Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  ai'f/iin  10  days,  except  -where  monoorammed. 

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yourhollywood 
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WIPE  YOUR  SLATE  CLEAN!  Make  copious  notes, 
doodles,  shopping  lists  (that's  for  me!)  or 
take  phone  messages  on  this  attractive 
memo  tile.  When  they're  past  interest, 
erase  them  with  a  simple  swish  of  a  damp 
cloth.  A  red  china-marking  pencil  comes 
attached  to  the  slate  for  note-making.  Tile 
in  white  with  red  or  green  design  of  a 
thread  around  index  finger.  Doubles  as  hot 
plate,  paperweight  or  trivet.  $2.50.  Carol 
Janeway,  113  West  10  St.,  New  York  11. 


GIVE  ME  A  RING  ANYTIME.  Yes,  anytime  at 

all.  especially  now  for  Spring,  I'd  adore 
this  stunning  golden  ring.  Flattering  to 
your  finger,  it's  a  faithful  copy  of  a  fabu- 
lous jeweler's  ring  selling  for  lots  more. 
Bold  diagonal  fluting  that  tapers  off  at  the 
sides  gives  it  great  chic.  I'll  wear  mine 
right  around  the  clock.  Gold  plate  $2.50. 
Pair  of  matching  earrings  $2.50.  Ring  in 
14K  gold,  $30.00.  Sanlys,  Dept.  MS,  545 
Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  17. 


TO  CULTIVATE  YOUR  GREEN  THUMB,  here  is  a 
wonderful  Flower  Arranger  Kit  to  help 
you  rival  the  corner  florist.  There's  an  as- 
sortment of  professional  looking  equip- 
ment with  full  directions,  making  it  a  cinch 
to  manipulate.  The  kit  includes  plum- 
mers  lead,  a  hammer-shear ,  florist's  tape, 
two  different  size  holders,  green  wire,  florist 
sticks  and  clay.  You're  bound  to  make 
stunning  floral  groupings.  $4.95.  Swift 
Flower  Arranger,  Woodbridge,  Conn. 


FOR  KIDS  AND  COLLECTORS  ALIKE!  These  two 
miniature  sets  in  shining  brass  delight 
both  children  and  grow7iups.  One,  a  break- 
fast set,  includes  cups  and  saucers  as 
well  as  coffee  and  sugar  pots  ivith  remov- 
able tops.  The  other  is  an  adorable  set  to 
outfit  a  doll  house  kitchen  with  its  double 
boiler,  pots  and  pans  and  even  a  little 
flower  pot.  Each  set  only  $1.00.  {You'll 
probably  want  both  of  them.)  Croff  Crafts, 
P.  O.  Box  919,  Houston,  Texas. 


CONTAINER  FOR  YOUR  CROWN  JEWELS.  Precious 
or  paste,  this  darling  booty  box  will  house 
them  well.  Shaped  like  a  tiny  hat  box  in 
shining  gold  plate,  topped  by  an  earring 
holder,  it's  3"  in  diameter.  A  red  velvet 
lining  protects  your  prized  trinkets.  It's  a 
wonderful  traveling  jewel  case  for  any  gal 
who  lives  out  of  a  suitcase.  It  also  comes 
in  a  variety  of  bright  shades  to  match 
your  bedroom  colors.  $3.50.  McCreery's, 
Fifth  Avenue  and  34th  St.,  New  York  1. 


YOU'LL  CERTAINLY  HAVE  HIS  NUMBER      you  use 

this  clever  jiffy  phone  index  that  attaches 
firmly  right  onto  the  telephone  itself.  It's 
very  simple  to  operate,  too.  A  spin  of  the 
wheel  and  the  number  you  want  turns 
right  up.  There's  room  for  more  than  200 
names  and  phone  numbers,  all  of  them 
readily  at  your  fingertips.  Completely  en- 
cased in  a  sanitary  black  enamel  metal  case. 
$2.50.  Green  Jade  Tree,  10  Sanford  St., 
Fairfield,  Conn. 


FOR  MISS  "SEW-AND-SEW".  Anyone  who  can 
thread  a  needle  will  want  this  cunning 
sezving  helper  of  solid  cherry  with  hand- 
rubbed  finish.  A  real  collector's  item  with 
a  partitioned  serpentine  drawer  that  has  a 
secret  lock.  Easily  removable  brass  spindles 
with  turned  wood  top  will  hold  16  spools 
of  thread.  Topped  off  with  a  fat  pin 
cushion.  Stands  8"  tall.  A  buy  for  $5.95. 
Carl  Forslund,  120  East  Fulton  Street, 
Grand  Rapids  2,  Michigan. 


START  YOUR  OWN  FAMILY  HEIRLOOMS.  This 
jewel-studded  Fleur-de-lis  fob  is  a  hand- 
some front  for  a  family  album  locket. 
Spring  catch  opens  to  reveal  four  penny- 
size  miniature  picture  frames.  Gold  plate 
pin,  chased  and  embossed,  set  with  simu- 
lated pearls  and  choice  of  emerald,  ruby 
or  amethyst-colored  stones,  or  all  pearl. 
Fine  finishing  touch  to  your  Easter  suit, 
blouse  or  dress.  $3.95.  Hyde's,  Dept.  MS-4, 
135-37  Northern  Blvd.,  Flushing,  N.  Y. 


To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  e-iielosinp  check  or  money  order. 
Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  where  monogrammed. 


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everybody  is  asking: 

what 
happened 
to  lana's 
marriage? 


by  Steve  Cronin 

■  The  trouble  with  most  Hollywood  rumors  is  that  usually 
there's  a  germ  of  truth  in  them.  But  each  time  you  look  for  the 
germ,  someone  clubs  you  with  a  heavy  denial. 

A  few  months  ago,  for  example,  .when  Liz  Taylor  and  Nicky 
Hilton  were  sandpapering  each  other's  temperaments  from  Los 
Angeles  to  Rome,  Liz  vehemently  announced,  "If  people  would 
only  leave  us  alone,  I'm  sure  we  could  be  ver>'  happy."  Three 
weeks  later  she  was  filing  for  divorce. 

Two  weeks  before  she  announced  the  end  of  her  marriage, 
Barbara  Stanwyck  said,  "I'm  going  up  to  San  Francisco  to  be 
with  Bob  when  he  has  his  operation.  Does  that  look  as  if  we're 
thinking  of  separating?" 

These  ladies  are  superb  actresses,  and  when  they  deny  some- 
thing as  intimate  as  a  marital  difficulty — they  do  it  with  such 
mastery  that  it's  more  than  con\'incing.  Shirley  Temple  denied 
her  troubles  with  John  Agar, .  Kathr>'n  Grayson  her  quarrels 
with  Johnny  Johnston,  Betty  Hutton  her  disputes  with  Ted 
Briskin,  and  now  Lana  Turner  her  (Continued  on  page  87) 


This  is  the  story  of  a  phenomenal  man  who  made  show- 
business  his  kingdom.  Twenty  years  ago,  he  was  a  singer 
looking  for  a  job.  Today  he  is  a  legend.  The  story,  which 
begins  in  this  issue,  is  one  of  the  most  complete  and 
informative  ever  written  about  Mr.  Music,  the  editors 


T 
UL 


CROSBY 


■  During  the  year  of  1951,  an  aging  jazz  singer 
named  Bing  Crosby  will  reach  the  all-time  peak  of 
his  popularity.  This  prediction  has  been  made 
before;  in  fact,  every  year  since  1936.  Yet,  this 
year,  Bing  Crosby  will  be  accorded  such 
universal  acclaim  that  the  only  honor  left 
for  his  old  age,  with  the  possible  exception 
of  the  Presidency  of  the  United 
States,  would  be  an  outright  gift  of  Fort  Knox. 

This  year  is  Bing's  year.  From  Januar>' 
through  December,  the  people  of  America  will  be 
constantly  reminded  by  their  newspapers,  their 
radios,  their  record  shops,  and  their  neighborhood 
theaters  that  the  Old  Groaner  is  celebrating 
his  20th  anniversary  in  show  business. 

In  the  20  crowded  years  which  have 
ensued  since  he  first  stood  before 
a  microphone  in  the  New  York  studios  of 
CBS,  Bing  Crosby  has  made  a  deeper 
impression  on  our  national  culture  than  any 
other  personality  of  our  time,  with  the 
possible  exception  of  Franklin  Delano  Roosevelt. 
The  thousands  of  songs  which  he  has  sung  are 
lastingly  imbedded  in  the  emotional  life  of 
two  generations.  His  records  have  sold  more  than 
70,000,000  copies,  his  43  motion  pictures  have 
amassed  a  total  gross  revenue  of  more  than 
$1,000,000,000  and  have  been  seen  by  more 
than  500,000,000  people  the  world  over. 
His  weekly  radio  program,  now  in  its  18th  year, 
remains  high  in  popularity  at  a  time  when  television 
is  ringing  the  death  knell  over  many  of 
the  established  shows  on  the  air. 

During  the  month  of  January,  inspired 
by  the  release  of  his  latest  Paramount 
picture,  Mr.  Music,  Decca  Records,  CBS, 
Liggett  and  Myers,  Famous  Music,  and 
Paramount  Pictures  joined  forces  in  a  gigantic 
salute  to  Bing  Crosby,  and  the  response 
of  the  nation  was  overwhelming.  On  "We  the 
People,"  Otto  Harbach,  {Continued  on  page  31) 


BY  TOM  CARLILE 


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An  LA.  station  dedicated  a  day  to  Blng.  Jane  Wyman,  Jerry  Lewis,    Frank  Copra  visit  the  mobile  unit  on  the  Paramount  lot. 


THE  TWO  BOBS  IN  BING'S  LIFE.  Though  younger  brother  Bob 
claims  he's  been  living  off  Sing's  middle  register  for  years,  he 
has  a  healthy  career  as  a  singer,  himself,  and  a  top  dance  band. 


Bing's  friendship  with  Hope  dates  back  to  1931.  He  m.c.'d  a  show 
where  Bob  was  a  comic.  They've  been  repartee-ing  ever  since. 
They're  perfect  foils,  and  when  ad-libbing,  they're  perfect  fools. 


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HE  TAKES  SUCCESS   CASUALLY,   DOESN'T  LET   FAME  OR  FORTUNE  GO  TO   HIS  HEAD. 


president  of  ASCAP,  made  an  unprecedented  award 
to  Bing  and  acclaimed  him  as  "the  one  man  who 
has  done  more  for  popular  music  than  anyone  else." 
More  than  1200  disc  jockeys  all  over  the  country 
echoed  the  words  of  Martin  Block  who,  during  a 
two-hour  tribute  from  the  lobby  of  New'  York's 
Paramount  Theater,  said,  "For  the  disc  jockeys  of 
America,  I  want  to  say  that  if  there  is  any  one  guy 
in  the  world  who  made  the  disc  jockeys  popular,  it 
was  a  fellow  named  Bing  Crosby;  and  I,  personally, 
will  be  eternally  grateful  for  your  wonderful  work, 
your  wonderful  records,  and  the  entertainment 
that  you've  brought  to  the  people  of  America." 
Decca  Records,  searching  for  an  adequate  testi- 
monial of  his  value  as  a  recording  artist,  presented 
Bing  with  a  gold  record  of  "White  Christmas."  This 
record,  incidentally,  has  sold  more  than  7,000,000 
pressings  to  date. 

On  January  10th,  designated  as  "Bingsday"  across 
the  land,  hundreds  of  prominent  persons  from  all 
over  the  world  sent  congratulatory  wires  to  Bing 
at  his  studio.  It  is  estimated  that,  before  the  year 
is  out,  more  than  5,000,000  Crosby  fans  will  have 
written  their  personal  best  wishes  to  him. 

Today,  at  48,  Bing  Crosby  seems  to  gain  strength 
as  he  rolls  along.  Mr.  Music  will  undoubtedly  be 
one  of  the  largest  grossers  in  Paramount  history.  In 
honor  of  his  20th  anniversary,  Decca  Records  will 
reissue  many  albums  of  Bing's  movie  songs,  many 
of  which  have  long  been  unavailable  to  the  pubhc. 
These  together  with  the  30-odd  new  songs  he  will 
record  this  year,  very  probably  will  bring  his  total 
record  sales  near  the  100,000,000  mark. 

By  his  own  admission,  Bing  Crosby  is  not  a 
romantic  figure.  Perhaps  because  he  is  not,  he  is  one 
of  the  few  personalities  in  Hollywood  who  have 
successfully  managed  to  bridge  the  gap  to  middle 
age  with  no  attendant  loss  of  popularity.  This  is 
largely  due  to  the  fact  that  the  amiable,  easy-going 
character  he  portrays  in  films  and  on  the  air  is,  in 
reaUty,  Bing  Crosby  himself.  Over  the  years,  his 
unpretentious  and  serene  conduct  has  been  one  of 
the  most  comforting  and  reassuring  influences  of 
our  troubled  times.  Bing  is  not  only  America's  most 
beloved  entertainer;  he  is  also  one  of  the  few  men 
in  public  life  on  whom  people  can  focus  their 
minds  and  their  hearts  when  they  are  anguished  and 
low  in  spirit. 

For  a  man  with  such  a  significant  burden  of 
responsibility,  Bing  lives  his  public  life,  as  always, 
with  a  seemingly  minute  amount  of  bustle  and  care. 
To  the  casual  observer,  he  sometimes  gives  the 
impression  of  complete  effortlessness  and,  at  times, 
of  downright  indifference.  Yet  nothing  could  be 
further  from  the  truth.  As  the  people  who  work 
with  him  know,  Bing  ambles  through  his  day  with 
his  mind  in  a  state  of  (Continued  oft  page  95) 


Bing  loves  to  live  comfortably  wherever 
he  happens  to  be,  so  he  maintains  sev- 
eral homes.  This  one's  at  Pebble  Beach. 


Dinner-time  at  Elko,  Nevada.  The  boys 
work  on  the  20,000  acre  ranch,  which  is 
stocked  with  4,000  head  of  prime  cattle. 


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never  lost  a  father 


Dick  made  the  picture  of  the  perfect  father  h.sre  v/hen  he  and  As  June  admired  the  babies  she  didn't  dream  that  she  would 
June  visited  the  Tennessee  Children's  Home  last  year.  Daughter  return  to  Hollywood  and  find  she  was  pregnant.  Now  that  their 
Pam  was  adopted  there  and  they  hoped  to  find  her  a  brother.      own  Ricky  has  arrived,  the  Powells  may  adopt  other  children. 


"My  time  has  come," 
she  told  Dick.  He  started 
to  grow  faint.  "Keep 
cahn!"  he  shouted, 
as  June  quietly  braided 
her  hair.  Anyway, 
Herman's  finally  here, 
and  the  proud 
Powells  call  him  Rickv. 


•  When  the}-  wheeled  Junie  out  of  the  delivery  room  last  December  24th,  a 
man  who  had  been  waiting  in  the  corridor  came  galloping  to  her  side  and  leaned 
over  her,  adoration  written  on  his  face. 
"Darling,  you're  wonderful,"  he  said. 

"Thank  you  ver\-  much,  '  said  June,  fighting  through  the  cloud  of  anesthetic. 
"But  who  are  you?'' 

Her  husband  stood  back,  dumbstruck.  "Sorr}'.'"  he  said.  "'I  must  have  the 
wrong  woman.'" 

June  giggled.  You  certainly  have,  she  thought.  Then  she  recognized  Dick.  She 
had  heard  about  the  ordeals  of  new  fathers,  but  even  so.  she  wasn't  prepared 
for  this.  Dick's  face  was  bathed  in  perspiration,  and  he  looked  as  though  he 
had  scaled  the  Empire  State  Building  on  a  July  day. 

"Are  you  glad  it's  a  boy?"  she  said. 

He  nodded,  ran  a  finger  inside  his  collar.    '"You  all  right?" 

They  said  nothing  more  until  June  was  tucked  into  bed  and  the  nurse  had 
left.  Then  Dick  said  a  lot  of  things  which  we  figure  are  his  own  business,  and 
after  that  he  took  her  left  hand  and  slipped  on  her  finger  an  exact  duplicate  of 
her  wedding  ring. 

"Merr>'  Christmas,"  he  said,  and  a  lot  of  other  things. 

When  he'd  been  evicted  by  the  nurse,  June  had  a  precious  15  minutes  to 
think  about  the  past  and  dream  about  the  future  before  she  fell  asleep. 

It  had  really  happened.  She  hadn't  waited  any  longer  than  other  women; 
in  fact,  a  shorter  time  than  most.  But  the  waiting  had  seemed  so  long.  And 
now  she  had  a- son.  Funny  how  sure  she  had  been  that  it  would  be  a  boy.  She 
remembered  talking  to  the  doctor  when  she  went  into  the  deliver)'  room,  and 
she  had  said,  'Y'ou  take  good  care  of  my  son." 

Way  back  when  she  first  knew  she  was  pregnant,  she  and  Dick  had  kiddingly 
referred  to  the  baby  as  Herman.  There  must  have  been  a  lot  of  publicity  about 
that,  because  when  they  finally  decided  to  name  the  baby  Richard  Keith  Powell, 
she  received  a  letter  from  her  mother  in  New  York.  'T'm  so  glad  you've  chosen 
Richard  for  a  boy,"  her  mother  had  written  in  rehef.  'Tt's  a  much  nicer  name 
than  Herman." 

Ricky.  He  hadn't  been  ver>'  big.  Five  pounds  and  one  ounce.  She'd  been 
frightened  when  she  saw  the  doctor  put  an  ox\gen  mask  over  the  baby's  face. 
But  soon  he  had  cried,  a  funny  kind  of  a  little  cr>',  (Continued  on  page  62) 


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Peggy  Dow  and  Dick  Long  play  "Truth 

or  Consequences"  on  the  floor  of  Ralph  Edwards' 

playroom.  That's  Ralph  on  the  couch. 

it's  a 

marshmallow 
whirl 

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To  tell  the  truth, 
nobody  at  Ralph  Edwards' 
party  gave  a  hang  about 
the  consequences — they  were 
so  much  fun! 

BY  BEVERLY  OTT 


Dick  and  Rock  Hudson  whip  u\. 
bonnets  for  Peggy  and  Vero-Ellen.   (Right)  The 
girls  pose  in  them. 


■  I  guess  I  don't  have  to  tell  you  that  the  man  hanging  off 
the  couch  at  the  left  is  Ralph  Edwards,  probably  the 
zaniest  quizmaster  of  the  century-.  If  you  haven't  seen  him, 
you  haven't  lived — or  died — depending  on  whether  you've 
been  a  spectator  or  a  participant  on  his  Truth  or  Con- 
sequences" show. 

The  people  on  the  floor  beneath  Mr.  Edwards  are  Peggy- 
Dow  and  Richard  Long.  They  started  on  the  couch,  too, 
with  nothing  between  them  but  a  marshmallow  on  a  string. 
Just  shows  you  how  a  little  thing  like  a  rnarshmallow  can 
bring  people  down  to  earth.  But  before  this  story  runs 
away  from  me  I'd  better  catch  it  at  the  beginning. 

I  work  for  Modern  Screen  at  its  HoU^TVood  office.  Came 
closing  time  one  evening  and  there  I  sat  with  my  feet  in 
the  desk  drawer  and  no  place  to  go  but  home.  All  of  a  sud- 
den in  walked  Rock  Hudson. 

"Come  on,"  he  said. 

"Exactly  where?"  I  asked,  leaping  up,  putting  on  my 
shoes  and  powdering  my  nose  in  one  magnificent  gesture. 

"CBS,"  he  explained,  patiently,  "the  "Truth  or  Con- 
sequences' show." 


"With  you,  Rock?"  I  said,  sighing.  "That  will  be  lovely." 

"With  us,"  said  a  firm,  feminine  voice  at  the  door.  And 
there  stood  Vera-Ellen,  Peggv'  Dow  and  Dick  Long. 

I  had  no  real  objections  so  we  all  went  over  to  CBS.  An 
influential  friend  of  Peggy,  named  Barbara,  met  us  at  the 
studio  and  led  us  to  seats  in  the  front  row. 

Ralph  Edwards  started  walking  up  and  down  the  aisles 
looking  for  contestants  and  I  made  myself  very  obvious  by 
tr>'ing  to  trip  him  ever\'  time  he  passed  and  showing  all  my 
teeth  in  a  toothpaste  grin.  He  casually  ignored  me,  and  got 
safely  back  on  the  stage  to  proceed  with  the  show.  You 
know  what  happens — Ralph  Edwards  asks  a  question  and 
if  the  contestant  can't  answer  it  correctly  she  takes  the 
consequences.  Taking  the  consequences  is  like  putting  your 
life  in  Edwards'  hands.  Everyone  has  a  wonderful  time 
watching,  though,  and  ever\'  once  in  a  while,  Ralph  leers 
happily  at  the  audience  and  inquires,  "Aren't  I  a  devil?" 

"Why  didn't  he  pick  me?"  I  kept  muttering.  "I'm  as 
dumb  as  the  next  one.  I'd  be  more  than  happy  to  go  up 
there  and  get  myself  sent  off  to  sell  ice  in  Alaska." 

Dick  stared  at  me  sternly.  (Continued  on  next  page) 


Football  helmets  protect  Peggy  and  Dick  from  cracking  each 
other's  skulls.  They're  supposed  to  be  biting  at  the  oppie,  but 

^JJi^Keots  them  to 


t. 


Mrs.  Edwards  removes  the  blindfold  from  Vera-Ellen  who  has 
just  completed  a  drawing  of  her  favorite  man.  Rock  Hudson, 


When  iUness 
threatened  my  life 
I  felt  that  God 
had  let  me  down.  Slowly 
I  learned  that  He 
moves  in  a  mysterious 
way  to  perform 
His  wonders. 


■  My  breath  was  coming  in  quick,  short  gasps.  I  was  breathing  so  hard  and 
with  so  much  difficulty  as  I  walked  through  a  Philadelphia  street  that  all  of 
a  sudden  my  legs  seemed  to  buckle  under  me!  Gasping  for  breath,  I  seized 
the  ledge  of  the  building  nearest  me — an  office  building,  and  for  15  tortured 
minutes,  I  clung  to  that  ledge  as  though  for  dear  life. 

At  the  end  of  the  IS  minutes  I  found  that  I  could  walk  again.  Slowly,  and 
with  hesitating  steps,  I  made  my  way  inside  the  lobby  of  the  building.  I 
wondered  if  I  would  stand  or  fall.  Some  deep  pride  inside  me  kept  me  from 
calUng  for  help.  When,  at  the  end  of  a  few  minutes,  I  found  I  was  still  on  my 
feet;  I  inched  my  way  slowly  toward  the  office  where  I  usually  worked.  It 
was  only  about  two  blocks  away  from  the  building  to  whose  ledge  I  had 
clung  for  support,  but  those  were  the  longest  two  blocks  I  had  ever  walked 
in  my  Hfe.  (Continued  on  page  92) 


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Each  year, 

Modern  Screen,  with 
the  help  of  qualified 
judges,  pays  tribute 
to  the  stars  who  have, 
through  their  outstand- 
ing works,  proved 
themselves  to  be  .  .  . 


hollywoods 

ten  best 
citizens 


BY  HERB  STEIN 

Daily  Columnist  of  the  Hollywood  Reporter 


The  distinguished 
columnists  listed  at  the 
right  studied  the 
civic  activities  of  scares 
of  Hollywood  stars, 
then  voted  by  secret 
ballot.  W e  are  proud  to 
present  their  choice  of 
the  top  ten  for  1950. 


CEDRIC  ADAMS 

The  Minneapolis  Star-Journal 

HERB  CAEN  -mmB^^:-' 

The  San  Francisco  Examinei" 

HARRISON  CARROLL 

The  Los  Angeles  Herald 
Express 

SHEILAH  GRAHAM 

North  American  Newspaper 
Alliance 

HEDDA  HOPPER 

Chicago  Tribune-Daily  News 
Syndicate 

ERSKINE  JOHNSON 

Scripps-Howard  Newspaper 
Alliance 

LOUELLA  PARSONS 

Motion  Picture  Editor,  INS 

LOUIS  SOBOL 

The  New  York  Journal 
American 

ED  SULLIVAN 

The  New  York  Daily  News 

EARL  WILSON 

The  New  York  Post 


Ann  BIyth,  here  with  Father  Peyton, 

is  the  youngest  of  the  best  citizens.  She 

averaqes  200  benefits  a  year. 


Rosalind  Russell  and  son,  Lance, 

during  a  Bond  drive.  Among  her  many  activities 

are  Red  Cross  and  hospital  charity  work. 


Joan  Crawford   bids  goodbye  to  Korean- 
bound  Marines.  She  maintains  hospitol  rooms  for  the 
needy;  sent  shiploads  of  milk  to  French  children. 


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Bob  Hope,  at  a  March  of  Dimes 
show,  is  well  known  as  an  unstinting 
worker  for  charities  and  benefits. 


Bing  Crosby,  active  in  Bond,  Red 
Cross,  and  Camp  work,  chats  with  a  polio 
patient  at  a  charity  tournament. 


■  A  dramatic  story — which  never 
made  the  headlines — took  place  re- 
cently in  a  huge  Army  base  located 
secretly  somewhere  in  California, 
known  only  to  those  who  pass 
through  it  as  Kick-Off  Number  One. 
The  time:  zero  nine  twenty-two.  The 
people:  several  thousand  Korean- 
bound  GI's,  fully  equipped  to  go 
about  the  business  of  killing,  but 
heavy-hearted  with  thoughts  of 
wives  and  sweethearts  left  behind. 

Abruptly,  and  without  warning,  a 
stem  voice  sounded  over  the  loud- 
speaker system,  "Now  hear  this, 
men.  .  .  ."  Hardly  had  the  voice 
died  away  before  a  cheer  roared 
through  the  huge  staging  terminal 
as  into  the  midst  of  these  fighting 
men  walked  a  beautiful  girl  from 
Hollywood.  Her  name  was  Ann 
Blyth.  Behind  her  came  a  perspiring 
accompanist,  shoving  a  small  piano. 

For  almost  an  hour,  urged  on  by 
shouted  encore  demands,  her  so- 
prano voice  filled  the  room  with 
song  after  song — "The  Man  I 
Love,"  "Count  Every  Star,"  and 
dozens  more.  Then  with  the  ap- 
plause ringing  in  her  ears,  Ann  Blyth 
left  the  room.  Moments  later  these 
same  soldiers  were  marching  toward 
their  troop  transport;  while  Ann 
moved  through  corridors  in  a  near- 
by hospital,  still  singing. 

This  was  a  momentous  day, 
without   {Continued  on  page  60) 


Loretta  Young,  receiving  a  meda 
as  Outstanding  Catholic  Woman,  is 
o  hospital  guild  president. 


Ronald  Reagan,  with  Piper  Laurie, 
signs  autographs  for  paralysis  victims. 
Ronnie  heads  Screen  Actors'  Guild. 


Eddie  Cantor  makes  hospital 

rounds  above.  He  helped  provide  Vets 

with  over  5,000,000  Xmas  gifts. 


When  love  hurts 
Stanwyck  she  withdraws 
from  the  world. 
Friends  who  saw  it 
happen  fear 
for  her  now.  They  know 
that  the  bigger  the 
heart  the 
harder  it  breaks. 

BY  FRANCES  CLARK. 


second 
heartbreak 


■  Their  curt  statement  was  in  the  newspapers  of 
December  16,  1950.  Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Robert 
Taylor  were  announcing  their  separation. 

Everyone  was  startled.  Even  Helen  Ferguson, 
their  press  representative  and  one  of  Barbara's  closest 
friends,  said,  "I  couldn't  believe  it  myself  even  when 
I  was  giving  the  statement  out  for  them." 

But  there  was  the  statement,  in  cold  print : 

"Because  of  our  many  and  too  long  separations 
due  to  work  and  to  other  reasons,  we  could  not  main- 
tain our  marriage  .  .  ." 

Those  who've  known  Missy  and  Bob  for  a  long 
time  heard  the  echoes  of  what  Barbara  had  said 
when  they  were  married  in  1937,  "Plans?  Bob  and 
I  haven't  any  plans — except  to  be  together  as  much 
as  possible.  .  .  .  You  don't  make  plans  when  things 
are  perfect  as  they  are.  .  .  ." 

But  now  the  words  were,  "We've  come  to  the  con- 
clusion that  the  only  solution  is  divorce."  Then,  fully 
aware  of  fleeting  rumors  that  an  Italian  girl  whom 
Bob  met  in  Rome  has  replaced  Missy  in  his  affec- 
tions, the  couple  concluded  their  dignified  statement 
with,  "Neither  of  us  has  any  other  romantic  interest 
whatever." 

And  that  was  all.  There  have  been  no  further 
statements  from  either  of  them. 

Missy's  friends  are  deeply  concerned.  It  seems 
ominous  that  she  has  gone  into  seclusion  and  that  she 
has  no  picture  set  for  the  immediate  future.  She  went 
into  seclusion  once  before — the  time  she  was  finally 
separated  from  Frank  Fay.  (Continued  on  page  80) 


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all  about  edept 


The  living  room's  built  around  the  fireplace.  Like  every  corner  of  the  house,  it  is  modern,  spacious  and  individual. 


Even  off  screen,  Anne  Baxter  knows  a  perfect  plot  when  she  sees  one  . .  so  she 


■  A  year  ago  one  Sunday,  Anne  Baxter  poked 
her  head  out  of  the  real  estate  section  of  the 
paper,  and  asked  a  pointed  question. 

"If  I  could  pick  any  one  spot  in  the  city," 
she  started  rhetorically,  "do  you  know  where 
I'd  like  to  build?'' 

"Where,  dear?"  John  as'ked  absently  as  he 
wet  his  thumb  to  turn  the  pages  she'd  laid  aside. 

Anne  bent  down  and  patted  the  ground 
beside  her.  "Right  smack  here.  It's  the  most 


heavenly  spot  in  HoUy'wood— if  not  the  world." 

Hodiak  looked  around  their  well-loved  garden 
with  its  neat  little  pool  and  the  grove  of  price- 
less trees  and  smiled  a  little.  Then  he  threw  his 
wife  a  married  look.  "You're  wonderful,  dar- 
ling," he  said  firmly.  "I  love  you.  I  also  love  this 
little  house.  But  we've  lived  for  three  years  in  a 
cottage  designed  for  a  single  girl.  We're  a  high- 
type  married  couple  now,  and  it's  time  we  got  a 
home  to  match."  He  folded  the  paper  for  her. 


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by  Marva  Peterson 


Anne  ond  John  knew  they'd  never  find  a  more  perfect 
garden  or  pool,  so  they  remodeled  rather  than  move.  They  brought  the 
outdoors  into  the  house,  ond  enlarged  their  terrace  living. 


Plenty  of  books,  lots  of  space  for  music  and  conversotion  moke 
home  entertaining  a  pleasure.  Anne's  mother  designed  the  dining  room 
table,  and  partition  between  the  rooms  which  houses  a  bar. 


built  a  house  around  her  garden. 


"Here.  If  you  can't  be  constructive,  why  not 
be  quiet?" 

Baxter  was  never  more  constructive  in  her 
determined  young  life.  And  never  less  quiet.  "Of 
course:  That's  the  answer  to  all  our  problems! 
Remodeling!  Why  didn't  I  think  of  it  before!" 

Before  her  startled  husband  could  muster  an 
argument,  she  was  striding  up  and  down,  pacing 
off  yardage,  and  sweeping  walls  away  with  a 
gesture  as  she  talked.  (Continued  on  next  page) 


all  about  eden  continued 


A  glass  and  fieldstone  wall;  planted  with  greens,  separates  the 
living  room  and  terrace.    A  continuous  banquette  hugs  the  wall. 


John's  dressing-room  suite  is  blue.  Here  he  keeps  his  camera  equip- 
ment and  clown  collection.    He  revels  in  his  engineer-designed  desk. 


"We  can  knock  out  the  east  wall  and  extend 
the  living  room  at  least  a  dozen  more  feet. 
Then  well  level  off  the  terrace  and  furnish  it 
as  an  outdoor  living  room.  We  won't  touch  the 
fireplace,  but  we  can  do  away  with  the  two 
dinky  windows  and  replace  them  with  a  large 
chunk  of  glass.  And  then  upstairs  I'll  add  a  lot 
more  wardrobe  space.  And  the  garage,  darling! 
Why,  we  can  make  it  our  service  wing  with  a 
guest  suite  above  it."' 

Hodiak  sat.  and  with  that  look  of  sufference 
husb^inds  have  worn  from  time  immemorial,  he 
listened  and  watched  as  Anne  built  her  dream 
house  on  the  spot.  When  she'd  installed  the 
last  light  fixture  he  rose.  He  walked  over  to  his 
beautiful  wife  and  looked  deeply  into  her  eyes. 
"Darhng,"  he  said.  "No." 

Anne  argued,  she  pleaded,  she  explained — she 
wore  the  man  down.  She  convinced  John  that 
remodeling  was  the  only  thing  to  do. 

Anne's  family  was  even  more  skeptical  than 
her  husband.  Anne  is  the  granddaughter  of 
Frank  Lloyd  Wright,  the  dean  of  American 
architects.  Her  uncle,  Lloyd  Wright,  is  one  of 
the  best  designers  in  Southern  California,  and 
her  mother,  Mrs.  Catherine  Wright  Baxter,  is 
a  licensed  interior  decorator  in  Burlingame, 
Cahfornia.  All  of  them  pointed  out  that  any 
remodeling  which  involves  structural  changes 
usually  ends  up  costing  more  than  a  new  house. 
"In  addition,"  they  said,  "you're  asking  for 
trouble  when  you  start  knocking  out  walls  and 
cutting  away  the  supports  of  a  house  without 
having  a  set  of  the  original  plans." 

Anne  and  John  {Continued  on  page  90) 


Anne,  who's  making  Follow  The  Sun,  and  Shoo- 
Shoo    come    out    the    front   door   for   a  stroll. 


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^for  the  past  quarter  of  a  century  people 
have  been  discovering  that  they  can  get  a  quick  audience  and  a 
daring  reputation  by  taking  potshots  at  Hollywood.  Such  an  ex- 
aggerated amount  of  beauty,  wealth,  talent  and  glamor  always 
offers  itself  as  an  immense  target  for  any  and  all  mud-slingers. 
Just  as  Hollywood  stars  appear  mammoth  on  the  screen,  so  do 
the  details  of  their  private  lives  become  magnified  beyond  pro- 
portion. That  they  exist  as  human  beings  in  the  public  mind  is 
a  miracle  not  yet  explained  away  by  ardent  yellow  journalists. 

It  would  be  silly  to  deny  that  divorce,  scandal  and  irresponsibil- 
ity are  part  of  Hollywood — just  as  it  would  be  equally  silly  to 
deny  their  existence  in  any  state  of  the  union.  People  every- 
where, despite  variations  of  environment  and  heredity,  are  the 
same. 

The  environment  of  Hollywood  is  imique.  Nowhere  else  on 
earth  is  personality  the  main  product  for  sale,  or  is  fantasy  the 
reality  of  daily  existence.  Most  actors  aren't  born  in  Hollywood; 
they  come  there  from  small  towns,  big  cities  and  farms  to  form 
a  hybrid  society  of  their  own — a  society  where  new  values  often 
conflict  with  the  old.  It  is  understandable  that  some  actors  should 
lose  their  footing,  that  they  should  be  swept  along  on  the  tides  of 
unreality  out  of  sight  of  firm  ground.  They  are  only  people,  over- 
whelmed by  sudden  good  fortune  and  fame. 

However,  it  is  true  that  as  people  they  are  responsible  for  their 
behavior.  No  excuses  can  justify  shallow  or  immoral  actions, 
but  neither  is  it  justifiable  to  condemn  Hollywood  as  a  whole 
for  the  transgressions  of  a  few.  To  these  few,  love  is  a  laugh  and 
so  is  divorce,  and  though  families  are  fun,  fun  gets  boring.  Their 
life  is  confusion,  and  it  may  well  be  that  they  would  be  just  as 
confused  if  they  lived  in  Detroit,  Saskatchewan  or  the  Mohawk 
Valley.  The  majority  of  Hollywood  actors  are  fine  citizens  who 
value  their  homes,  their  families  and  their  careers.  Without 
these  people  Hollywood  would  be  lost,  with  them  Hollywood 
measures  up  to  every  other  worthwhile  American  community. 
Now  for  a  more  complete  report  on  "Love  in  Hollywood,"  please 
turn  the  page. 


love  in  hollywood 


a  psychologist  loolcs  at  liz  taylor 


A  distinguished 
Hollywood  psychologist, 
anonymous  because 
of  ethical  reasons, 
probes  the  background 
of  Hollywood's  most 
discussed  divorce. 


■  This  year  will  mark  my  twentieth  anniversar\'  as  a  practicing  psychologist  in  Hollywood. 

In  the  course  of  that  period  I've  treated  motion  picture  personalities  ranging  from  the 
very  famous  to  the  unknown.  Dozens  of  stars  have  come  to  me  with  their  neuroses  and 
fears,  their  troubles  and  complexes,  and  I've  helped  them  as  best  I  could. 

These  20  years  of  practice  have  taught  me  a  fair  amount  about  the  problems  likely  to 
arise  in  the  careers  and  lives  of  movie  stars.  I  can  anticipate  their  behavior,  and  can  often 
predict  the  outcome. 

Last  May  6th  when  lovely  Elizabeth  Taylor  was  married  to  young  Nicky  Hilton  in  one 
of  those  dreamy,  publicized  weddings  that  make  world-wide  headlines,  I  happened  to  say 
to  one  of  my  nurses,  "I'll  be  surprised  if  that  marriage  lasts  two  years.'" 

Now  my  nurse,  who  is  a  young  and  pretty  little  thing  with  lots  of  Stardust  in  her  eyes, 
happens  to  be  a  rabid  Liz  Taylor  fan.  My  casual  remark  irritated  her.  "Why  do  you  say 
that,  doctor?"  she  asked.  "Don't  you  believe  in  young  love?" 

"Sure,  I  believe  in  young  love,"  I  answered.  "Only  I  don't  think  these  two  kids  have  a 
chance  in  a  milhon  of  making  a  go  of  their  marriage." 

That  statement  was  tinder  which  set  my  nurse  to  flame.  Her  eyes  sparked  fire.  "I  know 
you've  analyzed  a  lot  of  movie  people,"  she  snapped,  "but  in  this  case  I  think  you're 
dead  wrong.  What  makes  you  so  sure?"  {Continued  on  page  103) 


and  an  ex-sweetheart  looks  hack 


At  sweet  16 

there  was  Peter  Lawf  ord, 
her  first  love  .  .  . 


i 


They  met  two  years  ago. 


■  If,  on  the  eve  of  her  sixteenth  birthday,  Elizabeth  Taylor  could  have  announced  to  her 
dinner  guests  that  she  was  engaged  to  Peter  Lawford,  she  would  have  been  the  happiest 
girl  in  the  world — and  might  still  have  been. 

But  at  16,  even  a  mature  16,  crushes  are  never  taken  very  seriously. 

"Liz  is  the  most  wonderful  girl  I  know,''  Peter  told  a  friend.  "But  she's  too  young.  I'm 
25.  She's  16.  But  in  a  couple  of  years  if  she  still  feels  the  same  way  anything  can  happen." 

In  a  couple  of  years  she  met  Nicky  Hilton,  and  her  crush  was  overshadowed  b}-  courtship 
and  marriage.  Now,  for  Elizabeth,  Peter  Lawford  exists  in  a  world  that  "might  have 
been,"  and  probably  never  will  be,  although  stranger  things  have  happened. 

Certainly,  if  Liz  had  married  Peter,  their  union  would  have  been  one  of  the  most  popular 
ever  celebrated  in  HoDywood.  They  had,  and  have,  almost  ever)^thing  in  common.  Both 
were  born  in  England.  Both  have  a  wholesome  attitude  toward  life.  A  Hollywood  social 
butterfly  once  said  of  Peter,  "He's  such  a  nice  guy  he's  almost  nauseating.  I  tried  going 
with  him  for  a  while  and  I  never  saw  the  inside  of  a  nightclub.  We  played  tennis,  shot 
skeet,  went  surfboard  riding,  horseback  riding,  bowling,  and  then  sat  up  until  four  a.m. 
every  morning  listening  to  music  in  his  den.  He  kissed  me  exactly  three  times.  The  athletic 
program  was  so  exhausting,  I  had  to  go  to  Giro's  ever>'  night  for  a  week  to  rest  up  with  a 
local  hot  dog."  {Continued  on  page  82) 


49 


WIDE  OPEN-ALL-NIGI^T  LAS  VEGAS.  NEVADA   (ABOVE)   IS  A 


We're  in  the  same  state, 
but  don't  confuse  us  with  Reno, 
says  Las  Vegas.  Lots  more  wed  than 

shed  here — look  at  the  record. 

BY  JOHN  MAYNARD 


they  took 


Betty  Stable  married  Harry 
James  in  July,  1943. 


Andy  and  Delia  Russell  have 
been  wed  since  1945. 


In  1946,  Eleanor  Parker  becami 
Mrs.  Bert  Friedlob. 


COLORFUL   JUMBLE    OF    GAMBLING    SPOTS,    "WEDDINGS    WHILE    YOU  WAIT' 


CHAPELS.    AND    LUXURIOUSLY   ELEGANT   RESORT  HOTELS. 


their  love  to  las  vegas 


■  On  a  spring  afternoon  several  years  ago.  two  notable 
Hollywood  marriages  were  taking  place  at  roughly  the  same 
time;  one  in  a  stately  Beverly  Hills  church,  the  other  before 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace  in  a  stretch  of  Nevada  desert  known 
as  Las  Vegas. 

The  Beverly  Hills  nuptials  were  a  model  of  propriety — 
universally  attended  and  blessed  by  parental  approval.  The 
bride  and  groom,  romantic  darlings  of  their  respective 
pubhcs,  had  known  each  other  two  years,  18  months  of 
which  were  spent  in  decorous  courtship.  Their  marriage  was 
launched  on  a  wave  of  journalistic  tears,  and  they  sailed 


away  into  the  sunset  on  a  bark  that  looked  every  bit  as 
seaworthy  as  the  U.S.S.  Missouri.  The  voyage  lasted  shghtly 
less  than  a  year  before  it  yawed,  foundered,  and  disintegrated 
in  a  rather  hideous  explosion.  Love,  it  would  seem,  had 
perished  somewhere  between  Romanoff's  and  the  wide  blue 
yonder. 

The  other  young  couple  had  driven  to  Las  Vegas  from 
Hollywood  in  a  state  of  suspicious  merriment  at  the  tag  end 
of  a  dawn  party.  They  had  been  acquainted  for  exactly  18 
hours.  The  groom  used  one  of  the  bride's  earrings  for  a  sub- 
stitute wedding  band.  Both  had  (Cmtinued  on  page  73) 


the  real  victims  of 


I 


Deirdre  and  Rory  are  Errol  Flynn's  daughters  by 
Nora  Eddlngion.  Now  Dick  Haymes  is  their  step-papa. 


J 


love  in  hollywood 


In  the  final  analysis  of  Hollywood 
love,  it's  the  children  of  broken 
marriages  who  are  the  innocent 
victims  of  their  parents'  follies. 


■  "There  is  no  such  thing  as  a  quiet  or 
amicable  divorce  in  the  movie  colony  if 
children  are  concerned,"  a  HolhTv'ood  psy- 
chiatrist recently  said.  '"Long  after  the  news- 
paper stories  stop,  the  headlines  keep  scream- 
ing out  their  terrible  news  in  the  hearts  of 
the  youngsters."  » 

Not  far  off  one  of  Hollywood's  prominent 
boulevards  stands  a  large,  well-kept  mansion 
looking  verj'  much  like  the  lovely  home 
of  a  screen  star.  In  a  sense  this  home,  which 
has  been  converted  into  a  boarding  school,  is 
an  unhappy  monument  to  the  HolhTV'ood 
loves  which  have  failed.  Here  the  children 
of  broken  marriages  have  come  to  live  tempo- 
rarily— residue  of  failure,  pushed  to  one 
side — while  their  parents  occupy  themselves 
in  making  a  new  tr>'  for  romantic  happiness. 

The  children  play  like  any  other  children. 
They  seem  to  laugh  as  readily  and  even  to 
react  as  normally.  Yet  the  unalterable  fact  is 
that  each  of  them  has  suffered  an  emotional 
wound,  a  distortion  of  social  feeling  from 
which  only  the  most  fortunate  will  ever  be 
able  to  recover. 

Not  all  of  these  children  are  from  the 
homes  of  stars.  But  at  one  time,  when  there 
were  30  of  them  registered,  ever\'  j-oungster 
but  one  was  from  a  mo\'ie  home  that  had 
split  up. 

The  educators  who  run  this  boarding  school 
are  understanding  and  expert  at  caring  for 
children  whose  sense  of  security  in  parental 
love  has  thus  been  shaken,  but  their  job  is 
heartbreakingly  difficult.  'T  just  can't  take  it 
any  more,"  said  one  teacher  on  leaving  for 
another  post.  "Its  like  shepherding  a  bunch 
of  lost,  httle  souls.  There  ought  to  be  a  law 
compelling  parents  who  are  divorce-minded 
to  stop  off  here  first  and  picture  their  own 
children  trying  to  pretend  that  an  institution 
is  a  home.  They  Will  at  least  have  some  sort 
of  idea  then  what  price  the  innocents  pay 
when  a  family  splits  apart." 

While  it  is  true  that  Hollywood's  unhappy 
marital  record  is  no  higher  than  the  national 
average,  its  children  suffer  more  cruelly  from 
the  publicity,  and  over  longer  periods  of 
time.  As  long  as  either  of  their  parents  is 
prominent  in  the  {Continued  on  page  76) 


THE  SHATTERED  MARRIAGE  of  Dick  Hoymes  and  Joanne  Dru  produced 
three  children,  who  now  hove  so  nnany  parents  they  don't  know  what  to  do — 
OS  Daddy  is  married  to  Nora  Eddington  and  Mother  is  Mrs.  John  Ireland. 


at  marriage  and  twins,  Tim  and  Gregory  benefit  by  their  sensible  behavior. 


charting  love  in  hollywood 


JOHN  AGAR,  29.  Ex-husband  Shirley  Temple. 
Financial  status:  excellent.  His  acting  career  is  doing 
well,  and  he  may  gain  new  riches  as  a  crooner.  Girl 
friends:  Paula  Raymond  and  Gloria  De  Haven. 
Prediction:  He'll  fight  shy  of  glamor  girls  when  it, 
comes  to  marriage.  A  burnt  child,  he's  a  good  target 
for  some  Little  Miss  Nobody. 

SCOTT  BRADY,  25.  Never  married,  but  had  close 
call  with  Dorothy  Malone.  Financial  status:  Ham- 
burger stage  now,  but  he's  looking  ahead,  so  is  close 
with  a  dollar.  Disposition:  like  a  merry-go-round,  but 
a  better  tune.  Girl  friends;  Ann  BIyth  and  the  next 
girl  he  meets.  Prediction:  Due  for  close  altar  escapes, 
but  may  marry  in  1951— to  a  top  Glamor  Type. 

MARLON  BRANDO,  27.  Never  married.  Financial 
status:  never  know  from  looking  at  him  that  he  earns 
a  dime.  Disposition:  puzzling.  Girl  friends:  Shelley 
Winters  and  nameless  others.  Prediction:  He'll  be  a 
hard  one  to  catch;  acts  more  stand-offish  than  Monty 
Clift  on  a  bad  day.  Non-professional  girl  is  almost 
certain  to  become  future  Mrs.  Brando. 

MONTY  CLIFT,  31.  Never  married  and  insists  he 
doesn't  core  much.  Financial  status:  Up  in  the  big 
brackets.  Disposition:  Excellent  when  you  get  to  know 
him,  but  who  does?  Dates:  Sharman  Douglas.  Pre- 
dict/on: Clift  will  still  be  a  bachelor  by  year's  end, 
but  pressure  will  be  so  great  that  he  will  start  dating 
more  girls,  and  in  1952,  goodbye! 

TONY  CURTIS,  26.  Never  married,  but  he'd  settle 
for  Janet  Leigh.  Financial  status:  It's  hard  to  live  on 
$250  a  week  in  Hollywood,  but  he's  on  the  up-grade. 
Disposition:  like  he  discovers  a  gold  mine  every 
morning.  Current  heart  beat:  Ask  Janet.  Prediction: 
If  he  and  Janet  don't  "I  Do"  each  other  before  June, 
they'll  eventually  marry  two  other  people. 

HOWARD  DUFF,  34.  Never  married  and  very  cagey. 
Would  have  settled  for  Ava  Gardner  but  not  now. 
Financial  status:  just  short  of  Bank  of  America.  Girt 
friends:  keeping  it  quiet.  Disposition:  Smiles  on  alter- 
nate Thursdays.  Prediction:  Acts  the  opposite,  but 
would  like  to  have  wife  and  kiddies;  thinks  there's 
little  chance  with  the  Hollywood-type  girl. 

FARLEY  GRANGER,  25.  Never  married;  discount 
talk  about  Shelley  Winters.  Financial  status:  fair 
ond  warmer.  Disposition:  What  every  woman  sighs 
for.  Girl  friends:  Mostly  Shelley  Winters.  Prediction: 
Farley  mistrusts  his  own  popularity,  has  been  dis- 
contented about  career.  Likely  to  go  social  route 
with  Mrs.  Gary  Cooper  type;  but  they're  hard  to  find. 

ROCK  HUDSON,  26.  Never  married.  Fincial  status: 
Slim  pickings,  but  it's  early  in  his  career.  Disposition: 
Friendly  as  a  collie.  Girl  friends:  He  dates  Vera-Ellen 
whom  he  wanted  to  marry.  Prediction:  Would  make 
a  fine  husband  for  a  girl  like  Vera-Ellen,  but  may 
prefer  to  wait  awhile  longer  now,  since  confusion  has 
set  in  and  their  romance  is  on  and  off. 

PETER  lAWFORD,  27.  Never  married.  (See  story 
page  48.)  Financial  status:  Prize  catch  in  Hollywood 
in  this  respect.  Disposition:  Plus  perfect,  an  army  of 
former  girl  friends  soy.  Prediction:  Pete  will  not 
marry  Sharman  Douglas,  but  sometime  in  1951,  in 
current  frame  of  mind,  he  may  decide  for  a  fling  at 
matrimony.  Bored  with  being  a  bachelor. 

RONALD  REAGAN,  39.  Ex-husband  of  Jane  Wyman. 
Financial  status:  Good  as  vintage  wine.  Disposi- 
tion: acts  disillusioned,  claims  he  isn't.  Girl  friends: 
Nancy  Davis,  Sally  Forrest  and  several  others.  Pre- 
diction: Reagan  swears  he  no  longer  totes  the  Wy- 
man torch,  but  is  perfect  husband  type  and  a  girl 
like  her  is  liable  to  win  the  jackpot  with  him. 


ANN  BLYTH,  22.  Never  married  and  considered 
best  catch  of  all.  Financial  status:  No  heiress,  but  has 
saved  her  money.  Disposition:  Proof  positive  that  a 
nice,  wholesome  girl  can  be  fun  and  important  in 
Hollywood.  Boy  friends:  Glenn  Davis  and  Scott 
Brady.  Prediction:  The  Glenn  Davis  romance  may  be 
more  solid  than  it  looks.  They'd  moke  a  great  pair. 

NANCY  DAVIS,  28.  Unmarried.  Financial  status: 
Middle-bracket.  Disposition:  Intelligent,  glamorous 
but  still  home-townish.  Boy  friends:  Ronald  Reagan, 
Bob  Walker.  Prediction:  Either  Reagan  or  Walker, 
and  probably  the  latter  could  win  her  heart,  but 
they'll  have  to  prove  that  they  aren't  just  "hoping  it 
will  work  out." 

VERA-ELLEN,  25.  Once  married  before  she  come 
to  Hollywood.  Didn't  date  for  a  year  after  she  en- 
tered movies.  Financial  status:  Good.  Disposition: 
Wonderful  for  a  career-minded  girl.  Boy  friends: 
Rock  Hudson,  Henry  Willson,  A.  C.  Lyies.  Prediction: 
Disconcerted  by  divorces  of  friends,  she  is  likely  to 
remain  devoted  to  her  career  at  least  a  year. 

JOAN  EVANS,  16.  Unmarried  and  unlikely  to  be 
in  o  hurry  to  jump  at  romance.  Financial  status:  Ex- 
cellent. Disposition:  Calm,  friendly,  sweet,  sensible, 
and  exciting.  Boy  friends:  Half-a-dozen  swell  young 
boys,  but  there  seems  to  be  no  particular  favorite. 
Prediction:  Joan  won't  marry  before  she  is  20,  and 
her  first  marriage  will  be  her  last. 

AVA  GARDNER,  28.  Twice  married  and  still  going 
with  Frank  Sinatra.  Financial  status:  Thor's  gold  bock 
of  that  beautiful  scenery.  Disposition:  Exciting  and 
wonderful.  Boy  friends:  Sinatra,  when  he's  around. 
Prediction:  Ava  is  being  true  to  Frank,  but  there  is 
much  against  their  marriage  and  Ava  is  reluctant  to 
make  a  move  while  Frank  is  still  legally  wed. 

PIPER  LAURIE,  18.  Never  married  and  due  to  be 
one  of  1951 's  most  exciting  girls.  Financial  status: 
Just  as  a  beginner,  but  who  cares?  Disposition:  As 
sunny  as  her  bright  locks.  Boy  friends:  Vic  Damone 
has  the  inside  track.  Prediction:  Piper  is  one  of  the 
few  sensible  girls  who  won't  let  her  heart  run  away 
with  her  in  a  great  big  hurry. 

JANET  LEIGH,  23.  Twice  married,  considered  the 
most  glamorous  girl  since  Rita  Hayworth.  Financial 
status.  Not  wealthy.  Disposition:  Like  an  animated 
rainbow,  but  temperamental  in  a  radiant  sort  of 
way.  Prediction:  Janet  looks  like  she's  in  love,  acts 
like  she's  in  love,  but  very  well  might-  not  be  until 
a  more  mature  man  comes  along. 

MARILYN  MONROE,  20.  Once  married  at  16,  then 
tragically  disappointed  by  the  death  of  Johnny 
Hyde.  Financial  status:  Some  as  any  other  newcomer. 
Disposition;  Sultry  and  shining.  Prediction:  Marilyn 
won't  marry  for  at  least  a  year  unless  someone  sud- 
denly appears  who  can  make  her  forget  the  past  in 
a  rush.  Due  to  be  one  of  the  all-time  Glamor  Girls. 

LIZABETH  SCOTT,  26.  Never  married  and  never  on 
the  verge  until  she  met  Herb  Caen.  Financial  status: 
Like  a  Cadillac  turned  human.  Boy  friends:  A  whole 
gang  she  hasn't  cared  for.  Prediction:  Liz  has  often 
said  she'd  like  to  be  married.  Would  make  an  ex- 
cellent, exotic  wife,  and  just  the  type  for  a  sophisti- 
cated writer  the  likes  of  Caen. 

SHELLEY  WINTERS,  28.  Married  once.  Financial 
status:  Salting  away  her  hard  earned  cash.  Disposi- 
tion: Somewhere  between  froth  from  champagne  and 
a  female  boxer.  Boy  friends:  Farley  Granger; 
Granger,  Farley.  Prediction:  Shelley  has  been  a 
mixed  up  young  lady.  Is  as  likely  to  elope  to  Las 
Vegas  as  not  to  marry  at  all;  a  bad  betting  risk. 


Crash!  Bam! 
Alakazam!  That's  Betty 
Hutton  coming  home. 
Michigan  reeled  and  rallied  to 
show  how  it  loved 
her.  You  can  see  for 
yourself  on  the 
following  pages  .  .  . 


what  happened  when 

HUTTON 
HIT 

MICHIGAN! 


Hutton  fans  mobbed  the  Grinnel  Music  Co.  store  when  Betty  came  to  outogroph  records  ond  stage  an  impromptu  show  atop  o 


■  The  pictures  on  these  and  the  next 
pages  show  the  triumphant  return  of 
Betty  Hutton  to  her  hometown.  She 
began  her  career  as  a  singer  in  the  beer 
joint  two  photos  to  the  right,  and  she 
never  forgot  it.  She  never  forgot  the 
schoolkids,  the  friends,  the  relatives, 
even  the  strangers  who  watched  her 
spectacular  chmb  to  fame.  Betty's 
reunion  with  the  whole  state  of  Mich- 
igan started  in  Detroit,  worked  its  way 
through  Lansing,  Battle  Creek  and 
Grand  Rapids.  In  executive  mansions, 
theaters,  stores  and  hotels  Betty  wowed 
the  people.  The  trip  over,  she  headed 
home,  and  Michigan  pulled  itself  to- 
gether as  best  it  could,  being  somewhat 
awed  and  completely  devastated  by 
Hutton's  brand  of  lightning. 


Bettv  visited  old  friends  and  old  haunts  between  shows. 


Her  mother  argued  with  Betty  about  where  Betty  vikited  the  beer  joint  where  si 
the  kitchen  used  to  be  in  their  old  Lansing  used  to  sing  for  a  living.  The  proi 
home,  while  tenant  Larry  Maisel  looked  on.      owner  served  her  at  o  ringside  tabi 


After  performing  at  tfie  Michigan  Theater,  which  premiered  Let's 
Dance,  Betty  relaxed  in  her  dressingroom  for  half  an  hour  then 
rushed  to  her  suite  at  the  Book  Cadillac  Hotel  to  entertain  old  friends. 


A  round  of  broadcasts  and  personal  appearances  started  imme- 
diately after  Betty  arrived.  She  rehearsed  with  Herschel  Lieb's 
orchestra.  Betty's  next  pix  is  Paro.'s  The  Greatest  Show  On  Earth. 


Betty  introduced  her  mother,  Mabel,  to  the  Michigan  Theater  au- 
dience and  the  two  sang  "Harvest  Moon."  Afterward,  Mabel 
invited  old  friends  in  the  audience  to  visit  them  at  the  hotel. 


It  seemed  as  if  half  of  Michigan  had  known  her  when  she  was  a  kid  singing  for  pennies. 


Mrs.  Hutton  used  to  work  in  this  Chrysler 
plant,  but  was  escorted  through  it  on  her  visit 
by  the  president  of  the  corporation,  himself. 


Betty  attended  morning  classes  at  her  alma 
mater,  the  Foch  Intermediate  School.  She  em- 
braced her  teacher,  and  sat  at  her  old  desk. 


In  Lansing,  Betty  looked  up  on  old  danc- 
ing friend,  discovered  that  he  owned  this 
bar    and    grill.    His    wife    served  her. 


lutton  hit  michigan  continued 


Betty  met  four 
mayors,  dined  with 
the  Governor, 
and  dated  the 
public  for  the  best 
time  of  her  life. 


Mayor  Albert  Cobo  welcomed  Betty  to  Detroit,  intro- 
duced her  to  Deputy  Treasurer  MacGregor  Neville. 
Betty  asked  if  the  key  to  the  city  opened  the  vaults. 


Betty  was  escorted  to  Lansing  by  state  trooper 
Ken  Christensen  who  turned  out  to  be  o  child- 
hood pal.  She  introduced  him  to  the  governor. 


A  After  touring  the  Chrysler  plant,  Betty  ond  her  mother  were  lunch  ^  As  soon  as  Betty  arrived  in  Lansing,  Governor  Williams,  his  wife  and 
guests  in  the  executive  dining  room.  Betty  sot  between  L.  L.  Colbert,  three  children  called  on  her.  Later,  the  governor  introduced  her  at  o 
the  Corp.  Pres.  ond  D.  A.  Wallace,  Pres.  of  the  Chrysler  Division.       luncheon  sponsored  by  "The  Red  Stocking,"  a  local  charity  organization. 


PROUD  OF  YOU  r 


Lansings  mayor  accompanied  Betty  to  the 
house  she  lived  in  as  a  child.  The  Lansing  His- 
torical Society   had   placed   c   plaque  t-here. 


Betty  stopped  off  at  Grand  Rapids  where  she 
was  guest  of  the  mayor.  She  assured  him  that 
she'd  be  campaign  manager  if  he  needed  one. 


Battle  Creek's  Mayor  Bill  Bailey  v/el- 
comed  her  with  traditional  key  and  kiss. 
Later,  Betty  entertained  her  relatives. 


Betty  greeted  Battle  Creek  relotives  at  the  Post  Tavern;  Betty 
mother,  her  great  uncle  Ray,  great  aunt  Jessie,  cousin  Lou- 
rence  Walker,  his  wife,  Mrs.  S.  Lehman,  her  daughter-in-law. 


V/hen  Betty  come  off  the  stage  at  the  Michigan  Theater  she  was 
soaked  from  head  to  foot  and  had  lost  her  voice.  After  a  short 
cooling-off  process,  though,  she  was  ready,  as  usual,  for  a  party. 


Hutton-klllod  her  audience  In  Battle  Creek,  and  almost  killed  herself,  but 
she  was  unsatisfied  with  her  performance.  The  next  day,  her  hectic,  though  in- 
spiring trip  was  over.  After  a  bubblebath  she  hopped  a  plane  for  Hollywood. 


59 


YOUR  VOICE 
IN  HOLLYWOOD 


We  would  like  to  have  you  tell  us 
how  your  motion  picture  theaters 
can  best  serve  you.  These  questions 
are  being  asked  simultaneously  of 
movie-goers  in  the  Fanchon  &  Marco 
Theaters  of  St.  Louis,  and  the  com- 
bined results  will  be  put  before 
Hollywood  leaders  for  immediate 
action.  This  is  your  chance  to  tell 
Hollywood   what  you   really  want. 

I.  I  attend  the  movies: 
[J  several  times  a  week 

□  once  a  week,  approximately 

□  once  a  month,  approximately 
n  less  than  once  a  month 


2.  The  three  types  of  films  I  like 
best  ore;  (check  three) 

□  adventures 

□  serious  drama 

□  historical  films 


□  comedy 

□  romance 

□  musicals 

□  mysteries 


3.  I  select  films  I  wish  to  see  be- 
cause of: 

n  featured  stars 

jn  newspaper  or  moqazlne  reviews 
[]]  word  of  mouth  recommendations 

4.  My  home  Q  does    O  does  not 
contain  a  television  set 

5.  I  usually  attend  the  movies  with: 
Q  my  family 

□  my  friends 

□  alone 

6.  I  believe  a  fair  price  for  movie 
odmlssion  is  

7.  My  three  favorite  movies  during 
1950  were: 


My  three  favorite  movie  stars 
of  today  are: 


9.  The  three  stars  I  like  least  are: 
0  

b  .  


10.  My  three  favorite  stars  of  to- 
morrow are: 


M.I  prefer:  (check  one) 
[3  double  features 
(3]  single  features 

i  2.  Personal  data 

□  female     □  male     □  °ge. 

occupation..;  


Genero!  comments: 


Clip  and  moil  to; 
MOVIEGOER'S    POLL,  Modern 
Screen,  Box   125,  Murray  Hill  Sta- 
tion, New  York  16,  N.  Y. 


hollywoodVten  best  citizens 


(Continued  from  page  39)  headlines.  Yet 
it  is  important  now  that  Americans  every- 
where salute  Hollywood  citizens  like  Ann 
and  the  others  mentioned  on  these  pages. 
They  are  in  a  sense  typical  of  the  thousands 
who  are  quietly  doing  their  very  best  for 
their  country. 

To  choose  those  Hollywood  citizens  most 
worthy  of  recognition,  Modern  Screen  en- 
listed the  aid  of  America's  top  columnists. 
These  columnists  studied  the  qualifications 
of  many  stars,  and  selected  ten  in  secret 
ballot.  Those  who  voted  were  Herb  Caen 
of  the  San  Francisco  Examiner,  Louella 
Parsons,  Hedda  Hopper,  SheUah  Graham, 
Harrison  Carroll  and  Erskine  Johnson, 
Hollywood  syndicated  columnists;  Earl 
Wilson,  New  York  Post;  Ed  Sullivan,  New 
York  Daily  News;  Louis  Sobol  of  the  New 
York  Journal  American  and  Cedric  Adams 
of  the  Minneapolis  Star-Journal. 

Now  the  votes  have  been  counted,  and  it 
falls  to  us  to  tell  you  briefly  about  Holly- 
wood's Ten  Best  Citizens.  We  chose  to 
mention  Ann  Blyth  first,  not  because  it  is 
the  intention  to  rate  one  star  above  an- 
other, but  because  Arm  happens  to  be  the 
youngest  of  our  best  citizens,  and  as  such 
she  is  an  inspiration  to  a  legion  of  young 
people  throughout  the  United  States. 

At  21,  Ann  is  the  youngest  member  of 
the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Screen 
Actors'  Guild.  She  is  honorary  Mayor  of 
Toluca  Lake.  For  three  years  now  she  has 
averaged  about  200  benefits  a  year,  raising 
funds  for  charities  sponsored  by  people  of 
all  faiths.  Her  beautiful  voice,  fine  spirit 
and  endless  energy  have  been  an  inspira- 
tion to  the  point  that  the  movie  industry's 
top  men  refer  to  her  as  Hollywood's  Am- 
bassadress of  Good  Will. 

The  reason  we  talk  so  much  about  Ann 
is  that  she  is  typical  of  the  younger  play- 
ers of  Hollywood  who  will  inherit  the  civic 
responsibilities  of  Hollywood's  future.  The 
other  and  better-known  players  have  es- 
tablished a  legacy  of  citizenship  which  will 
be  passed  on  to  these  young  people. 

In  a  way,  Ann  is  a  younger  version  of 
another  of  Hollywood's  "Ten  Best" — Irene 
Dunne.  As  you  may  know,  it  is  possible  to 
win  a  name  for  charitable  work  by  merely 
accepting  a  number  of  chairmanships  for 
various  high-sounding  drives.  Such  is  not 
the  case  with  Irene.  No  one  worked  hard- 
er than  she  did  during  the  recent  campaign 
to  raise  funds  to  finish  a  wing  of  St.  John's 
Hospital.  The  wing  will  house  research 
labs  and  wards  for  the  study  and  cure  of 
children's  diseases.  Irene  has  had  a  long 
record  of  achievements.  She  plunged  ac- 
tively into  last  year's  senatorial  campaign 
and  was  responsible  in  no  small  degree  for 
the  success  of  her  candidate.  Wherever 
she  has  gone,  she  has  captured  both  the 
love  and  respect  of  her  fellow  Americans. 

Not  long  ago  we  talked  with  a  famous 
doctor  about  the  tendency  of  American 
people  to  require  constant  help  from  psy- 
chiatrists. "Why,"  we  asked,  "are  so  many 
men  and  women  today  turning  into  help- 
less neurotics?" 

"The  answer,"  he  replied,  "is  quite  sim- 
ple. Whatever  the  original  cause  of  his  or 
her  trouble,  the  individual  who  cracks  un- 
der the  strain  of  modern  living  is  first  and 
foremost  extremely  self-centered.  The 
young  woman  who  winds  up  in  a  divorce 
court,  goes  to  a  psychiatrist  to  straighten 
out  her  unhappy  life  and  eventually  may 
emerge  as  cured.  And  what  has  she  dis- 
covered? In  essence,  it  is  the  fact  that  when 
she  stops  thinking  about  herself  and  be- 
gins to  think  about  others,  she  suddenly 
becomes  happy  and  successful. 

How  true  this  is  can  be  seen  in  taking  a 
brief  look  at  our  other  best  citizens:  Jack 
Benny,  Bob  Hope  and  Eddie  Cantor.  I 


mention  these  as  a  trio,  and  it  is  hardly 
necessary  to  mention  what  they  do.  Almost 
every  day  we  can  see  and  hear  these  great 
performers,  working  for  the  March  of 
Dimes,  entertaining  troops,  going  all  out 
for  other  people,  and  worthy  causes.  We'll 
wager  this,  that  if  in  another  poll  we 
sought  to  discover  the  happiest  people  in 
the  country,  these  men  would  rate  very 
close  to  the  champions. 

Among  the  "Ten  Best"  are  Ronald  Rea- 
gan, former  President  of  the  Screen  Actors' 
Guild,  ex-serviceman,  youngest  man  ever 
to  be  honored  by  the  Friars  Club  for  in- 
dustry services  .  .  .  Joan  Crawford,  who 
has  maintained  two  rooms  for  needy  pa- 
tients in  Hollywood  hospital  for  15  years, 
was  responsible  for  three  shiploads  of 
milk  going  to  children  in  France,  worked 
tirelessly  in  the  war  effort,  and  in  1949  was 
Red  Feather  Woman  for  the  Community 
Chest  .  .  .  Bing  Crosby,  who  has  quietly 
served  his  government  on  broadcast  after 
broadcast,  sponsored  many  a  benefit  and 
hospital  tour,  and  keeps  completely  mum 
about  any  and  all  good  deeds  .  .  .  Rosalind 
Russell,  you'd  have  to  write  a  book  about 
her,  filled  with  names  of  organizations  like 
Red  Cross,  Jewish  Home  for  the  Aged, 
American  Veteran's  Service  Foundation, 
Hollywood  Canteen,  John  Tracy  Clinic, 
Catholic  charities,  and  dozens  of  others. 
Not  bad  for  a  girl  whose  main  chore  in 
life,  most  people  believe,  is  to  be  the  zany 
comedienne.  Last  and  as  important  as  the 
first  named  is  Loretta  Young,  President  of 
St.  Anne's  Maternity  Hospital  Guild,  active 
in  hospital  appearances,  the  PTA  and  the 
Catholic  Church — the  actress  who  gives  all 
proceeds  of  her  radio  broadcasts  to  her 
favorite  charity. 

Dozens  of  other  stars  were  named  in 
the  voting.  The  columnists  who  cooperated 
with  Modern  Screen  put  a  great  deal  of 
thought  into  the  matter.  For  instance,  Ed 
Sullivan  wrote  us,  "To  mention  just  a  few. 
I'd  say  that  the  really  outstanding  citizens 
I  know  about  are:  Walt  Disney,  Frank 
Capra,  William  Wyler,  Bob  Hope,  Jack 
Benny,  Irene  Dunne,  Dinah  Shore,  Pat 
O'Brien,  Bing  Crosby,  Charles  Laughton, 
Leo  McCarey,  Jimmy  Durante,  Laiirence 
Olivier  and  Abe  Lastvogel."  In  his  con- 
sideration, before  making  a  final  selection 
Mr.  Sullivan  looked  into  the  deeds  of  not 
only  stars,  but  agents  and  executives  as 
well.  For  example,  no  man  ever  served 
his  country  more  intensely  than  did  Holly- 
wood agent  Abe  Lastvogel  with  his  efforts 
in  behalf  of  the  USO.  That  is  why  the 
editors  have  decided  to  provide  below  a 
secondary,  but  equally  important,  list  of 
citizens  of  quality  among  Hollywood's 
executives. 

We  in  Hollywood  are  mighty  proud  of 
cur  Ten  Best  Citizens;  we  honor  them  as 
we  know  you  wiU.  And  it  is  with  a  touch 
of  regret  that  we  cannot  take  space  enough 
to  mention  other  great  citizens  of  our  town 
who  may  be  named  next  year  when  voting 
time  comes  around — people  like  those  stal- 
wart ex-Marines,  Macdonald  Carey,  Bill 
Lundigan  and  Glenn  Ford.  Then  there's 
John  Wayne,  Bob  Young,  Red  Skelton, 
George  Murphy,  Jimmy  Stewart.  And 
among  the  women,  Esther  Wilhams,  Au- 
drey Totter,  Joan  Evans,  Dorothy  Lamour. 
Jane  Powell,  Barbara  Stanwyck  and 
Shirley  Temple. 

Good  citizens  all,  we  salute  you! 
The  End 

Special  Executive  Honorable  Mention 

Modern  Screen  wishes  to  congratulate 
the  following  Hollywood  executives  who 
were  also  me^itioned  hy  a  number  of  the 
famous  columnists  voting:  L.  B.  Mayer. 
Ahe  Lastvogel,  Dore  Schary,  Darryl  Zan- 
uck,  Harry  M.  Warner,  Walt  Disney,  Y. 
Frank  Freeman,  C.  B.  DeMille,  Mrs.  Spen- 
cer Tracy,  George  Jessel,  Douglas  Fair- 
hanks,  Jr.,  Robert  Montgomery. 


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(Continued  from  page  33)  more  like  the 
bleating  of  a  goat. 

They  had  held  him  up  for  her  to  see,  and 
despite  her  semi-conscious  state,  she  had 
immediately  noticed  the  long  upper  lip. 
"He  looks  iust  Uke  Richard,"  she  had  said. 

She  thought  back  over  the  last  nine 
months.  Everything  had  been  so  wonder- 
ful at  first;  and  then  Dick  had  been  con- 
fined to  bed  with  painful  neuritis  in  his 
shoulder.  There  had  been  months  of  that, 
and  she  had  insisted  on  caring  for  him 
herself.  But  at  last  she'd  surrendered  to 
the  idea  of  having  Dick  attended  by  a 
nurse. 

She  supposed  that  she  had  been  tired, 
but  then  it  had  certainly  made  the  time 
fly.  Every  minute  she  wasn't  caring  for 
Dick,  she  had  been  preparing  the  new 
nursery  and  playing  with  Pamela.  Pam 
had  been  so  excited  over  the  idea  of  a  new 
baby,  and  they  had  been  careful  to  prevent 
any  jealous  thoughts.  It  had  worked  rather 
well,  too.  When  they  took  some  of  the' 
pictures  from  the  walls  in  Pamela's  room 
and  hung  them  in  the  nursery,  Pam  had 
gone  to  them  and  run  her  little  fingers  over 
the  frames. 

"Not  mine,"  she  said.  "They're  Her- 
man's." 

There  had  been  the  baby  showers,  and 
she  remembered  the  awful  time  they'd  had 
with  the  invitations.  For  the  shower  given 
her  by  Frances  Bergen  and  Dinah  Shore 
and  Jane  Dart,  there  had  been  beautifully 
printed  invitations,  and  after  they  were 
delivered,  June  had  offered  to  help  by 
pinning  tiny  diaper-shaped  pieces  of  cloth 
on  each  one.  In  the  niiddle  of  pinning  on 
the  46th  diaper,  she  had  a  vague  feeling 
that  something  was  wrong.  "The  printer 
had  omitted  the  date  of  the  shower.  She 
unpinned  all  46  so  that  they  could  be 
sent  back  to  a  printing  press,  and  on  their 
return,  re-pinned  the  entire  batch. 

THhere  had  been  the  preparation  for 
J-  Christmas,  too,  and  the  night  of  Decem- 
ber 23rd  when  she'd  been  putting  gifts  un- 
der the  tree  and  become  conscious  of  the 
pain  in  her  back.  She  had  gone  to  bed 
about  11,  and  although  she'd  fallen  asleep 
immediately,  she  kept  waking  with  that 
strange,  slight  pain.  It  couldn't  be  the 
baby,  she  had  thought.  He  isn't  due  for 
almost  two  weeks.  But  why,  she  wondered, 
do  I  keep  going  to  sleep  and  then  waking 
up?  Sho  began  watching  the  clock  on  the 
table  at  her  side,  and  two  hours  later 
nudged  Dick. 

"My  time  has  come,"  she  announced. 

"Don't  be  siHy."  mumbled  Dick.  Then 
he  sat  straight  up.  "What  do  you  mean?" 

She  pointed  to  the  clock.  "Every  15 
minutes,"  she  said. 

"Now,  be  calm,"  he  said.  "It's  jUst  your 
imagination.  It's  much  too  soon."  He 
leaned  across  her  and  took  the  clock  from 
the  table.  "Tell  you  what,"  he  said.  "Just 
to  prove  it,  I'll  sit  here  on  the  floor  and 
hold  the  clock  and  talk  to  you,  and  I'll  bet 
you  can't  tell  me  when  15  minutes  have 
passed." 

As  it  turned  out,  June  announced  the 
turn  of  15  minutes  for  more  than  an  hour, 
and  Dick  was  becoming  alarmed  v/hen 
she  suddenly  announced  an  •  eight  minute 
interval. 

"There,  you  see?"  he  said.  "Most  ir- 
regular." 

After  another  eight  minutes  June  re- 
quested a  phone  call  to  the  doctor. 

"I'll  do  it,"  Dick  said.  "Just  to  calm 
your  fears." 

He  picked  up  the  phone  and  when  the 
doctor  had  answered,  apologized  for  dis- 
turbing him.  "Jtine  thinks  this  is  it.  But 
it's  just  her  imagination.    She  can't  tell 


the  difference  between  eight  minutes  and 
15  minutes  .  .  .  Wliat?  ...  15  minutes,  and 
then  eight  minutes.  .  .  ."  Dick's  face  froze. 
"Oh.  You  bet.  Right  away." 

He  looked  at  June  in  consternation. 
"Now  just  be  calm,"  he  said,  running  his 
hand  through  his  hair.  "We're  to  go  to  the 
hospital  right  away.  Now  get  dressed  as 
fast  as  you  can,  but  keep  calm." 

He  tore  into  his  dressing  room.  June 
could  hear  running  water,  and  then  foot- 
steps potmding  down  the  haU,  after  which 
there  was  much  knocking  on  doors.  What's 
the  matter  with  me,  she  had  thought.  I'm 
not  even  nervous.  She  swimg  her  feet  out 
of  bed  and  went  into  her  dressing  room, 
and  a  few  minutes  later  Dick  came  bound- 
ing into  the  room  followed  by  Olie,  Pame- 
la's nurse.  June  was  standing  before  a 
mirror,  still  in  her  nightgown,  braiding 
her  hair  into  pigtails. 

"For  heaven's  sake!"  Dick  said.  "You 
aren't  ready  yet!  What  are  you  doing  that 
for?" 

"I  am  not  going  to  have  my  baby  with 
my  hair  looking  a  mess,"  said  June.  "I'll 
be  ready  in  a  little  bit." 

Olie  regarded  her  critically.  "There 
must  be  some  mistake,"  she  said.  "You 
don't  act  like  you're  going  to  have  a  baby." 

"That's  what  I  told  her,"  said  Dick.  Beads 
of  perspiration  stood  on  his  forehead.  "But 
the  doctor  said  to  get  her  down  there  right 
away.  Now,  June,  be  calm,"  he  said,  and 
raced  off  to  another  part  of  the  house. 

In  15  minutes  she  was  ready  and  sitting 
quietly  in  the  car  next  to  Dick,  who  held 
the  wheel  as  though  he  had  a  30  povmd 


HOW  SHE'S  CHANGED! 

June  Allyson  is  one  of  the  most  difficult  of 
all  players  to  interview.  It  is  hard  for 
June  to  talk  about  anything  that  is  close 
to  her — and  the  other  kind  of  material 
doesn't  matter  to  writers. — Louella  Par- 
sons, June,  1945,  Modern  Screen. 


tuna  on  the  other  end  of  it.  At  the  hos- 
pital they  met  the  doctor,  and  June  stopped 
to  chat  with  him,  inquiring  politely  after 
tlie  health  of  his  family. 

Dick  was  all  but  hopping  around  on  one 
foot.  "Ye  gods!"  he  said.  "What  about  our 
family?  Doctor,  can  you  get  her  to  get  in 
bed — or  wherever  she  should  be?" 

It  was  shortly  after  that  that  Jime's 
serenity  melted  away,  and  in  its  place 
came  a  strange  sensation  of  losing  all 
thought,  all  logic.  They  asked  her  to  sign 
her  name  on  the  register  and  she  stood 
there  for  several  minutes,  the  pen  poised 
over  the  paper.  This  is  silly,  she  thought. 
It  can't  be  George,  but  that's  all  I  can 
think  of.  Finally  she  turned  to  the  doctor. 
"I'm  sorry — I  know  it  sounds  stupid — but 
just  what  is  my  name?" 

June  smUed  now,  remembering  it,  and 
turned  her  head  into  the  piUow  for  the 
best  sleep  of  her  life. 

"TjiCK  came  to  the  hospital  that  night,  and 
every  afternoon  and  night  while  she 
was  there,  and  each  time  he  brought  one 
gift  from  under  the  tree.  Aside  from  his 
visits,  there  wasn't  much  fim  about  the 
hospital  stay.  The  phone  rang  perpetually, 
and  strangers  entered  the  room  to  ask  for 
Jime's  autograph.  But  the  worst  of  it  was  ■ 
not  having  Ricky  in  her  arm.s.  He  was  so  ) 
tiny  that  he  stayed  in  an  incubator  for  the^ 
first  three  days,  and  even  when  he  was  re-  i 
moved  from  it,  there  was  no  risking  the 
danger  of  taking  him  out  of  the  warmj 
nursery.  They  wheeled  June  down  to  se^ ' 
him  sleeping  beyond  the  big  glass  window,] 
but  merely  looking  isn't  much  satisfaction^ 
to  a  new  mother.  Dick  took  a  picture  of 


the  baby  the  morning  after  he  was  bom, 
and  when  June  returned  home  she  put  a 
huge  enlargement  of  the  photograph  at 
the  foot  of  her  bed.  Ricky  had  to  stay  at 
the  hospital  for  another  week. 

By  the  time  June  came  home,  Dick  was 
utterly  exhausted.  June  would  often  ask 
him  if  he'd  had  lunch. 

"Of  course,"  he  would  say,  and  then 
think  a  minute.  "Wait — did  I  or  didn't  I? 
I  can't  remember." 

"Well,  go  eat  something,  you  goon." 

And  he'd  come  back  to  the  bedroom  a 
half  hour  later,  grinning  sheepishly.  "Guess 
I  ate  before.  I'm  too  full  to  eat  anything 
now." 

He  was  absolutely  incomprehensible  on 
the  phone.  People  would  call  up  and  ask 
how  June  was. 

"Fine,"  Dick  would  say. 

"How's  the  baby?" 

"She  never  felt  better." 

"How  much  does  the  baby  weigh?" 

"Wonderful." 

After  a  while  people  gave  up  asking. 

The  Friday  before  New  Year's  Eve,  Jime 
went  downstairs  for  the  first  time,  and 
everyone  in  the  house  had  their  Christmas. 
They  had  all  waited  to  open  their  pack- 
ages. Dick  opened  each  package  addressed 
to  June,  held  it  briefly  under  her  nose, 
then  tossed  it  into  a  pile. 

"Have  you  been  keeping  a  record  of  who 
sent  the  gifts?"  said  June. 

"Certainly,"  said  Dick. 

"Where  are  the  cards?" 

"Right  here  in  my  jacket,"  said  Mr. 
Powell,  patting  his  pocket  confidently. 

June  squirmed.  "You  have  written  a 
description  of  the  gift  on  each  card,"  I 
hope." 

He  looked  thoughtful.  "Well,  now  that 
you  mention  it.  .  .  ." 

Dick  left  the  house  on  the  morning  of 
Jcinuary  5th  to  bring  Ricky  home  and 
June  spent  the  longest  hour  of  her 
life.  Then  he  was  there  at  the  door  of  her 
room,  a  blue  bundle  in  his  arms. 

"Here  you  are,  mother,"  he  said,  and 
turned  the  bundle  over  to  June.  She  held 
the  baby  for  more  than  two  hours,  and 
once  he  puckered  up  his  lips  and  exhaled. 

"Look,"  said  June.  "He  looks  just  Like 
you  when  you  whistle." 

Pamela  was  especially  interested.  She 
took  a  good  look  at  the  baby. 

"He  isn't  much  to  look  at,"  June  told 
her.  "No  hair  or  teeth  like  you  have." 

Weeks  later,  Pamela  entered  Richard's 
den  and  put  her  elbows  on  his  knee.  "My 
little  brother  certainly  cries  his  brains 
out,"  she  announced. 

"Hmm,"  said  Dick.  "Why  do  you  sup- 
pose that  is?" 

"I  s'pose  it's  because  he's  not  as  pretty 
as  I  am,"  said  Pamela. 

Everyone  was  careful  to  assure  Pamela 
that  she  was  every  bit  as  precious  as  Ricky. 
When  they  wanted  to  enter  the  nursery 
they  asked  Pam  for  permission  to  see  her 
little  brother,  and  after  weighing  it  care- 
fully in  her  mind,  she  would  give  her  con- 
sent. The  routine  about  his  having  no 
teeth  or  hair  soon  began  to  rankle,  how- 
ever, and  she  switched  wholeheartedly 
over  to  Ricky's  side.  The  last  time  visitors 
remarked  that  the  baby  was  devoid  of  any 
of  his  sister's  charms,  Pamela  looked  them 
up  and  down  with  a  scornful  air. 

"He'll  grow,"  she  said. 

So  win  the  family,  if  June  has  anything 
to  say  about  it.  She  wants  more  babies, 
and  in  the  meantime  is  completely  charmed 
with  her  current  clan.  Each  night  she  tip- 
toes into  the  nursery  to  watch  Ricky 
sleeping  in  his  crib,  then  into  Pamela's 
room  where  she  kisses  the  tousled  blonde 
head.  And  when  she  leaves  these  two 
rooms  she  is  filled  with  a  sense  of  happi- 
ness, a  feeling  that  she  is  really  living  life. 
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TIME:  Tea  for  Two  time. 

PLACE:  Across  a  table,  across  a  room. 

The  slim-lined  "Tea-Timer,"  with 

contrasting  trim  at  panel  pockets 

and  sleeve  inlets,  is  at  home 

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navy,  tangerine,  aqua  and 

coffee.' BY  LENNY  FROCKS. 


TIME:  Your  day  off. 

PLACE:  Your  favorite  playground. 

It's  called  the  "Swirl." 

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a  time  and 


TIME:  That  romantic  moment. 
PLACE:  Beside  your  best  beau. 

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flirtation.  A  demure  fitted  jacket 
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they  took  their  love  to  las  vegas 


(Continued  from  page  51)  difficxilty  re- 
membering the  names  of  their  witnesses 
and  both  showed  a  deplorable  tendency  to 
waive  "Oh,  Promise  Me"  and  "I  Love  You 
Truly"  in  favor  of  a  mysterious  ditty 
called  "Who  Hit  Nellie  in  the  Belly  with 
a  Floimder?",  a  number  that  seemed  to 
have  sentimental  connotations  for  both  of 
them.  Their  marriage,  frowned  upon  by 
press  and  public  alike,  survives  today — 
reasonably  stable  and  very  nearty  as  joy- 
ous as  it  was  at  its  conception. 

Vegas — the  prefatory  "Las '  is  usually 
ignored — likes  to  think  about  that  It's 
proof  of  the  proposition  maintained  by 
Vegans  and  a  vociferous  minority  of  Hol- 
lywoodites  that  impulsive  marriages  (par- 
ticularly in  Las  Vegas)  have  a  good  chance 
of  stirvival.  The  record,  any  Vegan  will 
tell  you,  bears  this  out  And  Vegas,  that 
much  maligned  and  misimderstood  strip 
of  sand,  neon  and  dice  tables  90  minutes 
from  Los  Angeles,  has  a  long  record. 

Tt.  points  with  pride,  for  example,  to  its 
most  cherished  jackpot,  Betty  Grable 
and  Harry  James.  The  details  of  the  wed- 
ding, related  here  for  the  first  time  by  a 
friend  and  witness,  may  read  like  a  Dag- 
wood  Bvmistead  nightmare,  but  remember 
the  payoff. 

■'They  met,"  says  the  friend,  "when  Betty 
went  to  hear  the  James  orchestra  at  the 
Hollywood  Palladiimi.  Betty  preferred 
nothing  to  swing  save  Home  and  Mother, 
and  she  fell  in  love.  When  Harry  headed 
East  for  a  two-week  appearance  at  New 
York's  Hotel  Astor,  Betty  followed."  The 
marriage  was  arranged  there — Betty  was 
to  go  back  to  Hollywood,  then  double  back 
to  Vegas  where  James  would  meet  her, 
arriving  direct  from  the  East  by  train. 


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Slightly  complicated — but  people  who  are 
going  to  be  married  in  Vegas  do  not  let 
trifles  bother  them. 

"I'll  never  forget  that  stifling  desert  night 
of  July  5,  1943,"  their  friend  continued. 
"The  train  was  two  hours  late  and  the 
bride,  waiting  at  the  Last  Frontier,  had 
come  close  to  hysterics  three  times.  She 
was  havmted  by  a  notion  of  omens  and 
finally  left  the  hotel.  She  insisted  on  wait- 
ing at  the  tiny  Las  Vegas  station,  sur- 
rounded by  consolers  and  a  worshipping 
bevy  of  150  or  so  of  the  yoxmger  set. 

"Meanwhile,  back  at  the  hotel,  the  li- 
cense clerk  and  the  minister  decided  to 
go  home  and  go  to  bed.  They  were  dis- 
suaded only  by  Sam  Israel,  then  Fox  pub- 
licist and  friend  of  the  bride,  who  offered 
to  sit  on  both  their  heads  and  beat  them 
with  blackjack  dealers."  The  hour  was 
well  after  three.  It  was  4: 15  before  the 
Union  Pacific's  City  of  Los  Angeles,  west- 
bound from  Salt  Lake  City,  finally  slid  into 
the  platform.  James,  and  two  members 
of  his  band  dismounted  far  down  the  tracks. 

"In  those  days  the  Vegas  platform  proper 
featured  a  knee-high  guard  rope  designed 
to  keep  prospective  passengers  from  wan- 
dering into  the  paths  of  trains  and  so  lose 
their  value  as  prospective  passengers. 
Betty  knew  nothing  about  this.  Anyway, 
it  was  dark  and  she  had  so  much  accumu- 
lated emotion  choking  her  she  wasn't 
thinking.  She  yelled,  'Harry,  darling!'  ran 
forward  full  tUt,  hit  the  rope  and  disap- 
peared into  the  tender  embrace  of  Nevada's 
best  cinders. 

"Not  till  an  hour  or  so  later  did  a  trem- 
bling and  badly  brvdsed  bride  repeat  the 
ceremonial  words  before  Dr.  C.  H.  Sloan, 
her  barely  less  shaken  groom  beside  her. 
Hastily  recruited  witnesses  joined  Sam 
Israel,  Betty  Fumess,  Manny  Sachs,  Mrs. 
Lou  Wasserman  and  other  friends  of  the 
bride  and  groom  (still  steadfast)  number- 
ing such  distinguished  Vegans  as  the  fabu- 
lous gambler  Nick  the  Greek,  who 
approves  of  love,  and  his  less  distinguished 
associates  who  had  to  be  dragged  bodily 
from  their  dice  tables  into  the  two  small 
rooms,  joined  as  one  for  the  occasion." 

The  Las  Vegas  ceremony  is  mercifully 
short — ^though  warm  and  sweet  as  wedding 
ceremonies  anywhere.  "Dearly  beloved," 
said  the  haggard  Dr.  Sloan.  And  Betty's 
voice  broke  badly  as  she  repyeated  the  mcir- 
riage  vows.  In  Hollywood  no  director 
would  have  stood  for  it.  "I,  Betty,  take 
thee  Harry,  to  be  my  la\vftil  wedded  hus- 
band ...  as  long  as  we  both  shall  live.  .  .  ." 

As  long  as  thej'  both  shall  live.  They 
said  it  in  fly-by-night  Vegas  as  dawn  was 
breaking,  and  they're  seven  years  along 
now.  Percentage-wise,  how  many  mar- 
riages anywhere  have  done  as  well? 

THOUGH  nominally  second  to  Reno  as  a 
Hollywood  divorce  center.  Las  Vegas 
denies  the  idea  that  it  caters  to  domestic 
ruptures,  and  points  out  the  1950  totals: 
18,060  marriages  against  only  2,805  divorces. 
Vegas  is  well-stocked  with  divorce  law- 
yers who  make  a  modest  living,  for  the 
most  part.  The  post  of  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  is  however,  conservatively  esti- 
mated to  be  worth  $50,000  a  year.  It's 
traditional  for  Vegans  to  hold  the  post 
only  one  year,  by  the  way. 

Hollywood's  contribution  to  the  divorce 
level  was  slight  Joan  Blond  ell  came  out 
to  shuck  producer  Mike  Todd,  and  more 
recently  Marie  Wilson  put  a  period  once 
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Allan  Nixon.  There  were  others  less  nota- 
ble, but  in  all  only  a  fraction  of  the  total 
number  of  divorces. 

Vegas  has  a  way  of  turning  embittered 
transients  and  passers-through  into  free 


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souls  and  life-long  friends.  Intended 
tourists  have  stopped  to  look,  remained  to 
become  tax-payers.  Victor  Mature,  en 
route  to  Hollywood  after  leaving  the 
Coast  Guard,  dropped  in  for  the  night  and 
was  stUl  to  be  seen  there  three  months 
later.  For  a  considerable  time  Mark 
Stevens  made  Vegas  his  home  between 
pictures.  One  prominent  star  has  made 
plans  to  move  there  for  keeps  as  soon  as  he 
begins  to  slip. 

Some  weeks  ago  a  Hollywood  figure 
sent  a  young  lady  in  his  employ  down  to 
Vegas  to  do  a  few  chores  for  an  enterprise 
he  had  in  mind.  She  sent  word  that  the 
job  would  take  at  least  another  week. 
After  a  month  she  wired  that  she  wasn't 
coming  home  at  all,  and  after  a  long  and 
conceivably  awkward  silence,  she  advised 
him  that  she  was  the  happiest  bride  in  all 
of  Southwest  Nevada.  Inasmuch  as  her 
employer  had  been  considering  marrying 
her  himself,  if  he  ever  got  around  to  it,  he 
was  quite  upset. 

The  Nevada  law  is  lenient  to  divorcees- 
to-be.  It  requires  only  that  its  guests 
spend  a  minimum  of  one  minute  of  every 
day  in  the  state  throughout  the  six  weeks 
mandatory  to  establish  residence.  When 
Marie  Wilson  was  there,  she  was  doing 
her  "My  Friend  Irma"  radio  show  in 
Hollywood.  On  the  day  of  the  show  she 
used  to  leave  town  exactly  one  minute 
after  12  A.M.  and  come  back  in  just  before 
they  dropped  the  gate. 

F  AS  VEGAS  does  not  discourage  the  divorce 
*-*  trade.  On  the  contrary,  it  has  been 
known  to  make  an  outright  pitch  for  it. 
When  the  late  Carole  Landis  was  heard  to 
be  contemplating  a  Reno  separation,  one 
enterprising  Vegas  hotel  man  got  on  the 
phone  and  changed  her  mind. 

But  it  is  weddings  that  Las  Vegas  loves 
best.  Most  of  its  Hollywood  marriages  are 
made  by  creatures  of  impulse,  whose  pri- 
mary purpose  is  to  cut  through  the  three- 
day  wait  imposed  by  California  between 
license  and  altar.  Traveling  an  hour  and  a 
half  by  air,  or  up  to  11  hours  by  mUk  train 
across  the  Sierra  Madres  mountain  range 
and  the  Mojave  desert,  the  stars  may 
settle  at  one  of  four  plush  hotels  sprawled 
along  "The  Strip"  west  of  town.  Two  of 
these,  the  Last  Frontier  and  the  Flamingo 
are  fully  rigged  for  whatever  may  come. 
They  have  their  own  private  chapels.  The 
other  two  hotels  are  El  Rancho  Vegas  and 
Wilbur  Clark's  Desert  Inn,  a  year-old, 
$4,000,000  spa  which  was  the  setting  for 
Ruth  Roman's  recent  union  with  Morti- 
mer Hall. 

Some  indication  of  the  thoroughness  with 
which  Vegas  approaches  the  wedding 
situation  can  be  seen  in  the  following  sec- 
tion of  a  brochure  distributed  by  a  major 
hotel.  This  is  what  show  business  would 
call  a  package  deal: 

"A  single  message  to  our  wedding  direc- 
tor .  .  .  and  all  arrangements  will  be  made 
for  you  ...  a  minister  of  your  own  de- 
nomination, or  if  you  prefer,  a  civil  official 
to  perform  the  ceremony  .  .  .  any  type  of 
flowers  .  .  .  wedding  announcement  .  .  . 
photographs.  If  you  desire,  the  entire 
ceremony  wUl  be  recorded  on  a  phono- 
graph record.  You  will  be  assisted  in  get- 
ting your  marriage  license  which  may  be 
obtained  at  any  hour,  day  or  night.  .  .  . 
If  you  like,  a  wedding  dinner,  breakfast  or 
lunch  will  be  planned  for  you  by  the  wed- 
ding director." 

Skip  the  last  and  all  that  is  yours— or 
Hollywood's— for  $25. 

Recently,  the  Flamingo  management  ar- 
ranged to  have  the  Eastern  in-laws  of  a 
starlet  and  her  groom  in  on  the  proceed- 
ings. An  intricate  long-distance  telephone 
hook-up  wired  the  wedding  for  sound,  with 
the'  groom  breaking  into  the  formalities  to 
shout  "Can  you  hear  all  right.  Ma?" 

Obviously,  not  all  Vegas  marriages  are 


durable.  Deanna  Durbin  and  Producer 
Felix  Jackson  coiddn't  make  it  stick,  nor 
could  Anne  Shirley  and  Adrian  Scott, 
Morgan  Ryan  and  Arline  Judge.  But 
there  have  been  lasting  marriages  like 
those  of  Andy  and  Delia  Russell,  the  Ed 
Wynns,  Gloria  Grahame  and  Nickolas  Ray, 
Richard  Brooks  HI  and  Will  Rogers'  daugh- 
ter Mary.  To  list  both  sides  of  the  ledger 
would  take  more  space  than  we  have  here 
— but  the  marriages  are  overwhelmingly 
in  the  majority. 

'T'ake  Eleanor  Parker's  own  comments  on 
the  subject.  Her  marriage  to  Bert 
Friedlob,  investment  counselor,  on  January 
5,  1946  might  be  called  average.  It  was 
not  rushed  as  things  go  in  the  West,  but 
not  dawdled.  It  had  its  quota  of  gayety, 
secrecy,  its  build-up,  its  delayed  revelation 
and  its  enduring  fiber. 

"I'm  proud  of  my  Las  Vegas  marriage,'" 
Mrs.  Friedlob  says.  "It's  more  than  five 
years  old,  and  it's  going  to  be  a  lot  older 
than  that.  We  have  two  daughters,  Susan 
Eleanor,  two,  and  Sharon  Anne,  ten 
months.  We're  a  completely  happy  family. 
So  never  tell  me  that  Las  Vegas  weddings 
are  hit-and-rvm,  doomed  to  failure. 

"We  agreed  to  get  married  one  night  at 
the  Beverly  Club,"  said  Eleanor.  "We 
wanted  to  keep  it  secret,  but  when  Bert 
suddenly  told  me  a  week  later  that  he'd 
chartered  a  plane  to  fly  to  Vegas  and  be 
married,  I  cried.  I  was  wearing  an  eve- 
ning dress  and  had  never  been  on  a  plane, 
and  Las  Vegas — I  don't  know,  it  all 
sounded  a  little  raffish.  So  Bert  took  me 
home  to  Mother.  A  week  later  we  de- 
cided to  go  after  all  and  this  time  it  was 
my  idea.  We  took  our  very  good  mutual 
friend  Al  Bloomrngdale  along  -  but  we 
didn't  tell  him  what  we  had  in  mind. 

"Poor  Al."  Miss  Parker  stopped  to  laugh. 
"He'll  never  play  blackjack  again. 

"We  checked  in  at  Rancho  Vegas  in  sep- 
arate bungalows  and  then  next  morning 
had  to  figure  out  a  way  to  ditch  Al.  So 
we  took  him  to  a  small  gambling  place  and 
Bert  said  he'd  show  him  how  to  play  black- 
jack so  he  couldn't  lose.  The  idea  was  to 
take  it  easy,  Bert  said,  play  very  slow — 
and  incidentally  give  us  a  chance  to  get 
married.  That  part  under  our  breaths.  So 
Al  started  out  like  a  man  in  a  slow  motion 
picture,  and  we  rushed  off  to  have  the 
ceremony  performed  by  the  Justice  of  the 
Peace — Gene  Ward. 

"Then  we  covered  my  ring  with  gloves 
and  went  back  to  Al.  We  were  still  keep- 
ing it  a  secret.  I'd  used  my  real  name, 
Eleanor  Jean  Losee,  and  we  thought  we 
were  safe.  But  back  in  Hollywood  it  wasn't 
always  a  cinch.  Every  evening  Bert  would 
tell  his  friends  he  had  to  drive  me  home  to 
North  Hollywood.  Then  we'd  detour  around 
to  his  house  on  Camden  Drive  in  Beverly 
HiUs  and  stay  there.  His  friends  thought 
I  was  crazy — I  hope  that's  the  word — being 
there  so  much  for  breakfast  but 'Bert  told 
them  I  was  standing  in  for  his  cook. 

"But  it  couldn't  last,  and  in  a  way  I'm 
glad  it  didn't.  Secrets  are  ftm  only  for  a 
little  while. 

"Two  weeks  later — ^two  o'clock  one  Sat- 
urday morning — Louella  Parsons  called 
and  said  the  jig  was  up.  She'd  identified 
Eleanor  Jean  Losee,  the  girl  who  was  mar- 
ried in  Vegas,  and  was  going  to  break  the 
stoiy.  So  we  rushed  over  to  her  house, 
drank  to  oiur  marriage  in  champagne, 
forgot  the  cook  story  and  have  lived  hap- 
pily ever  since. 

"If  you  want  to  do  the  same,  marry  in 
Vegas.    I  cordially  recommend  it." 

So  do  himdreds  of  other  stable  film  folk 
and  thousands  who  have  never  been  nearer 
Hollywood  than  there.  They  take  their 
hearts  to  Vegas,  formally  unite  them  with 
the  special  "Vegas  glue  and  find,  contrary 
to  careless  opinion,  that  it's  high  grade 
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(Continued  from  page  53)  industry,  and 
in  fact  for  years  afterwards,  wherever 
they  go  they  can  feel  the  eyes  of  the 
curious  on  them. 

Not  long  ago,  while  he  and  Jean  Wallace 
were  again  before  the  courts,  Franchot 
Tone  walked  into  Schwab's  drug  store  with 
their  two  boys,  Pascal,  who  is  seven,  and 
Tommy,  who  is  five.  Pascal  and  Tommy 
acted  like  any  other  kids  who  come  into 
Schwab's.  They  dived  for  the  comics  on 
the  newsstand  while  Franchot  walked  back 
to  the  prescription  counter.  For  a  while 
the  kids  had  their  heads  buried  in  the 
books,  and  then  Pascal  raised  his  to  look 
around.  He  met  the  eyes  of  at  least  a  half- 
dozen  patrons  who  were  watching  the  boys 
with  interest.  Whether  Pascal  knew  that 
he  and  Tommy  were  then  on  the  front 
pages  of  the  city's  newspapers  as  their 
parents  argued  over  their  custody  is  a 
question  that  no  one  can  answer.  But  he 
dropped  his  gaze  to  his  book  again  quickly 
and  not  until  it  was  time  for  them  to  go 
did  either  of  them  change  his  position. 
Then  they  scampered  out  quickly. 

It  is  more  than  five  years  since  Jennifer 
Jones  divorced  Bob  Walker,  but  since  she 
and  he  are  still  very  much  in  the  limelight, 
their  activities  are  reported  steadily,  and 
only  occasionally  do  these  stories  fail  to 
carry  some  mention  of  the  surprising  love 
triangle  that  saw  Jennifer  marry  her  pro- 
ducer, David  O.  Selznick,  after  getting  her 
decree.  Their  two  boys  can  read.  Robert 
Jr.  is  ten,  Michael  is  nine.  Are  news- 
papers hidden  from  them?  How  long  can 
this  be  kept  up?  And  what  about  their 
playmates,  who  can  read,  and,  like  aU 
children,  gossip  and  tease.  No,  the  Jen- 
nifer Jones-Robert  Walker  divorce  is  over 
only  on  the  official  records,  not  as  far  as 
the  lives  of  their  sons  are  concerned. 

WHEN  a  harm  is  done,  someone  is  guilty. 
Who  is  guilty  when  a  family  founders? 
Not  in  any  court,  not  in  any  study  of  mar- 
riage relationships  has  a  formula  been 
discovered  to  establish  this.  Only  one 
truth  remains:  those  who  have  committed 
no  fault  at  all  suffer  the  most. 

From  Stockholm  to  Stromboli  was  a 
colorful,  romantic  path  for  Ingrid  Berg- 
man, and,  from  all  current  reports,  one 
that  has  ended  happily  for  her.  But  hardly 
begun  for  her  12-year-old  daughter,  Pia. 
Pia,  or  Jenny  Ann,  as  she  is  now  called, 
had  a  mother  and  a  father  when  she  left 
Stockholm  for  Hollywood.  Technically, 
she  still  has  a  mother,  but  not  for  any 
practical  purposes.  Motherhood  must  thin 
out  pretty  much  after  it  has  travelled  some 
five  thousand  miles.  Nobody  ever  heard, 
nothing  was  ever  printed  about  what  Pia 
thought  of  her  mother's  flight  and  new 
marriage  in  Italy.  This  just  isn't  done. 
Yet  whom  could  those  events  concern 
more  closely?  Who  could  have  wondered 
more,  worried  more?  And  what  could  a 
psychologist  gather  from  whatever  thoughts 
Pia  must  now  have  about  the  other  child, 
Ingrid's  baby  son,  Renato,  who  is  today 
getting  first-hand  love  from  the  mother 
who  was  once  exclusively  hers? 

A  doorbell  rings  in  Shirley  Temple's 
home  and  she  goes  to  answer.  John  Agar 
stands  on  the  threshold.  She  greets  him 
politely,  and  tells  him  that  Linda  is  in  the 
nursery.  It  is  all  very  formal  and  re- 
strained. Linda -is  very  young  and  may 
hardly  note  that  she  sees  only  one  of  her 
parents  at  a  time  now,  and  that  never  is 
she  the  adored  object  of  attention  of  both 
of  them  at  the  same  time.  Or  does  she 
notice,  in  some  intuitive,  chUd's  way? 
When  she  is  old  enough  to  understand, 
will  it  all  be  explained  to  her  gently  or 
will  she  have  to  ask  questions  first?  And, 


whichever  the  case,  will  it  minimize  the 
inevitable  shock? 

TJ  ollywood's  stars  who  find  themselves 
in  these  unhappy,  parental  circum- 
stances aren't  inhuman.  They  do  their  best 
to  soften  the  jolt.  Sometimes,  even,  it  is 
the  "new"  daddy  or  mommy,  the  step- 
parent, who  does  the  best  job  of  this.  Vic- 
tor Mature  has  probably  never  worked  at 
anything  in  his  life  as  hard  as  he  has  at 
winning  the  affection  of  eight-year-old 
Mike,  the  son  of  Dorothy  Berry  whom  he 
married  three  years  ago.  He  started  out 
by  creating  a  lot  of  interesting  "jobs" 
which,  he  assured  the  boy,  nobody  but  he 
could  do  well.  He  noticed  that  Mike  loved 
music  and  he  took  a  roundabout  way  to 
develop  this  liking;  he  sang  for  Mike  in 
his  atrocious  voice  and  then,  very  seriously, 
asked  the  child  for  his  opinion  of  it.  Mike 
was  honest,  but  his  own  voice  was  full  of 
pity  as  he  told  Victor  his  singing  was  "the 
worst  in  America."  Immediately,  Victor 
asked  for  help  and  the  two  work  on  Vic- 
tor's vocalizing  every  day.  It  is  a  very 
serious  business;  any  time  now  Victor  may 
be  asked  to  sing  in  a  picture  and  Mike 
realizes  he  is  racing  a  deadline.  To  help 
Mike,  Victor  bought  him  a  guitar.  To  help 
Victor,  Mike  plays  it.   They  get  along  fine. 

You  can  protect  a  child  in  the  home, 
perhaps,  but  imfortunately  there  remains 
the  outer  world  in  which  he  has  to  stand 
alone.  A  story  which  Hollywood  laughed 
over,  yet  which  actually  has  notes  of  trag- 
edy and  frustration  in  it,  concerns  two 
Beverly  Hills  school  boys  arguing  with 
each  other  during  a  recess  period. 

"My  father  can  lick  your  father!"  chal- 
lenged one  of  the  boys  suddenly. 

"Aw,  g'wan!"  replied  the  other  bitterly. 
"Your  father  is  my  father!" 

That  the  children  of  divorced  couples 
who  later  remarry  carry  their  resentment 
into  their  play  life  is  not  fiction.  To  lose  a 
mother  is  one  thing.  To  meet  the  kid  who 
has  gained  your  mother  is  a  little  too  much 
sometimes.  Adults  who  hear  about  such 
an  incident  laugh — but  the  kids  who  hear 
it  don't.  They  can  feel  it  emotionally,  and 
it  spells  out  something  very  serious  to 
them.  These  yoimg  children  know  a  lot 
of  jokes,  but  none  of  them  have  to  do  with 
divorce.  To  many  youthful  victims  in 
Hollywood  that  subject  brings  a  lump  to 
the  throat  rather  than  a  chuckle. 

You  can  make  an  alphabetic  listing  of 
stars  and  popular  players  whose  di- 
vorces involved  children  and  go  on  for 
better  than  a  couple  of  hundred  names. 
From  John  Agar,  Lois  Andrews  and  Eve 
Arden  to  Orson  Welles,  Jane  Wyman  and 
Keenan  Wynn  is  a  long  way  in  the  alpha- 
bet and  involves  such  other  names  as 
Shirley  Temple,  George  Jessel,  Ned  Ber- 
gan,  Rita  Hay  worth,  Ronald  Reagan  and 
Eve  Abbott.  Even  more,  you  have  to  think 


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my  favorite  scenes  I^"" 


"I'm  always  cast  in  exotic  roles,  so  no  one  sees  me  in  settings  I  like  best .  . . 
at  the  bowling  alley  and  golf  course.  These  sports  are  harsh  on  my  hands. 


And  horn's  of  badminton 
leave  my  skin  parched  .  .  . 


But  Jergens  Lotion  softens 
my  hands  and  face  .  .  . 


CAN  YOUR  LOTION  OR  HAND 
CREAM  PASS  THIS  FILM  TEST? 

To  soften,  a  lotion  or  cream 
should  be  absorbed  by  upper 
layers  of  skin.  Water  won't 
"bead"on  hand  smoothed  with 
Jergens  Lotion.  It  contains 
quickly-absorbed  ingredients 
that  doctors  recommend,  no 
heavy  oils  that  merely  coat 
the  skin  with  oily  film. 


So  they're  lovely  for  close- 
ups  at  the  studio." 


Being  a  liquid,  Jergens  is 
absorbed  by  thirsty  skin. 


Prove  it  with  this  simple 
test  described  above  .  .  . 


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You'll  see  why  Jergens 
Lotion  is  my  beauty  secret. 

More  women  use  Jergens  Lotion  than  any  other  hand  care  in  the  world 

STILL  lOc  TO  $1.00  (PLUS  TAX) 


of  what  went  on  from  there.  Shirley  is 
now  Mrs.  Charles  Black.  Lois  Andrews 
married  twice  after  Jessel,  and  divorced 
both  new  husbands.  Rita  Hayworth  wed 
Aly  Khan;  Keenan  Wyrm  went  on  to  Betty 
Butler;  and  Keenan's  Eve  became  Mrs. 
Van  Johnson.  This  takes  in  only  the  "A's" 
and  the  "W's."  There  are  left  all  the  stars 
whose  names  begin  with  any  of  the  other 
24  letters,  and  in  whose  subsequent  lives 
there  was  fully  as  much  intermarital- 
mingling — a  new  word  which  doesn't  make 
sense  even  at  second  sight,  but  then, 
neither  does  the  Hollywood  marriage 
scene.  In  all  this  confusion,  one  wonders 
about  the  children  involved.  It  is  a  de- 
batable question  whether  they  are  able 
to  retain  their  composure,  or  identity. 

A  pattern  has  evolved  in  the  shuffling 
and  reshuffling  of  Hollywood  marriages  as 
far  as  the  new  relationships  affect  the 
children  concerned;  the  youngsters  gen- 
erally remain  with  the  mother  and  acquire 
a  stepfather.  Sometimes,  as  in  the  case  of 
Jerilynn  Jessel,  who  is  nine,  they  go  from 
one  stepfather  to  another.  Her  mother,  Lois 
Andrews,  married  David  Street  after  her 
divorce  from  George  Jessel,  and  then  mar- 
ried Steve  Brodie  after  her  marriage  to 
Street  was  annulled.  Inasmuch  as  she  and 
Steve  were  also  divorced  a  few  years  ago, 
Jerilynn  may  get  yet  a  third  stepfather. 

VVT  HAT  happens  to  the  love  between  orig- 
"  inal  parent  and  child  in  such  cases? 
The  courts  do  their  best  by  permitting 
visits  and  sharing  periods  of  custody,  but 
to  regulate  such  delicate  relationships  by 
the  calendar  and  the  clock  is  at  best  a 
sad  thing,  and  everyone  admits  it.  A  boy 
who  hasn't  seen  his  father  for  weeks  is 
often  a  shy,  little  individual  when  they  do 
meet,  unsure  of  himself,  unable  to  give  of 
himself.  The  father,  measuring  what  ten- 
derness and  love  has  been  lost  forever  be- 
tween them,  is  himself  awkard. 

Yes,  the  hard,  cynicism  of  many  a  star 
is  merely  his  way  of  covering  up  the 
emptiness  in  his  life  resulting  from  a 
broken  marriage.  And  more  than  one  top 
studio  executive  has  pushed  important 
work  away  from  him  that  he  may  ponder 
for  an  hour  how  to  recreate  the  adoring 
look  that  was  in  his  child's  eyes. 


10  Years  Ago  This  Month 
"The  marriage  of  the  Gary  Coopers  is  the 
latest  to  land  in  the  Hollywood  frying  pan. 
Friends  hope  it's  not  true  .  .  ." — Modern 
Screen,  April,  1941. 


When  summer  vacation  rolls  around  for 
the  four  children  John  Wayne  had  by  his 
former  wife,  Josephine  Saenz,  Eind  they, 
come  to  visit  him,  he  devotes  every  mo- 
ment of  his  time  to  them.  No  one  at  the 
Isthmus  at  Catalina,  where  John  gets  aj 
house  for  the  kids  and  himself,  has  ever! 
seen  a  merrier  get-together.  With  Michael,  I 
15,  Antonia,  14,  Patrick,  11,  and  Melinda,! 
9,  he  fishes  and  swims,  goes  out  with  them] 
for  lobsters  and  abalone,  keeps  a  steadyJ 
program  of  activities  going.  The  kidsl 
are  crazy  about  him,  of  course,  and,  ofj 
course,  they  can't  help  but  feel  sad  when! 
the  vacation  ends  and  they  have  to  sayf 
goodbye.  John  isn't  too  happy  either. 

AMOTION  picture  star  is  made  of  nc 
firmer  flesh  and  colder  blood  thai]! 
anyone  else.  If  anything,  the  strain  on  hiJ 
or  her  marriage  is  greater  than  averag^ 
because  of  the  nature  of  film  work  and  the 
toll  it  exacts  on  emotional  fibre.  Certainlyi 
he  cannot  be  condemned  either  for  falling 
in  love,  or  falling  out  of  love;  no  more  tha 
the  next  person.  But  he  is  going  to  be 
because  he  is  constantly  in  the  public  eye 
Yet  when  stars  work  out  marital  dif-l 


ferences  without  resorting  to  legal  means, 
they  get  very  little  credit  for  it.  June 
Allyson  and  Dick  Powell  proved  them- 
selves mature  individuals  when  they  licked 
a  nasty  situation  three  years  ago  when 
they  were  almost  at  the  breaking  point. 
Since  they  had  no  children  at  the  time, 
it  would  have  been  simple  enough  for 
each  to  go  his  or  her  separate  way.  In- 
stead they  reasoned  out  their  differences, 
and  when  they  were  sure  of  themselves 
cemented  their  reunion  by  adopting  a  little 
girl,  Pamela  Allyson.  Today  their  solid 
marriage  is  embodied  in  a  baby  boy, 
Richard  Keith.  It's  a  nice  triumph  for 
both  them  and  Hollywood,  even  though 
there  are  no  headlines  about  it. 

Professional  differences  once  threatened 
the  marriage  of  a  couple  known  as  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Jess  Barker.  This  would  have 
been  a  deplorable  ending  for  a  mating  that 
had  produced  a  fine  set  of  twin  boys,  Greg- 
ory and  Timothy. 

What  started  to  upset  things  here  was 
their  careers.  Mrs.  Barker,  otherwise 
known  as  Susan  Hayward,  grew  steadily 
in  film  importance.  Jess,  once  headed  for 
stardom,  for  some  reason  stopped  short 
far  from  the  peak.  There  is  involved 
sensitivity,  professional  jealousy,  and,  more 
than  anything  else,  male  pride.  No  matter 
how  you  philosophize  about  it,  it  is  hard 
for  a  man  to  step  aside  as  the  principal 
breadwinner  in  his  own  home. 

Wisely,  though,  Susan  and  Jess  sought 
out  a  marriage  counselor  and  dug  right  to 
the  roots  of  the  dissension.  Before  they 
parted  they  were  going  to  know  exactly 
why,  not  half-surmise  the  reasons.  What 
they  learned  must  have  been  interesting 
and  consoling,  because  on  the  basis  of  it 
they  managed  to  hammer  out  a  solution 
which  kept  mother  and  father  and  children 
together — where  they  all  belonged. 

Susan  continues  to  be  an  actress.  Jess 
continues  to  be  an  actor.  But  first  of  all, 
they  recognize  that  they  are  parents. 
Susan  tells  her  story  in  these  words: 
"My  Hollywood  career  is  my  outside  in- 
terest in  life,  just  as  other  women  have 
outside  interests,  in  clubs,  in  hospital  work, 
in  any  of  a  hundred  occupations.  It  is 
not  going  to  hurt  my  motherhood  or  my 
being  a  good  wife.  I  will  not  let  it.  Jess 
and  I  have  impressed  on  the  boys  that  we 
all  love  each  other  and  that  nothing  else 
is  as  important  as  this.  Nothing  is." 

THERE  used  to  be  a  popular  opinion  that 
without  many  loves  a  star  could  not 
maintain  allure  at  the  box  office.  This  is 
thoroughly  disproved  now.  Olivia  De 
Havilland  achieved  her  greatest  success 
after  her  marriage  to  Marcus  Goodrich, 
after  motherhood  for  that  matter.  And 
there  is  every  indication  that  she  is  still 
climbing.  Clark  Gable  was  in  his  real  hey- 
day while  he  was  married  to  Carole  Lom- 
bard. Reconciliation  with  Dick  Powell  has 
certainly  not  hurt  June  Allyson;  she  is 
bigger  than  ever.  The  same  can  be  said 
for  Susan  Hayward. 

On  the  contrary  the  old  adage  may  soon 
be  rephrased  to  prove  that  scampering 
from  marriage  to  marriage  greases  the 
skids  of  a  film  career.  It  is  doubtful 
whether  Rita  Hayworth  will  ever  again  be 
the  box  office  punch  she  was  five  years 
ago.  And  perhaps  Ingrid  Bergman  can 
come  back  to  where  she  once  was — but 
no  one  doubts  for  a  moment  that  a  come- 
back is  necessary. 

It  is  not  in  careers  lost  or  won  that 
Hollywood  divorces  should  be  judged,  but 
in  the  young  lives  it  trips  up;  in  the  lives 
of  the  children  who  have  two  homes,  and 
sometimes  three  homes,  but  not  one  that  is 
wholly  and  securely  theirs  .  .  .  not  one 
that  is  the  center  of  affection  from  their 
real  mother  and  father  at  one  and  the 
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{Continued  from  page  41)  For  Hollywood 
first  knew  Barbara  as  the  wife  of  mercurial 
Frank  Fay,  who'd  held  the  Palace  Theater 
audiences  in  New  York  spellbound.  The 
two  had  met  before  Barbara  was  a  smash- 
hit  on  Broadway  in  Burlesque.  Oscar  Le- 
vant had  introduced  them  and  after  the 
first  meeting  Barbara  told  Levant,  "I've 
met  conceited  men,  but  never  one  as  con- 
ceited as  that  hombre."  And  Levant,  as 
usual,  duly  reported  her  words  to  Fay,  who 
in  turn  razzed  her  about  Burlesque.  None- 
theless, the  two  were  deeply  attracted  to 
each  other,  and  not  quite  a  year  later,  Bar- 
bara trained  out  for  St.  Louis,  Missouri, 
where  Fay  was  appearing,  and  they  were 
married.  Shortly  after  the  wedding  Barbara 
went  on  tour  in  Burlesque  while  he  went 
on  with  his  show.  They  were  reunited  in 
New  York  a  few  months  later. 

When  Barbara  was  offered  movie  con- 
tracts, she  was  of  a  mind  to  turn  them 
down  so  she  and  Fay  wouldn't  be  sep- 
arated again.  But  he  suggested  she  take 
them.  They'd  both  go  to  Hollywood  where 
he'd  deign  to  work  in  pictures,  too. 

"Darbara's  first  screen  appearances  defi- 
nitely  were  not  a  success.  And  more 
fuss  was  made  over  Frank  Fay  for  awhile. 
But  he  lauded  his  wife  to  everyone  who 
would  listen.  He  even  went  so  far  as  to 
whisper  to  a  few  producers  he'd  be  will- 
ing to  pay  her  $1,000  a  week  salary  himself 
if  they'd  hire  her  but  not  let  her  know  the 
arrangement. 

As  it  turned  out,  he  should  have  worried 
more  about  his  career  and  not  at  all  about 
hers.  With  Frank  Capra  she  hit  her  stride 
and  was  on  her  way  while  Frank  Fay 
turned  into  a  real  picture  flop. 

But  Barbara's  love  for  her  man  was  so 
obvious,  so  strong,  and  so  vehement  that 
it  was  like  a  triimiphant,  challenging  ban- 
ner. Such  was  her  stance  for  the  seven 
years  of  their  marriage.  Reporters  were 
more  and  more  convinced  that  here  was 
a  deathless  love  which  could  withstand 
any  humiliation.  How  frayed  that  baimer 
of  love  became,  no  one  knew  until  one  day 
she  moved  herself  and  their  adopted  child, 
Dion,  out  of  their  Brentwood  estate  into 
a  modest  but  charming  house  in  Beverly 
Hills;  leaving  Frank  Fay  to  enjoy  the 
swimming  pool,  the  estate  and  the  beauti- 
ful gardens  all  by  himself. 

What  the  final  humiliation  was  has  never 
been  told  by  Barbara,  although  there  were 
many  innuendoes  and  whispered  reports 
by  others.  More  than  likely  it  was  her 
own  painfully  gained  conviction  that  she 
couldn't  pull  him  up  from  the  depths  of 
depression  into  which  he'd  thrown  him- 
self when  he  saw  her  success  and  his  fail- 
ure side  by  side.  She  tried.  She  gave  up 
Hollywood  and  went  on  tour  with  him. 
But  her  own  common  sense — £ind  she's  a 
mighty  sensible  lass — must  have  showTi 
her  during  the  tour  that  sacrificing  her  own 
success  to  follow  the  will-o'-the-wisp  of  his 
potential  one  was  no  answer  to  their  prob- 
lem. Back  in  Hollywood,  she  must  have 
realized  in  their  lavish  Brentwood  home 
that  no  man  wants  that  kind  of  sacrifice 
from  a  woman. 

Whatever  the  last  straw,  it  was  never 
discussed  by  Barbara.  A  simple  statement 
that  a  divorce  had  been  agreed  upon  was 
issued.  Many  years  later  when  Frank  Fay 
once  again  hit  the  big-time  in  the  Broad- 
way production  of  Harvey,  Earl  Wilson, 
noted  columnist,  tried  to  egg  her  into  going, 
to  see  the  hit  play.  She  said  sharply  and 
succinctly,  "No  thank  you.  I  saw  all  the 
rabbits  Fay  had  to  offer  years  ago." 


B 


UT  in  the  months  following  that  separa- 
tion in  August,  1935,  it  was  obvious 


that  Missy's  heart  did  not  break  easily. 
She  became  almost  fiercely  anti-social. 
Career-wise  she  won  the  title  of  Holly- 
wood's Suspension  Queen.  She  flatly  turned 
down  role  after  role.  With  no  back-log  of 
savings,  she  was  in  an  economic  jam. 
Fortunately,  the  late  Danny  Danker,  the 
advertising  executive  generally  credited 
with  the  Lux  Radio  Theater,  sympathized 
with  her  and  used  her  on  every  Lux  pro- 
gram possible.  With  those  earnings  she 
held  out  until  the  right  role  came  along. 
(How  much  that  meant  to  her  is  evident. 
Her  loyalty  to  Danny  did  not  end  with  his 
death.  She  transferred  it  to  Lux  Radio 
Theater  and  out  of  sheer  gratitude  will  drop 
everything  to  appear  there  when  asked.) 

Barbara  was  as  non-existent  on  the 
Hollywood  scene  as  Greta  Garbo.  While 
others  were  dancing  at  the  Trocadero,  she 
might  be  found  in  a  severely  tailored  suit, 
a  no-nonsense  hat  pulled  low  over  her  face, 
browsing  in  a  book- store  for  something 
she  hadn't  read.  Reading  became  impor- 
tant, not  only  as  a  chance  to  make  up  for 
the  education  she'd  missed,  but  to  assuage 
her  bewildered  loneliness.  She  developed 
such  a  reading  habit  that  Bob  Taylor  said 
humorously  after  their  marriage,  "There 
ought  to  be  a  Book-of-the-Day  Club  for 
her." 

She  selected. friends  carefully  and  slowly. 
For  the  first  time  she  turned  to  women 
for  friendship.  Marian  Marx,  wife  of 
agent  Zeppo  Marx,  was  her  most  intimate 
pal.  They  became  interested  in  raising 
horses  and  bought  130  acres  in  the  San 
Fernando  Valley. 

It  was  Marian  Marx  who  talked  her  into 
appearing  at  the"  Marxes'  dinner  party  at 
the  Trocadero  one  night  in  March  of  1936. 
There  she  met  Bob  Taylor.  It  was  not 
love  at  first  sight  but  later  she  was  to  say, 
"Funny  thing  to  pick  to  say  about  Bob 
Taylor,  but  I  thought  then  what  I  think 
now,  that  he's  a  really  good  man." 

THE  second  night  after  their  meeting.  Bob 
telephoned  her  for  a  date.  Perhaps 
cued  by  Marian  Marx,  he  didn't  suggest  a 
night  club.  He  suggested  a  ride.  After  a 
few  rides,  they  branched  into  riding  the 
roller-coaster  and  the  carousel  at  Venice 
Pier.  Then  Bob  was  going  to  her  house  for 
dinner,  putting  a  stack  of  swing  records  on 
her  fine  phonograph,  and  sitting  down  to 
the  table  where  they  virtually  had  to 
scream  at  each  other  to  be  heard  above 
Duke  Ellington  or  Benny  Goodman.  Then 
they  began  to  go  to  the  Troc  and  some 
other  places  for  dancing  occasionally. 

Soon  Barbara  became  social  enough  to 
invite  such  friends  as  Bob,  Carole  Lom- 
bard and  Clark  Gable  to  her  ranch  to  help 
her  and  Marian  Marx  paint  fences.  She 
called  them  "jjaddock  parties."  Then  Bob 
bought  a  30-acre  ranch  just  two  miles 
away  from  hers  and  Saturday  night  diners 
at  the  Hollywood  Brown  Derby  became 
used  to  seeing  them  drop  by  in  riding 
clothes,  hungry  as  bears  at  the  end  of 
a  long  winter. 

They  talked  endlessly  and  no  doubt  Bob 
Taylor,  still  new  to  pictures,  had  full  bene- 
fit of  Missy's  sharp-tongued  kindliness — 
kindliness  to  which  Joel  McCrea,  Bill 
Holden  and  countless  others  will  attest. 

By  the  time  Missy  and  Bob  made  This 
Is  My  Affair  together.  Bob  was  earning 
$3,500  a  week — enough  for  a  man  to  marry 
a  Hollywood  star.  Hollywood  was  con- 
vinced they  were  already  married. 

Then  Bob  was  sent  to  England  in  1938. 
At  that  time.  Missy  told  reporters  frankly, 
"Bob  will  soon  be  in  England  for  a  pic- 
ture. For  four,  or  maybe  six  months.  Cer- 
tainly when  he  goes,  all  my  affection  goes 
with  him.  That's  true  now,  today,  as  I 
say  it.  But  who  knows  about  tomorrow? 
I  don't.  Perhaps  it  is  the  best  thing  that 
could  happen  to  us,  this  separation.  We've 
been  together  every  day,  every  evening 


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HAIR  NETS 


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O  GAYLOKD    OROOUCTS,    INCORPORATED,    CHICAGO,  ILl 


for  the  past  two  years.  We  don't  know 
whether  we  can  hve  happily  without  each 
other,  or  not.  This  parting  should  tell  us, 
one  way  or  the  other.  If  we  find  that  we 
can't,  then,  when  Bob  comes  back,  we  will 
stop  this  dilly-dallying.  We  have  a  great 
deal  in  common.  Bob  and  I.  We  have 
talked  it  over  very  seriously.  We  are  not 
engaged.  We  are  not  married.  If  we  were 
it  would  be  different." 

When  Bob  returned,  he  said,  "Well,  now, 
it's  tomorrow  and  nothing  has  changed. 
We  spend  all  of  our  free  time  together, 
every  minute  of  it,  just  as  we  did  before 
I  left.  And  we  spend  it  in  the  Valley  at 
her  place,  or  at  mine,  or  at  a  neighborhood 
movie  or,  playing  games,  or  listening  to 
the  radio,  or  fooling  around  with  horses,  or 
reading  agricultural  bulletins.  We  haven't 
changed." 

'T'hey  were  married  on  May  14,  1939,  and 
they  took  their  marriage  into  that  ivory 
tower  from  which  they  barred  their  fans 
by  barring  the  press.  No  photographs  were 
made  in  their  home  for  public  consumption. 
But  somehow  the  public  respected  that. 
Only  little  details  came  out  about  their  life 
together.  The  ever-present  coffee-maker 
ready  to  produce  a  cup  at  any  moment. 
The  stacks  of  phonograph  records.  The 
books.  The  gatherings  of  such  friends  as 
the  Marxes,  the  Peter  Godfreys,  the  Jack 
Bennys. 

Once  Barbara  told  me  after  she'd  just 
moved,  "I  remembered  how  I  used  to  sit 
alone,  reading  one  book  after  another,  a 
real  anti-social  gal.  I  thought  how  that 
man  from  Nebraska  and  this  gal  from 
Brooklyn  had  both  come  a  long,  long  way 
to  meet  and  join  their  futures  .  .  .  their 
diverse  backgrounds,  their  respective 
tastes,  their  careers  and  ambitions.  I 
thought,  with  whatever  possessions,  in 
whatever  locations,  adding  up  the  mem- 
ories, balancing  the  good  experiences,  life's 
been  pretty  generous.  And  then  I  remem- 
bered that  we're  just  a  typical  American 
couple — sharing  a  typical  American  story." 

Deluxe  style  perhaps,  but  they  shared 
in  the  hard  times  America  faced  during  the 
war  years  with  Bob  a  Lieutenant  in  the 
United  States  Navy.  It  separated  them 
for  long  months,  too,  except  when  Bob  was 
sent  on  a  tour  of  duty  in  the  States  and 
Barbara  could  accompany  him. 

Then  she  ducked  the  limelight  to  the  ex- 
tent that  Earl  Wilson  asked  rather  causti- 
cally one  time  just  how  long  it  took  an 
actress  to  take  a  bath.  She  simply  dis- 
appeared into  the  only  available  space — 


the  bathroom — while  Bob,  as  a  Navy  offi- 
cer, was  interviewed  by  the  columnist. 

They  survived  that  separation  and  others 
They  seemed  even  to  survive  the  separation 
entailed  by  Bob's  many  months  in  Italy 
for  Quo  Vadis.  Barbara,  involved  in  To 
Please  A  Lady  with  Clark  Gable,  had  to 
stay  here  until  the  picture  was  over.  Then 
off  she  went  to  Italy  for  a  Roman  holiday. 
With  her  went  Helen  Ferguson.  Helen  re- 
ported in  December's  Modern  Screen  on 
that  idyllic  time  and  how  the  Italians  re- 
ferred to  the  Taylors  as  "Our  love  couple.'" 

When  Bob  returned  to  the  United  States, 
he  went  almost  immediately  to  San  Fran- 
cisco for  a  commonplace  operation.  Then 
back  to  Hollywood,  where  all  seemed  well 
with  Missy  and  her  second  great  love. 

But  now  they  themselves — not  gossips — 
say  that  love  has  ended.  The  ivory  tower 
has  crumbled  to  the  dust  of  a  divorce. 

In  the  meantime.  Missy  has  gone  into 
*  seclusion.  "Busy  reading  scripts"  is 
the  official  report.  And  her  friends  worry 
about  what  this  is  doing  to  her. 

Barbara  herself  must  be  deeply  con- 
cerned. In  her  long  trek  from  the  slums 
of  Brooklyn  to  the  splendor  of  Beverly 
Hills,  she  had  managed  great  artistic  suc- 
cess but  broken  her  heart  twice. 

There  is  little  doubt  that  her  first  heart- 
break gave  her  the  idea  of  creating  that 
ivory  tower  where  she  too  successfully 
hid  the  problems  which  long  separations 
created. 

Perhaps  in  all  her  reading  she  never 
came  across  Gautier's  words  in  "The 
War  And  The  Destinies  of  Art,"  ".  .  .  re- 
tired in  his  Tower  of  Ivory,  isolated,  ac- 
cording to  his  desire,  from  the  world  of 
man,  he  resembles,  whether  he  so  wishes 
or  not,  another  solitary  figure,  the  watcher 
enclosed  for  months  at  a  time  in  a  light- 
house at  the  end  of  a  cliff." 

Barbara  was  never  really  isolated  from 
the  world  of  acting,  but  more  so  from  life 
and  marriage.  Is  she  saying  to  herself 
now,  "Maybe  it  is  the  best  thing  that  could 
happen  to  us,  this  separation  .  .  .  we  don't 
know  whether  we  can  live  happily  with- 
out each  other,  or  not.  This  parting  should 
tell  us,  one  way  or  the  other. .  .  ?"  Perhaps 
she  is. 

Her  friends  hope  so.  They  hope  that 
this  parting  will  eventually  reimite  Bar- 
bara and  Bob,  and  that  they'll  abandon 
their  respective  ivory  towers  which  are 
unhappy  places,  and  no  way  for  a  gal  from 
Brooklyn  and  a  fellow  from  Nebraska  to 
live.  The  End 


an  ex-sweetheart  looks  back 


{Continued  from  page  49)  Elizabeth  didn't 
find  Peter  exhausting.  To  begin  with,  she 
was  absolutely  "gone"  on  him.  They'd 
drive  down  to  Lagvma  Beach  in  his  Cadil- 
lac convertible  and  park  on  a  hill  over- 
looking the  ocean.  Liz  would  take  off  her 
shoes,  and  they'd  hike  for  miles  over  the 
huge,  rock-studded  cliffs.  Whether  Pete 
ever  spoke  to  her  of  marriage  in  the  future 
no  one  can  say. 

This  was  in  1948,  they  were  doing  Little 
Women  together.  You  may  remember  how 
Liz  looked  in  that  picture.  She  has  never 
been  more  beautiful,  perhaps,  because  she 
had  fallen  in  love  for  the  first  time  in  her 
life.  "The  two  lunched  together  almost 
every  day.  In  the  evenings  they  were  often 
seen  at  Will  Wright's  famous  ice  cream 
parlor,  talking  gaily  while  consuming  plat- 
ters of  English  toffee  ice  cream. 

Mrs.  Taylor  has  never  concealed  the 
worries  she  has  had  about  Elizabeth,  but  in 
Peter  Lawford  she  had  no  cause  for  worry. 
She  considered  him  perfect  for  her  daugh- 
ter. And  Peter  got  along  with  Mrs.  Taylor 


very  well — a  fact  his  friends  considered  a 
rare  achievement,  for  the  press  had  al- 
ready given  him  a  "wolfish"  reputation 
and  Mrs.  Taylor  was  known'  to  have  told 
off  more  wolves  than  one. 

•  "'here  have  always  been  a  lot  of  ms^ths 
*^  about  Peter.  His  attitude  of  carefree 
sophistication  was  just  that.  Actually,  he 
always  was  a  mature,  intelligent,  solid 
citizen  more  th£in  a  little  wary  of  over- 
enthusiastic  female  advances. 

That  he  is  miserly  is  also  an  imtrue  ac- 
cusation. What  other  young  man  in  Hol- 
lywood has  ever  treated  his  parents  so 
well?  He  shares  a  beautiful  home  with 
them  and  sees  that  their  every  need  is 
taken  care  of  even  before  they  are  aware 
of  a  need. 

No  one  can  tell  the  friends  to  whom  Pete 
has  loaned  money  or  given  expensive  gifts 
that  he  is  a  penny-pincher.  During  the 
height  of  his  romance  with  Sharman  Doug- 
las, he  showered  her  with  thoughtfud  pres- 
ents. It  is  not  so  fantastic  to  say  that  the 
reason  his  romance  with  Sharman  did  not 
blossom  was  that  the  memory  of  Liz  was 
fresh  in  his  mind. 


Close  friends  remember  him  saying,  "I 
won't  marry  until  I'm  30."  That  would 
make  Elizabeth  21 — Pete's  idea  of  the 
proper  age  at  which  a  girl  should  marry. 
Friends  have  also  noticed  his  extreme  rest- 
lessness lately.  During  the  last  two  years 
he  has  been  to  almost  every  state  in  the 
union.  When  questioned  about  his  travels 
he  shrugged  off  the  reply,  "I  don't  know, 
I  must  have  lost  something." 

Probably  Elizabeth  was  too  young  for 
Peter  when  they  met.  She  was  going 
through  a  period  of  life  that  was  full  of 
adolescent  anguish.  When  she  crossed  the 
Metro  lot  in  a  sweater,  calloused  characters 
stood  around  and  whistled  at  her.  At  Hol- 
lywood parties,  certain  men  who  consider 
conquests  of  young  girls  an  important  tri- 
umph, used  to  try  to  break  down  her  cool 
and  genuine  wholesomeness  with  very  lit- 
tle subtlety. 

But  Elizabeth  was  just  as  her  mother  so 
emphatically  put  it — "a  nice  girl."  When  she 
was  with  Pete  there  was  all  the  difference 
in  the  world  compared  to  her  behavior  with 
other  people.  Ordinarily  she  was  shy  or 
cautious,  or  both.  In  Pete's  company  she 
was  completely  relaxed,  and  perhaps  it  is 
not  so  startling  that  she  should  have  chos- 
en to  give  her  heart  to  Nicky  Hilton  who  in 
many  ways  is  the  complete  opposite  of 
Lawford.  Pete  has  a  rare  and  brilliant 
sense  of  humor.  Nicky  has  humor  in  his 
makeup,  but  compared  to  the  actor  he  is 
almost  dour,  like  a  man  grown  old  before 
his  time. 

Everything  that  Pete  did  in  company 
with  Liz  was  different  and  unexpected. 
He  called  her  Liza.  He  had  such  deep  re- 
spect for  her  that  he  refused  to  monopolize 
her  time.  He  didn't  give  her  presents,  ex- 
cept on  rare  occasions,  perhaps  feeling 
that  this  would  mean  pressing  a  courtship 

aefore  he  felt  that  she  was  ready  for  more 

han  friendship. 


Tn  Hollywood  there  is  a  wide  group  of 
people  who  seem  to  take  delight  in  de- 
stroying anything  that  is  genuinely  whole- 
some. There  was  unkind  gossip.  Some  of 
it  must  have  reached  Pete's  ear.  Suddenly, 
when  Little  Women  was  completed,  he  took 
off  on  a  trip,  and  who  is  to  know  with  what 
disgust  such  words  as  "cradle  robber"  must 
have  rung  in  his  ears.  Pete  didn't  come 
back  for  weeks,  and  when  he  did,  things 
were  not  the  same. 

The  next  development  was  Pete's  sudden 
and  persistent  dating  of  the  far  more 
worldly  Ava  Gardner.  Because  both  Liz 
and  Ava  worked  on  the  same  studio  lot, 
this  was  an  abrupt,  if  almost  brutal,  man- 
ner of  calling  a  halt  to  the  association  with 
Liz.  But  it  is  safe  to  say  that  Pete  could 
not  erase  the  thoughts  of  her  save  in  the 
company  of  such  a  dynamic  and  attractive 
girl  as  Ava. 

As  is  always  the  case  with  an  attempt 
at  honest  analysis  in  Hollywood,  Pete  Law- 
ford  may  not  relish  the  recollection  of  all 
these  events.  Perhaps,  however,  in  his 
more  mature  view  of  life,  he  won't  mind  at 
all,  for  there  was  nothing  in  his  well-dis- 
ciplined feelings  for  Elizabeth  to  be 
ashamed  of.  When,  a  year  later,  she  mar- 
ried Nicky  Hilton,  a  group  of  people  were 
speculating  on  how  long  the  two  would 
stay  together. 

"I  give  it  no  more  than  a  year,"  a  girl 
said,  and  then  turned  to  Pete.  "What  do 
you  think,  Pete?" 

He  said,  "I  wish  them  every  happiness," 
and  got  up  and  left  the  room.  This  is  not 
to  imply  that  Pete  Lawford  carried  a  torch. 
To  be  honest,  it  cannot  be  said  that  he 
eagerly  accepted  the  part  in  Kangaroo, 
being  filmed  in  Australia,  in  order  not  to 
be  around  the  Metro  lot.  An  artful  writer 
could  suggest  that  his  planned  jaunt 
through  Italy  and  France  was  partially  for 
the  purpose  of  not  being  around  Hollywood 


until  the  definite  end  of  Liz's  marriage  in 
actual  divorce  had  come.  This  isn't  the 
case  at  all. 

There  is  more  than  a  probability  that 
Pete  Lawford  may  suddenly  marry.  Time 
after  time  he  has  gone  with  girls  up  to 
the  proposal  point,  only  to  become  sudden- 
ly wary.  Such  may  be  the  case  with  what 
appears  to  be  his  current  heart  situation. 
Her  name  is  Jean  MacDonald,  a  lovely 
blonde  girl,  socially  prominent  in  the  East. 
Pete  met  Jean  first  a  couple  of  years  ago. 
It  was  a  casual  thing.  She  had  a  date  with 
someone  else  at  a  New  York  night  club.  A 
year  later  they  ran  into  each  other  in 
Honolulu.  Then,  two  months  ago,  just  as 
Pete  was  beginning  to  work  in  Kangaroo 
in  Australia,  they  met  again.  Jean  was 
traveling  around  the  world  and  showed 
up  in  Australia.  They  practically  fell  in 
each  other's  arms.  Whether  this  might 
have  been  the  case  had  she  shown  up  in 
Hollywood  is  something  else  again.  Pete, 
however,  had  been  baking  in  the  desolate 
wastelands  a  hundred  miles  from  Port 
Augusta.  It  is  not  surprising  that  the  at- 
tractive Jean  MacDonald  should  look 
like  a  complete  angel,  and  that  their  in- 
terest in  each  other  should  come  close 
to  the  marriage  stage.  Even  Australians 
will  tell  you  that  the  place  the  Kangaroo 
company  has  been  working  is  the  "hell 
hole  of  the  world,"  and  with  no  offense 
to  Miss  MacDonald,  she  came  closer  to 
being  Mrs.  Peter  Lawford  than  any  other 
girl  since  Pete  first  began  to  think  about 
Liz  Taylor  and  the  girl  she'd  be  in  a 
couple  of  years.  As  for  Sharman  Doug- 
las, that  situation  has  been  off  for  some 
time. 

In  view  of  all  this,  it  may  even  be  pre- 
dicted that  Pete  and  Liz  will  be  seeing 
each  other  again.  If  not  now,  sometime  in 
the  future.  Stranger  things  have  happened 
in  the  history  of  romances.  The  End 


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natural  flavor  of  king-size 
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milder  cigarette.  Priced  no 
higher  than  other 
leading  brands.  i'^ 


CAVAUERSoie  MILDER 

-th^n  -the  \>xar\A  I  hod  been  smoking ! 


Scores  and  scores  of  off-duty.  New  York  hos- 
pital nurses  were  asked  to  compare  CAVALIER 
CIGARETTES  with  the  brand  they  had  been 
smoking  compare  them  for  mildness. 


</,. 

* 82%— just  think  of  it!— 82%  of  the  smokers 
interviewed  said  CAVALIERS  are  milder  than 
the  brand  they  had  been  smoking!  And  that 
included  all  leading  brands! 


CIGARETTES 


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MY  BISSELL®  IS  SO  HANDY  FOR  QUICK  CLEAN-UPS! 
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AT  ALL!  EVEN  UNDER  TABLES  AND  CHAIRS! 


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Do  you  have  a  complex  about  your  complexion? 
Then  care  for  yourself  my  way.  .  .  . 


T  HONESTLY  think  that  the  ugliest  word  in 
*  the  English  language  is  "pimple" — why 
doesn't  someone  invent  a  new  word?  But 
there's  no  getting  away  from  it.  I  just  have 
to  do  a  general  article  about  teen-age 
grooming  and  I  must  include  something 
about  skin  blemishes. 

A  couple  of  months  ago  I  answered  a  let- 
ter from  a  girl  who  wanted  to  know  how 
I  kept  my  skin  so  smooth.  Well,  I  was  ter- 
ribly flattered  and  I  told  her  briefly  what 
I  did.  Since  then  I've  had  hundreds  of  let- 
ters asking  me  to  elaborate.  And  also  a  lot 
of  requests  for  advice  on  teen-age  grooming 
problems.  What  I'm  about  to  say — right  or 
wrong — is  strictly  for  teen-agers. 

First  of  all,  the  complexion.  When  you're 
in  your  teens  your  skin,  being  more  oily 
than  at  any  other  time,  is  more  apt  to  col- 
lect dirt.  So  keep  it  super  clean.  Scrub  your 
face  every  morning  and  every  night  with 
a  complexion  brush.  An  ordinary  wash  cloth 
won't  do  the  trick.  You  have  to  scrub  your 
face  as  if  it  was  the  kitchen  floor.  Dip  the 
brush  in  water  and  work  up  a  good  lather 
with  the  soap.  Give  your  face  the  lather 
treatment  about  three  times,  washing  the 
soap  off  every  time.  The  last  time  let  the 
lather  stay  on  for  a  couple  of  minutes  until 
it  dries.  Then  wash  it  off,  using  the  brush 
again. 

When  your  skin  is  clean,  rub  baby  oil 
or  any  good  complexion  oil  into  your  face 
and  let  it  stay  on  as  long  as  you  can.  I  let 
the  oil  stay  on  my  face  every  night  when 
I'm  doing  my  home  work  and  Saturdays 
when  I'm  not  working,  I  just  plaster  my 
face  with  oil  and  let  it  stay  on  all  day. 

Remember  to  drink  plenty  of  water — at 
least  eight  glasses  a  day. 

So,  for  the  complexion — keep  it  clean, 
keep  it  oiled  and  if  you  still  have  skin  prob- 
lems then  you  should  talk  to  your  doctor. 

Now  about  makeup.  I  don't  know  how 
the  rumor  started  but  I've  been  accused  of 


wearing  makeup  two  inches  thick.  Nothing 
could  be  farther  from  the  truth.  I  don't 
use  powder  base  of  any  kind  and  the  other 
day,  when  I  was  going  to  have  a  portrait 
sitting,  I  discovered  I  didn't  even  own  rouge. 
I'm  against  heavy  makeup  for  teen-agers. 
Personally,  all  I  use  is  lipstick,  a  little  light 
brown  eye-brow  pencil  and  powder. 

Next  in  importance  to  the  face  so  far 
as  good  grooming  is  concerned  is  the  hair. 
And  here's  a  pretty  good  rule — keep  it  clean, 
keep  it  oiled,  keep  it  brushed.  Isn't  it  funny 
that  so  many  old-fashioned  methods  can 
be  applied  today.  Our  grandmothers  be- 
lieved in  brushing  their  hair  a  hundred 
strokes  every  morning  and  a  hundred 
strokes  every  night,  and  it  is  brushing  that 
brings  up  the  natural  oil  in  the  hair  and 
makes  it  look  alive. 

I  got  a  letter  from  a  girl  in  Newark,  N.  J., 
that  says,  "I  am  14  and  have  everything  a 
girl  my  age  could  want  except  for  one  thing 
— my  nails.  I've  tried  all  ways  to  stop 
biting  them  but  I  can't.  What  can  I  do?" 

Now  here's  another  problem  that  I  cer- 
tainly know  about.  I  was  a  nail  biter  my- 
self once  and  I  could  give  you  a  lot  of  corny, 
advice  about  how  to  stop.  One  solution, 
which  may  work  in  some  cases,  is  to  go  to 
a  manicurist  once  a  week,  always  carry  an 
emery  board  with  you  and  when  you  have 
a  ragged  nail,  file  it  down  so  it  won't  tempt 
you.  Or  put  bitter  aloes  on  the  nails.  But 
there  is  really  just  one  way  to  do  it.  Stop 
biting  them ! 

You  know,  after  I  gave  the  reducing  diet 
I  got  a  lot  of  letters  from  girls  who  said, 
"The  diet  was  fine  but  I  just  couldn't  stick 
to  it." 

If  you  haven't  enough  will  power  to  stick 
to  a  diet  then  you  really  don't  want  to  lose 
weight.  Same  way  with  nail  biting.  This  is 
something  that  takes  just  old-fashioned  will 
power.  I  know  it  can  be  done  because  I  did 
it.  I  looked  down  at  my  hands  one  day  and 


said,  "This  is  silly."  And  I  stopped  biting 
ray  nails  just  like  that!  Look.  You  have  to 
put  your  hand  to  your  mouth  in  order  to  bite 
your  nails.  Well,  when  you  start  to  put  your 
hand  to  your  mouth,  just  put  your  hand  down 
again.  It's  not  easy.  But  that's  all  there  is  to  it. 

THE  next  most  important  thing  about  good 
grooming  is  the  care  you  take  of  your 
clothes.  You  can  have  a  wardrobe  that  cost 
a  thousand  dollars  but  it  won't  do  you  any 
good  unless  it  is  kept  up.  It's  much  better  to 
have  few  clothes  that  you  care  for  properly. 

It's  the  old,  old  stitch-in-time-saves-nine 
theory.  At  night  when  you  undress,  look  over 
the  clothes  you've  just  taken  off.  If  a  button 
is  missing,  sew  it  on  right  then.  If  a  seam  is 
split,  don't  wait  until  the  rush  for  school  to- 
morrow. If  the  dress  or  skirt  needs  pressing, 
do  it  immediately.  Do  it  before  you  put  it  on 
the  hanger.  Wash  your  stockings  or  socks 
when  you  take  them  off.  Brush  your  shoes. 
Honestly,  if  all  of  us  would  just  do  this  we'd 
never  have  to  go  through  that  awful  chore 
known  as  "cleaning  out  the  closet." 

I  had  a  letter  from  a  girl  in  Columbus,  Ohio, 
who  asked  me  if  I  thought  my  being  in  pictures 
helped  me  to  be  better  groomed.  Well,  I  had  to 
think  about  that  for  a  minute,  but  suddenly 
I  knew  the  answer  was  "Yes."  And  the  reason 
is  this:  I  know  that  I  am  judged  by  my  appear- 
ance. So  I  have  to  look  as  good  as  I  can  every 
time  I  go  out— whether  it's  going  to  school  at 
the  studio,  to  the  movies,  or  just  down  to  the 
drug  store.  So  that's  why  I  check  on  the 
stocking  seams,  on  hair  well  brushed — little 
things  like  that. 

Because,  honestly,  the  whole  secret  about 
good  grooming  is  being  clean  and  neat. 

No,  I'm  wrong.  There's  something  else.  You 
can  have  good-looking,  well-pressed  clothes, 
nice  hair,  a  good  complexion  and  wonderful 
finger  nails,  but  unless  you  have  good  posture 
the  effect  is  just  nothing. 

Posture  is  terribly  important.  Whether  you're 
short  or  whether  you're  tall  you  should  carry 
yourself  as  if — well — this  is  a  funny  thing  to 
say,  maybe,  but  as  if  you  believed  in  yourself. 

Hold  your  back  straight,  your  stomach  in, 
your  chin  up.  You  might  feel  real  silly  walk- 
ing this  way  but  you  don't  look  silly  to  other 
people.  Do  you  know  that  model's  trick?  Stand 
with  the  spine  flat  against  the  wall.  Every 
vertebra  from  the  neck  to  the  hips  touching 
the  wall.  Then  without  a  single  slump,  walk 
away.  That's  good  posture. 

Everything  worth  while  takes  time.  And  I 
know  it's  hard  with  school  and  home  work  and 
chores  to  get  good  grooming  on  the  time 
budget.  But  it  really  takes  just  a  few  minutes 
a  day  if  it's  every  day.  And,  believe  me,  it's 
really  worthwhile. 

Now  for  some  other  problems.  And  if  you 
don't  like  my  advice  you  can  tell  me  so.  I'm 
just  expressing  my  own  opinion. 

"Dear  Joan:  I'm  a  teen-ager  with  red  hair 
and  a  bad  temper.  I  want  to  be  a  school 
teacher.  I  make  straight  A's.  Do  you  think 
I  would  make  a  good  teacher?  I  like  children. 
R.  P.,  Evansville,  Indiana." 
■  I  think  you'd  be  swell  but  for  just  one  thing 
IF — the  bad  temper.  I  think  it's  great  for  a  girl  to 
want  to  be  a  teacher  but  until  you  can  learn  to 


85 


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control  the  temper  I  think  it  would  be  wrong. 
I'd  like  to  hear  what  other  kids  think,  but  I 
know  I've  had  a  couple  of  teachers  with  bad 
tempers  and  the  year  was  ruined  for  me. 

'"r^EAR  Joan:  I'm  a  Junior  in  high  school 
•■^  and  I'm  afraid  a  boy  is  going  to  ask  me 
to  his  senior  prom.  I  don't  know  how  to  dance 
and,  what's  more,  I  don't  like  to.  Should  I 
refuse  him  or  go  with  him  if  he  does  ask  me? 
C.  R.,  Boston,  Mass." 

What  you  should  do  is  to  learn  to  dance 
right  away,  if  your  parents  have  nothing 
against  it.  To  be  a  well-rounded  person  socially 
you  have  to  do  whatever  the  crowd  does.  And 
whether  you  like  dancing  or  not  you  should 
pretend  to.  Get  one  of  your  girl  friends  to 
teach  you  to  dance  immediately. 
"Dear  Joan:  I  like  a  boy  who  is  two  years 
younger  than  I  am.  He  is  nice  looking,  pleasant 
in  manner  and  speech,  and  has  a  good  back- 
ground, but  all  my  girl  friends  think  it  is 
wrong  for  me  to  go  with  him.  What  do  you 
think?  A.  D.,  Maiden,  Mass." 

I  just  don't  think  age  has  anything  to  do 
with  it.  If  you  like  this  boy  and  he  likes  you 
and  you  have  fun  together  what  possible  differ- 
ence can  his  being  younger  make?  And,  any- 
how, it's  not  up  to  your  girl  friends  to  decide. 
If  your  family  approves,  and  if  you  like  him 
that's  all  that  matters. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  always  run  around  wearing  blue 
jeans  and  plaid  shirts.  My  mother  thinks  I 
should  wear  dresses  like  other  girls  do.  What 
do  you  really  think  about  this  ?  P.  R.  H.,  West 
Monroe,  La." 

Honey,  I'm  on  your  mother's  side.  Jeans 
and  shirts  are  fine  for  a  hike  or  horseback 
riding  or  working  in  the  garden.  But  I  certainly 
don't  think  they're  for  school  or  going  to  the 
movies. 

"Dear  Joan:  I'm  going  steady  with  a  sweet, 
reliable  boy.  I'm  in  love  with  another  boy 
who  I  think  likes  me.  Should  I  take  the 
chance  of  hurting  my  present  boy  friend  by 
breaking  off  with  him  to  try  to  win  another 
boy's  affections?  B.  S.,  Bronx,  N.  Y." 

A  lot  of  kids  jumped  all  over  me  when  I 
said  I  didn't  believe  in  going  steady.  Here's  one 
of  the  reasons.  If  you  didn't  have  a  steady,  you 
wouldn't  have  this  problem.  However,  now 
you're  in  this  mess,  I  think  you  have  to  be 
honest.  You'll  just  have  to  tell  your  present  boy 
friend  how  you  feel.  Otherwise,  it  wouldn't 
be  fair  to  him.  But  before  doing  this  be  very 
sure  that  you  aren't  just  fickle. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  would  like  to  know'  how  to 
overcome  an  inferiority  complex.  It's  an  awful 
feeling,  thinking  all  the  time  that  everyone 
is  better  than  you  are.  D.  W.,  Falls  Church,  Va." 

Now,  look,  it  just  isn't  possible  that  every- 
body is  superior  to  you.  And  did  you  ever  stop 
to  think  that  there  are  a  lot  of  people  who 
feel  inferior  to  you?  Forget  about  your  in- 
feriority complex.  Everybody  has  one  in  one 
way  or  another.  We're  all  just  people  trying  to 
do  the  best  we  can.  Make  yourself  as  charming 
and  as  interesting  as  you  know  how  to  be. 
People  will  respond. 

Gee,  I  wish  I  could  answer  every  letter  I  get, 
but  the  editor  of  Modern  Screen  just  won't 
give  me  the  whole  magazine !  So  that's  all  for 
this  month.  The  End 


f\t  ^     I  FOOT  COMFORT®  REMEDIES 

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what  happened  to 
lana's  marriage? 


{Continued  from  page  27)  discord  with 
Bob  Topping. 

"We've  had  our  little  quarrels,"  Lana 
says,  "but  all  this  talk  about  Bob  and 
myself  breaking  up  isn't  true.  Frankly, 
I'm  a  little  sick  of  all  this  gossip.  As 
soon  as  I  finish  retakes  on  Mr.  Imperium, 
Bob  and  I  are  getting  out  of  town." 

This  gossip,  of  course,  is  nothing  new. 
For  the  past  three  years  there  have  been 
rumors  of  periodic  discord  between  Bob 
Topping  and  his  fourth  bride,  and  whis- 
perings that  eventually  this  unhappiness 
would  drive  both  parties  to  divorce. 


Speaking  of  a  Hollywood  starlet  who  said 
she  didn't  intend  to  get  married  until  she 
was  25,  Clark  Dennis  remarked,  "And  she 
probably  doesn't  intend  to  be  25,  until 
she's  married." — Sidney  Skolsky  in  Holly- 
wood Is  My  Beof. 


At  the  time  of  Lana's  hectic  springtime 
marriage  to  the  wealthy  sportsman,  one 
of  Lana's  closest  friends  privately  proph- 
esied that,  "If  this  marriage  lasts  five 
years,  it  will  be  a  miracle." 

Another  friend  of  the  incomparably 
beautiful  Turner  exclaimed  two  hours  after 
the  wedding,  "Will  someone  please  tell  me 
how  this  marriage  can  last?  Bob  and  Lana 
have  absolutely  nothing  in  common.  Bob 
was  born  with  a  gold  spoon  in  his  mouth. 
Lana  was  born  into  poverty. 

"Bob's  family  mansion  is  large  enough 
to  house  a  detachment  of  U.  S.  Marines. 
Lana  spent  her  youth  shuffling  from 
Wallace,  Idaho,  to  San  Francisco  to  Los 
Angeles,  earning  practically  every  cent  she 
ever  spent.  I  don't  want  to  be  a  wet 
blanket,  but  this  whole  thing  is  too  much 
like  a  Cinderella  story  to  come  true." 

This  is  the  same  sort  of  talk  that  was 
circulated  around  Hollywood  when  Liz 
Taylor  married  Nicky  Hilton,  Mickey 
Rooney  married  Martha  Vickers,  and 
Franchot  Tone  married  Jean  Wallace. 
Unfortunately,  the  Monday  morning  quar- 
terbacks were  correct  in  their  dire  pre- 
dictions in  these  cases. 

Recently,  an  actress  who  has  worked 
with  Lana  in  many  films,  came  right 
out  and  said,  "Lana's  one  of  the  sweetest 
girls  in  the  business,  but  my  own  belief  is 
that  she  married  Bob  Topping  on  the  re- 
bound. She  was  very  hurt  when  Ty 
Power  ran  off  and  married  Linda  Christian, 
and  experience  proves  that  rebound  mar- 
riages have  a  very  small  chance  of  suc- 
ceeding. I  should  know.  It  happened  to 
me,  you  see." 

If  Lana  and  Bob  were  to  have  children 
the  current  rash  of  rumors  might  disap- 
pear. But  Lana  has  had  two  miscarriages, 
the  second  only  a  few  months  ago.  Even  if 
she  were  to  give  birth  successfully  to  a 
child,  the  chances  of  the  baby's  survival 
would  be  slim. 

People  in  Hollywood  know  that  there 
has  been  a  definite  change  in  her  character. 
Years  ago  Lana  was  very  friendly  to  the 
press.  She  would  sit  for  dozens  of  inter- 
views, answer  all  sorts  of  questions,  pose 
for  layouts.  She  was  the  darling  of  all  the 
newspapermen. 

Nowadays,  many  reporters  consider  her 
uncooperative  and  blame  it  on  their  belief 
that  she  is  unhappily  married. 

A  while  ago,  not  too  long  after  she  had 
lost  her  second  child,  Lana  Turner  was 
heard  shouting  in  her  swanky  new  home 
on  Mapleton  Drive  in  Holmby  Hills — that, 
at  least,  is  what  neighbors  told  reporters. 

Soon,  rumors  to  the  effect  that  the  Top- 
pings were  quarreling  vehemently  began 


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to  invade  the  neighborhood.  A  group  of 
newshounds  promptly  drove  out  to  Lana's 
house  to  determine  what  the  hullabaloo 
was  all  about. 

Cubby  Broccoli,  an  actor's  agent  who'd 
accompanied  the  "Toppings  on  their  honey- 
moon to  Europe,  opened  the  front  door. 
"What  happened  out  here  last  night?"  the 
reporters  asked  him.  "We  hear  there  was 
quite  a  fight,  a  real  big  rumpus.  Is  there 
going  to  be  a  divorce?" 

Broccoli  was  visibly  shocked  by  the 
word  "divorce."  "Tell  you  fellows  what," 
he  said  politely.  "I'll  ask  Lana  and  Bob, 
and  I'll  let  you  know." 

Three  minutes  later  Cubby  was  back  at 
the  door.  "According  to  Bob,"  he  an- 
nounced, "nothing  happened  out  here  last 
night." 

"According  to  the  neighbors,"  one  of 
the  reporters  offered,  "plenty  happened. 
Come  on,  give  us  a  break.  We  have  to 
work  for  a  living." 

"I'm  telling  you,"  Cubby  insisted.  "Noth- 
ing happened.  Everything's  okay.  Why 
don't  you  forget  about  it?" 

"We'd  like  to  talk  to  Lana,"  someone 
said. 

"Sorry,"  Broccoli  said,  "she's  asleep." 

"Okay,  let  us  talk  to  "Topping." 

Such  a  procedure,  Broccoli  explained, 
was  impossible.  Mr.  Topping  was  not  the 
sort  of  person  who  discussed  his  personal 
life  in  public.  Besides,  nothing  had  hap- 
pened in  the  first  place. 

While  Cubby  was  protesting  that  all 
was  serene  in  the  Topping  household,  an 
MGM  press  representative  drove  up.  He 
entered  the  house  and  promised  to  retvurn 
with  a  statement  that  would  satisfy  their 
editors. 

APPROXIMATELY  40  minutes  later,  he 
emerged  with  a  statement  which  at 
first  seemed  a  little  silly,  although  Dr.  John 
McDonald  later  corroborated  the  tale. 

Lana — so  the  statement  went — would 
be  confined  to  her  bed  for  several  days 
because  of  strenuous  Christmas  shopping. 
It  seems  that  while  buying  and  carrying 
Christmas  packages,  she  had  strained  her 
back,  and  aggravated  an  old  injury  which 
she  had  incurred  while  making  The  Three 
Musketeers  in  1948. 

The  reporters  wanted  to  know  why  Lana 
hadn't  had  her  Christmas  packages  deliv- 
ered instead  of  carrying  them  herself. 
They  even  tried  to  find  out  in  what  de- 
partment store  the  injury  had  occurred,  but 
they  had  no  luck,  and  decided  to  investi- 
gate on  their  own. 

Inside  of  six  hours,  the  reporters  came 
up  with  what  they  believed  to  be  the 
truth,  although  the  denials  were  long,  loud, 
and  vociferous. 

Bob  and  Lana,  it  seems,  had  thrown  a 
party  the  previous  night  for  half-a-dozen 
friends.  The  party  carried  on  to  the  early 
hours  of  the  morning.  After  the  guests 
had  left,  the  Toppings  prepared  to  retire. 

"Pops,"  Lana  reportedly  said  to  her  hus- 
band. "How  about  playing  some  of  our 
songs?"  ("Pops"  is  Lana's  favorite  nick- 
name for  Bob.) 

Allegedly,  Bob  told  Lana  that  he  was  in 
no  mood  for  songs.  Lana  replied  rather 
heatedly.  Bob  said  something  else.  Tem- 
pers rose,  and  Lana,  it  is  said,  declared 
that  she  was  leaving. 

She  raced  out  of  the  bedroom,  but  as  she 
did,  she  slipped  on  the  highly- waxed  floor, 
landed  on  her  back,  and  hurt  it  severely. 
Dr.  McDonald  was  called,  and  it  was  he 
who  confined  her  to  bed. 

Which  of  these  versions  you  accept,  or 
which  one  is  the  truth,  makes  small  dif- 
ference. The  big  point  is  that  many  peo- 
ple in  Hollywood  believe  the  second 
version.  Hollywood  is  really  a  very  small 
town,  and  it's  impossible  to  keep  a  quarrel 
which  takes  place  in  a  large  home  amply- 
staffed  by  servants  quiet. 


Of  course  stories  like  this  are  nothing 
new.  They've  been  making  the  rounds  for 
some  time.  In  the  telling,  the  settings  are 
frequently  changed.  Lana  and  Bob  are 
quibbling  in  Connecticut.  They're  seen 
arguing  at  the  Stork  Club  in  New  York  or 
outside  the  Mocambo  in  Hollywood. 

People  spread  the  vicious,  untrue  rumor 
that  Topping  is  trying  to  manage  Lana's 
career.  Others  say  that  Bob'  is  disen- 
chanted, that  as  far  as  he  is  concerned, 
her  glamor  quotient  has  decreased. 

"I'll  tell  you  how  it  is,"  a  Hollywood 
veteran  recently  explained.  "I  was  mar- 
ried to  an  actress  once,  a  big  star.  I  was 
taken  in  by  all  the  glitter.  Actresses  seem 
very  glamorous  until  you  marry  one. 
Then  the  glamor  flies  out  the  window.  I'm 
not  saying  that's  what's  happening  to  Lana 
and  Topping.  Topping's  no  kid.  He  was 
married  to  another  actress,  Arline  Judge, 
and  he  knows  the  score. 

"With  young  Nicky  Hilton  it  was  dif- 
ferent. He  went  around  with  Liz  Taylor 
and  thought  she  was  the  most  glamorous 
thing  cJive.  But  glamor  has  nothing  to 
do  with  a  good  marriage. 

"For  my  money  disenchantment  is  what 
brings  on  separations  between  husbands 
who  aren't  in  motion  pictures  and  actresses 
who  are.  If  Lana  and  Topping  ever  sepa- 
rate, it  won't  be  over  career  or  money 
trouble. 

"There  are  no  children  to  hold  their 
marriage  together.  She  isn't  dei>endent 
upon  him  for  support,  and  they've  both 
been  married  before.  I've  heard  a  lot  of 
stories  about  their  marriage  wearing  thin, 
but  even  so,  those  rumors  may  mean 
nothing. 

"Anyway,  I  think  it's  a  fine  idea  that 
Lana  plans  to  leave  town  for  a  short  vaca- 
tion after  she  finishes  work  on  a  pictture. 
Hollywood's  a  tough  place  to  make  a  mar- 
riage work." 

'T'hat  Lana  has  definitely  changed  since 
^  her  marriage  to  Topping  there  can  be 
no  doubt.  She  has  achieved  a  dignity  which 
borders  on  aloofness. 

The  gay  bantering  of  the  past,  the  wise- 
cracks, the  almost  hedonistic  philosophy 
seem  to  have  been  supplanted  by  a  more 
matronly  attitude. 

Some  people  say  that  this  is  ample  evi- 
dence of  Lana's  unhappiness.  Lana  herself 
denies  this.  She  is  certainly  determined  to 
make  a  success  of  her  marriage.  Topping 
likes  deep-sea  fishing,  so  Lana  stopped 
making  pictures  for  a  year  and  went  deep- 
sea  fishing.  Topping  wanted  a  house  of 
his  own,  so  Lana  moved  out  of  mother's 
house  and  rented  a  mansion  of  her  own. 
Topping  thought  he'd  like  to  spend  some 
of  his  honeymoon  introducing  midget  auto 
racing  to  England.    So  Lana  added  her 


HOW  TIME  FLIES! 

■  Lana  Turner  is  the  most  exciting  girl 
in  Hollywood  today.  Tomorrow,  I 
prophesy,  she'll  be  as  talked  about  as 
Hedy  Lamarr. — October,  1939 — Modern 
Screen. 


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transparent  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream.  It 
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adherent  film.  Never  streaks.  Never  discolors. 
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The  Mask's  "keratolytic"  action 
loosens  dirt  and  rough  flaki- 
nesses  that  dull  your  skin. 
Dissolves  them  off!  After 
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in  your  truly 
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glamorous  presence  to  the  sporty  occasion. 

If  the  Topping-Turner  marriage  goes 
on  the  rocks  as  the  pessimists  predict,  it 
certainly  won't  be  because  the  parties 
didn't  try. 

Yet,  after  three  years  of  marriage,  there 
have  been  no  less  than  330  stories  to  the 
effect  that  all  is  not  well  with  Lana  and 
Bob.  Each  quarrel  has  been  magnified  to 
monumental  proportions.  "It's  almost 
been  as  if  people  didn't  want  the  marriage 
to  succeed,"  one  producer  recently  pointed 
out.  "In  fact  every  day  I  hear  a  nev.' 
story  or  a  new  reason  why  the  marriage  is 
unsuccessful.  Why  can't  people  let  them 
alone?" 

The  reason,  of  course,  is  simple.  You 
cannot  be  a  public  figure  and  retain  your 
privacy. 

"If  she  were  genuinely  happy,"  some 
gossip  writers  say,  "she  would  invite  the 
press  into  her  home  as  she  used  to.  Then 
there  wouldn't  be  all  these  stories." 

Hollywood  history  has  proven  that 
where  there's  smoke,  there's  fire.  Almost 
all  the  divorcees  you  can  name  have 
denied  that  their  marriages  were  shaky. 
Lana  is  probably  no  exception. 

But  if  ever  a  girl  deserved  happiness, 
that  girl  is  Lana  Turner.  For  15  years  her 
love-life  has  been  virtusiily  a  bed  of 
thorns.  It's  time  she  enjoyed  some  of  the 
roses.  The  End 


all  about  eden 

(Continued  from  page  44)  listened  duti- 
fully to  all  these  dire  warnings.  Then  they 
decided  to  enlarge  the  little  cottage  any- 
way. Their  decision  was  based  on  the  fact 
that  they  didn't  know  enough  about  archi- 
tecture to  build  a  completely  new  house. 

"We  were  dumb,"  admits  Anne,  "but  at 
least  we  knew  it.  Neither  of  us  had  had 
any  experience  reading  blueprints.  We 
didn't  know  a  joist  from  a  stud,  so  we 
figured  it  would  be  easier  to  visualize 
what  we  were  getting  if  we  just  enlarged 
this  existing  house." 

They  hired  a  fine  modern  architect 
named  John  Lautner  and  with  Mrs. 
Baxter's  help,  they  went  to  work  on  the 
plans. 

According  to  Anne's  grandfather,  any 
mistakes  in  a  house  shotdd  be  made  on 
paper  and  not  with  building  materials.  He 
is  also  in  favor  of  people  building  homes 
that  suit  their  individual  ways  of  life  and 
no  one  else's.  He  thinks  home  owners 
should  put  as  much  thought  into  the  plans 
as  the  architect,  if  not  more. 

About  this  the  Hodiaks  were  perfectly 
agreeable.  In  fact,  they  had  so  many  per- 
sonal requirements  and  pet  ideas  that 
Lautner  had  to  draw  up  three  complete 
sets  of  plans  before  he  could  work  them 
all  in. 

"The  plans  took  almost  as  long  as  the 
construction  work,"  recalls  John,  "and  it 
took  nine  months." 

"Exactly  nine  months,"  echoes  Anne. 
"That's  why  we  call  it  our  problem  chUd." 

A  s  WITH  most  problem  children,  the 
Hodiaks  seem  to  love  and  appreciate 
their  "new"  home  more  than  if  it  had  been 
built  in  the  conventional  way.  Sentiment 
aside,  they  have  a  right  to  be  proud  of  it, 
for  the  Hodiak  house  is  easily  one  of  the 
most  unusual  and  exciting  places  in  Holly- 
wood. What's  more,  it  makes  sense.  Every 
feature  was  planned  with  a  purpose  and  a 
sure  sense  of  beauty. 

Starting  with  the  front  entrance,  the 
place  is  completely  logical.  The  street 
view,  for  example,  shows  no  sweeping 
driveway  leading  to  an  elaborate  front 
door,  but  rather  a  simple  double  garage, 


a  rural  mail  box,  and  a  high  garden  gate. 
Everything  about  the  front  of  the  house  is 
designed  for  privacy  and  personal  enjoy- 
ment, and  not  for  ostentation  or  to  make 
an  impression. 

The  enlarged  living  room  is  so  striking 
that  it's  breathtaking,  but  was  not  planned 
solely  for  decorative  effect.  Three  specific 
purposes  determined  its  style:  reading, 
entertaining  and  quiet  evenings  alone  in 
front  of  the  fire. 

This  room  is  a  step  down  from  the  en- 
trance hall.  Half  of  one  wall,  starting  at 
the  door,  is  a  soUd  mass  of  book  shelves. 
The  shelves  contain  over  a  thousand 
volumes,  and  directly  in  front  of  them  are 
two  comfortable  reading  chairs.  At  a  casual 
glance  there's  nothing  to  indicate  why 
they're  good  for  reading  other  than  the 
fact  that  they  look  cornfortable  and  are 
near  the  books.  But  concealed  in  the  gold 
lacquered  ceiling,  directly  over  the  chairs, 
are  spotlights.  These  Wendel  lights  are  so 
ingeniously  placed  that  they  throw  light 
beams  on  the  chairs. 

TpiiE  entertainment  features  of  the  room 
are  a  lot  more  apparent. 

"I  kept  worrying  about  the  room  being 
long  enough,"  Anne  says.  "John  and  I  used 
to  come  over  every  night  after  work  and 
I'd  make  him  stand  at  one  end  of  the 
room  while  I  stood  at  the  other.  Then  Td 
tell  him  to  move  further  back  so  I  could 
test  the  feel  of  the  room.  I  didn't  want  it 
to  seem  cramped." 

Regardless  of  dimensions,  there's  no 
danger  of  anyone  suffering  claustrophobia 
in  the  Hodiaks'  living  room,  because  the 
portion  that  opens  onto  the  brick  terrace 
is  all  glass.  The  casement  windows  beside 
the  fireplace  were  enlarged  so  that  the  view 
of  the  city  comes  right  into  focus.  And 
one  wall  was  pushed  right  against  the 
hillside  and  treated  as  an  outdoor  struc- 
ture. It's  made  of  field  stone  and  planted 
along  the  top  with  indoor  plants  so  that 
there's  no  sharp  dividing  line  between  the 
living  room  and  the  outdoor  terrace. 

A  DECORATING  trick  also  adds  to  the 
^  illusion  of  the  interior  merging  with 
the  exterior.  Anne  wanted  plenty  of  com- 
fortable seating  in  the  room  without  fUhng 
up  the  floor  space  with  a  lot  of  big  couches, 
so  her  mother,  who  planned  the  decorating, 
suggested  that  a  permanent  banquette  be 
built  following  the  curve  of  the  stone  wall. 
Rather  than  ending  it  inside  the  pane  of 
glass,  it  continues  onto  the  terrace.  Mrs. 
Baxter  upholstered  the  bench  in  an  oat- 
meal-colored, handwoven,  Dorothy  Liebes 
fabric.  She  also  used  the  same  material 
outside  but  slip-covered  it  with  a  clear 
plastic  to  protect  it  from  the  dirt  and 
weather. 

"We're  just  waiting  for  the  day,"  John 
says,  "when  some  near-sighted  friend  tries 
to  walk  through  the  glass  to  get  to  the 
outdoor  portion  of  the  bench." 

Other  furniture  pieces  were  also  planned 
with  parties  in  mind.  For  example,  there's 
an  overscale  Robsjohn-Gibbings  hassock 
in  front  of  the  curved  bench  for  guests 
who  like  to  perch.  There's  the  concert 
grand  piano  for  musical  friends,  and  low- 
backed  chairs  that  encourage  people  to 
linger  without  dividing  the  party  up  into 
isolated  conversational  groups.  Dotted 
around  the  room  are  colorful  square  boxes 
that  serve  as  end  tables  most  of  the  time, 
and  eating  tables  when  the  Hodiaks  give  a 
buffet  supper  party.  Anne  suggested  these 
to  her  mother  who,  in  turn,  had  a  carpen- 
ter make  them  out  of  plywood  and 
equipped  with  recessed  handles  so  that 
they  can  be  picked  up  and  moved  about 
the  room.  Mrs.  Baxter  also  had  them 
painted  like  children's  blocks  so  that  they 
form  designs  when  piled  together.  These 
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Anne  almost  as  much  as  her  Oscar. 

A  LL  this  furniture  is  placed  in  a  flexible 
arrangement.  Anne  swore  that  when 
she  built  a  home  she  would  never  have 
a  living  room  with  a  rigid  seating  plan.  Too 
often  she'd  been  at  parties  where  she  was 
caught  in  a  corner  with  a  bore  and  had  to 
sweat  out  the  balance  of  the  evening  be- 
cause there  was  no  way  of  gracefully  shift- 
ing her  position.  This  never  happens  at 
the  Hodiak  parties,  which  probably  ex- 
plains why  the  Hodiaks  are  such  popular 
hosts  in  Hollywood. 

Upstairs,  of  course,  are  the  bedrooms  and 
baths.  The  master  bedroom  is  a  cheerful 
yellow  and  white  room  with  antique 
Chinese  accessories.  Except  for  the  king- 
size  bed,  the  room  is  furnished  as  a  sitting 
room.  There's  a  small  couch,  a  couple  of 
end  tables,  a  free-form  writing  desk  and 
several  unique  Chinese  lamps.  The  lights 
for  the  bed,  however,  are  the  same  Wendel 
spotlights  used  in  the  living  room.  These 
spots  are  so  carefully  planned  that  they 
just  illuminate  an  area  the  size  of  a 
script.  John  likes  to  study  his  lines  in  bed. 
(Right  now  it's  MGM's  People  In  Love.) 
When  he  does,  Anne  goes  to  sleep  with- 
out being  disturbed  by  his  light. 

The  only  architectural  changes  in  this 
room  were  the  additional  wardrobe  closets 
for  Anne.  Unfortunately  they  had  to  be 
built  into  the  room  in  order  to  provide 
the  added  storage  space.  To  keep  these 
closets  from  making  the  room  seem  too 
small,  Anne  and  her  mother  put  on 
shutters  for  doors.  They  also  hung  inside 
shutters  on  the  windows  instead  of  blinds 
or  draperies.  Now  that  she's  lived  with 
them,  Anne  is  shutter- happy. 

"In  the  first  place,  they  look  sort  of 
oriental,"  she  explains.  "They  mask  any 
opening  in  an  attractive  way.  They  also 
let  air  circulate  among  my  clothes." 

THE  bath  adjoining  this  room  serves  as 
Anne's  dressing  room.  It's  papered  in  a 
silver  grass  cloth,  and  along  one  wall  is 


a  mirrored  vanity  table  that  was  once  the 
dining  room  buffet.  The  crystal  chandelier 
in  here  also  came  from  the  former  dining 
room.  When  guests  ask  Anne  why  she 
keeps  such  dim  lights  in  it,  she  loves  to 
explain  it's  a  professional  necessity.  She 
has  to  get  up  so  early  when  she's  working 
that  she's  never  quite  awake  and  a  dim 
light  is  easier  on  her  sleepy  eyes. 

John's  dressing  room  and  bath  are  at 
the  end  of  a  short  hall.  This  hall  looks 
as  if  it  were  lined  with  painted  brick, 
but  actually  it's  covered  with  a  Katzen- 
bach  and  Warren  brick-type  wallpaper, 
a  decorating  touch  which  makes  a  nice 
transition  from  silver  grass  cloth  to  John's 
masculine  blue  suite. 

Besides  his  sport  jacket-^,  John  keeps 
a  day-bed,  his  collection  of  clowns,  camera 
equipment  and  a  wonderful  desk  in  this 
room.  The  desk  was  designed  by  George 
Nelson  and  it's  full  of  carefully  engineered 
storage.  There's  a  filing  drawer,  a  well  for 
a  typewriter  and  loads  of  little  pigeon- 
holes. John  is  outspoken  in  his  praise  of 
the  desk. 

Over  the  garage  is  the  guest  room  and 
bath.  The  furniture  in  this  suite  is  far 
nicer  than  most  guest  rooms  because  it 
came  from  the  living  room  of  the  original 
little  cottage.  The  best  feature  of  the 
room,  however,  is  its  location.  It's  off  by 
itself,  and  insulated  against  the  noise  and 
bustle  of  the  rest  of  the  household.  A 
guest  can  sleep  till  noon  there.  In  fact, 
the  word  is  out  that  the  Hodiaks  have  the 
finest  spare  room  in  Southern  California 
and  the  reservations  are  starting  to  liter- 
ally pour  in. 

One  guest  Anne  and  John  welcomed  a 
few  months  ago  with  love  and  trepidation 
was  Grandfather  Wright.  He  made  a  tour 
of  the  house  grunting  and  muttering, 
"This  is  good,"  "Not  bad,"  and,  "Darned 
foolishness."  His  final,  overall  comment 
was,  "As  long  as  you  insisted  on  remodel- 
ing, you've  done  a  good  job.  This  is  quite 
a  dramatic  house." 

To  which  Anne  replied,  "But  that's  our 
business,  Grandfather."  And  so,  of  course, 
it  is.  The  End 


the  faith  no  one  could  teach  me 


{Continued  from  page  37)  When  I  reached 
the  Katz  Advertising  Agency,  where  I 
worked,  I  called  my  wife,  Helen,  on  the 
phone. 

"Helen,"  I  said,  "remember  how  I  had 
to  sit  down  and  rest  for  20  minutes 
after  I  played  baseball  last  Sunday,  and 
how  I  could  dance  only  once  around  the 
floor  on  Saturday  night  and  then  began 
to  breathe  too  hard?  The  same  thing  hap- 
pened to  me  again  today  on  my  way  to 
the  office." 

"You  just  sit  there,"  Helen  said,  "and 
wait  for  me.  I'll  drive  right  down." 

Helen  was  pregnant  at  the  time,  but  it 
never  occurred  to  her  that  she  should 
spare  herself.  In  about  half  an  hour  she 
had  reached  the  office  where  I  worked. 
Then  she  drove  me  to  see  Dr.  James  Cun- 
nie,  who  had  been  looking  after  her. 

He  took  my  pulse — it  was  132,  though  I 
had  not  been  exerting  myself  in  any  way. 
Normal  pulse  would  be  74.  He  looked  quite 
grave  as  he  said,  "Well,  Dan,  you've 
strained  your  heart.  You'll  have  to  get 
right  to  bed,  and  rest  in  bed  for  at  least 
a  couple  of  weeks." 

"A  couple  of  weeks?"  I  asked  incredu- 
lously. "Why  should  I  need  that  much 
rest?  There's  never  been  anything  wrong 
with  my  heart." 

"Just  the  same  you've  strained  it.  You've 
been  overworking,  haven't  you?" 

I  admitted  that  in  my  eagerness  to  get 


ahead,  I'd  gone  after  advertising  with  all 
the  energy  and  vitality  I  had  in  me.  I  had 
poured  everything  I  had  into  my  work. 

It  was  difficult  to  go  to  bed  and  do 
nothing,  but  I  had  no  choice.  The  doctor 
told  me  frankly  that  if  I  didn't  rest,  I 
would  be  fluting  with  death. 

So  I  went  to  bed  and  stayed  there.  Helen 
waited  on  mc  hand  and  foot.  We  were 
living  on  an  upper  floor  then,  so  she  had  to 
run  up  and  down  constantly. 

We  were  both  following  the  doctor's 
orders  literally,  yet  three  days  after  I 
went  to  bed,  a  terrific  pain  developed  in 
my  left  leg.  The  pain  was  so  sharp  and 
cruel  that  we  called  Dr.  Cunnie  again. 
This  time  his  face  was  even  graver. 
"Your  heart,"  he  said,  "is  not  strong 
enough  to  pump  blood  through  your 
system,  so  the  blood  refuses  to  go  all  the 
way  through  the  system.  A  blood  clot  has 
developed.  You'll  just  have  to  keep  rest- 
ing, and  we'll  hope  that  the  blood  clot 
doesn't  move  to  a  vital  spot." 

As  I  learned,  blood  clots  do  move.  In  a 
short  time  the  sharp  shooting  pains  in 
my  left  leg  had  moved  to  the  right  leg. 
Usually  when  a  blood  clot  moves  around 
the  body  that  way,  it  hits  the  heart  some- 
where in  its  circuit^ — and  you're  a  goner. 

Dr.  Cunnie  knew  how  great  the  chances 
were  that  I  would  not  come  out  of  this 
particular  experience  alive.  "It's  a  miracle," 


he  told  me,  "that  the  blood  clot  made  this 
complete  circuit  of  your  body  passing 
through  your  heart  without  fatal  results." 

My  bout  witn  heart  trouble  16  years 
ago  was  the  beginning  of  a  miracle  which 
completely  transformed  my  life. 

Today  I  have  no  sign  of  heart  trouble. 
I  can  get  all  the  insurance  I  want.  Every 
six  months  I  pass  the  required  complete 
physical  examination,  although  for  ten 
years  I  was  blacklisted  by  all  insurance 
companies. 

I  regard  my  bout  with  a  strained  heart, 
and  its  effect  on  my  life,  as  nothing  short 
of  miraculous.  Not  a  day  goes  by  but  I 
give  thanks  to  God  for  striking  me  down 
with  an  attack. 

However,  there  was  a  time  when  things 
looked  so  dark  and  I  was  so  miserable  that 
I  couldn't  help  wondering,  "Why  has  God 
permitted  all  this  to  happen  to  Helen  and 
myself?  Why  is  Fate  picking  on  us?" 

I  had  been  brought  up  in  a  church - 
going,  God-fearing  family.  Every  Sunday 
my  mother  sent  me  to  Sunday  school, 
where  we  watched  colored  religious  slides 
and  listened  to  stories  from  the  Bible.  As 
the  minister  told  us  of  how  Jesus  walked 
on  water  and  performed  the  miracles  of 
the  loaves  and  the  fishes,  healed  the  lepers 
and  cured  the  blind,  I  wondered,  "Could 
these  things  really  have  happened?"  When 
I  went  home  and  asked  my  mother,  she 
said,  "Yes,  they  all  could  have  happened, 
son,  exactly  as  the  minister  described 
them." 

STILL  I  continued  to  wonder.  Perhaps,  at 
times,  I  even  wondered  whether  there 
was  a  God  or  not.  It  was  not  that  my  mind 
was  filled  with  doubts;  it  was  just  that 
much  of  what  I  was  taught  in  Simday 
school  was  beyond  the  grasp  of  a  child's 
mind,  and  filled  me  with  wonderment. 
I  was  never  quite  sure  that  there  really 


WAS  HIS  FACE  RED 

■  Because  Dick  Widmark  didn't  want 
the  competition  of  western  stars  in  his 
home,  he  banned  television.  But  once, 
curious  about  Hopalong's  popularity,  he 
rented  one  of  his  films  and  waited  to 
show  it  unto  his  daughter  was  almost 
asleep.  One  day,  after  he  took  her  to 
see  his  latest  film,  the  director  asked  Ann 
how  she  liked  her  father.  "He's  all 
right,"  Ann  said  kindly,  "but  Hopalong's 
a  lot  better." — Kolma  Flake. 


is  a  divine  power  guiding  our  lives,  till 
I  personally  went  through  the  experience 
which  taught  me  complete  faith. 

In  this  respect,  I  think  I  was  like  most 
people.  Ask  the  average  man  if  he  believes 
in  God,  and  he  will  say  "Yes",  but  that  is 
a  different  thing  than  going  through  an 
experience  in  which  God's  giiidance  re- 
veals itself  almost  miraculously. 

I  have  two  boys,  Pete,  11,  and  Dick,  eight. 
If  I  were  to  tell  Pete  today  that  there 
was  a  person  who  walked  on  water,  and 
that  the  sun  stood  still  at  the  command  of 
Joshua,  and  that  the  whale  swallowed 
Jonah,  and  that  the  Red  Sea  rolled  back 
at  the  command  of  Moses,  I  wonder  if  he 
would  believe  it? 

I'm  not  comparing  what  happened  to 
me  to  any  of  these  major  miracles.  But 
so  far  as  my  own  life  is  concerned,  the 
whole  sequence  of  tormenting  events — 
eventually  turned  out  to  be  practically  a 
miracle. 

You  see,  I  had  always  wanted  to  be  an 
actor.  But  my  father  had  pointed  out  quite 
sensibly  that  it  is  very  hard  to  earn  a 
living  as  an  actor.  Therefore,  he  had  sug- 


gested that  if  I  wanted  to  get  married  and 
raise  a  family,  I'd  better  go  in  for  some- 
thing at  which  I  could  earn  a  steady  buck. 

That's  what  I  had  done.  That's  why  I 
was  pounding  the  pavements  selling  ad- 
vertising space. 

Then  came  my  heart  strain.  Instead  of 
lasting  a  couple  of  weeks,  as  the  doctor 
had  originally  suggested  it  might,  it 
dragged  on  for  months.  Each  day  of  that 
time  Helen  climbed  those  steps  for  me. 
Then  one  midnight,  she  shook  me  gently 
awake.  "Dan,"  she  said,  "I've  got  to  get 
to  the  hospital." 

I  had  been  lying  in  bed  for  almost  three 
months.  All  that  time  Helen  had  done 
everything  she  could  for  me.  I  dragged 
myself  out  of  bed  on  trembling  legs,  and 
drove  her  to  the  hospital. 

The  nurses  later  told  me  that  when  we 
got  to  the  hospital,  they  wondered  who  was 
the  patient — Helen  or  I.  They  got  her  to 
the  delivery  room  and  then  I  collapsed  on 
a  couch  outside. 

When  it  was  all  over,  the  doctor  came 
into  the  room  where  I  sat,  my  face  mirror- 
ing my  anxiety. 

"Helen  will  be  all  right,"  he  said. 

"And  the  baby?"  I  asked. 

"The  baby,"  he  said,  "is  dead.  It  was 
dead  when  we  reached  it.  In  this  par- 
ticular case,  there  was  one  chance  in  a 
thousand  that  such  a  thing  might  happen. 
I'm  sorry,  Dan,  that  it  had  to  happen  to 
you  and  Helen." 

Rebellious  thoughts  crowded  my  mind. 
It  was  at  this  moment  that  I  thought,  "Why 
is  God  picking  on  us?" 

WHAT  hurt  most  was  the  thought  that 
possibly  Helen's  taking  care   of  me 
during  my  illness  was  partly  responsible. 

It  was  bad  enough  that  the  baby  was 
dead.  Why  should  a  kind  God  have  visited 
one  trouble  after  another  on  Helen  and  me? 


(jou  Waat  a  Beauty  Soap  for  a  Beauty  Batk ! 


YOUR  BATH  BECOMES  A  BEAUTY  BATH-.when  you 
change  to  proper  cleansing  with  Palmolive  Soap!  Doctors 
have  proved  that  regular  cleansing  with  this  beauty  soap 
brings  most  women  lovelier  complexions  in  only  14  days! 

So  to  help  soften  and  smooth  your  skin  all  over,  use  Palmolive 
Bath  Size  .  .  .  always!  Nothing  could  be  finer  in  your  bath 
to  cleanse,  refresh,  relax  you.  Palmolive  brings  you  fragrance, 
to  safeguard  your  daintiness— your  charm.  Mildness,  to 
keep  your  skin  smoother,  softer-to-the-touch.  Purity,  to 
give  your  entire  body  the  gentle  beauty  care  it  needs. 

Yes,  you  should  use  a  beauty  soap  for  a  beauty  hath.  So  get 
Palmolive  Bath  Size  today.  It's  big.  It's  thrifty.  And  so  mild, 
so  pure,  so  right  for  all  of  you! 


FRAGRANCE  .  . 

For  Daintiness! 


MILDNESS  .  .  . 

For  Loveliness! 


PURITY  .  .  . 

For  Gentteness! 


BATH  SIZE  .  .  . 

For  ThriftinessI 


Use  Oaly  Palmolive  To  Give  IJour  Skin 

This  Lovely  CKarm,...All  Over! 


93 


PERIODIC  PAIN 

Menstruation  is  natural  and 
necessary  but  menstrual  suffer- 
ing is  not.  Just  take  a  Midol 
tablet,  Edna,  and  go  your  way  in 
comfort.  IVIidol  acts  3  ways  to  end 
functional  menstrual  distress. 
It  relieves  cramps,  eases  head- 
ache and  chases  the  "blues." 


Few  human  beings  are  wise  enough  to 
understand  and  accept  what  happens  un- 
questioningly.  In  this  dark  moment,  I 
almost  lost  faith. 

The  future  looked  dark,  desperate,  and 
uncertain.  I  had  been  out  of  work  for  al- 
most three  months.  My  wonderful  boss  had 
continued  to  pay  my  salary,  but  I  couldn't 
expect  him  to  go  on  doing  that  forever. 

In  ten  days  Helen  was  out  of  the  hos- 
pital. But  we  seemed  to  be  faced  with  an 
almost  insoluble  problem.  I  wasn't  siore  if 
I  could  ever  go  back  to  work.  The  doctor 
said,  "Perhaps,  if  you  go  back  to  work, 
everything  will  be  all  right.  But  your  job 
is  very  strenuous.  I'll  be  frank  with  you. 
You  need  more  rest,  Dan.  You  should  go 
out  to  the  beach  in  Florida  and  lie  in  the 
sun  most  of  the  day.  If  you  don't  take  this 
additional  rest  now,  you  may  have  an- 
other heart  attack." 

1WENT  to  my  boss  and  told  him  the 
story.  "That's  all  right,  Dan,"  he  said. 
"Go  to  Florida.  I'll  keep  you  on  at  half 
salary.  When  you're  completely  better, 
you  can  decide  what  you  want  to  do." 

My  boss  was  George  R.  Katz — a  fine 
man.  Whenever  I  go  East,  I  look  him  up. 
He's  part  of  the  miracle  of  what  happened 
to  me,  a  wonderful  guy  and  a  great  friend. 

My  wife  and  I  drove  toward  Clearwater, 
Florida.  Along  the  way,  people  told  us 
that  it  was  no  use  looking  for  a  place  in 
Clearwater — the  rents  were  sky  high.  We 
thought  we'd  see  for  ourselves. 

A  block  away  from  the  beach  at  Clear- 
water we  came  to  a  frame  shack.  Outside 
it  was  a  sign  which  said,  "For  rent.  $25  a 
month."  We  had  ten  dollars  left.  I  knocked 
at  the  door,  and  asked  for  the  owner. 

"That's  me,"  said  the  man  who  opened 
the  door. 

"Well,"  I  said,  "we'll  take  this  place  if 
you  can  let  us  have  it  for  $20.  I'll  pay  you 
$10  now,  and  $10  next  week." 

Under  ordinary  circumstances,  perhaps 
he  would  have  turned  us  down.  Even 
though  the  place  was  a  broken-down  shack 
with  no  windows,  just  screens,  he  could 
have  gotten  $25  for  it,  if  he'd  held  out  for 
another  tenant,  but  he  took  the  $10. 

We  stayed  at  the  beach  for  about  six 
months,  and  at  the  end  of  that  time  I  felt 
strong  and  energetic  again. 

Still,  I  didn't  know  for  sure  whether  I 
could  go  back  to  work  in  the  advertising 
business  or  not.  I  tried  it  for  a  week,  and 


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I  knew  that  if  I  kept  on,  I  might  have  to 
repeat  the  tortuous  experience  I'd  already 
been  through.  When  I  talked  the  matter 
over  with  Mr.  Katz,  he  said,  "You'd  better 
get  out  of  this  business." 

I  talked  to  my  dramatic  coach  at  Cor- 
nell University,  Alexander  M.  Drummond. 
I  told  him  how  I'd  always  wanted  to  be 
an  actor  and  how  my  father  had  talked 
me  out  of  it. 

"He  was  right,  Dan,"  Mr.  Drummond 
said.  "Don't  try  to  become  a  professional 
actor.  The  chances  are  all  against  you." 

When  I  told  Helen  about  all  this,  she 
said,  "Dan,  do  whatever  you  think  best. 
Whatever  you  decide  to  do,  I'm  with  you 
every  step  of  the  way." 

WE  moved  to  the  coimtry  outside  New 
York  City.  I  figured  that  I  could  go 
to  New  York  three  times  a  week  to  look  for 
a  job  in  the  theater.  If  I  were  lucky  enough 
to  land  one,  it  would  be  for  evenings  only. 
Then  I  could  spend  all  day  in  the  sun. 
I  tried  every  way  I  knew  to  get  a  job. 
I  pounded  the  pavements  almost  as  hard 
as  when  I'd  been  looking  for  people  to  buy 
advertising  space.  I  wrote  dozens  of  let- 
ters. In  each  letter  I  asked  for  an  interview. 

I  tried  pull,  too.  I  was  not  passing  up 
anything.  And  in  the  end — let's  be  honest 
about  it — it  was  pull  that  got  me  my  first 
job  in  the  theater. 

I  knew  Sidney  Kingsley,  the  playwright. 
I  met  him  one  day,  and  told  him  I  was 
looking  for  a  job.  He  had  written  the  play 
Dead  End,  and  he  sent  me  to  the  manager 
to  ask  for  a  walk-on  part. 

I  was  such  a  babe  in  the  woods  about 
the  theater  that  the  moment  I  knew  I  had 
the  walk-on  part  at  $40  a  week,  I  signed  a 
year's  lease  on  an  apartment  in  White 
Plains.  If  I  had  been  more  familiar  with 
the  percentage  of  flop  plays  that  open  on 
Broadway,  I  wouldn't  have  dared  sign  that 
lease.  But  Dead  End  ran  for  84  weeks. 

It  was  during  this  amazingly  successful 
run  that  I  began  to  reflect  on  the  chain 
of  events  which  had  led  to  Dead  End,  the 
beginning  of  a  bright  new  street  for  me. 

It  occurred  to  me  then  that  God  had 
struck  me  down  when  I  was  doing  work 
for  which  I  wasn't  intended,  in  order  to 
make  me  get  into  the  field  in  which  I 
should  have  been  all  along.  He  was  guid- 
ing me  through  all  these  experiences. 

My  wife  and  I  say  our  prayers  on  our 
knees  with  our  two  children  every  night. 
We  thank  Him  every  day  of  our  lives  for 
what  He  has  done  for  us.  My  sons  go  to 
Sunday  school,  as  I  did.  Maybe  they'll 
think  some  of  the  things  they  hear  about 
are  incredible,  but  looking  back  on  those 
things  in  later  life,  perhaps  they'll  find, 
after  their  own  personal  experiences,  that 
they're  not  really  so  incredible. 

I've  gone  to  church  many,  many  times, 
yet  I  don't  believe  it's  necessary  to  seek 
God  in  church.  I  belong  to  no  special 
church.  Mine  is  the  story  of  a  man  who 
almost  lost  his  faith,  and  got  it  back  through 
a  personal  experience.  All  the  religious 
sermons  a  minister  could  preach  would 
never  convince  me  as  much  as  this  personal 
experience  did.  But  I  have  gone  to 
churches  in  every  city  in  which  I  have 
lived,  seeking  ministers  whose  sermons 
would  be  intelligent  and  inspirational. 

We  live  a  quiet  life  today.  Recently 
we  bought  a  home  at  Lake  Arrowhead. 
At  night  I  sometimes  go  out  by  myself 
to  see  if  our  boats  are  still  moored  cor- 
rectly. Then  I  stand  there  and  look  around 
at  the  beauty  of  the  lake  and  the  woods 
in  the  moonlight. 

The  miracles  of  God  are  everywhere. 
The  faith  I  almost  lost  in  my  darkest  hour 
now  sings  a  happy  blessing  in  my  heart. 
The  End 

(Dan  Duryea  can  he  seen  in  Columbia's 
Al  Jennings  of  Oklahoma.) 


the  bing  crosby  story 

(Continued  from  page  31)  constant  activ- 
ity. Always  an  introvert,  Bing  has  become 
even  less  demonstrative  as  he  has  grown 
older.  It  has  been  said  that  Bing  never 
reveals  his  total  personality  to  anyone, 
not  even  to  his  closest  friends.  As  a 
result,  some  say  that  music  is  the  dom- 
inant influence  in  his  life;  others  are 
willing  to  swear  that  athletics  occupy 
most  of  his  attention. 

To  the  policeman  on  the  DeMille  gate 
at  Paramount,  Umg  presents  a  habitually 
cheerful  exterior.  Invariably,  the  radio 
in  his  green  Cadillac  convertible  coupe 
is  booming  at  band-concert  volume,  and 
Bing  is  whistling  a  brisk  accompaniment 
as  he  drives  onto  the  lot. 

Bing  submits  to  makeup  patiently, 
talking  spiritedly  to  Wally  Westmore 
about  last  night's  baseball  game,  a  TV 
program,  or  the  recent  happenings  on  his 
radio  show.  Bing  stopped  wearing  a  com- 
plete makeup  in  19o0.  Now  Wally  ap- 
plies only  enough  cake  makeup  to  cover 
Bing's  beard  and  then  brings  out  the 
hairpiece,  which  Bing  disparagingly  refers 
to  as  "my  mucket"  or  "my  divot." 

Bing  does  not  pay  much  attention  to 
the  selection  of  his  wardrobe,  probably 
due  to  the  fact  that  he  is  almost  totally 
colorblind.  Some  years  ago,  a  wardrobe 
man  handed  him  a  book  of  cloth  samples 
and  asked  him  to  pick  out  six  fabrics  to 
be  made  up  into  slacks  for  his  next  pic- 
ture. Bing  chose  a  ghastly  array  of  mus- 
tard, salmon,  beige,  green,  and  blue.  The 
wardrobe  man  substituted  six  less  riotous 
colors,  and  Bing  never  knew  the  difference. 

t>Y  the  time  Bing  arrives  on  the  set,  he 
knows  all  of  his  lines.  He  has  a  photo- 
graphic   memory    and    can    learn  whole 


pages  of  dialogue  with  two  or  three  hur- 
ried readings.  This  happy  faculty  also 
applies  when  it  comes  to  learning  a  new 
song.  According  to  Joe  Lilly,  who  does 
the  arrangements  for  all  Crosby  musicals, 
Bing  has  the  "fastest  ear"  in  show  business. 
"Giving  Bing  an  arrangement  is  just  like 
playing  it  to  a  tape  recorder,"  Joe  says. 
"One  time,  and  it  comes  back  at  you 
exactly  the  way  you  put  it  on  there." 

Bing's  recording  sessions  usually  are  his 
first  activity  on  every  picture.  He  pre- 
fers to  do  his  singing  as  early  as  possible 
in  the  morning,  when  his  voice  is  rested 
and  powerful.  Bing  talks  right  up  to 
the  downbeat,  which  puts  the  Para- 
mount soundmen  into  a  state  of  frenzy. 
Although  he  has  come  close,  Bing  has 
never  missed  his  cue.  Most  of  the 
engineers'  difficulties  occur  when  Bing 
is  recording  a  duet  with  his  leading  lady 
in  the  soundproof  vocal  booth.  If  the 
lady  is  not  accustomed  to  recording  with 
Crosby,  invariably  she  will  still  be  laugh- 
ing at  one  of  his  jokes  when  their  cue 
to  begin  singing  is  given.  During  the  last 
Road  picture,  one  of  the  song  numbers 
which  included  Olga  San  Juan  and  Mary 
Hatcher  almost  missed  being  recorded. 
The  orchestra  ran  through  14  takes  before 
Olga  and  Mary  could  get  beyond  the 
introduction  without  giggling.  Bing  and 
Bob  Hope  were  tickling  them. 

When  he  is  recording  a  solo  number, 
Bing  looks  on  the  vocal  booth,  which  he 
calls  the  "maison  de  la  pooch"  with  ex- 
treme loathing. 

"Get  me  out  there  with  the  rhythm  sec- 
tion," he  will  complain,  after  singing  one 
number  in  the  booth. 

Joe  Lilly,  who  conducts  the  recording 
sessions,  has  worked  with  Bing  since  1940 
and  is  as  acquainted  with  his  singing 
habits  as  anyone  in  the  music  business. 

"Bing  is  the  easiest  singer  in  the  world 


to  write  an  arrangement  for,"  Joe  says. 
"He  has  a  normal  singing  range  of  near- 
ly an  octave  and  a  half,  and  there  isn't 
a  note  that  he  cannot  hit  within  it.  I 
used  to  tell  him  that  with  one  more  oc- 
tave, he'd  be  a  piano.  And  Bing  is  not 
restricted  to  any  one  singing  style.  For 
Mr.  Music,  I  wrote  a  duet  finale  for  Bing 
to  sing  with  Dorothy  Kirsten — in  operatic 
baritone  range.  Under  Bing's  part,  I 
simply  wrote,  'Belt  it!'  He  almost  knocked 
the  soundman  off  his  chair." 

It  is  this  ability  to  handle  really  diffi- 
cult passages  which  has  caused  many 
operatic  singers,  including  Dorothy  Kir- 
sten, to  comment  with  amazement  upon 
Bing's  tremendous  power  and  range  as  a 
baritone.  It  is  also  the  faculty  which 
caused  his  younger  brother  Bob  to  de- 
clare, several  years  ago,  that  he  had  been 
making  a  living  off  Bing's  middle  register 
for  years. 

T\  URiNG  the  past  three  months,  Bing 
'-^  has  been  occupied  with  the  produc- 
tion of  Here  Comes  the  Groom,  in  which 
he  will  have  Jane  Wyman  as  his  leading 
lady.  While  rehearsing  the  elaborate  dance 
number  which  they  do  together,  Bing 
suddenly  slumped  to  the  floor.  "Wait  a 
minute."  he  wearily  commented  to  Jane, 
"this  dance  routine  was  made  for  a 
younger  type  fellow." 

Jane  sings  a  duet  with  Bing  in  Here 
Comes  the  Groom,  in  which  the  accom- 
panying action  is  very  complicated  and 
difficult  to  photograph.  Jane  and  Bing 
ran  through  it  an  exhausting  number  of 
times  without  getting  a  usable  print.  As 
the  all-too-familiar  music  signaled  the 
start  of  the  31st  take,  Bing  put  his  hand 
to  his  ear  and  said  to  Jane,  "Listen,  dar- 
ling. They're  playing  our  song!" 

On  the  set,  Bing  is  never  too  busy  to 
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are  representatives  from  the  world  of 
sports.  Last  year  when  the  Notre  Dame 
football  team  came  west  to  play  U.  S.  C, 
Bing  invited  them  all  out  to  the  studio 
for  lunch,  and  spent  nearly  an  hour  posing 
for  individual  pictures  with  each  player. 

Most  of  the  details  of  Bing's  busy  life 
at  the  studio  are  efficiently  attended  to 
by  Leo  Linde,  who  was  his  stand-in  until 
1946,  when  a  heart-attack  forced  Leo  into 
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zaga,  Leo  has  been  with  Bing  since  1934, 
and  will  be  with  him  as  long  as  he  wants 
a  job.  He  takes  Bing's  calls  on  the  set, 
handles  his  clothes,  and  once  a  day  drives 
out  to  the  Crosby  Building  on  Sunset 
Boulevard  to  pick  up  Bing's  mail  and  to 
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scription. Leo  has  always  been  impressed 
by  Bing's  casual  and  easy-going  manner, 
which  is  in  sharp  contrast  to  Leo's  pre- 
vious employment  as  valet  to  the  English 
actor,  Clive  Brook,  who  kept  13  clocks 
set  with  the  exact  time  and  required 
Leo  to  address  him  as  "Sir." 

After  18  years,  Bing  is  almost  as  familiar 
a  figure  on  the  Paramount  lot  as  Cecil  B. 
DeMille,  who  came  with  the  lease.  It  is 
a  common  sight  to  see  Bing  pumping  along 
on  his  bicycle,  which  is  usually  decorated 
with  a  sign  reading:  "Creepalong  Crosby, 
Top  Hand,  Q  Ranch,  Wild  Horse,  Nevada." 
(Recently  there's  been  a  new  sign  reading 
"Mr.  Music— Who  Needs  Him?"  Bing  dic- 
tated the  words  to  a  sign  painter.) 

Except  when  he  is  tied  up  with  business 
in  his  dressing  room,  Bing  has  lunch  with 
the  cast  in  the  main  dining  room.  He 
either  eats  the  standard  diet  luncheon  on 
the  menu,  or  leaves  the  selection  up  to 
Pauline  Kessinger,  the  commissary  man- 
ager. Bing  eats  sensibly,  stays  away  fi-om 
starches,  and  shows  a  marked  preference 
for  spinach,  pe^s,  and  green  beans. 

"In  all  the  years  we've  been  serving 
Bing,"  says  Mrs.  Kessinger,  "we've  never 
had  an  order  sent  back,  nor  had  a  single 
complaint  about  the  food  from  him." 

At  four  o'clock  each  day,  Mrs.  Kessinger 
sends  a  pot  of  orange  pekoe  tea  and  two 
slices  of  whole  wheat  toast  over  to  Bing's 
dressing  room  on  the  set.  He  used  to  be 
an  inveterate  fruit  eater  who  would  munch 
on  several  apples  and  oranges  every  day, 
but  recently,  he  discovered  from  his  doc- 
tor that  the  old  adage  of  "an  apple  a  day" 
does  not  apply  in  his  case.  They  give  him 
indigestion. 

Bing  occasionally  presents  Mrs.  Kes- 
singer with  a  problem  which  calls  for  great 
imagination  and  enterprise.  One  such 
occasion  arose  during  the  war  when  Bing 
invited  400  sailors  from  a  ship  docked  at 
San  Pedro  to  have  limch  with  him,  and 
the  boys  brought  their  sea-going  appetites 
with  them.  During  the  fall  months,  Bing 
will  frequently  receive  a  shipment  of 
pheasants,  grouse,  or  trout  from  a  friend 
in  Idaho.  He  asks  Mrs.  Kessinger  how 
many  the  spread  will  feed,  and  then  invites 
that  many  from  his  crew  for  dinner. 

Tt  is  common  knowledge  at  Paramount 
that  Bing  usually  starts  a  picture  shortly 
before  Christmas,  so  the  extras  and  part- 
time  grips  can  earn  some  money  before  the 
holidays.  He  also  evidences  an  admirable 
devotion  to  his  friends.  In  1940,  when 
Bing  made  Rhythm  on  the  River,  he  pre- 
vailed upon  Wingy  Manone,  a  New  Orleans 
trumpet  player  of  his  acquaintance,  to  play 
several  jazz  numbers  in  the  picture.  Wingy, 
who  idolizes  Bing,  presented  a  problem 
when  it  was  discovered  that  he  couldn't 
read  the  elaborate  orchestration.  For 
two  and  a  half  hours,  Wingy  tried  to  pick 
it  up  by  ear,  and  when  it  was  finally  sug- 
gested to  Bing  that  maybe  another  musi- 
cian should  play  the  part,  he  replied,  "No, 
he's  a  real  musician.  It  would  break  his 
heart."  Finally,  lunch  time  came  and, 
as  the  last  musician  filed  out,  he  looked 


back  and  saw  Bing  behind  some  scenery 
working  with  Wingy.  "Now,  try  this 
break,"  Bing  was  saying,  and  proceeded  to 
sing  it.  When  the  band  came  back  from 
lunch,  Wingj'  had  the  number  down  pat, 
with  a  few  tricky  riffs  thrown  in. 

Authentic  jazzmen  like  Wingy  Man  one 
also  find  a  welcome  haven  on  the  weekly 
Bing  Crosby  radio  show,  which  originates 
from  the  CBS  studios  in  Hollj'wood  each 
Wednesdaj'.  Musically,  Bing  finds  himself 
completely  at  home  in  the  company  of 
Louis  Armstrong,  Jack  Teagarden,  Joe 
Venuti,  and  other  such  immortals  of  jazz 
music.  Somehow  Bing's  most  memorable 
shows  are  always  built  arovmd  these  people, 
and  Bing  himself  seems  to  be  sparked  by 
their  presence.  In  the  language  of  Joe 
Venuti,  another  admirer  of  Bing's,  the 
answer  is  simple. 

■'Some  people  think  of  Bing  as  a  torch 
singer,"  he  says.  "But  he  is  the  greatest 
jazz  singer  in  the  world.  Sure,  there  are 
a  lot  of  other  good  singers.  But  let  them 
prove  themselves  for  20  years  before  they 
start  standing  up  alongside  of  Bing.'" 

Bing's  longtime  association  with  the 
nation's  greatest  jazz  musicians  is  in  large 
part  responsible  for  the  polished  mixture 
of  erudition  and  jive  talk  that  makes  up  the 
pattern  of  his  unusual  speech. 

''Bing  talks  like  a  Har\'ard  English  pro- 
fessor who  has  just  returned  from  a  slow 
walk  through  Harlem,"  a  friend  says. 

When  Bing  is  not  entertaining  the  elite 
of  jazz  music  on  his  show,  he  sticks  close 
to  the  lackadaisical,  conversational  for- 
mula which  has  been  his  trademark  on 
radio  for  18  years. 

As  a  comedian,  Bing  presents  a  more 
difficult  script  problem  than  most  radio 
performers.  "With  Benny's  show,  for  in- 
stance, you  have  all  of  those  characters 
working  for  you,"  says  BUI  Morrow,  his 
wTiter.    "But  Bing  is  such  a  definite  per- 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

One  ajternoon 
while  I  was  wait- 
ing for  a  bus,  I 
noticed  a  shabbily 
dressed  man  ped- 
dling a  bicycle  on 
the  sidewalk.  He 
looked  as  if  he 
needed  a  handout! 
At  this  point,  he 
dashed  by  me, 
winked  gaily,  and 
grinned.  I  gasped  in  astonishment — 
it  was  Bing  Crosby,  taking  a  minute 
off  from  his  work  on  stage  out  at  the 
studios  to  jaunt  around  the  block  on 
his  bike! 

Margaret  McGinn 
Hollywood,  Calif. 


sonalitj',  you  can't  use  a  lot  of  funny  stuff 
because  it  just  doesn't  fit  Bing's  style." 

Bing's  own  style  of  humor  is  best  under- 
stood when  compared  with  that  of  his  old 
friend  and  running  mate.  Bob  Hope.  The 
peculiar  blend  of  their  talents  has  brought 
thousands  of  laughs  to  the  people  of 
America.  Their  famous  Road  pictures,  of 
which  another  is  now  in  preparation,  their 
radio  banter,  and  their  rimning  battle  on 
the  golf  course,  have  brought  repartee  back 
into  vogue  as  a  form  of  humor. 

'T'he  combination  of  Hope  and  Crosby  has 
J-  the  simplest  formula  of  any  comedy 
team  in  America.  They  simply  stand  on 
opposite  sides  of  the  microphone  and  throw 
insults  at  one  another.  Take,  for  example, 
this  heated  portion  of  the  "Btngsday" 
broadcast  of  the  Crosby  show: 


bing: 
hope: 


bing: 
hope: 


hope:  Hello,  Bing.  I  mean  Mr.  Music. 
bing:  Yep,    that's    my    new  moniker. 

How'd  you  feel  when  you  heard 

I  changed  my  name? 
hope:  Like  Glenn  McCarthy  felt  when 

his  daughter  changed  hers.  .  .  . 

This  whole  thing  burns  me  up.  I've 

heard  of  Book-of-the-Month;  now 

they  start  a  new  thing — Schnook- 

of-the-Month. 

Just  a  gimmick  to  make  the  pub- 
lic Crosbj'-conscious. 
Fine!  The  public  is  "Crosby-con- 
scious"— and    Crosby    is  uncon- 
scious! 

Eobert,  you're  really  rolling. 
Well,  why  don't  you  get  in  the  act, 
Cagey,  instead  of  laying  back  and 
getting  all  the  sjmnpathy. 
bing:  No,  this  has  been  such  a  big  day 
for  me  I  can  afford  to  be  gen- 
erous. .  .  .  It's  a  pleasure  to  just 
stand  here  while  you  blow  your 
top. 

hope:  At  least  I've  got  a  top  to  blow. 

bing:  I  wish  you'd  blow  some  of  it  my 
way — on  second  thought,  why 
don't  you  just  blow. 

hope:  That's  a  fine  way  to  talk  to  a 
guest.  ...  I  might  have  known 
this  January  Jamboree  would  go 
to  your  heads. 

bing:  It's  quite  an  honor — but  after  all, 
they  have  Be-Kind-to-Animals 
Week,  Prune  Week,  Doughnut 
Week — even  the  apple  gets  a  week. 

hope:  That's  what  gripes  me — an  apple 
only  gets  a  week  and  the  worm 
gets  a  whole  month. 

bing:  Bob,  why  don't  you  go  someplace 
and  have  a  good  cry? 

HOPE:  Well,  I  have  a  right  to  feel  disap- 
pointed. Look  at  all  the  years 
I've  been  entertaining.  Don't 
you  think  I  should  get  a  month? 


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bing:  You  should  get  life. 
hope:  How  can  you  mention  life  on  this 
program. 

bing:  Don't  feel  so  bad,  Bob — maybe 
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hope:  I'm  young  enough  for  them  to  give 
me  a  night.  .  .  .  This  twentieth 
anniversary  of  yours  kills  me  .  .  . 
only  20  years  in  the  business? 
How  many  decades  did  you  chop 
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current  season's  schedule  have  been  the 
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began  playing  jazz  music  as  a  hobby.  Bing 
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boys  were  invited  by  brother  Larry  to  play 
for  the  Victory  dinner  at  Bing's  Pebble 
Beach  Golf  Tournament.  The  Firehouse 
Five  have  since  app>eared  on  the  radio 
show  five  times. 

Bing's  singing  with  the  group  has  drawn 
a  tremendous  flood  of  fan  mail,  most  of 
which  makes  the  point  that  he  sounds  more 
youthful  with  them.  According  to  Ward 
Kimball,  Firechief  and  trombone  player, 
this  is  actually  the  case. 

"We  play  in  a  higher  key  than  most  of 
Bing's  current  arrangements,"  he  explains. 


"so  he  sings  like  he  used  to  long  ago." 

During  the  twenties  and  early  thirties, 
it  was  customary  for  musical  arrangers 
to  ask  a  singer  what  his  high  note  was. 
and  then  write  his  arrangement  to  fit 
below  it.  All  of  Bing's  early  songs  were 
fashioned  around  his  top  note.  But  in 
1936,  when  John  Scott  Trotter,  who  is  nov,- 
the  musical  director  of  the  Crosby  show, 
first  began  writing  arrangements  for  Bing, 
he  set  out  to  discover  what  Bing's  low  note 
was.  Today,  Bing  sings  in  the  range  which 
is  most  comfortable  for  him,  which  is 
roughly  from  G  to  C. 

The  people  who  are  fortunate  enough  to 
get  seats  during  Bing's  recording  sessions 
at  CBS  see  him  as  he  really  is.  Invariably, 
he  wears  one  of  the  flamboyant  sport  shirts 
which  have  become  his  trademark.  Sel- 
dom does  he  wear  "his  hair,"  although  he 
usually  hides  its  absence  under  a  jaimty 
Tyrolean  hat  or  a  sporty  golf  cap.  Except 
for  his  own  sessions  before  the  mike,  he 
spends  most  of  the  show  comfortably 
perched  on  a  high  kitchen  stool,  humming 
to  himself  while  his  guests  perform  their 
nimibers.  As  he  finishes  with  each  page 
of  script,  he  lets  it  float  casually  to  the 
floor.  More  often  than  not,  he  chews  gum, 
which  he  rolls  under  his  tongue  when  he 
gets  up  to  sing  his  song.  Unless  there  is 
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the  parking  lot,  waves  at  the  autograph 
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A  s  the  nation's  leading  recording  artist, 
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Decca  Record  Company.  Many  of  Bing's 
popular  numbers  have  cleared  the  1,000,000 
mark,  including  last  year's  "Sam's  Song," 
which  introduced  his  17-year-old  son, 
Gary.  All  of  his  boys  appeared  with  Bing 
on  "A  Christmas  Carol,"  a  medley  of  three 
Johnny  Burke-Jimmy  Van  Heusen  songs, 
which  has  already  sold  nearly  600,000  and 
probably  will  get  a  large  sale  again  next 
Christmas. 

Bing  averages  between  30  and  40  new 
recordings  each  year,  of  which  approxi- 
mately one  third  are  songs  from  his  motion 
pictures.  The  remainder  is  made  up  of 
current  hit  songs  and  old  tunes  which  are 
enjoying  a  new  vogue.  Each  recording  is 
supervised  by  Joe  Perry,  who  has  worked 
with  Bing  since  1931. 

"Of  all  the  artists  I  have  worked  with 
in  20  odd  years,"  says  Perry^  "Bing  is  the 
easiest  and  fastest  to  make  records  with." 

ijmg  probably  holds  the  record  for  the 
fastest  disc  session  of  all  time  on  his 
famous  version  of  "Please,"  which  was 
made  while  Bing  was  appearing  at  the 
RKO  Pantages  Theater  in  San  Francisco. 
Bing  ran  out  of  the  theater  into  a  waiting 
cab,  drove  to  the  Decca  oifices  on  Mission 
Street,  rode  up  three  floors  to  the  record- 
ing studio,  made  the  record  with  Eddie 
Lang  and  Anson  Weeks'  orchestra,  then 
hurried  back  to  the  theater.  Time  elapsed: 
one  and  a  half  hours. 

"Please"  was  one  of  Crosby's  most  popu- 
lar records.  As  with  dozens  of  his  songs, 
Bing's  inherent  sense  of  phrasing  gave  it 
the  unique  Crosby  stamp,  hurry  or  no 
hurry. 

"DnsTG  has  the  approval  of  all  the  songs 
which  he  records  for  Decca,  and  he 
will  refuse  to  do  any  song  that  he  doesn't 
like.  He  particularly  dislikes  love  songs 
which  have  a  mawkish  melody  or  an  over- 
sentimental  lyric,  and  that,  perhaps  more 
than  anything  else,  is  the  reason  for  the 
great  success  of  Johnny  Burke  and  Jimmy 
Van  Heusen,  who  write  the  majority  of 
Bing's  songs  for  motion  pictures. 

"When  we  do  a  song,  people  don't  say 
that  it's  a  typical  Burke-Van  Heusen  song," 
says  Johnny  Burke,  who  has  been  asso- 
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"Instead,  they  say  it's  a  typical  Croshy 
song.    We're  proud  of  that." 

Few  people  realize  how  closely  the  songs 
which  Bing  has  sung  are  patterned  after 
his  own,  very  individual  personality. 

"When  Bing  makes  love  with  a  song,  he 
wants  to  do  it  in  the  same  imaginative,  cas- 
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never  goes  overboard  for  a  girl,  or  drips 
with  sentiment.  In  every  Crosby  picture 
there  is  at  least  one  song  which  presents 
Bing  as  a  guy  without  a  tie,  who  is  com- 
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Heaven  and  arrived  at  Paramount  while 
Bing  was  making  Rhythm  on  the  Range. 
They  briefly  exchanged  greetings  and 
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The  number  was  "And  So  Do  I." 

"I'll  never  forget  the  day  that  Arthur 
and  I  went  out  to  the  set  to  play  the  song 
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in  the  corner  of  the  soimd  stage.  Arthur 
played  the  piano  and  I  sang,  scared  half 
to  death.  When  I  finished,  there  was  a 
moment  of  awful  silence,  before  Bing  said, 
'Why,  Johnny,  that's  poetry.'  Then  he 
turned  and  walked  away.  He  never  did 
say  whether  he  liked  it  or  not,  but  those 
were  the  sweetest  words  I'd  ever  heard." 

When  Burke  and  Van  Heusen  joined 
forces  in  1940,  it  was  the  beginning  of  an 
ideal  marriage  of  words  and  music. 

"I'll  never  forget  the  first  time  Bing 
turned  down  one  of  my  songs,"  Burke  says. 
"It  happened  when  he  was  making  7/  I 
Had  My  Way  at  Universal.  The  director 
felt  the  score  needed  another  ballad,  a 
typical  ballad.  I  took  a  ballad  named 
'Only  Forever'  over  to  the  studio  and 
played  it  for  Bing,  the  script  writer,  the 
director,  the  head  of  the  studio,  and  sev- 
eral others.  When  I  finished,  they  all 
looked  at  Bing.  Someone  asked  him,  'What 
do  you  think?'  'I  don't  know,'  he  said, 
looking  unhappy.  'We  don't  really  need  a 
song  like  that.'  'That's  what  I  thought,' 
said  the  studio  head.  'Let's  forget  it.'  I 
felt  horrible.  It  was  the  first  time  in  ten 
years  Bing  had  turned  down  a  song  of 
ours.  Then,  on  the  way  out,  Bing  stopped 
me  and,  lowering  his  voice,  said,  'That 
song's  terrific,  but  they  don't  need  it.  Let's 
save  it  for  the  next  show.'  So  it  went  into 
Rhythm  on  the  River  and  was  a  big  hit." 

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large  part  of  his  income  from  a  heavily- 
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{Continued  from  page  36)  Naturally,  they 
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on  and  went  after  the  apple.  Being  blind- 
folded, they  obviously  couldn't  tell  that 
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"Me?"  I  questioned.  "I'm  on  my  way  to 
help  Barbara  with  the  coffee  cups." 

"Okay,  bring  back  a  peanut  butter  sand- 
wich," he  said,  which  seemed  simple 
enough,  but  worried  me  for  a  while. 

When  I  returned  he  was  quizzing  Rock 
and  Vera-Ellen.  "How  many  wives  does 
the  prayer  book  allow  for  each  man?" 

"One,"  said  Vera-Ellen. 

Ralph  disagreed.  "Sixteen,"  he  told 
them.  "Four  richer,  four  poorer,  four 
better,  four  worse." 

And  with  that,  he  reached  for  the 
sandwich  I  was  holding.  Anyone,  he 
claimed,  could  sing  Carmen.  However,  few 
folks  could  warble  and  eat  a  peanut  butter 
sandwich  at  the  same  time  ...  a  bite  after 
every  line.  Vera-Ellen  and  Rock  nearly 
choked  proving  it  could  be  done  the  hard 
way. 

"Contestants?"  Ralph  said,  and  Peggy 
and  Dick  stepped  up.  "Who  is  the  only 
person  President  Truman  must  take  his 
hat  off  to?"  he  asked. 

"A  king?"  Dick  asked,  perplexed. 

"A  lady,"  Peggy  said. 

"His  barber,"  Ralph  returned.  "Leave  us 
try  the  marshmallow  on  a  string  game." 

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mallow I  told  you  about  came  in.  Ralph 
ran  a  string  through  the  marshmallow. 
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other  to  Dick.  They  were  supposed  to 
chew  their  way  to  the  marshmallow.  No 
hands.  Tough  work — but  they  did  it. 

"How  about  one  consequence  for  all  of 
us?"  Vera-Ellen  requested. 

"Okay,"  said  Ralph.  "Answer  this: 
"There  are  three  glasses  on  a  shelf.  Two 
are  filled  with  champagne.  One  is  empty. 
What  king  does  this  remind  you  of?" 

Silence.  Ralph  finally  answered  the 
question  true  to  form.  "Phillip  Third,"  he 
said. 

As  a  consequence,  Mr.  Rock  and  Mr. 
Richard  were  told  to  whip  up  Easter  bon- 
nets for  their  girls.  Ralph  and  Barbara 
raided  the  kitchen  for  materials.  They 
came  back  with  pots,  pans,  egg  beaters, 
strainers,  celery,  carrots,  and  string.  Rock 
and  Dick  worked  and  worked  and  ob- 
viously didn't  exactly  know  what  they 
were  doing.  Peggy  sat  very  still  and 
nibbled  on  a  piece  of  celery.  "'That  goes  on 
your  head,"  Dick  reminded  her.  As  a  fin- 
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confession  to  make  before  I  left.  "Ralph  . . . 
Barbara  ..."  I  stammered.  "I  had  a  lovely 
time.  And  .  .  .  Ralph,  I'm  sorry  I  tried  to 
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"I'll  settle  for  the  Edwards'  house  any- 
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{ContinueA  from  page  49)  It  was  a  slow 
day,  so  I  proceeded  to  explain.  But  as 
I  spoke,  it  became  obvious  to  me  that 
my  nurse  didn't  share  my  beliefs.  She 
was  completely  convinced  that  Elizabeth 
and  Nicky  would  be  man  and  wife  long 
after  I  had  been  buried  six  feet  under. 

Last  December,  however,  when  Miss 
Taylor  climaxed  seven  unhappy  months 
of  marriage  with  the  announcement  that 
she  would  seek  a  divorce  from  her  hus- 
band, my  nurse  brought  me  the  afternoon 
newspaper.  She  had  marked  the  story  on 
page  one.  Grudgingly  she  conceded,  "You 
were  right,  doctor." 

Believe  me,  I  felt  no  satisfaction  in  the 
accuracy  of  my  prediction.  I  should  have 
much  preferred  to  be  wrong.  But  the 
Liz  Taylor-Nicky  HUton  marriage  followed 
such  an  old  familiar  Hollywood  pattern 
that  from  the  start  it  seemed  to  fall  into 
the  same  mould  that  had  shap€d  the  mari- 
tal mishaps  of  Judy  Garland,  Deanna  Dur- 
bin,  Shirley  Temple,  Ann  Shirley,  and  a 
flock  of  other  teen-aged  movie  brides. 

Tn  practically  every  case,  chUd-star  mar- 
riages  have  fizzled  out  in  divorce.  Let's 
look  at  the  record: 

Deanna  Durbin,  whose  artistry  and 
wholesome  appeal  had  virtually  rescued 
Universal  Pictures  from  bankruptcy,  was 
a  sweet-faced  19  when  she  married  the 
young  Vaughn  Paul.  Two  years  later  the 
mating  had  been  dissolved. 

Judy  Garland  was  19  when,  with  little 
David  Rose  at  her  side,  she  whizzed  to  Las 
Vegas  for  an  elopement.  The  marriage 
lasted  less  than  three  years. 

Shirley  Temple  was  a  child  of  17  when 
she  said  her  vows  to  John  Agar  in  one  of 
Hollywood's  swankiest  weddings.  Two 
years  after  the  marriage,  Shirley  knew  in 
her  heart  it  was  a  tragic  mistake.  In  1949 
she  went  into  court  and  told  a  judge  that 
she  had  reached  such  a  crisis  of  unhappi- 
ness  that  she  had  been  tempted  to  commit 
suicide. 

In  all  these  cases,  the  wives  had  been 
child  movie  stars;  each  had  been  earning 
a  minimum  of  $1,000  a  week  at  the  time  of 
their  marriage;  and  each  had  married  a 
fairly  young  and  handsome  husband. 

These  marriages  had  failed  to  last.  Now, 
why  would  the  Taylor-Hilton  marriage, 
contracted  under  the  same  set  of  circum- 
stances and  conditions,  prove  the  excep- 
tion? It  didn't.  Its  seven  months  set  a  new 
mark  for  the  brevity  of  child-star  mar- 
riages. 

Tt  is  my  opinion  that  like  most  young 
girls  who've  been  raised  on  movie  lots, 
Elizabeth  Taylor  was  unprepared  for  mar- 
riage— especially  to  a  boy  in  his  early 
twenties  like  Nicky  Hilton. 

Ask  yourself  this  question:  what  could 
Miss  Taylor  contribute  to  such  a  marriage? 
Wisdom?  Prudence?  Experience?  What 
characteristics  did  she  have  that  her  hus- 
band lacked?  How  could  she  complement 
him?  How  could  she  possibly  act  as  a 
check  and  balance  to  his  youthful  excesses 
when  she  herself  was  in  a  business  which 
makes  a  cardinal  virtue  of  exhibitionism? 

Don't  for  a  minute  imagine  that  I  am 
attributing  the  snag  in  the  Taylor-Hilton 
marriage  to  Miss  Taylor.  I'm  not  at  all. 
I  merely  raise  this  point:  Does  a  girl  of 
18,  whose  youth  has  been  spent  in  the  mo- 
tion picture  industry,  develop  the  ability 
to  judge  adequately  the  personality  and 
character  makeup  of  the  men  she  dates  and 
the  man  she  marries? 
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riage itself  bolsters  their  ego,  provides 
them  with  responsibilities,  accords  them 
the  pride  and  privilege  of  being  master  of 
the  household.  In  the  Taylor-Hilton  mar- 
riage, in  all  marriages  of  this  kind,  the 
husband  never  gets  to  play  his  traditional 
role.    He  only  gets  to  play  second  fiddle. 

Liz  once  said,  "If  my  pictures  ever  start 
interfering  with  our  marriage,  I'll  quit 
pictures  in  a  hurry." 

Pictures  started  interfering  with  the  mar- 
riage from  the  very  start.  Even  Miss  Tay- 
lor had  to  admit  that,  "our  honeymoon 
wasn't  very  private."  Young  Hilton  didn't 
particularly  like  living  in  the  goldfish  bowl 
which  Hollywood  stars  must  inhabit.  As 
soon  as  they  returned  to  California,  Eliza- 
beth started  making  Father's  Little  Divi- 
dend. She  did  not  give  up  her  career  to 
live  on  her  husband's  salary. 

The  Hiltons  were  following  the  well- 
worn  pattern  of  a  child-star  marriage  in 
which  it's  the  wife  who's  important  .  .  . 
who  continues  to  enjoy  the  deference  she's 
always  known. 

T  ET  us  take  Shirley  Temple  or  Judy 
Garland  as  cases  in  point.  For  years 
they  were  fawned  upon  by  grown  men  and 
women  every  day  in  the  week.  Let  Judy 
remark  that  one  hair  on  her  head  was  out 
of  place,  and  a  40-year-old  hairdresser 
would  rush  to  her  side  and  fix  it.  Let 
Shirley  Temple  mutter  that  she  was  hun- 
gry, and  half  a  dozen  adults  would  vie  to 
bring  her  a  tray  from  the  commissary. 

The  formative  years  of  Liz  Taylor's  life 
were  spent  largely  in  the  company  of 
adults;  adults  who  got  paid  for  pleasing 
Liz,  for  dressing  her,  directing  her,  teach- 
ing her,  working  with  her. 

Such  an  environment  is  abnormal  for  a 
young  girl.  She  becomes  a  little  too  know- 
ing; she  grows  up  too  quickly.  There  is  a 
good  deal  of  love-making  in  most  motion 
pictures.  A  young  girl  on  the  set  day  after 
day  becomes  aware  of  sex  much  more 
quickly  than  her  counterpart  in  high  school. 
She  dates  one  or  two  or  three  boys — and 
then — wham,  she  gets  married. 

Look  at  the  men  in  Liz  Taylor's  date- 
life:  Glenn  Davis,  Ed  Pauley,  Vic  Damone, 
and  marriage  to  Nicky  Hilton. 

There  are  no  ballgames,  no  proms,  no 
high  school  flirtations.  Most  of  the  normal, 
happy  setup  of  the  typical  teen-ager  is 
outside  the  ken  of  the  child  movie  star. 

Chirley  Temple,  even  today,  can't  under- 
stand  modern  football  because  as  a 
teen-ager  no  boys  ever  took  her  to  a  col- 
lege football  game.  The  same  is  true  with 
Judy  Garland. 

The  simple  truth  is  that  the  average 
18-year-old  girl  in  the  United  States  has 
dated  more  boys  than  Liz  Taylor,  Shirley 
Temple,  and  Deanna  Durbin  put  together. 

She  has  learned  how  to  take  care  of 
herself  in  a  pinch.  She  has  dated  boys  who 
suffer  from  "roaming  hands."  Possibly 
she  has  had  to  walk  home  from  a  too 
ardent  date.  She  has  accompanied  boys 
who  could  spend  no  more  than  two  dol- 
lars on  an  evening's  entertainment.  She 
has  fixed  meals  for  herself  and  her  family. 
She  has  learned  to  sew  and  can  make  the 
best  of  last  year's  dress.  In  short,  the 
average  American  girl  has  learned  how  to 
cope  with  life. 

The  child  movie  star  has  not.  She's  been 
reared  in  an  abnormal  environment.  Studio 
employees  old  enough  to  be  her  parents 
have  catered  to  her  every  whim.  She's 
been  pampered  to  such  a  point  that  she 
often  has  no  sense  of  responsibility  or  self- 
discipline.  She  has  sacrificed  a  normal 
youth  for  money  and  fame.  And  in  many 
cases  this  is  a  bad  deal,  since  neither  money 
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never  known  the  want  of  a  dollar  in  their 
lives  rarely  develop  into  stable,  realistic, 
mature  adults. 

TAKE  Nicky  Hilton,  for  example.  Suppose 
his  father  did  not  control  the  Hilton 
hotel  chain,  which  last  year  grossed  ap- 
proximately $40,000,000  worth  of  business? 
Suppose  Nicky  didn't  have  a  trust  fund 
which  pays  him  $12,000  a  year?  Suppose 
he  had  no  connections  for  a  job?  If, 
starting  from  scratch,  he  managed  to  make 
a  success  of  things,  aren't  the  chances 
greater  that  he  would  eventually  develop 
into  a  better  husband? 

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  conquering 
of  adversity  breeds  character.  The  only 
adversity  most  child  stars  meet  is  written 
in  motion  picture  scenarios. 

To  my  way  of  thinking  the  remarkable 
aspect  of  Elizabeth  Taylor's  behavior  pat- 
tern is  that  she  isn't  more  spoiled. 

Here's  an  18-year-old  girl  who  earns 
$1,000  a  week,  drives  around  in  a  Cadillac 
convertible,  is  beseeched  for  dates  by  the 
handsomest  of  men.  Is  it  reasonable  to 
expect  such  a  girl  to  play  a  subsidiary  role 
to  her  husband,  to  wait  on  him,  to  mother 
him,  to  defer  to  his  wishes? 

Dr.  Jack  Berman,  a  child  psychiatrist  in 
Beverly  Hills  who  has  psychoanalyzed  sev- 
eral yoimg  actresses,  thinks  that  many  of 
them  marry  yoimg  because,  "they've  been 
adults  since  they  were  six  or  seven. 
'They  can't  wait  to  get  away  from  their 


When  the  Liz  Taylor-Nicky  Hilton  divorce 
announcement  come,  Red  Skelton  said, 
"And  to  think  that  his  father  gave  'em 
two  hotels — one  marked  'His'  and  the 
other  'Hers'!" — Irving  Hoffman  in  The  Ho/- 
/ywood  Reporter. 


parents,"  Berman  says,  "because  subcon- 
sciously they  think  they  will  be  more  inde- 
pendent. Although  they  believe  they're 
marrying  for  love,  it's  really  marriage  for 
release,  marriage  for  an  expression  of  their 
own  feelings." 

''Phis  theory  that  actresses  marry  young 
-'■  to  escape  their  parents  is  not  a  new  one, 
of  course,  and  whether  it  applies  to  Eliza- 
beth Taylor  is  very  difficult  to  say. 

Elizabeth's  relationship  with  her  par- 
ents has  been  most  amicable,  although  for 
years  the  studio  paid  Elizabeth's  mother  a 
handsome  salary  to  watch  over  her  little 
girl.  Whether  Elizabeth  subconsciously 
rebelled  against  this  close  supervision, 
only  she  would  know. 

It  is  significant  to  note,  however,  that 
when  Liz's  marriage  went  on  the  rocks, 
she  at  first  moved  in  with  her  stand-in 
rather  than  run  home  to  mother. 

I  once  had  for  a  patient  a  young  actress 
who  attributed  all  her  problems  to  her 
mother.  "It  was  my  mother,"  this  girl 
explained,  "who  wanted  me  to  become  a 
star.    It  was  she  who  dragged  me  around 


from  one  casting  office  to  another.  She 
was  unhappy  and  frustrated,  and  she  tried 
to  live  through  my  success.  I  would  have 
been  much  happier  if  she  had  never  wanted 
a  movie  career  for  me.  I've  made  lots  of 
money,  all  right,  but  I've  become  so  used  to 
being  the  center  of  everything  that  I  just 
can't  seem  to  adjust  myself  to  the  problems 
of  marriage." 

Actually,  the  mother  of  this  actress  isn't 
to  be  blamed  at  all.  It's  just  that  the  girl 
is  afraid  of  marrying  any  man  who  refuses 
to  accord  her  the  same  princess- like  treat- 
ment she  receives  at  her  studio.  So  she 
marries  an  inferior  man  whom  she  sup- 
ports— and  then  resents  his  spineless  atti- 
tude and  character. 

IX/Ty  nurse,  who  keeps  abreast  of  such 
■^^■^  things,  tells  me  that  after  her  divorce 
Liz  Taylor  probably  will  renew  her  friend- 
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Hair  styles  by  Shirlee  Collins 

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from  naturally  curly  hair. 


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.  Right  After  Eating  with 

COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BESJ 

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stories 

BERGMAN  TODAY  (Ingrid  Bergman)  by  David  Chandler  16 

LIZ  TAYLOR'S  NEW  ROMANCE  by  Marsha  Saunders  30 

THE  TRUTH  ABOUT  MY  FEUDS   by  Louella  Parsons  32 

JOHN  AGAR  ON  TRIAL  ;.  by  Steve  Cronin  34 

I  FOUND  ROMANCE  IN  THE  MOUNTAINS  by  Margaret  Sheridan  36 

AND  THE  MITCHUMS  FOUND  SNOW  (Bob  Mltchum)  by  Dorothy  Mitchum  39 

ALL  FOR  LOVE  (Judy  Garland)  by  Imogene  Collins  42 

CAS  A  MONT  ALB  AN  (Ricardo  Montalban)  by  Marva  Peterson  44 

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HOLLYWOOD'S  NEWEST  GOLDEN  GIRL  (Mitzi- Gaynor)  by  Jim  Henaghan  50 

KISS  TOMORROW  HELLO  (John  Derek)  by  Kolma  Hake  52 

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THE  IRON  MAN?  (Jeff  Chandler)  by  Jane  Wilkie  56 

IT  COMES  UP  LOVE  (Ronald  Reagan-Nancy  Davis)  by  Jim  Burton  58 

THE  BING  CROSBY  STORY  (Part  II)  by  Tom  Carlile  60 

TO  EACH  HIS  OWN  by  John  Garfield  62 

LIZ  TAYLOR'S  ORDEAL  (divorce  transcript)  ?   86 

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THE  INSIDE  STORY     4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS   6 

SWEET  AND  HOT  by  Leonard  Feather  15 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers)   88 

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GWENN  WALTERS,  fashion  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  "reviewer 


D.  SAXON,  editoi 

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BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
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BERT  PARRY,  staff  photographer 
UZ  SMITH,  assistant  editor 
IRENE  TURNER,  research  editor 
CAROL  CARTER,  beauty  editor 


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Happily...  M-G-M  announces.  .  .A  JOYOUS  NEW  ARRIVAL.  . 
THE  BLESSED  EVENT  OF  195L  .  ."FATHER'S  LITTLE  DIVIDEND" 


It's  a  boy  ,  >  ,  and  a  bundle  of  joy!  The  oh's  .  .  .  the  ah's  .  .  .  ihe  laughter  .  .  .  will  echo  across  ffie  nationi 


M-G-M  presents 

SPENCER  TRACY 
JOAN  BENNETT 
ELIZABETH  TAYLOR 

FATHER'S  LITTLE  DIVIDEND' 

(  It's  Funnier  Than  "Father  Of  The  Bride"  ^ 
DON  TAYLOR  •  BIILIE  BURKE 

Screen  Ploy  by  Albert  liackett  and  Frances  Goodrich  •  Based  on  characters  created  by 
Edward  Streeter  •  Directed  by  VINCENTE  MINNEUI  •  Produced  by  PANDRO  S.  BERMAN 

A  metro-gOidwyn-mayer  picture 


''I  can't  afford 
to  split  hairs'' 

says  model  Ann  Klem . . , 

her  camera  curls  stay  free 
of  broken  ends  with 


the  bob  pin 
with  the  stronger, 
smoother  grip 


Stop  envying  the  hair-do's  of 
beautiful  models-!  Your  hair,  too,  can 
be  always  well-groomed.  But  be 
sure  to  use  De  Long  bob  pins.  The 
stronger,  smoother  grip  means  longer 
lasting  curls . . .  greater  freedom 
from  fuzzy,  split  ends.  No  wonder 
De  Long  is  the  "smart  set"  favorite! 


You're  always  "set"  with  De  Long  Hair  Ptns« 
Carl  SettingPins  ♦  Safety  Pins  •  Hooks  and  Eyes  ■ 
Pins  •  Hook  and  Eye  Tapes  ♦  Sanitary  Belts 


Here's  the  truth  about  the  stars — as  you  asked  for  it.  Want  to 
spike  more  rumors?  Want  more  facts?  Write  to  THE  INSIDE 
STORY,  Modern  Screen,  1046  N.  Carol  Drive,  Hollywood,  Cal. 


Q.  Is  it  true  that  Jane  Wyman  is  re- 
sponsible for  the  breakup  of  the  Ginger 
Rogers-Greg  Bautzer  love  affair? — 
T.  W.,  Chicago,  III. 

A.  There's  no  truth  to  that  at  all. 
Ginger  gave  up  Bautzer  for  Steve 
Cochran.  Ginger  and  Steve  co-starred 
in  Storm  Warning,  and  started  dating 
steadily  when  they  went  to  Miami  for 
personal  appearances.  Bautzer  there- 
upon began  seeing  Jane  Wyman. 

Q.  I  understand  that  Nancy  Sinatra 
has  agreed  \  to  give  Frankie  a  divorce  if 
she  receives  a  settlement  of  $5,000,000. 
True  or  false? — C.  R.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

A.  Nancy  steadfastly  insists  that  there 
will  be  no  divorce. 

Q.  Is  it  true  that  Rita  Hayvvorth  is 
running  short  of  money,  and  that  this 
is  why  she  plans  to  make  another  film  in 
Hollywood?        — C.  F.,  Wash.,  D.  Q. 

A.  That  is  one  reason.  The  other  is  that 
her  pictures  are  no  longer  being  asked 
for  by  the  movie-goers.  Like  Greta 
Garbo,  Miss  Hayworth  has  apparently 
stayed  off-screen  too  long  a  time. 

Q.  Why  did  Farley  Granger  fight  with 
his  producer  Sam  Goldwyn  and  why 
did  he  take  a  suspension? — S.  Y.,  Mid- 
vale,  Mo. 

A.  Granger,  whose  pictures  have  been 
making  a  small  fortune,  felt  strongly 
that  at  $800  a  week,  he  was  being-  un- 
derpaid. One  of  the  biggest  box  office 
attractions  in  the  country  today,  he  be- 
lieved that  he  should  be  given  an  in- 
crease if  called  upon  to  do  exploitation 
work  in  connection  with  his  films.  Sam 
Goldwyn  has  recently  torn  up  their  old 
pact  and  replaced  it  with  a  new  five- 
year  contract.  Farley  is  getting  a  sub- 
stantial raise.  "He  thoroughly  deserves 
it,"  says  Goldwyn.  "He  is  a  hard 
worker  and  has  done  a  fine  job."  This 
should  make  for  lasting  peace  between 
them. 

p.  Has  Hedy  Lamarr  really  retired 
ftom  -the  screen? — U.  0.,  Charlotte, 
N.  C. 

A.  She's  scheduled  to  appear  in  London 
opposite  Rex  Ifarrison  in  His  Excellency. 

Q.  What  is  the  real  reason  Judy  Gar- 
land is  getting  a  divorce  from  Vincente 


Minnelli?  — T.  R.,  Washington,  D.  C. 

A.  She  doesn't  love  Minnelli  any  more. 
(Read  the  story  of  Judy's  new  love  on 
page  42.) 

<?.  Is  it  true  that  Janet  Leigh  plans  to 
drop  Tony  Curtis  for  John  Agar? 

— S,  R.,  RocKPORT,  Me. 

A.  At  the  moment  she  still  refuses  all 
Agar's  phone  calls  and  invitations  for 

dates. 

p.  I  understand  that  Liz  Taylor's  ex- 
husband,  Nicky  Hilton,  is  furious  about 
her  going  around  with  Stanley  Donen. 
How  come  Liz  didn't  pick  up  with  Vic 
Damone  after  her  divorce?. 

—V.  K.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

A.  Nicky  Hilton  isn't  at  all  furious 
about  Liz  and  Stanley  Donen,  both  of 
whom  seem  very  much  taken  with  each 
other.  The  reason  Liz  didn't  start  dating 
Damone  again  is  that  he  currently  enjoys 
playing  the  entire  field, 

Q.  Does  Betty  Hutton  plan  to  marry 
shortly  ?  If  so  to  whom  ? 

— B.  U.,  Cheyenne,  Wyo. 

A.  Betty's  divorce  won't  be  final  for 
another  ten  months.  Right  now  she  is 
going  with  a  musician,  Pete  Rugolo. 

Q.  What  is  the  first  picture  June  Ally- 
son  plans  to  do  when  she  returns  to  the 
screen?  — V.  A.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

A.  Too  Young  to  Kiss,  with  Van  John- 
son and  Barry  Sullivan. 

Q.  Who  is  this  Duane  Powell  mentioned 
in  the  press  in  connection  with  Pat 
Neal?  — C.  N.,  Marion,  S.  C. 

A.  The  Duane  Powell  appearing  in  the 
press  in  connection  with  Pat  Neal  is  the 
creation  of  a  press  agent.  There  is  no 
such  man  in  her  life.  In  fact,  right  now 
she  is  not  in  love  at  all. 

Q.  Is  Gary  Cooper  a  Catholic?  Is  that 
why  he  and  his  wife  cannot  obtain  a 
divorce?  I  hear  that  this  marriage  is  in 
hot  water.  Please  tell  me  the  truth. 

— Y.  F.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

A.  Cooper  is  a  Protestant.  His  wife. 
Rocky,  is  Catholic.  Rumors  of  their  im- 
pending separation  are,  according  to 
Gary,  "absolutely  ridiculous." 


ALANLADDandPHELISCjlLVEIiT 


AUTHIilMTIC:!..  Based  On  Excitemeni-Jammed 

Cases  From  The  Files  Of  The  Post  Office  Department... 
In  The  Tradition  Of  176  Years  Of  Crime-Fighting!  - 


Alan  Ladd 
blasts  a 
million-dollar 
mail  robbery 
wide  open 
•  •  •  as  an 
agent  of  the 
U.S.  Mail's 
crime- 
fighting 


PAUL  STEWART  *  JAN  STERLING  *  Jack  Webb  •  Meed  by  RoeERi  fellows  •  Directed  by 


LEWIS  ALLEN 


Written  by  RICHARD  BREEN  and  WARREN  DUFF  •  A  ParamOUOt  PictUfe 


LOUELLA 

mm 


The  Mudlark  premiere  brought  out  newlyweds  Stewart  Granger 
and  Jeon  Simmons,  here  with  press  agent  Sharman  Douglas.  Sharmon 
is  working  on  publicity  for  Jean's  new  film,  Androcles  and  the  Lion. 


Ann  BIyth  was  one  of  many  celebrities  at  the  spectacular  Mudlark 
premiere.  Howard  Duff  come  with  his  mother  and  Ida  Lupino. 
Also  present  were  the  Von  Johnsons  who  are  expecting  a  baby. 


WHEN  a  husband  says  "I'm  sorry,  dear" — 
what  more  can  he  say? — and  Jeff  Chan- 
dler is  saying  that  over,  and  over,  and  over 
again  to  his  pretty  wife. 

By  the  time  you  read  this,  I'm  sure  their 
surprising  "separation"  will  be  over,  for  it 
was  a  very  penitent  Jeff  that  Marjorie  found 
following  her  return  from  New  York  where 
she  had  gone  after  walking  out  with  the  two 
children. 

For  the  two  weeks  she  was  away  you've 
seldom  seen  a  more  miserable  and  depressed 
gent  than  Jeff.  Even  his  Academy  nomination 
for  one  of  the  best  supporting  actors  of  the 
year  in  Bioken  Aiiow  wasn't  enough  to  make 
Jeff  smile.  He  wanted  his  wife  and  his  chil- 
dren back  more  than  anything  else  in  the 
world. 

It  isn't  too  wise  to  air  the  "reason"  for  their 
rift,  particularly  where  a  wife's  pride  is  con- 


cerned, so  let's  just  say  that  Jeff  made  a  mis- 
take, he  knows  it — and  he's  sorry.  And  he 
is  a  big  enough  person  to  say  so. 

Now  it's  all  up  to  his  wife,  the  former 
Marjorie  Hoshelle,  at  one  time  an  actress  at 
Warner  Brothers.  When  she  married  Jeff  eight 
years  ago,  she  gave  up  her  career  because 
she  thought  his  was  more  important,  and  when 
the  two  children  came,  she  preferred  to  stay 
at  home. 

They  were  ideally  happy  until  the  usual 
thing  happened — big  success  for  Jeff,  who  is 
now  one  of  the  most  popular  screen  actors. 
With  success  came  the  flattery  and  attention 
that  always  goes  with  recognition. 

Well,  young  Chandler  isn't  the  first  husband 
who  ever  made  a  mistake — and  if  his  wife 
is  as  wise,  and  charming,  and  balanced  as 
everyone  tells  me  she  is — I'm  sure  she'll 
take  him  back,  with  all  past  troubles  forgiven. 


THE  howl  of  the  month  is  the  University  of 
Nevada's  answer  to  the  Harvard  "Lam- 
poon's" lampooning  of  Elizabeth  Taylor. 

"What  kind  of  men  are  they  who  notice 
whether  luscious  Liz  is  acting  or  not?"  offi- 
cially asks  "U"  of  Nevada. 

Speaking  of  this  young  lady,  Elizabeth  is 
going  her  own  way — dancing  and  dining 
every  evening  with  Stanley  Donen,  her  direc- 
tor. Well,  she's  free  and  you  might  say 
there's  no  harm  in  it,  and  in  all  probability 
there  isn't. 

Only  Liz — and  it  hurts  all  of  us  who  have 
known  her  since  she  was  a  little  girl — makes 
herself  much  too  conspicuous.  She  and  Donen 
neck  in  public  all  the  time. 

Liz  has  been  a  well  brought  up  girl,  and 
this  is  not  right. 

Apparently  her  mother,  who  used  to  have 
great  influence  on  her,  is  no  longer  a  factor 


Debra  Paget  loves  her  new  success  and  the  fans  that  go  with  it.  She 
happily  gives  autographs  in  Grouman's  Theater  lobby.  Originoliy  a 
blonde,  Debra  went  brunette  lor  Broken  Arrow,  Bird  of  Paradise 


The  premiere  was  sponsored  by  St.  John's  Hospltol  Guild  of  which 
Irene  Dunne  is  chairman.  The  Guild  roised  more  than  $133,000  at 
the  SSO-o-seot  event.  Irene  v/os  esccrled  bv  her  husband  Dr.  Griffin. 


None  coked  rric^e  g'omc'C-s  than  Clark  and  Sy  vio  Gcc  e.  Ciork 
recently  sold  a  package  deal  to  MGM  for  $300,000.  The  deal 
ended  what  was  to  hove   been   his  first  independent  production. 


Tern  Lew's  G'.a  Lzre^o  Yc-'C  ce  z  'occ.  -^icz'z  z'z  Miie  team. 
Loretta  just  finished  starring  in  t  ausc  for  Alarm  v/hich  Tom  produced 
for  MGM.  She  is  generally  consi^ie'eo  o-.e  cf  Hollywood's  best-dressed. 


in  her  life.  When  she  became  a  married 
woman  her  money  was  turned  over  to  her 
care. 

So,  now  a  gay  divorcee  at  the  age  of  19, 
she  has  all  the  fortune  her  family  saved  for 
her  in  her  own  name. 

Liz,  Liz,  Liz — what  is  going  to  be  the  an- 
swer? 

She  has  refused  to  sign  a  new  contract 
with  MGM,  and  apparently  is  going  to  lead 
her  professional  life  as  well  as  her  private 
life  in  her  own  way.  (Turn  to  page  30  for 
"Liz  Taylofs  New  Romance" — Ed.) 

THE  Broderick  Crawford  marriage  rift  is 
serious,  I'm  sorry  to  say.  When  Kay  first 
took  her  troubles  to  a  lawyer,  charging  Srod 
with  "dissipating  their  funds  and  disposing 
of  joint  properties,"  I  thought,  perhaps,  she 
was  trying  to  scare  him. 


Liz  Taylor  and  Stan  Donen  are  much  too 

obvious  .  .  .  the  Brod  Crawfords 
finally  split  .  .  .  Hollywood  hus- 
bands enjoy  an  Adrian  fashion  show 

.  .  .  Ava  Gardner  talks  back  to 
her  studio  ...  Is  Bob  Taylor  on  the  rebound?  .  .  . 


Ate  you  in  the  know? 


When  you  and  your  squire  attend  a  wedding,  should  you  — 

I  I  Breeze  up  the  aisle  together        Q  Take  the  usher's  arm        Q]  Make  it  a  threesome 


Bewitched  — and  bewildered  — by  weddings? 
Air  that  formality  needn't  panic  you.  When 
the  usher  offers  his  arm  — take  it,  even  if 
you've  an  escort.  Your  beau  will  follow 
you  up  the  aisle.  And  if  calendar  "trials" 
menace  your  poise,  you  can  dismiss  them 


with  Kotex.  This  napkin  is  made  to  stay 
soft  while  you  wear  it;  gives  softness  that 
holds  its  shape.  Nor  need  you  quail  at  each 
casual  glance,  for  as  surely  as  those  flat 
pressed  ends  prevent  revealing  outlines  — 
Kotex  can  keep  you  blush-proof. 


To  cure  a  "videot" 
should  you  try  — 

I   I  The  shock  technique 

I   I  The  absent  treatment  ^ 

I   I  Humoring  the  guy 

The  lady's  not  for  burning  the  midnight  oil 
—  with  a  fella  who's  in  love  with  the  family's 
T.V.  set!  So?  Consider  the  shock  technique. 
Black  out  the  video;  then  meet  Dreamboy 
at  the  door  with  a  firm  "shall  we  go?"  It's 
worth  a  try!  But  it  takes  no  effort,  at  certain 
timesi^  to  discover  all  3  absorbencies  of  Kotex 
are  worth  trying.  You'll  find  one  so-o-o 
right  for  you  — Regular,  Junior  or  Super. 


If  you're  collarbone-conscious, 
what  helps? 

I   I  Mermaid  maneuvers 
I   I  More  upholstery 
I   I  A  library  card 

Got  a  lean-and-hollow  look  around  the 
collar?  To  add  "upholstery,"  eat  hearty. 
Swim  like  crazy.  And  do  this:  Sit  "tall" 
with  a  book  in  each  hand,  shoulder-height. 
Elbows  back,  slowly  boost  books  toward  ceil- 
ing, then  lower  them  — 20  times  daily.  Even 
on  "those"  days,  you  can  boost  your  confi- 
dence, if  you  let  Kotex  help.  Kotex  has  a  spe- 
cial safety  center;  gives  you  extra  protection. 


T.  H.  REG,  U  .  S.  PAT.  OFF. 


/klore  fvo/?7ej7  c/foose  /COTEX* 

3  ABSORBENCIES.-  KE&ULAR.  JUf/tOK.  SUPEK. 


Have  you  tried  Delsey*  ?  It's  the  new  bathroom  tissue 
that's  safer  because  it's  softer.  A  product  as  superior 
as  Kotex.  A  tissue  as  soft  and  absorbent  as  Kleenex.* 
(We  think  that's  the  nicest  compliment  there  is.) 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

They  have  so  very  much  to  be  happy  about. 
After  11  years  of  marriage  they  were  expect- 
ing their  first  baby.  Their  other  child,  a  little 
boy,  is  adopted. 

When  Brod  was  a  Western  actor  getting 
little  money,  they  got  along  fine,  but  now  that 
he's  in  the  big  money  things  have  changed. 
Unfortunately,  this  is  so  often  the  case  in  our 
town. 

What's  the  trouble? 

A  combination  of  things  as  I  see  it.  Win- 
ning last  year's  Academy  Award  for  All  The 
King's  Men  seemed  to  set  Brod  off  on  a  per- 
petual celebration,  for  one  thing.  He  just 
couldn't  seem  to  settle  down  from  that  big 
honor. 

Then,  ironically,  along  came  Born  yester- 
day— one  of  the  really  big  hits  of  all  time  for 
everybody  connected  with  it — except  Brod! 

I  happen  to  know  he  is  very  upset  over  his 
personal  notices  in  this  comedy.  Judy  Holli- 
day  was  nominated  for  an  Oscar — so  was  the 
picture,  the  director  and  the  scriptwriter.  This 
was  all  pretty  hard  for  Brod  to  take  after 
winning  last  year's  Oscar. 

I'm  still  keeping  my  fingers  crossed  that 
this  marriage  will  yet  work  out.  Kay  has  been 
a  wonderful  wile,  and  I  can't  believe  Brod 
will  let  her  go,  because  he  is  really  deeply  in 
love  with  her. 

AVA  Gardner,  whose  reputation  for  cooper- 
ation with  her  studio  is  double  A-plus, 
for  the  first  time  in  her  young  life  kicked  up 
her  heels.    That,  perhaps,  is  pretty  strong 


Italian  actress  Lie  di  Leo  claims  that  divorce 
was  the  only  solution  after  Bob  Taylor  nnet  her. 
Barbara  Stanwyck  [fop]  got  decree  on  Feb.  21. 


ALSO  STARRING 

BARBARA  PAYTON  •  WARD  BOND  •  G\G  YOUNG 

KiEEM  PLAY  »r  EDMUND  H.  NORTH  AND  HARRY  BROWN 

FIIOH  THE  NOVEL  B«  CHARLES  MARQUIS  WARREN 

DIRECTED  BY 

GORDON  DOUGLAS  -  WILLIAM  CAGNEY  Prod.- WARNER  BROS. 


LON  CHANEY 


MUSIC  er  FRANZ  WAXMAH 


DISTRIBUTED  BV 


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your  tongue  over  your  teeth.  Feel  that 
filmy  coating?  Now  brush  with  film- 
removing  PEPSODENT  for  1  minute.  Re- 
peat the  tongue  test.  Notice  how  much 
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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

language  as  Ava — and  everyone,  the  direc- 
tors, producers  and  actors  with  whom  she 
works  all  agree — is  soft-spoken  and  quiet, 
and  never  makes  a  fuss. 

This  time,  however,  she  was  justified — and 
surprise,  surprise  the  studio  admits  she  is 
right!  When  it  came  time  to  read  the  script 
of  ScaramoucJie,  Ava  found  her  part  was 
little  more  than  a  bit. 

'After  Pandora  and  the  Flying  Dutchman 
and  Show  Boat,  in  which  the  Gardner  gal  has 
beauty,  sex  and  really  shows  dramatic  abil- 
ity, this  was  not  what  Ava  had  expected. 

Well,  I'll  say  for  MGM  that  they  saw  things 
her  way,  and  the  script  was  re-written  to  her 
complete  satisfaction. 

ROBERT  Taylor's  closest  pal  tells  me  that 
there  is  absolutely  no  new  romance  in 
his  life,  even  though  his  date  with  Sybil  Mer- 
ritt  at  that  cute  cafe.  The  Bantam  Cock,  had 
the  customers  winging  with  excitement. 

"Sybil  had  a  date  with  another  man,"  Bob's 
pal  says,  "and  Bob  just  came  along  until  her 
friend  showed  up." 

He  also  reports  that  we  need  not  get  ex- 
cited when  and  if  Bob  starts  taking  out  tennis 
champ,  Nancy  Chaffee. 

"They  know  and  like  each  other,  and  enjoy 
playing  tennis  once  in  awhile,"  says  Bob's 
pal,  "but  it's  no  romance,  believe  me.  Take 
my  word  for  it — after  the  smash-up  of  his 
11  year  marriage  to  Barbara  Stanwyck,  Bob's 
just  not  in  the  mood  for  love." 

Didn't  you  ever  hear  of  the  rebound,  fella? 

DID  you  know  that  Janet  Leigh  almost  gave 
up  S/ric(Jy  Dishonorable  with  Ezio  Pinza 
because  she  won't  dye  her  hair?  The  role 
calls  for  the  heroine  to  be  very  blonde.  Janet 
is  a  "brownette"  and  she  refuses  to  dye  for 
her  art  even  to  have  fascinatin'  Pinza  make 
love  to  her. 

The  cameraman  finally  solved  the  problem. 
By  placing  strong  lights  in  a  certain  way. 
he  can  photograph  Janet's  hair  to  look  like 
what  it  ain't — tres  blonde. 

AT  least,  Patricia  Medina  and  Richard 
Greene  aren't  choosing  "rudeness" 
the  basis  of  their  divorce.  (Most  movie  stars 
seem  to  think  of  nothing  stronger  than  the 
hubby  wasn't  nice  to  their  guests!) 


Corinne  Calvet  end  John  Bromfield  ore  greete 
by  Charles  Forrell  at  his  Racquet  Club  whe 
the  fereign  Press  Association  hosted  o  bonque 


new!  e 


For  the  young  in  heart! 
A  gay,  new  pattern  that  sparkles  with  the 
very  breath  of  youth.  An  exquisite  blending 
of  old  world  charm  with  the  young,  vital  spirit 
of  today.  Prophecy  I . . .  the  most  glowing 

welcome  in  years  for  May  Queen. 


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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 


She  thought  her  face  was  clean... 


Until  she  took  the  "tissue  test'' ! 


The  "Tissue  Test"  convinced  Dorothy 
Lamour  that  there  is  a  difference  in 
cleansing  creams.  She's  co-star  of  the 
Cecil  B.  DeMille  Production  "The  Great- 
est Show  on  Earth",  Color  by  Technicolor. 

We  asked  her  to  cleanse  her  face  with 
her  regular  cleansing  cream.  Then  to  try 
Woodbury  Cold  Cream  on  her  "immacu- 
lately clean"  face  and  handed  her  a  tissue. 

The  tissue  told  a  startling  story !  Wood- 
bury Cold  Cream  floated  out  hidden  dirt! 


Why  is  Woodbury  so  different?  Because 
it  has  Penaten,  a  new  miracle  ingredient 
that  actually  penetrates  deeper  into  your 
pores...  lets  Woodbury's  wonderful 
cleansing  oils  loosen  every  trace  of  grime 
and  make-up. 

It's  wonder-working  Penaten,  too,  that 
helps  Woodbury  to  smooth  your  skin  more 
effectively.  Tiny  dry-skin  lines,  httle  rough 
flakes  just  melt  away. 

Buy  a  jar  today — 25^  to  974,  plus  tax. 


Pat,  herself,  told  me  that  Richard  thinks 
she  is  a  terrible  housekeeper  and  doesn't 
know  how  to  manage  a  home.  To  an  English- 
man his  "home  is  his  castle" — so  I  suppose 
that  did  it. 

One  of  their  close  friends  told  me  that  this 
is  all  true. 

"One  night  they  were  giving  a  dinner 
party  and  everybody  got  there  on  time — only 
there  wasn't  anything  to  eat.  Pat  had  forgot- 
ten to  order  dinner,  or  to  tell  the  cook  that 
guests  were  expected!" 

Personally,  I'm  sorry  that  Patricia  and  Rich- 
ard could  not  solve  their  life  together.  I  think 
they  are  still  in  love.  Perhaps  they  should 
have  tried  the  marriage  system  originated  by 
Fannie  Hurst — stay  married,  but  live  under 
separate  roofs. 

ELIZABETH  Dailey  isn't  going  to  wait  for 
Dan  to  leave  Menninger's,  as  -  she  had 
previously  planned,  before  getting  her  di- 
vorce. I  ran  into  Liz  at  the  Beverly  Wilshire 
Hotel,  and  she  told  me  she  thought  the  divorce 
would  help  rather  than  hurt  him. 

"It's  been  hanging  over  both  our  heads  like 
an  axe,"  she  explained.  "It's  better  for  Dan 
and  for  me  if  we  take  the  final  step  in  our 
separation." 

T'was  certainly  an  evening  of  misadven- 
tures on  Linda  Darnell's  first  date  with  Eddie 
Norris. 

Eddie  picked  up  luscious  Linda  at  her  home, 
and  they  started  out  over  the  new  Freeway 
(speedway)  to  dinner  at  a  Valley  cafe. 
Seems  Eddie  got  going  too  fast  and  our  old 
friend.  The  Motorcycle  Cop,  sirened  them  to 
a  stop.  He  asked  for  Eddie's  driver's  license. 

Mr.  Norris  patted  his  breast  pockets,  then 
his  hip  pockets — then  an  expression  of  sheer 
frustration  clouded  his  face.  "Oh  no,"  he 
gasped,  "I  left  my  wallet  in  my  other 
clothes!" 

Luckily,  Linda  had  hers — so  she  slid  over 
behind  the  wheel. 

No  wallet — no  money.  So  Linda  had  to 
pay  for  their  dinner,  too! 

When  she  drove  Eddie  back  to  his  house 
at  the  end  of  the  evening,  Linda  took  over 
full  "escort"  honors  when  she  cracked: 

"And  may  I  have  another  date  soon?  You've 
been  so  charming!" 

Speaking  of  "dates" — Arthur  Loew,  Jr.  has 
a  real  crush  on  cute  Debbie  Reynolds.  So  he 
asked  MGM's  new  19-year-old  singing,  danc- 
ing dqrling  to  go  stepping  with  him  to  the 
Cocoanut  Grove. 

"Oooohhhh,  I'd  love  to,"  enthused  Miss 
Debbie,  "but  I'm  going  to  Girl  Scout  Meet- 
ings these  nights." 

rOnosE  Adrian  fashion  shows  and  cham- 
^  pagne  suppers  (husbands  invited)  be- 
come more  fun  with  each  annual  shindig.  The 
bill-paying  husbands  are  always  lured  by  the 
promise  of  the  gay  champagne  suppers  after 
the  show — but  from  the  looks  of  them,  I  think 
they  enjoy  seeing  the  pretty  clothes  (and 
models)  as  much  as  their  wives — even  though 
the  affairs  are  very  formal,  calling  for  black 
tie  or  full  dress. 

Out  of  the  corner  of  my  eye  I  saw  Roy 
Milland  writing  down  his  favorite  gowns  for 
his  attractive  wife,  Mai,  on  her  program. 

Jimmy  Stewart  didn't  mark  a  program; — but 
when  he,  particularly.  liked  something^,  he 


Woodbury 


Woodbury 
Cold  Cream 

floats  out  hidden  dirt. . 


penetrates  deeper  because  it  contains  Penaten 


Mercedes  McCambridge  chats  wifh  fwo  models 
at  a  fashion  show  in  the  Ambassador  Hotel. 
Leading  California  designers  vied  for  honors. 


would  lean  over  and  whisper  in  Gloria's  ear. 

Sometimes  I  thought  the  gentlemen  ap- 
plauded the  prettiest  model  instead  of  the 
gown — but  that's  doing  what  comes  naturally, 
as  the  song  says. 

Van  Johnson  sat  in  the  front  row  with 
Evie,  and  his  red  socks  with  his  dinner  clothes 
attracted  much  attention. 

Among  the  swank  onlookers  I  spotted  the 
George  Murphys,  the  Alfred  Vanderbilts,  Jen- 
nifer Jones  and  David  Selznick,  Mrs.  Douglas 
FairbanKs,  Loieiio  Young  and  Tom  Lewis,  and 
the  Joseph  Cottens. 

Fashion  tips?  Well,  Adrian's  summer  eve- 
ning gowns  are  adorned  with  many  artificial 
flowers,  which  I  like.  There  are  lots  of  ruffles 
and  many  short  skirts  in  the  cocktail  and 
evening  mood.  I  also  like  the  tunic  jackets; 
when  they  are  removed  the  dress  is  sleeveless 
and  very  decollete.  The  finale  brought  out 
beautiful  printed  chiffons  with  flowers.  I'd 
say  this  is  a  flower  year  for  fashions. 

Piper  Laurie  has  never  eaten  a  flower  in 
her  life — and  this  comes  straight  from  this 
pretty,  attractive  girl  who  is  really  going 
places  at  Universal-International.  Piper  came 
to  see  me  and  told  me  the  "inside"  on  how 
the  whole  story  started  that  she  eats  flowers! 

"It  was  a  press  agent's  dream-up,"  she  ex- 
plained, "a  tie-in  with  thaf  Marigold  Salad 
the  whole  family  ate  in  Louisa.  Honest,  Miss 
Parsons,  I  wouldn't  know  the  taste  of  a 
dandelion  from  a  geranium!" 

She  is  so  pretty  no  wonder  Vic  Damone 
and  John  Hudson,  and  other  young-men- 
around-town  vie  for  her  dates.  Vic  really 
has  a  crush  on  her — or  did  when  this  was 
written. 

She  told  me  a  really  funny  story  about  her 
family  and  Damone.  It  was  their  first  date  and 
Vic  was  coming  to  dinner.  The  folks  have  a 
tape  recording  machine — and  someone  is  al- 
ways turning  it  on,  recording  the  casual  con- 
versation taking  place. 

Vic,  detained  at  the  studio,  was  very  late 
to  dinner.  Piper's  father  cracked,  "If  that 
danged  kid  doesn't  get  here  soon,  we're 
going  to  eat  without  him!  When  I  was  a 
young  man  and  invited  out  to  dinner,  I  got 
there  on  time."  It  was  recorded — and  for- 
gotten for  the  moment. 

You  guessed  it!  After  dinner,  with  every- 
body so  nice  to  each  other,  Vic  saw  the  ma- 
chine, re-wound  the  reel  and  got  to  the  crack 
about  him  just  before  poor  Papa  fled — his  face 
redder  than  a  country  barn! 


Soaping' dulls  hair. 
Halo  glorifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  yovir  hair  with 
even  finest  liquid  or  oily  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thus  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo — Americans 
favorite  shampoo — at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  coimter! 


Gives  fragrant 
soft-water"  lather 
•  —needs  no 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable- 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights! 


Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair  I 


13 


'Vm  Enthusiastic' 


says 
Ann  Sheridan 


How  to  Lose  Weight  and 
Look  Lovelier 

Now!  Reduce — and  look  lovelier  while 
you  are  doing  it!  Lose  weight  the  way 
Nature  intended  you  to !  A  qviick,  natural 
way  with  no  risk  to  health.  If  you  follow 
the  Ayds  plan  you  should  feel  healthier, 
look  better  while  reducing — and  have  a 
loveUer  figure! 

This  is  because  the  Ayds  way  to  re- 
duce is  a  natviral  way.  When  you  take 
Ayds  before  meals,  as  directed,  you  can 
eat  what  you  want  ...  all  you  want. 
Ayds  contains  no  harmfvil  drugs.  It  caUs 
for  no  strenuous  diet . . .  no  massage  . . . 
no  exercise. 

Ayds  is  a  specially  made  candy  con- 
taining health  giving  vitamins  and  min- 
erals. It  acts  by  reducing  yovir  desire  for 
those  extra  fattening  calories.  EasUy  and 
naturally  you  should  begin  to  look  slim- 
mer, more  beautiful  day  by  day,  when 
you  follow  the  Ayds  Plan. 

Women  all  over  America  now  have 
lovelier  figures  with  the  help  of  Ayds. 
Users  report  losses  up  to  10  pounds  with 
the  very  first  box.  In  fact,  you  lose 
weight  with  the  first  box  ($2.98)  or  your 
money  back.  Get  Ayds  from  your  drug- 
gist or  department  store,  today— a  full 
month's  supply,  $2.98. 


•  "Once  you've  tried  Ayds,  I  think 
you'll  understand  why  I'm  so  enthu- 
siastic  about  them",  says  Ann  Sher- 
idan. "They  help  you  to  look  and 
feel  better  while  you're  losing  weight. 
Ayds  let  you  reduce  the  way  nature 
intended  you  to." 


LOUEILA  PARSONS'  good  news 

HOLLYWOOD  in  Shorts:  Gene  Tierney  didn't 
attend  the  fashion  show  put  on  by  her 
husband,  Oleg  Cassuii,  at  the  Beverly  Wil- 
shire,  but  that  wasn't  because  they  had 
weathered  a  recent  tiff.  Gene  was  working 
and  couldn't  get  away.  Oleg  has  a  cute  sense 
of  humor  and  proved  it  with  some  of  the 
cracks  he  made  about  his  own  gowns.  As 
one  of  the  models  paraded  by,  Oleg  said, 
"Those  wrinkles  in  the  back  don't  go  with  the 
gown.  It  just  isn't  pressed!"  .  .  .  Frankie 
Sinatra's  new  contract  with  Universal-Inter- 
national is  going  to  make  a  lot  of  people 
who  predicted  he  was  "through"  in  pictures 
get  indigestion  eating  those  words.  And  there 
were  plenty  of  them  who  believed  that  the 
parting  of  the  Sinatras  and  his  romance  with 
Ava  Gardner  had  cooked  Frankie  Boy  with 
movie  producers  .  .  .  What  a  wonderful 
tribute  to  Ann  Blyth  that  our  fighting  boys 
in  Korea  want  her  for  pin-ups — but  no 
cheesecake,  please.  They  just  love  to  look 
at  Ann's  lovely  face  which  they  term 
"dreamy"  .  .  .  Peggy  Dow  is  heartbroken 
because  she  has  to  move  out  of  the  Studio 
Club  where  she  lives  with  studio  secretaries, 
and  others  trying  for  a  toe-hold  in  Hollywood. 
It's  a  rule  of  the  place  that  one  girl  cannot 
room  there  for  more  than  three  years — and 
Peggy's  three  are  running  out.  She  doesn't 
want  to  live  alone  in  a  house  or  an  apart- 
ment. How  about  getting  married,  Peggy? 

The  Letter  Box:  Hey,  Janet  Leigh!  Some 
of  my  letter  writers  (several  came  from  Eu- 
rope) don't  like  those  plunging  necklines 
you're  wearing  in  private  life.  After  looking 
at  magazine  pictures  of  you  at  various  social 
affairs  in  Hollywood  the  kids  seem  to  think 
your  private-life  clothes  are  too  revealing  .  .  . 
Shirley  Temple's  fans  are  hoping  against 
hope  that  she  isn't  really  retiring  from  the 
screen.  But  I  think  she  means  it  ...  A  girl 
in  Chicago  wants  to  know  if  Marlon  Brando 
is  as  "mean"  as  his  interviews  make  him  out. 
Marlon  isn't  mean  at  all — just  eccentric  .  .  . 
Lots  of  comment  from  a  whole  batch  of  new 
fans  in  their  'teens  who  are  just  discovering 
what  older  fans  knew  all  the  time — that  Joan 
Crawford  is  wonderful  about  answering  her 
fan  mail  and  is  so  appreciative  of  her  letters. 
That's  all  this  month.  See  you  next  issue. 


14    The  Loveliest  Women  in  the  Worid  take  AYDS 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by 
page  the  photographs  which  appear  in 
this  issue. 

6-7  Walt  Davis,  8 — T.  Wide  World,  Bot.  Inter- 
national News  Photo,  10 — Bob  Beerman,  13 — 
Bert  Parry,  16 — Associated  Press,  19 — Uni- 
versal-International, 23-26 — Parry-Beerman,  30 
— T.  International  News  Photo,  Bot.  Wide 
World,  31 — Globe  Photos,  34 — Bert  Six,  35 — 
T.R.  INS,  B.L.  Parry-Beerman,  36-41  Bernard 
of  Hollywood,  42 — Wide  World,  43 — Li  Sun, 
44-47 — Bob  Beerman  and  Bert  Parry,  49 — 20th 
Century-Fox,  50 — Bob  Beerman  and  Bert  Parry, 

51 — Bert    Parry,    53 — Parry-Beerman,    54  T. 

and  Bot.  Universal-International,  56 — Universal- 
International,  57 — T.L.  20th  Century-Fox,  T.R. 
Bob  Beerman,  60 — Bob  Beerman,  61 — B.L.  and 
B.C.  Joe  Heppner,  B.R.  Richard  T.  Lewis,  62 — 
Bert  Six,  68 — MGM,  68 — ^Derujinsky,  69 — 
Pagano,  70-71 — Schiavone,  72-73 — Reynolds, 
74 — Beerman. 

Abbreviations:  Bot.,  Bottom;  Cen.,  Center;  Exc, 
Except;  Lt.,  Left;  Rt.,  Right;  T.,  Top. 


sweet  aktf  hot 


leonard  feather  Average 


FROM  THE  MOVIES 

AT  WAR  WITH  THE  ARMY— Ton  da  Wanda 
Hoy  by  Judy  Valentine*  (MSM). 
From  a  very  crazy  picture  comes  a  slightly 
crazy  song  by  a  cute  singer.  Judy's  ably 
assisted  by  the  Quartones  vocal  group 
and  Sid  Rom'n's  orchestra. 

GROUNDS  FOR  MARRIAGE—  Selections  by  Kath- 
ryn  Grayson*  (MGM). 
Available  on  all  three  speeds,  this  album 
of  selections  trom  the  movie  comes,  like 
so  many  MGM  collections,  directly  from 
the  sound  track.  Included  ore  selections 
from  Carmen  as  well  as  some  Puccini  and 
Rimsky-Korsakov.  On  the  duet  sides  Gil- 
bert Russell,  Stephen  Kemolyon  and  Rich- 
ard Atckison  offer  vocal  assistance. 

LULLABY  OF  BROADWAY— title  song  by  Doris 
Day  v/ith  hlarry  James*  (Columbia); 
Tommy  Dorsey  (Decco);  Andrews  Sisters 
(Decca).  /  Love  The  Way  Yon  Say 
Goodnight  by  Frankie  Carle  (Victor). 

THE  MATING  SEASON— Afji  Lost  Melody  by 
Monica  Lewis  (MGM). 

MR.  IMPERIUM-L^i  Me  Look  At  You  by 
Clark  Dennis  (Capitol). 

ROYAL  WEDDING— 7fce  Happiest  Days  Of  My 
Life  by  Buddy  Morrow*  (Victor). 
Buddy  Morrow  is  the  talented  trombonist 
who's  been  getting  a  big  build-up  from 
Victor  since  Tommy  Dorsey  deserted  to 
Decca.  Nice  vocal   by  Tommy  Mercer. 


POPULAR 

TREASURY  OF  IMMORTAL  PERFORMANCES— 

series  of  six  albums*  (Victor). 
RCA  Victor  has  just  about  covered  mod- 
ern musical  history,  between  its  Red  Seal 
"Treasury"  releases,  and- these  six  popular 
albums,  the  latter  annotated  by  yours 
truly.  There's  a  collection  of  theme  songs, 
including  the  signature  melodies  of  Artie 
Shaw,  Benny  Goodman,  Duke  Ellington, 
Charlie  Barnet,  Lionel  Hampton  and  Louis 
Armstrong. 

"Dance  Band  Hits"  is  a  collection  of  such 
favorites  as  Glenn  Miller's  Song  of  the 
Volga  Boatmen  and  Tommy  Dorsey's 
Boogie  Woogie.  "Small  Combo  Hits" 
includes  the  Goodman  Quartet's  Stompin' 
At  The  Savoy  and  Artie  Shaw's  Gram- 
mercy  5  in  Smoke  Gets  In  Your  Eyes. 
"Keyboard  Kings  of  Jazz"  has  Duke  Elling- 
ton playing  Solitude  and  Fats  V/aller's 
Honeysuckle  Rose;  "Folk  Singers"  re- 
vives six  famous  songs  by  Vernone  Dal- 
hort,  Gene  Austin  and  the  late  Jimmie 
Rodqers. 

You'll  probably  find  the  most  interesting 
album  to  be  the  one  combining  three  of 
the  all-time  greatest  crooners:  two  sides 
by  the  late  Russ  Columbo,  two  very  early 
Binq  Crosbys,  and  two  numbers  cut  a 
decade  ago  by  Frank  Sinatra  right  after 
he  left  Tommy  Dorsey's  orchestra.  Oddly 
enough,  they  all  still  sound  good! 
All  these  sets  are  available  on  either  45 
rpm  or  on  LP. 


RHONDA  FLEMING 

co-starring  in 

The  Redhead  and  the  Cowboy 
A  Paramouni  Picture 


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modern  screen  in  th 


e  news 


You've  heard 

lots  of  stories  about 

Ingrid  in  Italy. 

Here's  the  true  one, 

by  Modern  Screen's 

on-the-spot 

correspondent. 

BY  DAVID  CHANDLER 


Robertino  is  a  year  old.  Ingrid  hasn't  seen  daughter  Pia,  for  over  two  years. 


■  Rome:  Viale  Bruno  Buozzi  is  a  wide, 
circling  street  in  the  residential  section  of 
Rome,  lined  on  both  sides  by  tall  apartment 
buildings.  Ebccept  for  the  Italian  signs  over 
an  occasional  small  shop,  it  might  be  an 
upper-level  avenue  anywhere  in  the  world. 
Downstairs  in  building  number  49,  a  door- 
man casts  a  carefifl  eye  on  all  callers,  but 
that,  after  all,  is  what  he  would  normally  do 
even  if  the  residents  on  the  fourth  floor  were 
not  Ingrid  Bergman  and  her  husband,  Italy's 
most  eminent  director,  Roberto  Rossellini. 

In  Hollywood  there  have  been  many 
stories  about  the  present  state  of  Ingrid 
Bergman.  For  one  thing,  it  was  common 
knowledge  that  no  one  ever  got  in  to  see 
Mrs.  Rossellini. 

"He  keeps  her,"  said  a  friend  just  returned 
from  Rome,  "a  virtual  prisoner  in  a  villa 
near  the  Italian  seashore.  There  is  a  high 
wall  around  the  place,  and  she  is  never 
permitted  to  leave." 

"He  is  jealous  of  all  her  old  friends," 
someone  else  said.  "When  he  learns  you  are 
from  Hollywood,  you'll  be  lucky  if  she  even 
gets  the  message  that  you  called.  Rossellini 
will  cJlow  no  contact  between  Ingrid  and  the 
outside  world." 

"Ingrid  is  bitter  at  the  world  after  her 
recent  experiences,"  said  another.  "She  is 
not  seeing  anyone.  She  has  been  so  shat- 
tered you  can  hardly  recognize  her.  She 
walks  around  the  streets  of  Rome  and  no 
one  even  knows  it's  Ingrid  Bergman  any 
more." 

The  present  writer,  recently  in  Rome,  de- 
cided to  see  for  himself.  He  called  Rossel- 
lini's  manager  and  said  he  was  in  town, 
mentioned  a  number  of  mutual  friends,  and 
was  told  that  he  would  be  called  back  "in  an 
hour." 

As  in  the  usual  Hollywood  fashion,  the 
call,  one  could  be  sure,  would  not  come  for 
three  or  four  hours  at  the  least.  And  then 
it  would  consist  of  (Continued  on  page  92) 


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Dog-faces  Willie  (Tom  Ewell)  and  Joe  (David  Wayne)  are  bud- 
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rated in  a  bomb  burst  that  wounds  Joe.     He  is  hospitalized. 


The  MP's  discover  Joe  has  a  stolen  pass,  and  give  chase.  After 
many  tangles  with  the  spit-and-polish  brass,  the  boys  steal  a 
load  of  black  market  supplies  ond   head   back  to  the  lines. 


Willie  goes  to  town  to  sneak  Joe  back  to  combat.  There  he  finds 
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■  Bill  Mauldin's  battle-weary  dog-faces,  Willie  and  Joe, 
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faced  replacement  officers  who've  never  been  near  a  fox- 
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them,  and  a  whole  army  of  MP's  in  pursuit.  But  the  plot's 
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affectionate  way  the  Italian  people  are  treated,  and  the 
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GOODBYE  MY  FANCY  - 

The  rebirth  of  an  old  romance  is  the  plot 
which  brings  together  Robert  Young  and  Joan 
Crawford  in  tliis  movie  version  of  a  Broadway 
hit.  Robert's  the  president  of  a  college,  Joan's 
an  expelled  ex-student.  (Reason  she  was 
expelled:  she  stayed  out  all  night — with  him/ 
But  he's  got  no  courage.  Never  admitted  it. 
And  she  has  saved  his  reputation,  at  the 
expense  of  her  own.  So  now  she's  a  con- 
gresswoman.  For  that,  who  needs  morals?) 
Back  at  college  to  accept  an  honorary  degree, 
Joan  tries  to  show  the  students  an  educational 
film,  finds  out  Robert's  still  courage-less,  and 
decides  she  really  loves  a  Life  photographer 
(Frank  Lovejoy).  Lovejoy  is  a  very  superior 
type  cameraman.  Where  most  photographers 
have  to  strain  a  little  for  their  art,  he  strolls 
around  casually  acting  as  if  the  camera  just 
got  hung  on  him  by  chance,  and  snapping 
occasional  masterpieces  in  the  same  offhand 
manner.    That's  about  it. 

Cast:  Joan  CTawioid,  Robert  Young,  Frank 
Lovejoy,  Eve  Arden. — Warner  Brothers. 

ROYAL  WEDDING 

As  a  brother  and  sister  act  (the  biggest 
hit  on  Broadway),  Fred  Astaire  and  Jane 
Powell  have  the  chance  to  take  their  show 
to  London,  and  be  there  for  the  royal  wed- 
ding. In  London,  Fred  falls  in  love  with  dancer 
Sarah  Churchill,  Jane  falls  in  love  with  titled 
Peter  Lawford  (she  met  him  on  shipboard) 
and  Keenan  Wynn  plays  two  parts,  himself 
and  his  British  twin  brother,  both  theatrical 
agents.  Not  much  plot,  but  all  in  Technicolor. 
And  some  of  the  song-and-dance  things  are 
very  good,  especially  a  raucous  number  by 
Jane  and  Fred  called  "How  Could  You  Believe 
Me  When  I  Said  I  Loved  You  When  You 
Know  I've  Been  A  Liar  All  My  Life?",  and 
another  where  Fred  dances  on  the  walls  and 
ceiling. 

Cast:  Fred  Astaire,  Jane  Powell,  Peter  Law- 
ford,  Sarah  Churchill,  Keenan  Wynn. — MGM 

PAYMENT  ON  DEMAND 

RKO's  answer  to  "Harriet  Craig."  Harriet 
wanted  fancy  houses  and  fine  clothes,  while 
her  husband  craved  simple  pals,  corned  beef 
and  cabbage,  etc.  Here  Bette  Davis  forces 
hubby  Barry  Sullivan  to  make  a  fortune, 
though  he  could  have  been  happy  living  with 
the  birds  and  flowers  in  a  small  town.  Bette's 
double-crossed  Barry's  old  law  partner,  she's 
got  worries  about  her  young  daughter  being 
in  love  with  a  Polish  boy — and  then  suddenly, 
Barry  dsks  for  a  divorce.  Bette's  got  her  pride, 
she  gets  a  divorce,  takes  all  Barry's  money, 
then  discovers  she's  lonely.  She  wants  her 
husband  back.  Will  she  get  him?  Won't  she 
get  him?  For  a  while,  even  RKO  didn't  quite 
know. 

Cast:  Bette  Davis,  Barry  Sullivan,  Jane  Cowl, 
Kent  Taylor.— B.KO. 

M 

The  Fritz  Lang  horror  movie,  M,  made  in 
Germany,  and  starring  Peter  Lorre,  has  been 
re-done  by  Columbia,  and  features  David 
Wayne  as  the  child  murderer.  While  it's  not 
the  masterpiece  its  predecessor  was,  M  is 
gripping,  and  impressive,  even  though  curi- 
ously uneven.  By  uneven,  I  mean  that  some 
of  the  scenes,  apparently  sho;  in  the  streets, 
with  non-actors  speaking  lines,  seem  ama- 
teurish when  thrown  into  contrast  with  the 
rest  of  the  picture  Wayne  is  tremendous  as 


^Tour  Figiire  is  Your  Future . .  "says 


Outstanding  young  Hollywood  dramatic 
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TONI  OWEN,  Geraldine's 
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"I'm  for  the  slender  figure 
—and  that  means  I'm  for 
PLAYTEX,  the  girdle  that 
makes  it  a  possibility." 


Here  is  the  playtex  all-way  action-stretch  captured  by  a  camera  in  mil- 
lionths  of  a  second!  Made  of  smooth  latex  without  a  seam,  stitch  or  bone, 
PLAYTEX  fits  like  a  second  skin— invisible  under  your  sleekest  dress. 


the  horrifying  but  pitiable  maniac  who  lures 
little  girls  away,  kills  them,  saves  their 
shoes.  Story  deals  with  how  he's  finally  cap- 
tured by  underworld  leaders  because  they 
feel  there's  too  much  police  activity  in  town, 
and  the  heat  won't  be  off  until  the  child  killer 
is  caught.  Crooks  include  Glenn  Anders,  Nor- 
man Lloyd,  Raymond  Burr;  cops  include  How- 
ard Da  Silva  and  Steve  Brodie;  and  Luther 
Adler  has  some  virtuoso  moments  as  the 
crooks'  drunken  lawygr. 

Cast:  David  Wayne,  Howard  Da  Silva,  Martin 
Gabel,  LutheT  Adlez. — Columbia. 

THE  13TH  LETTER 

Shot  in  Canada,  The  13th  Letter  is  a  moody 
mystery  concerning  a  town  which  is  flooded 
with  poison  pen  letters  full  of  gossip  about  a 
young-ish  doctor  (Michael  Rennie)  and  the 
wife  (Constance  Smith)  of  an  old  doctor 
(Charles  Boyer).  Before  the  writer  of  the 
letters  is  uncovered,  the  town  can  boast  one 
suicide,  and  the  disclosing  of  a  few  minor 
personal  tragedies.  It's  hard  to  get  used  to 
Boyer  as  a  gray-bearded  daddy  whose  wife 
can't  stand  the  toucn  of  his  senile  fingers,  but 
that's  life.  Time  and  the  make-up  man  march 
on.  The  13th  Letter  is  overhung  with  an  un- 
pleasant atmosphere  (even  the  hero  has  a 
past  which  involves  a  faithless,  suicidal  wife) 
but  it's  certainly  well-acted  and  engrossing. 
Cast:  Linda  Darnell,  Charles  Boyer,  Michael 
Rennie,  Constance  Smith,  Francoise  Rosay. — 
20th  Century-Fox. 

14  HOURS 

Originally  an  article  in  the  New  Yorker, 
14  Hours  tells  the  story  of  a  fellow  who 
keeps  a  whole  city  in  suspense  for  14 
hours,  while  he  tries  to  make  up  his  mind 
about  jumping  from  a  high  window  ledge. 
Richard  Basehart  plays  the  psychologically 
disturbed  jumper — or  non-jumper,  and  Paul 
Douglas  is  a  sympathetic  policeman,  the  only 
person  Basehart  will  let  come  near  him  out 
of  the  whole  crew  of  doctors,  detectives,  etc. 
Basehart's  the  child  of  a  broken  home,  a 
mama's  boy  (though  his  mama  makes  him 
nervous),  in  love  with  a  girl  (Barbara  Bel 
Geddes)  though  he  hasn't  felt  equal  to  grow- 
ing up  and  marrying.  The  picture  performs  a 
complete  psychoanalysis  in  an  hour  and  a 
half  of  your  time,  and  keeps  you  in  suspense 
besides. 

Cast:  Richard  Basehart,  Paul  Douglas,  Barbara 
Bel  Geddes. — 20th  Century-Fox. 

VALENTINO 

This  picture  is  based  on  the  movies,  and  not 
the  life,  of  idol  Rudolph  Valentino.  Story  here 
concerns  Rudy  (Tony  Dexter)  in  love  with — 
and  loved  by — beautiful  blonde  actress  Elea- 
nor Parker.  They  have  a  misunderstanding — 
Rudy  doesn't  believe  in  marriage,  he  wants 
to  be  free  as  the  bird  that  flies.  So  Eleanor 
m-^rries  director  Ricnard  Carlson,  but  when 
Rudy  and  Eleanor  are  co-starred  in  The 
Sheik,  passion  flames  again.  A  newspaper- 
man is  going  to  expose  their  love,  make  a 
big  scandal,  and  Rudy,  in  order  to  save 
Eleanor's  good  name,  marries  another  (Pa- 
tricia Medina).  Then  he  dies.  No  work  of  art, 
the  picture's  pleasantly  nostalgic,  with  views 
of  the  clothes  people  wore  then,  and  the  way 
they  danced  the  tango,  all  in  Technicolor. 
Also,  Anthony  Dexter's  an  absolute  ringer  for 
Valentino. 

Cast:  Eleanor  Parker,  Anthony  Dexter,  Richard 
Carlson,  Patricia  Medim. — Columbia. 


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Up  until  recently,  Saturday  night  was  big- date  night 
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boys  have  quit  phoning.  Somehow  her  charm  isn't 
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that  she  would  be  the  last  to  suspect.  It  could 
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■  Hollywood  stars  are  most  often 
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Modern  Screen  guarantees  delivery. 
Prices  all  include  postage  and  tax 
where  necessary.  Money  will  be 
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turned within  10  days  after  delivery. 
Only  monogrammed  merchandise 
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dick  powell 
your  Hollywood  shopper 


Shopper  Dick  thanks   his  first  assistant,   June  Allyson,   who  okayed   his   gift  selections. 


'YOUNG  ARTIST'S  SMOCK  WITH  TOOLS.  Pain's 
developing  into  a  painter  at  age  two-and- 
a-halj  so  June  bought  her  this  won- 
derful smock.  Bright  blue  cotton,  piped 
I'n  red,  it  protects  children's  clothes  from 
i<meary  paints.  A  hand-embroidered  pal- 
ette on  one  of  two  front  pockets  that  comes 
Mled  with  a  rratcr  color  set,  paint  book 
ind  rag.  Sizes  3  to  6x,  S4.20;  7  to  10,  $5.20. 
•fl-OO  extra  with  child's  first  name.)  Pre- 
'erred  Gifts,  125  Park  Ave.,  New  York  17. 


JUNE  SAYS  IT'S  FOR  SEWING  but  to  me  it  looks 
like  a  beautiful  table,  as  I'm  sure  you'll 
agree.  It's  a  roomy  dartiing  basket,  shaped 
like  an  old-fashioned  buttertub,  in  maple 
or  walnut  finish,  brass  trimmed.  Holds 
quantities  of  family  menditig  or  makes 
extra  storage  space.  Perfect  foi  any  room 
and  top  takes  knick-knacks.  Removable 
legs;  carrying  handle.  13"  x  21".  Name 
your  finish.  $8.95,  Renard,  545  Fifth  Ave., 
Neiv  York,  17. 


for  may 

■  Surprised  to  have  me  turn  up  as  a 
shopping  guide?  Well,  truthfully,  I  was 
a  little  flabbergasted  myself,  when  Mod- 
ern Screen  first  said  "how  about  it?" 

It  seems  it  was  all  because  of  June,  our 
brand  new  son  Richard  Keith,  and  the 
fact  that  Mother's  Day  is  approaching. 

When  I  heard  that,  I  became  the  proud 
papa  and  accepted  immediately.  After 
all,  I  have  a  double  stake  in  it  this  year. 

Don't  think  I  did  all  the  work,  though. 
Naturally  I  picked  out  June's  special 
Mother's  Day  gifts  myself,  but  she 
shopped  right  along  with  me  on  the  other 
things.  We're  used  to  working  together 
on  everything  .  .  .  movies,  our  golf  shots 
and  bringing  up  the  kids;  but  this  was 
something  different  and  gave  us  both  a 
great  kick. 

We  made  a  game  of  hunting  for  bar- 
gains and  shopped  from  coast  to  coast 
trying  to  outdo  each  other  in  uncovering 
wonderful  buys  for  you.  Some  items  I 
found  even  while  on  location  for  Cry 
Danger,  my  recent  picture  for  RKO. 

We  found  things  for  kids  like  Pam  and 
Richard,  things  for  the  home,  gift  items, 
and  most  important,  presents  for  Mother. 

Just  write  directly  to  the  store  men- 
tioned for  anything  that  pleases  you,  and 
enclose  the  price  indicated.  Modern 
Screen  guarantees  your  satisfaction. 

Hope  that  you  like  our  joint  shopping 
efforts  and  that  j'ou'll  invite  us  back  for 
a  return  engagement. 


GARLIC  PRESS  AVOIDS  AIL  MESS  and  gives  your 
recipes  that  "certain  something"  for  which 
French  cooking  is  so  famous.  I  know,  be- 
came June  uses  it  all  the  time  and  I  take 
it  for  seasoning  steaks  at  our  cook-outs. 
A  slight  pressure  on  this  aluminum  tool 
converts  whole  garlic  cloves  into  a  paste, 
so  that  the  flavor  blends  thoroughlv.  Your 
hands  icill  stay  free  of  cooking  odors.  S1.9S. 
Mrs.  Dorothy  Damar,  22  Treat  Place, 
Neivark,  N.  J. 


dick  powell 

your  Hollywood  shopper 

for  may 


With  June  and 

Pam  as  my  shopping 

guides,  buying 

Mother's  Day  gifts  was 

easy. .  In  fact, 

I  never  paid  so  little 

for  so  much  fun! 


ZIP    AND    YOUR    WATCHBAND'S  CLOSED. 

buckles  or  holes!  Tliis  new  bracelet-like 
strap  unzips  to  go  oi'er  any  size  hand.  To 
close,  simply  pull,  the  strap  until  it  zips 
to  fit  your  unist  and  locks  in  place.  Mine 
goes  on  and  off  in  a  jiffv  and  it's  really 
comfortable!  Attaches  to  \our  loist  watch 
easily  and  the  zipper's  hidden.  In  calj 
or  pigskin,  52.50;  lizard  S-l.OO:  alligator 
&5.00..  Buy  it  at  Abbott  Gifts,  22  W. 
22nd  St.,  'New  York  10. 


C  •  -   .  •  'W 

JUNE  Will  HAVE  THE  TIME  of  lier  life  with 
this  dainty,  graceful,  yet  sturdy  lurist 
watch.  Sportex  Jewel  has  a  skilled 
Swiss-made  jewel  monement ,  electronically 
time-tested  in  tlie  U.S.  Lumi)ious.  xvith  an 
unbreakable  crystal  and  cliro)ned  case,  it'll 
stand  lots  of  wear  and  tear.  L'nllniited  free 
semice  and  repair  guarantee,  excluding 
parts.  I  think  it's  a  real  buy  at  S7.98. 
Thoresen,  Dept.  12E-21S,  131  fV.  33rd  St., 
Neiu  York  1. 


YOU'LL  WELCOME  THIS  BRUSH-OFF.  You'd  never 
suspect  that  this  smart  gold-colored  case, 
topped  by  a  funny  little  fellow,  concealed 
a  sturdy,  colored  nylon  clothes-  brush. 
Perfect  for  your  purse,  it  pops  up  like  a 
lipstick  and  you'll  find  it  just  as  useful. 
Essential  to  good  grooming  and  takes  up 
practically,  no  room.  It's  one  of  the  things 
I've  picked  for  Junie  for  Mtiiher's  Day. 
$1.50.  Goubaud  cle  Paris,  743  Fifth  Ave., 
New  York  22. 


JUST  PRESS  THEM  INTO  SERVICE.  Personalized 
name  tapes  to  be  ironed  onto  any  gar- 
ment, or  linens,  to  assure  permanent  iden- 
tity. Safeguards  laundry  from  the  lost  and 
found  departnient.  For  markiiig  a  serxnce- 
man's  belongings,  or  a  child's  camp  -ward- 
robe. A'ame  in  red  or  black  color-fast  ink 
on  xchite  tape,  indixndually  cut.  100  tapes 
S1.50;  150  for  S2.00;  300  for  S3.00  (50<f: 
extra  for  second  line).  Art  Colony  Indus- 
tries, 69  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  10. 


THESE  POOCHES  COULDN'T  BE  CUTER!  /  hate  the 
zeord  "cute",  but  this  pair  of  handmade 
ceramic  pups  are  pert  as  the  mischief. 
Tlieir  ivistful,  whimsical  air  make  them 
real  pets.  Pam  calls  tliem  "bow  wow's"  and 
chose  them  as  Iter  special  Mother's  Day 
gift*to  Junie,  -who's  nuts  about  dogs.  Made 
in  Italy,  ihey're  black  and  white  shaggy 
haired  puppies  and  are  5"  high.  $3.50 
pair.  Agnestrong,  39  W.  SIh  St.,  New  York 
11. 


A  GEM  of  an  idea.  June  tells  me  there's  no 
end   to   the  fun  she  has  designing  and 
making  lier  i>ery  oii'n  jewelry.    Use  this 
kit,  complete  xi'ith   fasciu/iting  imported 
slones,  settings,   tools,  and  "ho-w-to"  in-  , 
si  ructions.  It's  easy  to  make  earrjngs,  pins,  I 
bracelets  and  even  rings,  and  you'll  be  as  i 
proud  of  your  handiieork  as  June  is  of  j- 
her  hand-made  jeivelry.  They  look  almost  | 
professional  to  me.  $2.37 ■  A.  Seltzer  6-  Co., 
1163  Sixth  Ave.,  Neiu  York  19. 


HAVE  YOURSELF  A  JAM  SESSION.  According  to 
)n\  good  -wife,  xeho  is  really  a  terrific 
housekeeper,  tliis  chrome  tray  and  toaj:t 
rack  ivith  a  fat  glass  jam  pot  and  plastic 
spoon  are  essential  for  a  successful  breali- 
fast.  It's  as  useful  as  it  is  attractix'e.  Tlie 
rack  takes  6  slices  of  toast,  the  jam  jar 
holds  all  the  preserxies  you  can  eat.  and 
the  tray  has  room  for  some  extras  beside^-. 
$3.29.  Saybrook  Gifts,  305  Bwadicay,  New 
York  7. 


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DON'T  BUDGE  FROM  YOUR  ARMCHAIR.  This 
2V0)ideiful  clamp-on  plastic  tray  allows 
you  the  luxury  of  eating  a  suack  without 
plate-juggling  or  moving  from  your  favor- 
ite chair.  Perfect  for  serving  at  television 
parties,  buffets  or  teas.  Its  room\  surface 
is  water  and  alcohol-proof.  Makes  a 
good  portable  end  table,  traveling  com- 
panion, or  bathtub  tray.  In  green  or 
ivory.  $2.00.  Anderson's,  166  W.  Market 
St.,  York  1,  Pennsylvania. 


PERFECT  FOR  PEEKING  AT  RICHARD.  Cloivykin, 
a  personalized  plastic  baby's  night  light, 
powered  by  a  harmless  pen-size  batlejy, 
hooks  onto  any  crib  or  bed.  Press  button 
for  quick  light,  turn  screw  top  and  it  stays 
on.  Sheds  glare-proof  light  so  we  can  look 
in  on  the  baby  ivithout  disturbing  Pam. 
To  Richard  it's  a  fascinating  pink,  blue 
and  yellow  toy,  safe  even  in  his  hands. 
Send  first  name.  $1.95.  Gift  House,  246 
Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  1. 


MY  GARDEN  NEVER  GREW  FLOWERS  LIKE  THIS! 

The  brightest  idea  since  clocks  were  in- 
vented ...  a  "Fire  Chief"  Petunia  shaped 
into  a  most  fetching  versatile  clock  which 
will  go  well  in  the  kitchen,  child's  room, 
game  room,  porch  or  breakfast  nook.  In 
"fire  chief"  red  with  green  stalk  and  leaves 
and  browri  and  yellow  " peek-a-bee"  pendu- 
lum, with  a  guaranteed  30-hour  movement, 
4"  X  61/9".  $3.75,  Max  Schling  Seedsmen, 
Inc.,  626M,  Madison  Ave.,  Neiu  York  22. 


THESE  SNOW  MITTS  DON'T  MELT.  They  look 
like  the  real  thing,  but  let  the  temperature 
rise  and  you'll  see  that  they're  on  the  job. 
Of  snoiuy  ivhite  plastic,  coasters  are 
specially  insulated  to  keep  drinks  cold 
twice  as  long.  They  feel  good  and  look 
inviting  on  a  sultry  summer  day.  Water- 
proof and  ivashable.  Set  of  4  Sno-mitt 
coasters  with  4  Libby  81/2'Ounce  glasses, 
$2.00.  Fred  S.  Meyer,  Box  1176,  Beverly 
Hills,  California. 


JUNE  HAS  A  REAL  SCOOP  for  you  gals.  She 
found  this  wonderful  item  u'hich  she  tells 
me  is  a  golden  poiuder  scoop  chained  to 
!  2  perfume  funnel.   They  seem  to  be  two 
^,  j  ''musts"  in  a  gal's  gadgetry  wardrobe.  The 
J, j  icoop  helps  transfer  powder  from  box  to 
[J  'Zomfxut  or  vice  versa.   The  perfume  fun- 
lel  does  a  competent  job  of  getting  per- 
'ume  from   its  bottle  into  purse  flacon. 

I\'They're  quite  a  pair,"  quotes  June.  $1.00. 
libraham  &  Straus,  Brooklyn  20,  N.  Y. 


HERE'S  A  SCARF  TURNED  HEADDRESS.  My  bride 
unearthed  this  piece  of  feminine  flattery 
to  protect  her  blonde  head  from  sun  or 
rain,  or  to  pep  up  her  costumes.  A  hidden 
clasp  )nakes  the  scarf  fit  any  headsize;  a 
headband  keeps  it  from  slipping.  You 
can  loear  it  12  xvays.  Many-colored  prints, 
polka  dots,  paisleys  of  washable  French 
crepe.  ■  Give  pattern  and  color  choice. 
$1.95.  Spencer  Gifts,  1117  Atlantic  Ave., 
Atlantic  City,  New  Jersey. 


HERE  IS  GENUINE  MONKEY  BUSINESS.  These 
slap-happy  little  monkeys  are  the  pro- 
verbial "see  no  evil,  hear  no  evil,  speak 
no  evil"  trio  all  done  up  as  a  smart  new 
set  of  scatter  pins.  Expertly  made  in  gold 
tone  metal  with  ajitiqued  finish,  June 
says  they're  terrific  on  suits  and  summer 
dresses.  In  fact,  she  has  me  convinced 
that  they'd  make  a  dandy  Mother's  Day 
gift.  I  could  hardly  refuse  her,  could  I? 
$2.00.  Timax,  358  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  16. 


WHEN  TAKING  PEN  IN  HAND  try  this  neat  one 
luhose  top  fits  right  into  its  oxvn  smart 
Incite  stand.  To  jot  down  that  hurried 
memo  just  pull  out  the  icriting  end.  It's 
filled  with  dry  ink  and  lasts  ages.  No 
more  searching  around  the  home  for  your 
pen  .  .  .  it's  right  on  top.  We  have  sets 
stationed  all  over  the  house.  Pen  of  fine 
gold  metal.  Easily  replaceable  cartridges. 
$2.70.  Jaccard's-Clayton,  Forsythe  Blvd.,  St. 
Louis,  Missouri. 


FOR  ABSENTMINDED  SUNWORSHIPPERS.  June 
(who's  in  this  category)  sivears  by  these 
plastic  sunglass  holders.  All  you  do  is 
slip  the  ends  of  your  sunglasses  into  tlie 
rubber  tips  of  the  holders.  Once  attached, 
they  form  a  circle  and  ha7ig  lightly  around 
your  neck  so  you're  ready  for  the  first 
sunburst.  June  got  them  in  several  colors 
to  match  her  outfits.  White,  red,  tan, 
black.  Rubber  tips  s,  m,  I.  Sl.OO.  Kroll's, 
648  Clinton  Ave.  N.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 


h'rchandisc  is  .told  on  a  money  hack  guarantee  -vithin  10  days,  e.rcc/^i  wlierc  monogrammed. 


FOR    GAIS    WITH    PETTICOAT-FEVER!    /  pickrd 

out  this  tattersal  taffeta  petticoat  myself, 
and  since  June  gave  me  a  big  hug  in  re- 
turn, I  know  it's  a  success.  The  little  inad 
money  pocket  near  the  hern  is  what  got 
me.  It's  fine  as  can  be.  Hem  and  pocket 
are  edged  in  handsome  black  lace  to 
iL'ith  black  and  white  check.  June's  petti- 
coat certainly  rustles  when  she  dances. 
24  to  32  waist.  $4.12.  Gimbel  Bros.,  33rd 
St.  &  6th  Ave.,  Neiu  York  1. 


MADE  TO  BE  SEEN  THROUGH.  June  could  tell 
at  a  glance  that  tliis  transparent  plastic 
purse  and  accessories  -would  make  a  ter- 
rific Mother's  Day  gift  (or  gift  for  your- 
self). And  a  glance  will  tell  you  what's 
in  it.  The  purse  is  roomy  and  has  a  metal 
frame  lo  match  the  round  compact  inside. 
A  comb  is  included,  and  there's  still  plenty 
of  room  for  money  and  keys.  S2.20.  Kop- 
lin's,  The  Home  of  Havana  Cigars,  1142 
Lincoln  Rd.,  Miami  Beach.  Florida. 


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A  CONTRIBUTION  TO  ANY  ROOM.  Your  Mom 
ivill  be  proud  to  Jiave  this  pretty  and 
practical  hanging  shelf  for  her  special 
knichknacks.  Made  of  selected  hardwood , 
it  comes  in  maple,  u'alnut,  maliogany  m 
pickled  pine  finish  to  go  xt'itli  any  period 
of  furniture.  24"  higli,  15"  -wide  and 
6"  deep.  The  loiver  shelf  has  a  matching 
wood  back.  Will  gix'e  your  room  a  real 
air  of  elegance.  May  Mac  Co.,  Dept. 

M,  660  Locust  St.,  Ml.  Vernon,  N.  Y. 


THREE  TOOIS  FOR  HAPPY  BARTENDING!  U'hetlier 
you're  entertaining  the  coke  croicd  or 
having  folks  in  for  beer,  you'll  find  that 
these  handsome  b(ir  helpers  from  Den- 
mark make  your  liosting  a  pleasure.  Be- 
sides doi]}g  a  swell  job,  these  gadgets  are 
a  handsome  addition  to  any  bar.  Handles 
are  polislied  horn  and  the  icorkitig  ends 
are  brass.  S2.50  each.  Set  i}icludi)ig  opener 
and  cork  screw,  S4.'>0.  Tlie  Shadu7c  Box, 
137S  East  Sth  St.,  Brooklyn  30,  N.  Y. 


CUTS  24  PERFECT  "FRENCH  FRIES" 

IN  ONE  STROKE! 

Just  insert  whole  potato,  press  handle 
— and  you   have  24  perfect  French 
Fries!  Mrs.  Damar's  Food  Cutter  is 
wonderful  for  dicing  other  foods 
and  salads,  too.  Made  exclusive- 
ly for  us  in  rust-proof  plated 

steel.  Easy  to  clean,  safe  to 

use.    Sold    by   mail  only. 
$2,98,  plus  25c  for 
postage.  <i'«''^SJ 


NO  MORE  TEARS  WHEN 
CHOPPING  ONIONS' 

Simply  place  whole  peeled  onions  into  Mrs. 
Damar's  Onion  Chopper — and  weep  no  nioie! 
Onions,  or  any  other  vegetables,  chop  down 
to  any  degree  of  fineness.  Aluminum  and 
stainless  steel  mechanism,  14-oz.  glass 
jiraded  into  cup  measurements,  wooden 
clioppins  block  in  bottom  of  jar.  Only  $1.00. 
Send  cash,  check,  money  order — or  items 
shipped  C.O.D.  at  prices  indicated  plus 
postage.    10 -day    money    back  guarantee. 

MRS.  DAMAR 

Dept.SC-29,  22  Treat  PI.,  Newark  2,  N.J. 


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the  ansicer  -will  be  yes  from  any  gal  re- 
ceiving this  beautiful  daisy-detailed  bed 
jacket,  nightgou'n  set.  Treat  yourself  and 
give  it  to  Mother,  too.  Rayon  crepe  jacket 
has  yoke  of  lace  and  sheer  organdie  daisies, 
Peter  Pan  collar,  and  elbow-length  lace- 
edged  sleeves.  Ribbon  ties.  Blue,  pink  or 
■white;  sizes  s,  m,  I.  S3. 98.  Matching  go-wn, 
sizes  32-38  S5.98.  The  Ettingers,  360  First 
Ave.,  Xew  York  10. 


HAIL  TO  THE  CULINARY  KINGS!  These  two 
ceramic  chefs  are  a  fine  addition  to  any 
-well-laid  table.  The  blond  {for  salt)  is 
holdi}ig  a  big  black  cat  in  his  arms.  His 
dark-haired  pal  (for  pepper)  is  dangling 
a  fisli.  Togetlier  they're  quite  a  colorful 
pair  of  spice  shakers.  41/2"  high.  For 
eating  indoors  or  out,  the  u'ay  ice  often 
do,  they're  always  -welcome.  SI .25  pair. 
The  Winher  Co.,  248  West  35  St.,  New 
York  1. 


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to  brmg  a  star  to  your  home 
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Watch  for  next  month's 
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with  the  entire  list  of 
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winners,  and  165 
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Dear  Friends: 

Congratulations  are  in  order,  but  we  can't  decide  who  ought  to  be  on 
the  recei\'ing  end — you,  for  winning  the  contest,  or  us,  for  being  lucky 
enough  to  visit  foui  of  you  at  home.  Anyway,  we  want  to  tell  Mrs.  Alice  Bankert, 
first  prize  winner,  that  a  $1,0(X)  government  bond  is  on  its  way,  and  that 
we  will  shortly  foUow.  In  fact,  we'll  be  in  Denver  on  April  23rd, 
Mrs.  Bankert,  and  we're  really  looking  forward  to  meeting  you  and  your 
family.  We'd  Uke  you  to  be  our  guest  that  night  at  the  Denver  Theater, 
where  a  special  premiere  of  our  Universal-International  technicolor  movie. 
The  Prince  Who  Was  A  Thief,  will  be  given.  See  you  soon  I 

Our  next  stop  will  be  Charlotte,  North  Carolina,  where  we "11  visit  Miss  Clara 
Hobbs.  second  prize  winner.  Watch  for  us.  Miss  Hobbs,  and  meartwlule 
you  can  be  expecting  that  $600  bond.  It's  in  the  mail  right  now. 

From  Charlotte  we'll  go  to  Terre  Haute.  Indiana,  to  caU  on 
third  prize  winner  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Denehie.  A  $250  bond  is  winging  its 
way  to  you,  Mrs.  Denehie,  along  with  our  best  wishes. 

Before  we  return  to  Hollywood  we're  going  to  stop  off  in  Colimabus,  Ohio, 
to  say  hello  to  Miss  Donna  Morrison.  Miss  Morrison,  as 
fourth  prize  winner,  will  receive  a  $100  bond. 

We  hope  you  all  enjoy  our  movie.  We're  grateful  that  we  were  chosen  to 
star  in  it,  and  we'd  like  to  thank  you  and  the  thousands  of  other 
movie-goers  whose  continued  interest  gave  us  our  big  chance.  Our  thanks,  too,  to 
Modern  Screen  and  Pepsi-Cola  for  letting  us  be  part  of  this  wonderful 
contest.  It's  been  a  lot  of  fun  reading  all  your  letters,  and  we 
know  it  will  be  even  more  fun  meeting  you  in  person. 

Be  seeing  you! 


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Most  girls  are  still  dreaming  of  love  at  18. 

Liz  was  suffering  heartbreak.    And,  like  a  hurt  child 
who  runs  for  comfort,  she  ran  to  Stanley  Donen. 

BY  MARSHA  SAUNDERS 


LIZ  TAYLOR'S  NEW 


Liz  wept  on  a  studio  press  agent's  shoulder  as  her 
divorce  from  Nick  Hilton  was  granted  Jan.  29.  She 
denied  any  romantic  attachment  with  Stanley  Donen. 


Divorce  secured,  Liz  started  steadily  dating  26-year- 
old  Stan  whose  marriage  broke  up  last  year.  He 
directed  her  in  MGM's  Love  Is  Better  Than  Ever. 


■  A  few  months  ago  Elizabeth  Taylor  took  the  stand  in  the 
Superior  Court  of  Los  Angeles  County  to  file  for  divorce  against 
Nicky  Hilton,  her  husband  of  eight  months. 

She  was  extremely  overwrought.  When  she  spoke,  her  usually 
clear  voice  was  an  inaudible  whisper,  so  low  and  lost,  that  the 
court's  shorthand  reporter  protested,  "'I  can't  hear  a  single 
word." 

Judge  Thurmond  Clarke  leaned  over.  "Please  keep  your  voice 
up,"  he  asked.  "Just  make  believe  my  reporter  is  a  little  hard  of 
hearing." 

The  spectators  giggled,  but  Liz  lowered  her  face  into  her 
gloved  hands,  and  when  she  raised  it  a  moment  later,  it  was 
covered  with  tears. 

"May  I  be  permitted  to  ask  some  leading  questions?"  her 
lawyer  inquired  of  the  judge. 

"It  might  be  a  good  idea,"  the  judge  suggested,  "if  you  put 
the  testimony  into  the  record  in  your  owTi  words  and  had  Miss 
Taylor  confirm  them." 

So  Liz  was  saved  the  anguish  of  giving  direct  testimony. 
She  merely  confirmed  her  lawyer's  contentions. 

According  to  Liz's  lawyer,  Nicky  "spent  most  of  the  time 
away  from  her  when  they  were  in  France  on  their  honeymoon. 
He  spent  night  after  night  at  the  Casino  and  remained  away 
until  five  or  six  in  the  morning  and  forced  her  to  take  a  cab  back 
alone.  This  also  was  true  after  they  returned  to  Los  Angeles." 

Judge  Clarke  asked  Liz  if  all  this  were  correct,  and  she 
mumbled,  "Yes,  sir,  it  is." 

Attorney  Berger  then  went  on  to  tell  how  Nicky  had  been 
violent,  abusive,  indifferent,  and  argumentative  towards  his 
wife,  and  Liz  confirmed  it  all. 

After  the  divorce  was  granted,  Liz,  who  had  not  asked  for 
alimony,  rushed  into  the  arms  of  Jules  Goldstone,  her  attorney. 
He  helped  escort  her  into  the  judge's  chambers.  She  stayed 
with  the  judge  for  an  hour  while  a  group  of  reporters  waited 
outside.  When  she  emerged,  she  had  regained  her  composure. 
A  reporter  rushed  up  to  question  her. 

"Any  truth,"  he  asked,  "about  you  being  romantically  inter- 
ested in  Stanley  Donen?" 

Liz  fixed  the  reporter  with  a  look  she  probably  reserves  for 
madmen.  "That,"  she  stated  flatly,  "is  absolutely  absurd." 

Twenty-four  hours  later,  Liz  and  {Continued  on  page  85) 


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There  are 

some  people  I've  never 
forgiven,  and  others 
whoVe  hecome 
my  good  friends  after 
our  battles  royal. 
Now  I  want  to 
set  the  long  record 
straight. 


GINGER  ROGERS 


the  truth  about  my  feuds 


m 


IS 


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CORINNE  CALVET 


REX  HARRISON 


JOAN  CRAWFORD 


■  My  friend  "Chuck"  Saxon, 
Ye  Ed  of  Modern  Screen,  has  asked  me 
to  let  my  short  hair  down  and  give 
with  the  truth  about  my  feuds — real  and 
otherwise — ^with  certain  Hollywood  characters. 

It's  an  assignment  I  suppose  I  should 
coyly  sidestep  and  say,  "Feuds,  suh?  Really, 
I  don't  know  what  you  mean." 

But  if  I  am  anything,  I'm  a 
truthful  woman,  let  the  chips  fall 
where  they  may — so  here  goes: 

In  my  25  years  pins  in  this  town,  I  have  had 
some  hair  curHng  battles  that  were  dillys. 

I've  yelled  and  shouted  over  telephones  telling 
off  stars,  producers,  directors  and  press 
agents  ahke.  But,  in  most  cases,  after 
the  smoke  has  died  down  a  few  days  later,  I 
have  forgotten  the  row.  It  just  ain't  true 
that  my  memory  is  more  relentless 
than  that  of  an  elephant  and  that  I  never 
forget !  I  not  only  forget-^but  forgive, 
except  in  a  few  isolated  cases. 

In  other  words,  there  are  what  I 
consider  my  minor  "skirmishes" 
as  against  four  or  five  really  major  battles 
which  have  flourished  for  years. 

Conspicuous  headliners  in  the  latter 
group  are — Orson  Welles  and  Rex 
Harrison!  Let's  take  on  sexy  Rexy  first: 

When  LiUi  Palmer  and  Harrison  first 
came  to  Hollywood,  I,  along  with  many  of  the 
film  colony,'  went  all  out  to  welcome  the 
talented  British  actor.  Rex  can  be  so 
charming  with  the  ladies  and  I  confess  I 
found  myself  as  gullible  as  the  rest. 

I  was  in  Europe  when  Carole 
Landis  committed  {Continued  on  page  99) 


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JOHN  AGAR 


Is  he  Hollywood's 
biggest  problem  child 
or  is  it  just  a  case 
of  headlines? 
There  may  be  more  to 
Agar's  story  than 
meets  the  eye  .  .  . 

BY  STEVE  CRONIN 


John's  drunk  driving  arrests  are  blamed  on  his  emotional  bewilderment. 


John  has  been  concentrating  solely  upon  his 
career.  His  dates  with  Gloria  De  Haven  and 
other  newsworthy  stars  were  studio-arranged. 


■  Not  very  long  after  Shirley  Temple  marched 
into  court  and  told  of  his  excessive  drinking,  John  Agar,  tall, 
thin,  and  turning  30,  was  booked  at  the  Sheriff's  sub-statiqn 
in  West  Hollywood  on  a  misdemeanor  drunk  driving  charge. 

Agar  was  beside  himself  with  fury.  "I  don't 
know  why  you're  doing  this,"  he  cried  to  the  officers. 
"I  haven't  done  anything.  I  don't  belong  in 
jail.  This  is  going  to  ruin  my  career." 

"You  know  you've  been  drinking,"  one  of 
the  officers  said  to  Agar.  "It's  not  safe 
to  drive  when  you've  had  one  too  many." 

"Please,"  Agar  pleaded,  "I  may  have  had  a  drink  or 
two.  But  I'm  all  right.  Please,  let  me  go  home. 
I  have  an  80-year-old  grandfather.  He's  home  all  alone." 

He  was  released  on  $150  bail,  and  the  news  of  his  escapade 
was  smeared  over  the  front  pages  of  the  nation's  newspapers. 

Sgt.  E.  L.  Hoover  of  the  California  Highway  Patrol, 
described  the  incident:  "Two  rnotorists  drove  up  to  me  and 
said,  'There's  a  car  behind  us  that  keeps  bumping  into  us. 
It's  been  bumping  .us  ever  since  Sunset  {Continued  on  page  108) 


Tahoe's  the  place  where  the  stars  relax  and  let  the  moon  and  the  mountains  cast  a  spell. 


■  Peering  through  the  lodge  window,  I  watched  the 
moon  hght  the  snow  and  splash  it  with  silver.  In  the 
distance,  trees  formed  dark  patterns  on  the  endless 
stretch  of  white.  The  skiers,  with  their  husk>' 
shouts  and  vast  enthusiasm,  had  disappeared  with 
the  sun.  It  was  quiet  now,  like  another  world  .  .  . 
a  world  that  seemed  too  proud  and  aloof  to  be 
lonely. 

I  was  the  lonely  one.  I  sighed  and  turned  back 
into  the  roomful  of  shadows.  Angela  and  Rod 
Cameron  were  holding  hands  by  the  huge  fire. 
"Right  this  minute  I  envy  you  two,".  I  told  them. 

They  grinned.  '  Romantic,  isn't  it?"  Rod  said, 
teasingly. 

"What  a  shame  Bill  couldn't  come,"  said  Angela, 
as  if  she'd  been  reading  my  thoughts. 

I  agreed  with  all  my  heart.  But  that's  what  hap- 
pens when  a  girl  marries  a  pilot.  Of  course,  when  the 
pilot's  a  wonderful  husband,  what  can  she  do  but 
wait  when  he's  flying  to  the  other  side  of  the  globe? 
For  four  years  I've  done  the  same  thing — I've 
missed  him.  I  miss  him  11  out  of  every  18  days. 
And  the  hours  fly  on  the  seven  days  he's  home. 

Bill  was  away  when  I  finished  my  first  picture, 
The  Thing  From  Another  World.  I'd  been  working 
hard,  and  invariably  ever>-one  I'd  run  into  would 
come  up  with  the  suggestion,  "Why  don't  you  take 
a  real  vacation — get  some  rest?  " 

'■Rest?  I  feel  great,"'  I"d  say. 

But  even  the  mirror  told  me  I  was  tired.  Figuring 
I  couldn't  win,  I  returned  to  my  usual  occupation — 
waiting  for  the  postman.  "'Look,  Mrs.  Pattison,"  he 
finally  said  one  day.  "If  you  don't  get  a  letter  to- 
morrow, I,  myself,  will  write  you  a  postcard." 

"Tomorrow"  the  letter  came.  It  was  a  lovely, 
sentimental  letter.  Bill  was  remembering  the  trip  we 
took  around  the  world,  when  I  hired  on  as  stew- 
ardess for  one  excursion  .  .  .  Tokyo.  Hong  Kong, 
Calcutta,  Cairo,  Athens,  Rome  ...  I  was  making 
the  rounds  of  our  memories  when  I  came  to  the 
final  sentences.  "You  must  be  pretty  beat  after  the 
picture,"  he  wrote.  "Why  don"t  you  get  away  for  a 
couple  of  days?"  {Continued  on  page  114) 


Stack  got  snowballed  good  and  proper  by  Ann  Melton,  Mar- 
garet, and  Claudette.  Later  he  whipped  them  single-handed. 


Margoret  was  thrilled  to  run  into  the  Bob  Mitchums  at  Tohoe. 
They  were  staying  with  Olive  and  Stan  Jones  in  their  lodge. 


romance  in  the  mountains 


more  pictures  and  a  story  obout  the  mitchums  are  on  the  next  pcqe 


I  found  romance  in  the  mountains 


It  was  cold  oufside  and  those  snow  sessions  left  the  crowd 
famished.  Margaret  had  hot  chocolate  with  Dr.  Lew 
Morrill.  Rhonda  Fleminq,  Bob  Stack  and  Claudette  Thornton. 


Bob  Stack  and  Claudette  Thornton  distracted  each  other 
from  the  business  of  skiing.  They  came  over  from  a 
houseporty  at  the  Stacks'  Tahoe  home  near  Squaw  Valley. 


Rod  Cameron  and  his  bride,  Angela,  were  so  much  in  love 
they  kept  forgetting  to  join  in  on  the  Cal-Neva  Lodge 
evening   party  festivities  after  a  day  out  in  the  open. 


They  woke  up  freezing  in  their  long  nnderweail 

...and  the 
Mitchums 
found  snow 


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but  the  Mitchums  went  into  a  huddle  and  had  a  hot  time  in  Tahoe. 


■  The  last  time  the  urge  to  take  to  the  great  outdoors  over- 
powered my  husband,  he  amiounced  that  he  thought  he'd  go 
fishing.  The  look  I  gave  him  spoke  one  sentence.  Translated,  it 
said,  "What  about  all  the  work  you've  been  promising  to  do 
around  the  house?" 

It  was  a  very  effective  sentence.  I've  never  seen  anyone  do 
a  faster  job  of  putting  in  a  garden  walk.  And  then,  no  less  than 
five  minutes  afterwards.  Fearless  Bob  Mitchum  (as  he  was 
dubbed  in  Modern  Screen)  and  our  close  friend.  Equally 
Fearless  Joe  Haworth,  set  out  for  the  wild,  woody  yonder  to 


catch  all  the  fish  the  law  would  allow.  When  they  returned, 
after  a  few  days  and  many  adventures,  they  happily  managed 
to  give  the  impression  that  they'd  invented  this  sport  involving 
rod  and  reel. 

You  may  have  read  about  their  daring  deeds.  I'm  glad 
they're  on  record  because  the  fish  seem  to  grow  bigger  each 
time  Bob  tells  the  tale. 

As  for  the  rest  of  us  Mitchums,  we  sat  at  home  with  the 
garden  walk.  "Next  time  you  decide  to  travel,  include  me 
in,"  I  told  Bob.  {Continued  on  page  41) 


Although  hunting  was  out  of  season,  Bob  and  Chris  kibitzed  as  Jim  practiced  aiming.    Beautiful  Lake  Tahoe  is  in  the  background. 


It's  great  in  the  great  outdoors  where' men  are  men;  and  men  like  Bob  are  boys  again. 


Bob  put  chains  on  the  station  wagon  to  make  mountain  driving  Dorothy,  who  put  her  family's  hopes  into  words  by  suggest- 
easier.  They  arrived  Wednesday  and  the  boys,  who'd  rarely  ing  the  trip,  watched  skeptically  as  Bob  almost  chained 
seen   snow,    waited   eagerly   until    it    began    falling    on    Saturday.      himself  to  the  car.    She  forgot  to  pack  long  underwear. 


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.  and  the  mitchums  found  snow 


cont'd 


"And  me,"  Jim  added. 
"Me,  too,"  said  Chris. 

"Well  ...  if  you  get  the  chores  done,"  Fearless  Mitchum 
said  loftily. 

The  weeks  passed,  but  before  long  I  got  the  feeling  that 
there  was  something  in  the  air  and  it  wasn't  quite  time  for 
Spring.  For  several  days  I  noticed  that  Bob  seemed  busier 
than  usual.  He'd  finished  Macao  and  deserved  a  rest.  How- 
ever, he  wasn't  taking  it.  He  built  new  shelves  for  the 
kitchen  cupboard.  He  mended  the  torn  screen.  He  gave  the 
lawn  a  clipping  that  resembled  a  close  crewcut.  I  remember 
thinking  how  strange  it  was  as  I  watched  him  puttering 
around  the  yard.  It  had  only  been  a  month  since  I  asked 
him  to  cut  the  grass,  and  I  couldn't  have  mentioned  it  more 
than  once. 

Suddenly,  I  reahzed  there  wasn't  a  job  left  that  would 
require  a  handyman's  knowhow.  My  husband,  I  concluded, 
was  about  to  begin  to  suffer  from  an  acute  case  of  wanting 
to  take  a  trip.  I  settled  back  and  tried  to  figure  just  where 
we'd  go,  because  I  could  tell  that  Bob  was  giving  the  matter 
careful,  though  silent,  consideration. 

Quite  logically,  dialogue  followed.  "Ever  see  such 
weather?"  Bob  exclaimed  one  morning  at  breakfast.  "Warm, 
suimy  .  .  .  hard  to  believe  it's  {Continued  on  page  106) 


Lunch  was  served  "come  and  get  it"  style  and  Bob, 
Chris  and  Jim  didn't  bother  with  formalities.  Everyone 
slept  in  their  clothes  as  the  bedrooms  were  so  icy. 


At  first  Bob  hogged  the  sled,  but  the  boys  piled  on  and  Mom  snapped  them  In  the  act.    They  left  the  sled  behind  for  a  return  visit. 


Judy's  in  love  again. 

And  for  a  girl  who 
thinks  with  her  heart,  that's  all 

that  matters.   Maybe  she's 

right,  but  cooler  heads  are 
afraid  she's  walking  into  trouble. 

BY   IMOGENE  COLLINS 


Last  fall  an  unhappy  Judy  wanted  only  Liza. 


■  By  the  time  you  read  this,  Judy  Garland 
may  be  honeymooning  with  her  third  husband.  If  she  isn't, 
then  it's  only  a  question  of  time  and  legal  procedure 
before  she  becomes  Mrs.  Sidney  Luft. 

Before  Judy  left  for  London,  where  the  Palladium  is  paying  her 
$70,000  for  a  few  weeks'  work,  she  and  Sidney  were  virtually 
inseparable.  For  a  while,  Judy  denied  that  they  were  anything  more 
than  the  usual  "good  friends,"  but  a  few  weeks  ago  she  admitted 
that  they  were  serious  about  each  other.  "We  have  plans,"  she  said. 
"And  I  won't  date  any  other  man.  Sid  is  a  wonderful  guy.  He 
has  a  great  sense  of  humor  and  I  feel  so  happy  when 
he's  around  me.  I  just  know  we're  going  to  hit  it  off.  Right  now  I'm 
interested  in  only  three  things — ^my  daughter  Liza,  my  career,  and  Sid." 

Judy  is  convinced  that  this  trio  of  interests  will  give  her  life 
direction  and  meaning.  "I've  never  been  any  happaer  or 
healthier,"  she  said  before  she  left  Hollywood.  "After 
London,  we're  going  to  tour  the  Continent,  then  I'm  coming 
back  to  Hollywood,  and  I  think  I'll  probably  play 
opposite  Bing  Crosby  in  Famous.  Honestly,  I've 
hit  my  stride.  Things  have  been  pretty  rough 
these  past  few  years,  but  I've  snapped  out  of  my 
depression.  I'm  in  fine  voice,  I've  loads  of  energy — and  well, 
the  future  looks  fine."  (Continued  on  page  101) 


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For  Ricardo, 
romance  begins 
in  the  villa 
where  bright  colors 
lend  a  Latin  air 
and  camellias  grow 
beneath  a  balcony. 


montalhan 


The  narrow  den  with  room  length  windows  opens  on  the 
garden.  Washable  fabrics  take  hard  use.  Cheerful  murals 
decoratfe  the  dining  alcove  of  the  other  end  (below). 


Lasting    beauty   is   the    Montolban    by-word.   Antiques    like   the  living 


■  Their  house  is  milk  chocolate  brown  with  a  white  trim. 
Flowering  magnolia  trees  and  camellias  nestle  up  against  it, 
■  and  a  white  rail  fence  surrounds  it.  On  the  second  floor,  under 
the  bedroom  windows,  there's  a  romantic  looking  balcony. 
And  out  in  back,  beyond  the  patio,  is  a  high  garden  wall. 

On  warm  evenings  when  the  doors  of  the  living  room  end 
den  are  thrown  open  you  can  hear  rhumba  music,  South  Ameri- 
can style,  drifting  over  the  wall.  And  if  you  could  climb  the 
wall,  you'd  probably  see  Ricardo  dancing  with  his  wife.  Four 
or  five  other  couples  might  be  dancing,  too,  or  watching,  or 
serving  themselves  at  the  buffet  tables. 

"This  is  the  kind  of  parties  we  Uke."  Mrs.  Montalban 
says.  "We  eat  on  the  patio  and  then  we  roll  back  the  living 
room  carpet,  pick  up  the  scatter  rugs  in  the  foyer  and  have  a 


room  mantel  figures  play  o  large  port  in  decorating  their  exotic,  spacious 


ballroom  larger  than  Mocambo's.  Ricardo  loves  to  dance,  but 
he  prefers  to  do  it  at  home." 

It's  easy  to  see  why.  Their  home  was  planned  for  good  living 
and  fun.  It's  large  and  comfortable,  filled  with  hand-picked 
furniture. 

The  person  greatly  responsible  for  providing  the  background 
to  this  homelife  which  is  one  of  the  happiest  in  Hollywood  is 
Ricardo's  mother-in-law,  Mrs.  Gladys  Belzer.  Mrs.  Belzer  is 
also  the  mother  of  Loretta  Young,  Sally  Blane,  Polly  Ann 
Young  and  a  son,  Jack.  After  rearing  a  family  of  five  and 
seeing  them  safely  through  careers  and  marriages,  she  turned 
her  boundless  energy  to  a  career  of  her  own.  She  became  a 
professional  interior  decorator.  It  was  only  natural  that  when 
Georgie  married  Ric,  she  would  (Continued  on  next  page) 


Rugs  roll  back  to  make  foyer,  living  room,  den  a  ballroom. 


45 


coso  montalban  continued 


A  working  fountain  with  real  w6ter  is  the  focal  point  of  the  dining 
room.  The  chandelier  is  an  antique  pewter  urn  from  Georgiana's 
coJIectlon.    Louvered    shutters    ore    used    throughout   the  house. 


be  sought  out  by  the  newlyweds  and  asked  for  a 
little  sound  housing  advice. 

"Only  we  didn't  call  on  Mama  Belzer  right  away," 
Ricardo  says.  "For  the  first  six  months  of  our  mar- 
riage, Georgiana  and  I  Uved  in  a  dream  world.  We 
were  too  much  in  love  to  think  of  anything  so  prac- 
tical as  buying  a  home." 

It  wasn't  until  Ricardo's  contract  with  MGM  was 
definitely  set  and  baby  number  one  was  enroute,  that 
Ric  and  Georgie  started  looking  for  a  house.  They 
went  to  every  place  that  Mrs.  Belzer  recommended. 
They  visited  all  the  model  homes  in  town.  They  met 
quite  a  few  real  estate  agents.  In  the  end,  they 
decided  to  buy  a  ten-room  Mediterranean-style  house 
in  Westwood  Village  which  Georgiana's  mother  had 
owned  and  rented  out  for  si.x  years. 

At  the  time  the  Montalbans  chose  this  generous- 
sized  house  in  a  well-established  neighborhood,  some 
of  their  young  friends  accused  them  of  "going  Holly- 
wood." 

"What  do  you  need  with  four  bedrooms  and  two 
maids'  rooms?  Think  of  the  taxes.  Who's  going  to  do 
all  that  housework?"  they  were  asked. 

Georgie  and  Ric  smiled  and  said  nothing.  They 
had  their  reasons.  They  were  also  following  some  of 
Mama  Belzer's  advice. 

Mrs.  Belzer  beheves  that  when  young  people  plan 
to  have  a  family,  they  should  buy  the  largest  and 
most  comfortable  house  they  can  afford  and  then 
grow  into  it.  In  the  end  they  save  the  expense  of 
changing  homes  every  four  or  five  years,  and  they 
never  have  to  live  in  cramped  or  make-shift  quarters. 
All  their  care  and  money  is  (Continued  on  page  78) 


Mrs.  Belzer  (Georgiana's  mother),  is  a  professional  decorator,  and 
helped  plan  the  decor.  In  the  pine  panelled  foyer,  she  planted  a 
French  Lavabo  and  hung  it  above  a  simple,  18th  certtury  commode. 


Georgie's  bath  is  luxury  and  efficiency  combined.  Silly 
symbols  define  the  closets,  ordinary  coat  hooks  keep  her 
jewelry  in  order,  wall  to  wall  cotton  carpets  add  glamor. 


Demure,  you  say! 
She's  about  as  demure 
as  a  harem  dancer. 
Sweet,  you  say!  She's 
sweet  and  tempting. 
Even  with  a  nursery 
full  of  kids — Jeanne 
Grain's  no  Mother  Goose. 

BY  KIRTLEY  BASKETTE 


■  The  table  near  the  big  picture  window  was  set  for 

two.  The  lights  were  out,  and  only  the  vast  bed  of  burning  jewels  that 

is  Hollywood  glowed  from  far  below  to  illumine 

the  faces  of  Jeanne  Grain  and  Paul  Brinkman. 

This  was  the  way  they  liked  to  dine,  with  the  boys  tucked 
away  back  in  the  nurser>'  wing — not  out  of  heart,  but 
out  of  mind  for  this  moment — their  special  moment  together.  Outside, 
the  curving  pool  shimmered  black-blue.  The  jacaranda 
tree  quivered  imperceptibly.  Jeanne  wore  a  colorful,  low-cut 
Mexican  cotton  dress  that  Paul  particularly  hked. 

She  shook  her  red-gold  curls  back  on  her  bare  shoulders. 
It  was  a  gesture  Paul  knew.  Something  was  coming. 

"They  whistled  at  me  today,"  said  Jeanne. 

"Who  whistled?" 

"Men,"  said  Jeanne,  "two  hundred  extras." 

"Lucky  girl,"  nodded  Paul,  lifting  a  slice  of  avocado. 

"It  wasn't  that  kind  of  a  whistle,"  complained 
Jeanne.  "I  was  a  fright — imagine  a  bathing  suit  with  bloomers,  long 
cotton  stockings,  and  a  ruffled  cap.  That  hazing  scene,  you  know, 
in  Take  Care  of  My  Little  Girl.  I  looked  like  a  fugitive  from  a  Sennett 
comedy !"  He  could  see  her  nose  tilt  alarmingly. 

Paul  took  a  sip  of  wine.  He  remembered  conversational 
beginnings  like  this  during  Margie,  when  his  bride 
wore  pigtails  and  long  woolen  hose ;  during  Apartment  For  Peggy, 
when  Jeanne's  maternity  rig  made  her  look  like  an  over-stuffed 
laundry  bag;  during  Cheaper  By  the  Dozen,  too,  when  another  1910 
bathing  job,  complete  with  parasol,  got  her  started  off. 
He  remembered  the  beginnings — and  the  endings,  too  ... 

"Paul,"  mused  Jeanne,  "the  picture  finishes  next  week." 

Mr.  Brinkman  laid  down  his  fork.  "Jeanne,  Doll,"  he  said,  "this 
time  it's  impossible.  I've  never  been  so  busy.  The  planf's  jumping — defense 
orders,  expansion,  headaches.  I  can't  spare  a  minute.  I  can't — " 
But  there  was  that  look  in  her  eyes  that  always  made  him  helpless. 

"Paul,"  said  Jeanne,  "I  sure  {Continued  on  page  103) 


■  About  15  years  ago  there  was  quite  a 
nasty  disturbance  in  one  of  the  nicer  residential 
districts  of  Chicago.  Not  a  gang  shooting  or  any- 
thing like  that,  but  still  an  incident  of 
violent  character.  A  small  girl  of  four, 
pigtails  flying  free  behind  her,  was  racing  down  a 
street  pursued  by  a  rather  gentlemanly  looking 
chap  wearing  an  expression  of  extreme 
humiliation.  At  intervals,  the  child  would  bend 
down,  straighten  up  without  losing  her  stride, 
and  fling  a  rock  or  a  hunk  of  mud  at  the 
man.  Some  of  the  missiles  hit  him. 

A  passerby  collared  the  chaser  and  firmly  in- 
quired what  the  devil  was  going  on.  While 
the  child  stood  at  a  safe  distance  and  stuck  out 
her  tongue,  the  now  very  nervous  gentleman 
attempted  to  explain. 

"I  was  just  trying  to  teach  her  some  ballet,  ' 
he  said. 

The  passerby  set  him  back  on  the  ground  and 
went  about  his  business  muttering,  "These 
new-fangled  methods  of  education  are  certainly 
crazy." 

As  she  told  the  story  in  Hollywood  some  15  years 
later,  racing  up  and  down  the  carpeted  office  of  a 
20th  Century-Fox  publicity  executive  with  her 
shoes  off,  the  child,  now  grown  up  to  be  Mitzi 
Gaynor,  acted  it  out  with  such  ferocity  that  those 
present  felt  real  pity  for  the  ballet  master.  At 
any  rate,  he  must  have  caught  her,  for 
wheh  she  finished,  Mitzi  stood  with  her  toes 
pointed  out  and  her  heels  together — the  standard 
stance  of  a  duck,  or,  in  classic  circles,  the  legiti- 
mate pose  called  the  First  Position  in  the 
ballet. 

This  was  all  part  of  an  interview  with  Mod- 
ern Screen — in  (Continued  on  page  109) 


At  four  she  had  to  be 
caught  to  be  taught. 
But  the  brat's 
turned  charmer.  And 
now  Mitzi  Gaynor's 
showing  the  world 
how  to  dance. 

BY  JIM  HENAGHAN 


GOLDEN 
GIRL 


neteen-year-old  Mitzi  combines  housework  with  ballet  practice  in  the  modest  Hollywood  home  where  she  lives  with  her  mother. 


51 


KISS 
TOMORROW 
HELLO 

■  The  announcement  of  the  Derek  purchase  was  in  the  newspapers  .  .  .  "It 
includes  the  white  stucco,  tile-roofed  Spanish  style  residence,  the  swimming  pool 
and  other  improvements  situated  on  what  is  considered  the  highest  "knoll  in 
Encino,  giving  them  a  commanding  view  of  the  entire  valley  and  adjacent  moun- 
tains. They  plan  later  to  estabUsh  private  stables  on  the  unimproved  acre  .  .  ." 

Many  people  reading  that  announcement  must  have  exclaimed,  "What  a  lucky 
guy  he  is!"  If  so,  John  Derek  would  have  been  the  first  to  agree  with  them. 

He  and  Patti  sunk  all  their  savings  into  the  down  payment  for  their  home^ — 
the  home  they  want  to  grow  old  in — and  they'll  be  paying  the  balance  of  it  for 
a  long  time  to  come.  But  they  think  it's  worth  the  financial  burden. 

"I  committed  myself  to  this  place  before  the  Korean  situation  broke  out,"  John 
says.  "Had  it  happened  sooner,  I  probably  would  have  waited.  But  then  my  main 
concern  was  using  my  judgment  effectively.  It  was  the  first  real  decision  I'd  ever 
made,  except  the  one  to  marry  Patti.  I'd  always  let  others  decide  everything  for 
me.  As  a  kid,  I  always  did  what  i  was  told  because  I  didn't  want  to  cause  any  more 
trouble." 

John  didn't  have  to  explain  how  often  a  child  of  divorced  parents  must  learn  to 
walk  a  fine  line.  John  still  walks  that  line  by  mentioning  little  of  his  own  past. 
There  are  few  young  actors  who  could  so  definitely  be  called  the  strong  silent  type. 

Naturally,  he  reveals  himself  in  little  ways,  particularly  when  he's  talking  about 
rearing  his  son.  "I  hope  I'm  as  wise  in  this  .  .  ."  he'll  say.  Or,  ".  .  .  .  not  as  wrong 
in  this  .  .  . 

"Nine  or  ten  of  us  kids  used  to  gather  in  a  tree-house  club  when  I  was  staying 
with  my  father,"  he  says.  "Once  I  introduced  smoking  clothes-line  rope.  Everyone 
but  me  got  sick.  My  father  called  me  several  times  but  I  ignored  him  so  he 
wouldn't  catch  me  smelling  of  smoke.  A  couple  of  hours  later  I  went  home^  sure 
I'd  be  scolded  only  for  being  late.  I  was  right.  But  five  or  six  years  later  my 
father,  laughingly,  told  me  how  strongly  I'd  smelled  of  the  smoke.  He  said  he'd 
figured  he  couldn't  add  more  to  the  lesson  we  boys  probably  had  learned,  so  he 
hadn't  brought  it  up  then.  I'm  hoping  I'll  be  that  wise  with  my  son. 

"On  the  other  hand,  I  used  to  get  terribly  scared  when  my  stepmother  Hstened 
to  a  favorite  gang-buster  radio  program.    I  don't  know  {Continued  on  page  75) 


52 


The  Dereks  learned 
that  even  in  Hollywood 
when  a  young 
couple  buys  a  house 
it's  between  them 
and  the  piggy-bank, 

BY  KOLMA  FLAKE 


Some  say  she  ought 
to  be  spanked.  Others 
would  give  her  a  medal. 
Everybody  takes  sides 
when  tempestuous  Shelley 
starts  taking 
Hollywood  apart. 

BY  MICKELL  NOVAK 


•  •  • 


™twk  she's  k... 


■  Shelley  Winters  isn't  too  much  like  the  girl  in  the 
■  nursery  rhyme.  When  that  little  miss  was  horrid,  her  mother  probably 
threatened  to  scalp  her.  And  if  she  had  ever  gone  to  Hollywood 
to  mingle  with  some  real  artists  in  temperament  she  would 
probably  have  seemed  hke  a  rose  in  a  valley  of  cactus. 

No  one  lays  a  hand  on  Shelley  Winters.  When  she  acts  up 
people  run  for  cover,  or  stand  behind  a  fence  and  make 
faces,  or  get  a  big  hate  on  her  that  expresses  itself  in  unpleasant 
language.  Her  enemies  like  to  discuss  her  fighting  ability 
and  they've  concluded  that  when  Shelley  winds  up  to 
pitch  a  mood  she  deserves  some  sort  of  citation  for  the  sheer  sweeping 
grandeur  of  it. 

Not  too  long  ago,  a  story  circulated  about  her  that  shocked  even 
HoUyTvood,  and  went  like  this:  Shelley  Winters  cast  a  disgusted  eye  on 
one  of  the  Frenchie  sets  and  announced  flatly,  "It  stinks." 

Director  Louis  King  patiently  explained  that  the  doorway 
through  which  she  was  to  walk  was  part  of  a  permanent  set  and  could 
not  be  torn  down  or  rebuilt,  even  to  agree  to  the  taste  of  the  biggest  money- 
making  star  on  the  lot. 

Shelley  was  said  to  remark  that  King  would  be  well-advised 
to  rearrange  the  set-up  so  that  her  "good  side"  could  be  recorded. 
Otherwise  she  might  lose  her  patience  and  tear  the  whole  set 
down  personally,  flat  by  flat. 

As  the  discussion  continued  in  this  light  vein,  producer  Michael 
Kraike  arrived  on  the  scene  intent  on  pacifying  his  star. 

"This  is  a  lousy  picture,"  Shelley  is  quoted  as  saying  to  him.  "It  is  also 
a  lousy  script,  and  the  least  you  can  do  is  to  make  me  look  good." 

Before  Kraike's  placating  eyes,  Shelley  is  said  to  have  floiinced  off 
the  set,  leaped  into  her  car  and  headed  for  the  front  office  of  Uni- 
versal-International obviously  intent  on  {Continued  on  page  64) 


55 


In  recent  months  the  Chandler  marriage  has  been  a  bit  Jeff  looks  as  if  wild  horses  couldn't  move  him,  but  two-year- 
unsteady;  _  but  on  location  in  beautiful  Hawaii  for  Bird  old  Dana  can  bring  all  six-feet-four  of  him  to  his  knees.  Jeff 
of  Paradise  all  was  going  well  between  Jeff  and  Marjorie.      acts  both  "He-Man"  movie  parts,  and  mousy  radio  characters. 


Chandler's  a  man  of  steel, 

all  right.  But  a  cute  smile  from 
his  babies  can  melt  him  in  a  minute. 

BY  JANE  WILKIE 


IRON  MAN? 


■  Jeff  Chandler  and  his  wife  were  sunning  on  the  beach 
one  day  last  year  when  they  were  approached  by  a  breath- 
less teen-ager.  She  stood  for  a  moment,  looking  up  and 
down  the  length  of  Jeff's  tall  form. 

"You  are  Jeff  Chandler,  aren't  you?"  she  asked. 

"Yep,"  he  said. 

"That's  wonderful,"  sighed  the  girl.  "Mr.  Chandler, 
you  can  settle  an  argument  for  me.  My  friend  says  you 
play  that  mousy  Mr.  Boynton  on  the  radio.  You  know — 
that  awful  little  man  who  doesn't  even  know  a  girl  when 
he  sees  one." 

Jeff  sniiled.  "But  I  do  play  Mr.  Boynton." 

The  girl's  face  crumpled.  "Oh,  Mr.  Chandler!"  she 
wailed.  "You  couldn't!  I've  always  thought  you  were  so 
strong — such  a  tower  of  strength!" 


When  she  had  left  them,  Jeff  looked  at  his  wife  and 
grinned,  "Didn't  know  you  were  married  to  a  tower  of 
strength,  did  you?"  he  asked.  "A  man  of  iron?" 

Marge  laughed.  "I'll  have  to  admit  it's  a  good  descrip- 
tion. But  don't  forget — you're  that  mousy  Mr.  Boynton, 
too!" 

Actually,  Jeff  is  a  blend  of  both.  He's  a  man  of  iron 
in  a  very  quiet  way.  When  he's  with  his  baby  daughters, 
the  iron  in  him  can  easily  be  mistaken  for  putty.  On 
screen,  though,  his  strength  comes  through  with  such  mute 
force  that  the  women  in  the  audience  practically  rise  from 
their  seats  to  greet  it.  Those  who've  seen  him  in  Smug- 
gler's Island,  Bird  of  Paradise  or  as  the  Apache  chief,  Co- 
chise, in  Broken  Arrow  have  left  the  theater  feeling  sure 
that  they  have  just  met  a  real  (Continued  on  page  95) 


I 


57 


Reagan  never  shouts  from  rooftops  ...  he  keeps 

It  comes  up  love 


mt  of  the  columns 


but  one  look  at  him  and  Nancy  Davis  gives  the  story  away. 


No  matter  how  you  look  at  it,  Ronald 
leagan,  the  shy,  quiet  executive-type  actor 
|ust  has  to  be  in  love  with  Nancy  Davis. 
Mve  will  get  you  10  anywhere  in  Holly- 
vood  that  wedding  bells  will  ring  for  them 
aefore  many  more  months  have  passed. 

Nobody — especially  Ronald  Reagan — will 
forget  the  two  year  parade  of  newspaper 
l^and  magazine  stories  that  had  him  eating 


his  heart  out  for  Jane  Wyman;  or  the  bull 
dog  tenacity  with  which  certain  reporters 
stuck  to  that  line  long  after  Ronnie  had 
passed  the  crisis  and  was  having  himself  a 
time  as  a  reconverted  bachelor. 

The  trouble  with  most  artists  of  the  press 
is  that  they  don't  really  know  Ronald 
Reagan — which  is  probably  why  they  can't 
picture  a  copy  of  his  marriage  license  to 


Nancy  Davis  hanging  above  his  fireplace. 

A  fairly  good  indication  of  the  pixie  and 
stubborn  nature  of  Ronald  Reagan  is  dis- 
played in  an  incident  that  happened  almost 
10  years  ago,  shortly  after  he'd  come  to 
Hollywood  to  be  an  actor.  Reagan  had  been 
a  sports  announcer  in  the  middle  west,  a 
real  whiz  at  fast  chatter  about  football.  He 
was  generally  an  {Continued  on  page  83) 


59 


This  is  the  last  of  two  articles 

about  the  man  who  made 

a  mountain  out  of 

showbusines^.    In  20  years 

he  earned  the  title 

Mr.  Music,  but  success 

never  threw  him. 

He  takes  it  with 

a  casual  grin  and 

he  uses  it  well.  But 

even  today,  he  calls  it  luck; 

he's  still  siu-prised 

by  his  great  good  fortune. 

BY  TOM  CARLILE 


■  "The  amazing  thing  about  Bing  Crosby,"  one  of  his  long-time 
friends  recently  said,  "is  not  that  he  has  sold  more  phonograph 
records  than  anyone  else,  nor  that  he  has  been  a  top  box-office  star 
for  years,  nor  even  that  he  has  amassed  one  of  Hollywood's 
greatest  personal  fortunes.  The  really  amazing  thing  is  that  Bing 
has  done  it  all  in  a  light-hearted  way.  His  stor>'  of  success  is 
almost  entirely  devoid  of  tense  moments." 

From  the  ver>^  outset  of  his  career,  Bing  has  accepted  his 
enormous  public  acclaim  with  considerable  surprise.  He  has  never 
been  heard  to  say  that  he  was  much  of  a  singer,  and  although  he 
won  an  Oscar  for  Going  My  Way,  he  habitually  minimizes  his 
acting  ability.  In  Januar>-.  1943,  when  his  Toluca  Lake  place 
burned  down,  and  the  loss  of  his  enormous  record  collection  was 
widely  pubhcized,  many  fans,  assuming  that  it  contained  all  of  his 
old  records,  immediately  sent  him  replacements  from  their  own 
collections.  Most  of  them  were  discs  which  Bing  had  never  owned 
before. 

The  large  staff  at  the  Crosby  Building  on  Sunset  Boulevard  has 
been  unable  to  keep  his  press  cHppings  pasted  up  currently.  Yet 
it  is  doubtful  that  Bing,  a  voluminous  reader,  would  even  bother 
to  read  a  stor>'  about  himself.  To  this  day.  he  fails  to  understand 
why  people  are  interested  in  the  normal  and  ordinarv'  details  of  his 
personal  life,  which  already  have  been  extensively  documented  by 
five  biographers,  including  his  brother,  Ted.  According  to  brother 
Larry,  Bing  has  always  had  a  yen  to  write.  "But,"  says  Larr\-,  "if 
he  ever  does  get  around  to  his  autobiography,  he  will  insist  that  it 
stand  up  on  its  own  merits  as  a  job  of  writing  and  not  go  out  as 
just  another  rehash  of  his  life.  Why.  we've  had  dozens  of  offers  for 
Bing  to  sign  a  daily  column  written  by  a  ghost  writer,  but  he'll 
have  none  of  it.  Someday,  he  wants  to  do  it  himself." 

Bing  has  an  almost  instinctive  hatred  of  pretense  and  ostentation 
and  is  inclined  to  be  abrupt  with  people  who  give  him  a  smoochy 
buildup.  In  contrast  to  his  flamboyant  (Continued  on  page  80) 


Bing  loves  to  fish  at  his  Hayden  Lake, 
Idaho  lodge  where  he  gives  the  boys 
a  vacation  after  summer  ranch  chores. 


Nevada  ranchers  ore  more  apt  to  want  Bir.a's  cc:n.jn 
on  cattle-raising  than  his  autograph.  His  20,000  acre 
Elko  ranch  is  a  serious  business  to  Bing  and  the  boys. 


The  Crosby  boys  are  crazy  about  sports. 
They  hove  a  softball  team  of  their  own, 
take  golf  lessons,  play  football  like  pros. 


61 


5 


TO  EACM  OWN 


God  exists  for  me 

in  the  people  He  has  created. 

So  I  place  my  faith 

in  people;  and  pay 

homage  to  Him  hy  playing 

square  with  them. 


No.        tn  a  series: 

HOW  THE  STARS  FOUND  FAITH 


■  Sometimes  I  think  that  the  best 

part  of  my  life  was  my  childhood.  It  was 

a  difficult  period  but  a  most  colorful 

one.  I  was  wild  and  full  of  a  certain  kind  of 

excitement.  My  youth  had  elements 

of  struggle  and  conflict  in  it,  but  out  of  those 

conflicts  came  a  certain  philosophy. 

I  was  a  rebellious  child.  My  father, 
a  cantor,  was  a  very  religious  man 
who  tried  to  get  me  to  beheve  in  orthodox 
reUgion  as  much  as  he  did.  Though 
I  am  sentimental  about  many  of  the 
traditions  and  songs  in  my  childhood, 
and  though  they  still  evoke  many  nostalgic 
memories,  I  don't  beheve  in  all  the  rituals 
which  meant  so  much  to  my  father. 

Even  the  event  which  is  supposed  to  be 
so  outstanding  in  a  small  boy's  life — the 
Bar  Mitzvah  or  confirmation — is  remembered 
hy  me  chiefly  as  the  occasion  when  I  needed 
a  white  shirt,  and  had  to  borrow  one  from 
a  neighbor.  A  boy's  Bar  Mitzvah  has 
reUgious  significance,  but  I  was  too  young 
to  be  impressed  by  that  then. 

In  time,  however,  I  did  grope  my  way  toward 
a  religion  in  which  I  myself  could  beheve. 

I  conceive  of  God  as  being  a  Supreme  Force. 
I  think  we  hear  the  voice  of  God  in  the 
thunder  and  the  lightning;  we  see  Him  in  the 
majesty  of  the  mountains,  in  the  oceans, 
in  the  mathematical  precision  with  which  the 
planets  move,  and  in  the  hearts  of  men 
who  on  the  surface  seem  ordinary.  John  Hersey 
wrote  of  such  a  man  in  "The  Wall." 
This  man,  Berson,  seemed  to  have  no  specific 
talent  for  living  or  dying,  but 
when  put  in  a  particular  situation,  he  faced 
that  situation  with  great  adaptabihty. 

Hersey  said  in  this  book  that  people  are 
only  strong  when  they  have  faith  in 
themselves  as  people — and  that  is 
part  of  my  philosophy,  too. 

I  place  my  faith  in  certain  kinds  of 
people  whom  I  admire  and  respect 
a  great  deal.  Mostly  they're  ordinary  people 
— ^not  necessarily  either  poor  or  rich — and 
it  makes  no  difference  whether  or  not  they 
are  talented.  But  whatever  their  lot,  they 
face  the  reahty  of  their  particular  circumstances 
with  courage.  They  value  honesty. 

Some  of  them  go  to  a  place  of  worship 
regularly.  Others  never  go.  But  there 
is  a  divine  spark  of  {Continued  on  page  94) 


62 


says  'Donna 


"My  beauty  bath  leaves  my  skin 
so  smooth,  so  fragrant" 

"This  big  bath  size  Lux  Toilet  Soap 
is  really  luxurious,"  says  charming 
Donna  Reed.  "It  gives  such  a  refresh- 
ing beauty  bath — leaves  my  skin  feel- 
ing so  smooth,  perfumed  with  a  delicate 
flowerhke  fragrance!" 

Ask  for  Hollywood's  own  beauty 
soap  in  the  big  new  bath  size.  You'll 
love  this  satin-smooth  white  cake.  It 
will  make  your  daily  beauty  bath  a 
joy!  Such  rich  abundant  lather,  such 
exquisite  perfume! 

9  out  of  10  Screen  Stars 
use  Lux  Toilet  Soap 


A  Sidney  Buchman  Production 

A  COLUMBIA  PICTURE 


.oinance  m 
wiffrife 

mm 


Use  this  superb  imported  talc  lavishly, 
fojr  Mavis  smooths  every  inch  of  you  .  .  .  cools 
and  soothes  .  .  .  absorbs  every 
trace  of  moisture  .  . . 
.-^prevents  chafing. 
Precious  daintiness 
is  yours— a/woys 
—thanks  to  Mavis. 


Two  hearts  dance  to  the  romantic  tempo  of 
■Blue  Waltz.  This  lilting,  lingering  perfume  touches  you 
with  magic.  Use  it  lavishly— make  it  your  very  own !  25^ 

BLUE  WALTZ 


but  when  she's  bad 


{Continued  from  page  55)  pressing  her 
point. 

Kraike  is  said  to  have  reached  for  a 
phone,  contacted  the  studio  nurse  and 
ordered  her  to  meet  Shelley  with  a 
sedative. 

There  are  those  who  claim  to  be  wit- 
nesses to  the  next  scene  wherein  Shelley 
denounced  all  sedatives,  and  hysterically 
threatened  to  harm  the  woman  in  white! 

Even  by  Hollywood  standards,  this  was 
a  temperamental  wing-ding  for  the  books! 
The  story  grew  with  the  telling,  until 
Shelley  Winters  sounded  more  like  Dracu- 
la's  daughter  than  the  straightforward 
person  she  is. 

The  whole  story,  of  course,  never 
reached  the  right  people.  If  it  had,  it's 
doubtful  that  the  truth  would  have 
changed  the  opinions  which  had  already 
been  formed.  But  it  must  be  stated  here 
that  not  only  did  Shelley  offer  a  plausible 
explanation  of  the  episode,  but  her 
producer  and  her  co-star  rushed  to  her 
rescue. 

Shelley  herself  did  not  haul  out  the 
whitewash — that  isn't  her  way.  She 
simply  stated  the  facts.  "So  I  had  a  fight 
with  my  director,"  she  said  with  char- 
acteristic blimtness.  "Let's  put  it  this 
way.  Someone  tried  to  figure  out  how 
they  could  get  the  picture  on  the  front 
page;  so  they  took  a  little  incident  cind 
blew  it  up  to  such  proportions  that  it 
did  hit  the  front  page.  The  picture  is  in 
color,  and  I  wanted  to  look  my  best,  so  we 
had  an  argiiment.  I  was  only  absent  from 
the  set  a  half  hour!" 

Michael  Kraike  was  direct.  "Shelley  is 
okay  with  me,"  he  said,  "and  I  think  it  is 
a  shame  that  every  little  thing  she  does 
is  magnified." 

Her  co-star,  Joel  McCrea,  who  was 
not  involved,  felt  impelled  to  hone  the 
rough  comers  from  the  story.  His  ex- 
planation was  objective  and  sound. 
"Shelley's  been  fighting  the  wrong  way 
for  the  right  things,"  he  stated.  "Actually, 
she  is  the  most  vmusual  character  I've  seen. 
She  really  works  hard.  I  like  her.  The 
trouble  with  Shelley  is  that  she  has  an 
inarticulate  approach.  She  smells  a  mouse 
and  knows  something  is  wrong.  She  just 
can't  put  her  finger  on  it.  But  she's  not 
temperamental ! ' ' 

Tt  has  been  said  that  the  merest  mention 
-•-  of  her  name  in  Hollywood  is  enough  to 
bring  forth  loud  vocal  discord,  equally 
divided  between  cat  calls  and  wolf  whis- 
tles. Shelley  just  naturally  affects  people 
that  way:  hot  or  cold. 

While  her  detractors  are  quick  to  circu- 
late stories  at  her  expense,  they  are  not  so 
eager  to  pass  along  Shelley's  version  of 
these  blown-up  incidents. 

It  began  as  far  back  as  A  Double  Life, 
when  almost  from  the  first,  her  critics 
said,  Shelley  began  changing  the  dialogue 
to  suit  her  moods.  Shortly  after  the  first 
"re-written"  rushes  were  shown,  Shelley 
received  a  note  from  A  Double  Life's 
scrivener,  Garson  Kanin.  "Shelley,  dear," 
it  went,  "I  know  you've  written  many  dis- 
tinguished plays.  But  do  you  mind  reading 
my  lines  as  I  wrote  them  for  this  one?" 

"That  cured  me,"  was  Shelley's  unpubli- 
cized  comment.  "Since  then,  I've  never 
tried  to  improve  my  lines!" 

Shelley's  critics  had  a  field  day  during 
production  of  South  Sea  Sinner.  On  this 
little  epic  they  charged  their  "favorite" 
actress  with  (a)  having  had  a  small  boy 
removed  from  the  set  because  he  unnerved 
her,  (b)  refusing  to  emote  in  front  of 
actress  Helena  Carter,  for  temperamental 
reasons  and,  (c)  provoking  violent  argu- 
ments with  director  Bruce  "Lucky"  Himi- 
berstone,  who  balked  at  her  suggestions. 


At  this  point  it  became  apparent  that 
Shelley's  patience  was  wearing  a  bit  thin. 
Her  self-defense  of  the  triple-barrelled 
charge  was  almost  laboriously  detailed. 
"I'd  made  three  pictures  in  five  months,"  , 
she  stated.  "I  was  nervous  and  tired.  On 
the  first  day  of  the  picture  my  father  had  a  ' 
serious  operation  and^I  was  worried  about ! 
him.  My  acting  is  mostly  spontaneous,  and 
I  was  not  used  to  Bruce  Humberstone's 
close  direction  in  song  and  dance  ntimbers. 
I  felt  the  naturalness  was  going  out  of  my  j 
scenes,  and  told  him  so.  But  we  came  to  a 
complete  understanding  on  that  score.  On 
the  second  day  of  work  I  spotted  a  small 
boy  standing  on  the  set  snapping  pictures 
of  me  while  I  went  through  my  dance 
gyrations.  I  felt  self-conscious  in  front  of 
a  kid,  and  asked  the  assistant  director  toi 
move  him  to  a  spot  where  I  couldn't  see 
him.  Helena  Carter  and  I  have  never  had 
the  slightest  difference.  But  somebody  told 
her  to  step  behind  a  backdrop  while  I  did 
a  nimiber,  lest  her  presence  make  me 
nervous.  Maybe  it  was  just  a  gag,  but  I 
had  nothing  to  do  with  it.  I'm  anxious 
not  to  give  the  impression  of  being  a  trou- 
ble-maker. I'm  only  concerned  with  do- 
ing the  best  job  I  can." 


If  a  man  does  something  silly,  people  say 
"Isn't  he  silly?"  But  if  a  woman  does  some- 
thing silly,  people  say  "Aren't  women 
silly?" — Doris  Day  quoted  by  Sidney 
Skolsky  in  The  New  York  Post. 


iVIoT  long  after  this  savory  morsel  hac 
-I  '  been  digested  (in  most  cases  vdthoul 
benefit  of  the  above  qualifications),  th€ 
newspapers  began  hinting  of  trouble  or 
the  set  of  He  Ran  All  The  Way,  the  John 
Garfield  starrer  for  which  Shelley  had  beer 
borrowed  from  her  home  lot.  It  was  onlj 
a  matter  of  a  few  days  before  the  column 
ists  lifted  the  soft  pedal  on  the  stories  anc 
began  talking  openly  about  the  "Garfield 
Winters  feud."  "Shelley  Winters  has  done 
it  again,"  was  the  tenor  of  these  tales 
"Winters'  temperament  throws  monkej 
wrench  into  Garfield  production,"  was  th< 
secondary  theme. 

Garfield  himself  sloughed  off  the  "to-do' 
with,  "All  the  troubles  are  ironed  out.  W< 
finally  convinced  Shelley  that  she  couldn' 
produce  this  picture,  like  she  tries  to  d( 
at  Universal- International." 

But  injustice  had  been  done — again 
Everyone  assvmied  that  Shelley  had  beei 
completely  at  fault.  Nobody  took  th< 
trouble  to  check  her  side  of  the  story 
which,  incidentally,  was  a  completely  dif- 
ferent version  from  the  one  which  ha( 
been  common  gossip  for  so  many  weeks 

Shelley  admits  she'd  been  eager  to  di 
He  Ran  All  The  Way  from  the  momen 
she'd  first  read  the  script.  "It  was  a  ver; 
good  script,"  a  close  friend  of  hers  sai( 
recently,  "with  a  warm,  sympathetic  roL 
in  it  for  Shelley.  The  ending  offered  he 
the  biggest,  guttiest  scene  she'd  ever  had 

Shelley  threw  herself  into  the  struggL 
to  lose  weight  for  the  part.  She  had  daS^ 
workouts  at  a  Beverly  Hills  gym,  and  stucl 
doggedly  to  a  rigid  diet  in  order  to  pare  of 
the  unwanted  poundage.  The  girl  win 
reported  to  work  was  a  new  person;  en 
thusiastic,  full  of  admiration  and  friendli- 
ness for  cast  and  crew.  As  production  go 
xmder  way,  everyone  connected  with  th' 
picture  was  outspoken  in  praise  of  hei 

Then,  shortly  before  shooting  was  sched 
uled  for  her  "big  scene,"  Shelley  was  toli 
that  the  end  of  the  script  had  been  re 
written.  She  was  naturally  upset,  xmder; 
standably  angry,  until  one  of  the  executive 
took  time  to  explain,  "We  suddenly  real 
ized  that  we  had  to  strengthen  the  storj 
so  we  re-wrote  it  overnight!" 

Shelley  thought  i^his  over.  Then,  beini 
a  very  direct  person,  she  made  tracks  fai 


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and 


the  sound  stage  v/hich  ho\ased  the  set  for 
the  last  scene.  She  stopped  cold  when  she 
saw  the  staircase.  It  had  not  been  a  part 
of  the  set  as  described  in  the  original 
script.  She  tested  the  steps  a  few  times, 
tiien  shook  the  guide  rail. 
"Who  are  they  trying  to  kid?"  she  said. 
That  stairway  wasn't  put  up  at  the  last 
minute,  it's  much  too  sturdy  for  thati 
Those  so-and-so's  never  intended  me  to 
have  that  big  scene!  ' 

'T'here  are  those  who  wonder  if  Shelley 
J-  was  referring  to  the  trouble  on  He  Ran 
All  The  Way,  when  she  made  this  state- 
ment: "You  know,  it's  a  funny  thing  about 
Hollywood — if  you  raise  the  roof  and  hol- 
ler like  crazy  and  you  are  wrong,  then 
everybody  tolerates  you.  They  pat  you  on 
the  head  and  thank  you  for  your  sugges- 
tions about  how  to  play  a  role.  But  if  you 
scream  about  something  and  you  are  right 
— brother,  that's  death!" 

Well,  that  was  about  the  last  of  the  wild 
whispers  about  the  Winters  temperament. 
But  Shelley's  critics  haven't  been  idle. 
They've  rooted  up  something  else  to  poke 
fun  at — her  alleged  decision  to  chuck  sex 
and  become  a  great  dramatic  actress. 

Shelley  is  too  canny  a  business  woman 
to  drop  the  sex  attraction  entirely.  Her 
pictures  have  made  lots  of  money.  If  she 
wants  to  combine  drama  and  sex  in  her 
career,  she  won't  be  the  first  actress  in 
Hollywood  to  have  tried.  And  she  has  an 
incentive  in  the  frank  opinion  of  Charles 
Laughton,  in  whose  Shakespeare  Group 
she  has  been  a  very  active  participant. 
Laughton  said  of  her,  "SheUey  could  be- 
come one  of  the  finest  Shakespearian 
actresses  in  pictures." 

SheUey  puts  her  aspirations  this  way: 
"I'm  at  six^  and  sevens  trying  to  figure 
out  whether  I  v/ant  to  be  an  actress  or  a 
great  success.  Is  it  possible  for  a  girl  to 
be  Betty  Grable  in  one  pictiire,  and  Sarah 
Bernhardt  in  another?" 

Even  if  SheUey  were  triplets,  she 
couldn't  possibly  live  up  to  the  fiendish 
reputation  her  critics  have  fashioned  for 
her.  Any  failings  she  may  have,  accord- 
ing to  those  who  know  her  best — ^the 
friends  who  imderstand  her — are  directly 
traceable  to  her  great  emotional  insecurity. 

It  began  back  on  Broadway  when  she 
needed  what  any  aspiring  yoimg  actress 
needs:  encouragement,  approval,  a  pat  on 
the  back.  AU  SheUey  ever  received  was 
criticism.  She  was  openly  referred  to  as, 
"that  aggressive  little  blonde  without 
talent." 

Hollywood  continued  the  negative  ap- 
proach. Columbia  Studios  gave  her  a 
transient  feeling  of  confidence  by  letting 
her  high-kick  in  the  chorus  of  a  few  musi- 
cals. Then  they  turned  right  aroimd  and 
slapped  her  down  again  with  an  o£E-hand 
comment:  '"You  should  have  your  teeth 
braced,  your  nose  bobbed,  and  your  hair- 
line raised." 

Twentieth  Century-Fox  brushed  off  a 
test  she  made  for  them  with,  "You're  hope- 
less. Your  voice  is  all  wrong  and  you  have 
three  left  feet." 

At  MGM  they  made  her  up  to  look 
like  LuciUe  Ball  and  gasped,  over  her  pro-" 
tests,  "Well,  you  don't  want  to  look  like 
you,  do  you?" 

Some  say  SheEey's  lost  her  perspective, 
but  this  couldn't  possibly  happen  to  a  girl 
who  takes  time  out  to  kid  herself  publicly. 
A  few  months  back  the  HoUywood  Press 
Photographers  held  their  annual  shindig, 
to  which  guests  were  asked  to  come 
dressed  as  their  suppressed  desires.  The 
girl  who  is  supposed  to  be  "tempera- 
mental," "difficult,"  "arty,''  and  "self- 
engrossed,"  walked  in  wearing  the  wings 
and  halo  of  the  angel  she'd  like  to  be. 

Even  her  critics  had  to  smile  and  say, 
"You  can't  kill  a  girl  for  trying!" 
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-'.oose  p?  "-ot  P  :  ''''""nee 


be  fashion 
righteous  •  •  • 
dollar 
conscious 

You  can  buy  such  flattering 
spring  and  summer  clothes — 
at   streamlined   prices,  too. 


phyllis  kirk 
likes  gay 
separates 

■  These  separates  by  Gaytogs  that 
"mix"  or  "match"  are  practically  a 
spring  and  summer  wardrobe  in  them- 
selves, for  all  of  them  are  interchange- 
able— and  the  colors  are  co-ordinated 
so  that  you  can  "mix"  or  "match"  as 
you  choose.  Phyllis  Kirk,  currently  to 
be  seen  in  MGM's  Three  Guys  Named- 
Mike,  chooses  trim  pedal  pushers 
(that  have  one  front  pocket)  and  a 
sleeveless  tailored  shirt  (first  photo 
on  right).  Phyllis  next  combines  a 
skirt  (that  has  two  flap  pockets  and 
an  inverted  front  pleat),  camisole  top, 
and  fly-a-way  jacket  (far  right).  The 
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The  fabric  is  washable  "Ruffle"  pre- 
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ironing.  It  is  sturdy  and  strong  as 
denim,  but  cooler  and  softer — it  is  a 
beautiful  fabric  and  gives  long  wear. 
Sizes  10-18.  Gaytogs  separates  can  be 
purchased  as  a  complete  ensemble  or 
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Fly-a-way  Jacket  $2.99,  Camisole 
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like  the  pedal  pushers — not  shown  in 
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MAGIC  WARDR 


Phyllis  Kirk,  star  of  the  opening  fashion 
page,  dresses  up  in  a  two  piece  sun  dress  by 
Lenny  Frocks  that  can  be  worn  for 
street,  business  or  dates  with  equal  confidence 
Striking  white  nailheaded  Bonaz  embroidery' 
encircles  the  neckline  and  pockets  of  the 
dress  and  the  lapels  of  the  jacket.  Styled  of 
Cohama's  all  rayon  li?ien  type  "Featherlin" 
this  dress  is  flatteringly  worn  with  or 
without  the  jacket  shown  below.  Colors: 
pink,  navy,  lilac,  aqua.  Sizes  12-20.  $10.99. 
Lenny  Frocks.  Phyllis  Kirk  was  last 
seen  in  Mrs.  O'Malley  and  Mr.  Malone, 
an  MGM  production. 


Janice  Rule,  currently  appearing  in  the  Warner  Bros, 
production  Goodbye,  My  Fancy,  wears  two  Betty  Co-ed 
frocks  that  are  as  dashing  as  their  names.  Above  Janice 
models  Paris  Preview — a  frock  of  fine  rayon  linen 
with  a  trim  of  pure  silk  organza  print.  You'll  be  the 
pride  of  the  party  in  this  costume  which  can  be  selected 
in  aqua,  lilac  or  white  with  exquisite  prints  to  match. 
Sizes  10-18  and  9-17.  $14.99,  postpaid.  Betty  Co-ed. 


Mexican  Hohday  is  the  name  of  this  glamorous,  gayly 
colored  sun  fashion  with  matching  stole  that  is  also 
modeled  by  Janice  Rule.  Of  silky  sanforized  cotton 
broadcloth,  it  is  styled  with  a  boned  bodice  and  a  full 
gathered  skirt.  A  truly  exciting  sun  fashion  that 
can  be  worn  on  summer  evening  dates  as  well. 
Colors :  Lime  or  aqua  background  with  contrasting  print. 
Sizes  10-18  and  9-17.  $10.99,  postpaid.  Betty  Co-ed. 


THESE  DRESSES  CAN  BE  ORDERED  BY  MAIL,  POSTPAID,  FROM  BETTY  CO-ED 
OF  HOLLYWOOD,   6402    HOLLYWOOD  BLVD.,   HOLLYWOOD,  CALIFORNIA 


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SURPRISE 


SHOES 

at  ^3»» 


You  will  step  smartly  and  brightly  into 
the  sunny  months  ahead  when  you  wear 
these  imported  linen  wedgies.  HoneydebsVtJ 
introduces  these  seven  new  styles  in  a 
galaxy  of  exciting  colors  at  a  price  you'll  love 
as  much  as  the  shoes. 


Polly  Bergen,  currently  appearing  in  Paramount's 
Warpath,  admires  one  of  the  Honeydebs  wedgies 
which  are  just  ideal  for  street  as  well  as  for  casual 
and  vacation  wear — ^truly  "all-purpose"  shoes. 
In  Hollywood  the  stars  agree  that  "linen  is  the 
thing"  for  spring  and  summer  shoes  and  they  wear 
colored  linen  shoes  to  harmonize  or  match  their 
costumes.  At  the  amazing  price  of  $3.99  you  can 
afford  to  own  several  pair  of  these  Honeydebs 
shoes  which  offer  not  only  style,  exciting  colors 
and  imported  linen  but  fine  workmanship 
as  well  (see  color  and  sizes  on  opposite  page). 


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Dress  by  Jonathan  Logan 


Sa>idal-foot  nylons  in  the  ne7v  color  "Cheesecake"  by  Gotham  Gold  Stripe 


1.  RONNIE— Sabot  strap  sling 

pump  streamlined  for  comfort  and  flatter>'. 

2,  TEDDY— Sling  pump  with  a  wide  band  of  milan 
straw  contrast  trim  on  the  vamp. 

Expressly  designed  to  dramatize  the  foot. 


6.  BUTTONS— Wrap-a-around  anklet 
quarter  sandal  with  button  ornament — 
gay  and  attractive. 

7.  ELLEN — An  "off  side"  side-swept  quarter  sandal 
cleverly  designed  to  enhance  your  foot  appearance. 


3.  PATTY— Cross  wrap  "sweetheart-throat" 
sling  pump.  This  shoe  features  comfort  plus  style. 

4.  JILL — ^Two-strap  sabot  sling  pump — a 
classic  favorite  beautifully  detailed. 

5.  JANE — Ankle  strap  quarter  sandal  with 
three  strand  contrast  milan  straw  trim 

on  vamp — glamorous  and  colorful. 


These  Honeydebs  shoes  all  have  medium  (14/8)  Scoop 
Wedge  heels.  The  linings  have  been  scientifically 
treated  so  that  they  are  germ,  odor  and  perspiration 
resistant.  Sizes:  5J4  to  10  narrow  and  4  to  10 
medium  widths.  All  are  available  in :  Burnt  Orange, 
Canary  Yellow,  African  Violet,  Wildfire 
Red,  Dramatic  Navy,  Charcoal  Black,  Spring 
Green,  Lily  White,  Enchanting  Mocha,  Natural 
Wheat,  Burnt  Toast,  Wheat-Toast  Combination. 


AT  FINE  STORES  EVERYWHERE.  FOR  STORE  NEAREST  YOU  WRITE 
HONEYBUGS,  INC.,  47  W.  34TH  STREET,  NEW  YORK  CITY.  N.  Y. 


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FLATTERING  FASHIONS  k 


Above  Janis  Carter,  now  in  RKO's  My  Forbidden  Past,  shows  us 

a  glamorous  Sea  Nymph  one  piece  bathing  suit  of  slipper  satin  with  a  zipper 

front  closing  self-locking — so  easy  to  put  on,  so  chic  to  wear. 

The  tucked  side  pockets  are  news  in  bathing  suits.  Black,,  white,  navy, 

aquamarine,  blush,  berry,  mint,  lemon.  Sizes  32-38.  About  $13. 

On  the  right  Janis  poses  in  a  two  piece  model  of  faille. 

The  pointed  detail   of  the  belt-top  vagabond  shorts  is  repeated  in  the  top 

of  the  bra  which  may  be  worn  with  or  without  the  halter  strap. 

Mint,  berry,  lemon,  blush,  aquamarine,  black,  navy.  Sizes  32-38;  Junior 

Sizes  9,  11,  13,  IS.  About  $11.  By  Sea  Nymph.  Janis  is 

also  appearing  in  RKO's  Flying  Leathernecks. 


THESE  BATHING  SUITS  CAN  BE  BOUGHT  IN  PERSON  OR 
ORDERED  BY  MAIL  FROM  ARNOLD  CONSTABLE,  NEW  YORK, 
N.  Y.  AND  THE  JOHN  SHILLITO  CO.,  CINCINNATI,  OHIO. 


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Fifli  and  beach  ball  courtesy  Abercrombie  and  Fitch,  N.  Y. 


Above  Debbie  Reynolds,  who  appears 
in  MGM's  Mr.  Imperium,  models  a 
bathing  costume  that  features  cotton  fish 
net — a  gay  new  note  in  bathing  apparel 
by  Winkies  of  L.  I.  The  white  fish  net 
bathing  suit  is  made  over  colored  rayon 
jersey  with  polka  dot  trim  edgings 
and  halter.  You  can  see  Debbie's  hand 
through  the  large  pocket  on  the  fish  net 
jacket  which  also  has  the  polka  dot  trim. 

On  the  left  Debbie  shows  the  bathing 
suit  without  the  jacket  so  you  can  more 
clearly  see  the  flattering  fit,  the  semi- 
draped  bodice  top  and  the  exact  detail 
of  the  polka  dot  trim.  The  suit  has  a  back 
zipper  closing.  Colors:  White  fish  net 
with  red,  navy,  green,  maize  polka  dot 
trim.  Sizes  32-38.  Bathing  suit  $8.99. 
Jacket  $5.99.  By  Winkies  of  L.  I. 

THIS  BATHING  SUIT  AND  JACKET  CAN  BE  BOUGHT 
IN  PERSON  OR  ORDERED  BY  MAIL  FROM 
THE  JOHN  SHILLITO  CO.,  CINCINNATI,  OHIO. 


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STAR 

SELECTED 
BEACHWEAR 


The  exotic  bathing  suit  and  striking  play  suit 
shown  on  this  page  are  chosen  from  a  large  group 
of  Gantner  of  California  beachwear  selected  by 
Hollywood  stars.  These  garments  are  designed  to 
fit  and  flatter  every  figure,  and  they  come  in  a 
gorgeous  selection  of  colors  and  fabrics.  Peggy 
Castle  (left)  playing  in  Universal-International's  Air 
Cadet,  is  ready  for  a  dip  in  "The  Frill  Faille" 
two  piece  bathing  suit  that  features  a  front 
zipper  on  the  shorts,  and  a  bra  top  that  can 
be  worn  strapless  if  you  choose.  Red,  green, 
pale  blue,  black.  Sizes  32-38.  $10.95. 


(On  the  right)  Joyce  Holden,  now  appearing  in 
Universal-International's  The  Iron  Man,  models 
a  "Star  Selected"  three-piece  play  suit  of  black 
denim  that  is  dramatically  contrasted  with  bright 
color.  The  snugly  fitted  waist-length  jacket  has 
short  sleeves,  and  the  trim  shorts  have  one  front 
pocket.  The  striped  bra  top  beneath  the  jacket  has  a 
contrast  halter  strap  and  top  edging  (as  shown  on 
the  shorts).-  The  bra  may  be  worn  with  or  without 
the  halter  strap.  Colors:  Strawberry  and  black,  hme 
and  black,  pale  blue  and  black.  Sizes  12-18.  $8.95. 
"Star  Selected"  Beachwear  by  Gantner  of  California. 


THE  SUITS  ON  THIS  PAGE  CAN  BE  BOUGHT 
IN  PERSON  OR  ORDERED  BY  MAIL  FROM  SAKS 
34th  STREET,  NEW  YORK,  N.  Y,  AND 
THE  HECHT  CO.,  WASHINGTON,  D.  C. 


take  your 
fashion  tips 
from 

Hollywood 


■  "The  Right  Look"  in  clothes  that 
is  always  so  very  important  to  the 
Hollywood  stars  is  just  as  important 
to  you — for  you  are  a  star  in  your 
own  world — ^be  it  home  or  business. 
"The  Right  Look"  in  clothes  goes  far 
toward  keeping,  or  getting,  yow  man. 

"The  Right  Look,"  of  course,  is 
more  than  the  new  look  in  clothes — 
for  "The  Right  Look"  can  never  be 
achieved  by  just  buying  new  clothes. 
You  must  select  those  new  clothes  in 
styles  and  colors  that  are  flattering  to 
you — that  is  the  Fashion  Righteous 
rule  in  Hollywood  fashion. 

The  Hollywood  stars  model  fash- 
ions for  you  (pages  67-74)  that  were 
chosen  because  of  their  flattering 
styles  and  colors  as  well  as  for  their 
fine  fabric  and  workmanship.  They 
were  chosen,  too,  because  they  repre- 
sent basic  clothes  from  which  to 
select  spring  and  summer  wardrobes. 

The  All  Occasion  Dresses  shown 
in  Modern  Screen  Fashions  were 
chosen  because  they  play  such  a 
magical  part  in  every  wardrobe — 
dresses  that  go  on  the  street,  as  well 
as  to  business ;  and  yet  will ,  double 
for  social  activities  are  practically  a 
must.  Of  course,  enough  cannot  be 
said  about  casual  separates — especial- 
ly when  made  of  a  fast  color  fabric 
which  requires  no  ironing. 

Colored  shoes  of  imported  linen 
that  match  or  contrast  your  frocks 
are  big  fashion  news. 

And  of  course,  take  special  time  to 
choose  your  bathing  suit  for  the 
Summer  of  1951 — the  styles  have 
never  been  so  glamorous. 

With  all  these  flattering  fashions 
from  which  to  choose  you'll  want  to 
start  today  to  dress  yourself  up,  in 
"The  Right  Look."  And— you'll  be 
Dollar  Conscious  of  the  amazingly 
low  prices  of  these  fine  selections. 
Turn  again  to  pages  67-74.  The  styles 
will  flatter  you — the  prices  your 
budget. 


kiss  tomorrow  hello 

(Contimied  from  parja  52)  why  it  scared 
me  so.  But  I  cried  and  my  father  wouldn't 
let  my  stepmother  turn  it  off.  He  said  I 
was  just  being  silly  and  I'd  have  to  listen 
to  get  over  it.  I  went  through  agonies  iintil 
I  discovered  what  I  could  do  by  taking 
my  bath  at  that  time.  By  pulling  the  plug, 
I  could  let  the  water  run  so  hard  and 
constantly  that  the  soimd  drowned  out 
the  radio.  The  hot  water  would  run  out 
just  about  the  time  the  program  was  over. 
■  So  there  I'd  sit  in  the  tub,  escaping  my 
fear.  That  kind  of  attitude  was  common 
among  parents  then  I  guess,  but  modem 
psychology  teaches  us  better  now." 

'y  hat's  as  close  as  John  will  come  to 
speaking  of  the  insecurities  of  which 
his  upbringing  was  composed.  Recently 
John's  good  friend,  Russ  Harlan,  intimated 
such  insecurity  when  he  told  Modern 
Screen  readers,  "Under  Dare's  gaiety  was 
a  deeper  and  stronger  toughness  than  I'd 
ever  encoimtered  before — a  good,  solid 
kind.  And  I  thought  to  myself,  'Why  not? 
He's  contributed  new  life  to  the  world.  He's 
part  of  a  real  family  at  last.' " 

Some  children  of  divorced  parents  ma- 
ture into  adulthood  and  find  in  their 
mate's  attitudes  the  leveling  off  of  those 
irmer  conflicts.  Patti,  a  child  of  White  Rus- 
sians, may  also  have  had  an  insecure  child- 
hood, although  she  rarely  mentions  the 
past.  If  so,  the  answer  to  why  a  home  is 
all  important  to  both  of  them  becomes 
quite  understandable 

"We  both  want  a  real  home,"  Patti  says 
eagerly.  "I  guess  I  do  in  partictdar.  Every- 
thing was  temporary  with  me  when  I  was 
growing  up.  I  was  born  several  years  after 
my  parents  had  to  flee  their  Georgian  home 
when  the  Communists  took  over.  Every- 
thing then,  of  course,  was  gone.  My  par- 
ents always  lived  temporarily,  waiting  for 
the  day  they  were  sure  would  come  when 
we'd  be  able  to  go  back  and  regain  all 
that  had  been  lost.  Wherever  we  went, 
mother  lugged  along  a  trunk  filled  with 
things  she  valued,  things  she  would  take 
back  with  her  when  we  regained  oiur  right- 
ful status.  The  trunk  really  was  just  full 
of  jimk,  good  only  for  memories.  My  father 
wasn't  like  that  exactly,  but  he'd  lived  so 
much  he  didn't  have  the  desire  to  buUd 
again.  Here  in  America  when  a  man  loses 
everything  he  has,  he  just  goes  to  work  to 
build  again,  to  replace  his  loss.  But  back 
there,  men  just  hoped  to  get  back  what 
had  been  taken  from  them.  The  Paris  I 
knew  was  full  of  such  people." 

So  John  and  Patti  are  two  people  who 
knew  that  the  best  thing  luck  and  hard 
work  could  bring  them  would  be  a  won- 
derful home.  And  luck  had  come.  Amaz- 
ing luck  for  John  Derek. 

It's  not  so  surprising  then  that  they've 
sunk  every  dime  of  their  past,  their  pres- 
ent, and  much  of  their  future  into  a  won- 
derful home.  A  home  they  woxildn't  put 
off  buying  until  times  were  more  certain. 

That's  why  John's  building  the  fences 
and  doing  the  new  brick  work  at  the  place 
himself.  He's  making  the  lamps,  too — 
interesting  ones.  He  and  Patti  foimd  an 
old  nickel-plated  milk  can  in  a  jxmk  shop 
for  $6.00.  A  bit  of  surreptitious  sandpaper- 
ing on  the  bottom  revealed  their  suspicions 
were  right — solid  copper  underneath.  They 
bought  it  and  peeled  off  the  nickel.  Then 
John,  with  one  of  those  electric  hand  rotary 
tools  witk  all  kind  of  attachments,  went  to 
work  and  made  a  replica  of  a  mUk-stool 
on  which  the  can  will  sit  to  form  a  charm- 
ing chair-side  lamp.  Odd  pitchers  are  put 
to  the  same  use.  Everything  of  this  sort 
must  be  something  they  can  restore  to  its 
former  beauty  or  enhance  with  their  own 
hard  work. 

Patti  outdid  almost  everyone  in  bargain- 


walk  into  it... 
button  once... 
wrap  and  tie 

It's  gay,  it's  new  — 
it's  the  plus-magic  to 

summer  scenes. 
Perfect  over  dress, 
skirt  or  playtogs,  the 

SHORTY  SWIRL  is  cast 

in  wonder  waffle-weave 
cotton*.  Lovely 
sun-ripened  colors, 
„^ white  pique  trim. 
10  to  18.  About  $8. 

LESS  THAN  2  »o  SHRINKAGE 


Other  SWIRLS  from  $6  to  $9. 
You'll  find  a  SWIRL  department  in  most  fine  stores. 

B.  ALTMAN  a  CO..  NEW  YORK.   N.  Y. 
BURDtNE  S.  MIAMI.'  f'toRlDA 
MARSHALL  FIELD  a  CO..  CHICAGO,  ILLINOIS 
STIX.  BAER  a  FULLER  CO..  ST.  LOUIS.  MISSOURI 

L.  NACHMAN  &  SON,  INC. 

1350  BROADWAY.  NEW  YORK  18,  N  Y 
818  S.   BROADWAY,   LOS  ANGELES  14.  CALIF.  " 


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fair  weather  friend. . . 
gingham  girl's 


For  playing,  for  looking . . . 
or  for  just  looking  pretty. 
Sunback  in  Sanforized 
two-tone  broadcloth  print. 
Sunset  pink  with  blue,  coral 
with  grey,  lilac  with 
chartreuse.  Sizes  10  to  20. 
About  $5 


at:  FAMOUS-BARR,  St.  Louis ;  ciMBELS,  New 
York;  hecht  co.,  IFashington,  D.  C;  may 
CO.,   Los   Angeles;    Sanger's,  Dallas; 

R.  H.WHITE, Boston,-  WIEBOLDT's,CAlC«go: 

or  write  gingham  girl,  1350  B'way,  N.  Y. 


hunting.  She  bought  muslin  sheets  at 
the  January  sales,  and  two  100%  wool 
blankets  for  $15. 

"They  had  some  wonderful  buys  on  per- 
cale sheets,"  she  said,  "but  I  had  to  watch 
the  pennies.  Til  get  those  later  on. 

"I  bought  one  copper-bottomed  pan," 
Patti  added.  "I  had  to  pay  a  little  over 
$6.00  for  it  and  it  still  hur\s\  The  rest  are 
just  the  cheapest  I  could  &id.  And  I  saw 
a  sale  on  imported  glasses  for  290  apiece. 
The  ad  warned  there  were  flaws  in  some. 
Well,  I  spent  five  hours  digging  out  the 
ones  without  a  single  flaw.  The  clerks 
thought  I  was  crazy! 

"One  store  where  I  went,  my  purchases 
totaled  more  than  I  had  anticipated  and  I 
didn't  have  enough  money  witii  me.  Nor 
did  I  have  a  checkbook  or  any  identifica- 
tion. I  was  wearing  an  old  trench  coat,  a 
blue  cap  of  the  sort  boys  wear  for  base- 
ball, a  clashing  scarf  and — well,  I  was 
dressed  for  rain  because  when  I  left  the 
house  it  looked  as  though  it  might.  The 
clerk  looked  even  more  skepticsd  when  I 
said  I  was  Mrs.  John  Derek.  Finally,  I  told 
him  to  hold  the  stuff  imtil  the  check  had 
cleared,  then  to  send  it  out.  Not  vmtil  I 
left  did  I  realize  I  had  carried  in  with  me 
a  new  movie  magazine  with  John's  and  my 
pictvires  in  it  which  should  have  been  fiine 
identification.  But  anyway,  by  the  time  I 
arrived  home  I'd  earned  those  bargains." 

Just  then  someone  came  running  up  to 
the  front  door.  It  was  Bob  Scott,  the 
Dereks'  business  manager,  with  papers 
that  Patti  had  to  sign  that  day.  They  were 
for  the  latest  registration  required  of  aliens 
in  the  United  States.  "I'm  still  a  lady 
without  a  cotmtry."  Patti  said.  "An  alien. 
My  husband  is  an  American.  My  son  is  an 
American.  But  I'm  not.  Isn't  it  ridicu- 
lous?   But  soon  I'll  be  an  American,  too." 

When  Bob  Scott  asked  the  questions 
which  must  be  answered,  such  as  her 
serial  number,  Patti  went  out  of  the  room 
and  returned  with  a  plain  old  cardboard 
box.  From  it  she  dragged  out  valuable 
personal  papers.  Birth  certificates.  Im- 
migration papers  for  herself.  A  paper 
from  the  French  Sxirete  testifying  she  had 
never  been  arrested  or  lodged  in  jail  in 
France.  Papers  which  contained  the  proof 
of  the  answers  she  must  give  to  the  ques- 
tions for  this  new  registration. 

She  wasn't  joking  when  she  said  she  was 
a  lady  without  a  coimtry.  For  original 
nationality  the  answer  was,  "Stateless — of 
Georgian  origin."  The  words  of  another 
I)erson  of  similar  original  nationality  CEime 
to  mind.  "Why  on  earth  don't  you  keep 
your  valuable  papers  in  a  safety  deposit 
box  instead  of  an  old  shoe-box?"  he  was 
asked. 

He  had  answered  with  a  sardonic  half- 
smQe,  "Some  of  us  have  learned  the  hard 
way  that  when  the  enemy  approaches  your 
home  you  don't  have  time  to  get  to  a 
safety  deposit  box.  You  just  grab  what 
you  can  that's  close  at  hand  and  run.  And 
if  you  hope  to  have  any  identity  in  your 
new  surroundings,  you'd  better  have 
papers  to  prove  you're  you." 

It  was  this  same  person,  not  Patti,  who 
had  revealed  that  if  Patti's  parents  had 
been  able  to  regain  what  they'd  lost,  she'd 
be  a  Georgian  princess  today. 

But  wife  of  John  Derek  she  is,  and  she's 
as  American  as  they  come  despite  her  cur- 
rent lack  of  American  citizenship,  and 
her  charming  but  vmderstandable  accent. 

As  Patti  and  John  talked,  Russell  Andre 
sat  solemnly  in  his  Taylor-Tot  play- 
ing with  some  plastic  toys.  Often  he'd 
look  up  at  his  mother  with  a  happy  little 
grin  or  reach  out  to  pat  Hero,  the  dog. 

On  the  coffee  table  was  the  menu  for 
dinner  with  ground  steak  and  pork  chops 
scheduled  for  the  entree.  "John  has  an 
open  mind  about  everything  but  food," 
Patti  said.   "I've  tried  every  way  I  know 


to  change  tiiat  but  I  haven't  succeeded." 
So  aU  of  Patti's  flair  for  continental  cook- 
ing is  lost  on  her  husband. 

When  asked  when  they  would  move 
to  their  new  home,  Patti  said: 

"Not  until  we  get  a  telephone  out  there." 
Southern  California's  phenomenal  growth 
has  outstripped  the  telephone  company's 
ability  to  provide  telephones.  For  some 
that's  an  irritation,  and  for  others  it 
creates  a  serious  problem.  The  Derdcs 
fall  into  the  latter  class.  As  everyone 
knows,  Russell  Andre  had  a  very  precari- 
ous entrance  into  the  world.  A  very 
delicate  operation  gave  him  his  chance 
to  survive,  but  he's  not  completely  out 
of  danger  yet.  Three  times  Christmas  Day 
he  had  milder,  but  nonetheless  frighten- 
ing, attacks  of  the  old  trouble.  Three  times 
the  telephone  went  into  immediate  action 
to  simimon  the  doctor.  What  if  there 
hadn't  been  a  phone?  The  Dereks  asen't 
moving  out  of  range  of  one. 

Less  urgent  was  the  fact  the  interior 
of  the  new  home  needed  painting.  John 
was  snatching  every  moment  he  could 
to  get  it  done  before  working  on  Colum- 
bia's The  Secret.  Just  as  long  as  he  got 
Russell  Andre's  room  painted — "Fresh 
paint  discourages  germs,  you  know,"  Patti 
said — everything  will  be  all  right 

Furniture?  "Well,  we  had  toiuy  every- 
thing, you  know,  but  we  have  to  take 
it  easy  anyway.  Simple,  early  American 


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for  the  living  room  and  dining  room. 
Bare  essentials  for  the  rest  of  the  rooms. 
We  have  plenty  of  time  to  get  the  rest," 
Patti  said,  her  tone  daring  anyone  to  stop 
them. 

But  if  fathers  are  told  their  country 
needs  their  services  again?  Well,  then 
John  Derek  will  go  too,  of  coxu*se.  Patti 
win  comfort  herself  with  the  thought 
that  he's  a  strong  fellow  capable  of  taking 
care  of  himself  if  he  has  a  decent  chance. 
He  proved  that  as  a  paratrooper  in  the 
last  war,  participating  in  the  re-taking 
of  the  Philippines  and  the  occupation 
of  Japan. 

Both  of  them  hope  that  if  that  time 
comes,  Patti's  talents  will  have  been  ap- 
preciated so  that  she  can  continue  pay- 
ments on  that  long-wanted  home. 

Neither,  in  taking  their  important  step, 
have  borrowed  trouble,  a  practice  whidi 
frightens  so  many  into  temporary  living. 
They're  walking  firmly  and  unafraid  into 
the  future  they  want;  not  blindly,  but  fully 
aware  that  serious  trouble  may  come  and 
if  it  does  they'll  face  it  then,  not  its  ghost 
now. 

"That's  the  real  American  way,"  says 
John  Derek's  wife.  Then  restates,  "Here 
people  build.  Here  if  a  man  loses  every- 
thing, why  he  just  goes  to  work  building 
to  replace  what  he's  lost.  He  doesn't 
just  sit  arovmd  hoping  to  get  it  back." 

And  the  Dereks  don't  sit  aroimd  either. 
They're  going  right  after  their  happiness. 
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(Continued  from  page  46)  lavished  on  this 
first  good  house. 

"  D  icAEDO  saw  the  place  only  once,"  his 
wife  recalls.  "Then  he  left  for  Mexico. 
Three  weeks  later,  I  met  him  at  the  airport 
and  drove  him  home.  I  had  the  house  full 
of  flowers,  there  was  champagne  on  ice, 
and  all  the  rooms  were  ablaze  with  Ught. 
When  he  walked  in  the  front  door,  the  ex- 
pression on  his  face  was  like  a  little  boy's. 
He  was  wide-eyed  and  speechless." 

He  is  still  wide-eyed,  and  so  happy  in  his 
house  that  he  almost  never  goes  away  for 
a  vacation.  They  like  to  pack  picnic  limches 
and  take  Laura  and  Mark,  the  two  oldest 
children,  to  the  beach.  They  play  tennis 
every  morning  and  have  parties  whenever 
they  please. 

"whenever  I  think  of  the  money  we  save 
by  not  going  out,  I  treat  myself  to  a  new 
dress,"  says  Georgiana.  "And  the  wonder- 
ful part  of  it  is  that  Ric  never  complains 
about  my  occasional  extravagances,  but  he 
loves  to  tease  me  when  the  bills  come  due. 
Only  last  week  he  picked  up  a  statement 
from  Saks  Fifth  Avenue.  'What's  this? — 
A  mink  bath  towel?'  he  said,  pretending  to 
read  from  the  bill.  For  a  minute  I  almost 
fainted  at  the  thought  of  being  charged 
for  some  little  mink  item.  His  laughter 
gave  the  joke  away,  but  for  a  second  he 
really  had  me  worried." 

The  Montalbans'  house  was  built  by 
Alan  Siple,  one  of  the  best  architects  in 
Southern  California.  He  designed  it  for 
privacy  and  an  economical  use  of  every 
foot  of  floor  space.  Then  for  the  fim  of  it, 
he  added  some  romantic  touches  like  the 
balcony  and  a  real  playing  fountain  in  the 
dining  room. 

The  living  room  is  an  island  of  privacy. 
It  is  two  steps  lower  than  the  remainder 
of  the  house,  and  a  pair  of  cypress  pEineUed 


doors  may  be  closed  to  shut  this  room  off 
from  the  rest  of  the  household  traffic.  Up- 
stairs there  are  three  large  bedrooms,  each 
with  a  private  bath,  while  the  master  suite 
has  two  complete  baths. 

Right  now,  the  Montalbans  and  their 
three  children  need  every  available  bed- 
room and  bath  in  the  house.  When  baby 
Anita  was  born,  almost  two  years  ago, 
Georgiana  decided  to  furnish  a  linen  room 
next  to  the  nursery  as  sleeping  quarters'  for 
Mark.  Thus  each  child  and  the  nurse  has 
a  separate  room. 

W7hen  it  comes  to  furnishings,  Georgiana 
"  Ukes  to  quote  her  mother  once  more. 
"Mama  beUeves  in  buying  one  or  two 
really  good  wooden  pieces.  She  supplements 
these  with  less  expensive  upholstered  fur- 
niture that  can  be  replaced  later  on.  She 
says  that  good  cabinet-work  is  like  good 
breeding — it  shines  through  in  the  long 
rim." 

Among  the  really  fine  items  in  the  Mon- 
talban living  room  are  a  Mother  Superior 
desk  that's  a  masterpiece  of  secret  drawers 
and  hidden  compartments,  two  Italian  an- 
tique commodes,  a  pair  of  French  mirrors 
and  the  opera  figures  on  the  mantel. 

The  room  is  also  full  of  typical  Belzer 
decorating  touches.  The  walls,  for  ex- 
ample, are  covered  with  Chinese  grass 
cloth  instead  of  waU  paper.  This  particular 
wall  covering  has  remained  untouched  for 
12  years,  and  it  now  looks  more  mellow 
and  more  beautiful  than  it  did  when  new. 
Instead  of  using  draperies  at  the  windows, 
Georgiana's  mother  favors  shutters.  Long 
before  these  small-style  louvres  became  as 
popular  as  they  are  today,  she  bought 
them  at  auctions  of  old  estates  and  used 
them  in  all  her  decorating  jobs.  She  likes 
to  work  a  window  seat  into  her  homes,  too, 
even  if  it  means  pushing  out  a  wall  or  two. 

"They  serve  as  extra  seating  space  with- 
out taking  up  precious  floor  room  and  are 
a  godsend  at  parties,"  says  Mrs.  Belzer. 


a  modern  screen  quiz 

Bert  Parks,  young  M.C.  of  television's 
Break  The  Bank  quiz 
show  (NBC-TV)  thought  up  these 
questions  about  Bing  Crosby  in  honor 
of  Bing's  20th  anniversary.  You'll 
find  the  answers  on  page  94. 

1.  Almost  everyone  knows  Bing's 
theme  song  starts  "Where  the  blue  of 
the  night  meets  the  gold  of  the 

day  someone  waits  for  me",  but  can 
you  give  the  second  line  of 
this  old  favorite? 

2.  Can  you  give  two  of  Bing's  other 
nicknames  and  also  his  real  name? 

3.  When  asked  where  he  grew  up, 
Bing  says,  "Near  Gonzaga." 
Where  and  what  is  Gonzaga? 

4.  Bing  Crosby  and  Bob 

Hope  have  traveled  many  a  road 
together.  Can  you  name  three? 

5.  For  two  generations,  the  Crosbys 
have  had  sets  of  four  famous 
brothers.  Name  Bing's  three  well- 
known  brothers,  and  his  four  sons. 
Break  The  Bank  is  presented 

by  Bristol-Myers. 


break 

the 

bank 

by  bert  parks 


"You  can  also  store  bulky  objects  in  them. 
And  to  please  Ricardo,  I  had  record  stor- 
age cabinets  built  into  the  window  recess. 
He  has  a  large  collection  of  Pan  American 
music." 

The  home  furnishing  hint  from  his 
mother-in-law  that  Ricardo  Montalban  ap- 
preciates most,  however,  is  the  trick  of 
taking  antiques  which  are  works  of  art 
and  putting  them  to  practical  use.  He 
and  Georgiana  collect  old  pewter  objects, 
but  they  don't  store  them  in  a  treasure 
chest.  They  use  them  for  ash  trays,  lamp 
bases  and  vases.  Even  the  chandelier  in 
the  dining  room  is  an  antique  pewter  um. 
Last  month  the  Montalbans  found  an  elab- 
orately-carved door  in  a  second-hand 
store.  They  snapped  it  up  at  a  bargain,  and 
then  took  it  to  a  cabinet-maker.  Right 
now  he's  building  a  large  cabinet  to  house 
the  Philco  radio -television  set  and  the 
sound  wire-recorder  that  Georgiana  gave 
Ric  for  Christmas.  Thus,  this  beautiful 
old  door  wUl  camouflage  the  mechanics  of 
their  home  entertainment. 

THE  room  most  lived  in  at  the  Montal- 
bans' is  the  long  narrow  den.  At  one 
end  is  the  alcove  where  the  family  eats 
breakfast  on  a  glass-topped,  wrought-iron 
table.  The  rest  of  the  intimate  little  room 
is  perfect  for  Ric  when  he  wants  to  prac- 
tice diction  by  talking  into  his  wire  re- 
corder. Georgie  likes  to  bring  her  mend- 
ing in  here,  because  the  foxir  glass  doors 
opening  onto  the  patio  let  in  so  much  light, 
and  she  can  also  keep  an  eye  on  the  chil- 
dren playing  outdoors.  The  three  young 
Montalbans  like  it  because  no  matter  how 
grimy  their  hands,  or  how  much  they  romp 
on  the  yellow  koroseal  couch,  none  of  the 
adults  ever  object.  This  wonderful  leath- 
ery stuff  is  tough  and  washable. 

Upstairs  in  the  pink  and  white  nursery, 
the  furnishings  look  deceptively  delicate, 
too.  But  all  the  chests  and  tables  are 
painted  with  a  high-gloss  enamel  that  can 
and  does  get  washed  as  regularly  as  the 
dishes.  The  rose-colored  velvet  chair  in 
which  Ric  sits  every  night  to  read  a  bed- 
time story  to  Laura  and  Mark  is  not  as  im- 
oractical  as  it  might  seem  at  first  glance. 
With  the  emphasis  Mrs.  Belzer  places  on 
^iuality,  it's  covered  in  the  heaviest  up- 
holstery velvet  she  could  fuid.  The  three 
ctive  children  see  to  it  that  the  nursery 
takes  quite  a  beating,  and  yet  it  shows 
relatively  little  wear  and  tear. 

At  the  other  end  of  the  house,  away  from 
the  nursery,  the  Montalbans  have  a  spa- 
cious master  bedroom.  Its  color  scheme 
is  predominantly  white  and  green  with  an 
occasional  touch  of  cyclamen.  Mrs.  Belzer 
had  the  draperies  and  bedspreads  made  of 
washable  white  linen.  On  the  wall  she 
made  effective  use  of  a  green-white  treUis 
wallpaper,  and  around  the  fireplace  and 
over  Georgiana's  built-in  vanity  table,  she 
had  one  of  her  talented  craftsmen  paint 
a  green  and  white  marbleized  surface.  The 
overall  effect  is  as  cool  and  fresh  as  a 
bed  of  mint. 

In  Georgiana's  dressing-room  bath  next 
to  the  bedroom,  another  clever  artist 
painted  humorous  and  identifying  murals 
on  the  wardrobe  doors.  But  the  smartest 
features  of  the  dressing  room  are  cotton 
shag  carpeting  to  insure  barefoot  comfort, 
and  the  series  of  ordinary  door  hooks  for 
storing  Georgiana's  costume  jewelry  in  an 
orderly  fashion. 

Whenever  Georgiana  and  Ricardo  de- 
cide to  make  a  few  changes  or  add  a  new 
piece  of  furniture  to  their  home,  they  first 
ask  themselves,  "Does  it  have  a  lasting 
quality  and  is  it  beautiful?"  Then  to  make 
sure,  they  check  with  Mama  Belzer— be- 
cause in  their  opinion,  Mama  really  does 
know  best.  The  End 

(You  can  see  Ricardo  Montalban  in  MGM's 
Across  The  Wide  Missouri — Ed.) 


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the  bing  crosby  story 

(Continued  from  page  61)  and  easy-going 
youth,  Bing  appears  to  have  made  a  more 
exact  appraisal  of  what  his  time  is  worth. 
He  has  probably  never  sat  down  and  fig- 
ured it  out  on  paper,  but  he  evidently 
feels  that  when  he  is  not  working,  he 
should  be  doing  something  he  enjoys. 
Some  years  ago,  Bob  Crosby  was  trying 
out  his  band  for  a  job  at  the  fashionable 
Ritz-Carlton  Hotel  in  Boston,  when  Bing 
arrived  in  town  after  a  visit  to  the  nearby 
racetrack.  Sensing  a  valuable  publicity 
break,  the  manager  of  the  hotel  asked  Bob 
if  he  could  get  Bing  to  pose  for  pictures 
with  him,  and  Bob,  without  thinking,  said, 
"Of  course."  That  afternoon.  Bob  asked 
Bing  to  come  up  to  the  Roof  for  the  band's 
tryout,  but  neglected  to  tell  him  about  the 
photographers  who  would  be  there.  When 
the  elevator  arrived  at  the  Roof,  and  Bing 
saw  the  battery  of  cameramen  waiting  in 
the  ballroom,  he  turned  to  the  elevator 
operator  and  quietly  said,  "Down." 

"Every  floor  that  elevator  went  down  I 
could  see  that  job  flying  farther  away," 
says  Bob.  "I  was  sort  of  hurt  at  the  time, 
but  now  I  realize  how  wrong  it  was  for 
me  to  have  put  Bing  in  a  spot  like  that 
without  asking  him  first.  In  spite  of  all  the 
nonsense  he's  had  to  put  up  with,  Bing's 
been  a  wonderful  brother  to  me." 

CiNCE  he  has  been  able  to  control  the 
^  scheduling  of  his  radio  shows  for  Ches- 
terfield, Bing  has  systematically  planned 
his  life.  When  he  is  involved  with  work 
in  Hollywood,  he  spends  every  available 
moment  at  his  home  in  Holmby  Hills,  or 
on  the  Bel  Air  golf  course.  On  week- 
ends, Bing  drives  to  his  home-away-from- 
home,  the  beautiful  modern  house  at  Peb- 
ble Beach,  where  he  can  live  as  a  private 
citizen.  "Pebble  Beach  gives  Bing  a  peace- 
ful haven,  I  suppose,  from  the  flood  of  at- 
tention he  gets  in  Hollywood,"  a  Monterey 
newspaperman  reported.  "Up  here,  people 
don't  give  movie  stars  a  second  glance." 

Bing  spends  his  summers  in  other  peace- 
ful surroimdings  at  his  20,000-acre  ranch 
60  miles  from  Elko,  Nevada.  No  one 
bothers  Bing  for  his  autograph  in  Elko, 
but  ranchers  frequently  stop  him  to  ask 
how  his  cattle  are  enduring  the  summer 
heat,  or  how  the  trout  are  biting. 

Last  year,  Bing  purchased  a  vacation 
lodge  at  Hayden  Lake,  Idaho,  where  each 
fall  he  gives  his  boys  a  wonderful  month 
of  fishing  and  himting  as  a  payoff  for  their 
hard  summer's  work  as  cowhands. 

On  the  surface,  Bing's  way  of  life  would 
seem  to  have  simplified  his  relations  with 
people.  But  in  effect,  it  has  resulted  in 
widening  the  vistas  of  his  already  com- 
plex personality.  The  people  who  met 
him  during  the  years  that  he  owned  an 
interest  in  the  Del  Mar  race  track  would 
swear  that  horse-racing  is  his  principal 
interest.  Musicians  claim  that  singing  is 
the  love  of  his  life.  Professional  golfers 
like  Jimmy  Demaret  or  Cary  MiddlecofI 
will  tell  you  that  Bing  lives  for  the  mo- 
ments he  can  spend  on  the  golf  course. 
Bing  is  continually  surprising  people  with 
his  knowledge,  all  seemingly  acquired 
without  effort.  Some  years  ago,  for  in- 
stance, he  came  back  from  a  brief  trip  to 
South  America  and  surprised  all  of  his 
friends  by  demonstrating  a  fluent  com- 
mand of  the  Spanish  language. 

"I  always  thought  it  remarkable  that 
Bing  could  have  picked  up  a  completely 
new  language  in  -such  a  short  time,"  says 
Johnny  Burke.  "Then  just  by  accident, 
when  I  took  my  O'wn  vacation  to  South 
America  last  summer,  I  discovered  how 
hard  Bing  had  to  study  to  learn  Spanish. 
On  our  boat  was  the  same  language  teach- 
er who  12  years  ago  had  tutored  Bing  two 
hours  each  day.  By  the  time  he  arrived  in 


Buenos  Aires,  Bing  spoke  Spanish  like  a 
native." 

Because  of  his  inbred  dislike  of  preten- 
sion in  others,  Bing  has  always  hidden  his 
own  intellectual  accomplishments  behind 
a  glib  facade  of  jive  talk  and  sporting  news. 
Actually,  however,  he  is  one  of  the  best 
informed  men  in  Hollywood. 

"He  has  so  much  information  and  tech- 
nique stored  up  inside  of  him,"  an  admirer 
recently  remarked,  "it's  a  wonder  he 
doesn't  explode." 

A  LTHOUGH  he  is  not  surrounded  by  an 
entourage  of  yeah-sayers  and  glad- 
handers,  Bing  is  very  close  to  many  of 
his  business  associates.  Wally  Westmore, 
his  makeup  man,  is  a  close  friend,  as  is 
John  O'Melveny,  his  attorney.  Bill  Mor- 
row, who  writes  and  produces  his  radio 
show,  was  a  fishing  buddy  long  before  he 
went  to  work  for  Bing.  Johnny  Burke 
and  Jimmy  Van  Heusen,  who  write  his 
songs,  are  always  welcome  guests  at  the 
Crosby  manor.  Barney  Dean,  whose  gags 
have  sparked  many  of  the  Crosby-Hope 
comedies,  often  travels  with  Bing  to  golf 
tournaments  and  army  camp  shows.  There 
is  apparently  no  standard  by  which  Bing 
chooses  his  friends.  Either  he  likes  a  per- 
son or  he  doesn't;  he  rarely  changes  his 
mind  about  anyone. 

Bing  has  many  bachelor  friends,  but 
there  is  not  one  among  them  who  does  not 
envy  his  rewarding  family  life.  Only  once 
or  twice  during  his  21  years  of  marriage 
to  Dixie  has  any  serious  trouble  arisen. 
Last  summer  when  Bing  took  a  holiday  in 
Europe  without  Dixie,  a  rumor  hit  the 
front  pages  that  they  were  separating.  But 
like  other  rumors  of  dissension  in  the 
Crosby  household,  it  evaporated  faster 
than  the  printer's  ink.  This  spring,  Bing 
and  Dixie  have  never  been  happier. 

Someone  asked  Leonard  Goldstein  of  Uni- 
versal-International (one  of  Hollywood's 
busiest  producers)  if  he  dreamed  of  win- 
ning an  Academy  Award.  The  stocky, 
affable  Goldstein  said,  "No,  it  would 
change  my  whole  life.  I'd  have  to  buy  a 
tuxedo — and  go  around  with  people  who 
own  tuxedos." — Gfadwi'n  Hall  in  The  New 
York  Times. 

Not  long  ago,  the  Crosbys  held  a  won- 
derfully informal  western  party  at  their 
Holmby  Hills  home,  a  real  hoe-do'wn 
affair  where  everyone  came  dressed  in 
levis  and  plaid  shirts. 

"I  haven't  seen  Bing  enjoy  himself  so 
much  for  years,"  one  of  his  guests  reported 
the  next  morning.  "He  and  the  band 
he'd  asked  over  rambled  through  every 
jazz  hit  since  1900,  and  although  he  had 
an  early  call  at  Paramount  the  next  morn- 
ing, Bing  just  couldn't  stop  singing." 

Dixie  and  Bing  enjoy  occasions  of  this 
sort.  But  since  their  children  were  bom, 
neither  have  enjoyed  party-giving  nor 
party-going  on  a  large  scale.  For  more 
than  15  years,  their  life  has  centered 
around  their  four  boys. 

"Dixie  and  Bing  have  done  a  wonderful 
job  of  raising  their  boys,"  says  Bing's 
brother  Everett.  "They  stood  a  pretty 
good  chance  of  being  spoiled,  but  they've 
been  brought  up  to  imderstand  the  value 
of  money,  hard  work,  and  earning  their 
O'wn  rights  to  a  place  in  the  sun.  Bing  has 
never  pampered  any  of  them,  and  now 
that  they  are  getting  old  enough  to  do 
their  own  thinking,  they'll  think  right." 

BmG  has  been  Hollywood's  most  cele- 
brated father  for  many  years,  even 
before  the  National  Father's  Day  Com- 
mittee, in  1945,  designated  him  as  "The 
Screen  Father  of  the  Year,"  an  honor  he 
has  received  several  times  since.  Al- 
though Bing  has  never  denied  his  boys 


anything,  he  always  has  managed  to  find 
plenty  of  work  for  them  to  do,  even  when 
they  were  little. 

"You  aren't  going  to  get  anywhere  by 
ducking  your  chores,"  he  used  to  tell  them. 
"I've  got  spies." 

"Yeah,  I  know,"  Gary  used  to  say. 
"Mom." 

Friends  of  Bing  often  recoil  at  the 
whip-like  quality  of  his  sons'  humor.  It 
isn't  smarty  and  wise-cracking;  rather,  it 
is  pertinent  and  adult,  and  full  of  the  orig- 
inality that  ilavors  Bing's  own  speech. 
Even  when  they  were  infants,  Bing  did  not 
talk  down  to  his  Irishers,  as  he  calls  his 
boys. 

"I  remember  one  night  in  1938,  when  my 
wife  and  I  were  visiting  the  Crosbys  at 
their  ranch  in  Del  Mar,"  says  Johnny 
Burke.  "It  was  Bing's  turn  to  tell  the 
boys  their  bedtime  story.  When  they  were 
aU  ready  for  bed,  he  started  the  story  of 
Old  King  Cole.  In  his  version.  Cole  was  a 
guy  who  had  been  raised  in  New  Orleans 
around  hot  music,  and  he  was  having  a 
tough  time  trying  to  lead  the  life  of  a  king. 
He  really  didn't  go  for  that  chamber  music, 
but  nonetheless  he  still  had  to  call  for  his 
fiddlers  three.  When  Gary  asked  him, 
'Why,  pop?'  Bing  said,  'Noblesse  oblige, 
son.  He  had  to  go  along  with  the  court 
crowd.'  " 

According  to  Johnny,  all  of  the  popular 
nursery  tales  were  given  an  original  and 
imaginative  twist  by  Bing'.  Little  Red 
Riding  Hood,  in  his  version,  turned  up  as 
a  vaudeville  performer  who  broke  up 
with  her  partner,  a  quick  change  artist, 
after  a  bum  date  in  Kansas  City.  When 
she  went  home  to  live  with  her  grand- 
mother, she  met  a  woodsman  who  gave 
her  a  big  play,  and  she  liked  him,  too.  Then 
one  day,  her  partner  showed  up  dressed  as 
a  wolf  and  tried  to  break  up  their  ro- 
mance. But  the  woodsman  was  brave 
and  chased  the  wolf  away.  Of  course. 
Little  Red  Riding  Hood  knew  all  the  time 
the  wolf  was  her  old  partner — his  makeup 
job  was  lousy.  Bing  used  to  summarize  the 
tale  with  a  moral:  "The  woodsman  was 
certainly  brave,  kids,  standing  up  to  the 
wolf  hke  that.  But  you  have  to  give  Little 
Red  Riding  Hood  credit,  too  .  .  .  she  was  a 
smart  little  cookie  not  to  let  on  that  the 
wolf  wasn't  reaUy  a  wolf." 

T^HE  Crosbys'  Pebble  Beach  home  is  not 
far  from  Bellarmine  Prep,  where  Bing's 
three  oldest  boys  are  now  enrolled.  Some- 
times they  all  spend  an  entire  weekend 
playing  golf  at  Pebble  Beach,  where  the 
boys  have  been  getting  instructions  for 
three  years  from  venerable  Peter  Hay,  the 
dean  of  California  pros.  Bing's  home  is 
built  on  the  13th  fairway,  and  golfers  often 
catch  sight  of  the  boys,  sitting  like  a  tree 
full  of  owls  in  the  branches  of  the  spread- 
ing oak  that  overlooks  the  green. 

Bing  has  played  backyard  baseball  with 
the  kids  since  they  were  big  enough  to 
hold  a  bat.  Athletics  always  interested 
them.  Today,  Gary  is  a  hard-driving 
fullback  on  the  varsity  team,  and  his 
younger  brothers,  Dennis  and  Philip,  are 
regiilars  on  the  B  team  at  Bellarmine. 
Lindsay,  who  attends  the  Good  Shepherd 
School  in  Beverly  Hills,  is  merely  waiting 
lantil  he  puts  on  enough  weight  to  play. 

"You  ought  to  see  those  kids  kick  and 
throw  a  football  around,"  says  Lin  Howard. 
"Every  one  of  them  looks  like  a  pro." 

Next  fall,  when  Linny  moves  up  to 
Bellarmine  Prep,  Bing's  family  will  prob- 
ably spend  more  time  than  ever  at  Pebble 
Beach.  Although  Gary  starts  in  college 
next  fall,  he  will  either  enroll  at  Santa 
Clara  or  Stanford,  both  within  easy  driv- 
ing distance  of  the  Monterey  Peninsula. 
Both  Bing  and  Dixie  like  their  home 
there,  and  would  like  to  be  able  to  spend 
more  time  in  it.  When  all  of  their  boys  are 
going  to  northern  California  schools,  they 


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In  any  event,  Bing  and  the  boys  will  be 
hard  at  work  on  the  ranch  again  after 
the  school  term  ends  in  June.  Soon  after 
they  arrive  at  the  ranch,  each  of  the 
boys  will  be  assigned  to  a  crew,  and  will 
work,  eat,  and  sleep  with  the  men  who 
rtin  the  place  the  year  around.  They  will 
get  up  at  daylight,  spend  the  day  pitch- 
ing hay,  herding  cattle,  or  mending  fences, 
and  be  in  bed  by  8:30  p.m.  On  Sundays, 
after  Mass,  they  will  go  fishing  or  perhaps 
take  a  ride  into  town  to  see  a  movie. 

"Someday  the  boys  are  going  to  own 
the  ranch,"  Bing  has  said,  "and  I  want  them 
to  know  what  the  men  working  for  them 
have  to  do." 

"That  life  doesn't  hurt  Bing  any,  either," 
a  friend  commented.  "He  can  keep  him- 
self in  top  shape  just  by  following  the 
schedule  he  sets  for  the  boys." 

Now  that  the  boys  have  begun  to  make 
a  splash  in  the  entertainment  world,  Bing 
will  imdoubtedly  work  harder  thein  ever 
to  keep  them  in  balance.  Just  recently, 
the  Sup)erior  Court  approved  a  contract 
with  Decca  Records  which  gives  the  boys 
a  royalty  of  two-and-a-half  cents  on  each 
of  their  records.  This  money  will  be  added 
to  the  already  considerable  fortimes  which 
are  being  held  in  trust  for  them  by  John 
O'Melveny,  their  father's  lawyer. 

Although  Bing  has  had  no  qualms  about 
allowing  the  boys  to  display  their  talents, 
neither  he  nor  Dixie  wiU  let  this  unduly 
influence  their  future.  "No  son  of  mine  is 
turning  crooner  until  he  finishes  his 
schooling,"  Dixie  says.  "We  don't  mind 
the  boys  making  a  record  now  and  then 
during  summer  vacation,  just  as  long  as 
it  doesn't  interfere  with  their  school  work. 
Gary  sings  well — all  the  boys  do — but  he 
is  going  to  finish  college  before  he  tries 
to  make  a  profession  of  it." 

SINCE  his  father's  death  last  fall,  Bing  has 
brought  his  mother  closer  into  his  daily 
life.  She  now  usually  spends  weekends 
at  his  Holmby  Hills  home,  even  though 
her  own  home  is  just  minutes  away.  Ac- 
cording to  brother  Larry,  Bing  has  never 
been  at  any  major  crossroads  in  his  life 
that  he  did  not  write  or  call  his  mother 
before  making  his  decision.  Her  advice 
and  her  prayers  have  obviously  been  quite 
beneficial. 

"Where  Mother  might  have  fallen  apart 
after  Dad's  death,"  says  Bob  Crosby,  "she 
has  too  much  to  worry  about  with  all  of 
her  children  and  their  families.  Believe 
me,  she's  still  the  guiding  genius  of  this 
family.    We  all  depend  on  her  for  advice." 

Kate  Crosby  still  worries  about  Bing. 
She  worries  about  the  rough  and  tough 
way  he  works  his  sons;  she  would  treat 
them  gentler,  and  probably  spoil  them. 
But  she  is  rightfully  and  inordinately 
proud  of  her  famous  son,  and  is  becoming 
reconciled,  as  her  grandsons  grow  older, 
to  the  fact  that  Bing's  way  worked  out 
pretty  well. 

Larry,  Everett,  and  Bob,  the  three 
Crosby  brothers  who  live  in  Holljrwood, 
are  also  a  vital  part  of  Bing's  life.  Al- 
though demonstrativeness  is  not  a  charac- 
teristic of  the  Crosby  makeup,  there  exists 
a  deep-seated  loyalty  in  the  family.  All  of 
Bing's  brothers  are  caricatured  on  his 
radio  show.  Larry,  in  real  life  a  quiet, 
unhurried  man  with  a  penetrating  dry 
humor,  is  pictured  as  a  chronic  worrier. 
Brother  Bob's  fatal  fascination  for  the 
horses  is  the  cause  for  numerous  funny 
remarks.  But  brother  Everett  and  his 
grasping  interest  in  the  dollar  comes  in 
for  the  worst  pasting  of  all.  Last  fall, 
when  Everett  left  for  a  tour  of  Europe 
with  his  wife,  Bing  mentioned  on  his 
show  that  Everett  has  started  a  new 
business  over  there — greasing  channel 
swimmers.  "You  know  my  brother  Ever- 
ett," Bing  continued  confidentially  "He's 


the  greatest  people-greaser  in  the  world."- 
Everett's  attitude  about  remarks  like 
that  is  typical  of  all  of  Bing's  brothers: 
"Why  should  I  mind?  I  don't  care  if  they 
make  me  sound  like  a  jerk  as  long  as  it 
helps  the  show — and  I  get  my  ten  per 
cent." 

It  would  be  easy  to  underestimate  the 
significance  of  Everett's  and  Larry's  con- 
tributions to  Bing's  success.  In  1931,  Ev- 
erett, a  garrulous  truck  salesman,  qiiit  his 
job  in  Los  Angeles  to  gamble  on  Bing's 
future  as  a  singer  in  New  York.  Today 
he  handles  the  Crosby  enterprises,  and 
makes  it  possible  for  Bing  to  concentrate 
exclusively  on  his  career  as  an  entertainer. 
Larry,  who  came  down  to  Los  Angeles 
from  a  Seattle  newspaper  job  in  1933,  is 
responsible  for  establishing  Bing's  far- 
reaching  fan  club  organization  which  is 
composed  of  more  than  400  clubs  in  Amer- 
ica, 80  in  Canada,  and  another  300  in  other 
nations  of  the  world.  For  18  years,  Larry 
has  directed  Bing's  efficient  fan  mail  ser- 
vice, which  each  month  sends  replies  to 
each  of  the  10,000  to  25,000  people  who 
write  Bing  personal  letters.  Five  secre- 
tries  and  three  IBM  electric  typewriters 
are  kept  busy  eight  hours  daily,  classify- 
ing, sorting,  and  answering  Bing's  mail; 
and  even  they  will  be  unable  to  process  all 
the  mail  which  will  come  during  Bing's 
20th  anniversary.  Larry  also  manages  the 
Crosby  Research  Foxmdation,  and  handles 
Bing's  vast  donations  to  charity. 

The  list  of  his  donations  last  year  filled 
three  typewritten  pages  and  included 
orphanages,  child-care  centers,  medical 
research,  scholarships,  and  innumerable 
religious  projects.  For  many  years  all  of 
the  royalties  from  his  recording  of  "Silent 
Night,"  which  to  date  has  sold  more  than 
5,000,000  copies,  were  given  to  15  chari- 
table organizations.  During  his  entire 
career,  Bing  has  never  been  known  to  re- 
fuse help  to  any  priest  with  a  worthy 
cause. 

But  Bing's  favorite  charity  for  the  past 
ten  years  is  the  annual  Crosby  Pro-Ama- 
teur Golf  Tournament  at  Pebble  Beach, 
which  has  already  provided  the  funds  for 
four  community  youth  centers  on  the 
Monterey  Peninsula.  Bing  pays  all  the 
bills,  including  the  $10,000  prize  money. 
This  year,  the  toiu-nament,  attended  by 
20,000  people,  raised  more  than  $40,000, 
after  federal  taxes,  which  will  go  directly 
into  a  program  to  build  and  improve  recre- 
ational facilities  for  boys  and  girls  of  all 
denominations.  Bing  takes  a  great  per- 
sonal interest  in  the  tournament  and  in 
the  athletic  programs  of  the  centers.  Last 
fall,  when  Joe  Lilly,  Bing's  arranger  at 
Paramount,  flew  up  to  Pebble  Beach  to 
play  the  times  for  Mr.  Music,  he  was 
astonished  when  Bing  met  him  at  the  air- 
port with  his  car  loaded  down  with  cases 
of  soda  pop 

"You  aren't  going  to  drink  all  that 
stuff?"  he  asked  Bing. 

"No,  I  have  to  drop  it  off  for  the  boys 
over  in  Carmel,"  Bing  replied. 

Bing  stopp)ed  by  the  Carmel  center  and 
unloaded  the  pop  himself. 

Bing's  participation  in  worthy  causes  is 
not  restricted  to  cash  donations.  He 
has  been  one  of  the  principal  supporters 
of  Father  Pej^on's  Family  Hour  program 
on  Mutual.  Father  Patrick  Peyton,  whose 
theme  is:  "The  Family  Who  Prays  To- 
gether, Stays  Together,"  first  met  Bing 
over  the  phone  when  he  asked  him  to 
appear  on  his  initial  broadcast  on  VE  day. 
Bing,  who  was  then  working  in  Bells  oj 
St.  Mary's,  agreed  at  once. 

"Only  two  other  players  in  Hollywood, 
Ann  Blyth  and  Loretta  Young,  have  ap- 
peared on  our  programs  more  often  than 
Bing,"  says  Father  Peyton.  "Every  time 
he  has  been  asked,  he  has  done  everything 
he  could  for  the  cause  of  family  prayer." 


Bing  has  always  been  a  devoted  church- 
goer. He  and  the  boys  frequently  sing 
together  at  early  Mass.  As  a  result  of  his 
appearances  as  a  priest  in  Going  My  Way 
and  Bells  of  St.  Mary's,  Bing  was  respon- 
sible for  giving  the  public  an  entirely  new 
insight  into  the  activities  of  a  priest  in 
modern  society.  Today,  he  is  America's 
best  known  lay  Catholic,  whose  public 
identification  with  his  religion  is  clearly 
indicated  by  the  many  letters  he  receives 
yearly  asking  him  to  say  a  special  prayer 
for  people  in  need. 

Bing  Crosby  is,  indeed,  a  many-sided 
man.  But  the  image  which  most  people 
hold  of  him  will  imdoubtedly  continue  to 
be  that  of  an  easy-going,  friendly  siiiger 
whose  own  responses  to  life  are  incredibly 
normal  and  like  those  of  his  fellow  Ameri- 
cans. At  48  Bing  somehow  manages,  al- 
though he  is  balding  and  spreading  at  the 


waist,  to  present  an  exterior  of  almost 
indestructible  youthfulness. 

Twenty  years  ago,  when  he  was  just 
beginning  his  career  as  America's  great- 
est singer,  Bing  felt  sure  his  days  were 
numbered.  Shortly  after  he  had  finished 
his  first  sensational  appearance  at  the 
Paramount  Theater  in  New  York,  he  called 
in  his  brother  Everett  and  asked  how 
things  were  going. 

"Just  great,  Bing,"  Everett  told  him.  "I 
have  all  sorts  of  things  booked  for  you." 

"Line  up  everything  you  can,"  Bing  re- 
plied.   "This  can't  possibly  last." 

There  is  no  one  in  America  more  sur- 
prised than  Bing  Crosby  that  it  did. 
The  End 

(Bing  is  currently  at  work  in  Para- 
mount's  Here  Comes  the  Groom,  co-star- 
ring Jane  Wyman. — Ed.) 


it  comes  up  love 


(Continued  from  page  59)  enthtisiastic 
fellow  and  didn't  consider  his  contribu- 
tions to  the  players'  weary  efforts  at  all 
out  of  the  ordinary.  A  Warner  Brothers 
movie  scout  did,  though,  and  Rormie  sud- 
denly found  himself  giving  everything  he 
had  to  drawing  room  chatter  before  a 
camera. 

Roimie  was  working  in  a  Bette  Davis 
picture  when  the  production  office  sent 
him  a  note  one  day  advising  him  to  show 
up  the  next  morning  in  white  tie  and 
tails.  Naturally,  Rormie  dropped  into  ward- 
robe and  asked  for  a  fitting.  He  was  in- 
formed that,  being  a  stellar  performer 
of  sorts,  he  was  obliged  to  provide  his 
own  evening  clothes.  Ronnie  admitted 
very  frankly  that  he  didn't  own  a  suit 
of  tails — and  that  qiiite  possibly  he  never 
would,  as  they  didn't  go  over  too  big  in 
Nebraska. 

The  wardrobe  man  gave  him  the  card  of 
a  good  tailor,  and  washed  his  hands  of  the 
whole  affair. 

Ronnie  sat  quietly  in  a  pal's  office  and 
mulled  over  the  matter.  On  his  salary,  he 
couldn't  afford  tails — and  he  might  never 
need  them  again  in  a  picture.  So  he  did 
the  only  sensible  thing.  He  went  down  to 
a  pawn  shop,  bought  a  suit  of  1890  tails 
for  $12.00,  and  blandly  showed  up  on  the 
set  the  next  morning  dressed  almost  as 
ordered. 

The  director,  Edmund  Goulding,  almost 
had  apoplexy.  He  roared  and  thtmdered 
that  a  man  made  up  like  Harold  Lloyd 
couldn't  make  love  to  Bette  Davis.  He 
finally  dragged  Rormie  up  to  the  front 
office  so  that  the  bosses  could  see  for 
themselves.  The  result  was  that  the  studio 
invested  a  couple  of  thousand  dollars  in  a 
Reagan  wardrobe.  It  was  not  only  a 
splendid  victory  for  Ronnie,  but  just  about 
as  classy  a  gag  as  he  has  been  able  to  get 
away  with  since. 

'T'here  is  no  question  about  it;  the  years 
have  mellowed  Ronald  Reagcin  consid- 
erably. They  have  also  given  him  a  sense 
of  responsibility  toward  the  community 
and  the  nation.  His  off-screen  activities 
attest  to  this.  But  in  the  man  whom  many 
call  stuffy,  there  is  stUl  a  lot  of  the  boy 
who  loved  to  call  football  games. 

There  was  a  real  period  of  melancholy 
following  his  separation  from  Jane  Wyman, 
because  Reagan  is  normally  straight-laced 
and  doesn't  take  such  things  lightly.  But  it 
didn't  last  nesirly  as  long  as  they  say  it  did. 
One  of  the  reasons  for  the  lonely-boy 
legend  may  have  been  that  Ronnie  doesn't 
smile  easily  on  command.  Consequently, 
when  photographed  at  nightclubs  he 
usually  had  a  long  face.  If  the  photog- 
rapher had  waited  until  somebody  told  a 


fimny  story,  he'd  probably  have  made  a 
swell  shot  of  Ronnie  rolling  on  the  floor 
in  enjoyment. 

Another  contributing  factor  to  the 
legend  is  undoubtedly  the  character  of  his 
free  time  occupation.  Ronnie  is  a  tireless, 
sometimes  fanatic,  worker  in  the  interests 
of  the  Screen  Actors'  Guild  and  certain 
political  organizations.  These  are  very 
serious  matters  and,  as  a  spokesman  for 
his  interests,  Reagan's  most  quoted  state- 
ments have  had  to  do  with  weighty  prob- 
lems. This  cannot  get  a  man  a  reputa- 
tion for  being  a  Katzenjammer  or  a  great 
wit.  Actually,  Reagan  is  something  of 
both. 

An  incident  indicating  Ronald  Reagan's 
humor  and  understanding  of  the  boister- 
ous life  took  place  during  the  war  when 
Ronnie,  a  captain,  was  temporarily  sta- 
tioned in  Hollywood. 

Anyone  who  has  ever  worn  the  ill-fitting 
brown  of  a  private's  suit  knows  that  every 
enlisted  man  in  the  army  at  one  time 
or  another  has  vowed  to  track  down  and 
trounce  at  least  one  officer.  But  no  man 
in  his  right  mind  ever  dared  do  it. 

A  couple  of  G.I.'s  were  spending  their 
furlough  money  at  Giro's  one  night,  when 
they  playfully  decided  to  take  the  place 
apart.  There  was  what  was  mildly  reported 
as  a  scuffle,  the  M.P.'s  were  called,  and 
the  merrymaking  dog-faces  were  dragged 
outside  to  the  parking  lot  where  they  be- 
gan reducing  the  Provost  Marshal's  staff 
by  two  good  men.  At  this  point,  an  army 
car  pulled  into  the  lot,  and  Captain  Ronald 
Reagan  got  out,  sped  to  the  scene  and 
shouted  a  command  for  everyone  to  hold 
fire.  One  of  the  soldiers  had  a  good  one 
left  in  him,  and  landed  it  smack  on  Cap- 
tain Reagan's  nose. 

Quiet  fell  on  Sunset  Strip.  Even  the 
civilians  paled.  The  M.P.'s  trembled  in  ter- 
ror for  their  late  antagonists. 

"Take  them  away,"  said  Captain  Rea- 
gan. 

"Yes,  sir,"  said  the  M.P.  still  able  to  talk. 
"And  what  is  the  name  of  the  officer  we 
will  charge  them  with  striking,  sir?" 

"Take  them  to  their  hotel,"  said  Captain 
Reagan,  "and  keep  your  mouth  shut  about 
cinybody  hitting  anybody." 

The  four  soldiers  got  into  a  jeep  and 
drove  away,  marvelling  at  the  wonder  of 
having  foimd  an  officer  with  a  real,  beat- 
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"How  about  that!"  he  is  reported  to  have 
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he  is  stamped  as  a  funless,  loveless,  tragic 
shell  of  a  man,  who  enjoys  nothing  more 
than  suffering  and  toting  the  burdens  of 
others. 

Fortunately,  for  some  of  Hollywood's 
serious  causes,  this  is  not  a  fact.  And  it  is 
not  a  fact  that  Ronald  Reagan  is  a  stuffed 
shirt  in  even  the  slightest  degree.  True, 
he  feels  called  upon  at  times  to  speak  his 
piece  on  such  matters  as  the  irresponsible 
press,  but  he  speaks  mainly  on  behalf  of 
his  fellows.  If  he  is  noted  as  a  chap  who 
would  chill  his  own  dear  mother  if  he 
should  pass  her  on  the  street,  it  is  only 
because  he  is  so  near-sighted  that  he  can't 
tell  a  watermelon  from  a  corn  cob  vmless 
it's  balanced  on  the  end  of  his  nose.  He 
doesn't  like  to  wear  his  glasses. 

Ronald  Reagan  is  an  enthusiastic  anirrfel 
in  his  every  waking  moment.  He  loves  to 
laugh;  he  loves  to  play.  He  loves  to  whistle 
at  chorus  girls,  drive  fast  cars,  roll  on 
the  grass  with  kids,  swim  in  the  ocean 
and  gallop  on  a  fast  horse  off  into  the  hori- 
zon. In  other  words,  he  likes  to  live. 

You  can  lay  the  fact  that  he  is  known 
as  a  solitary  gentleman  with  an  aching 
heart  directly  at  the  door  of  the  crusade 
that  has  been  conducted  for  him  by  other 
people.  And,  for  an  assist,  add  the  rather 
human  quality  of  fear,  for  he  has  been 
afraid  to  open  his  mouth  because  he 
thought  he  might  be  misunderstood,  mis- 
quoted, or  held  up  to  ridicule.  He  hasn't 
talked — and  he's  taking  the  consequences. 

In  the  case  of  Nancy  Davis,  though,  even 
the  diehards  have  begun  to  admit  that 
maybe  he  does  have  a  spark  of  love  for 
her  in  his  tired  old  heart.  And  his  inti- 
mates know  that  the  spark  is  deep  and 
real  and  no  doubt  long-lasting. 

Tt  would  be  hard  to  find  a  girl  more 
suited  to  Ronnie  Reagan's  somewhat 
split  nature  than  Nancy  Davis.  She,  too, 
has  been  tagged  the  serious  type — mainly 
because  of  the  roles  she  has  so  ably  played 
in  her  MGM  pictures.  She  comes  from  one 
of  Chicago's  first  families.  Her  father  is 
one  of  the  world's  most  noted  brain  sur- 
geons, and  her  mother  is  a  society  leader. 
She  has  been  educated  in  the  finest  schools 
and,  actually,  is  not  entirely  in  her  native 
element  in  the  theatrical  profession. 

However,  she  is  just  about  all  the  things 
Reagan  is,  except  that  she  never  whistles 
at  chorus  girls. 

They  met  in  a  rather  official,  although 
informal,  manner.  There  was  a  vacancy  on 
the  board  of  directors  of  the  Screen  Actors' 
Guild  and,  according  to  its  policy  of  trying 
to  get  prominent  players  in  office,  it  was 
decided  to  ask  Nancy  to  accept  the  post. 

Reagan,  as  president,  was  to  make  the 
formal  call  to  Nancy.  So  he  called  and 
suggested  that,  since  they  didn't  know 
each  other,  they  meet  across  a  plate  of 
spaghetti  or  something.  They've  been 
looking  at  one  another  across  something 
on  a  plate  almost  every  night  since. 

Because  of  a  fanatic  desire  to  keep  his 
name  out  of  the  papers  as  a  lover,  Ronald 
Reagan  has  been  a  bit  sneaky  in  his  court- 
ing of  Nancy  Davis.  And,  because  she  is 
the  type  of  girl  who  never  goes  to  carni- 
vals, Nancy  has  helped  all  she  can  in  this 
endeavor.  They  lean  toward  quiet,  out- 
-of-the-way  dining  places,  or  if  they  dine 
in  Hollywood  itself,  it  is  generally  at 
Chasens,  a  restaurant  prohibiting  pho- 
tographers. 

Most  of  their  dates  are  spent  at  the 
homes  of  friends,  like  the  Bill  Holdens  or 
the  Glenn  Fords.  The  fim  is  fast  and  furi- 
ous, and  the  hand-holding,  if  there  is  any, 
safe  from  prying  eyes.  Because  they  are 
both  active  in  the  SAG,  they  spend  long 
evenings  after  the  weekly  meetings  talk- 
ing about  contracts,  demands,  concessions 
— and  maybe  love. 

Ronald  Reagan's  greatest  passion  is 
horses.    When  he  is  not  working  on  The 


Last  Outpost  or  "presidenting",  he  can  be 
found  out  at  his  horse  ranch  in  the  San 
Fernando  Valley  sitting  on  a  rail  fence 
checking  up  on  his  stock — and  Nancy  is 
generally  sitting  on  the  next  rail.  A  lot 
of  the  time,  Ronnie  will  have  his  kids 
along,  Maureen,  ten,  and  Michael,  six.  The 
four  of  them  get  along  just  finfe. 

Ronnie  expects  the  horse  business  to 
pay  off  and  anticipates  that  he  will  be  a 
full-time  breeder  when  the  last  camera 
crank  has  turned  for  him.  His  obvious 
desire  to  show  Nancy  all  there  is  to  be 
seen  about  the  care  and  breeding  of 
horses  is  a  pretty  good  indication  that  he 
expects  her  to  be  around  the  farm  when 
that  day  comes. 

Ronnie  is  no  sudden  hot  flash  in  the  life 
of  Nancy  Davis.  She  is  not  the  hot  flash 
type  of  girl.  When  she  first  arrived  in 
Hollywood,  she  dated  only  old  friends  of 
the  family.  She  met  Bob  Walker,  and  it 
appeared  that  they  had  found  something 
resembling  romance.  Actually,  this  wasn't 
so.  Their  relationship  was  almost  purely 
professional.  Nancy  admired  him  as  an 
actor,  they  both  worked  at  the  same  studio, 
and  he  was  showing  her  the  ropes. 

She  met  and  dated  Robert  Sterling, 
but  when  a  photographer  wanted  to  take 
their  picture  one  night  when  Reagan  was 
away  in  the  East,  Nancy  only  consented 
when  it  was  understood  that  no  romantic 
innuendo  would  be  written  into  the  caption. 
Beyond  those  two  boys,  there,  were  none 
until  Ronnie. 


Friends  who  recently  came  from  London 
will  make  affidavits  that  Douglas  Fair- 
banks, Jr.,  put  it  this  way:  "1  can  arrange 
a  party  for  you  with  all  the  top  British 
cinema  stars — but,  of  course,  if  you  want 
to  meet  royalty  you'll  have  to  give  me 
two  days'  notice." — Irving  Hoffman  in  The 
Hollywood  Reporter. 


In  a  wonderfully  ordinary  way,  Nancy 
Davis  has  a  great  gift  for  home-making, 
a  real  attribute  as  far  as  a  man  of  Rea- 
gan's tastes  is  concerned.  Some  time  after 
she  got  her  contract  at  MGM,  she  moved  to 
an  apartment  in  Westwood.  That  com- 
munity has  a  group  of  sales  developers 
which  visits  newcomers  to  the  city  and 
presents  gifts  from  the  local  merchants, 
along  with  an  invitation  that  the  new 
resident  drop  in  and  say  hello.  It  is  purely 
a  commercial  proposition  designed  to 
build  good  will,  and  attract  new  cus- 
tomers. 

But  Nancy  Davis  was  so  touched  by  the 
gesture  that  she  was  almost  overcome  with 
appreciation.  She  was  probably  the  only 
person  to  ever  do  it,  but  she  took  the  list 
of  about  20  or  30  merchants,  drove  around 
to  each  one,  thanked  him  for  the  gift  and 
swore  undying  fidelity  to  his  enterprise. 
She  doesn't  take  even  the  simplest  gesture 
of  friendship  lightly. 

C  PECULATING  on  the  outcome  of  Holly- 
^  wood  romance  is  a  risky  business  in 
any  case.  Love  has  often  bloomed,  burst 
into  flame,  and  died  rapidly  from  a  kick 
in  the  shins.  What  looks  like  mad  passion 
today  might  look  like  a  plate  of  cold 
mashed  potatoes  tomorrow,  no  matter  who 
the  stars  are.  But  in  the  case  of  Ronnie 
and  Nancy,  there  is  one  difference.  Neither 
of  them  is  casual  romantically,  nor  are 
they  too  old  for  romance,  or  too  unre- 
sponsive to  do  without  it.  It  can  be  safely 
deduced,  then,  that  if  they  spend  all  their 
free  time  together  and  are  lonely  when 
they  are  apart,  it  has  to  be  love. 

One  of  these  days  there  will  be  a 
formal  announcement — probably  of  am  en- 
gagement. For  no  matter  how  you  figure 
it  out,  if  you  take  the  personalities,  past 
histories,  and  current  activities  of  Ronald 
Reagan  and  Nancy  Davis  into  serious  ac- 
coimt,  it  comes  up  love.  The  End 


iiz  taylor's  new  romance 

(Continued  from  page  30)  Donen,  her 
26-year-old  director — were  dining  out  at 
Mocambo.  Two  tall  lemonades  were 
poised  in  front  of  them,  but  they  went  un- 
noticed. Stanley  was  gazing  at  Liz.  and 
if  she  wasn't  dazzled  by  his  ardent  expres- 
sion, she  was  gi%Tng  a  great  performance. 

The  following  night  they  were  eating  to- 
gether at  La  Rue's,  with  liie  same  rapt  ex- 
pression in  their  eyes. 

That  week-end  T.i?  drove  down  to  Palin 
Springs  with  Barbara  Thompson — her  trial 
witness  and  Marshall  Thompson's  wife. 
When  asked  if  Stanley  Donen  would 
drive  with  them  or  whether  she  planned 
on  meeting  him  at  the  winter  resort.  Liz's 
answer  was  a  quick,  "Of  course  not." 

That  weekend  he  and  Liz  were  holding 
hands  at  the  Doll  House,  a  Pakn  Springs 
restaurant.  Since  then,  thej-'ve  been  seen 
together  everj-where.  They  were  practi- 
cally inseparable  during  the  month  of 
February.  You  could  find  them  together 
at  night  clubs,  restaurants,  mo\-ies,  on  the 
set  and  there  seemed  to  be  an  excitement 
about  them  that  onlj-  romance  can  create. 

Stanlej'  says,  "I've  known  Liz  for  years 
— ever  since  she  was  a  kid  on  the  lot.  I 
think  she's  swell,  a  lot  of  fun,  but  all  this 
talk  about  our  being  serious  is  a  lot  of 
blink. 

"Reporters  say  we  fell  in  love  while  1 
directed  her  in  Love  Is  Better  Than  Ever. 
That's  not  true.  Why  do  we  spend  a  lot 
of  time  together? 

^''Well,  we  enjoy  each  other.  Liz  is  good 
company  and  we  have  a  lot  in  common. 
Her  whole  life's  been  spent  in  show  busi- 
ness and  so  has  much  of  mine. 

"I  can't  talk  about  the  future  because  I 
don't  know  anything  about  it.  Liz  won't 
be  free  until  Januarj-,  1952.  An  awful  lot 
can  happen  in  a  year.  Besides,  I'm  still 
married,  at  least  technically. 

"Why  reporters  keep  trying  to  make  a 
big  romance  out  of  us  I  don't  know.  Right 
now.  we're  seeing  a  lot  of  each  other,  sure. 
But  that's  probably  becaiise  we've  both 
just  been  through  a  couple  of  iinhappy 
marriages." 

TxTEREST  in  Donen  has  risen  since  he's 
been  dating  Liz,  and  people  are  natu- 
rally curious  about  his  backgroimd.  He  is 
a  protege  of  Gene  Kelly.  He  was  bom  in 
Columbia,  South  Carolina,  April  13.  1925. 
and  was  raised  there,  attending  Colimibia 
High  School  and  spending  a  few  months 
at  the  State  University. 

Deciding  that  college  wasn't  for  him,  he 
headed  for  New  York  and  -with  great  luck, 
landed  a  job  in  the  dancing  chorus  of 
Pal  Joey. 

Gene  Kelly  was  the  star  of  that  show, 
and  he  took  a  liking  to  this  tall,  thin 
Southern  boy  with  the  dark  brown  hair 
and  dark  brown  eyes.  "You've  got  a  lot 
of  talent  kid,''  he  told  Stanley  one  day. 
''Stick  with  this  business  and  you'll  be  a 
fine  dancer." 

Stanley  stuck.  He  got  a  job  in  Best  Foot 
Torxcard.  a  Broadway  show  in  which  June 
Allyson  had  a  bit  part. 

When  Best  Foot  moved  to  Hollywood 
via  an  MGM  purchase,  Stanley  came  along. 
"I  danced  in  the  chorus,"  he  recalls,  "and 
then  stayed  on,  acting  as  an  assistant  dance 
director  to  Chuck  Walters,  Jack  Donohue, 
and  Don  Loper.  I  used  to  see  Liz  Taylor 
around  the  lot — she  was  only  11  at  the 
time.  I  was  only  20  or  so,  and  we  used  to 
say  'Hello,'  which  is  about  all  you  can  say 
to  an  11-year-old  girl." 

Fortunately  for  Stanley  Donen,  Gene 
Kelly  was  employed  by  MGM,  too.  so  that 
in  Gene  he  had  his  number-one  booster. 
Gene  kept  going  aroimd  the  lot  day  after 
day  telling  producers  to  give  Stanley  a 
chance  as  a  director. 


"Give  him  a  chance  yourself,"  an  execu-  I 
tive  told  Kelly  one  day.    "I'm  too  tired."  ! 

When  Columbia  borrowed  Kelly  to  stage 
the  dances  for  Cover  Girl,  he  brought 
Stanley  Donen  with  him.  Stanley  was  so 
good  an  assistant  that  Columbia  held  onto 
him  for  two  j-ears,  and  MGM  brought  him 
back  to  collaborate  with  Gene  as  dance 
director  on  Anchors  Aweigh. 

Stanley  then  served  as  a  dance  director 
on  ten  more  Metro  pictures,  while  Liz 
Taylor  was  growing  up  and  dating  Glenn 
Davis,  BUI  Pawlej',  and  several  others,  j 

^^\o^■zx's  love  life  seemed  limited  to  work 
^  until  he  met  Jean  Coyne,  a  young  j 
dancer  who'd  first  taken  dancing  lessons  \ 
from  Gene  Kelly  in  his  cellar  studio  in  ( 
Pittsburgh.    Jean  had  come  to  HoUj'^vood 
and  was  working  with  Stanley  as  a  dancer. 
"The  next  thing  j'ou  know,''  Donen  says, 
"we  got  mcirried.  ' 

"It  was  in  April  of  '48,  and  the  marriage 
lasted  a  year.  Jean  and  I've  been  sepa- 
rated almost  a  year  now.'' 

In  fact,  Stanley  Donen  and  his  wife  de- 
cided to  take  separate  paths  just  a  few 
weeks  before  Liz  Taylor  married  Nicky 
Hilton  at  the  Chiirch  of  the  Good  Shepherd. 

While  Stanley's  domestic  affairs  were 
falling  apart,  his  career  was  blooming.  He 
and  Gene  were  handed  the  directorial 
reins  of  On  The  Town,  and  when  that  pic- 
ture made  a  fortune,  Donen  was  given  the 
fuU  directorship  of  Fioyal  Wedding. 

Fred  Astaire,  who  starred  in  that  with 
Jane  Powell,  praised  him  highlj'  and  MGM 
assigned  him  to  Love  Is  Better  Than  Ever. 

■When  Liz  Taj-lor  reported  to  Stanley  for 
work  on  this  film,  she  knew  that  her  mar- 
riage to  Hilton  had  been  a  failure.  Stanley 
Donen  knew  the  same  thing  about  his 
marriage  to  Jean  Coyne — so  that  at  the 
outset  these  two  had  somethilig  in  common.  { 

It  maj-  seem  strange,  but  this  particizlar 
mutualitj- — the  end  'of  a  marriage — has 
ser\'ed  as  the  basis  of  more  second  mar- 
riages than  any  other  one  factor  in 
Holljnvood. 

This  is  not  to  saj-  that  Liz  Taylor  will 
become  IMrs.  Stanley  Donen  when  her 
divorce  becomes  final.  But  it  does  mean 
that  Stanlej-  imderstahds  her  problems,  her 
situation,  her  frame  of  mind  at  this  mo- 
ment better  than  anyone  else. 

A  LL  during  the  making  of  the  movie,  Liz 
was  upset.  She'd  left  Hilton,  she'd 
moved  out  of  her  mother's  house,  she  w-as 
li^ong  in  her  stand-in's  apartment,  and  yet 
Donen  got  her  to  act  as  if  she  were  sub- 
limelj-  ecstatic. 

Love  Is  Better  Than  Ever  was  finished 
on  Januarj-  12th.   Liz  Taylor  obtained  her  ' 
divorce  on  January  29th.   The  very  next 
day  Liz  and  Stan  started  going  out  to- 
gether publicly. 

A  week  later,  Stan's  wife,  Jean  CojTie, 
decided  to  leave  New  York  where  she's 
been  li\dng,  come  to  Hollj^vood  and  dis- 
cuss divorce  with  him.  I 

By  the  time  you  read  this,  the  chances  I 
are  that  Stanley  Donen  maj-  be  free  to 
marry  again. 

Liz  Taylor  saj^s  that  her  thoughts  these 
days  are  concentrated  exclusively  on  her 
career,  that  marriage  and  men  are  farthest 
from  her  mind. 

That  may  be  true  during  the  daytime,  ' 
but  in  the  evening  it's  a  different  storj'. 

Liz,  if  anything,  has  alwaj's  been  the 
kind  of  girl  who's  been  in  love  viith  love. 
Everytime  she's  dated  a  boj',  he's  become 
her  steady.  A  manless  life  for  her,  for  any 
period  of  time,  no  matter  how  short,  would 
not  be  of  her  choosing. 

She  may  say.  "There's  absolutely  noth- 
ing between  Stanley  Donen  and  me.  We're 
just  colleagues  who  work  together."  But 
the  truth  is  that  with  a  little  luck  Stanley 
Donen  may  come  to  occupy  a  verj'  large 
part  of  her  heart.  The  End 


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Lawyer   Jules    Goldstone    helps    Liz   ond    her    witness,    Barbara    Thompson    face  reporters. 

liz  taylor^s  ordeal 

Following  is  a  transcript  of  the  testimony  given  by  Elizabeth 
Taylor  and  Barbara  Thompson  on  January  29th,  1951,  when  Liz  received 
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No.  D  409065 


IN  THE  SUPERIOR  COURT 
OF  THE  STATE  OF  CALIFORNIA 

IN  AND  FOR 
THE  COUNTY  OF  LOS  ANGELES 
Department  No.  7 

Hon.  Thurmond  Clarke,  Judge 

ELIZABETH  HILTON,  \ 

Plaintiff, 
vs 

CONRAD  N.  HILTON,  JR.,  \ 

Defendant.  / 

reporter's  transcript 

appearances : 
For  Plaintiff:  jules  c.  goldstone,  Esq. 

and 

WILLIAIVI  BERGER,  ESQ. 

RYAN  &  bruington,  by 

G.  BENTLEY  RYAN,  Esq. 

c.  w.  LYMAN,  Official  Reporter 

LOS  ANGELES,  CALIFORNIA,  JANUARY  29,  1951. 
ELIZABETH  HILTON, 

plaintiff  herein,  called  as  a  witness  on  her  own 
behalf,  being  first  duly  sworn,  testified  as 
follows : 

DIRECT  EXAMINATION 

BY  MR.  BERGER : 

Q:  Your  name  is  Elizabeth  Hilton? 
A:  Yes. 

THE  court:  Mr.  Ryan,  you  are  appearing  for 
the  defendant? 

MR.  ryan:  That  is  correct. 

THE  COURT :  The  matter  will  go  through  as  an 
uncontested  matter,  unless  something  de- 
velops? 

MR.  ryan:  That  is  correct. 

Q:  (By  Mr.  Berger)  You  are  the  plaintiff  in 
this  suit,  Hilton  vs.  Hilton? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  Have  you  been  a  resident  of  the  County 
of  Los  Angeles  and  State  of  California  for  more 
than  one  year  prior  to  your  filing  this  action? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  When  and  where  were  you  married? 

A :  March  1st,  1950,  at  Beverly  Hills. 

Q:  When  were  you  separated? 

A:  Dec.  1,  1950. 

Q:  You  have  no  children? 

A:  No. 


Q:  Mrs.  Hilton,  you  allege  in  your  complaint 
that  during  your  married  life  with  your  hus- 
band, he  acted  towards  you  in  a  cruel  manner. 
Will  you  tell  the  Court  briefly  what  your  hus- 
band's cenduct  was? 

A:  He  was  indifferent  to  me  and  used  abu- 
sive language  to  me  (Witness'  voice  dies  away) . 
THE  reporter:  I  can't  hear  her. 
MR.  berger:  I  will  have  to  ask  leading  ques- 
tions. 

THE  court:  Yes.  If  you  will  repeat  that,  for 
the  record,  I  think  we  have  sufficient  testimony. 

Q:  Mrs.  Hilton,  starting  almost  from  the  be- 
ginning of  the  marriage,  your  husband  was  in- 
different to  you,  and  he  was  very  argumenta- 
tive, and  seemed  to  pick  arguments  with  you 
for  no  apparent  reason;  then  would  become 
very  violent,  and  use  abusive  language  towards 
you.  That  occurred  repeatedly  during  your 
married  life.  In  addition,  he  spent  most  of  the 
time  away  from  you.  When  they  were  in 
France,  on  their  honeymoon,  he  spent  night 
after  night  at  the  Casino  and  remained  away 
until  five  or  six  in  the  morning,  and  forced  her 
to  take  a  cab  alone.  This  continued  after  she 
returned  to  Los  Angeles.  ^ 

the  court:  Mrs.  Hilton,  is  that  all  true  and 
correct? 
A:  Yes. 

THE  court:  It  is  a  little  bit  unusual. 

MR.  ryan:  I  understand  it,  the  reporter  could 
not  hear,  and  I  see  no  objection  to  it. 

Q:  Mrs.  Hilton,  do  you  remember  when  you 
returned  from  your  honeymoon,  you  were  in 
your  hotel  room  with  your  mother  and  Mrs. 
Barbara  Thompson? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  Tell  the  Court  what  happened  there? 

A:  We  had  just  gotten  home,  and  I  had  un- 
packed my  clothes,  and  my  mother  was  there, 
and  Barbara  Thompson.  He  came  in  and  said. 
"What  in  the  hell  is  going  on  here?"  I  tried  to 
keep  him  from  going  on;  it  was  embarrassing. 

Q :  Was  this  an  example  of  the  type  of  argu- 
ments and  rudeness  he  exhibited  towards  you 
from  time  to  time  during  your  marriage? 

A:  Yes. 

Q :  During  the  following  months  back  in  Los 
Angeles,  when  you  were  out  at  public  affairs, 
was  he  indifferent  to  you? 

A:  Yes,  he  v^as. 

Q:  Did  he  remain  away  from  public  affairs 
and  make  it  conspicuous  that  he  was  indifferent 
to  you? 


A:  Yes,  he  did. 

Q:  In  other  words,  most  of  the  times  you 
would  talk  to  him,  it  would  end  up  in  some 
kind  of  an  argument? 

A:  Yes. 

THE  court:  This  all  upset  you  and  made  you 
nervous  and  ill? 
A:  Yes. 

Q:  And  caused  you  to  lose  a  great  deal  of 
weight? 
A:  Yes. 

Q :  You  have  a  substantial  income  from  your 
work  as  a  motion  picture  actress,  and  I  under- 
stand you  wish  to  waive  any  alimony? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  And  you  wish  the  return  of  your  maiden 
name? 
A:  Yes. 

BARBARA  THOMPSON, 

called  as  a  witness  on  behalf  of  the  plaintiff, 
being  first  duly  sworn,  testified  as  follows: 

THE  clerk:  Your  name  is  Barbara  Thompson? 
THE  witness:  Yes. 

DIRECT  EXAlVriNATION 

BY  MR.  BERGER: 

Q;  You  are  acquainted  with  the  plaintiff  in 
this  action? 
A:  Yes. 

Q:  How  long  have  you  known  her? 

A:  About  four  or  five  years. 

Q :  Do  you  know  that  she  has  been  a  resident 
of  the  County  of  Los  Angeles  and  State  of 
California  for  more  than  one  year  prior  to  the 
time  she  filed  this  action? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  Do  you  recall,  Mrs.  Thompson,  the  occa- 
sion when  you  were  present  in  her  hotel  room 
with  Mrs.  Taylor  and  Mrs.  Hilton,  when  her 
husband  came  in? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  State  what  happened  then. 

A:  The  day  Elizabeth  came  home  from  her 
honeymoon,  I  came  over  to  have  lunch,  and 
had  been  there  a  short  time  when  Mrs.  Hilton 
and  her  mother  arrived.  She  had  lost  a  tre- 
mendous amount  of  weight.  He  came  in  and 
said,  "What  the  hell  is  going  on  here?"  He  was 
very  rude  to  Mrs.  Taylor.  I  asked  Elizabeth  to 
take  me  home.  She  had  several  bags,  and  she 
asked  Mr.  Hilton  to  take  them  out  to  the  car, 
and  he  said,  "Get  the  bell  boy  to  take  them 
out."  Afterward  he  took  them  out. 

Q:  Mrs.  Thompson,  did  you  have  occasion 
to  see  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hilton  at  social  affairs  and 
other  functions? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  Was  this  attitude  typical  of  his  attitude 
towards  her  when  you  talked  to  them  in  later 
months? 

A:  Yes. 

Q:  Have  you  had  occasion  to  observe  the 
effect  of  his  conduct  upon  her  health? 
A :  Yes 

Q:  Tell  what  it  was. 

A:  When  she  was  on  her  honeymoon,  she 
was  very  gay,  but  when  she  returned  she  was 
very  moody  and  very  tired. 

MR.  ryan:  Mrs.  Hilton,  I  understand  you  are 
waiving  further  alimony  and  are  satisfied. 
(To  judge)  She  is  the  recipient  of  substantial 
income  from  her  work. 

THE  court:  Yes;  she  understands  that. 

MR.  BERGER :  Yes,  She  does. 

THE  court:  The  divorce  will  be  granted. 


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T 'm  very  happy,  because  so  many  girls 
*  wrote  to  tell  me  that  my  column  about 
how  to  catch  the  boy  you  want  has  been 
helpful. 

A  follow-up  on  that  column  seems  in- 
dicated since  half  the  letters  this  month 
were  from  girls  whose  boy  friends  sud- 
denly lost  interest  in  them.  The  girls  asked, 
"How  can  I  get  him  back?"  and  "What 
did  I  do  wrong?" 

Since  I  was  puzzled  I  put  all  the  letters 
aside  and  then  re-read  them.  Then  the 
letters  themselves  gave  me  the  answers. 
A  girl  from  Troy,  N.  Y.,  wrote,  "He  told 
me  he  was  crazy  about  me.  Then  I  started 
to  take  him  for  granted.  I  guess  I  bossed 
him  around.  And  now  he  doesn't  like  me 
any  more.    How  can  I  get  him  back?" 

.\nother  girl — she  lives  in  New  Orleans 
— said,  "I  went  around  with  Bill  for  seven 
months.  Then  I  met  a  boy  I  thought  I 
liked  better.  Now  I  realize  my  mistake. 
How  can  I  get  Bill  back?" 

After  I  had  read  hundreds  of  letters  like 
that  I  realized  what  the  trouble  was.  You 
lose  your  boy,  90  per  cent  of  the  time, 
because  of  something  you  have  done.  You 
get  too  sure  of  yourself.  And  of  him. 
Or  you  make  too  many  demands  on  him. 
Or  you  start  looking  around.  So  nine 
times  out  of  ten  when  you  lose  your  fel- 
low it's  your  own  fault. 

I  know  that  this  is  an  "after  the  fact"  de- 
duction. But  if  mistakes  couldn't  be  rec- 
tified then  the  world  would  be  in  a  bigger 
mess  than  it  is  now.  So  first  of  all  you 
face  the  fact  that  you've  lost  him  because 
of  something  you  have  done.  And  when 
you  know  this,  the  business  of  saying,  "I'm 
sorry"  gets  a  lot  easier. 

I  know  all  about  pride.  I've  got  it  my- 
self. But  pride  is  dangerous  stuff  when 
you've  lost  something  important.  So  the 
girl  from  Troy  should  be  as  honest  with 
the  boy  as  she  was  telling  me  about  it.  She 


should  ask  him  if  she  could  meet  him 
after  school,  or  if  he  would  come  to  her 
house  for  half  an  hour.  Then  she  should 
say,  "I'm  sorry.  I  was  wrong.  I  was 
too  bossy.  I  took  you  too  much  for 
granted.  But  I'd  like  to  prove  to  myself 
and  to  you  that  I  can  change." 

Tt's  difficult — sure.  It's  hard  to  swallow 
*  your  pride  and  admit  you're  wrong. 
But  what  is  more  difficult — suffering  be- 
cause you've  lost  the  boy  you're  crazy 
about  or  just  saying  honestly  that  you're 
wrong  ? 

And  the  New  Orleans  girl  should  say 
something  like  this,  "I  made  a  big  mistake. 
I  thought  I  was  crazy  about  So-and-So  but 
I  found  out  I  wasn't.  If  you  can  forgive 
me  for  being  fickle  I  wish  we  could  be 
good  friends  again." 

I  remember  once  I  had  to  apologize  to 
my  parents  for  something  I  had  done.  I 
hated  to  do  it.  I  put  it  off  for  a  long 
time.  Finally  I  did  apologize  and  my 
mother  said,  "Joan,  this  is  the  biggest  step 
you  have  taken  toward  becoming  an  adult. 
When  you  have  the  courage  to  admit  you're 
wrong,  you  stop  being  a  child  and  go  into 
another  bracket."  I've  never  forgotten : 
that  and,  oddly  enough,  I  felt  so  much 
better  myself  when  I  said — and  meant  it — 
"I  was  wrong,  and  I'm  sorry."  j 

If  the  boy  honestly  likes  you,  you'll  \ 
get  him  back — if  he's  worth  having  back. ! 
However,  if  he's  found  another  girl  that  | 
he  likes  better,  then  there's  not  much  you  1 
can  do ;  which  is  why  if  you've  made  a 
mistake  you  should  apologize  fast. 

Although  frequently  the  girl  loses  her 
fellow  because  of  something  she  has  done, 
there  are  exceptions.  I  had  a  letter  from 
a  girl  who  said  that  she  was  suddenly 
dropped  by  her  steady  for  no  apparent 
reason.  Again  the  straightforward  method 
is  best.    She  should  just  go  to  him  and 


ask  him  what  happened.  This  isn't  easy, 
either.  But  it  depends  on  how  important 
the  fellow  is  to  her.  I  can't  stand  not 
knowing  the  truth.  And  if  a  boy  suddenly 
becomes  cold,  there  must  be  a  reason.  Ask- 
ing the  reason  certainly  can't  do  any  harm. 
And  it  may  do  a  lot  of  good.  I  always  be- 
lieve that  there's  no  problem  that  can't  be 
solved  if  the  people  involved  sit  down  quiet- 
ly and  sanely,  and  talk  it  out. 

I  had  a  lot  of  letters  from  girls  who  said 
they  lost  their  boy  friends  because  other 
friends  talked  behind  their  backs.  It's  all  very 
well  to  say,  "If  he  believes  gossip  about  me 
then  I  don't  want  him,"  but  the  false  friend 
can  be  very  insidious  and  ver>"  convincing. 
There  are  mean  people  who  can  tell  lies  and 
make  them  seem  like  the  truth.  And  you  can't 
always  blame  the  poor  feUow  for  being 
fooled.  So  there  a^ain,  you  don't  play  games. 
You  just  speak  right  up  and  ask,  "What's 
wTong?  WTiat  has  So-and-So  told  you  about 
me?"  This  is  the  only  way  you  can  defend 
yourself.  And  the  whole  truth  is  always  the 
best  defense. 

BUT  there's  one  thing  you  have  to  remem- 
ber. If  none  of  these  things  work,  and 
if  he  doesn't  want  you  back — then  let  him  go. 
If  he's  fickle  himself,  if  he's  easily  bored,  he 
isn't  the  kind  of  boy  you  want  to  date.  You're 
not  being  proud,  j'ou're  being  independent 
and  sensible.  Try  to  forget  him  and  become 
interested  in  someone  eke,  for  at  our  age  there  ! 
is  no  such  thing  as  the  'til-death-do-us-part 
kind  of  love. 

Xow  here  are  some  other  problems.  '  Dear 
Joan:  I  went  to  a  party  with  a  boy.  I  think 
he  Ukes  me,  but  I'm  not  sure.  How  can  I 
find  out? 

— D.  'C,  Detroit,  Mich." 

A  lot  of  kids  have  asked  this  same  kind  of 
question.  I  should  think  you  can  tell  by  a 
boy's  actions  whether  he  likes  you  or  not.  For 
example,  how  do  you  know  whether  or  not 
a  girl  friend  likes  you?  If  she  enjoys  talk- 
ing to  you,  if  you  have  fun  together — then  she 
likes  you.  So  if  a  boy  likes  to  talk  to  you, 
and  if  you  have  fun  together  you  can  assume 
he  likes  you.  Besides,  isn't  there  a  kind  of 
sbcth  sense  that  tells  a  girl  whether  or  not 
a  boy  is  crazy  about  her? 

"Dear  Joan:  How  can  I  politely  let  a  boy 
know  that  I  don't  want  to  date  him?  I'm  17, 
and  a  junior  in  high  school.  Even  though  I 
don't  want  to  go  out  with  him,  I  wouldn't 
want  -him  to  dislike  me. 

— J.  A.  F.,  S.\x  Francisco,  Calif." 
In  the  first  place  why  don't  you  want  to 
date  this  boy?  If  you're  going  steady  with 
someone  else,  you  just  teU  him  so.  If  you're 
not  and  he's  a  nice  boy,  what's  wrong  with 
giving  him  a  date?  If  you  want  him  for  a 
friend — as  your  letter  indicates — then  why 
shouldn't  you  go  to  the  movies  or  a  dance 
with  him? 

'■Dear  Joan:  I'm  a  19-year-old  boy.  I  have 
been  married  and  divorced  and  I  go  with 
a  girl  whose  mother  does  not  approve  of  me. 
I  have  tried  my  best  to  appease  her.  I  am 
baffled  and  don't  know  what  to  do.  Please  give 


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me  )'our  advice. 

—J.  T.,  Salisbury,  N.  C." 
Well,  first  of  all — don't  appease  her.  Try- 
ing "to  get  on  the  good  side"  of  a  person  is 
obvious  and  kind  of  false.  You  know  how 
I  feel — that  there's  nothing  that  can't  be 
cured  by  honesty.  If  I  were  you,  I'd  go  to  this 
mother  and  ask  her  why  she  doesn't  approve. 
If  it's  because  you  have  been  divorced,  then 
just  explain  the  circumstances  to  her.  If  it's 
for  another  reason  then  you  can  clear  that  up, 
too.  She  should  certainly  give  you  the 
chance  to  be  heard.  But  don't  have  this 
talk  with  her  when  your  girl  friend  is  around. 
And  don't  try  to  do  it  casually.  Make  the 
meeting  with  her  as  important  as  it  is.  It  is 
important. 


Her  gown  fitted  her  as  though  it  appre- 
ciated the  opportunity — Joan  Evans 
quoted  by  Walter  Winchell  in  The  Sunday 
Mirror. 


"Dear  Joan:  I  have  a  pug  nose  and  everybody 
makes  fun  of  it.  Can  you  please  tell  me 
what  I  should  do. 

— B.  C,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y." 
You  know  what?  Gloria  Swanson,  one  of 
the  most  glamorous  women  who  ever  lived, 
has  a  pug  nose.  And  I'll  bet  when  she  was 
a  kid  people  made  fun  of  it.  Well,  just  look 
at  her  today — and  there's  the  best  answer  I 
can  give  you. 

"Dear  Miss  Evans:  I  met  a  boy  two  years 
older  than  I  am.  My  parents  do  not  like 
him,  but  they  are  judging  him  by  his  rela- 
tives and  they  have  never  met  him.  I'm  sure 
my  parents  would  like  him  if  they  met  him. 
Your  advice  would  be  very  much  appreciated. 
— J.  D.,  Kingston,  Ontario,  Canada." 
Why  can't  you  ask  your  parents  to  meet 
him  and  judge  for  themselves?  This  seems 
to  me  the  only  sensible  thing  to  do,  and  I'm 
sure  that  if  you  explain  to  them  how  im- 
portant it  is  to  you  they  will  at  least  meet 
him.  .Anyhow,  I  always  think  it's  a  good  idea 
for  parents  to  know  the  boys  a  girl  goes  out 
with. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  had  infantile  paralysis  when 
I  was  four  years  old.  Now  I  am  14  and  my 
question  isr  'Does  it  make  any  difference  to 
a  boy  if  you're  a  cripple?' 

— Louise,  SPRiNGriELD,  Mo." 
When  you  think  about  the  great  people 
who  have  been  physically  handicapped,  you'll 
find  that  the  answer  is,  "No,  it  doesn't  make 
any  difference."  But  there's  something  you 
have  to  do.  You  must  face  the  fact  that 
you  have  a  handicap.  You  must  try  not  to 
be  sensitive  or  defensive  about  it  and,  tough 
as  it  is  to  realize,  you  must  be  a  little  bit  nicer, 
a  little  bit  more  amusing  than  other  girls. 
If  you  compensate  with  sweetness  and 
brightness  for  your  physical  handicap,  your 
own  handicap  will  be  insignificant  as  compared 
to  your  charm. 

"Dear  Joan:  Do  you  suppose  a  girl  of  13 
could  be  in  love?  My  parents  know  and 
like  him.  We  have  loads  of  fun  and  we  take 
each  other  seriously.  We  have  lots  to  talk 
about  and  enjoy  one  another's  company. 
Please  tell  me  if  this  could  be  real  love  or 


is  it  just  a  silly  infatuation  I'll  get  over? 
— E.  J.,  St.  Louis,  Mo." 
What  difference  does  it  make?  Why  do 
you  have  to  know  whether  it's  real  love  or 
infatuation?  The  wisest  person  in  the  world 
— and  that's  certainly  not  me — can't  answer 
a  question  about  love  and  infatuation.  And  I 
don't  think  it  matters.  If  you  like  this  boy 
and  he  likes  you,  and  your  parents  like  him 
why  bother  about  the  old  love-infatuation 
problem  ? 

"Dear  Miss  Evans:   My  problem  is  that 
whenever  anyone  tells  me  anything  for  my 
lown  good,  I  always  give  back  with  some 
■wise  crack  that  makes  me  extremely  sorry  I 
said  it  later. 

— P.  L.,  Washington,  D.  C." 
Oh,  honey,  you've  sure  come  to  the  right 
girl.  That's  my  problem,  too.  And  you 
know  what?  I  think  it's  kind  of  a  universal 
problem.  Nobody  likes  to  be  criticized.  The 
first  thing  you  want  to  say  is,  "Why,  I  don't 
do  that"  or,  "That  isn't  like  me."  Learning 
to  "take  it"  is  real  hard,  but  you've  made  the 
first  step,  just  as  I  have. 

You  know  you're  wrong  to  give  back  with 
the  wise  crack.  When  you  know  you  have  a 
fault  that's  the  beginning  of  learning  how  to 
correct  it.  It's  only  the  people  who  go  along 
blindly  thinking  they're  perfect  who  have  the 
real  problems.  But  let  me  tell  you  what  I  did 
about  taking  criticism.  Luckily  for  me,  when 
I'm  making  a  picture,  I  have  to  take  criticism 
and  not  answer  back.  If  I  did  I'd  get  into  all 
kinds  of  trouble  with  the  director.  So  I  had  to 
learn  how  to  take  it.  It's  not  easy  and  it's 
not  fun  but  if  you  have  to,  you  have  to. 
Now  when  I'm  told  something  for  my  own 
good  I  try  to  analyse  it.  If  I  honestly  think 
the  criticism  is  fair  I  say,  "Thank  you.  I'll 
try  to  correct  this  fault."  If  I  feel  sure  it 
isn't  fair,  I  say  the  same  thing.  For  a  wise 
crack  never  gets  you  anywhere,  girl.  Good 
luck.  I  know  what  you  have  to  fight,  but  you 
can  win  if  you  try  hard  enough. 

"Dear  Joan:  I'm  18  and  I  want  to  know  if  it 
is  a  shame  to  like  cowboy  heroes.  Some  older 
girls  think  so.  I  have  three  special  favorites 
and  belong  to  fan  clubs  of  two  of  them.  Do 
you  think  this  is  wrong  and  that  I  am  too 
old  for  such  things? 

— B.  W.,  Winchester,  III." 
I  certainly  don't  see  anything  wrong  in 
that.  What  about  the  important  men  in  the 
business  world  who  read  detective  stories?  Is 
that  wrong?  What  about  me?  I'm_not  big 
and  important,  but  I  love  the  Oz  books.  They're 
supposed  to  be  for  children  only  but  I  read 
them  over  and  over  again.  And  I  like  western 
movies,  too.  Don't  be  defensive  about  liking 
your  cowboy  heroes.  If  they  interest  you 
what  difference  does  it  make  if  you're  eight 
or  80?  Western  movies  are  made  to  be  en- 
tertaining. So  enjoy  yourself,  and  be  happy 
you  can. 

"EDITOR'S  NOTE:  DO  YOU  HAVE  A 
TEEN-AGER  PROBLEM?  IF  SO,  TELL 
IT  TO  JOAN.  SHE  CAN'T  ANSWER  ALL 
YOUR  LETTERS  BUT  SHE  WILL  PICK 
OUT  THE  MOST  INTERESTING  ONES. 
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{Continued  from  page  16)  a  second-hand 
apology.  "Miss  Bergman  is  terribly  sorry, 
but — "  or,  "It  just  happens  that  this  week, 
they — "  All  of  which  would  only  serve  to 
lend  a  vague  confirmation-by-hearsay  to 
the  worst  of  the  gossip  in  America. 

T)uT  the  phone  did  ring  in  55  minutes, 
which  is  amazing  when  you  recall  that 
in  Italy  an  hour  is  a  loose  expression  at 
best.  And  the  voice  said,  "Do  come  to  see 
us  at  seven." 

It  can  now  be  said  authoritatively,  that 
this  is  the  way  it  always  happens.  The 
Rossellinis  run  a  house  with  what  used  to 
be  called  a  salon.  Their  apartment  is  al- 
ways full  of  callers;  the  talk  is  in  three 
languages.  It  is  quite  possible  that  half  the 
people  in  the  living  room  at  any  one 
moment  have  not  met  the  other  half,  or 
find,  on  being  introduced,  that  they  do  not 
share  a  common  knowledge  of  Spanish, 
Italian,  French  or  English.  The  apartment 
itself  is  huge,  and  informal.  Visitors  are 
left  to  manage  for  themselves  with  an 
agreeable  minimum  of  attention  from  ser- 
vants. And  sooner  or  later,  everybody  of 
consequence  in  Rome  shows  up  for  an 
evening  of  talk  at  the  Rossellinis. 

It  has  gotten  so  that  people  who  fail  to 
make  it  begin  to  feel  they  have  somehow 
also  failed  sociadly.  This  is  rather  well 
illustrated  by  Robert  Taylor's  experience 
when  he  was  here  to  make  Quo  Vadis. 
Taylor  had  heard  the  usual  stories  about 
Ingrid  Bergman  in  Hollywood,  and  being 
a  man  who  has  learned  the  value  of  his 
own  privacy,  he  made  no  overtures  toward 
meeting  her  in  Rome. 

But  wherever  Taylor  went  he  heard 
stories  about  Ingrid-this  and  Ingrid-that. 
It  seemed  to  him  that  everybody  in  Rome 
was  running  into  the  girl  at  one  time  or 
another — except  himself. 

He  turned  to  a  newspaperwoman  friend 
and  remarked  with  some  petulance: 

"Look,  everybody  in  Rome  gets  to  see 
Ingrid  Bergman  but  me,  and  I  met  her  in 
Sweden  before  she  even  came  to  Holly- 
wood. Do  you  think  it  might  be  managed 
for  me  to  get  to  see  her  again?" 

"Why,  Bob,"  the  newspaper  woman  said, 
"all  you  have  to  do  is  telephone.  Every- 
body does." 

"But  how  do -I  get  the  number?"  Taylor 
asked. 

"But  everyone  knows  it  in  Rome,  Bob," 
he  was  told.  And  it  is  the  truth.  The 
present  writer,  who  left  his  little  address 
book  in  his  hotel  and  had  to  call  the  Ros- 
sellinis, asked  the  barman  of  the  Excelsior. 
A  moment  later  he  came  back  with  the 
correct  number. 

So  much,  then,  for  the  myth  of  Berg- 
man's inaccessibility.  The  next  universal 
surprise  is  that  far  from  being  a  ghastly 
caricature  of  her  former  self,  her  beauty 
wasted  away  and  her  spirit  hopelessly 
crushed,  Ingrid  today  is  actually  a  more 
strikingly  handsome  woman  than  she  ever 
was,  which  is  saying  a  good  deal.  She  has 
lost  some  weight,  which  she  could  afford 
to  do,  but  her  face  is  unmarked,  as  eager 
as  ever,  and  as  natural. 

'T'his  seems  to  surprise  everyone.  Ingrid 
J-  herself  has  commented  on  it.  When 
Jack  Benny  came  to  call  last  summer,  she 
said,  he  spoke  to  her  in  almost  conspira- 
torial tones  over  the  telephone.  He  walked 
into  the  room,  regarded  her  closely  and 
saw  her  as  she  is,  which  is  to  say  happy 
and  bright.  Then  he  fell  into  a  chair  in 
the  relieved  manner  of  a  man  who  had 
steeled  himself  for  a  shock  which  didn't 
come.  "I  see  now  how  wrong  I  was,"  Jack 
said.  "You're  all  right.  You're  absolutely 
happy." 

Now  this  is  not  to  say  that  the  pagt 


year  has  left  Ingrid  untouched.  It  is  only 
lately  that  she  has  begun  to  feel  really  well 
again.  There  are  problems  still,  and  the 
solution  of  most  of  these  is  inevitably  in 
the  hands  of  time.  But  Bergman  is  willing 
to  look  ahead  today,  something  that  was 
not  equally  true  a  year  ago. 

"It  is  like  an  illness  you've  gone  through,'' 
Ingrid  has  said.  "As  time  goes  on,  it  re- 
cedes more  and  more  into  the  past  and  you 
find  you  forget  lots  of  things." 

Perhaps  the  main  reason  Ingrid  is  able 
to  forget,  is  that  she  is  willing  and  anxious 
to  get  back  to  work.  There  was  a  time  in 
her  life  when  she  said,  and  apparently 
meant  it,  that  she  was  going  to  quit  pic- 
tures for  good.  Although  she  now  says 
she  never  meant  to  give  up  acting,  it  was 
so  taken  at  the  time.  A  constant  flood  of 
mail  from  all  over  the  world  has  persuaded 
her  that  this  is  impossible. 

And  the  decision  to  get  back  to  work  has 
further  strengthened  Ingrid.  She  has  al- 
ways been  active,  full  of  a  variety  of  in- 
terests. The  enforced  solitude  of  her  life 
after  she  became  the  hottest  piece  of  front 
page  copy  in  every  paper  in  the  world,  left 
her  with  nothing  to  do  but  hide. 

"I  don't  know  what  Ingrid  was  thinking 
of  at  that  time  of  her  life,"  a  friend  of  hers 
has  said.  "Surely  she  didn't  think  that 
this  was  something  the  newspapers  would 
not  be  interested  in.  I'd  heard  she  was 
always  pretty  understanding  about  the 
work  of  newspapermen.  Then  she  acted  as 
though  they  had  invaded  her  privacy, 
without  right." 

Ingrid  does  not  want  to  look  back  today. 
Interestingly  enough,  her  best  friends  con- 
tinue to  be  writers  and  journalists.  She 
talks  freely  with  them  about  everything, 
except  her  motives  in  attempting  to  keep 
herself  from  the  public  gaze  during  a 
period  when  she  obviously  was  bound  to 
be  big  news. 

Every  so  often  one  of  these  friends  will 
disappoint  Ingrid  by  filing  a  story  that 
Roberto  is  a  playboy  because  he  has  three 
cars,  one  a  sharp  Ferrari  racer,  and  be- 
cause he  used  to  squire  Marilyn  Buferd, 
the  former  Miss  America  (who  is  making 
a  nice  career  in  Rome  of  having  been  just 
that)  or  Anna  Magnani,  the  great*  Italian 
actress,  around  town.  That  a  top  director 
should  have  a  hobby  collecting  cars  seems 
no  more  strange  than  that  he  should  have 
a  couple  of  race -horses;  sind  that  he 
should  not  have  been  exactly  starving  for 
female  companionship  before  he  got  mar- 
ried ought  to  be  taken  for  granted.  But  it's 
all  in  the  way  it's  presented,  of  course. 
And  even  though  the  past  year  has  seen 
at  least  two  friends  of  the  Rossellinis  make 
a  good  deal-  of  this,  Ingrid  still  refuses  to 
be  angry  or  bitter  about  it. 

"I  guess  there  are  some  people  you  just 
have  to  learn  about  the  hard  way." 

TIT  AS  she  ever  bitter,  however,  or  was 
"  there  anything  that  hurt  her  during  all 
the  days  when  she  regarded  American 
public  opinion  as  dead-set  against  her? 
"Yes,  one  thing,"  Ingrid  has  said.  "Talk 
that  I  abandoned  Pia."  When  she  even 
says  the  word  abandoned  you  can  feel  the 
quotation  marks  around  it. 

"It  wasn't  true  of  course.  I  talked  to 
Pia  on  the  telephone  all  the  time.  I  wrote 
to  her.  She  wrote  to  me.  Even  when  the 
court  business  was  settled  and  I  got  half- 
custody,  I  thought  at  once  of  more  than 
just  seeing  Pia.  I  thought  of  what  would 
be  best  for  her,  to  help  her  make  the 
adjustment  to  a  new  kind  of  life.  Far 
from  being  abandoned,  Pia  was  in  my 
thoughts  all  the  time,  every  minute.  Pia 
knows  that." 

The  one  thing  that  still  troubles  Ingrid 
is  her  separation  from  Pia.  They  were  a 
deeply  devoted  mother  and  daughter  and 
what  happened  did  so  in  a  way  that  no 
12-year-old   can   understand.     There  is. 


inevitably,  a  feeling  of  guilt  attached  to 
leaving  a  child  to  whom  one  has  been  so 
close,  despite  the  frequency  of  letters  or 
telephone  calls.  One  does  not  have  to  talk 
long  to  Ingrid  to  realize  she  still  possesses 
this  normal  fear  that  her  daughter  may 
think  she  "let  her  down." 

Ingrid  is  looking  forward  to  the  com- 
ing simimer  when  she  may  spend  the  first 
months  she's  been  able  to  with  Pia  since 
she  left  California  almost  two  years  ago 
to  make  Stromboli.  At  the  moment  of  this 
writing,  it  is  clear  that  Ingrid  isn't  abso- 
lutely sure  that  she  will  be  allowed  to  see 
Pia.  She  will  move  heaven  and  earth  to 
spend  time  with  her.  But  she  doesn't 
want  to  make  her  daughter  a  pawn  in  a 
game  between  two  people  who  have  dif- 
ferences quite  apart  from  the  child. 

"Don't  say  anything  to  hurt  Pia  or 
Peter,"  she  will  urge  a  writer.  "They  have 
suffered  enough." 

A  mutual  friend  of  Ingrid  and  her  ex- 
husband  tells  of  when  Ingrid  received  no 
message  from  Pia.  Ingrid,  of  course,  had 
dispatched  the  usual  number  of  Christmas 
gifts  to  her  daughter,  mailed  well  enough 
in  advance  to  reach  her  in  time.  But,  says 
the  friend,  Ingrid  jiever  received  an  ac- 
knowledgment that  the  packages  had  ar- 
rived, and  she  began  to  fret.  She  did  not 
want  her  daughter  to  think  that  her 
mother  had  forgotten  her  on  this,  their 
first  Christmas  apart. 

When  Ingrid  telephoned  Pia,  the  friend 
says,  there  was  difficulty  getting  through. 
This  further  distressed  Ingrid.  Were  they 
simply  refusing  to  talk  to  her?  Wouldn't 
they  even  come  to  the  telephone?  Were 
they  dehberately  attempting  to  keep  her 
from  Pia,  somehow  to  poison  the  child's 
mind  against  her? 

What  actually  happened  was  that  Pia 
and  Dr.  Lindstrom  had  gone  out  of  town. 
But  at  the  six  or  seven-thousand  mUe  re- 


Italian  film  fan  magazines  charge 
for  all  publicity.  A  cover  on  one 
of  the  mags  costs  the  star  $65 
(40,000  lire).  The  only  star  who 
gets  free  space  is  Ingrid  Bergman. 

Irving  Hoffman  in 

The  Hollywood  Reporter 


move  that  Rome  is  from  California,  this  is 
one  of  the  things  you  never  imagine. 
Finally,  in  the  rush  of  Christmas  mail, 
messages  came  from  Pia — and  Ingrid  knew 
her  fears  had  been  groundless. 

That  rush  of  Christmas  mail  also  proved 
something  else  to  Ingrid.  Before  last 
Christmas  she  wasn't  very  sure  how  well 
she  stood  with  her  American  public.  She 
read  nothing  but  the  newspapers  and, 
inevitably,  conceived  the  notion  that 
everybody  hated  her.  Why  else  should 
they  "hoimd"  her  at  this  time  of  her  life? 

But  last  Christmas'  maU  forced  her  to 
change  her  mind.  The  Italian  post  office 
had  to  put  on  special  men  to  handle  the 
mountain  of  cards  and  letters  she  received 
from  people  in  America  who  sent  encour- 
aging and  reassuring  messages. 

jVTo  American  producer  of  any  conse- 
-'- '  quence  who  passes  through  Rome  fails 
to  make  a  proposal  that  Ingrid  do  a  picture 
for  him. 

"I  guess  I'm  not  quite  as  washed  up  as  I 
feared  I  was,"  she  has  said  ruefuUy. 

She  and  RosseUini,  by  the  time  this  ap- 
pears, should  have  begun  work  on  a  pic- 
ture called  Europe,  1951,  in  France.  The 
new  picture  appears  to  be  of  a  style  quite 
new  for  Rossellini,  a  "problem"  picture  as 
Hollywood  calls  them,  with  a  fairly  in- 
volved plot.  In  it  Ingrid  plays  the  mother 
of  a  young  son  who,  troubled  by  the  plight 
of  the  modern  world,  appears  to  think  he 


has  no  alternative  but  suicide.  Her  rela- 
tionship to  her  son,  to  a  man  to  whom  her 
son  has  turned,  and  to  her  husband  make 
up  the  core  of  the  story.  But  where 
Stromholi,  the  American  version  of  which, 
incidentally,  Rossellini  regards  as  a  horror  I 
— was  shot  "off  the  cuff,"  largely  without  a  \ 
real  script,  the  new'  picture  will  probably 
get  a  real  script.  Talking  about  the  pic-  j 
ture,  it  becomes  pretty  clear  that  Ingrid  is  1 
anxious  to  start  acting  again. 

She  is  not  only  obviously  in  love  with 
Roberto  Rossellini,  but  regards  him  as  the 
most  creative  film-maker  v/ith  whom  she 
has  ever  worked.  She  has  a  tremendous 
respect  for  Alfred  Hitchcock,  and  the  late 
Victor  Fleming,  but  to  her,  neither  pos- 
sessed Rossellini's  creative  flair. 

Ingrid  and  her  husband  have  minor  dif- 
ferences, as  actress  and  producer.  He 
likes  to  "ad  lib"  his  stories  and  his  scenes. 
She  is  a  careful  actress  who  knows  her 
part  long  before  she  faces  the  camera. 
They  appear  to  have  hit  on  a  compromise 
for  Europe,  1951.  This  picture  should  prove 
even  more  interesting  than  the  original 
version  of  Stromboli  because  it  will  be  a 
kind  of  collaboration. 

TDuT  the  most  important  reason  for  In- 
grid's  present  happiness  is  a  blue-eyed, 
blond-haired,  one-year-old  lad  nsimed 
Robertino.  He  is  a  quick,  alert  child  who 
gazes,  smiling,  at  strangers  until  he  decides 
he  does  not  hke  what  he  sees,  and  then 
starts  to  bawl.  On  being  picked  up  by  his 
mother,  the  tears  turn  to  smUes. 

Watching  Ingrid  Bergman  hold  that 
child  in  her  arms,  you  can  be  absolutely 
certain  that  she  is  happy — so  happy  that 
she  has  no  time  for  regrets  about  what  she 
has  done.  Bergman,  today,  is  anxious  to 
go  back  to  work  on  a  full-time  basis, 
pleased  in  the  knowledge  that  the  public 
stOl  wants  her.  The  End 


7^  cfoocf sfeer-fhm 
airline  pilots.,. 


OF 
THEM 
SAID... 


ver  200  airline  pilots  at 
New  York's  great  airports 
were  asked  to  compare 
CAVALIER  CIGARETTES 
with  the  brands  they 
had  been  smoking  ,  .  . 

80%  of  these  pilots-80% 
of  the  smokers  interviewed- 
said  CAVALIERS  are 
MILDER  than  the  brand 
they  had  been  smoking! 
And  that  included  18 
different  brands! 

In  group  after  group  —  nurses, 
college  students,  phone 
operators  —  80%  or  more  of 
smokers  interviewed  said 
Cavaliers  are  milder!  Enjoy 
king-size  Cavaliers— for 
mildness  and  natural  flavor. 
Priced  no  higher  than 
other  leading  brands! 


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to  each  his  own 

{Continued  from  page  62)  courage  in 
them  all.  None  of  them  ever  tries  to 
escape  from  reality. 

Incidentally,  I  believe  that  a  man  can 
be  deeply  religious  without  ever  attending 
a  church  or  synagogue.  I  admire  and 
respect  those  who  go  to  church  regularly, 
if  in  their  daily  lives  they  try  to  practice 
the  things  they  accept  spiritually  when 
they  attend  church.  But  I  have  no  respect 
at  all  for  anyone  who  attends  a  place  of 
worship  every  week,  and  then  on  week- 
days violates  every  tenet  of  the  religion 
in  which  he  pretends  to  believe. 

If,  when  they're  old  enough  to  think 
about  it,  my  son,  David,  who  is  seven,  or 
my  daughter,  Julie,  who  is  five,  were  ever 
to  ask  me,  "Daddy,  what's  God?"  I  would 
say,  "Many  people  have  different  ideas 
about  Him.  But  I  think  God  is  essentially 
a  way  of  living — a  philosophy  of,  life.  In 
the  final  analysis,  God  is  within  yourself." 

When  I  attend  a  synagogue,  I  do  so 
mostly  because  of  the  beauty  of  the 
music  and  because,  in  a  sense,  religion 
does  have  something  to  do  with  traditions. 
I  collect  records  of  the  great  cantorial 
songs  for  sentimental  reasons.  The  corner- 
stone of  my  philosophy  is  a  belief  in  the 
Golden  Rule — "Do  unto  others  as  you 
would  have  others  do  unto  you." 

Sometimes,  because  I  have  tried  to 
follow  this  rule  quite  literally,  I  have 
been  considered  peculiar. 

For  instance,  a  friend  of  mine,  a  play- 
wright, asked  me  to  come  backstage  to 
see  him  the  night  of  the  opening  of  one 
of  his  plays.  When  I  came  back  with  a 
mutual  friend,  the  playwright  asked  me 
what  I  thought  of  his  play.  It  was  not 
good,  and  I  told  him  so.  Our  mutual 
friend  kept  kicking  me  in  the  legs  while 
I  explained  why  the  play  didn't  appeal 
to  me. 

When  we  got  outside,  he  said,  "Didn't 
you  realize  you  hurt  his  feelings?" 

"What  was  I  supposed  to  do — lie  to  him 
to  make  him  feel  better?"  I  countered. 

I  had  literally  followed  the  Golden 
Rule.  In  a  similar  situation,  I  would  expect 
honesty  from  my  friends.  Sometimes  the 
truth  hurts,  but  in  the  end  it  is  less 
brutal  than  an  imtruth;  for  if  you  have 
been  fed  a  lot  of  pleasant  lies,  the  truth, 
when  you  learn  it,  hurts  all  the  more. 

T  REMEMBER  that  in  1940  I  appeared  in  a 
play  called  Heavenly  Express.  I  was 
greatly  infatuated  with  it,  and  thought  I 
gave  a  pretty  exciting  performance.  Back- 
stage after  the  opening,  Robbie,  my  wife, 
told  me  the  truth.  "Julie,"  she  said,  "your 
acting  smelled  up  the  place." 

I  was  hurt  momentarily,  but  out  of  that 
experience  I  learned  that  my  wife  would 
always  level  with  me.  Obviously  she 
followed  the  Golden  Rule,  for  she  wants 
similar  honesty  from  me. 

The  philosophy  of  the  Golden  Rule  is 
true,  regardless  of  whether  there  is  an 
after-life  or  not.  It  woxild  be  presumptu- 
ous on  my  part  to  say  whether  or  not 
there  is  such  a  thing  as  immortality.  Who 
knows?  I  find  it  hard  to  believe  in  heaven 
or  hell  as  definite,  specific  places  to  which 
we  will  go  after  death.  I  do  believe,  how- 
ever, that  the  spirits  of  all  good  people 
do  survive,  among  those  who  knew  and 
loved  them. 

I  think  that  prayer  is  helpful  to  some 
people,  especially  in  a  crisis.  Most  people 
are  apt  to  pray  when  the  going  gets  rough. 

I  remember  dinring  the  war  when  I 
was  going  overseas  with  another  enter- 
tainer. We  had  to  fly  low,  and  there  was 
danger  of  submarines  hitting  at  us.  This 
fellow  was  a  Catholic,  and  he  took  out  his 
rosary  to  pray.  "Throw  a  prayer  in  for  me, 
too,  kid,"  I  said  half-jestingly.  He  did. 


One  of  the  engines  conked  out  in  the 
middle  of  the  Atlantic.  Turning  to  one 
of  the  soldiers  in  the  plane,  I  ask^,  "What 
happens  if  the  plane  conks  out  com- 
pletely?" 

"You  don't  have  to  worry,"  he  said.  "If 
that  happens,  we'll  drown  in  a  minute  and 
a  half." 

I  began  to  sweat.  The  Catholic  enter- 
tainer with  me  began  to  pray. 

When  the  whole  experience  was  over, 
I  thought,  "Maybe  this  guy's  prayers 
really  brought  us  through." 

In  Naples  when  they  were  bombing  us, 
he  took  out  his  rosary  and  prayed.  Again 
he  prayed  for  me,  too.  Death  came  very 
close  to  both  of  us  that  day.  And  I  have 
often  thought,  "Perhaps  I'm  here  today, 
because  while  I  was  merely  fearful,  he 
prayed." 

T  SHALL  not  try  to  force  my  religion  upon 
-*-  my  children.  When  other  children  are 
going  to  Sunday  school  and  they  want 
to  go,  I'll  send  them  to  whatever  school 
they  choose  that  will  give  them  a  reason- 
able interpretation  of  God.  I  hope  that 
they  will  discover  some  form  of  religious 
belief  which  helps  them.  I  believe  that 
the  religion  which  one  finds  for  oneself 
is  far  deeper-rooted  than  any  which  is 
thrust  upon  one. 

I  would  no  more  try  to  force  my  son 
to  follow  my  religious  beliefs  than  I 
would  try  to  force  him  to  become  an  actor 
because  I'm  one.  In  fact,  at  Christmas 
time,  I  took  him  to  a  small  church  in  New 
York  to  see  the  Christmas  High  Mass. 
To  him  it  was  a  beautiful  spectacle.  When 
he  asked  me  questions  about  it,  I  said, 
"Well,  that's  the  way  one  group  of  people 
believe.  That's  the  way  they  pray.  Tliat's 
why  this  country  is  interesting  and  great 
— because  everybody  can  pray  in  his  own 
way.  There  are  other  people  in  other 
groups  who  go  to  other  kinds  of  churches 
and  to  synagogues  to  pray  in  their  way. 
No  one  stops  them.  If  ever  the  time 
comes  when  someone  tries  to  stop  people 
from  praying  in  the  way  they  want  to 
in  this  country,  then  we'U  really  be  in 
trouble." 

I'm  not  sure  if  David  understood  every- 
thing I  was  saying,  but  these  are  iJie 
things  I'll  keep  telling  him  as  he  grows 
up.  And  I  believe  he  will  be  one  of 
many  Americans  who  grows  up  knowing 
that  it  is  all  right  for  him  to  believe 
whatever  he  does  believe,  and  to  pray  and 
worship  as  he  sees  fit.  I  hope,  too,  that 
if  David  ever  has  to  face  a  great  crisis, 
he  will  find  enough  faith  in  himself  as  a 
person  to  meet  it;  and  enough  faith  in 
his  heritage  as  an  American  to  fight  for 
his  right  to  freedom  of  worship,  if  anyone 
ever  tries  to  take  it  from  him.      The  End 

(John  Garfield  can  he  seen  in  He  Ran 
All  The  Way,  co-starring  Shelley  Winters.) 


answers  to  bert  parks'  quiz  on  page  78 

1.  "and  the  gold  of  her  hair  crowns  the 
blue  of  her  eyes  with  a  halo  tenderly" 

2.  The  Groaner 
Mr.  Music 
Der  Bingle  and 
Harry  Lillis  Crosby 

3.  Gonzaga  is  the  university  Bing  attended 
in  Spokane,  Washington. 

4.  The  Road  to  Zanzibar 
The  Road  to  Rio 

The  Road  to  Singapore 
The  Road  to  Utopia 
The  Road  to  Morocco 

5.  Everett,  Larry,  Bing,  and  Bob 

Gary,  Philip,  Dennis  (twins), and  Lindsay 


the  iron  man? 

(Continued  from  page  57)  leader  of  men. 

Jeff  has  a  sort  of  noble  presence,  an 
invulnerable  dignity  which  imparts  power 
to  his  performances.  His  unusual  height — 
six-feet-four  inches — helps  give  that  im- 
pression, but  is  only  a  minor  factor. 
Strangely  enough,  he  claims  that  his  height 
has  given  him  an  inferiority  complex,  be- 
cause people  always  expect  so  much  from 
big  men. 

As  an  only  child,  and  the  victim  of  di- 
vorced parents,  Jeff  was  coddled  by  his 
mother.  Rigorous  sports  were  denied  him 
because  she  was  afraid  he  would  injure 
himself.  By  the  time  he  was  15,  he  al- 
ready felt  embarrassed  by  the  demands 
made  on  his  behavior  because  of  his  height. 
But  this  was  the  year  when  he  was  given 
the  first  and  last  beating  of  his  life. 

As  president  of  a  school  club  he  was 
conducting  a  meeting  when  it  was  inter- 
rupted by  half  a  dozen  hoodlums.  Jeff 
knew  it  was  his  place  to  quell  the  riot.  He 
stepped  up  to  the  noisy  kids  and  told  them 
to  leave. 

"Yeah?"  sneered  their  leader.    "Give  us 
a  reason!" 

"Because  you're  a  biinch  of  jerks,"  said 
Jeff,  with  a  bravado  he  hardly  felt. 

"Say  that  again,  big  boy,"  demanded  the 
other  kid. 

Jeff  said  it  again.  Perhaps  if  he'd  been 
a  little  guy,  the  others  woiild  have  given 
him  some  help.  But  he  was  the  tallest  boy 
in  the  school,  and  his  classmates  expected 
him  to  take  command.  All  six  of  the 
gang  hit  him  at  once,  and  when,  at  last,  he 
got  to  his  feet  he  was  a  sorry  sight. 

He  telephoned  his  father  the  next  day. 
"I  need  your  help,  Dad,"  he  said.   "I  want  I 
you  to  teach  me  how  to  use  my  fists." 

His  father  only  laughed  at  him.  To  this 
day  Jeff  doesn't  know  why,  but  he  sup- 
poses his  father,  too,  expected  him  to  be 
everything  a  man  should  be  simply  be- 
cause he  was  big.  In  the  following  years 
Jeff  had  to  work  things  out  for  himself.  He 
found  that  if  he  made  up  his  mind  about 
something  and  then  stuck  to  his  guns, 
people  seemed  satisfied  that  he  was  living 
up  to  his  size. 

The  only  trouble  was  that  Jeff  often 
went  down  the  wrong  alley  when  making 
his  decisions;  and  many  times  his  plan 
has  backfired. 

THIS  singleness  of  purpose  made  itself 
evident  when  he  was   stUl  a  youn- 
ster,  even  before  he  was  beaten  by  the 
intruders  at  school.    Susan  Hayward  at- 
tended that  same  school  in  Flatbush,  and 
because  she  was  as  pretty  then  as  she  is 
now,  it  was  only  natural  that  the  ten-year- 
old  Jeff  decided  that  Susan  was  his  dish. 
Any  other  boy  would  probably  have  man- 
aged a  seat  near  her  in  the  classroom,  and 
been  satisfied  with  that,  but  Jeff  chose  a 
more  devious  path.    Susan  was  even  then 
determined  to  be  a  movie  star  and  was 
playing  leads  in  school  dramatics,  so  Jeff 
decided  he  would  be  an  actor.    For  two 
years  he  hovered  in  the  background  of  the 
stage,  and  then  one  day  got  his  big  oppor- 
tunity.   He  was  to  play  opposite  Susan 
in  a  musical,  and  no  kid  ever  quivered  as 
much  as  Jeff  did  the  day  he  went  to  school 
for  his  tryout.    Susan  was  to  be  a  daisy 
in  this  production  and  Jeff  was  going  to  be 
a  tree;  and  he  dreamed  hopefully  that 
perhaps  there  would  be  something  in  the 
script  about  the  tree  putting  its  branches 
around  the  daisy.    But  that  was  the  day 
his  voice  decided  to  change,  and  when  one 
half  of  the  song  came  out  in  tenor  and  the 
other  half  in  bass,  Miss  Rappaport  looked 
at  him  sadly.    Although  Miss  Rappaport 
was  his  second  love,  she  knew  of  his 
adoration  for  Susan,  for  he  had  taken  her 
into  his  confidence. 


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"I'm  afraid,"  she  said,  "that  we'll  have  to 
give  the  part  to  another  boy.  Somebody 
whose  voice  is  still  topside." 

JefE  managed,  however,  to  finally  gain 
the  notice  of  Susan.  He  was  given  the 
job  of  stage  manager  for  the  production, 
and  during  the  performance  learned  that 
Susan  had  a  headache.  He  ran  three 
blocks  to  the  nearest  drugstore  and  spent 
his  weekly  twenty-five  cent  allowance  for 
a  box  of  aspirin.  After  Susan  graciously 
accepted  an  aspirin  from  him  between  the 
second  act  and  final  curtain,  he  went  home 
and  wrote  a  very  bad  poem  about  the 
Umpid  green  of  her  eyes. 

His  worship  for  Susan  subsided  with 
the  years,  and  so  did  the  days  at  ivy  cov- 
ered P.  S.  181.  When  Jeff  graduated  from 
high  school  his  father  gave  him  a  chance 
at  further  schooling.  Because  his  son  had 
shown  talent  in  both  art  and  dramatics,  he 
gave  him  his  choice  of  career. 

"How  much  are  the  different  courses?" 
Jeff  asked. 

"Two  hundred  for  the  art  school,  and 
five  hundred  for  the  dramatic  school,"  said 
his  father.  "But  don't  let  the  cost  influence 
you.  I  want  you  to  choose  the  one  you 
really  want." 

JEFF  really  wanted  dramatics,  but  he  de- 
cided to  go  easy  on  his  father's  wallet. 
If  he  went  to  art  school,  he  reasoned,  he 
could  make  a  lot  of  money  after  gradua- 
tion, and  then  could  afford  to  send  him- 
self through .  dramatic  school.  It  was  the 
wrong  alley  again,  but  Jeff  stuck  to  it. 
After  finishing  his  art  course  he  landed  a 
job  at  Montgomery  Ward  making  adver- 
tising layouts,  and  learned  almost  imme- 
diately that  commercial  art  wouldn't  net 
him  a  quick  fortxme.  His  salary  was 
rock  bottom. 

"I'm  going  to  quit,"  he  armounced  to  his 
co-workers. 

"But  look,  kid,"  they  said.  "You're 
fresh  out  of  school,  and  naturally  you 
don't  make  as  much  as  we  do.  You  haven't 
the  experience." 

But  he'd  said  he'd  quit,  and  he  did.  Not 
long  after  joining  the  ranks  of  the  unem- 
ployed, he  visited  Faegin's  Dramatic 
School,  walked  right  up  to  one  of  the  big 
shots,  and  requested  a  scholarship.  The 
procedure  was  unheard  of — students  work 
for  years  before  they  are  granted  scholar- 
ships— but  Jeff  figured  he  was  big  and  he'd 
act  like  people  expected  him  to.  His 
pluck  paid  off,  perhaps  passing  for  de- 
termination, for  he  finally  did  get  a  schol- 
arship. From  there  he  joined  the  Mill- 
pond  Players  on  Long  Island.  He  was 
launched  on  his  career  as  an  actor. 

At  Millpond  he  met  Bill  Bryan,  the  clos- 
est thing  he  ever  had  to  a  brother,  and 
soon  the  two  men  had  formed  a  stock 
company  of  their  own. 

"Tell  you  what,"  Jeff  said  one  day.  "I'm 
going  out  to  Hollywood  and  be  a  movie 
star." 

"Hold  on!"  said  Bill.  "You  don't  do  it 
just  like  that,  you  know." 

But  that  was  in  1940,  and  although  Pearl 
Harbor  hadn't  yet  been  attacked,  everyone 
could  tell  something  was  about  to  pop.  Bill 
and  Jeff  decided  to  get  into  the  service 
early  so  that  they'd  have  a  chance  to 
choose  assignments. 

Jeff's  father  took  a  dim  view  of  his  son's 
chances  in  the  service,  and  soon  after  war 
had  been  declared  wrote  him  a  cheering 
letter.  "Dear  son,"  it  read.  "Don't  worry 
about  the  war.  With  you  in  the  army  it 
will  soon  be  over.  You  never  did  hold  a 
job  very  long." 

This  was  one  time  that  Jeff  was  right. 
The  war  lasted  a  long  time,  and  he  was  in 
it  for  five  years.  He  started  out  in  the 
cavalry,  for  no  particular  reason,  except 
that  Bill  was  an  excellent  horseman. 

"Cavalry  all  right  with  you?"  Bill  had 
asked  him. 


"Sure,   sure,'    said  JefE,  agreeably. 

V/hen  they  arrived  at  Fort  Riley  Bill 
couldn't  wait  to  see  the  horses.  Jeff  trudged 
along  with  him  to  the  stables.  A  horse 
stuck  its  head  over  the  fence  and  Bill 
went  into  a  long  conversation  with  it. 

"Is  it  all  right  if  I  touch  him?"  said  Jeff. 

Bill  looked  at  him  in  amazement.  "Of 
course  you  can  touch  him.  What  the 
devil's  wrong  with  you?" 

"This  is  the  nearest  I've  ever  been  to  a 
horse  in  my  life,"  said  Jeff. 

When  Bill  had  recovered,  he  asked  Jeff 
why  he  had  agreed,  under  the  circimi- 
stances,  to  join  the  cavalry. 

Jeff  shrugged.  "You  wanted  to — so  I 
wanted  to.  And  as  long  as  I  didn't  tell 
anybody  about  it,  nobody  could  tell  me  I 
was  crazy." 

It  was  a  slow  and  painful  process,  but 
Jeff  learned  to  ride.  He  never  learned  to 
love  horses  the  way  Bill  did,  but  anyone 
seeing  him  in  a  saddle  wouldn't  have 
known  it. 


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Boris  KarlofF  was  a  farmhand  in 
Vancouver,  B.  C. — probably  doub- 
ling as  a  scarecrow  .  .  .  Greta 
Garbo  was  a  "lather  girl"  in  a 
Swedish  barber  shop  .  .  .  Bing 
Crosby  once  ushered  at  boxing 
matches  and  served  as  janitor  at  a 
men's  club  .  .  .  Lou  Costello  was 
a  stunt  man  .  .  .  Burt  Lancaster 
was  a  lingerie  salesman  (no  wonder 
he  quit  to  join  a  circus)  .  .  .  Errol 
Flynn  was  a  bottle  tester  in  a  soft- 
drink  plant  .  .  .  Cory  Grant  was  an 
advertising  stilt  walker  . . .  Barbara 
Stanwyck  was  a  bundle  wrapper 
and  later  a  bathing-suit  model. 

Hy  Gardner's  "Early  Bird  On  Broadway" 
in  The  New  York  Herald  Tribune 


Jeff  was  eventually  sent  to  the  Pacific. 
In  1945,  he  was  back  in  California,  at 
Fort  Ord,  awaiting  his  discharge,  and  it 
was  during  this  period  that  he  decided  he 
would  tackle  Hollywood.  He  figured  it 
would  be  quite  simple;  he'd  merely  tell 
them  about  his  dramatic  experience  and 
they  would  give  him  a  job.  He  hoped  it 
would  be  a  good  one,  because  he'd  fallen 
in  love  with  Marjorie  Hoshelle,  and  he 
thought  a  movie  star's  salary  would  be  a 
likely  sum  with  which  to  start  married 
life.  He  made  an  appointment  with  a 
Hollywood  agent,  and  decided  to  hitchhike 
because  thumb  waving  was  faster  than  the 
devious  railroad  service.  In  the  early 
hours  of  the  morning  he  was  given  a  ride 
by  some  benign  soul  who  shortly  after- 
wards steered  into  a  head-on  collision.  Jeff 
woke  up  sitting  on  a  fender,  and  his  head 
felt  as  though  it  had  been  inside  a  cement 
mixer.  They  took  him  back  to  Santa  Bar- 
bara where  they  shaved  his  head  and  did 
quite  a  bit  of  embroidery  on  his  skull.  In 
Hollywood,  weeks  later,  Jeff  saw  the  agent 
in  a  restaurant  and  the  man  passed  him 
by  as  though  he  had  the  bubonic  plague. 

By  the  time  Jeff's  hair  had  reappeared 
his  last  dollar  had  grown  wings.  He 
thought  perhaps  he  should  start  an  appren- 
ticeship in  the  plumbing  trade,  or  paint 
thumbtacks — anything  to  earn  a  living. 
But  he  couldn't  give  up  the  idea  of  acting. 

When  he  finally  landed  a  couple  of  small 
jobs  in  radio,  he  and  Marge  went  to  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  from  there  to  a 
little  apartment,  sparsely  furnished  with 
orange  crates.  Jeff  went  on  with  his  strug- 
gle to  get  somewhere  in  Hollywood.  Radio 
jobs  kept  coming  in,  due  in  part  to  one 
producer's  secretary,  a  girl  who  was  six 
feet  tall.  Envisioning  a  possible  future 
dancing  partner,  she  went  to  bat  for  Jeff 
on  every  possible  occasion,  and  soon  the 


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orange  crates  were  replaced  by  softer 
items  of  furniture.  His  first  movie  work 
came  with  an  important  part  in  Sword  in 
the  Desert.  After  that  he  made  an  ap- 
pointment with  Jules  Blaustein  and  Del- 
mer  Daves,  the  men  who  were  going  to 
make  Broken  Arrow.  They  were  looking 
for  a  man  to  play  Cochise,  the  Apache 
chief,  and  Jeff  realized  that  if  he  could 
land  this  part,  it  would  be  his  big  break. 
He  figured  that  his  attitude  during  the 
interview  should  be  nonchalant,  that  he 
should  repress  all  signs  of  anxiety. 

When  he  was  ushered  into  the  plush 
office  and  seated  in  the  middle  of  the 
room  he  found  it  difficult  to  be  noncha- 
lant. Blaustein  and  Daves  stared  at  him 
silently  a  full  five  minutes,  the  former 
squinting,  and  the  latter  cocking  his  head 
from  side  to  side. 

"Would  you  mind  if  I  crawled  up  the 
wall?"  Jeff  said. 

They  laughed  and  apologized,  explaining 
that  they  were  trying  to  decide  if  Jeff 
looked  too  typically  American  to  portray 
an  Indian. 

"If  you  ask  me,"  said  Jeff,  "nobody  could 
look  more  typically  American  than  an 
Indian." 

They  didn't  laugh  at  that  one,  and  Jeff 
decided  to  let  the  wheels  grind  in  silence. 

He  got  the  part,  of  course,  and  he  wor- 
ried a  great  deal  about  it.  How  did  an  In- 
dian chief  carry  himself?  How  did  he 
speak?  Was  his  voice  at  all  guttural? 
Liirector  Daves  settled  the  whole  problem 
with  one  simple  instruction. 

"Just  be  natural,"  he  told  Jeff.  "You 
have  a  good  body  and  a  good  voice,  and  if 
you'll  just  be  yourself  you'll  have  the 
necessary  dignity." 

Jeff  gave  the  impression  not  only  of  dig- 
nity, but  also  of  a  man  who  knew  what  he 
wanted  and  went  after  it  in  no  uncertain 
terms.  When  the  fan  mail  began  pouring 
in,  it  came  from  as  many  men  as  women, 
from  people  in  all  walks  of  life.  It  proved 
that  Jeff  Chandler  has  the  tmiversal  appeal 
of  a  strong  man. 

His  wife  says  that  the  quality,  whatever 
it  is,  can  pass  politely  as  determination.  If 
Jeff  decides  that  a  thing  must  be  done  a 
certain  way,  fire,  high  water,  or  other  peo- 
ple's advice  won't  stop  liim.  But  if  a  sub- 
ject is  new  to  him  he  will  swallow  advice 
like  a  lamb,  and  then  strive  for  perfection. 
This  is  currently  being  demonstrated  in 
his  new  picture.  The  Iron  Man,  where  he 
plays  a  boxer.  For  this  role  Jeff  learned, 
scientifically,  the  art  of  self-defense. 

There  is  one  character,  however,  who 
could  push  Jeff  Chandler  over  a  cliff  if 
she  felt  so  inclined.  This  is  Jamie,  his 
four-year-old  daughter,  and  running  a 
close  second  is  his  younger  daughter  Dana, 
who  at  the  age  of  two  doesn't  yet  know 
her  own  strength.  Jamie  does.  She  spends 
her  days  artfully  winding  her  father 
around  her  little  finger.  One  night  he 
was  reading  her  "The  Three  Little  Pigs" 
as  a  bedtime  story,  and  happened  to  omit 
a  line  of  dialogue.  Jamie  looked  at  him 
in  disgust. 

"That's  not  right,  Daddy,"  she  said. 
"That's  where  the  wolf  comes  and  says 
he'll  blow  the  house  down." 

Jeff  raised  an  eyebrow.  "Who's  reading 
this  story?"  he  said. 

"You,  Daddy,  but  you  left  out  some- 
thing." 

"You're  mistaken,"  said  Mr.  Chandler, 
who  at  32  feels  he  knows  "The  Three  Lit- 
tle Pigs"  backwards  and  forwards.  And 
then  his  eye  fell  on  the  neglected  line 
of  print,  and  his  face  betrayed  him. 

"There!"  said  Jamie  triumphantly.  "You 
look  as  though  you've  found  it." 

"Well — "  said  Jeff  lamely,  and  then 
cleared  his  throat.  "I'll  huff  and  I'll  puff 
and  I'll  blow  your  house  down." 

Now  there,  indeed,  is  a  man  of  iron! 
The  End 


the  truth  about  my  feuds  j 

I 

(Continued  from  page  33)  suicide.  That  | 
Rex  had  been  her  good  friend  we  all 
knew.  I  had  talked  with  Carole  shortly 
before  I  left  for  Europe,  and  she  had  told 
me  of  her  great  friendship  for  Harrison. 
I  had  known  Carole  a  long  time  and  was 
very  fond  of  her. 

I  cabled  my  syndicate  stories  about 
Carole,  but  was  always  very  careful  not 
to  mention  Rex  in  any  unpleasant  way. 
He  was  also  helped  through  this  difficult 
time  by  Darryl  Zanuck's  entire  20th  Cen- 
tury-Fox publicity  department. 

So  what  does  Mr.  Harrison  do?  First, 
he  goes  to  Canada  and  makes  a  speech 
in  which  he  excoriates  me  and  all  other 
Hollywood  columnists.  The  very  people 
who  had  protected  him,  he  called  "the 
most  evil  influence"  in  Hollywood. 

And  this  did  not  end  Mr.  Harrison's 
tirade.  Oh,  no — he  wasn't  content  to  let 
it  die.  Several  years  later,  he  wrote  a 
series  of  articles  for  a  London  magazine 
in  which  he  harpooned  HollyT.vood  with 
silly  assertions  like  "butlers  there  ar- 
rive for  work  in  Cadillacs."  He  also 
stated  that  he  could  never  get  five  min- 
utes alone  with  head  man  Darryl  Zanuck, 
and  was  forced  to  make  pictures  he  didn't 
like.  These  may  not  be  his  exact  words — 
but  it's  the  gist  of  it — this  and  unflattering 
things  about  Hollywood  and  its  people. 

p)uT  the  most  imtruthful  story  he  re- 
coimted  was  his  distorted  version  of 
an  incident  long  since  forgotten  between 
Gene  Tiemey  and  myself.  As  Harrison 
told  it,  we  were  all  guests  at  a  dinner 
party  and  our  host,  kindly  Gary  Cooper, 
asked  Gene  to  leave  his  home  because  she 
had  annoyed  me! 

Rex  said  it  made  him  sick  to  his  stom- 
ach, all  the  bowing  and  scraping  and 
"fear"  of  me  at  the  Coopers.  No,  he  didn't 
actually  mention  names,  but  he  didn't 
need  to. 

What  actually  happened  was  this:  I 
was  in  truth  annoyed  with  Gene  for  good 
reason.  I  thought  she  had  done  a  very 
unethical  thing  (vmethical  in  newspaper 
circles)  and  I'm  a  girl  who  speaks  her 
mind  about  such  matters.  As  we  met 
face  to  face,  I  promptly  told  her  off! 

My  quarrel  with  glamorous  Gene  was 
based  on  a  "news"  story.  I  had  had  the 
inside  tip  that  although  she  and  Oleg 
Cassini  had  separated,  and  she  had  ob- 
tained her  interlocutory  divorce  decree, 
they  had  secretly  reconciled  and  were 
expecting  a  baby.  That's  a  good  dramatic 
story  with  a  lot  of  reader  appeal,  and  as 
I  knew  it  was  all  true,  I  could  have 
broadcast  and  printed  the  news  without 


,  Curtis 


69 


HEIENE  CURTIS 


.  ■  '.■  for  hair 


0m(^ 

SHAMPOO 


Don't  miss  this  special  offer  and  won- 
derful saving!  .  .  .  Finest  Creme  Sham- 
poo you've  ever  used  — dollar  quality, 
giant  size !  And  Suave,  the  cosmetic  for 
hair,  preferred  over  all  women's  hair- 
dressings  ! . . .  BOTH  at  this  spectacular 
low  special  combination  price. 


Look  for 
this  special 
Sale  Pacicage 


foremost  name  in  hair  beauty 


calling  Gene.  But,  as  always,  I  checked 
my  facts  to  make  doubly  sure. 

I  called  Gene  and  told  her  what  I  knew. 
She  verj'  simply  said.  "It  s  all  true."  I 
thanked  her,  and  asked  her  to  keep  it 
exclusive  for  me.  It's  an  unwritten  law  in 
the  newspaper  game  that  "the  story"  be- 
longs to  the  fellow  who  gets  it. 

That  night,  at  Rocky  and  Gar\'  Cooper's 
dinner  dance,  I  walked  over  to  the  table 
where  Gene  was  sitting  and  told  her  how 
glad  I  was  that  she  and  Oleg  had  refound 
their  happiness;  and  I  also  thanked  her 
for  being  so  honest  with  me. 

Gene  looked  at  me  with  those  great  big 
beautiful  eyes  and  said,  "Oh,  as  soon  as 
you  telephoned  and  I  knew  you  had  the 
story,  I  gave  it  to  another  reporter  on  a 
rival  sjTidicate.  I  can't  afford  to  antagonize 
anyone,  you  know." 

Oh,  no'.  Well,  she  had  antagonized  me — 
and  how!  I  swear,  for  a  moment,  I  saw 
red.  I  was  so  mad  I  couldn't  see  straight, 
and  la  Tiemey  knew  exactly  how  blazing 
mad  I  was.  'When  I'm  mad  (particularly 
when  I  feel  I'm  justified  j  I  do  not  sim- 
mer or  boil.  I  explode! 

I  might  add  that  Gene  has  a  temper  al- 
most as  good  as  mine.  If  I  had  started  the 
fracas,  Miss  Tiemey  most  certainly  fin- 
ished it  when  we  met  in  the  hallway  as 
we  were  departing.  She  told  me  off,  doing 
as  thorough  a  job  as  I  had  done  earlier. 
But,  as  far  as  Garj^'s  asking  her  to  leave 
— that's  applesauce! 

It  was  a  beautiful  battle  which  Gene 
and  I  have  both  forgotten  long  since. 
Fortxmately  for  Gene  (and  me)  the  re- 
porter she  had  tipped  to  my  storj'  was 
too  inexperienced  to  telephone  the  news 
to  her  paper  immediately,  and  after  a 
short  dash  to  my  telephone,  the  "scoop"' 
was  all  mine  after  aU. 

All  was  well  that  ended  well,  and  as 
far  as  Miss  T.  and  Miss  P.  were  concerned 
the  "incident  was  closed.  But  not  to  Rex 
Harrison  who  insinuated  that  I  had  de- 
ma'rtded  that  Gene  be  ordered  to  leave  the 
part>-;  a  request  (he  saidj  the  host  was 
"too  spineless"  to  ignore.  After  that,  Har- 
rison piously  concluded,  he  did  not  want 
ever  to  attend  any  parties  where  colum- 
nists were  present.  So  with  that,  he  took 
on  the  enxtire  Hollj-wood  press! 

And  that's  that  for  Rex  Harrison  and 
Gene  Tiemey. 

THE  amusing  thing  a'oout  my  "feud"'  with 
James  Mason  is  that  we  never  ex- 
changed a  harsh  word  when  we  formerly 
met  at  Holly^vood  parties. 

We  don"t  meet  any  more.  Mr.  Mason 
fixed  that.  When  one  of  my  closest  friends. 
Joan  Bennett,  gave  a  farewell  dinner  partj- 
for  !Mason  and  his  wife  just  'before  they 


Bless  the  bagpipes,  for  the  price  of 
this  Stardust  Slip  is  music  to  your  _ 
ears !  We  don't  just  say  it's  a  Miracle 
Slip  ...  we  prove  it  with  an  amaz> 
ing  full  year's  wear  and  wash 
guarantee!  Designed  the  qualityviay, 
with  the  clever  4  gore  cut  that  never 
twists  or  rides  up.  Dries  before  your 
eyes!  Smartly  tailored,  and  frothed 
with  delicate  picot  edge;  double 
top.  Also  trimmed  styles  .  .  .  ALL 
double  stitched  with  Nylon  seams. 


Rub  your  eyes  ) 
...It's  only 


2 


39 

la 

2.S9 


I  left  for  England  last  fall,  he  requested  that 
my  name  be  omitted  from  the  guest  list. 

Joan,  thoroughly  surprised,  asked, 
"Why?" 

Mason  said  it  was  because  of  uncom- 
plimentary things  I  had  printed  about  him. 

I.  have  also  printed  some  very  nice  things 
about  him — but  I  suppose  that  doesn't 
count.  I  had  taken  him  and  Pamela  to  a 
party  in  New  York,  and  had  supper  with 
them  at  the  Stork.  In  fact,  I  had"  always 
admired  him  as  an  actor  in  English  pic- 
tures, and  would  probably  have  continued 
to  do  so  until  Mason  (who  had  never  been 
to  Hollywood)  chose  to  write  an  article 
about  Hollywood,  blasting  my  home  town 
in  a  national  magazine. 

I  thought  it  was  utterly  ridiculous  for  a 
man  who  had  never  set  foot  inside  the  Los 
Angeles  city  limits  to  make  such  an  attack 
— and  I  said  so.  I  still  think  so,  even 
though  Mr.  Mason  and  his  wife  Pamela, 
and  their  assorted  cats  have  since  settled 
here  and  are  crazy  about  the  life. 

My  point  is,  why  didn't  he  find  out  about 
us  before  he  made  harmful  attacks  on  the 
world  capital  of  the  movies? 

But  that's  yesterday's  squabble.  So  let's 
forget  it. 

T  HAVE  saved  Orson  Welles  for  the  last  of 
my  "major"  dislikes  because  he  is  the 
one  with  whom  I  never  expect  to  smoke 
the  pipe  of  peace.  On  one  horrible  occasion 
since  the  beginning  of  my  vendetta,  I  was 
forced  to  sit  next  to  Welles  at  a  dinner 
party  given  by  Evelyn  Walsh  McLean 
when  she  was  living  in  Beverly  Hills. 

Orson  was  then  married  to  Rita  Hay- 
worth;  and  Rita's  agonized  look  when  she 
saw  what  the  hostess  had  done  in  the 
seating  arrangements  would  have  moved 
a  heart  of  stone! 

I  adore  Rita  and  I  couldn't  bear  that 
stricken  look  on  her  face.  So  Welles  and  I 
sat  side  by  side,  munching  our  food  and 
exchanging  the  necessary  amenities  during 
that  entire  embarrassing  meal.  Oh,  well — 
if  it  wasn't  so  peppy  socially,  I  suppose  it 
aided  digestion. 

My  anger  at  Welles  stems  from  a  de- 
liberate lie  he  told  me.  If  there's  one 
thing  I  hate,  it's  for  a'  person  to  be  dis- 
honest with  me. 

Many  years  back,  I  had  heard  thats 
Welles  was  making  a  picture  about  some- 
one I  love  very  much.  I  telephoned  to  ask 
him  if  this  were  true.  He  said  (and  I  shall 
remember  his  words  always),  "It  couldn't 
be  farther  from  the  truth.  It  has  nothing 
to  do  with  that  person,  and  it's  about  an 
entirely  different  character." 

Then  he  called  three  other  well  known 
fihn  critics  and  showed  them  the  picture, 
which  was  so  shocking  to  one  of  them,  a 
friend  of  mine,  that  he  called  and  said, 
"Do  you  know  what  this  picture  is?" 

I  demanded  to  see  the  film.  Flanked  by 
two  lawyers,  I  went  to  the  studio  to  find 
out  if  my  worst  suspicions  were  true. 

What  I  had  to  say  to  Orson  Welles  after 
I  saw  that  picture  was  plenty— a  barrage 
directed  straight  from  my  heart.  I  could 
not  have  been  more  shocked  or  unhappy. 
Welles  tried  to  brazen  it  out  by  sending 
flowers  and  writing  me  notes — which  were 
promptly  sent  back. 

And  from  that  day  to  this  I  have  never 
forgiven  him.  I  can  take  darts  directed  at 
me.  I  have  felt  the  sting  of  many  of  them. 
But  I  cannot  bear  to  see  anyone  I  love 
hurt. 

AND  so — there  are  the  "major"  feuds  in 
my  life.  As  for  the  lesser  ones— well, 
many  of  them  have  been  exaggerated  out 
of  all  proportion,  and  some  of  them  are 
completely  untrue. 

For  instance,  one  of  the  most  thoroughly 
publicized  feuds  never  happened!  I  was 
supposed  to  be  carrying  an  undying  "mad" 
on  Joan  Crawford   (who  is  one  of  my 


closest  friends)  because  at  the  time  the 
story  of  her  divorce  from  Douglas  Fair- 
banks Jr.  broke,  Joan  had  given  it  to  a 
close  friend  for  a  magazine  article,  instead 
of  to  me  for  my  newspaper  sjmdicate. 

What  really  happened  was:  Joan  had 
promised  the  story  of  the  break  up  of  her 
marriage  to  Doug  to  Katherine  Albert,  her 
close  friend,  for  a  magazine  article.  (Kathe- 
rine is  the  mother  of  Joan  Evans  who  was 
named  for  Crawford.)  I  did  not  know  this. 
But  I  had  heard  that  the  young  Fair- 
banks were  having  trouble.  I  didn't  be- 
lieve it — but  still  I  did  not  want  to  ignore 
the  scoop. 

So  I  called  Joan  and  told  her  I  was 
going  to  do  a  sympathetic  story  telling  how 
the  rumors  about  her  and  Doug  were  not 
true  and  that  they  were  still  very  happy. 

"Please  don't  do  that,"  pleaded  Joan. 
"Please  don't  print  anything  about  how 
happy  we  are." 

That  was  enough  for  Parsons.  I  got  on 
my  horse  and  went  directly  to  Joan's 
house. 

She  admitted  to  me  the  truth — that  she 
and  Douglas  were  parting.  Then,  in  a 
panic,  she  called  the  MGM  studio  to  tell 
them  what  she  had  done.  Where  was 
Parsons?  In  another  room,  my  friends, 
calling  the  "beat"  in  to  my  newspaper.  We 
beat  the  world  by  two  editions,  and  Kathe- 
rine Albert's  magazine  yarn  by  seversd 
weeks. 

How  the  story  ever  got  around  that  I 
would  never  "forgive"  Joan  I  shall  never 
know.  If  ever  there  was  a  "feud"  which 
did  not  exist,  it  is  my  "supposed"  fracas 
with  Miss  Crawford,  whom  I  happen  to 
like  very  much. 

Equally  silly  is  the  old  one  about  Gin- 
ger Rogers  and  me.  Oh,  brother,  were 
Ginger  and  I  supposed  to  hate  each  other! 
We  were  said  to  be  bitter  enemies.  There 
was  so  much  printed  about  us,  I  almost 
began  to  believe  there  was  some  truth  to 
it.  But  I  could  never  get  anyone  to  ex- 
plain what  Ginger  and  I  were  supposed  to 
be  hassling  about.  This  nonsensical  state 
of  affairs  went  on  for  several  very  tedious 
years. 

Finally,  Ginger  and  I  sat  down  and  de- 
cided we  were  going  to  end  this  business 
once  and  for  all.  The  furmy  part  is — we 
had  absolutely  nothing  to  get  off  our 
chests! 

So  we  had  a  good  laugh  about  it,  ending 
with  my  inviting  Ginger  to  appear  on  my 
radio  show.  And  later  I  did  an  interview 
with  her  in  the  paper,  officially  burying 
our  non-existent  hatchet. 

THERE  was  more  body  to  the  misunder- 
standing that  lasted  a  year  or  so  be- 
tween Corinne  Calvet,  the  little  French 
actress,  and  her  "worst  enemy" — as  she 
looked  on  me.  When  Corinne  was  brought 
to  this  country  by  Paramount,  she  was 
given  a  big  chance  for  which  many  girls 
would  have  slaved. 

But  instead  of  trying  to  learn  English 
and  improve  herself,  the  pretty  made- 
moiselle neglected  her  studies  and  drama- 
tic lessons  and  was  the  belle  of  the 
nightclub  circuit. 

When  Paramount  let  her  go  (highly  im- 
patient with  her)  I  thought  she  was  the 
most  foolish  girl  in  the  world,  and  said  so 
in  my  column.  What  a  waste  for  a  girl  to 
throw  away  such  a  golden  opportunity. 

But  being  ignored  by  the  studios  and 
falling  really  in  love  were  two  develop- 
ments which  completely  changed  Coriime. 
John  Bromfield,  himself  a  fine  actor,  did 
much  to  bring  about  this  change,  for  Co- 
rinne is  madly  in  love  with  her  handsome 
husband. 

After  she  married  him  and  got  another 
movie  chance  with  Hal  Wallis,  she  became 
"Miss  Diligence"  herself.  She  also  sent 
word  that  she  would  like  to  meet  me. 

I    couldn't    help    being  touched — she 


seemed  so  childlike  when  she  said,  "I  am 
glad  you  scolded  me.  I  deserved  it.  But 
now  I  am  different  and  I  wish  we  could 
be  friends." 

"Then  it  isn't  true,"  I  laughed,  "that 
you  once  said  you'd  like  to  put  poison 
in  my  soup?" 

"Ohhhhhh,"  she  squealed,  embarrassed. 
""Oh,  no,  that  is  not  true  anymore!" 

Corinne  was  a  darling  when  she  ap- 
peared on  my  radio  show  and  she  made 
many  friends — including  me! 

In  closing,  I  want  to  say  one  thing  about 
these  Hollywood  feuds — mine,  or  any 
others.    In'  this  town,  as  has  often  been 


pointed  out,  every  little  action  is  magni- 
fied. A  simple  little  misimderstanding  or 
a  few  words  spoken  in  good  old-fashioned 
temper  are  made  to  sound  like  a  battle 
royal. 

As  I  grow  older,  I  realize  you  only  hurt 
yourself  by  holding  grudges  and  enmity 
against  others. 

Hollywood  has  so  many  vicious  attacks, 
from  the  outside,  I  think  all  of  us  in  the 
industry  should  stick  together  as  much  as 
possible,  and  try  to  imderstand  the  other 
fellow's  "side"  of  any  problem. 

This  I  shall  try  to  do — until  somebody 
does  me  "dirt"  again!  The  End 


all  for  love 

(Continued  from  page  42)  Everyone  in 
Hollywood  wishes  Judy  happiness.  She, 
more  than  any  other  person,  deserves  a 
break  in  her  personal  life.  Yet,  somehow, 
■the  feeling  circulates  that  if  and  when  she 
becomes  Sid  Luft's  wife,  she  will  be 
embarking  on  a  marriage  that  cannot  pos- 
sibly last.  A  marriage,  whose  eventual  dis- 
solution may  prove  too  much  for  Judy  to 
bear. 

Hollywood  is  jammed  with  jaded  char- 
acters who  specialize  in  cynicism  and 
disillusionment,  but  in  matters  of  love, 
these  characters  are  usually  hopeful. 
They've  seen  improbable  marriages  last, 
and  they  don't  particularly  like  to  proph- 
esy gloom;  but  where  Judy  and  Sid  are 
concerned  they  are  almost  imanimously 
fearful  of  failure. 

Sid  Luft,  better  known  to  nightclubbers 
as  "One-Punch  Luft"  because  he's  handy 
with  his  fists,  is  one  of  those  personable 
young  men  who's  been  around  Holly- 
wood for  years.  He's  34,  comes  originally 
from  New  York,  and  served  as  a  flying 
officer  in  the  Canadian  Air  Force  during 
World  War  II.  Recently  he  was  divorced 
from  actress  Lynn  Bari,  who  says  he  is 
connected  with  a  horse-racing  business  of 
sorts. 

Charming,  witty,  and  a  great  pilot,  he 
has  no  special  entertainment  talent.  Judy's 
former  husbands,  Dave  Rose  and  Vincente 
Minnelli,  possessed  tremendous  creative 
ability,  but  Sid  Luft  is  essentially  a  busi- 
nessman. He  is  probably  a  very  shrewd 
and  successful  one,  but  the  chances  are 
that  his  income  will  not  match  Judy's. 

Judy  earns  $5,000  a  broadcast,  $250,000  a 
picture,  $20,000  a  week  for  personal  ap- 
pearances. It  is  doubtful  that  Luft  will 
top  that. 

A  close  friend  of  Judy  says,  "One  of 
the  reasons  she  was  happy  with  Vincente 
Minnelli  for  a  whUe  was  that  she  re- 
spected him  not  only  as  a  man  but  as  a 
director.  When  he  directed  her  in  Meet 
Me  in  St.  Louis  she  was  so  taken  by  his 
sensitivity  and  understanding  that  she 
fell  in  love  with  him.  Last  year  when 
Summer  Stock  and  Father  of  the  Bride 
were  released,  Judy  went  around  town 
saying,  'Two  of  Metro's  biggest  grossers 
were  turned  out  by  the  Minnellis.'  She 
was  very  proud  of  that. 

"I'm  not  saying  that  Sid  Luft  won't 
do  something  to  make  Judy  proud  of  him. 
But  certainly  his  past  accomplishments 
don't  indicate  that  his  creative  contribu- 
tions will  equal  either  Vincente's  or  Dave 
Rose's." 

Tt  is  rather  difficult  to  track  down  Luft's 
past  accomplishments.  On  August  3, 
1941,  when  he  signed  up  with  the  Canadian 
Air  Force,  a  few  Los  Angeles  newspapers 
ran  his  photograph  and  under  it  these 
words:  "Pilot  Officer  Sidney  Michael 
Luft,  24,  of  856  Devon  Avenue,  has  owned 
his  own  plane  and  chalked  up  400  hours 


while  working  for  a  garage  in  Beverly 
Hills." 

Two  years  later,  Luft  married  Lynn 
Bari  at  the  home  of  producer  Bill  Perl- 
berg.  It  was  a  wartime  marriage.  Lynn 
was  under  contract  to  20th  Century-Fox 
at  a  good  salary,  and  the  marriage  was 
reasonably  happy. 

Not  long  after,  Lynn  became  pregnant, 
but  three  weeks  before  it  was  due,  her 
child  died. 

Both  Lynn  and  Sid  were  distraught, 
but  their  doctor  told  them  that  Mrs.  Luft 
was  still  capable  of  bearing  other  chil- 
dren and  advised  them  not  to  be 
discouraged. 

The  Lufts,  however,  weren't  getting 
along  any  too  well  by  then,  and  on  May 
27,  1947,  Lynn  Bari  sued  for  divorce.  She 
agreed  to  a  reconciliation,  however,  and 
soon  she  was  pregnant  again. 

After  the  birth  of  her  son,  John,  she 
went  back  to  work.  Like  most  actresses 
she  earned  a  good  deal  more  money  than 
her  husband.  Lynn  toured  the  country 
in  several  stage  attractions,  and  from 
time  to  time,  Luft  joined  her  on  the  road. 

But  when  Lynn  Bari  returned  to  Holly- 
wood last  year,  she  decided  to  divorce 
Sid.  She  told  the  judge  that  he  was  not 
interested  in  maintaining  a  home,  that  he 
preferred  to  spend  much  of  his  time  in 
night  clubs. 

"If  I  didn't  want  to  go  out  in  the 
evenings,"  she  testified,  "he'd  say  he 
was  going  out  to  get  the  morning  papers 
and  he'd  remain  away  all  night.  He'd  get 
home  at  6: 00  a.  m.  and  when  I  asked 
where  he'd  been,  he'd  say  'I  was  out  with 
the  boys.' " 

Lynn's  petition  for  divorce  from  Luft 
also  stated  that  he  had  used  separate 
funds  belonging  to  her  to  develop  busi- 
ness interests  "of  which  he  now  refuses 
to  account  to  her." 

Lynn  also  said  that  she  had  advanced 
her  husband  $16,000  in  cash  for  an  invest- 
ment in  a  motion  picture,  and  had  later 
given  him  "her  $13,000  equity  in  Cold- 
water  Canyon  property  for  the  same 
purpose."  She  then  charged  that  Luft  had 
threatened  to  sell  or  mortgage  the  prop- 
erties "in  order  to  deprive  her  and  their 
child  of  a  share  in  the  proceeds." 

Lynn's  complaint  further  asserted  that 
Luft  was  currently  associated  with  a 
horse-race  enterprise  and  that  his  income 
was  more  than  $2,500  a  month. 

The  judge  decided  that  Luft  would  have 
to  pay  $500  a  month  for  one  year  for  the 
support  of  his  two-year-old  son  John; 
and  $300  a  month  and  10%  of  his  income 
thereafter. 

At  the  time  Sid  started  going  out  with 
Judy  Garland,  Lynn  Bari  said  that  he 
was  behind  on  his  support  payments. 

That  is  briefly  Sid  Luft's  background  in 
Hollywood. 

Judy's  is  too  well-known  to  bear 
repetition.  Her  chronic  unhappiness,  her 
childish  attempt  at  suicide,  her  inferiority 
complex — all  of  these  have  been  re- 
hashed countless  times,  and  there  is  no 


You'll  thank  Stardust  for  instant 
allure  at  a  wee  small  price!  NO 
other  bra  does  more  to  give  your 
figure  that  firm  rounded  look,  with 
flattering  separation.  You'll  prize 
the  dainty  shirring  that  helps  shape 
and  mould  .  .  .  you'll  appreciate 
the  clever  elastic  inserts  that 
assure  comfy  fit  and  action-ease! 
In  luscious  rayon  satin  that's  actu- 
ally wear-and-wash  guaranteed  for 
an  entire  year !  Yours  for  only  $1  . . , 
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need    to    re-examine    them  here. 

That  Judy  was  unable  to  continue  her 
marriage  to  Vincente  Minnelli  may  be 
attributed  to  many  factors,  but  the  decid- 
ing one  was  that  she  no  longer  loved  him. 

Minnelli  was  a  model  husband,  tolereint, 
understanding,  hard-working  —  but  the 
attraction  he  had  for  Judy  simply  faded. 

Judy  separated  from  Minnelli  several 
times  in  the  past  few  years,  and  on  each 
occasion  there  was  a  reconciliation.  But 
they  could  never  recapture  what  they 
felt  for  each  other  in  the  days  when  he 
was  directing  her  in  The  Clock. 

I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

While  visiting  at 
Cape  Cod,  I  took 
my  little  girls  to 
see  a  train  come 
into  F  almouth 
Station.  Because 
they  were  the 
only  children  in 
the  vicinity,  I 
knew  the  remark 
was  made  about 
my  youngest  when 

I  heard  someone  say,  "Look  at  that 
little  girl's  pretty  curls."  I  was  sur- 
prised to  see  it  was  Judy  Garland — 
and  with  her  was  Sylvia  Sidney! 

Mrs.  Ellsworth  R.  Wells 
Hyde  Park,  Mass. 

When  Judy  went  to  New  York  last 
year,  she  didn't  go  with  Minnelli.  She 
went  with  Myrtle  Tully,  her  secretary. 
Vincente  remained  at  work  in  California. 
Judy  did  the  tovm  with  several  attrac- 
tive escorts,  and  everyone  was  quick  to 
point  out  that  Minnelli  was  the  most 
broad-minded  husband  in  the  land. 
Actually,  each  had  stopped  caring  for 
the  other,  and  it  didn't  matter  with  whom 
they  were  being  seen. 

Judy  told  everyone  that  she  would 
escort  Vincente  to  Paris  where  he  was 
scheduled  to  direct  An  American  in  Paris, 
but  Minnelli  never  went,  and  Judy  never 
escorted  him.  Instead,  she  entrained  back 
to  Hollywood,  signed  a  new  contract 
with  the  William  Morris  Agency,  and 
began  making  guest  appearances  on  the 
Bing  Crosby  radio  show. 

She  also  started  being  seen  in  public 
with  Sid  Luft.  When  reporters  questioned 
her,  she  quickly  denied  any  fondness  for 
him  ^nd  kept  referring  them  to  her 
marital  status.  Finally,  she  was  seen  so 
much  with  Luft  that  she  was  compelled 
to  move  out  of  the  MinneUis'  hillside 
house  to  the  Beverly  Hills  Hotel. 

Then  it  was  out  in  the  open.  Judy  was 
going  to  divorce  Vincente  Minnelli. 

ORDINARILY,  a  girl  is  somewhat  saddened 
when  she  makes  that  annoimcement, 
but  the  opposite  was  true  of  Judy.  She 
was  obviously  in  love  with  Luft,  and  she 
didn't  care  who  knew  it.  People  kept 
telling  her  that  she  was  gaining  too  much 
weight,  something  she  formerly  worried 
about — but  this  time,  she  merely  smiled. 
"Some  people  are  bom  to  be  heavier  than 
others,"  she  said. 

Today,  Judy's  in  a  better  frame  of 
mind  than  she  has  been  in  years.  She 
knows  she's  desirable  to  Luft,  and  that 
she's  desirable  to  the  public.  'To  be  thus 
wanted  has  been  the  need  of  her  life. 

Whether  she  and  Sid  Luft  will  be  per- 
manently happy  together,  or  whether 
their  love  will  flicker  out — ^no  one  can 
really  say.  Although  too  many  observers 
anticipate  the  latter  situation,  it  is  in  Judy's 
favor  that  observers  were  equally  dis- 
tressed when  Bing  married  Dixie,  Spencer 
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Before  another  week  had  passed,  Jeanne 
was  curled  up  happily  in  a  drawing  room 
on  the  Chief,  rattling  East,  and  so — against 
his  better  judgment — was  the  man  she 
loved.  And  if  Paul  was  hopping  off  at  Pasa- 
dena, Albuquerque,  Kansas  City,  Chicago 
and  points  en  route  to  send  frantic  business 
wires,  Mrs.  Brinkman  nursed  no  such  cares 
in  her  pretty  head.  She  had  visions  of 
glamor  gowns,  theaters,  smart  cafes  and 
dancing  until  dawn.  This  was  a  reaction; 
Jeanne  was  off  on  a  glamor  whirl.  Paul 
knew  it  was  important  medicine  for  her. 

Every  now  and  then,  and  especially  after 
some  temporarily  restraining  hiatus  in 
her  life — whether  it's  an  unattractive 
movie  getup,  or  the  antiseptic  business  of 
having  a  baby — Jeanne  Crain  spins  off  on 
the  wings  of  an  irresistible  urge  for 
excitement.  For  a  week  or  more  she  can 
be  Jeanne  Crain,  which  is  to  say,  an  Irish 
redhead,  a  dramatic,  exciting  gal,  and  a 
lady,  by  the  way,  understood  by  too  few 
people. 

Last  year  for  instance,  Jeanne  was  barely 
home  from  the  hospital  with  Timothy 
Peter  when  she  ripped  open  her  bid  to 
Hollywood's  annual  Press  Photographers' 
Ball,  a  star-spangled  shilly  where  almost 
anything  goes. 

"Look — it  says  the  theme's  'Your  Secret 
Desire'!"  she  told  Paul  excitedly.  "Well, 
you're  my  secret  desire — and  you  know 
how  I've  always  pictured  you — secretly? 
As  a  sheik!" 

Paul  is  dark,  handsome,  and  dashing,  of 
course,  but  at  that  point  he  was  also  the 
brand  new  father  of  his  third  son  and  he 
felt  his  responsibility  and — well — dignity. 
He  wasn't  particularly  in  the  mood  to  wear 
white  sheets  and  a  turban. 

"Tell  me — how  will  a  sheik  match  up 
with  a  madonna?"  he  wanted  to  know. 

"Don't  be  out  of  date,"  said  Jeanne. 
"I'm  not  wearing  my  halo  any  more.  I'll 
be  your  harem  slave.  Great  One."  She'd 
worked  hard  enough,  Allah  knew,  getting 
her  figure  back  with  all  those  exercises 
and,  well,  she  sort  of  wanted  to  show  it  off. 

So,  with  Timothy  only  six  weeks  old, 
Jeanne  glided  into  the  ball  with  beaded 
bra,  bare  midriff,  and  daring  diaphanous 
trousers  that  invited  a  view  of  two  of  the 
trimmest  supports  in  Hollywood.  When 
they  saw  who  she  was,  the  flash  bulb  boys 
gasped,  and  Hollywood's  envious  females 
were  properly  shocked.  Jeanne  had  the 
time  of  her  life. 

Nobody  expects  things  like  that  from 
Jeanne  Crain,  and  when  they  happen  right 
out  in  public  no  one  seems  to  believe  it. 
Only  recently  Jeanne  took  the  breath  away 
from  as  breezy  a  gal  as  Hedda  Hopper,  at  a 
party  which  Director  Jean  Negulesco 
tossed  after  winding  up  Take  Care  oj  My 
Little  Girl.  Nobody  needed  to  take  care  of 
Jeanne  that  night;  she  took  care  of  herself. 
She  swept  in,  wearing  a  deep-dipping 
black  blouse  and  a  shocking  pink  circus 
skirt,  around  which  she'd  sewn  glittering 
clown  faces — only  they  weren't  really 
clown  faces.  They  were  daring  caricatures 
which  she'd  cut  out  herself,  cartoons  of 
the  guests  present,  including  Hedda. 

'T'he  legendary  girl  you  sometimes  feel 
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ingly    unconventional    in    her  behavior. 

On  her  last  trip  to  New  York,  Jeanne 
arrived  lugging  a  Hawaiian  guitar  case, 
because  at  that  time  she  was  taking  les- 
sons from  her  Island  friend,  Sam  Koki, 
and  she  didn't  want  to  lose  her  touch.  In 
Grand  Central  Station  the  reporters  and 
news  cameramen  spotted  it  pronto.  "What's 
the  act?"  they  demanded.  "You  can't  play 
that  thing,  can  you?" 

"I  sure  can,"  fired  back  Jeanne.  "Want 
to  hear?"  So  while  the  crowds  gathered 
and  gawked,  she  plopped  down  on  her 
suitcase  and  whanged  out  "The  Blue- 
Tailed  Fly"^ — right  in  the  Grand  Concourse. 
Then  she  hustled  out  to  a  cab,  and  with 
Paul  grinning  and  shaking  his  head, 
zoomed  off  to  her  hotel.  But,  of  course, 
Paul  Brinkman  knows  by  now  he  can  ex- 
pect practically  stnything  from  his  beauti- 
fully unpredictable  bride.  After  all,  their 
romance  wasn't  exactly  out  of  Emily  Post. 

What  other  star  ever  found  her  true 
loving  husband  by  letting  him  chase  her 
through  city  traffic  for  her  license  number 
so  he  could  call  up,  make  a  date,  and  marry 
her?  What  other  Hollywood  star — and  a 
new  one  at  that — would  dare  keep  her 
marriage  a  deep,  dark  secret  from  her  own 
publicity  department,  even  though  she 
worked  up  until  an  hour  before  she  went 
for  the  license?  Who  in  the  nice  Niagara 
Falls  set  would  choose  bleak  Death  Valley 
for  a  honeymoon?  And  what  other  brand 
new  mama  would  dare  feel  the  compelling 
urge  to  bring  home  a  half-grown  lioness 
cub  from  a  circus  party — just  because  he 
licked  her  hand — and  keep  it  prowling 
around  the  place  until  the  neighbors 
called  the  cops? 

Jeanne  Grain  lives  as  she  darned  pleases. 
And  she  lives  in  the  most  dramatic  setting 
of  any  star  in  Hollywood.  Jeanne  and 
Paul,  with  the  assistance  of  architects, 
planned  it  together.  "We  saw  eye  to  eye," 
they  both  say,  "we  knew  what  we  wanted 
— and  we  got  it."  They  certainly  did.  The 
result  is  what  said  architects  call  "inter- 
esting," but  "thrilling"  is  an  even  better 
word. 

No  photograph  yet  developed  can  catch 
the  dramatic  feel  of  that  eyrie,  or  how  it 
fits  the  glamor  pair  who  live  there.  Snug- 
gling into  the  beige  hillside,  it's  white 
topped,  strikingly  modern,  planted  on  seven 
acres  of  precipitous  mountain  with  a 
framed  view  of  everything.  Maybe  you're 
hep  to  the  stunning  color  accents  of  gray- 
greens,  bright  reds,  golds  and  chartreuses 
that  Jeanne  has  splashed  here  and  there 
to  delight  the  unconventional  eye.  Per- 
haps you've  heard  of  the  rows  upon  rows 
of  romantic  travel  books  and  exciting 
biographies  (she's  a  heavy  reader)  that 
line  the  shelves,  the  big  tropical  plant  that 
spears  up  out  of  nowhere,  the  huge  field- 
stone  fireplace,  and  the  rough-hewn  ceil- 
ing of  pink,  lavender  and  green. 

But  if  you  haven't  stood  by  the  glass  at 
sunset  and  seen  the  big  jacaranda  tree 
shower  a  purple  carpet  of  blossoms  right 
up  to  the  pool,  and  watched  the  city  lights 
burn  up  the  valley,  then  you'll  never 
know  what  a  breathtaking,  disturbing 
place  it  is — and  yet  peaceful  and  perfect 
for  a  girl  who  always  wanted  to  paint, 
and  a  guy  who  likes  to  build.  And  when 
Paul,  Jr.  races  in  tagged  by  Mike  Anthony, 
and  Jeanne  brings  in  Timmy  and  lets  them 
all  scoot  wherever  they  please,  that's  some- 
thing too — but  that's  also  another  thing. 

Jeanne  is  a  mother,  all  right,  and  a  good 
one.  Five  years,  three  baby  boys.  ("Lucky 
me — with  all  the  men  around!"-  she 
cracks.)  She  loves  them,  takes  care  of 
them,  wants  more  of  them.  But  she's  no 
lace  draped  picture  of  Whistler's  Mother. 

Jeanne  is  a  modern  mother — and  you 
Ccin  sing  no  sad  lullabies  for  her.  She's 
enjoyed  every  baby,  before  birth  and 
after.  She's  enjoyed  herself  too,  and  she 
has  never  let  being  pregnant  slow  her 


down — either  as  a  woman  or  as  a  film  star. 

Jeanne  plunged  right  into  Pinky  less 
than  six  weeks  after  Michael  was  born. 
Ethel  Barrymore  called  her  "the  most 
vibrant  young  actress  I've  met."  While  she 
was  carrying  Michael  the  Brinkmans'  an- 
nual, super-sentimental  New  Year's  Eve 
aimiversary  party  roUed  up.  Paul  looked 
dubiously  at  her  outsized  figure;  Mike 
was  due  in  exactly  one  month.  "Maybe 
we'd  better  skip  it,  Doll — "  he  began. 
"We'd  better  not,"  vetoed  Jearme.  She  not 
only  made  the  party,  but  a  purple  satin 
maternity  gown  to  wear  there. 

The  evening  before  Paul  Frederick  was 
bom  Jeanne  stepped  out  to  dinner,  a 
show,  and  a  hot  fudge  orgy  afterwards, 
just  making  last-minute  hospital  con- 
nections with  the  stork.  After  Timmy  came 
Paul  asked  Jeanne,  "What  do  you  want 
for  the  baby,  Doll?" 

"An  ermine  coat,"  said  Jearme.  "But 
not  for  the  baby  doll — for  this  doU!"  She 
got  one — full  length — which  she  broke  out 
at  the  premiere  of  All  About  Eve,  and  a 
party  afterwards. 

/~\ne  of  the  funniest  sights  Paul  remem- 
"  bers  was  arriving  home  late  one  night, 
and  spying  Jearme  sitting  in  a  bed  of 
scented  honeysuckle  outside  the  lanai  in 
the  full  California  moon.  She  was  ten  days 
overdue  with  Timmy  and  chanting,  "Come 
on,  moon,  bring  the  baby!"  That's  as  close 
as  she  ever  came  to  any  old  wives'  tale 
about  any  blessed  event.  "But  even  then 
she  was  glamorous,"  remembers  Paul. 
"And  you  know,  with  every  baby  she 
gets   more  beautiful." 

Paul  Brinkman  could  be  prejudiced,  of 
course,  but  there's  more  truth  than  senti- 
ment in  what  he  says.  Mortenson,  the 
famous  feminine  photographer,  says 
Jeanne  has  "the  most  beautiful  face  and 
the  most  beautiful  figure  in  one  body  that 
I've  ever  seen" — and  he  shot  over  5,000 
pictures  of  her  to  back  up  that  opinion. 

Otto  Preminger,  who  has  directed  his 
share  of  the  world's  beauties,  gazed  at 
Jeanne  through  a  camera  finder  once. 
"Perfect,"  he  purred,  "but  please — take  off 
your  rouge  and  those  false  eyelashes!" 
Which,  of  course,  Jeanne  couldn't  do,  be- 
cause they  were  her  ovra.  And  Jean 
Negulesco,  an  artist  as  well  as  movie 
director,  painted  her  portrait  secretly 
while  Jearme  acted  for  him  in  Take  Care 
of  My  Little  Girl.  At  the  end,  he  gave  it 
to  her,  but  when  Jeanne  thanked  him,  he 
apologized.  "I  shouldn't  have  done  this 
without  asking  you,"  he  said,  "but  I 
couldn't  resist.  No  artist  could." 

But  there's  more  to  Jearme  Grain's  allure 
than  her  rose-tinted  complexion,  eternally 
teen-age  chassis,  and  the  smouldering 
glints  of  her  copper-gold  hair.  That  extra 
something  was  acquired  through  living 
and  learning  to  accent  her  natural  gifts. 
"After  all,"  she  says,  "if  you  look,  think, 
or  act  like  the  same  person  at  25  that  you 
were  at  17,  there's  something  vacant  up- 
stairs." 

Jearme  stiU  wears  her  ttunbling  tresses 
shoulder  length  because  Paul  likes  them 
that  way.  But  peasant  blouses  and  dirndl 
skirts  got  swept  off  the  hangers  long  ago 
to  make  way  for  the  haut  couture  of 
Paris  and  Manhattan  designers.  Long  ago 
Jeanne  started  telling  misguided  sales- 
girls who  whipped  out  something  demure 
every  time  she  walked  inside  a  salon, 
"Never  mind  the  pinks,  please — bring  out 
the  wicked  ones — black  beads  and  lace!" 
Now  Jeanne  Grain  is  a  sturming  fashion 
plate  in  private  life  indeed,  and  poses  for 
high  fashion  magazines  whenever  she's  in 
Manhattan. 

Paul  trotted  along  with  Jeanne  a  few 
weeks  ago  to  Ceil  Chapman's,  because 
Jeanne  said  she  wanted  him  to  help  her 
pick  out  a  formal  for  the  Academy  Awards 
this    year.    "This    one    dress,"  promised 


Jeanne,  "is  all  I  really  need."  They  went  in 
for  a  quick  hour — and  they  stayed  all  day. 

"I  made  my  big  mistake,"  confessed 
Brinkman,  "when  she  put  on  a  sexy  num- 
ber and  I  said  'Sensational!'  I  said  it  17 
times — and  Jeanne  left  with  17  dresses!" 
The  Academy  Award  gown  was  typical: 
a  sea  blue,  tight-bodiced  eye-catcher  with 
a  beU  skirt  full  enough  to  accommodate 
six  lace  petticoats,  with  ruffled  puffs. 

JEANNE  can  get  by  with  the  most  dra- 
matic and  striking  clothes  because  she 
is  a  dramatic  and  striking  beauty.  When 
she  trips  out  in  her  holy  white  slippers 
with  crimson  roses  on  the  toes,  or  the 
black  ones  with  the  ruby  red  jeweled 
heels,  they  seem  exactly  right.  When  she 
breaks  out  in  the  bare  top,  silver-beaded 
cocktail  dress  with  the  super  short  skirt — 
it  may  be  ahead  of  the  styles,  but  on  her 
it's  perfect.  Even  when  she  parks  a 
Floradora  hat  on  her  curls,  complete  with 
purple  ostrich  feathers — as  she  did  at  New 
York's  Bowery  Follies,  she  gets  cheers. 
Anything  goes  with  Jeanne  that's  daring, 
colorful;  gay.  In  fact,  the  only  fiasco  that 
spoils  her  record  was  a  homemade  job  she 
whipped  up  one  time  when  she  was  caught 
with  "just  nothing  to  wear."  Jeanne  dug 
up  a  white  crepe  dinner  gown  with  a 
white  lace  top.  She  had  it  on  when  Paul 
charged  into  the  bedroom,  late  and  fum- 
bling with  his  shirt  studs.  He  took  a  horri- 
fied look.  "Good  gosh — hurry  up  and  get 
dressed!"  he  barked. 
"I  am,"  said  Jeanne. 
"Oh,  I  thought  that  was  a  nightgown," 
blurted  Paul.  She  finally  got  by  with  a 
big,  red  rose  at  her  bosom. 

What  most  people  don't  know  is  that 
Jeanne  is  an  incurable  romantic,  a  true 
artist,  and  even  a  bohemian,  at  heart. 
Everything  she  does  in  her  own  life  must 
have  a  flair,  or  Jeanne  considers  it  a  flop. 


Four  years  after  their  house  was  buUt, 
Jeanne  and  Paul  finally  got  aroxmd  to  a 
housewarming  party.  For  Jeaime  it 
couldn't  be  just  a  party,  it  had  to  be 
something  that  was  especially  her — her 
house,  her  creation.  She  had  a  deep 
tropical  tan  at  the  time,  she  was  taking 
Hawaiian  guitar  lessons  from  Sam  Koki 
and  Napu,  his  wife,  was  teaching  her  the 
hula.  The  weather  was  warm  and  the 
nights  caressing.  They  still  talk  about  the 
Hawaiian  party  at  the  Brinkmans' — all 
265  lucky  guests  who  came. 

A  mammoth  green  tent- projected  their 
porch  almost  to  the  garden  rim  where  the 
mountain  drops  off.  Special  isinglass  sides 
let  in  the  whole  dazzling  view  of  the 
valley's  bright  splendor.  Flood  lights  in 
the  pool  turned  it  to  turquoise.  Camellias 
and  gardenias  floated  on  the  water.  A 
Hawaiian  orchestra  throbbed.  There  was  a 
floor  show  of  Polynesian  dancers.  And  the 
guests  never  knew  that  an  extra  electric 
oven  which  Jeanne  had  rushed  in  to  handle 
the  food  blew  out  all  the  fuses  so  that  the 
whole  party  was  by  candlelight.  "Luck  was 
just  with  me,"  sighed  Jeanne.  "I  should 
have  thought  of  the  candles."  She'd 
thought  about  everything  else. 

Jeanne  and  Paul's  summertime  bar- 
becues are  almost  as  spectacular — with 
red-checked  tablecloths  dotting  the  field- 
stone  terrace,  both  barbecue  pits — in  the 
house  and  out — blazing  away,  and  Jeanne 
usually  the  very  first  to  plunge  into  the 
moonlit  pool  at  midnight.  "They  have  flocks 
of  friends  who  fit  into  no  narrow  pattern — 
artists,  architects,  writers,  musicians, 
socialites,  actors,  business  men,  politicians. 
To  Jeanne,  everyone  who  does  something 
she  doesn't  know  about  is,  at  once,  the  most 
interesting  character  on  earth. 

IVToBODY  could  call  Jeanne  Grain  an  in- 
-'- '  trovert  today — if  she  ever  was.  On  the 


contrary,  she  packs  a  healthy  hunger  for 
action  and  freedom.  But  wherever  she 
goes,  there  goes  her  screen  image  to  slow 
her  down.  Luckily,  Jeanne  can  laugh  imp- 
ishly at  the  ardent  mash  notes  that  still 
pour  in  from  high  school  boys;  or  at  some- 
thing that  happened  not  so  long  ago,  when 
a  Carmelite  nun  called  up  Jeanne's  mother 
from  an  orphanage. 

She  thanked  her  for  supplying  a  print 
of  Jeanne  Grain's  nice  picture  Margie,  to 
delight  her  charges  the  next  day,  "And 
couldn't  you  arrange  to  have  your  little 
girl,  Jeanne,  be  with  us,"  she  begged.  "The 
children  would  love  to  play  with  her." 

"I'm  afraid  I  can't  arrange  that,"  said 
Mrs.  Grain.  "My  little  girl's  pregnant." 

Mrs.  Grain's  little  girl  Jeanne  is  still 
expecting — maybe  more  babies  one  of 
these  days — but  a  lot  of  other  wonderful 
things  as  well.  Being  Jeanne  Grain,  she's 
expecting  a  full  life  of  excitement,  rich 
interests,  fun  and  romance.  She's  expect- 
ing to  live  it  always  with  the  man  she 
loves.  And  these  great  expectations  seem 
dead  certain  to  come  true. 

On  their  anniversary  last  December  31st, 
as  the  final  sun  of  1950  dipped  down  to 
paint  their  housetop  pink  with  its  fading 
glow,  and  the  lights  sparked  up  in  the 
great  city  before  them,  Paul  Brinkman 
slipped  a  thin  gold  chain  over  the  like- 
wise golden  hair  of  his  lovely  wife. 

At  the  end  hung  a  gold  medallion  of 
Our  Lady  of  Guadalupe,  with  five  dia- 
monds on  one  side — for  the  five  beautiful 
years — and  three  rubies  on  the  other — for 
the  three  beautiful  boys.  On  the  back  was 
engraved: 

"Jeanne,  Doll — Not  for  five  years  but 
forever.  We  love  you.  Paul — plus  3." 

And  as  he  hugged  her  close  and  kissed 
her,  she  had  aU  the  proof  she'll  ever  need 
that  Jeanne  Grain  is  a  beautiful,  fascinat- 
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{Continued  from  page  41)  snowing  in  the 
mountains." 

Jim  and  Chris  glanced  up  from  their 
cereal.  "Yep,"  said  Jim  hopefully,  "must 
be  lots  of  snow  up  there." 

Chris  just  looked  wistful.  Being  married 
to  a  husband  who's  an  actor,  I  know  a  cue 
when  I  hear  one.  "We  can  always  take 
the  Joneses  up  on  their  invitation  to 
Tahoe,"  I  suggested. 

From  the  reaction  the  statement  got, 
you'd  have  thought  it  was  the  greatest 
idea  ever  to  hit  the  Mitchum  household. 
And  from  the  three  bear  hugs  I  received, 
I  was  nearly  convinced  that  the  idea  was 
mine. 

Ever  since  we've  known  them,  Stan 
and  Olive  Jones  (he  wrote  the  hit  song, 
"Ghost  Riders")  have  been  singing  the 
praises  of  Tahoe.  Especially  famous  as  a 
summer  resort,  it's  now  coming  into  its 
own  during  the  winter  season.  We  were 
probably  the  only  folks  in  Hollywood  who 
hadn't  made  the  trek  to  investigate  its 
claim  to  fame. 

YVTe  were  on  our  way  through  the  small 
"  town  of  Bishop   when  Bob  stopped 
the  station  wagon.  "I  think  we've  forgot- 


ten something,"  he  said  with  a  shiver. 
"Follow  me." 

And  with  that,  he  led  us  into  a  nearby 
department  store  ...  to  the  department 
of  long  woolen  underwear.  When  we 
reached  Tahoe  I  realized  the  value  of  our 
purchases.  It  was  cold.  Bitterly  cold. 
However,  to  our  boys'  disappointment, 
there  was  no  snow.  "Must  be  snow  around 
here  someplace,"  said  Jim.  "Can't  we  just 
keep  on  riding  till  we  find  some?" 

"It'll  come.  We'll  wait  for  it,"  Bob 
promised. 

Stan  and  Olive  have  a  huge  lodge  on 
the  lake.  Usually  they  only  open  the 
rooms  downstairs.  But  our  brood  rated 
the  run  of  the  house.  It  was  late,  so  Jim 
and  Chris  went  upstairs  to  bed.  When 
we  stopped  in  to  say  goodnight,  we  found 
them  buried  under  a  pile  of  blankets.  I 
looked  around  for  their  clothes.  They 
were  nowhere  in  sight  .  .  .  nor  in  the 
closet.  Two  pairs  of  shoes  were  at  the 
foot  of  the  bed.  A  couple  of  small  heads 
raised  up  from  their  pillows.  The  faces 
were  grinning  sheepishly.  The  boys  had 
turned  in  fully  dressed — even  to  heavy 
socks  and  stocking  caps.  "We're  freeeezing, 
Mom,"  said  Chris  by  way  of  explanation. 


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□  John  Agar  On  Trial 

□  I  Found  Romance  in  the  Mountains 

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As  it  turned  out,  our  yoimgsters  had  hit 
upon  a  fine  solution  to  the  problem  of 
the  below  zero  room  temperature.  Bob 
and  I  were  the  first  to  admit  it.  We  took 
off  our  shoes  and  went  to  bed. 

"I'm  the  rugged  type,"  I  kept  telling 
myself  when  morriing  came  and  I  knew 
the  temperature  had  gone  dovm  even 
lower  during  the  night. 

I  made  a  dash  for  the  fire  downstairs, 
to  find  there  was  no  fire  downstairs.  Right 
away  I  was  sure  I'd  done  the  wrong 
thing.  On  the  other  hand,  I  noted  that 
Fearless  Bob  Mitchum  didn't  stir  from 
bed  until  he  heard  Stan  throwing  logs 
into  the  fireplace. 

There  was  still  no  snow.  The  weather 
wizards  predicteci  it,  but  another  day 
passed  with  Jim  and  Chris  sitting  by  the 
barometer  watching  and  waiting.  They 
had  seen  snow  once — several  j'ears  ago 
Ln  Hollywood  when  the  weather  had 
double-crossed  the  Chamber  of  Commerce 
and  the  white  stuff  blanketed  our  back 
yard.  However,  I  had  to  agree  that  it 
wasn't  quite  the  same. 

The  following  morning,  I  heard  the 
boys'  shouts  and  knew  what  was  happen- 
ing even  before  I  looked  out  of  the 
window.  Chris  and  Jim  were  hysterical. 
Jim  got  out  the  sled  that  had  been  in 
our  closet  for  four  years.  Then  we  headed 
for  the  closest  hill.  "Here  now,  let  me 
show  you  how  to  handle  it,"  said  Bob  as 
if  the  sled  were  a  complicated  machine. 

Some  15  minutes  later,  he  had  climbed 
the  hill  and  whizzed  do%vn  again  for  the 
umpteenth  time.  "Think  I've  got  the  hang 
of  it,"  he  finally  aimoimced.  "Pile  on." 

'yms  went  on  all  morning.  And  when  the 
kids  turned  to  making  snowmen,  Bob 
and  the  sled  were  still  going  strong.  We 
fell  into  bed  earlj'  that  evening,  as  we 
had  a  big  day  ahead.  That  was  the  day 


I  changed  my  mind  about  my  husband. 
For  the  past  few  months,  I'd  been  thinking 
that  surely  I  was  married  to  another 
Isaac  Walton.  However,  I  discovered  that 
my  husband  had  discarded  this  character- 
ization in  favor  of  Zebulon  Pike,  no  less, 
when  we  set  out  to  scale  Lookout 
Mountain.  In  my  estimation.  Pike's  Peak 
could  have  nothing  on  Lookout  Mountain. 
Statistics  will  have  you  believe  that  it's 
a  mile  straight  up.  By  the  time  we 
reached  the  top,  my  feet  would  have 
been  willing  to  swear  that  the  distance 
was  at  least  five  thousand  miles. 

Chris  carried  his  bow  sind  arrows.  Jim 
took  along  his  .22.  Bob  and  Stan,  occasion- 
ally pausing  casually  to  lean  against  a 
tree  long  enough  to  get  used  to  the 
altitude,  were  loaded  down  with  picnic 
lunch.  I  brought  up  the  rear  with  my 
camera.  As  I  said,  we  did  reach  the  top 
slightly  more  exhausted  than 
victorious.  And  the  general  feeling  when 
we  got  back  to  the  lodge  was  one  of 
surprise! 

Never  let  it  be  said  that  we  weren't 
game  for  all  the  sports!  Novices — but 
nevertheless  enthusiastic  ones.  Since 
Squaw  Valley  is  a  skier's  paradise, 
eventually  we  got  around  to  skiing.  That 
is.  Bob  got  around  to  skiing.  The  ski  tow 
there  is  the  world's  longest  (about  8,400 
feet).  Chris,  Jim,  and  I  watched  Bob  get 
off  at  some  incredible  altitude,  wave  good- 
bye and  continue  the  trip  sitting  down. 

When  our  feet  touched  the  ground 
again  we  heard  a  familiar  voice  shout, 
"Hello."  It  was  Margaret  Sheridan,  who 
like  Bob,  is  imder  contract  to  RKO.  She 
was  debating  whether  to  try  her  skiD 
on  the  steeper  slopes.  As  she  had  had 
only  one  lesson,  I  convinced  her  that 
she  should  come  back  to  the  lodge  with 
us.  Cups  of  hot  coffee  later,  she  had  no 
regrets.  There's  nothing  like  coffee  and 


conversation  aroiind  a  roaring  big  fire. 

The  day  before  we  headed  back  for 
Hollywood,  the  menfolk  planned  a  himt- 
ing  trip.  Jim  and  Chris  had  talked  of 
nothing  else  for  24  hours.  Bob  and  Stan 
made  elaborate  preparations  for  the  snipe 
hunt  they'd  promised  the  boys.  I  was 
in  on  the  secret.  "Think  they'll  ever  forgive 
you?"  I  asked  Bob. 

"They'll  have  a  fine  time,"  he  said. 

Some  distance  from  the  lodge,  oldtimers 
Mitchum  and  Jones  explained  the  tech- 
nique of  snipe  hunting.  "You  just  stand 
here  and  hold  the  bags  open  and  we'll 
scare  up  the  snipe.  When  they  come  out 
of  hiding,  we'll  chase  them  into  the  sacks." 

Jim  and  Chris  agreed.  They  stood 
quietly  while  Bob  and  Stan  disappeared 
to  beat  the  snipe  out  of  the  snowy  bushes. 
The  boys  waited  patiently.  No  snipe.  No 
Bob  or  Btan,  for  that  matter.  At  last  they 
caught  on  to  the  gag.  They  had  been  left 
holding  the  bags.  A  few  hours  later,  they 
wandered  in.  Jim  was  pretty  sore.  Chris 
thought  it  was  very  funny.  However,  they 
both  thought  the  game  had  possibilities. 

It  seemed  no  time  at  all  before  our 
excursion  was  over.  We  packed  the  station 
wagon,  said  our  goodbyes  and  started  for 
Hollywood.  Halfway  there  I  chanced  to 
remark  that  I  hoped  we  hadn't  forgotten 
anything.  "I  left  my  sled,"  said  Jim  in 
a  small  voice. 

"You  what?"  bellowed  Bob. 

"I  thought  maybe  we  could  go  back 
and  get  it  sometime  soon,"  replied  Jim. 

"You  have  a  point  there,"  Bob  told  him. 
"You  know,  I  think  every  growing  boy 
should  have  a  chance  to  romp  in  the  snow 
and  take  advantage  of  winter  sports." 

"I  think  so,  too,"  I  said  and  grinned  at 
my  three  growing  boys.  The  End 

(Robert  Mitchum  can  he  seen  in  RKO's 
His  Kind  of  Woman. — Ed.) 


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{Continued  from  page  35)  Boulevard.  The 
driver  must  be  loaded.'  They  pointed  out 
the  car  to  me,  and  the  fellow  behind  the 
wheel  turned  out  to  be  Agar.  The  kid  didn't 
seem  to  be  drunk,  but  I  called  over  a 
couple  of  other  officers,  and  they  decided 
to  book  him." 

As  was  later  proven  in  court,  John  Agar 
wasn't  drunk  the  night  he  was  arrested 
on  that  charge. 

'T'he  public,  however,  wasn't  particularly 
interested  in  the  truth.  The  newspapers 
said  that  Agar  had  been  arrested  for 
drunken  driving  and  that  seemed  proof 
enough.  It's  the  news  that  counts,  the 
accusation  that  makes  the  front  page.  De- 
nials are  always  saved  for  later.  And  what 
does  it  matter  if  a  young  man's  life  is 
ruined,  his  reputation  soiled,  his  peace  of 
mind  shattered?  The  public  wants  its 
news  hot,  and  that's  the  way  it's  dished 
out,  especially  where  Hollywood  actors  are 
concerned. 

When  Jack  Agar  returned  to  court  on 
that  drunken  driving  charge,  he  pleaded 
guilty  to  reckless  driving.  However,  Judge 
Henr.y  H.  Draeger  weighed  all  the  evi- 
dence, everything  Agar  had  to  say  and 
everything  the  California  Highway  Patrol 
offered  as  proof,  and  he  annoiuiced,  "I  am 
going  to  dismiss  the  drunken  driving 
charge  against  the  defendant  on  the 
grounds  that  the  evidence  at  hand  is  in- 
suificient.  The  defendant  is  sentenced  to 
30  days  in  the  coxinty  jail.  Sentence  sus- 
pended for  a  year  providing  there  are  no 
further  reckless  or  drunken  driving  viola- 
tions." 

Agar  paid  his  fine,  kept  his  mouth  shut, 
went  out  to  Warners  where  he  began 
studying  his  role  for  Breakthrough.  He 
made  it  a  point  to  stay  out  of  the  limelight, 
to  frequent  no  night  clubs,  and  when  he 
dated  actresses  like  Ruth  Roman  or  Gloria 
De  Haven,  it  was  only  for  publicity  or  pre- 
view purposes.  The  requests  had  come 
from  the  studio's  front  office. 

AGAR  tried  to  stay  out  of  trouble,  but  on 
January  14th  of  this  year,  that  old 
bugaboo,  drunken  driving,  caught  up  with 
him  again. 

Two  motorcycle  officers,  M.  M.  Schwab 
and  R.  R.  Stein,  arrested  Jack  "after  we 
saw  him  cross  the  double  line  on  Wilshire 
Boulevard  near  Manning  Ave.  We  wanted 
to  give  him  a  sobriety  test,  but  he  refused 
to  complete  one." 

Agar  insisted  that  he  was  innocent,  and 
demanded  a  trial  by  jury.  He  knew  that 
if  convicted  he  would  be  subject  to  a 
30-day  coimty  jail  sentence. 

The  results  of  his  trial  should  be  old 
news  by  the  time  you  read  this — uriless, 
of  course — the  trial  keeps  being  postponed. 

Regardless  of  its  result — John  Agar  will 
remain  on  trial  with  the  American  public, 
with  thousands  of  movie  fans  who,  love 
to  see  his  movies  but  can't  figure  out  what 
makes  him  tick  in  private  life. 

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man.  So  much  has  happened  to  hini  in 
Hollywood  since  his  marriage  to  Shirley 
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actor,  no  one  but  a  psychiatrist  would 
know — although  it's"  apparent  that  he 
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Apache,  was  to  put  him  at  ease.  John 
Ford,  one  of  the  great  directors  of  all  time, 
outdid  himself  to  get  a  natural  performance 
from  Agar. 

Jack  is  much  more  at  ease  now,  but  he 
is  still  the  most  difficult  man  in  Hollywood 
to  interview.  "I  used  to  think  Gary  Cooper 
was  pretty  tight-lipped,"  one  veteran  re- 
porter recently  pointed  out,  "but  that  Agarl 
You  might  as  well  be  interviewing  a  mu- 
seum collection.  This  guy's  as  noisy  as  a 
mummy  about  his  private  life." 

There  is  little  doubt  that  John  Agar  is 
a  bitter  and  disillusioned  yoimg  man  these 
days.  He  has  been,  more  or  less,  since 
Shirley  divorced  him — and  certainly  with 
good  reason.  He  feels  that  in  the  public's 
eyes  he  stands  convicted  for  the  imhap- 
piness  of  their  marital  life.  Once  in  Biif- 
falo,  for  example,  when  he  was  on  a  per- 
sonal appearance  tour,  he  was  pointed  out 
by  one  bobby-soxer  to  another.  "'There," 
said  the  Uttle  girl,  "is  the  fellow  who 
ruined  Shirley's  life. " 

THIS  is,  of  course,  untrue,  but  it's  the 
kind  of  slander  that  Jack's  been  con- 
fronted with  for  the  past  year  or  so.  On 
several  occasions,  he's  been  ad\-ised  to 
stand  up  and  speak  his  piece  and  clear  the 
air  for  once  and  all,  but  he  simply  can't. 

At  the  time  of  the  divorce,  he  said,  "As 
visual,  there  are  two  sides  to  the  contro- 
versy. There  is  much  I  might  have  said 
and  much  I  might  say  now.  As  I  see  it, 
however,  no  constructive  purpose  could 
be  served  by  recriminations. 

"This  is  the  course  I've  followed  since 
the  divorce,  and  I  still  want  to  follow  it 
despite  possible  wrongful  implications. 
Right  now  I'm  interested  in  only  two 
things,  my  daughter  and  my  career.  I  like 
Hollywood,  and  I  want  to  stay  an  actor  so 
long  as  the  public  w-ants  me.  I'm  pretty 
young  in  show  business  which  is  why  I 
don't  have  many  opinions  about  parts  and 
players  and  things  like  that.  I  just  do 
what  they  tell  me  to." 

Agar  realizes  that  many  people  regard 
him  as  a  poor  little  rich  boy  who  got  all 
the  breaks,  first  by  being  bom  into  money, 
and  second  by  marrying  Shirley  Temple. 

He  knows  he  can  do  absolutely  nothing 
about  such  opinions  except  to  let  time,  and 
pictures  like  The  Magic  Carpet  prove  that 
he  has  ability  and  talent  of  his  ovm. 

It  is  possible  that  he  could  be  barred 
from  further  picture-making  on  the  "moral 
turpitude"  clause  in  his  contract — every 
motion  picture  contract  has  a  clause  which 
says  that  bad  behavior  in  public  bj'  an 
actor  serves  as  an  immediate  grounds  for 
dismissal — but  this  is  hardly  likely. 


HollyAvood  and  the  public  are  both  too 
tolerant  to  deprive  a  man  of  his  hvelihood 
merely  because  he's  been  in  two  innocuous 
driving  accidents. 

If  anything,  thej'  both  hold  out  a  wel- 
come hand  and  an  open  heart  when  they 
feel  an  actor's  had  a  tough  break.  Bob 
Mitchum  is  a  case  in  point.  He  is  cur- 
rently more  poptdar  than  ever.  Mitchimi, 
however,  has  the  appeal  of  a  man  who 
came  from  the  wrong  side  of  the  tracks, 
who  never  had  the  advantages  Agar  has 
had.  Everj'one  thought  he  was  a  little 
sillj-  to  endanger  his  S3 .200  a  week  salary, 
his  family  life,  and  his  future  by  getting 
in  with  some  pretty  shoddy  characters,  but 
everyone  has  forgiven  him. 

Will  the  public  forgive  John  Agar? 

A  day  after  his  second  arrest  for  reckless 
driving,  a  girl  who"s  dated  him  occasion- 
ally, came  up  with  this  analysis:  "Jack's 
in  the  process  of  growing  up.  He's  30,  and 
he  should've  grown  up  long  before  this, 
but  he's  been  insxilated  from  Ufe.  His 
father  died  when  he  was  a  kid,  and  his 
mother  probably  worried  too  much  about 
him.  When  he  married  Shirley  Temple,  he 
found  that  from  nothing  he'd  suddenly 
become  a  national  figure.  'Wlien  Shirley 
dropped  him.  her  fans  regarded  him  as  a 
national  enemy.  Nobody's  ever  judged 
John  on  his  own  merits." 

A  X  actor  who  starred  v.-ith  Jack  in 
Iwo  Jima.  says,  "The  kid  may  be  a 
little  spoiled,  ■  but  he's  a  nice  kid.  He 
wouldn't  do  a  mean  or  spiteful  thing  if  it 
cost  him  his  life.  Other  fellows  out  here 
break  into  the  business,  and  the  first  thing 
you  know,  they're  trj-ing  to  upstage  you. 
They  learn  a  few  tricks,  cut  you  out  of  the 
camera,  even  sit  up  nights  figturing  out 
ways  to  make  j'ou  look  bad.  They  want 
to  use  your  body  as  a  stepping  stone. 
Agar's  not  like  that  at  all.  He's  a  gentle- 
man, he's  weU-bred,  and  he's  got  a  good 
heart.  Maybe  he  can't  hold  his  Liquor  so 
well — ^but  hell  learn.  These  two  traffic 
messes  were  all  he  needed. 

"I  don't  know — the  kid's  arrested  for 
reckless  driving,  and  everj'  paper  in  the 
world  carries  the  story.  I  don't  blame  him 
for  suffering  from  a  persecution  complex. 
But  eventually,  he'll  snap  out  of  it. 

""WTien  he  does,  j'ou  just  mark  my  words. 
He'U  be  one  of  the  biggest  stars  this  town 
has  ever  known.'' 

"Whether  the  public  'eels  as  friendly 
about  John  Agar  as  do  the  colleagues  who 
w-ork  with  him — the  next  few  months  will 
tell. 

Right  now,  he  stands  on  trial  before  the 
court  of  public  opinion.  The  EjfD 


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(Continued  from  page  51)  which  Mitzi 
Gajmor  told  how  she  got  to  be,  in  a  very 
short  time,  one  of  20th  Centur>--Fox's 
most  promising  young  stars,  a  somewhat 
frightening  prospect  for  the  future  of 
the  studio,  when  you  know^  that  there 
hasn't  been  as  volatile  a  creature  here- 
abouts since  the  early  Betty  Hutton. 

Mitzi  Gaynor's  father,  a  Hungarian 
named  Henr\-  Gerber,  was  a  vagabond 
artist,  a  symphony  and  operatic  conductor 
who  toured  this  country  and  Latin  America. 
He,  too,  was  an  explosive  man  with  an  ex- 
tremely domineering  attitude  toward  al- 
most everything,  including  love.  Tiring  of 
travel,  he  established  a  conservatory  in 
Chicago  and  shortly  after  fell  in  love  with 
a  "Viennese  ballroom  dancer  named  Pauline 
Fisher.  When  Henry  Gerber  -finally  came  to 
the  conclusion  that  it  was  love,  and  not  just 
some  subtle  Hungarian  mood,  he  tele- 
phoned Pauline,  ordered  her  to  halt  what- 


ever she  was  doing  and  present  herself 
before  him  immediately.  By  way  of  a  pro- 
posal, he  told  her  he  was  going  to  install  a 
dancing  class  in  his  school  and  needed  her 
in  his  business.  Such  was  his  magnetism 
that  she  came — and  married  him. 

TJr  the  time  ilitzi  was  three  years  old 
her  mother  wanted  her  to  become  a 
dancer,  so  she  called  her  sister  into  confer- 
ence. Her  sister,  a  ballet  dancer  known  as 
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right  to  work  on  tiny  ilitzi's  positions  and 
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attempts  to  deform  her.  The  traditional 
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^  However,  the  tuition  was  continued 
grimly  for  four  years,  at  which  time 
Henry  Gerber,  saddened  by  the  effect  the 
depression  was  having  on  his  music 
school  venture,  claimed  to  have  other 
definite  talents  and  moved  his  family 
to  Detroit  where  he  engaged  in  such 
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musicales,  and  chef  in  fairly  good 
restaurants.  The  family  didn't  prosper  by 
this  move,  but  at  least  everyone  ate. 

Each  week  a  famous  ballet  troupe  made 
an  appearance  at  the  Masonic  Temple 
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back  of  Mitzi,  decided  to  try  another  tack. 
Mitzi  was  out  of  the  mud  pie  stage  and 
beginning  to  be  conscious  of  beauty.  So 
Madame  started  taking  her  to  the  Masonic 
Hall  for  the  Saturday  matinees. 

"It  was  then,"  Mitzi  admits  now  quite 
soulfuUy,  "that  I  first  decided  I  was 
going  to  be  a  dancer.  All  of  the  great  stars 
appeared  in  Detroit — and  they  were  all 
so  beautiful.    I  wanted  to  be  like  them." 

To  dance,  and  to  perform  for  people, 
then  became  Mitzi's  life.  The  relatively 
minor  greatness  of  Madame  Francine  was 
dimmed  in  the  blaze  of  Mitzi's  new  ambi- 
tion. The  family,  eager  to  fan  this 
unexpected  conflagration,  enrolled  her  in 
a  class  being  conducted  by  a  pair  of 
ladies  named  Madame  Armand  and 
Madame  Katherine  Etienne,  both  prom- 
inent internationally  in  ballet  circles.  She 
became,  almost  immediately,  their  star 
pupil — and  remains  so  to  this  day. 

During  Mitzi's  really  formative  years, 
the  vagrant  nature  of  Henry  Gerber  took 
the  family  to  other  cities,  and  in  each  one 
Mitzi  eagerly  studied  under  the  best 
available  ballet  master.  She  learned  from 
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and  many  others.  But  eventually  the  road 
led  back  to  Detroit  and  Madame  Etienne. 
Although  art  was  uppermost  in  Mitzi's 
heart,  an  instinctive  knowledge  of  the 
value  of  a  buck  rested  there  too — and 
she  had  a  definite  desire  to  make  dancing 
pay  off. 

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said,  "came  from  dancing.  I  played  a 
benefit  in  Detroit  and  got  $2.50.  I  was 
nine  years  old." 

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high  time  she  became  celebrated,  and 
announced  that  they  would  all  go  to 
Hollywood  to  get  Mitzi  into  the  movies. 
Papa  Gerber,  parodoxically,  elected  to 
remain  behind  until  he  knew  for  sure 
what  was  going  to  come  of  the  migration, 
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and  Aunt  Frsincine  headed  West. 

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too  elated  that  Mitzi  Gaynor  was  avail- 
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Broadbent,  was  to  put  on  an  entertain- 
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for  the  current  Rose  Queen  festival.  Mitzi 
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Miss  Broadbent  asked  was  her  age. 

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But  she  got  a  chance  to  dance,  anyway. 
The  war  was  on  and  the  USO  gobbled 
up  any  entertainer  who  could  walk  on  a 
stage.  Mitzi  had  thousands  of  G.I.'s  rolling 
in  the  aisle  with  her  imitations  of  Carmen 
Mii-anda  and  a  "soffering"  Russian  ballet 
star.  It  was  good  experience.  To  keep 
in  trim,  and  to  remain  able  to  get  up 
on  her  toes,  she  continued  to  study  with 
Madame  Etienne,  and  she  played  super- 
numerary engagements  with  the  Ballet 
Russe  when  it  appeared  in  Los  Angeles. 
These,  it  must  be  admitted,  were  rather 
tragic  occasions  for  the  managers  of 
the  company. 

Whenever  the  Ballet  Russe  plays 
"Coppelia,"  the  entire  troupe  will  shudder 
in  memory  of  the  night  that  ballerina 
Mitzi  Gaynor,  high  in  the  air  on  a  well 
camouflaged  scaffold  with  the  rest  of 
the  corps-de-ballet,  became  so  engrossed 
in  her  interpretation  that  she  thought  she 
was  on  a  cloud  and  stepped  off  into  space. 
She  landed  on  the  floor  below  with  a  crash 
that  shook  the  entire  theater.  Mitzi  dam- 
aged nothing  but  her  dignity  and  her  like- 
lihood of  ever  working  for  the  producer 
again. 

On  another  occasion,  she  appointed  her- 
self sort  of  captain  of  the  other  ballerinas 
and,  during  a  performance  of  "Schehera- 
zade," loudly  called  the  beat  as  the  girls 
kicked  and  banged  tambourines.  It  was  a 
splendid  spirit,  except  that  Mitzi  was  the 
only  one  off  the  beat,  and  she  made  quite 
a  spectacle  as  she  kicked  when  the  others 
didn't,  and  banged  her  tambourine  in  a 
jangling  solo  when  the  score  called  for  the 
twitter  of  a  flute. 

These  setbacks  had  little  effect  on 
Mitzi  Gaynor,  however.  At  periodic  in- 
tervals, she  would  doll  up,  get  up  on 
the  high  heels  again  and  stagger  down 
to  Ada  Broadbent's  office,  where  she  would 
loudly  claim  to  be  16.  Finally  it  bore 
fruit.  Miss  Broadbent,  now  fully  aware 
that  the  kid  had  talent,  'got  her  a  part  in 
the  Los  Angeles  Civic  Light  Opera  Com- 
pany's production  Roberta. 

Edwin  Lester,  producer  for  the  light 
opera  company,  took  an  immediate  liking 
to  the  girl  who  always  seemed  to  be  16 
and  signed  her  to  a  personal  contract.  She 
appeared  with  his  company  each  season 
and  became  one  of  Los  Angeles'  and  San 
Francisco's  favorite  performers.  Everyone 
admired  her  talent  and  loved  her  ener- 
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good  for  an  occasional  belly  laugh,  like 
the  time  she  was  dancing  a  waltz  with 
Walter  Slezak  in  The  Great  Waltz  and 
something  came  unhooked  in  the  back 
of  her  costume.  It  was  a  dress  that  re- 
quired many  imdergarments — and  as 
there  was  no  time  to  investigate  the  thing 
that  had  come  undone,  Mitzi  just  kept 
on  dancing,  leaving  in  her  wake  a  shower 
of  petticoats  that  threatened  to  cover  the 
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studio,  made  a  good  impression  during 
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makeup  man  worked  on  her  face  and 
the  lady  on  her  hair.  When  they  were 
finished,  she  was  positive  she  had  fallen 
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seemed  as  though  nothing  had  been  done. 
By  a  wearing  down  process,  she  finally 
got  her  hair  brushed  back  from  in  front 
of  her  face,  but  the  goo  on  the  face  was 
out.  Then  came  a  costumer,  with  what 
Mitzi  vowed  was  atrocious  taste,  and 
Mitzi  stumbled  before  the  camera  almost 
livid  with  rage. 

The  late  John  Stahl  was  the  director. 
In  a  few  minutes,  Mitzi  was  sure  he  didn't 
have  the  faintest  idea  what  he  was  doing, 
and  he  made  her  go  over  and  over  scenes 
that  she  knew  perfectly  well  were  excel- 
lent, maybe  sensational,  the  first  time. 
She  dragged  herself  home  at  the  end  of 
the  test  positive  she  was  the  worst  per- 
former ever  photographed — and  amazed 
that  anyone  ever  got  into  pictures  with 
that  kind  of  people  fouling  things  up. 

When  she  saw  the  test  some  days  later 
she  was  stunned.  Everything  was  just 
perfect.  And  she  almost  wept  with  remorse 
when  she  remembered  the  awful  things 
she  had  thought  about  the  people  who 
made  it  for  her.  To  this  day  she  has  the 
utmost  respect  for  the  quiet  artists  who 
work  so  competently  behind  the  scenes 
in  moving  pictures. 

It  would  be  nice  to  say  now  that  as  soon 
as  the  executives  at  20th  Century-Fox  saw 
Mitzi  Gaynor's  test  they  dispatched  a  vice- 
president  to  her  home  in  the  middle  of  the 
night  to  get  her  name  on  a  contract.  They 
didn't.  Everybody  raved  about  her.  But 
there  was  just  talk,  talk,  talk — nothing  but 
talk.  By  this  time,  Mitzi  had  signed  with 
an  agent,  Mitch  Hammelberg,  an  ex- 
tremely Hollywood-wise  gentleman  who 
has  started  some  of  the  biggest  stars  in 
Hollywood  on  the  road  to  fame.  He  advised 
her  to  just  sit  tight;  that  this  was  usual 
in  situations  of  this  kind. 

Mitzi  sat  tight  just  as  long  as  she  could, 
then  she  opened  negotiations  with  Cole 
Porter  to  go  to  Broadway  to  play  in 
Out  oj  This  World.  It  had  been  two 
months  since  the  test,  and  it  looked  as 
though  there  was  no  interest  anymore. 

The  family  bags  were  packed  and  the 
tickets  bought  when  Hammelberg  called 
and  said  that  Henry  Koster  and  Sol  Siegel 
wanted  to  interview  Mitzi  for  a  part  in  My 
Blue  Heaven.  He  advised  her  against 
getting  excited  about  it,  though,  because 
it  was  just  an  interview — not  an  offer 
for  her  services.  Mitzi  went,  had  the 
talk,  was  asked  to  sit  in  an  outer  office  for 
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They  met  in  something  of  a  reverse  of 
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Everett  Horton,  backstage  at  the  Los 
Angeles  Philharmonic  Auditorium  where 
Mitzi  was  working.  Horton's  dressing  room 
was  on  an  upper  level,  and  Dick  had 
stepped  out  onto  a  balcony  to  see  a 
number  on-stage.  Mitzi,  whose  dressing 
room  was  directly  underneath,  also 
stepped  out  of  her  cubicle,  heard  a  noise 
from  above  and  looked  up. 

"It  felt  like  I'd  been  struck  by  lightning," 
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every  performance  of  the  show — quite 
obviously  to  see  Mitzi — but  no  opportunity 
for  an  introduction  presented  itself.  Hor- 
ton, perversely,  refused  to  perform  that 
simple  chore.  One  day,  Mitzi  took  the 
bull  by  the  horns  when  she  saw  Dick 
passing  a  dressing  room  in  which  she 
was  chattering  with  a  bunch  of  the  chorus 
girls.  Snatching  a  mint  from  the  dressing 
table,  she  dashed  to  the  door  and,  holding 
the  candy  in  front  of  her,  stuttered: 

"Have  a  mint?" 

Dick  reached  for  it  and  she  saw  that  it 
was  not  only  covered  with  grease  paint, 
but  had  a  bite  taken  out  of  it.  Horrified, 
she  stammered,  "Just  a  minute,  I'll  get 
you  a  clean  one."  She  ran  back  and  got 
one,  but  the  spell  was  broken.  Dick  took 
the  candy,  muttered  a  thanks,  and  de- 
parted. The  show  closed  that  night  and 
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never  see  the  lovely  man  again. 

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(Continued  from  page  36)  So,  it  was  more 
or  less  by  popular  demand  that  I  packed 
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spend  my  time  sitting  in  the  snow. 

I  was  in  Reno  long  enough  to  send  Bill 
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to  the  Cal-Neva  Lodge  was  slow  and 
tedious  I'd  been  told.  I  was  too  enchanted 
by  my  first  glimpse  of  so  much  snow  to 
notice.  I  couldn't  say  a  word — just  kept 
looking  out  of  the  window,  and  exclaim- 
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We  arrived  at  the  lodge  in  time  to  get 
unpackeH  and  dressed  for  dinner.  That 
was  when  I  first  ran  into  Rod  and  Angela. 
"Come  sit  by  the  fire,"  they  invited. 

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be  at  Cal-Neva.  According  to  Mr.  Cameron 
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light  of  his  bachelor  life,  the  instrument 
had  become  a  fullfledged  nuisance.  Since 
his  marriage  the  phone  had  never  stopped 
ringing  .  .  .  and  he  always  got  the  same 
dialogue.  "Hello,  Rod,  old  pal." 

"Hello,"  he'd  reply. 

"Congratulations,  chum." 

"Thanks." 

"Give  the  bride  my  best." 
"Sure." 

"By  the  way — guess  you  won't  be  need- 
ing that  little  black  book  anymore.  You 
know,  the  one  with  the  telephone  numbers. 
Old  pal." 

"I  burned  it,"  Rod  would  retort.  "And 
spread  the  word  around,  will  you?  I'm 
tired  of  answering  the  phone." 

The  word  went  slowly,  and  the  Camerons 
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me  solemnly. 

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"IVText  morning,  I  was  at  breakfast  when 
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to    come    to    with    your    favorite  beau." 

I  glanced  at  Bob  and  Claudette,  deep 
in  conversation.  They  were  at  Tahoe  on 
a  houseparty  and  had  slipped  away  from 
the  rest  of  the  guests  to  try  some  of  the 
more  difficult  ski  runs, 

I'd  just  finished  my  coffee  when  Bob 
spoke  up.  "Another  fight  anybody?"  he 
challenged. 

Ann  started  to  get  up.  I  nudged  her, 
which  meant  they  probably  wanted  to  be 
alone,  so  she  sat  down  again.  "Some  other 
time,"  I  said. 

"You're  an  incurable  romantic,"  Ann 
laughed  as  Bob  and  Claudette  went  out 
into  the  snow.  "Let's  go  back  to  the  lodge 
with  Rhonda  and  Lew — do  you  think 
they'd  mind  our  company?" 

"Love  it,"  Rhonda  volunteered. 

"Thanks  just  the  same,  but  I'm  going 
to  see  how  I  do  on  skis,"  I  told  them. 

An  hour  later  I  was  sitting  in  the  snow 
of  Squaw  Valley,  wondering  about  the 
logic  of  standing  up  again,  when  a  kind 
gentleman  on  his  way  down  the  mountain 
stopped  to  ask  if  I  needed  help. 

"It  would  take  years  to  help  me,"  I 
admitted.  "This  is  my  first  time  on  skis." 

He  was  very  encouraging.  Before  long 
I  was  standing  and  able  to  stay  that  way. 
"M''ell,  now,"  I  said,  "will  you  show  me 
how  to  get  to  the  ski  tow?" 

We  got  there,  but  when  I  saw  the  lift 
my  confidence  was  shattered.  It's  the 
largest  ski  tow  in  the  world.  Glancing 
up  I  saw  three  familiar  faces  coming 
down  toward  me.  .  .  .  Dorothy,  Jim,  and 
Chris  Mitchum.  Dorothy  said  that  Bob 
would  be  down  eventually — in  one  piece, 
she  hoped.  He  was  coming  on  skis.  When 
he  reached  the  bottom  (in  one  piece),  we 
adjourned  to  the  Jones'  lodge  where  the 
Mitchums  were  visiting.  Stan  and  Olive 
Jones  had  a  roaring  fire  going,  and  bor- 
rowing an  outfit  from  Dorothy,  I  hung 
my  ski  clothes  up  to  dry.  "Great  place, 
huh?"  Bob  asked. 

I  nearly  ran  out  of  adjectives. 


MGM's  18-year-old  comer  Debbie  Rey- 
nolds, enthused  about  Singing  In  The  Rain 
script:  "I  just  love  it,"  she  says.  "It's  a 
period  picture — 1928." — Herb  Stein  in 
The  Hollywood  Reporter. 

'T'hat  evening  back  at  the  lodge,  I  joined 
the  Camerons  for  dinner,  in  California. 
After  the  meal,  we  went  from  the  dining 
room  over  to  the  game  room  in  Nevada 
(hence  the  name  Cal-Neva)  ...  a  strange 
feeling  crossing  the  state  line  by  simply 
going  from  one  room  to  another, 

I've  never  been  one  for  taking  chances, 
so  I  found  a  place  at  the  table  to  watch 
roulette.  When  the  lights  went  out,  I  got 
the  idea  I  couldn't  be  lucky  even  as  a 
spectator.  However,  candles  were  brought 
in  and  activity  continued  by  candlelight. 
As  my  eyes  grew  accustomed  to  the  semi- 
dai'kness,  I  noticed  that  we  had  quite  a 
gathering.  Bob  and  Dorothy  had  stopped 
in.  They  were  standing  at  the  table,  Bob's 
arm  around  Dorothy,  and  a  stranger  might 
have  taken  them  for  honeymooners.  Bob 
Stack  and  Claudette  were  watching  the 
players.  I  turned  around  and  blinked. 
Rhonda  and  Lew  were  coming  into  the 
room,  hand  in  hand. 

It  was  late  enough  to  say  goodnight 
and  if  I  wrote  Bill  right  away,  the  letter 
would  reach  him  in  Honolulu.  On  the 
way  to  my  room,  I  glanced  toward  the 
fireplace.  "Goodnight,"  said  the  Camerons 
from  their  place  on  the  hearth. 

"Dear  Bill,"  I  wrote.  "I  seem  to  have 
found  romance  in  the  mountains.  Lots  of 
romance,  but  it  all  belonged  to  other 
people.  I'm  making  return  reservations  for 
us  when  you  get  home.  Then  you  can  see 
what  I  mean."  The  End 


After  each  shampoo  or  home  permanent 

LOVALON 


your  hair 


added 
fresh  color  makes 
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•  Leaves  hoir  soft,  easy  to_  manage 

•  Blends  in  yellow,  grey  streaks 

•  12  flattering  shades  •  Removes 
shampoo  film  • 
Gives  sparkling 
highlights 

Onlyl0<tor25<t 

the  modern 
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To  Taumpon  users.. 

Fihs 


-the  Tampon 
with  Tounded  ends. . . 
the  only  Tampon 
Quilted!  for  comfort. . . 
Quilted'  for  safety. . . 

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He's  "Father's  Little  Dividend"!  He  was  named  "Stanley" 
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turning  the  household  upside  down.  Brown  hair,  blue  eyes, 
and  about  8  months  old.  He  likes  policemen — sometimes  doesn't 
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the  Bride" 

The  editors  of  MODERN  ROMANCES.  ELIZABETH 
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names. 


EASY  CONTEST  RULES 


1.  Send  in  a  nickname  for  little  Stanley  pictured  here 
in  M-G-M's  production,  "Father's  Little  Dividend." 

2.  Print  the  suggested  name  along  with  your  own  name 
and  address  on  the  entry  blank  on  this  page,  or  the 
entry  blanks  you  can  get  at  your  grocer's. 

3.  Send  as  many  entries  as  you  wish  to  Baby  Nickname 
Contest,  Box  7155,  Chicago  77,  III. 

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of  Libby's  Baby  Foods  or  Junior  Foods.  Use  a  separate 
entry  blank  (or  sheet  of  paper)  for  each  name. 

5.  Entries  will  be  judged  on  originality,  suitability  and 
udges'  decisions  will  be  final.  Duplicate 
of  ties. 

must   be   postmarked   before  midnight, 


The 


aptness, 
prizes  in  case 

6.  All  entries 
July  15,  1951. 

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&  Libby.  No  entries  will  be  returned  or  acknowledged. 

8.  Winners  will  be  notified  by  mail. 

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vertising and  contest  agencies  and  their  families. 

0.  This  contest  is  subject  to  local,  federal  and  state 
egulations. 


ENTRY  BLANK— Set  more  at  your  dealer's 
BABY  CONTEST,  Box  71 55,  Dept.  M,  Chicago  77,  III. 

I'd  like  to  suggest  the  following  single-word  nick- 
name for  little  Stanley  and  have  attached  three 
(3)  labels  from  Libby's  Baby  Foods  or  Junior 
Foods. 


116 


My  Name 
My  Address 
City 


(Print  your  suggested   name  here) 


  Zone.  .  .  .  State  

ONE  NAME  TO  AN  ENTRY  BLANK,  PLEASE! 


p/ace  setting  in  sier/in^ 


Only  in  Blossom  Time— the  jloiver  snings 
to  the  left  on  pieces  that  go  to  the  left  of 
the  plate,  to  tJie  rigid  on  the  others'. 

Here  is  something  really  exciting  in  silver ! 
For  the  first  time  in  sterling  history,  you  can 
choose  a  silver  pattern  that  conies  in  a  balanced 
place  setting ! 

A  table  set  with  Blossom  Time  has  a  look  of 
symmetry  to  it... an  attractive  look  that  you  get 
only  with  this  new,  balanced  pattern. 

Why  not  stop  at  your  silverware  dealer's  and 
see  Blossom  Time  today ! 


FoR^^  Proof MILDNESS 

/^^^"^  with  no  unpleasant  after-taste 


For  You- PROOF  OF  MILDNESS 

"When  I  apply  the  Standard  Tobacco  Growers' 
Test  to  cigarettes,  I  find  Chesterfield  is  the  one 
that  smells  milder  and  smokes  milder." 

Statement  by  hundreds  of 
Prominent  Tobacco  Growers. 

For  You-  PROOF  OF 

NO  UNPLEASANT  AFTER-TASTE 

"Chesterfield  is  the  only  cigarette  in 
which  members  of  our  taste  panel  found 
no  unpleasant  after-taste." 

From  the  report  of  a  well-known 
Industrial  Research  Organization. 


See  BARBARA  HALE 
sfarring  in  "LORNA  DOONE" 
I  An  Edward  Small  Producfion 

A  Columbia  Technicolor  Picture 


y ust  read  this  M'  - 
and  you II  see  y^hy  I  smoke 

aesterfields'0^;^J^^ 


'^^CHESTERFIELD 


Copyright  1951,  Liggftt  6f  Myers  Tobacco  Co. 


You're  lovely-lo-look-at  even  in  close-ups,  with  Solitair! 


Make  this  test  tonight! 
Look  in  your  mirror,  close 
up.  Does  your  complexion 
show  sicin-faults  through 
your  make-up?  Solitair 
gives  you  faultless  beauty 
even  close  up. 


Every  complexion  can  look  fresh  and  lovely 
from  afar.  But  your  most  important  mo- 
ments are  in  close-ups  .  .  .  and  then,  skin 
faults  are  quickly  prominent.  Imperfections 
that  your  make-up  doesn't  hide,  become 
obvious — and  suddenly,  the  illusion  of 
beauty  is  gone !  .  .  .  Unless,  of  course,  you 
wear  the  make-up  that  stands  the  test  of 


Solitair  Lipstick,  too! 

A  smoother,  creamier  lipstick, 
richly  brilliant,  that  stays  on  longer 
and  resists  smearing  and  transfer. 

Six  inspired  shades. 


closest  inspection — Solitair.  Solitair  con- 
ceals so  cleverly  that  every  little  complexion 
blemish  becomes  your  secret!  Your  skin 
seems  to  come  alive  with  youthful  freshness 
— uniformly  flawless,  yet  completely  natu- 
ral— even  in  close-ups.  If  you  have  not  worn 
Solitair,  wear  it  tomorrow.  Your  mirror  will 
instantly  show  you  the  wonderful  difference ! 


Cake  Make-up 


Contains  Lanolin 

Solitair  protects  against 
dryness.  It  is  the  only 
clinically  tested  make-up 
which  skin  specialists 
confirm  will  not  clog  pores. 


ill  How.,,dorif 
II  your  hair... 


Condition  if  with 

VREN£  shamlfoo 


The  sure  wayfo 
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Natural Safinessl 


Expect  a  surprise  when  you  see  how 
naturally  lovely  your  hair  looks  . . . 
after  you  condition  it  with  clear, 
liquid  Drene  Shampoo!  For  Drene, 
unlike  soap  or  cream  shampoos, 
never  hides  the  beauty  of  your  hair. 


You  see,  this  marvelous  Drene  with 
Conditioning  Action  does  far  more 
than  "just  wash"  your  hair!  Its  rich, 
fragrant,  billowy  lather  actually  con- 
ditions as  it  cleanses  .  .  .  conditions 
your  hair  to  its  loveliest  natural 
sheen  and  softness — leaves  it  so  won- 
derfully easy  to  manage! 

Today — see  how  lovely  jo«r  hair  can 
look,  beauty-conditioned  by  Drene. 
For  only  a  Uquid  shampoo  hke  Drene 
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Onfy  VRj^E/tas  M  Conc/fHon/nsiAdron 


JUNE,  1951 


READER'S  DIGEST*  Reported  The  Same 
Researcli  Which  Proves  That  Brushing  Teeth 
Right  After  Eating  with 

COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST 

Reader's  Digest  recently  reported  the 
same  research  which  proves  the  Colgate 
way  of  brushing  teeth  right  after  eating 
stops  tooth  decay  best!  The  most  thor- 
oughly proved  and  accepted  home  meth- 
od of  oral  hygiene  known  today! 

Yes,  and  2  years'  research  showed  the 
Colgate  way  stopped  more  decay  for  more 
people  than  ever  before  reported  in  denti- 
frice history!  No  other  dentifrice,  ammo- 
niated  or  not,offers  such  conclusive  proof! 


LATER— Thtinks  to  Colgtifj  Denffii  Crs 


MY  GIRL'S  KID  SISTER  DIO  HER  BEST 
AND  COLGATE  CARE  DID  ALL  THE  REST! 


*YOU  SHOULD  KNOW!  While  not  mentioned  by  name, 
Colgate's  was  the  only  toothpaste  used  in  the  research 
'in  'Mtl'  decay  recently  reported  In  Reoder't  Digest. 


modern  screen 


stories 

STORM  CLOUDS  FOR  JEFF  (Jefi  Chandler)  by  Marsha  Saunders  14 

THE  INSIDE  STORY  OF  WHY  SHIRLEY  QUIT  (Shirley  Temple)  by  Jim  Burton  27 

NO  GUY  LIKE  GABLE  (Clark  Gable)  by  Bob  Fender  29 

RING  AROUND  ROMANCE  (Allyson,  Powell,  MacRae,  etc.)  ..  by  Kirtley  Baskette  30 

LOVE  SNEAKED  IN  (Doris  Day)  by  Jim  Henaghan  33 

MADLY  IN  LOVE  (Jane  Powell)  by  Ruth  C.  Rowland  35 

REPORT  ON  A  BRIDE  (Ruth  Roman)  by  Frances  Clark  37 

HONEYMOON  HOUSE  r Stewart  Granger,  Jean  Simmons)  by  Marva  Peterson  39 

THE  OLD-FASHIONED  WAY  (Ann  Blyth)  by  Steve  Cronin  41 

THE  GREATEST  SHOW  ON  EARTH  (Hutton,  Lamour,  Wilde)  by  Ike  Vern  43 

BACKGROUND  FOR  MARRIAGE  (Kirk  Douglas)  by  Consuelo  Anderson  47 

THE  MOST  BEAUTIFUL  HAIR  IN  THE  WORLD   48 

FLIGHT  FROM  YESTERDAY  (Robert  Taylor)  by  Leslie  Snyder  51 

LOVE  COMES  LAST  (Jane  Wyman)  by  Sally  Burns  52 

THE  COURAGE  OF  DAN  DAILEY  (Dan  Dailey)  •.  by  Imogene  Collins  55 

BACKSTAGE  BABY  (Debra  Paget)  by  Kolma  Flake  56 


features 

THE    INSIDE    STORY   4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS    6 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers)   80 


departments 

MOVIE    REVIEWS  by    Christopher    Kane  14 

SHELLEY    WINTERS,    YOUR    HOLLYWOOD    SHOPPER   19 

FASHION   66 

ON  THE  COVER:  Jane  Wyman,  chosen  by  Modern  Screen's  board  of  experts  as 
one  of  the  fop  twelve  stars  with  the  Most  Beautiful  Hair  in  the  world.  For  details, 
see  page  48.  Color  portrait  by  Warner  Brothers. 

Other  Picture  Credits  on  page  91 


CHARLES 

DURBIN  L.  HORNER,  managing  editor 
FLORENCE  EPSTEIN,  story  editor 
SUZANNE  EPPES,  associate  editor 
FERNANDO  TEXIDOR,  art  director 
BILL  WEINBERGER,  art  editor 
GWENN  WALTERS,  fashion  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  reviewer 


D.  SAXON,  editor 

CARL  SCHROEDER,  western  manager 
BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
BOB  BEERMAN,  staff  photographer 
BERT  PARRY,  staff  photographer 
LIZ  SMITH,  assistant  editor 
IRENE  TURNER,  research  editor 
CAROL  CARTER,  beauty  editor 


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MORE  LOVE  SONGS  FROM  THE  STAR  WHO 
THRILLED  AMERICA  WITH  "BE  MY  LOVE"! 


Golden-voiced  Mario  Lanza  enraptures 
millions  of  movie-lovers  in  the  role  he  was  destined  to 
play  .  .  .  the  love  story  of  the  fabulous  Caruso,  gallery  god 
of  his  era . .  .  who  sang  his  way  from  cafes  to  fame .  .  .  and 
into  the  hearts  of  the  world's  most  glamorous  women! 


STA  RRING 


THE  IDOL  OF  MILLIONS!  In  two 

short  years,  Lanza  has  swept  to  the 

Rinnacle  of  Hollywood  stardom!  Now 
e  has  won  the  coveted  role  of  Caruso ! 


WITH 


MARIO     ^  ANN 

ANZA-iLYTH 

DOROTHY  JARMILA 

IRSTENNOVOTNA 

BLANCHE 

HEBOM 


COAST-TO-COAST  TRIUMPH!  Lanza's 
voice  and  charm  have  won  him  acclaim 
and  adulation  such  as  only  Caruso  has 
ever  known  before! 


TERESA Celli  -Richard  Hageman*  Carl  Benton  Reid 

Written  by  Sonya  Levien  and  William  Ludtiig    *    Suggested  by  Dorothy  Caruso's  Biography  of  her  Husband 

Directed  by  RICHARD  THORPE  *  Produced  by  JOE  PASTERNAK   *  Associate  Producer  JESSE  L.  LASKY 

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STORY,  Modern  Screen,  1046  N.  Carol  Drive,  Hollywood,  Cal. 


Q.  Is  it  true  that  Charles  Black  refused 
to  marry  Shirley  Temple  until  she  quit 
the  movies?       — R.  E.,  Miami,  Fla. 

A.  False.  {For  the  reasons  behind  Shir- 
ley's decision  to  stop  acting  turn  to  "The 
Inside  Story  on  Why  Shirley  Quit," 
page  27.— Ed.) 

p.  What  is  the  lowdown  on  Ruth  Ro- 
man? How  many  times  has  she  been 
married?  Is  it  true  she  proposed  to 
her  husband? — V.  T.,  Stamford,  Conn. 

A.  Ruth  Roman  was  married  at  16  to 
a  boy  named  Jack  Flaxman.  The  mar- 
riage lasted  six  months.  Ruth's  present 
husband  is  Mortimer  Hall  who  pro- 
posed to  her. 

(?.  Is  it  true  that  Dan  Dailey  suffered 
a  complete  nervous  breakdown  and  had 
to  be  sent  to  the  Menninger  Clinic? 
— R.  T.,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 

A.  No.  Several  months  ago,  Dan  felt 
"all  mixed  up,"  and  took  himself  to  the 
Menninger  Clinic  for  some  sensible  psy- 
chiatric treatment.  By  the  time  you  read 
this,  he  should  be  back  in  Hollywood. 
(Read  "The  Courage  of  Dan  Dailey" 
on  page  54. — Ed.) 

<?•  Is  it  possible  to  buy  dresses  worn  by 
a  star  from  the  studio  wardrobe  depart- 
ment? — T.  Y.,  Albany,  N.  Y. 

A.  Studio  wardrobe  departments  are  not 
permitted  to  sell  costumes  to  the  public. 

Q.  Is  it  true  that  Farley  Granger  has 
gotten  too  big  for  his  boots?  Is  that 
why  he  moved  out  of  his  parents' 
house?  — G.  G.,  Lakeland,  Fla. 

A.  Farley  hasn't  gone  high-hat.  Inde- 
pendent and  self-reliant,  he  feels  he'd 
like  to  live  on  his  own,  away  from 
home.  He  sees  his  folks  every  day. 

<?.  Is  Ben  Gage,  Esther  Williams'  hus- 
band, popular  in  Hollywood?  What 
does  he  do?  — T.  R.,  N.  Y. 

A.  He's  popular.  He  manages  a  Los 
Angeles  restaurant  called  The  Trails.  He 
and  Esther  own  it. 

9.  Is  Jeff  Chandler  really  Ira  Grossel? 
How    is    he    doing    in  Hollywood? 

— T.  R.,  Toronto,  Canada 


A.  Chandler  is  Grossel.  He  is  doing 
beautifully  in  his  career.  He  is  having 
some  difficulty,  however,  in  his  private 
life. 

Q.  Does  Jeanne  Grain  make  more  money 
than  her  husband,  Paul  Brinkman? 
What  does  he  do,  anyway? — D.  E., 
Dillon,  S.  C. 

A.  Paul  Brinkman  is  a  furniture  manu- 
facturer. After  taxes,  his  income  is 
larger  than  his  wife's. 

p.  If  Janet  Leigh  is  really  in  love  with 
Tony  Curtis,  why  don't  they  get  mar- 
ried? Is  it  true  that  Barry  Nelson  and 
Arthur  Loew,  Jr.,  both  refused  to  marry 
Janet  ? — R.  R.,  Tulsa,  Okla. 

A.  Tony  doesn't  feel  he's  ready  for  mar- 
riage. It  was  Janet  who  turned  down 
proposals  by  Nelson  and  Loew,  Jr. 

<?.  Is  it  true  that  Lex  Barker,  currently 
playing  Tarzan,  comes  from  a  very  so- 
cial family?   — R.  R.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

A.  Lex  Barker  comes  from  Port  Ches- 
ter, New  York.  His  is  a  typical  Ameri- 
can  family,    not    socially  prominent. 

Q.  What's  happened  to  Guy  Madison? 
I  haven't  seen  him  in  pictures. 

— F.  C,  Elkhart,  Ind. 

A.  Guy  is  making  pictures  for  television. 

9.  Who  has  custody  of  Kirk  Douglas' 
two  boys?  Will  Kirk  marry  Irene 
Wrightsman?     — C.  Y.,  Chicago,  III. 

A.  Diana  Dill,  Kirk's  first  wife,  has 
custody  of  the  boys.  Kirk  may  be  mar- 
ried to  Irene  Wrightsman  as  of  now. 

9-  Is  it  true  that  John  Agar  is  a 
crooner  in  a  band?  Does  he  see  his 
httle  daughter. — C.  Y.,  Cleveland,  0. 

A.  Agar  has  recorded  several  tunes  with 
Frank  De  Vol's  band  under  an  assumed 
name.  He  pays  visits  to  Linda  Susan. 

9.  Does  Van  Heflin  wear  a  hairpiece, 
and  why  has  Charles  Boyer  given  up 
wearing  his?       — G.  U.,  Ames,  Iowa 

A.  Van  wears  one,  and  Boyer  has 
stopped  because  he  says,  "For  character 
parts,  a  toupee  is  not  necessary." 


Mono  Freeman's  best  lipstick  became  warpaint 
for  little  Mono  at  the  party.  The  Ladds  are 
strong  on  western  lore,  hod  authentic  costumes. 


Judy  and  Vincente  forgot 

their  difFerences  to  give  Liza 
a  happy  birthday  party  .  .  . 
will  the  Jeff  Chandlers  be 
able  to  patch  up  their  mar- 
riage?   All  Hollywood  gives 
thanks  with  Dorothy  Lamour 
for  a  miracle   .    .  . 


Mrs.  Douglas  Fairbanks,  Jr. — she's  cutting 
her  hair  shorter  and  shorter  and  looks  young- 
er and  younger — came  in  with  famed  Broad- 
way producer,  Gilbert  Miller  and  his  wife. 

Judy  Garland  was  with  Sid  Luft — who  else? 
I  won't  go  so  far  as  to  say  that  Judy  is  thin 
•  again — but  she  has  lost  a  lot  of  the  pound- 
age that  made  her  look  like  a  butterball  a 
few  months  ago 

Both  Gene  Tiemey  and  Marion  Davies  wore 
those  new  coat  dresses — and  all  I  gotta  say 
is  that  you  have  to  be  as  thin  as  both  these 
beauties  to  wear  that  style.  It  ain't  for  me. 

Pert  Monica  Lewis  had  Metropolitan  opera 
star,  Robert  Merrill,  in  tow  but  they  insist 
they  are  not  in  love.  If  not — they  sure  do  a 
lot  of  hand  holding.  Merrill  is  out  here  to 
make  two  pictures  for  Paramount — sort  of 
Paramount's  answer  to  Mario  Lanza.  If  any- 
body can  be — Bob's  the  boy  to  do  it.  He's 
young,  romantic  looking — and  oh, — how  he 
[  can  sing! 

Ezio  Pinza  and  his  pretty  Doris  were  over 
in   a    corner    absolutely   bent   double  over 


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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 


The  Roy  Rogers'  new  buckaroo,  Robin  Eliza- 
beth, is  a  big  girl  now.  She'll  be  nine  months 
old  Moy  26th:  has  two  sisters  and  a  brother. 


Reggie  Gardiner's  imitation  of  Ezio!  There's 
never  a  dull  moment  when  that  Reggie's 
around  and  you  can't  say  Pinzo  isn't  a  good 
sport  to  take  all  that  kidding. 

The  party  invitations  read  from  "six  to 
nine" — but  when  I  called  Cobina  next  day 
to  say  what  a  nice  time  I  had  had — she  told 
me  she  went  to  bed  at  2  a.m. — and  it  was 
still  going  strong  after  she'd  retired. 

IswoHE  I  was  going  to  write  a  department 
this  month  without  mentioning  Elizabeth 
Taylor  and  Nicky  Hilton.  But  guess  I  might 
as  well  give  up— or  in.' 

Yep — after  all  them  harsh  words — these 
two  met  either  by  accident  or  pre-arrange- 
ment  in  Palm  Springs,  danced  together, 
laughed  together,   and  had  a  fine  time. 

Next  day,  Liz  said  there  would  be  no  recon- 
ciliation. Nick  said,  "Who  knows?" 

Anyway,  Elizabeth  has  taken  a  bachelor 
apartment  in  Beverly  Hills,  and  is  shopping 
for  a  house  of  her  own.  Apparently  she  has 
no  intention  of  returning  to  the  home  of  her 
parents. 

AMIBACLE  happened  in  Hollywood  this 
month.  Dorothy  Lamour's  little  boy,  five- 
year-old  Ridgely,  lay  in  a  coma  at  Children's 
Hospital,  victim  of  encephalitis  which  is  usu- 
ally fatal  when  it  follows  measles.  He  could 
neither  walk  nor  talk — just  lay  there  know- 
ing no  one,  not  even  Dorothy  or  his  father. 
Bill  Howard. 

No  one  will  ever  know  the  agony  Dorothy 
and  Bill  went  through.  The  doctors  had  told 
them  the  truth.  Only  one  child  in  5,000  con- 
tracts this  rare  disease — and  the  chances  of 
recovery  were  just  about  the  same. 

But  Dorothy  wouldn't  —  couldn't  —  believe 
that.  She  just  kept  on  believing  and  praying 
and  asking  her  friends  to  pray,  too. 

And  the  miracle  happened — to  the  amaze- 
ment of  the  battery  of  doctors  in  attendance. 
One  morning  little  Ridge  awoke — still  weak, 
still  a  very  sick  little  boy — but  he  spoke  and 
walked  again! 

You  think  Hollywood  is  a  hardboUed  town? 
I  want  to  tell  you  that  there  was  more  re- 
joicing through  the  studios  from  the  gateman 
to  the  bosses  over  this  wonderful  news  about 
the  little  boy,  than  I  have  known  in  25  years 


LIGHT  IN  Joan's  eyesi 

When  Mildred  Pierce' 
brought  Joan  Crawford 
her  greatest  public 
acclaim.it  brought  with 
it  something  else...  the 
hard  job  of  finding  another 
role  that  would  be  its 
match.  That  challenge  has 
now  been  triumphantly  met 
Goodbye,  My  Fancy,'  the  play  that 
made  Broadway  brighter'  (r^°o«Tc,%%".v.i!.) 
s  now  on  the  screen --and 
by  far  the  most  exciting 
picture  Joan  Crawford 
has  ever 
I  appeared  in ! 


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of  covering  newsworthy  events  in  this  busi- 
ness. 

Let  me  tell  you  what  Bill  "Hopalong  Cas- 

sidy"  Boyd  did: 

While  little  Ridge  was  still  desperately  ill, 
Dorothy's  mother,  Mrs.  Carmen  Castleberry, 
ran  into  Hoppy  on  the  street  and  told  him  of 
the  child's  serious  condition.  "Could  you  send 
him  a  card— or  a  message?"  she  asked. 

"Send  him  a  card!"  exclaimed  Bill.  "I'm 
going  with  you  to  the  hospital  now!" 

And  he  did — taking  along  a  full  Hopalong 
costume.  "Ridge,"  he  said  to  the  child, 
"you've  got  to  get  out  of  those  pajamas  and 
into  your  new  Hoppy  suit." 

All  the  other  children — dozens  of  them  who 
were  able  to  be  up  and  around — crowded 
around  their  idol  whose  visit  did  them  more 
good  than  all  the  medicine  in  the  world. 

I  hope  all  those  who  scoff  at  Hollywood  as 
a  heartless  and  wicked  place — read  this.  The 
prayers  came  from  Catholics,  Jews  and 
Protestants  alike. 

SHORT  Shots:  Ava  Gardner,  who  hasn't 
been  feeling  up  to  par  for  some  time 
(that's  why  she  turned  down  two  movies  at 
MGM)  wisely  decided  to  go  into  the  hospital 
for  a  complete  check-up.  Frankie  Sinatra  sent 
so  many  flowers  they  had  to  remind  him — 
please,  it  wasn't  a  garden.  .  .  .  Wait  until  you 
see  Ava  and  Kathryn  Grayson  in  Show  Boat! 
Ava  sings  "torchy",  Kathryn  sings  like  an 
angel — and  it's  the  best  and  most  thrilling 
screen  romance  since  Gone  With  The  Wind. 
...  It  really  looks  cold  between  Peter  Law- 
ford  and  charmin'  Sharman  Douglas,  now 
turned  glamor  press  agent  on  Androcles  And 
The  Lion.  Pete's  car  drove  up  beside  Sher- 
man's at  a  Sunset  Boulevard  stop  signal. 
They  rolled  down  the  windows  and  waved 
to  one  another,  cordially — but  that  ain't  a  hot 
romance  in  my  book!  .  .  .  Seems  everybody, 
just  everybody,  has  been  hit  by  the  old  Devil 
Flu — but  one  of  the  most  serious  cases  was 
Ruth  Roman  who  felt  so  awful  she  started  the 
first  lap  of  her  honeymoon  to  Honolulu  alone. 
She  wanted  to  rest  and  get  the  sun  on  a 
boat  trip.  Her  ever  lovin'  bridegroom,  Mor- 
timer Hall  flew  over  to  join  her.  .  .  .  Virginia 
Mayo  cost  Warner  Brothers  about  a  full  day's 
work  breaking  up  completely  as  she  did 
every  time  she  looked  at  cute  little  old  S.  Z. 
Sakall  dressed  up  fit  to  kill  as  a  cowboy  in 
Goiddiggers  In  Las  Vegas.  With  his  ten  gal- 
lon hat,  chaps  and  gun-holsters,  he  was  the 
sight  of  the  week.  Virginia  calls  him  "Zopa- 
long"  Cassidy — for  the  Z  in  his  name. 

WANDA  Hendrix  is  completely  over  the 
heartache  she  carried  for  Audie  Mur- 
phy— but  it  took  her  a  year  to  put  out  the 
torch. 

As  it  is  the  fate  of  many  women  to  go 
through  unhappy  marriages  and  love  affairs, 
I  asked  Wanda  if  she  had  any  advice  for 
other  torch-toters. 

"Only  one  thing  will  do  it,"  said  this  very 
young  girl  with  the  wise  eyes,  "and  I  mean 
— time!  The  days  go  by — and  somehow  with 
the  passing  of  each  24  hours,  the  ache  lessens 
a  little  bit. 

"It's  silly  to  try  to  find  a  new  love  imme- 
diately. It  just  can't  be  done.  But  I  do  suggest 
going  out  with  other  men  whom  you  like  for 
their  companionship. 

"And,  then — one  bright  morning  you  wake 
up  and  think  to  yourself,  'I'm  over  it — or  at 
least  the  worst  of  it'." 


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Sounds  like  a  disease — but  I  guess  that's 
just  what  love-sickness  is. 

You  oughtta  see  Jeanne  Grain  since  Joe 
(Aii  About  Eve)  Mankiewicz  got  hold  of 
her  and  changed  her  from  an  ingenue  into 
a  stunner  for  000/0/3  Diary. 

Jeanne,  the  most  even-tempered  girl  in  the 
world,  went  to  bat  for  genius-Mankiewicz 
when  Anne  Baxter  was  forced  out  because 
of  the  Stork. 

But  she  hadn't  quite  counted  on  Joe's  com- 
plete "reconstruction"  job.  Jeanne  has  always 
kept  her  hair  long.  He  made  her  cut  it  shorter 
than  short. 

And  he  didn't  like  the  pretty-pretty  way 
I  she  dresses,  I  mean,  the  ruffles  and  peasant 
i  blouses  and  skirts  Jeanne  has  always  favored 
'  in  her  private  wardrobe. 

He  filmed  her  over  to  a  high  stylist  with 
;  instructions,  "Make  her  look  like  the  next 
[cover  on  Harper's  Bazaar." 

Know  who  is  the  most  delighted  of  all  in 
I  Jeanne's  new  "looks"?  Paul  Brinkman,  who 
f  thinks  his  wife  looks  wonderful.  "I'm  married 
,  —and  the  mother  of  three  children,"  says  our 
Lnew  glamor  girl.  "It's  time  I  started  looking 
[like  a  chic  woman." 

The  Letter  Box:  Mrs.  Walter  Daisey,  of 
Salisbury,  Maryland,  suggests  this  department 
run  a  "memorial"  photograph  of  Al  Jolson 
in  each  October  issue  of  Modern  Screen — the 
anniversary  of  Al's  passing.  How  about  it. 
Chuck  Saxon?  (Dear  LouefJa,  /  think  it's  a 
Sne  idea.    WUl  do.—C.  S.) 

A  surprising  amount  of  mail  from  Europe 
this  month:  Gilberte  Verlinden  v^rites  from 
Hasselt,  Limburg,  Belgium  (and  in  very  good 
English):  "I  read  you  in  Modern  Screen,  my 
favorite  magazine.  But  you  never  write  about 
any  actors  from  Belgium."  Darned  if  I  can 
think  of  any.  She  goes  on,  "Alan  Ladd  is  my 
favorite  American  star  and  the  favorite  of  all 
my  friends."  In  Belgium,  too? 

Louise  Hershey  (and  she's  a  Mrs.,  too) 
wants  somebody  to  talk  Shirley  Temple  into 
coming  back  to  the  screen.  "She's  as  much 
a  part  of  motion  pictures  as  the  cameras." 

Helen     Andersen,     Tahaya,  Washington, 
thinks  Janet  Leigh  has  made  an  improvement 
in  her  private  wardrobe — but  her  evening 
gowns  are  still  too  decollete  for  a  nice  girl. 
That's  all  for  now.  See  you  next  month. 


led'/  Lomorr,  a  volunteer  in  the  Cerebral  Palsy 
ifive  for  $5,000,000,  hugs  Helen  Brooks  who  is 
ane  of  the  natfon  s  holf-nnillion  born  palsied. 


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FATHER'S 
LITTLE  DIVIDEND 

I  Spencer  Tracy,  who  had  enough 
trouble  getting  his  daughter  married, 
now  has  to  suffer  through  her  first 
blessed  event.  This  sequel  to  Father 
of  fhe  Bride  has  Liz  and  hubby  fighting, 
making  up,  becoming  parents;  but  once 
again  the  film  belongs  to  Tracy. 
Whether's  he's  snarling  at  his  son-in- 
law  (son-in-law:  "She  can't  go  home 
to  you  every  time  she's  mad — " 
Tracy:  "What  do  you  want  me  to  do, 
move?")  or  refusing  to  look  at  the 
baby  (every  time  the  baby  sees  him, 
it  screeches)  and  insisting,  "That 
child's  an  individual,  and  he  doesn't 
like  me" — he's  warm  and  human  and 
fun. 

Casf;  Spencer  T!racy,  Joan  Bennett, 
Elizabeth  Taylor.  BiUie  Burke.  MGM 


picture  of  tlie  month 

It*.     H  fS 


Both  sets  of  parents  plan  honnes  for  Kay  (Liz 
Taylor)  and  Buckley  (Don  Taylor),  unaware 
that  the  youngsters  have  already  bought  one. 


Father  (Tracy)  feels  his  age  at  becoming  a 
jgrandfother.  But  finds  Kay  still  needs  hinn.  She 
runs  to  him  after  a  quarrel.  He  sends  her  home. 


The  baby,  a  boy,  finally  arrives!  The  next  crisis 
is  what  to  name  him.  Each  family  has  opposing 
suggestions.    Koy   end    Buckley   are  secretive. 


Father  adores  the  baby  but  the  admiration  Isn't 
mutual.  They're  pals,  though,  by  the  time  the 
baby  is  christened  with  Father's  name,  Stanley. 


Pandora  And  The  Flying  Dutchman:  The  leg- 
endary taie  of  the  sailor  who  could  not  die  re- 
ceives A- 1  treatment  from  Mason  and  Gardner. 

t PANDORA  AND 
THE  FLYING  DUTCHMAN 
Here's  one  of  those  pictures  so  pretentious- 
ly bad  it's  enjoyable.  It  must  have  cost  as 
much  as  Gone  With  The  Wind,  since  an  ex- 
pensive cast  cavorts  along  the  coast  of  Spain 
in  Technicolor.  The  coast  of  Spain  is  superb, 
but  you  can't  say  as  much  for  the  unfortunate 
actors.  They  have  impossible  pseudo-philo- 
sophical speeches  to  make  (with  quotations 
from  Omar  and  a  little  paraphrased  Shake- 
speare thrown  in)  and  they  make  them  like 
a  high  school  drama  club.  Story  is  mystic. 
James  Mason  isn't  able  to  die  like  a  regular 
human  being.  Hundreds  of  years  ago,  he 
killed  his  lovely  young  wife,  and  was  con- 
demned by  heaven  to  room  the  seas  till  he 
,  could  find  a  lady  willing  to  sacrifice  her  own 
life  for  him.  Lady  turns  out  to  be  Ava,  to 
whom  a  life  more  or  less  signifies  very  little. 
She's  a  femme  fatale.  Morius  Goring  has 
committed  suicide  over  her;  Nigel  Patrick 
has  hurtled  his  racing  car  off  a  cliff  for  her; 
cmd  a  bullfighter,  Mario  Cabre,  has  murdered 
lor  her  with  zest  and  conviction.  Ava's 
fatalistic  about  all  these  things,  but  that's 
i  enough  from  me.  You  go  see  it.  It's  a  true 
spectacle. 

Cast:  James  Mason,  Ava  Gaidner,  Nigel 
Patiick,  Sheila  Sim.— MGM. 

,^  THE  FIRST  LEGION 

H  Charles  Boyer  must  be  determined  to  stop 
!  giving  us  girls  thrills.  Instead  of  his  old 
romantic  self  in  The  13th  Letter  he  acted  an 
elderly  crackpot,  and  now  in  The  First  Legion, 
he's  a  kindly  priest.  As  kindly  as  he  can  be, 
considering  the  stress  of  events  at  the  semi-. 
nary  with  which  he's  connected.  Doctor 
Lyle  Bettger,  who  used  to  be  a  Catholic,  has 
perpetrated  a  hoax  which  causes  old  priest 
H.  B.  Warner  to  walk.  (H.B.'s  been  paralyzed 

i  for  three  years,  but  without  physical  reason, 
so  Doc  Bettger  injects  him  with  a  stimulant, 

I  and  presto!)  This  "miracle"  causes  a  rush  of 
pilgrims  to  Bettger's  hospital,  just  as  he 
planned  it  would,  and  pilgrims  and  priests 
etre  dy:ng  like  flies  from  exertion,  heart  trou- 

I  ble,  etc.,  when  a  lovely  young  girl  (Barbara 
Rush)  who's  hopelessly  crippled,  shows  up. 
Bettger's  hard  heart  grows  soft.  He  admits 
all  to  her,  but  she  has  enough  faith  so  she 
throws  away  her  wheel   chair   and  walks 

I  anyway.  Bettger  returns  to  the  fold,  and 
that's  that.    It's  no  Song  of  Bernadette,  it 

i  hasn't  got  Barry  Fitzgerald,  but  it's  full  of 

I  aging    character    actors    including    Leo  G. 

I  Carroll  and  Walter  Hampden. 
Cost:  Charies  Boyer,  William  Demarest,  Lyle 

!  Bettger,  Barbara  flush. — United  Artists. 

I  (Continued  on  page  16) 


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modern  screen  In  the  news 


The  Chandlers  are 
learning  what  so  many  others  have 
found:  a  place  in  the 
Hollywood  sun  too  often  casts  a 
shadow  over  a  happy  home. 

BY  MARSHA  SAUNDERS 


clouds  for  jeff 


Married  six  yea 


■  There  are  some  actors  whose  domestic  happi- 
ness all  Hollywood  usually  takes  for  granted. 
Alan  Ladd  is  one.  Dick  Powell  is  another.  Jeff 
Chandler  was  a  third  until  a  few  weeks  ago. 
Then  these  lines  appeared  in  a  gossip  column: 
"Jeff  Chandler,  currently  the  hottest  young  actor 
in  town,  is  seeing  a  lot  of  Ann  Sheridan." 

"Is  it  true,"  asked  another  columnist,  "that 
Jeff  Chandler  is  living  in  a  portable  dressing 
room  on  the  Universal  lot?  Doesn't  he  have  a 
place  to  go  home  to,  or  is  something  radically 
wrong?" 

A  studio  spokesman,  when  asked  to  verify  the 
rumors,  expressed  amazement  at  them.  But 
Chandler's  agent,  Meyer  Mishkin,  said,  "Chand- 
ler's wife,  you  know,  is  an  actress.  Her  name's 
Marjorie  Hoshelle.  She  played  in  The  Next 
Voice  You  Hear  and  I  Can  Get  It  For  You 
Wholesale.  Whenever  you  have  two  careers  in 
one  family,  especially  two  acting  careers,  there's 
bound  to  be  a  little  friction.  But  I  think  they'll 
work  things  out." 

While  things  suppiosedly  were  being  worked 
out,  Mrs.  Jeff  Chandler  was  sitting  in  the  Bev- 
erly Hills  office  of  her  attorney.  "I  think,"  she 
said,  "I'd  like  to  get  a  divorce.  My  husband  and 
I  seem  to  be  incompatible." 

Marjorie  and  Jeff  were  married  on  October 
13,  1946,  in  a  candlelight  ceremony  at  the  Beverly 
Hills  home  of  friends,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ralph 
Slottow. 

At  the  time,  Jeff  was  about  as  well-known  as 
Mickey  Mouse's  third  cousin.  Just  discharged 
from  the  Army,  the  six-foot-four-inch  actor  had 
been  given  a  screen  test  by  Universal.  The  card, 
bearing  the  result  of  his  screen  test,  carries  this 
information:  "Ira  Grossel,  27;  6'  4";  brown  eyes; 
brown  hair;  210  lbs.;  mug  type  combination  Bo- 
gart-Cagney-Gable;  okay  for  tough  bits." 

Actually,  Jeff  was  testing  for  a  role  in  Mark 
HeUinger's  picture.  The  Killers.  He  didn't  get 
it.  In  fact,  he  didn't  get  anything.  No  one 
would  give  him  an  acting  job  of  any  sort.  He 
tried  radio,  and  got  bounced  around  from  one 
audition  to  another.  In  (Continued  on  page  58) 


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Bird  O-f  Paradise:  Louis  JOijio-jii  ona  uecro 
Paget  ore  os  romantic  as  the  south  sees  them- 
selves in  this  sago  of  pagan  love  and  sacrifice. 


BIRD  OF  PARADISE 

According  to  the  20th  Century-Fox  produc- 
tion notes,  Delmer  Daves,  who  had  the  task 
of  bringing  that  ancient  epic.  Bird  of  Paradise, 
up  to  date,  found  the  folk-tale  he  was  dealing 
with,  "So  laden  with  beauty  and  pathos 
that,  he  admits,  he  was  moved  to  tears  in 
its  writing."  At  the  risk  of  appearing  inartistic, 
I  can  only  say  I  thought  it  was  a  riot.  Jeff 
Chandler,  a  Polynesian  chief's  son,  finds  he 
can't  abide  civilization  (he's  been  away  at 
school)  and  so  comes  back  to  his  island, 
bringing  school  pal  Louis  Jourdan  for  a  short 
visit.  Jourdan  casts  his  eyes  on  the  chief's 
daughter  (Debra  Paget)  and  vice  versa. 
They  get  married.  ("If  you  don't  have  chil- 
dren, bring  your  wife  back  here  and  your 
presents  will  be  returned,"  the  chief  tells 
him.)  Debra,  who'll  do  anything  for  any- 
body, walks  on  coals  of  fire  to  prove  to  a 
certain  holy  man  that  her  marriage  is  smiled 
upon  by  the  gods,  and  eventually  leaps  into 
a  volcano  to  save  her  village  from  annihila- 
tion. This  is  pretty  hard  on  Jourdan,  who  has 
some  funny  French  notions.  The  Techni- 
color is  lovely,  and  so  is  the  scenery  (shot 
in  Hawaii).  I  thought  the  molten  lava  was 
melted  cheese,  but  I  found  out  later  an 
actual  volcano  was  kind  enough  to  oblige 
the  studio  by  erupting. 

Cast:  Louis  Jourdan,  Debra  Paget,  Jeft  Chand- 
ler, Everett  Sloane. — 20th  Century-Fox. 

SOLDIERS  THREE 

MGM,  which  is  having  itself  a  romance 
with  Rudyard  Kipling,  follows  ifiin  with 
Soldiers  Three,  based  on  a  series  of  R.K. 
stories.  Cyril  Cusack,  Robert  Newton  and 
Stewart  Granger  are  cast  as  the  three  privates 
in  His  Majesty's  service  out  in  India  or  one 
of  those  pukka  sahib  places.  These  boys  are 
wine  and  women  fanciers,  and  you  can  keep 
the  song.  You  can  even  keep  the  women. 
They  practically  ruin  the  lives  of  their  offi- 
cers. Colonel  Walter  Pidgeon  and  Captain 
David  Niven,  but  later  on  they  save  the  Em- 
pire in  a  way  too  long  to  describe  here,  and 
at  one  point  they  wear  ladies'  underthings; 
and  Greta  Gynt  may  be  briefly  glimpsed  as 
a  languorous  blonde  mysteriously  called 
Crenshaw.  Some  really  funny  stuff  in  this. 
Casf:  Stewart  Granger,  Walter  Pidgeon, 
David  Niven. — MGM. 

HE  RAN  ALL  THE  WAY 

Escaping   after   a   payroll   robbery,  John 
Garfield  kills  a  policeman,  gallops  to  a  pub-  . 
lie  swimming  pool  where  he  picks  up  Shelley 
Winters,  and  invites  himself  home  with  her. 


He  Ran  All  The  Way:  Tough  little  Shelley  has 
met  her  match  in  John  Garfield,  who's  a  lot 
tougher  and  not  nearly  so  pretty  as  la  Winters. 


When  they  get  there,  the  cupboard,  far  from 
being  bare,  reveals  a  mother,  a  father,  a 
small  brother.  John  needs  a  place  to  hide 
out.  He  announces  to  the  family  that  he's 
staying  with  them  until  he  can  make  a  geta- 
way, and  he  punctuates  his  thoughts  by  wav- 
ing a  revolver.  After  that,  he  can't  understand 
why  nobody  likes  him.  (Except  Shelley,  who 
loves  him,  though  she  hates  herself  for  it.) 
"All  I  asked  from  you  people,"  John  says 
at  one  point,  "is  a  place  for  a  couple  of  days. 
You'd  give  as  much  to  an  alley  cat."  This 
would  be  a  sympathetic  speech,  were  it  not 
for  the  fact  that  very  few  alley  cats  hit  old 
men  in  the  stomach,  and  shoot  bullets  across 
the  dinner  table,  two  pastimes  John  is  ad- 
dicted to.  He  doesn't  make  a  good  end,  let 
me  add. 

Cast:  John  Garheld,  Shelley  Winters,  Wal- 
lace Ford,  Selena  Royle. — United  Artists. 

APPOINTMENT  WITH  DANGER 

Postal  inspector  Alan  Ladd  is  sent  to  Gary, 
Indiana,  to  investigate  the  murder  of  a  fel- 
low inspector.  Disposal  of  the  murdered  in- 
spector's body  was  witnessed  by  nun  Phyllis 
Calvert,  and  Alan,  who  uses  the  Sister  to 
help  him  track  down  some  of  the  villains 
involved,  begins  to  worry  over  her  safety. 
Alan,  I  might  as  well  point  out,  is  described 
in  the  picture  as  a  hard-boiled  skeptic.  Every- 
body keeps  saying  things  like,  "Well,  you 
wouldn't  know;  you're  not  human."  How 
they  came  to  this  conclusion  escapes  me 
since  he  seemed  in  all  things  thorough,  po- 
lite, and  perfectly  normal.  But  I  won't  quib- 
ble. This  is  a  good  exciting  picture — the 
murder  is  all  mixed  up  with  a  million-dollar 
postal  robbery  plan,  crooks  include  Paul 
Stewart,  Jack  Webb,  and  Henry  Morgan 
(who  does  a  masterful  job  with  a  bit  part), 
and  Jan  Sterling  has  some  nice  moments  as 
a  moll  who's  tired  of  moiling. 
Casf:  A  Jan  Ladd,  Phyllis  Calvert,  Paul  Stew- 
art, Jan  Sterling. — Paramount. 

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Loosely  resembling  the  Damon  Runyon 
short  story  from  which  it  was  taken.  The 
Lemon  Drop  Kid  stars  Bob  Hope  as  a  race- 
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horse  the  gangsfer  told  her  to  bet  wins.  The 
horse  Hope  suggested  she  bet  does  not. 
Moose  then  figures  Hope  owes  him  ten  thou- 
sand dollas,  and  gives  him  a  month  to  raise 
it.  Bob  gets  himself  a  city  license  (he's  organ- 
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The  Lemon  Drop  Kid:  Once  more  Bob  wears  a 
Damon  Runyon  story  like  a  glove.  A  ladies' 
man,  this  time  he  starts  a  Home  for  Old  Dolls. 


Home.  Naturally  he  does  not  intend  to  give 
this  money  to  any  old  dolls,  he  intends  to 
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eer, Oxford  Charlie  (Lloyd  Nolan)  ie  on  his 
trail.  And  so  it  goes.  Picture  has  Marilyn 
Maxwell  as  showgirl  Brainy  Baxter,  Jane 
Darwell  as  Nellie  Thursday,  and  other  char- 
acters called  Sam  the  Surgeon,  Gloomy 
Willie,  Straight  Flush,  Singing  Solly,  Little 
Louie.  Not  Hope  at  his  very  best,  but  pretty 
funny. 

Cast:  Bob  Hope,  MaTilyn  Maxwell,  Lloyd 
Nolan,  Jane  Darwell. — Paramount. 

ALONG  THE  GREAT  DIVIDE 

This  seemed  like  a  very  superior  Western 
to  me,  with  a  sort  of  John  Ford  flavor.  Tells 
about  U.S.  Marshal  Kirk  Douglas  stopping  a 
lynching  party,  only  to  find  he's  stuck  with 
it.  Old  Walter  Brennan's  been  accused  of 
murdering  a  rancher's  son,  and  the  rancher's 
determined  to  hang  him.  Kirk  wants  to  take 
Brennan  into  Santa  Loma  for  a  fair  trial. 
Brennan  doesn't  care  for  either  side  of  the 
argument.  He  didn't  murder  the  boy,  but  he 
figures  he'll  hang  for  it,  trial  or  no  trial,  so 
he  wants  Kirk  to  let  him  run  for  the  border. 
Especially  since  Kirk  likes  his  daughter 
(Virginia  Mayo).  But  Kirk's  a  hard  man. 
Discovering  that  the  rancher  and  pals  intend 
to  ambush  him  on  the  way  to  Santa  Loma, 
Kirk  decides  that  he'll  take  Brennan  over  a 
different  route,  across  the  desert.  Along  on 
this  cheerful  trip  are  Brennan's  daughter, 
two  deputy  marshals,  and  the  remaining  son 
of  the  vengeful  rancher,  as  a  hostage.  This 
is  a  mean  cuss,  very  inferior  to  his  murdered 
brother.  The  party's  water  bags  give  out, 
the  water  hole  they  plan  on  reaching  has 
turned  bad  when  they  get  there,  everyone 
except  the  marshal  grows  trigger-happy,  and 
it's  engrossing,  right  up  to  the  last  minute. 
Cast:  Kirk  Douglas,  Virginia  Mayo,  John 
Agar,  Walter  Brennan. — Warner  Brothers. 

FOLLOW  THE  SUN 

A  golfer's  lot  is  not  a  happy  one,  despite 
the  fact  he  goes  to  nice  warm  places,  chil- 
dren. In  this  inspirational  story  of  Ben  Hogan, 
who  was.  and  is,  a  brave  man  and  a  fine 
golf  player.  Fox  doesn't  miss  a  trick.  Starts 
with  the  little  Ben  and  little  Valerie  (his 
future  wife),  has  'em  grow  up,  marry,  tour 
the  country  trying  to  make  a  place  in  the 
golfing  world.  Gallery  (spectators)  bother 
Ben,  but  he  finally  carves  himself  a  niche. 
Then  his  near-fatal  accident,  the  long  painful 
recovery,  the  letters  from  well-wishers  which 


Follow  The  Sun:  Glenn  Ford,  as  Ben  Hogan, 
tells  the  dramatic  story  of  the  life  of  a  profes- 
sional golfer.  Anne  Baxter  plays  Hogan's  wife. 


make  Ben  see  the  "gallery"  is  rooting  for 
him.  So  back  to  the  courses  on  sick  legs, 
determined  to  repay  everybody's  belief. 
There  are  real  goliers  in  this  one  (Glenn 
Ford  plays  Hogan,  but  Sam  Snead,  James 
Demaret  and  Gary  Middlecoff  appear  as 
themselves)  and  Dennis  O'Keefe  is  seen  as  a 
happy-go-lucky  chomp  and  ex-champ  who 
marries  an  heiress  and  drinks  too  much. 
Cast :  Glenn  Ford,  Aime  Baxter,  Dennis  O'- 
Keeie,  June  Havoc. — 20th  Century-Fox. 

LULLABY  OF  BROADWAY 

Love  is  stronger  than  the  bottle,  or  waltz 
me  around  again  Gene  Nelson,  is  Doris  Day's 
motto.  She's  been  living  in  England  for  some 
years,  and  now  she  arrives  in  New  York 
to  pay  a  surprise  visit  to  her  mama  (Gladys 
George).  Mama  used  to  be  a  musical  comedy 
star,  but  she's  presently  a  large  scale  drunk. 
Doris,  who  never  reads  the  papers,  believes 
her  mother  is  still  the  hottest  thing  on  the 
New  York  stage,  and  is  passionate  to  see 
her.  She  goes  to  the  fancy  address  where 
mama's  supposed  to  live,  is  treated  kindly  by 
Billy  De  Wolfe  and  Aim  Triola,  a  vaudeville 
team,  working  as  servants  in  the  house — and 
is  sugar-daddied  by  S.  Z.  Sakall.  Can  you  see 
the  handwriting  on  the  wall?  Did  you  know 
S.Z.  was  going  to  back  a  Broadway  musical? 
In  Technicolor?  There  are  old  songs  by  Gersh- 
win, Cole  Porter. 

Cast;  Doris  Day,  Gene  Nelson,  S.  Z.  Sakall, 
Billy  De  Wolfe. — Warner  Brothers. 

GO  FOR  BROKE 

A  tribute  to  Japanese-American  war  heroes 
who  fought  in  World  War  II  is  tendered  by 
MGM.  Story  follows  bigoted  Lieutenant  Van 
Johnson,  and  the  Japanese  soldiers  under 
him  through  basic  training,  and  thence  to 
France  and  Italy,  where  gradually  Van  learns 
to  be  a  nice  unprejudiced  boy,  and  stops 
longing  for  transfer  to  the  Texas  outfit  where 
all  his  old  pals  are.  Picture  deals  with  the 
problems  that  confronted  Japanese-American 
soldiers,  many  of  them  bitter  because  their 
famOies  were  in  relocation  centers,  all  of 
them  anxious  to  prove  their  own  loyalty  by 
fighting.  It's  full  of  G.I.  humor,  too,  and  I 
think  the  soldiers  participating  are  all  actual 
vets.  If  that's  true,  their  acting's  astonishing. 
They're  better  than  pros.  Some  good  but 
belated  points  are  made  here.  This  is  a  vote 
of  thanks  the  Japanese-Americans  have  had 
coming  to  them  for  a  long  time. 
Cast:  Van  Johnson,  Lane  Nakano,  George 
Miki,  Akira  Fukunaga. — MGM. 


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Soaping  dulls  hair. 
Halo  glorifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing  ^ 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp!  ^— ^. 

Yes,  "soaping"  your  hair  with 
even  finest  Kquid  or  oUy  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thtis  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo — America's 
favorite  shampoo — at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  coimter! 


Gives  fragrant  ^^<^S^i 
'soft-water"  lather     /  -^^y 
—needs  no  1^ 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable— 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights! 


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Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair! 


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Hollywood 
goes 
shopping 
for  you! 


■  The  Hollywood  stars  who  shop 
for  you  are  as  wise  as  the  three 
famous  little  monkeys — but  don't 
follow  their  rules.  Our  shoppers  See 
the  best  of  everything  from  coast 
to  coast.  They  Hear  everything 
about  the  newest  styles  and  tricky 
ideas;  and  they  Speak  everything, 
telling  their  friends  and  you  about 
their  value  finds  for  fun  and  family. 

To  get  any  of  these  star-selected 
items,  just  write  to  the  shops  men- 
tioned below  each  picture,  enclos- 
ing a  check  or  money  order  (and 
gift  card  if  you  like).  Your  selec- 
tion will  be  rushed  to  any  address 
you  name.  Modern  Screen  guar- 
antees delivery.  Prices  all  include 
postage  and  tax  where  necessary. 
Money  will  be  returned  on  any 
items  that  are  returned  within  10 
days  after  delivery.  Only  mono- 
grammed  merchandise  cannot  be  re- 
turned. 


helley  winters 


your  hollywood  shopper 


Photos  of  Shelley  Winters  made  at  Lydia  Kessler,  Ltd.,  Neiu  York 


Ever  see  a  kid  outside  a  candy  store?  That's  the  way  Shelley  Winters  looked  window  shopping. 


EYEGLASS  CASE  ON  DOUBLE-DUTY.  Tivin  com- 
partments in  this  smart  moire  silk  taffeta 
case  offer  safe  storage  for  both  reading  and 
sun  glasses.  No/hi?i^  gets  me  in  more  of 
a  frenzy  than  hunting  for  misplaced  sun 
specs  so  this  case  is  a  real  find.  It  fits  into 
II  parse,  fjocket  or  your  hand.  Comes  in 
ii'ine,  navy  or  green  luith  contrasting 
lining,  and  sports  a  small  gold  clasp.  $1.95. 
Srhaffer  Gift  House,  246  Morris  Ave., 
Springfield,  New  Jersey. 


FOR  GIRLS  WHO  LOVE  PEARLS,  I've  found  a 
lovely  set  at  a  special  buy.  This  alabaster- 
base  simulated  pearl  choker  with  your 
choice  of  2,  3  or  4  beautiful  strands,  ivill 
enhance  any  costume.  It's  also  made  with 
graduated  pearls.  Has  an  adjustable 
rhinestone  clasp  (give  neck  size).  $3.50. 
Chic  dangle  earrings  made  to  match,  eacli 
ivith  3  pearls  in  a  triangle.  $1.50  pr. 
Handsome  when  zoom  together.  Freeport, 
Ltd.,  526  Seventh   Ave.,  Neiv    York  IS. 


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■  Hi.  I'm  Shelley  Winters  and  I've  been 
shopping.  Look! 

In  the  movies  I'm  usually  fancied  up 
with  a  bustle,  a  la  Frenchie.  They're  fun 
to  switch  around  in,  but  when  it  comes 
to  spending  my  tax-peeled  salary,  I'm 
ultra-modern.  Modern  Screen  appre- 
ciates the  pHght  of  us  bachelor  girls, 
and  asked  me  to  share  my  shopping 
savvy  with  all  of  you.  And,  like  any 
woman,  there's  nothing  I'd  rather  do 
than  give  advice — so  lend  an  ear. 

All  of  us  have  a  man  or  two  on  our 
minds,  so  of  course  I've  looked  out  for 
them.  Some  things  are  for  that  'older 
man'  we  all  adore — namely  Dad — who 
has  his  day  in  June.  Others  will  let  that 
special  guy  know  how  much  you  like 
him. 

Being  a.  firm  believer  in  the  saying 
about  'bread  cast  upon  the  waters',  I 
picked  up  a  lot  of  bridal  and  shower 
gifts.  (It's  the  time  of  year  when  any- 
thing can  happen,  you  know.)  Bread 
nothing!  These  are  so  good  they're  cake. 

And  they  come  from  all  over  the  U.  S. 
After  all,  like  the  columnists  say,  I'm  a 
gal  who  gets  around. 

And  when  you  gals  get  around  to  or- 
dering these  things,  just  write  directly 
to  the  stores  mentioned  under  each  pic- 
ture. That's  all  there  is  to  it. 

So  that's  it,  kids.  I've  had  my  say, 
and  lots  of  fun.  See  you. 


MAKE  IT  AN  INDIAN  SUMMER  ivith  gay  coiuhide 
moccasins.  Fringed,  hand-beaded  and  hand- 
laced,  they  add  zip  to  any  outfit.  Airfoam 
inner  soles  make  them,  so  comfy  you'll  hate 
to  take  them  off.  John  Garfield  fell  for  the 
pair  I  kept  on  the  set  of  He  Ran  All  The 
Way,  so  I  got  h'm  the  men's  version  (with- 
out beads  or  fringe).  In  Palomitio  Gold, 
Green,  White,  Red,  Black.  Men's,  women's 
sizes.  $5.95.  Miller's  Curio  Co.,  256  E. 
Congress  St.,  Tucson,  Arizona. 


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shelley  winters 

your  hollywood  shopper 


Romance  runs 
rampant  in  June  so 
I  decided  to 
invite  Cupid  along  for 
his  special 
shopping  advice. 


ANYONE  YOU  KNOW  GETTING  MARRIED?  Here's 
an  adorable  wedding  present  I've  chosen 
for  friends  who  are  being  married  June  6. 
It's  a  Vermont  maple  bowl,  9"  wide,  per- 
sonalized with  the  guy's  and  gal's  name, 
wedding  date,  or  any  special  inscription. 
The  bride  and  groom  are  colorfully  done 
on  a  white  or  natural  background.  A  grand 
memento  and  useful  too.  $3.20.  Stratton 
Snow,  P.  O.  Box  152  M  No.  Swinton  Ave., 
Delray  Beach,  Florida. 


Create  your  own  curly  locks  with  Cemi- 
Curl,  the  first  pin  curl  home  permanent. 
In  only  45  minutes  it  gives  you  loose 
curls  with  the  right  body  to  look  natural 
and  lovely.  No  curlers;  no  resetting.  Just 
pin  up  hair  with  special  Cemi-Curl  bobby 
pins,  apply  lotion  neutralizer  and  dry. 
Mild  solution,  prepared  and  tested  by 
beauty  experts,  it's  safe  for  blended  or 
tinted  hair;  even  children's.  Complete 
kit  $2.80.  (Refill  $1.80.) 

FROSTY  CREME  PRODUCTS 
4555  DELMAR  BLVD..  ST.  LOUIS  8,  MO. 


IT'S  FINE  TO  BE  "FRAMED",  only  if  U  means 
you'll  be  able  to  take  a  peek  in  this  charm- 
ing rococo  mirror.  Mine  sits  atop  my 
dressing  table,  so  I  know.  French-gold  or 
off-white  pressed  wood  frame  xcith  plate 
glass  mirror,  it  has  an  easel  back  for  stand- 
ing, or  it  can  be  hung  on  the  ivall.  Also 
attractive  over  a  chest  of  drawers  or  hung 
in  pairs.  15"xlli/2",  $5.50;  21"xl3y2"> 
$8.95.  Henry  Rosenziveig,  723  Lexington 
Ave.,  New  York  22. 


AWARD  FOR  YOUR  MRS.  DEGREE.  Any  of  these 
smart  wedding  bands  would  do  a  wife 
proud.  14-K.  white  or  yellow  gold  band 
centered  with  five  genuine  zircons  in 
fishtail  mounting,  $12.50.  Or  how  about  a 
wide  silver  band,  hand  carved  in  floral 
pattern,  mounted  with  rhinestones,  $7.50. 
Also  smart  is  a  gold-filled  band,  bordering 
a  ring  of  simulated  rubies,  diamonds, 
sapphires  or  emeralds,  $7.50.  Give  ring 
size.  Sanlys,  545  Fifth  Ave.,  New  York  17. 


WEIGHTED  DOWN  WITH  GLAD  TIDINGS.  Wedding 
memories  are  presened  for  posterity  in 
this  attractive  and  useful  Incite  paper 
'weight.  Send  in  your  invitation  or  an- 
nouncement to  be  reproduced  in  miniature 
and  mounted  in  a  3"x3y^"  base.  June  grad- 
uates can  have  diplomas  copied  for  a  per- 
manent record  of  their  scholastic  achieve- 
ments. The  data  you  send  is  returned 
intact.  $3.00.  Keepsake  Shops,  112  48th  St., 
Union  City  8,  New  Jersey. 


STAND  WAIST  HIGH  IN  COMPLIMENTS  in  this 
handsome,  hand-stitched  belt  of  natural 
bridle  leather.  Original  design,  and  made 
to  measure,  this  smart  waist-cincher  is 
accented  by  a  heavy  solid  brass  horseshoe 
fob.  It's  a  wonderful  accessory  for  suits 
or  slacks.  Actually,  my  pet  way  of  wearing 
it  during  the  summer  is  with  shorts,  but 
I'll  use  it  all-year  round.  Send  waist  size. 
S7.50.  Metz  Originals,  Red  Lion  Road, 
Philadelphia  14,  Pennsylvania. 


PICTURE  CARD  FOR  A  "NATURAL"  CANASTA.  /  had 

these  double  canasta  decks  made  up  with 
my  picture  on  them  to  give  Mom  and  Pop 
for  their  next  anniversary.  It's  a  swell  gift 
for  your  veiy  special  people  too.  They're 
standard  canasta  decks  of  108  cards,  with 
your  choice  of  photo  on  each.  Send  in  your 
snapshot  and  allow  about  two  weeks  for 
delivery.  Single  canasta  deck,  $5.85.  Double 
deck,  $10.95.  Photo  Playing  Cards,  Room 
310,  752  Fulton  St.,  Fresno,  California. 


To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned ,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


"SOMETHING  BLUE"  THAT  RINGS  TRUE.  A  June 
bride  can  no  more  get  married  without 
bridal  garters  than  she  can  without  the 
groom.  This  pair  she'll  find  absolutely 
irresistible,  I'm  sure.  They're  almost  giv- 
ing me  ideas.  A  dainty  satin  wedding  bell 
with  "pearl"  clapper  bedecks  the  satin 
garter  edged  in  real  chantilly  lace.  Blue 
with  white  bell,  or  vice  versa.  They  make 
a  sweet  shower  gift  too.  $3.50.  Hortense 
B.  Hewitt,  37  W.  39  St.,  New  York  18. 


MUSICAL  BARRELS  OF  FUN.  Tiny  tunesters 
atop  wooden  barrels  form  a  quaint 
orchestra  that  lovers  of  miniatures  will  find 
irresistible.  Colorful  musicians,  about  2" 
high,  play  an  accordion,  banjo,  sax  and 
various  -string  instruments.  Dressed  in  gay 
costumes,  they're  a  bright  start  for  your 
collection.  I  was  thrilled  to  add  them  to 
the  group  on  my  mantel.  39^  each;  set  of 
six,  SI. 89.  Get  them  at  Terry  Roberts,  116 
E.  53  St.,  Xew  York  22. 


MOTHER  AND  DAUGHTER  SHOULDER  BAGS  made 
in  romantic  Guatemala  bring  you  a  life- 
time of  beauty  and  service.  Of  natural- 
colored  Palomino  cowhide,  hand-tooled  in 
charming  designs  with  that  smart  Latin 
styling.  Untitled  and  perfect  for  sports- 
wear, with  full  length  adjustable  straps. 
I've  sent  a  set  as  a  gift  and,  of  course,  got 
one  myself.  Large  bag  8"xl0",  $11.58. 
Small  one,  $5.70.  Set  $16.80.  Bropar,  Box 
999,  Dept.  635,  San  Antonio  6,  Texas. 


NAME  IT,  AND  IT'S  YOURS!  L'se  your  own  name 
stamp  on  your  belongings,  or  initial  them 
with  a  lettering  stylus  to  show  they're 
yours.  Peifect  for  a  bride,  camper,  bachelor 
or  serviceman,  this  personalized  Name  Kit 
marks  laundry  or  travel  accessories  quickly, 
indelibly.  Kit  includes  a  plastic  stamper, 
'lettering  stylus,  marking  block,  and  bot- 
tle of  indelible  ink.  Print  name  desired. 
$2.00.  Gemma,  Dept.  MS,  509  Fifth  Ave., 
Ne-w  York  17. 


BABY  BIRTH  TILE  GOES  DUTCH.  Memento  of 
an  historic  event  in  any  family,  the  arrival 
of  a  new-born.  Holland  tile-makers  design, 
fire  and  glaze  plaques  of  a  quaint  cradle 
with  baby's  name,  place,  date  and  clock 
giving  hour  of  birth.  White  tile  with 
delft  ■  blue  pattern,  or  white  with  ga\ 
popular  color.  6"x6".  Print  all  data  for 
lettering  on  tile.  Please  allow  four  weeks 
delivery.  $5.85.  R.  Mendels,  Inc.,  Dept. 
MS,  41  E.  42  St.,  New  York  17. 


HOW  TO  REALLY  SOn  SOAP  A  GUY!  Here's  a 
farewell  gift  for  a  serviceman  that'll  make 
him  remember  you  fondly  .  .  .  French- 
milled  cold  cream  soap  cakes  imprinted 
with  his  insignia,  name  and  rank.  For  hard 
or  soft  water.  Makes  it  easy  for  him  to 
keep  tabs  on  his  soap,  and  what  a  luxury! 
Give  insignia,  name,  rank.  Gift  box  that 
holds  4  cakes  costs  S1.50;  6  cakes,  $2.25. 
Tucker  Personalized  Soap  Co.,  5  Larson 
Bldg.,  Clifton,  New  Jersey. 


CLOTHES  BRUSH  WITH  HIDDEN  ASSETS.  A  guy 

who  likes  to  travel  light  will  welcome  this 
utility  brush  case  whether  he's  off  on  his 
own  or  wtth  Uncle  Sam.  Perfect  for  Pop. 
Brush  with  tan  cowhide  top  zips  open 
to  reveal  a  set  of  toilet  articles  .  .  .  razor, 
2  blades,  brushless  shave  cream,  nylon 
bristle  toothbrush,  tooth  paste,  comb  and 
nail  file.  It's  really  a  handy  dandy.  $6.00. 
Leed's  Luggage  Shop,  545  Fifth  Ave.,  New 
York  17. 


MINIATURE  MANICURING  SET  FOR  TRAVEL.  All 

the  tools  for  well-gromed  nails  go  into 
this  tiny  portable  leather-covered  case.  Lip- 
stick-shaped, it's  fitted  with  tweezers,  orange 
stick,  nail  file,  and  emery  board.  Ideal 
for  any  gal  who's  on  the  go  'cause  it  slips 
easily  into  a  handbag,  pocket  or  suitcase, 
takes  up  little  space.  Mine  is  always  with 
me,  both  on  the  set  and  when  I'm  off  on 
a  junket.  In  assorted  colors,  $1.95.  Green- 
hall,  509  Fifth   Avenue,  New   York  17. 


DO  YOU  KNOW  A  YOYO  when  you  see  one? 
It's  a  childhood  game  that's  worth  resur- 
recting. I  love  showing  it  to  my  friends' 
kids  'cause  it  gives  me  a  chance  to  play 
it  myself.  It's  a  spool  of  thread  made  so 
that  when  you  hold  the  cord  and  jerk 
your  -wrist  the  "Yoyo"  rides  up  and  down, 
winding  and  unwinding  the  spool.  It's 
lots  easier  than  it  sounds  and  more  fun. 
Golden  disk  and  nylon  cord.  $1.00.  Jimmy 
Berger,  1620  Beacon  St.,  Brookline,  Mass. 


Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  where  monogrammed. 


shelley  winters 
your  Hollywood 


PERFECT  TO  THE  lAST  POLKA-DOT.  The  South 
American  poncho  mspired  the  top  of  these 
cotnfy  seersucker  pajamas.  Sleeveless  and 
open-neck,  they're  cool  and  airy  as  can  be. 
Drawstring  ties  on  the  side,  avoids  the 
usual  bumpy  buttons.  Roomy  trousers 
have  an  adjustable  waistband.  Crisp,  they 
wash  in  a  jiffy,  need  no  ironing.  Red  or 
blue  coin  polka-dots  on  white  top;  bottom 
in  reverse  print.  Sizes  12-18.  $6.11.  Jonas 
Shops,  62  W.  14  St.,  New  York  11. 


IT  GIVES  ITSELF  A  CHILL.  A  special  pocket  in- 
side this  handblown  green  glass  pitcher 
holds  several  ice  cubes  to  cool  your  fa- 
vorite drink,  without  diluting  it.  Imported 
from  Italy,  it  holds  two  quarts  of  tea,  cof- 
fee, fruit  juice,  milk,  or  even  something 
more  potent,  iced  to  perfection.  A  raffia 
plug  seals  the  ice  compartment.  Wonder- 
ful for  entertaining  the  gang  sweltering 
summer  evenings.  $3.95.  Charm  Creations, 
2  East  23rd  St.,  New  York  10. 


THE  LIGHT  OF  YOUR  LIFE  permanently  fixed  on 
a  smart  Evans  automatic  cigarette  lighter. 
A  copy  of  your  favorite  photo  of  yourself, 
hubby,  offspring  or  best  beau  can  now  be 
specially  processed  on  this  dependable 
lighter.  A  transparent  plastic  coating  pro- 
tects the  photo  once  it's  on.  Makes  a 
wonderful  Father's  or  Mother's  Day  gift. 
Send  photo,  which  will  be  returned.  $5.00. 
My-Art  Co.,  4128  Wilshire  Blvd.,  Los 
Angeles  36,  California. 


CERAMIC  SNUFFERS  THAT   SPOUT  SMOKE.  The 

first  time  I  used  these  fascinating  fellows, 
I  could  hardly  believe  my  eyes.  As  my 
candles  went  out,  the  snuffers  seemed  to 
exhale  smoke.  One,  a  chartreuse  devil,  blew 
it  out  of  his  mouth,  the  other,  a  red  gar- 
goyle, breathed  it  through  his  nostrils 
like  a  miniature  fire-breathing  dragon. 
Practical  and  decorative  pieces  for  any 
mantel.  $2.00  each.  Finlandia  House,  1027 
N.E.  Albertha,  Portland,  Oregon. 


PUT  THEM  IN  THEIR  PLACE,  graciously,  smooth- 
ly, with  these  charming  silver  ink  on  white 
place  cards,  hand-engraved  in  designs  to 
match  sterling  silver  flatware.  Designs  are 
available  for  most  every  active  sterling 
silver  pattern,  just  send  us  yours.  They're 
sure  to  have  your  guest  buzzing  with  com- 
pliments and  will  give  your  table  special 
elegance.  12  for  $1.50.  24  for  $2.75.  48  for 
$4.80.  Taylor's,  818  17th  St.  W.,  Denver, 
Colorado. 


A  CUTE  PLASTIC  "CUT-UP."  The  young  mothers 
I  know  say  here's  a  wonderful  pair  of 
scissors  for  the  small  fry.  He's  a  red  and 
white  toy  giraffe,  whose  long  neck  opens 
like  a  scissors'  blades,  easily,  harmlessly. 
His  diet  is  paper,  and  lie  is  absolutely 
non-destructive.  His  edges  are  nice  and 
blunt.  He  comes  in  his  own  paper  zoo 
with  11  of  his  colorful  cut-out  cronies, 
including  Elsie  the  Elephant.  50^.  B.  C. 
Moses,  4313  Austin  St.,  Houston  4,  Texas. 


BARE-ARMED  BLOUSE  WITH  CHIC.  Styled  to  per- 
fection, this  crisp  fnque  blouse  will  take 
you  faithfully  through  the  season.  Its 
sleeveless  nature  is  "suited"  to  May  and 
takes  to  slacks,  shorts,  or  cotton  skirts  Oi'< 
the  summer.  Round-neck,  simple,  yet  so- 
phisticated, and  accented  with  buttons 
and  tucks  in  just  the  right  places.  It 
comes  in  navy,  grey,  natural.  Sizes  10-18. 
$5.98.  Margaret's,  121  N.  B'way,  Oklahoma 
City,  Oklahoma. 


GOOD  LUCK  WILL  COME  KNOCKING  on  any  door 
that  displays  these  handsome  twin  horse 
shoes  in  solid  brass.  Shoes  are  well  joined 
by  hinges  at  each  end,  insuring  many  years 
of  neighborly  knocks  on  your  front  door. 
Comes  highly  polished  so  it's  easy  to  keep 
clean  and  sparkling  and  it's  a  cinch  to 
put  up.  Sis  and  I  can't  wait  to  put  ours 
on  the  door  of  our  "home  sweet  home." 
$4.50.  The  Kems  Co.,  536  Oakwood,  Web- 
ster Groves  19,  Missouri. 


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Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  where  monogrammed. 


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Your  complexion  is  smoother— clearer, 
too- with  your  First  Cake  of  Camay! 


MRS.  JACK  STANTON, 
the  former  Marian  Richards  oj  California, 
is  a  recent— and  lovely— Camay  Bride 


Doesn't  Marian  Stanton  look  like  a 
story-book  princess?  Her  hair  is  the  color 
of  spun  gold  — her  eyes  are  azure.  Yes,  and 
Marian  has  a  complexion  soft  and  lovely 
as  any  heroine  of  fiction.  Her  first  cake 
of  Camay  brought  romantic  new 
beauty  to  her  skin! 

Say  "Camay"  and  Marian's  eyes  sparkle. 
"Camay  smooths  and  freshens  your 
complexion  so  quickly,"  she  confides  to 

friends.  "Why,  when  I  changed  to 
regular  care  and  mild,  gentle  Camay— my 
very  first  cake  brought  a  clearer, 
softer  look  to  my  skin!" 

You'll  be  lovelier,  too  — when  you  change 

to  regular  care— use  Camay  alone.  Camay's 
lather  is  rich  and  creamy  — just  the  kind 

you  need  to  wake  the  sleeping  beauty  of 
your  skin.  Use  Camay  — and  a  softer, 
clearer  complexion  will  be  your  reward! 


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Mild  and  gentle  Camay— 
there's  nothing  finer! 

Camay's  gentle,  creamy  lather  is  sheer 
delight  to  use  — it's  soft  as  satin  to  your 
skin.  And  remember  this  — the  larger 
cake,  the  thrifty  "Beauty-Bath"  size,  is 
Camay  at  its  finest.  Use  it  for  more 
lather— more  luxury— more  of  every- 
thing you  like  about  Camay! 


New  beauty  for  all  your  skin! 

Bathe  with  gentle,  rich -lathering  Camay, 
too  — give  all  your  skin  a  luxurious  beauty 
treatment!  The  daily  Camay  Beauty  Bath 
brings  arms  and  back  and  shoulders  that 
"beautifully  cared-for"  look.  It  touches  you 
with  Camay's  flattering  fragrance! 


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Recipe  for  ivarm  weather  comfort  and  daintiness:  Out  of 
bed  .  .  .  into  your  bath  .  .  .  then  Cashmere  Bouquet  Talc 
all  over!  See  how  it  absorbs  every  bit  of  moisture  left  on 
your  skin  after  towelling.  You'll  love  the  silky-smooth 
"sheath  of  protection"  it  gives  to  those  chafeable  spots. 
And  the  fragrance  of  Cashmere  Bouquet  is  the  romantic 
fragrance  men  love,  that  lingers  for  hours  and  hours. 
Yes,  every  morning  .  .  .  and  before  every  date  .  .  . 
sprinkle  yourself  liberally  with  Cashmere  Bouquet  Talc! 


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modern  screen  /  june  1951 


the 

inside 

story 

of 


This  picture,  taken  just  after  her  marriage  to  Block,,  is  probably  her  last  publicity  photo, 


why  Shirley  pit 


Modern  Screen's  reporter  tells  the  simple,  honest  story  of  Shirley's  simple,  honest  decision. 


■  In  Hollywood  there  is  a  firm  and  widespread  belief  that 
movie  stars  never  quit — they  simply  fade  away  and  die. 

In  the  case  of  Shirley  Temple,  that  belief  was  knocked  for 
a  loop. 

Six  months  ago,  Shirley  Temple  travelled  to  a  secluded 
'estate  in  Monterey,  California,  and  stood  beside  a  young  man 
named  Charles  Black.  In  the  presence  of  her  parents  and 
his  immediate  family,  she  vowed  that  she  would  love,  honor, 
and  cherish  him,  and  that  forever  after  she  would  remain 
plain  Mrs.  Black. 


When  she  walked  out  of  that  house,  she  closed  a  door 
which  she  vows  will  never  be  reopened.  With  her  husband, 
she  returned  to  Brentwood,  California,  her  home  for  many 
years,  and  drew  down  a  curtain  between  herself  and  the 
public  which  she  says  will  never  be  lifted.  She  announced  to 
the  eager  press  that  she  would  never  again  submit  to  an  inter- 
view or  pose  for  their  photographs.  She  said  she  would  never 
appear  in  a  picture  again,  speak  on  a  radio  program,  or  act 
on  the  stage.  She  quit  with  a  finality  that  left  no  doubt' 
about  her  sincerity,  and,  without  {Continued  on  page  9J) 


PHOTOS  BY  BOB  BEERMAN  AND  BEPT  PARRY 


Clark  still  lives  in  the  Encino  ranch  house  he  shared  with  Although  Gable  refuses  to  let  the  inside  of  the  house  be  photographed,  he  considers 
Carole  Lonnbard.  Sylvia  has  had  the  place  redecorated  himself  public  property.  He  says  when  fans  stop  asking  for  autographs,  he'll  worry; 
with  Clark's  help — he  gave  a  masculine  touch  to  the  decor.      meanwhile  he  signs  hundreds  as  he  did  on  localion  for  Across  the  Wide  Missouri. 


no 


Though  Hollywood  is  full  of  young  Prince  Charmings, 


■  Ronald  Colman  ran  his  finger  along  his  nose  and  peered  ques- 
'tioningly  at  the  ceiling. 

"Clark  Gable,"  he  mused.  "Clark  Gable.  Isn't  he  the  new  actor 
I've  heard  about?" 

We  were  sitting  in  Ronnie's  cottage  at  the  Del  Monte  Hotel. 
It  was  about  18  years  ago. 

"He'd  like  to  meet  you,  Ronnie,"  I  said. 

"Good  enough,"  Ronnie  answered.  "I'd  like  to  meet  him,  too." 

When  I  offered  to  bring  Gable  over  sometime,  Colman 
answered,  "Bring  him  over,  nothing.  He's  a  new  guest  here. 


Sylvia  brought  new  gaiety  into  Clark's  life. 


Friends  thought  he  would  rebel  at  formol  social 


affairs, 


but  Gable  seems  to  enjoy  them  now. 


one  has  shaken  "King"  Gable  from  his  throne,  and  an  old  friend  tells  why  •  BY  bob  fender 


Why  not  really  make  him  feel  welcome  by  dropping  in  on  him." 

So  celebrity-weary  Ronald  Colman  trailed  along  behind  me  as 
I  found  Gable's  cottage  and  knocked  on  the  door. 

The  meeting  between  the  suave  Colman  and  the  eager  lum- 
berjack-turned-actor was  something  to  see. 

Big,  bluff,  handsome  Clark,  wearing  a  white  turtle-neck 
sweater  and  grey  slacks  flung  open  the  door. 

He  stood  for  a  moment  in  amazement,  then,  when  I  intro- 
duced him  to  Colman,  Gable  grasped  his  hand  firmly  and  said, 
"You  know,  Mr.  Colman,  I  guess  I'm  your  Number  One 


admirer  and  I  never  expected  to  see  you  walk  in  my  door — it 
was  quite  a  shock." 

Ronnie  thanked  him  and  settled  down  for  a  talk. 

Colman  wanted  to  hear  the  full  story:  how  Clark  got  his 
break  in  pictures  and  what,  in  general,  he  thought  of  the  whole 
business.  Flattered,  Clark  didn't  leave  out  a  detail. 

He'd  just  finished  Hell  Divers,  one  sequence  of  which  showed 
him  parachuting  through  space  and  landing  kerplunk  on  the 
ground. 

"D'ya  know,  Mr.  Colman,"  he  {Continued  on  page  59) 


RING  AROUND 


■  It  was  really  most  irregular,  huffed  the  elegant  salesman  at  Cartier's. 
However,  a  sale  was  a  sale  and — er,  Mr.  Topping  was  Mr.  Topping — but 
at  the  Stork  Club!  What  was  the  world  coming  to?  He  reached  for  his 
jewel  case  and  jammed  on  his  derby. 

At  the  Stork,  Bob  Topping  sipped  a  drink  reflectively  and  then  headed 
for  the  phone  again.  He  felt  particularly  good. 

And  in  her  hotel  room,  Lana  Turner  felt  particularly  good  and  mad.  It 
was  late,  she  was  all  dressed  and  ready  to  go,  and  her  toes  tapped  the  rug 
furiously  as  she  heard  Bob  draw-1,  "Honey,  I'm  held  up  at  the  Stork — be 
over  soon  as  I  can  make  it." 

"Don't  hurry!"  snapped  Lana.  "Don't  ever  hurry  for  me!"  and  the 
receiver  whacked  down. 

The  diamonds  that  the  salesman  brought  over  were  lovely — three  mar- 
quises and  a  couple  of  emerald-cuts.  Bob  held  them  up  to  the  light,  tried 
them  on  his  little  finger,  chuckled,  and  took  his  time.  Kibitzers  craned 
their  necks,  wondered  and  guessed.  "This  one  will  do,"  said  Bob.  "Charge 
it."  Then  he  slipped  it  in  his  pocket,  strolled  out  and  flagged  a  taxi. 

He  was  over  an  hour  late  for  his  date  with  Lana,  and  only  the  night 
before  he'd  said  for  the  thousandth  time  that  he  loved  her  more  than  any 
girl  in  the  world.  When  she  opened  the  door  sparks  of  disbelief  were  flying, 
and  it  just  wasn't  the  time  for  explanations.  But  when  they  settled  back 
in  another  cab  he  reached  inside  his  pocket. 

"Picked  up  a  little  souvenir  at  the  5tork,"  he  said. 

"How  interesting,"  snapped  Lana.  "What  was  she — blonde  or  brunette?" 

"Thought  you  might  like  to  see  it,"  Bob  answered  calmly,  "and  maybe 
wear  it,  and  learn  to  like  it.  Can  you  see  what  I  mean?" 

Lana  saw  what  he  meant  by  the  lights  of  New  York.  She's  worn  that 
marquise  diamond  ring  ever  since,  and  the  memory  of  that  night,  the  angry 
tears,  laughter,  and  the  thrill  stick  with  her.  She  thinks  they  always  will. 
That  was  the  night  four  years  ago  when  she  became  engaged  to  be  married. 

There's  never  a  ring  in  any  girl's  life  like  an  engagement  ring. 

At  one  thriUing  tick  of  time  it  is  a  magic  ring,  bringing  unforgettable 
moments  of  romance — and  some  of  those  moments  you  could  lift  out  of 
a  fairy  tale,  or  steal  straight  from  the  comics.  Some  could  be  ripped  right 
from  a  movie  script  itself — like  the  moment  when  a  copper-haired  girl 
from  Milwaukee  turned  into  a  grand  duchess  in  her  guy's  eyes  because 
of  a  ring. 

One  night  last  December  this  girl  walked  out  of  South  Pacific  humming 
"Younger  Than  Springtime"  holding  the  hand  of  the  man  she  loved.  Later, 
when  they  went  dancing  at  the  St.  Regis  Roof,  that  was  the  first  piece 
the  orchestra  played. 

It  was  Arlene  Dahl's  birthday,  and  she  was  spending  it  with  Lex  Barker 
and  his  parents.  Lex  held  her  close  as  they  danced  to  their  special  sopg, 
and  then  in  the  middle  of  the  floor  he  stopped.  His  hand  closed  gently 
around  her  wrist  and  lifted  it  up.  {Continued  on  page  90) 


Proposing  is  simple: 
Down  on  one  knee, 
then  pop  the  question. 
Hollywood  men  do  it 
hundreds  of  times  in  the 
movies.  But  for  real — ^with 
the  girl  they  love — anything 
can  happen — and  does. 

BY  KIRTLEY  BASKETTE 


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A  DANCING  MOTHER  IS  TOPS  WITH  HER  SON  and  Terry  couldn't  be  happier  over 
Doris,  marrying  Marty  Melcher;  after  all,  he  arranged  the  match  by  playing  Cupid. 


Gradually  the 

talk  turned  from  movie 

contracts  to  home 

furnishings,  and  Doris  and 

Marty  discovered 

that  love  had 

its  foot  in  the  door 

of  their  hearts. 

BY  JIM  HENAGHAN 


LOVE 


Marty  and  Doris  never  got  engaged;  the  change  in  their  relationship  trom  busi- 
ness manager  and  star  to  a  couple  in  love  was  as  subtle  as  a  song  without  words 


32 


The  zesiL-i  srar  z- 


On  ^looulight  Bay  gives  Beory  and  Smudge  a  tussle.    The  poodies  will  come  along  to  the.  MeiCners    new  nouse. 


■  Once  upon  a  time — oh,  maybe  more  than  a  year  ago — a  boy 
and  girl  were  "Vfindow  shopping  on  an  early  spring  evening. 
The\'  strolled  and  stopped,  and  strolled  and  stopped  and,  ever>- 
once  in  a  while,  they  saw  something  that  was  worthy  of  par- 
ticiolar  attention.  There  was,  for  instance,  a  pickled  pine  early 
American  breakfront  with  many  drawers,  and  shelves  and  in- 
tricately designed  glass  doors.  It  was  a  splendid  antique,  mel- 
low and  rich  looking. 

The  boy  and  girl  stared  at  the  breakfront  for  a  long  time 
in  silence.  And  he  thought:  "It  ought  to  be  between  the  win- 
dows in  the  dining  room,  of  course.  Spode  china  on  the  shelves 
and  four  small  ceramic  ducks.  Mallards,  maybe,  on  the  coun- 
ter. The  right  hand  drawer  would  be  just  right  for  a  few  tools. 
A  man  has  to  have  tools  about  to  fix  things." 


And  the  girl  thought;  "It  would  just  fit  between  the  dining 
room  windows.  Crystal  on  the  shelves  and  a  long,  old  fash- 
ioned lace  runner  on  the  counter.  Maybe  there'd  be  someplace 
in  it  for  some  of  his  tools.  Men  never  use  them,  but  they're 
idiots  for  tools." 

After  a  while  the  boy  and  girl  walked  on.  Window  shopping, 
that's  all,  but  they  were  engaged.  Neither  one  said  anything 
about  love,  or  engagement,  or  marriage.  But  no  boy  and  girl 
were  ever  more  engaged.  Often  it  happens  that  way.  Even  if 
the  girl  is  Doris  Day,  a  movie  star,  and  the  boy  is  Marty 
Melcher,  a  famous  Holl>'Vi'ood  agent.  Together,  they  look  into 
a  store  window  and  begin  furnishing  a  home  in  which  they 
know  they  wiU  Uve  together. 

Just  a  month  or  so  ago,  Marty  (Continued  on  page  73) 


FOR  HER  FIRST  BABY— A  SURPRISE  SHOWER  WITH   JANE'S  WHOLE  GANG  ON  HAND  FOR  THE  FESTIVITIES. 


Ready  to  "ooh"  and  "ahh",  Ann  BIyth  and  Piper  Laurie 
help  Jane  with  the  unwrapping  of  her  shower  presents. 
Betty  Lynn  gave  the  party  which  was  held  at  Thistle  Inn. 


Betty  Lynn  beams  at  Jane  who's  delighted  with  these  baby  booties. 
Jane's  and  Betty's  mothers  are  good  friends;  Geary  likes  to  toke  them 
both  out.  "I  hope  you  marry  someone  like  him,"  Betty's  mother  tells  her. 


■  This  is  the  love  stor>'  of  Jane  Powell 
and  Geary  Steffen  who  never  needed  a  magic 
wand  to  make  their  dreams  come  true. 
They  only  needed  each  other.  Ihey 
were  married  18  months  ago,  but  they've 
already  celebrated  enough  anniversaries 
to  last  them  a  hfetime. 

The  day  they  met. ...  the  day  they 
fell  in  love  ...  the  day  he  bought 
the  ring— these  are  the  times  they  rehve. 
The  day  they  moved  into  their  first 
apartment  .  .  .  the  day  they  got  their  house 
in  Brentwood — all  this  is  part  of  their 
story  which  is  so  unlike  a  Hollywood  tale 
that  all  Hollywood  talks  about  it. 

In  a  town  where  love  comes  up  like 
thunder  and  rides  out  on  the  rainbow, 
where  fame  distorts  values  as 
grotesquely  as  a  carnival  mirror,  these 
two  have  found  real  happiness.  More 
important  than  all  the  goods  in  the 
world  to  Jant  are  her  husband,  their  home  and 
the  baby  they  are  so  breathlessly  awaiting. 

Why  is  it  that  the  future  seems  so  bright 
for  the  Steffens  when  for  others  it  is 
only  a  question  of  time  (Continued  on  page  102) 


Pregnant  during  Royal  IVedding,  Jpne  wouldn't  quit  even  when  ill.  Her 
spunk  won  her  new  friends.  Popular  Jane  had  many  old  pals  at  her 
shower,  including  Polly  Bergen,  Joan  Evans,  Amanda  Blake,  Joan  Leslie. 


Ruth  wed  Morty  Hali  .on  December  17th. 


Brides  get  engaged 
first — but  not  Ruth. 
Newlyweds  honeymoon 
— but  not  the  Halls. 
She's  flying  alone 
to  Honolulu,  but 
they'll  come 


back  together. 


BY  FRANCES  CLARK 


hen  I  told  Ruth  Roman  that  the  editors  of  Modern 
Screen  had"  asked  me  to  get  a  report  on  her  honeymoon,  she 
looked  at  me  and  exclaimed,  "Report  on  a  honeymoon!  Don't 
make  me  laugh.  Morty  and  I  left  straight  for  the  studio  that  Sat- 
urday night  after  I'd  finished  the  day's  work  on  Strangers  On  A 
Train.  We  arrived  in  Las  Vegas  at  four  Sunday  morning,  Decem- 
ber 17th,  and  were  marred  at  five.  We  returned  to  Hollywood  that 
afternoon  to  his  house,  and  I  was  at  work  the  next  morning.  Right 
after  that  picture  finished,  I  went  into  Tomorrow  Is  Another  Day. 
I'm  hoping  to  get  away  to  Honolulu  as  soon  as  this  picture's  over 
for  a  few  weeks  at  least.  Maybe  .Morty  can  fly  over  to  join  me 
for  one  week.  He's  a  busy  man,  you  know.  He's  business  manager 
of  Station  klac.  Maybe  he  can't  join  me  there  at  all.  And  maybe 
I  won't  even  be  able  to  get  there  myself.  What  we're  really 
;ounting  on  as  our  honeymoon  is  a  couple  of  weeks  in  New  York 
this  fall — ^back  where  we  met.  I'll  tell  you  something  about  our 
first  meeting  I  haven't  told  anyone  else.  We  had  an  argument  the 
first  thing.  Morty  is  very  much  like  me.  Very  independent,  quick- 
tempered and  all  that." 

"What  did  you  fight  about  then?"  I  pried.  . 
"Oh,  probably  television  and  motion  pictures.  Something  like 
that,"  her  eyes  twinkled  and  she  dismissed  the  subject  by  saying, 
"I  forget  what  it  was  about." 

"And  did  you  really  invite  him  then  to  be  your  date  to  a  show 
that  evening,  even  providing  the  tickets  yourself?" 

"Sure.  To  Gentlemen  Prefer  Blondes.  Here  I  was,  a  Holly- 
wood movie  star  without  a  date.  So  I  just  asked  him.  It  wasn't 
love  at  first  sight,  but  I  was  certainly  attracted.  I  had  no  idea  of 
marrying  him  when  I  left  New  York  to  return  here.  But  I  was 
regretful  that  I  couldn't  stay  there  longer  to  sec  what  might 
develop.  Then,  of  course,  he  came  out  here  to  take  over  at  klac 
and  things  had  a  chance  to  develop."  {Continued  on  page  86) 


Housemother  Marie  Cote  of  "The  hHouse  of  the 
Seven  Gorbos"  arranged  a  surprise  bridal  shower 
for  Ruth;  a  former  tenant.  Morty  helped  plan  it. 


The  "Garbos"  are  all  young  actresses  working  for 
movie. breaks.  Ruth  moved  to  the  house  when  she 
first  came  to  Hollywood  as  a  $75  a-week  starlet. 


Jean  and  Stewart  Grangers'  new  eight-room  house  sprawls  high  above  Los  Angeles. 


Built  on  the  cliffs,  the  interior  covers  three  levels. 


Jean  was  15  when  Stewart  first  smiled  at  fier  across  a  crowded 
room.  That  was  in  England  seven  years  ago.  Last  December  a 
grown  up  Jean  married  her  handsome  40-yeqr-old  Englishman. 


■  "Darling,"  whispered  the  lean,  handsome,  40-year-old 
bridegroom,  "remind  me  to  spend  all  my  future  honey- 
moons at  home." 

"I'll  remind  you,"  promised  the  sweet,  22-year-old  bride, 
"because  that's  where  I'll  be  spending  mine." 

The  time  was  New  Year'-s  Eve,  1951;  Jean  Simmons  and 
Stewart  Granger  were  sitting  in  front  of  the  fireplace  of 
their  new  home  munching  hot  dogs  and  sipping  cokes. 
Eleven  days  before  they  had  been  married  in  the  First 
Methodist  Church  of  Tucson,  Arizona,  and  now  they  were 
welcoming  in  the  New  Year  and  their  new  love.  After  three 
years  of  courtship  and  separation,  this  was  a  quiet  cUmax 
to  an  international  romance,  a  romance  which  began  in  Eng- 
land seven  years  ago  when  Jean  was  15,  and  Stewart  was 
a  movie  star  who  had  waved  across  a  theater  to  her. 

Their  wedding  ceremony  had  been  quiet,  too.  The  only 
attendant  had  been  Stewart's  close  friend,  Michael  Wilding. 


W rought-iron,  glass-topped  tobies  deck  out  the  many  flagstone  terroces  for 
the  romantic,  informal  dining  Jean  and  Stewart  love.  The  white  stucco  and 
red  tile  house  is  of  Spanish  design,  and  snuggles  into  the  Bel  Air  hillside. 


Mr.  Granger  asked  Mrs. 

Granger,  "Where  to  for  our 
honeymoon?"   She  smiled 

and  said  what  he  wanted 

to  hear,  "Home,  James." 

BY  MARVA  PETERSON 


He  had  given  the  bride  away  and  had  doubled  as  best  man. 
Instead  of  flying  to  Hawaii  or  Niagara  Falls  after  the  brief 
service,  the  radiantly  happy  pair  had  boarded  a  plane  for 
California  and  had  moved  into  their  newly  purchased 
home  ($65,000)  in  the  swanky  Bel  Air  section  of  Los 
Angeles. 

"Our  kind  of  hone>Tnoon  may  not  seem  romantic  to 
others,"  Jean  Simmons  explains,  "but  for  us  it's  perfect. 
Jimmie  and  I  (Granger's  real  name  is  James  Stewart)  have 
a  theory  that  by  beginning  our  marriage  in  the  ordinary, 
everyday  way  it  must  be  lived,  our  honeymoon  will  never 
end.  At  least,  that's  our  theory." 

Practical  or  theoretical,  the  Grangers'  new  home  is  a 
beautiful  setting  in  which  to  start  any  marriage.  The  big, 
sprawling  eight-room  house  is  soUdly  built  of  white  stucco, 
red  tile,  and  has  several  flagstone  terraces.  It  spreads  over 
four  levels  of  a  hillside  lot  and  has  (Continued  on  page  62) 


English  Jean  admits  they're  "simply  dotty  over  having  a  pool  in  our 
backyard."  It's  free  form,  lit  from  inside,  and  can  be  heated.  They 
center  most  of  their  parties  around  it,  and  adore  moonlight  dips. 


Some  furniture,  like  the  tortoise-scale  coffee  table,  came  with  the 
house.     But  Stewart  sent  to  England  for  his  precious  period 
paintings,  and  objets  d'art.  The  dining  room  [hclozv]  is  very 


pieces, 
formal. 


Ann  Blyth  and  Dick 

Contino  agree  on  a  lot 
of  things.    They  agree  most  of 

all  that  love  is  wonderful — and 
not  to  be  trifled  with. 

BY  STEVE  CRONIN 


■  It  was  a  beautiful  sight  no  matter  who  you  were,  and  even 
if  you  didn't  know  who  they  were. 

It  was  at  the  Los  Angeles  International  Airport.  A  number 
of  planes  were  getting  ready  to  take  off,  and  the  station  room 
was  buzzing  with  activity.  Red  Caps  were  bouncing  baggage 
onto  hand  trucks  and  ticket  agents  were  scribbling  away  on 
long  forms  at  the  head  of  long  lines  of  impatient  travelers.  A 
boy  and  a  girl  walked  in.  They  stood  in  the  center  of  the  room 
for  a  moment,  then  walked  through  a  doorway  to  the  wire  fence 
that  separated  them  from  the  airfield. 

They  stood  in  front  of  the  wire  fence  and  looked  at  one 
another.  He  was  tall,  dark,  wavy-haired  and  pretty  young.  She 
was  almost  tiny,  green-eyed,  lovely  and  pretty  young,  too.  The 
wind  whipped  at  them,  and  he  took  the  lapels  of  her  fur  coat 
and  moved  them  the  better  to  cover  her.  Then  his  hand  slipped 
to  hers  and  they  looked  for  all  the  world  like  a  couple  of  people 
shaking  hands. 

But  if  you  got  ver>'  close,  you  could  see  that  they  weren't. 
All  you  had  to  see  was  their  eyes — and  the  way  they  looked  at 
each  other — to  know  they  were  holding  hands.  Not  demonstra- 
tively, but  still  holding  hands,  as  though  they  meant  something 
to  one  another. 

"Ann  Blyth,"  a  voice  on  a  loud  speaker  said.  "Will  Miss 


Ann  lives  with  her  Aunt  Cissie  and  Uncle  Pat.  Her  father  died  when  she 
was  a  child,  her  mother  soon  after  she  came  to  Hollywood.  Ann  feels  that 
a  single  girl  is  happiest  with  the  guidance  and  protection  of  loved  ones. 


Ann  met  handsome,  accordion  player  Dick  Con- 
fine at  a  friend's  house.  However  both  were  shy, 
and  it  was  eight  months  before  they  had  a  date. 


Ann  Blyth  please  report  to  the  TWA  ticket  office  immediately." 

The  girl  looked  unhappy.  Time  was  passing  too  fast. 

The  speaker  clicked  on  again,  and  another  voice  broke  in. 

"Dick  Contino,"  it  said.  "Will  Mr.  Dick  Contino  please  report 
to  American  Airlines  ticket  window." 

The  boy  looked  scared  and  held  on  tighter  to  the  girl's  hand. 
They  stood  that  way  for  a  long  time,  neither  speaking,  both 
taking  a  long,  deep  drink  of  the  other's  face,  so  they  would 
remember  all  of  the  details.  Yes,  it  was  a  gorgeous  sight.  Ann 
Blyth,  truly  Hollywood's  favorite  daughter,  seemed  to  be  in 
love.  It  was  something  Hollywood  had  waited  to  see  a  long, 
long  time. 

There  was  no  kiss.  Dick  dropped  Ann's  hand  and  took  a 
step  back. 

"So  long,"  he  said.  "See  you  when  you  get  back."  Or  some- 
thing like  that. 

And,  although  her  answer  was  drowned  out  by  the  roar  of  a 
huge  motor  right  then,  she  probably  said,  "You  sure  will.  Have 
a  good  trip." 

Then  they  both  turned,  and  walked  away  in  opposite  direc- 
tions. He  climbed  aboard  an  airhner  to  Chicago — and  she  walked 
up  the  gangplank  of  another  that  was  to  eventually  drop  her 
in  London,  England — for  four  long  months. 


Is  Dick  Contino  in  love  with  Ann  Blyth?  Well,  he  doesn't 
run  around  the  streets  yelling  he  is,  but  he  doesn't  deny  it,  and 
any  fool  who  knows  the  anatomy  of  romance  would  bet  a  week's 
pay  check  that  he's  head  over  heels  in  love  with  her.  Is  Ann 
Blyth  in  love  with  Dick  Contino?  Well,  that  is  a  much  more 
difficult  question.  But  the  few  people  who  know  her  really  well 
say  that  if  she  isn't,  she  is  closer  to  being  in  love  with  him  than 
she  ever  has  been  with  anyone  else — and.  they  add,  if  she  isn't, 
she's  balmy. 

There  are  a  lot  of  folks  in  Hollywood,  columnists,  press 
agents,  directors,  fellow  actors  and  studio  workers  who  will  tell 
you  that  Ann  Blyth  is  an  enigma.  They  say  that  she  is  a  misfit, 
doesn't  belong  in  pictures.  Ought  to  be  in  a  nuimery  or  on  a 
farm,  or  wherever  atmosphere  is  celebrated  for  its  wholesome- 
ness.  And  there  is  a  clique  of  observers  who  hold  that  she  is  a 
shrewd,  prudish,  narrow  young  woman  without  a  heart,  and 
entirely  lacking  in  gaiety.  Well,  for  the  record,  all  of  them  are 
wrong. 

Ann  Blyth,  at  22,  is  about  as  normal  a  young  lady  as  you 
will  find  in  America.  She  is  no  more  of  an  enigma  than  the 
mother  you  left  back  on  the  farm.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  she  is  a 
younger  version.  Her  talent,  demonstrated  a  dozen  times  in 
roles  that  go  down  in  the  books  of  (Continued  on  page  64) 


41 


Cornel  Wilde  is  solely  concerned  with  high-flying  In  the  movie  circus.  He       Be^r,  r-.--;-  zire^ez  Zs:^'    e  -z   e*  -e'  c.a/  r-s  T.^cpeze  3 
plays  Sebastian,  in  love  with  Betty  Hutton.  Off  camera  Cornel  is  always      Not  content  to  parade  in  fine  feathers,  she  trained  for  months 
around   the   bareback   riders'   quarters,    practicing    how  to   stunt   ride.      to  learn  her  daring  tricks  from  famed  Antoinette  Concello. 


Charles  Saxon 
Editor 

Modem  Screen 
New  York  City 

Dear  Chuck, 

You're  craz>-  if  you  think  this  is  going 
to  be  the  long,  detailed  report  you 
asked  for.  Too  much  is  going  on 
here  that  I  don't  want  to  miss,  so  I'm  going  to 
let  you  have  it  fast  and  furious.  Hold  on. 

I've  been  coming  down  here  to  the 
Ringling  Brothers  circus  for  eleven 
years  now,  and  I've  developed  corns  on  both 
ears  from  listening  to  superlatives.  But 
this  year  everyone  agrees  that 
nothing  like  this  ever  happened  to  the  circus. 
Reason?  Cecil  B.  DeMille  is  trHrlj 
here  completing  his  two-year  stint  (and  stiont)  ' 
of  producing  a  film  titled,  logically 
enough,  The  Greatest  Show  on  Earth. 

This  morning,  when  I  got  to  the  lot, 
instead  of  finding  the  circus  busily  rehearsing 
its  own  show.  I  found  a' fantastic  set-up  of 
hghts  and  cameras  and  extras  and  technicians — 
and  right  in  the  middle  of  it,  the  great 
DeMille  himself,  surrounded  by  some  of  Holly- 
wood's brightest  (Continued  on  page  44) 


Sarasota,  Florida: 
Pre-e-e-senting  the  Gorgeous, 
GKttering,  Gargantuan 
Gran'daddy  of  Show 
Business,  Hollywood's  own 
Technicolor  circus. 

BY  IKE  VERN 


continued  from  preceding  page 


DeMiile  explains  a  particular  bit  of  villainy  to  Lyie  Bet+ger,  a 
jealous  elephant  trainer  in  the  film.  (Below)  Dottie  Lamour, 
a  great  tease,  gave  the  boys  in  Clown  Alley  real  competition. 


BETTY  HUTTON-S  INCREDIBLE  NERVE  AND  SKILL  THRILLED  EVEN  THE 


The  Greatest  Show  on  Earth :  Hollywood 
stars  literally  risk  their  lives  to  film  this 
great  circus  movie.  These  pages  tell  only 
part  of  the  story  of  the  courage  and  real- 
ism behind  every  breath-taking  scene. 


stars.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  just  as  I  walked  in,  Betty  Hutton 
was  finishing  her  "Free-hand  Balance"  trick — an  innocuous 
description  for  swinging  on  a  trapeze  bar,  SO  feet  up,  and 
just  standing  there,  without  holding  on  to  anything!  There 
must've  been  hundreds  of  people  breaking  into  spon- 
taneous applause  when  Betty  came  down.  DeMiile  walked 
over  to  her,  kissed  her,  and  gave  her  a  silver  coin  (more 
about  that  later).  Then  he  turned  around,  signalled  to  an 
assistant  director,  and  the  cameras  started  rolling  into 
position  for  the  next  shots. 

I  took  a  quick  look  around.  Off  to  one  side,  Cornel  Wilde 
was  in  earnest  conversation  with  Captain  Hyer,  the  famous 
circus  horseman.  Cornel  plays  the  part  of  an  aerialist  in 
the  picture,  but  I  hear  he's  been  taking  plenty  of  instruction 
in  trick  riding,  all  on  his  own,  and  generally  puts  in  an  hour 
at  it  before  breakfast.  I  mention  this  because  it's  one 
indication  of  what  has  been  happening  here  since  the  Cali- 
fomians  invaded  Florida — the  steadily  growing  friendship 
and  respect  between  the  film  people  and  the  circus  per- 
formers. There's  more  talent  and  guts  on  exhibition  here 
every  day  than  on  any  10  lots  on  earth,  and  everyone  here 
is  well  aware  of  it. 

Take  Dottie  Lamour,  hanging  from  a  rope  by  her  teeth, 
doing  a  fast  spin  35  feet  above  the  circus  sawdust  ...  or 
Gloria  Grahame,  winding  up  an  intricate  routine  with  ele- 
phants by  doing  the  "Foot-and-Face"  trick,  just  to  men- 
tion two.  All  Dottie  had  to  do  was  have  a  special  bit 
designed  for  her  teeth,  then  spend  six  or  seven  weeks 
strengthening  her  neck  muscles.  (Continued  on  page  89) 


PROFESSIONAL  RINGLING  TRAPEZE  ARTISTS  AS  THEY  WATCHED  HER  DO  AIR  LEAPS  AND  TURNS  FROM  FLYING  SWINGS  HIGH  IN  THE  BIG  TOP. 


Dorothy  Lomour,  the  "Iron  Jaw"  girl,  hangs  by 
her  teeth,  spins  in  the  air  35  feet  up.  She  prac- 
ticed   weeks    strenqthenina    her   neck  muscles. 


The  sound  boom  sv/'mgs  out,  the  cameras  turn,  and  the  big  Elephant  Scene  is  underway.  Epic- 
maker  DeMille  has  conquered  overwhelming  technical  difficulties  in  problems  of  lighting  and 
production.    Circus-owner  North  appears  in  the  picture,  as  do  hundreds  of  Big  Top  regulars. 


To  moke  this  on  authentic  record  of  circus  life, 
technicians  made  shots  and  recorded  grand- 
stand  crowds  attending   actual  performances. 


45 


Irene  was  only  19  when  she  married  Ausr 
tralian  playboy,  Freddie  McEvoy,  in   1943.  Irene's  father 

threatened  to  disown  her. 


\ 


For  over  a  year  Kirk 
Douglas  and  Irene  Wrightsman 
have  been  almost  inseparable 
.  .  .  will  marriage  finally 
unravel  the  tangled  threads 
of  thdjr  past  lives? 

BY  CONSUELO  ANDERSON 


Backgrounlfor  Marriage 


Prince  Igor  Troubetzkoy  was  intro- 
duced to  Woolworth  heiress,  Barbara  Hutton,  by  Irene's 
ex — Freddie.  Now  Babs  wants  to  shed  Igor. 


■  On  January  sixth  of  this  year  Kirk  Doug- 
las obtained  his  final  divorce  decree  from  Diana  Dill. 

In  the  weeks  that  followed  all  Hollywood 
expected  Kirk  to  marry  lovely,  baby-faced  Irene 
Wrightsman,  daughter  of  the  twenty- 
fourth  richest  man  in  the  United  States. 

As  of  this  writing,  Hollywood  is  still  waiting 
for  a  wedding  announcement. 

The  possibility  exists,  of  course,  that  Kiric  and 
Irene  may  dash  across  the  border  into  Mexico 
at  any  moment.  In  fact,  they  may  do  so  even 
before  this  article  is  printed,  but  the  probability 
isn't  very  great.  It  now  seems  that  there  is 
some  doubt  as  to  the  eventual  success  of  their 
e^iected  marriage. 

In  all  the  months  that  Kiiic  has  gone  with 
Irene — 10  to  be  exact — he  has  never 
once  said,  "I  plan  to  marry  Irene  Wrightsman 
just  as  soon  as  my  divorce  becomes  final." 

A  reporter  who  ran  into  Kirk  and  Irene 
sunning  together  at  Palm  Springs,  asked  Kirk  if  they 
were  planning  to  be  married.  "If  you  don't 
mind,"  Kirk  said  politely,  "I'd  rather  not  discuss 
that." 

^parently.  Kirk  hasn't  made  up  his  mind.  But 
£tollywood  wonders,  "What's  sfniying  him?" 
Has  the  love  affair  between  Kirk  Douglas  and  Irene 
Wrightsman  resolved  itself  into  a  friendship? 
Or  has  it  grown  into  an  intense  passion 
that  will  lead  to  marriage?  {Continued,  on  page  99) 


EllZABETH  TAYLOR  brushes  her  thick  hair      LANA    TURNER    changes    her    hair    style    often.  She 

vigorously   to   enhance    its    natural    curl.      won't  set  it  herself,  but  likes  to  do  the  combing-out. 


ANN  BLYTH'S  curl  and  color  is  natural.  She 
brushes  her  hair'  100  strokes  before  bedtime. 


MAUREEN  O'HARA  takes  weekly  oil  treat- 
ments to  combat  the  harsh  rays  of  the  sun. 


JANE  WYMAN  is  one  of  the  few  women  who  looks  com- 
pletely feminine  and  lovely  in  o  short,  short  hair  cut. 


BETTE  DAVIS'  perfectly  shaped  head  and  man 
ogeable  hair  lends  itself  to  many  varied  styles 


THE  MOST  BEAUTIFUL 


Nine  outstanding  hair 
stylists  form  Modern  Screen's 
board  of  experts  in  choosing 
the  crowning  glories 
in  Hollywood —  beauty 
capital  of  the  world. 


■  Nine  top  Hollywood  hair  stylists  were  in- 
vited by  Modern  Screen  to  select  those 
stars  who  have  the  most  beautiful  hair  in 
the  world.  The  experts  had  a  hard  time  de- 
ciding. Beautiful  hair  is  common  in  Holly- 
wood— ^it's  almost  a  necessity.  However,  19 
finalists  were  chosen  and  the  winners  were 
picked  from  among  them.  The  winners  are 
June  Allyson,  Ann  Blyth,  Bette  Davis, 
Rhonda  Fleming,  Ava  Gardner,  Deborah 
Kerr,  Virginia  Mayo,  Maureen  O'Hara, 
Ginger  Rogers,  Ruth  Roman,  EUzabeth 
Taylor,  Lana  Turner  and  Jane  Wyman. 


The  editors  of  Modern  Screen  decided 
to  investigate  the  subject  of  beautiful  hair 
because  they  felt  that  too  much  emphasis 
has  been  given  to  surveys  of  legs,  figures 
and  possible  candidates  for  romantic  desert 
islands.  Men  notice  different  things  about 
women  at  first  meeting:  voice,  eyes,  walk, 
posture.  But  sooner  or  later,  and  usually 
sooner,  men  notice  the  hair.  They  can't 
ignore  it,  for  hair  is,  literally,  a  woman's 
crowning  glory.  Certainly  the  stars  spend 
more  time  caring  for  it  than  for  any  of 
their  other  enviable  possessions.  They  are 


AVA  GARDNER  rarely  sets  her  curly  hair  after      RUTH  ROMAN  thinks  that  a  new  hairdo  gives  her  a  new      RHONDA  FLEMING  says  cc  -.  e;  a  e-- 

washing;  she  simply  brushes  It  until  it's  dry.      personality.  Off-screen  she  wears  it  soft  and  natural.      phasize  the  foce  and  act  as  c  frcnne. 


IN  THE  WORLD 


HAIR 


Constantly  experimenting  vdth  color,  cut 
j  and  comb.  They  keep  their  heads  out  of 
the  sun  and  in  the  rain.  They  don't  rest 
until  they  find  the  perfect  coiffure  and  then 
they  cling  to  it  as  if  it  were  in  danger  of 
disappearing.  Many  beauty  experts  make 
the  flat  statement  that,  "Hair  is  the  key  to 
an  attractive  woman."  If  the  hair  is  beauti- 
ful, and  more  important — beautifully 
groomed,  the  woman  beneath  it  seems 
oeautiful,  too. 

It  is  not  mere  coincidence  that  Holly- 
A'ood  is  the  beauty  capital  of  the  world. 


Eventually,  the  most  beautiful  women 
everywhere  find  their  way  to  Holl\n\'ood 
where  beauty  pays  off  in  gold  as  well  as  in 
admiration.  Screen  actresses  represent  all 
that  is  glamorous  and  desirable.  They 
realize  that  it  is  their  obligation  to  remain 
outstanding  beauty  leaders. 

Movie  producers  and  technicians  are 
even  more  aware  of  the  necessity  for  per- 
fection under  the  relentless  glare  of  flood- 
lights and  close-up  cameras.  Every  trick, 
every  treatment,  every  style  is  tested  and 
often  originated  in  the  workshops  of  the 


world-renowned  hair-stylists  whose  head- 
quarters are  in  HoUywood.  The  actresses 
are  their  models.  In  a  way,  the  actresses 
are  their  works  of  art. 

These  are  the  judges  who  chose  the 
top  12  pictured  above:  Nellie  Manley  of 
Paramount,  Sidney  Guileroff  of  MGM, 
Jean  Burt  of  Warners,  Larr>-  Germain  of 
RKO,  Joan  St.  Oegger  of  Universal-Inter- 
national, Irene  Brooks  of  20th  Century- 
Fox,  Helen  Hunt  of  Columbia,  Perc 
Westmore,  Independent  and  Helen  Young, 
Independent. 


He  was  the 

perfect  gentleman,  half 
of  the  perfect  mar- 
riage, the  man 
who  had  everything. 
Now  Bob  Taylor  is  turning 
his  back  on  his  reputation. 

BY  LESLIE  SNYDER 


■  Robert  Taylor  is  a  changed  man.  The  change  was  sudden  and 
startUng.  It  happened  when  he  went  to  Europe  to  make  Quo  Vadis. 
Sometime  during  that  period  of  hard  work  and  lonehness,  Taylor 
asked  himself  the  question,  "Where  am  /  going?"  and  he  didn't  like 
the  answer. 

On  the  surface  he  had  everything — money,  fame,  a  beautiful  wife. 
He  was  moving  along  in  a  pattern  that  anyone  would  envy;  for  the 
past  12  years  he"d  been  movong  impeccably  along  as  the  perfect 
husband,  the  perfect  gentleman,  the  man  without  a  scandal,  and 
perhaps  he  should  have  been  satisfied.  But  he  wasn't. 

He  couldn't  have  been,  because  at  night  when  he'd  return  to  his 
hotel  suite  he  was  unhappy.  WTien  he  started  to  figure  out  why.  his 
whole  past  must  have  come  back  to  him  in  a  flood  of  remembrance. 
And  searching  through  his  actions  and  thoughts  of  those  years,  he 
must  have  made  this  one  penetrating  and  troubhng  conclusion:  he 
had  never  been  himself.  He  had  behaved  the  way  people  had  ex- 
pected him  to;  he  was  always  in  the  right  place  at  the  right  time 
in  the  right  tie  and  tails.  He  was  a  gentleman,  a  model  of  propriety. 

Apparently,  this  was  not  a  true  expression  of  himself.  For  today, 
Robert  Taylor  has  turned  his  back  on  the  past  and  on  the  man  he 
was  in  it.  Today  you  find  him  in  the  gossip  columns,  in  jive  hangouts, 
in  hamburger  joints  with  cute  blonde  dates  or  languid  dark  dates. 
Today  he's  catching  up  on  all  the  things  men  usually  leave  behind 
when  they  reach  the  age  of  reason. 

His  first  step  was  to  ask  Barbara  Stanwyck  for  a  divorce,  a  step 
which  amazed  the  world,  and  Barbara,  too. 

"I  was  shocked  and  grieved  when  Mr.  Taylor  asked  for  a  divorce." 
she  said  when  questioned  by  reporters.  This  was  after  Judge  Clark 
of  Los  Angeles  had  granted  her  her  freedom.  ''In  fact,"  Barbara 
added,  "I  still  can't  beheve  it." 

However,  Miss  Stanwyck  could  not  express  disbelief  about  the 
rumored  romance  between  Taylor  and  Lia  di  Leo,  an  Itahan  actress. 
Her  attorney  even  remarked,  "Whoever  {Continued  on  page  84) 


■  A  few  weeks  ago,  George  Sanders  threw  a  party 
for  British  producer  Gabriel  Pascal.  Jane  Wyman 
was  there  with  Greg  Bautzer.  To  the  curious  present, 
it  seemed  as  if  they  were  dazzling  each  other. 

"Isn't  it  a  shame  about  Jane  and  Greg?"  said 
one  sweet  guest  to  another. 

•'What  about  Jane  and  Greg?" 

The  first  woman  shook  her  head.  "Look  at  them," 
she  said.  "They're  obviously  in  love.  What  a  pity  he 
won't  marry  her!" 

"How  do  you  know  they  won't  get  married?"  asked 
her  friend. 

"Come  now!"  exclaimed  the  first  woman.  "You've 
been  around.  Does  Greg  Bautzer  marry  any  of  them? 
Did  he  marry  Dorothy  Lamour?  Did  he  marry  Lana 
Turner?  Did  he  marr>'  Joan  Crawford  or  Ginger 
Rogers?  I  admit  he's  been  married  twice  before,  but 
that  was  when  he  was  young." 

"Maybe  it's  Jane  who  doesn't  want  to  get  married," 
said  her  friend.  "After  all  these  years,  I've  come  to 
the  conclusion  that  with  Jane,  a  career  comes  first." 

The  latter  remark  probably  expresses  the  tenor  of 
Hollywood  thinking  about  Jane  Wyman.  The  myster>- 
of  her  dual  personality  is  no  longer  a  myster>',  for 
now  it  is  generally  believed  that  she  is  a  career-driven 
woman  to  whom  success  as  a  gifted  actress  is  the  most 
vital  thing  in  life. 

How  accurate  this  belief  is,  no  one  knows — per- 
haps not  even  Jane  herself.  She  is  one  of  the  most 
psychologically  complex  actresses  Hollywood  has  ever 
watched  in  action. 

When  she  first  hit  Hollywood  IS  j'ears  ago,  Jane 
Wyman  was  considered  a  torchy  rah-rah  babe  who 
sparkled  with  wit,  sex,  and  vivacity.  She  worked  in 
chorus  lines,  converted  her  top  from  brown  hair  to  red 
hair  to  black  hair,  wore  dresses  which  left  ver\'  little  to 
the  imagination. 

People  were  convinced  that  Jane  Wyman  was 
identical  with  the  characters  she  played  on-screen. 

Actually,  all  this  glitter  was  supposedly  compensa- 
tion for  a  sad  and  lonely  childhood  spent  in  St.  Jo, 
Missouri.  Friends  who  had  gone  to  school  with  Jane — 
she  was  then  Sarah  Jane  Fulks — insisted  that  she  was 
sensitive  as  a  little  girl;  that  she  had  little  in  common 
with. her  strict  parents  w^ho  (Continued  on  page  87) 


Km-. 


j.-irst  husband:  Myron  Futterman. 


Eight  years  Mrs.  Ronald  Reagan. 


Lew  Ayres  is  o  staunch  friend. 


Manny  Sachs  an  occasional  dote. 


Present  companion:  Greg  Bautzer. 


Many  men  have  sought  a  lasting  place 
in  Jane  Wyman's  life,  but  none  have  meant  as  much  to  her 
as  Johnny  Belinda.  If  she  must  choose 

once  more,  will  she  trade  love  for  more 
success  without  hesitation? 


This  is  the  inspiring 
story  of  a  man 
who  was  not  afraid 
to  face  himself  or 
the  world:  it  is  the 
story  of  Dan  Dailey's 
victorious  fight 
against  a  crack-up. 

BY  IMOGENE  COLLINS 


The  Menninger  Clinic  in  Topeka  has  none  of  the  forbid- 
ding appearance  one  would  expect  of  a  mental  hospital 
Once  a   large  form,  the  offices  are  franne  buildings 


Dan  married  Liz  -Hofert,  Los  Angeles  society  girl,  while  he  was  In 
the  Army.  Difference  of  interest  and  background  separated  them. 
Many  feel  this  break-up  had  a  disastrous  effect  on  Dan's  health. 


Betty  Groble  was  greotly  responsible  for  Dan's  career, 
hie  first  starred  with  her  in  Mother  Wore  Tights.  Gos- 
sips tried  to  turn  their  musical  teamwork  Into  a  love  match. 


■  WTien  a  Hollywood  star  cracks  up  mentallj-,  the  usual 
procedure  is  to  send  him  to  a  private  sanitarium  for  treat- 
ment. His  studio  then  announces  that  he  is  traveling  abroad 
or  sunning  himself  on  the  beaches  of  Honolulu. 

Behind  this  deception  lies  the  fear  that  the  American 
public  regards  mental  illness  of  any  sort  as  a  disgrace. 

One  actor  who  refused  to  traffic  with  such  old-fashioned 
nonsense,  who  refused  to  underestimate  the  intelUgence  of  , 
his  fans,  is  Dan  Dailey. 

Six  months  ago,  after  he"d  finished  /  Can  Get  It  For 
You  Wholesale,  Dan  Dailey  began  to  get  depressed.  People 
came  up  with  plenty  of  explanations :  he  had  made  a  failure 
of  his  marriage,  he  had  no  home  to  go  to,  he  was  over- 
worked, he  was  secretly  in  love  with  Betty  Grable,  he  was 
tired  of  starring  in  musicals,  he  felt  unrequited  and  un- 
fulfilled, he  had  no  close  friends,  he  was  unwanted,  he  was 
drinking  too  much,  he  was  ver\'  ashamed  of  being  a  Holly- 
wood actor. 

Everyone  had  something  to  say  except  Dan  Dailey  him- 
self. He  said  nothing. 

He  knew  there  was  something  wrong  with  him,  because 
he  was  unhappy.  He  was  doing  things  his  judgment  told 


him  not  to  do.  Basically  intelligent,  he  realized  that  he 
didn't  understand  himself,  or  why  he  was  behaving  as  he  was. 

There  is  nothing  extraordinary  in  this  realization.  Most 
people  have  periods  when  they  don't  understand  them- 
selves. Most  people  have  "off  days,"  when  they  feel  low 
and  mad  at  the  world;  when  they  meet  others  and  dislike 
them  at  once  without  knowing  why;  when  they  do  things 
they  shouldn't ;  when  they  keep  on  repeating  the  same  error 
again  and  again.  But  such  days  are  infrequent. 

In  Dailey 's  case  they  were  becoming  more  and  more  the 
order  of  things.  He  found  going  to  the  studio  a  big  prob- 
lem, working  an  even  bigger  one,  tr\'ing  to  reconcile  with 
his  wife  hopeless.  The  whole  process  of  human  behavior 
suddenly  became  so  tremendously  complicated  to  him  that 
he  was  staggered. 

'T  knew  I  was  heading  for  trouble,"  he  declared,  "so 
in  order  to  avoid  it,  I  decided  to  go  to  Menninger's." 

The  Menninger  CUnic  in  Topeka,  Kansas,  is  a  healing 
community  for  the  mentally  sick.  When  Robert  Walker 
cracked  up  two  years  ago,  Dore  Schary  got  him  admitted 
to  Menninger's.  It  was  here  that  Bob  conquered  his  al- 
coholism and  his  neurotic  beha\aor  {Continued  on  page  96) 


55 


Chorines  were  her 
baby  sitters;  she  fell  asleep 
to  the  Lullaby  of  Broad- 
way. How  could  Debra  miss 
having  her  name  in  lights? 

BY  KOLMA  FLAKE 


Debra's  family  is  a  closely-knit  group.  Here  Teala,  Meg,  Frank  Jr., 
Debra,  and  Lezli  get  the  benefit  of  Mama's  advice  on  a  script. 

Sisters  Teala  and  Lezli  and  Mama  josh  brother  Frank  and  Debra  as 

they  practice  serious  emoting.    Frank  is  hoping  for  a  movie  career. 


■  Debra  Paget  looks  gorgeous  in  South 
Sea  Island  trappings,  but  it's  only  for  the  movies. 
Balmy  breezes  and  moonlit  romance  may  call 
other  less  beautiful  maidens,  but  Debra's 
strictly  a  home  girl. 

Anybody  would  like  to  have  her  around  the 
house,  of  course — but  Debra  means  her  home. 
And  home  to  her  includes  the  whole  family : 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Griffin  (Debra's  real  name),  sisters 
Teala,  Lezli  and  baby  Meg,  and  brother  Frank. 
Miss  Paget  is  a  girl  who  believes  that  blood 
is  thicker  than  anything,  and  proves  it 
every  day. 

Getting  a  story  about  her  is  more  like  getting  a 
panel  discussion  than  a  personal  interview. 
The  whole  family  chimes  in  with  facts. 
And  when  Debra  herself  gives  with  a  few  items, 
they're  generally  about  the  rest  of  the  family. 
Everybody  gets  into  the  act. 

The  fellows  who  call  Debra  for  dates 
find  that  out.  They  may  have  an  intimate 
evening  for  two  in  mind.  But  before  they  know  it, 
they're  smack  in  the  middle  of  One  Girl's  Fam- 
ily, and  having  the  time  of  theii  lives. 

Mr.  Griffin,  as  slimly  proportioned  as  his 
wife  is  amply  built,  comes  home  from  his  work  as 
a  pamter — "and  not  a  painter  of  murals,  either," 
they  say — at  Santa  Fe  Hospital  about  four- 
thirty  in  the  afternoon.  If  the  girls  are  all  home, 
dinner  gets  under  way  immediately. 

"Five  women  in  the   kitchen!"  Debra 
chuckles.  "It's  nothing  to  get  hit  in  the  head  by 
a  pot  or  a  pan.  But  we  like  to  do  things  to- 
gether. Mother's  the  General,  and  she  cooks  the 
meat,  too.  Teala  usually  makes  the  salad, 
Lezli  fixes  the  potatoes,  and  I  make  up  five  gallons  of 
some  cold  drink.  Meg  is  not  quite  three  yet,  but 
she's  there  too.  Usually  she  just  sticks 
something  into  the  {Continued  on  page  77) 


storm  clouds  for  jeff 

(Continued  from  page  14)  desperation,  he 
took  a  job  as  a  counterman  behind  a  ham- 
burger stand.  Before  he  could  report  with 
his  white  apron,  however,  he  was  called 
to  do  a  radio  show.  He  still  plays  Mr. 
Boynton  on  radio's  "Our  Miss  Brooks" 
program. 

'T'hat  was  his  position  in  life  when  Mar- 

jorie  Hoshelle  married  him.  One  or  two 
of  her  friends  suggested  that  she  was  mak- 
ing a  big  mistake.  Just  as  the  wise-guys 
once  predicted  to  Dixie  Lee  Crosby,  "If 
you  marry  Bing,  you'll  have  to  support 
him  for  the  rest  of  your  life," — so  they 
spoke  about  Chandler.  But  Marjorie  had 
faith  in  her  choice,  and  the  faith  paid  off — 
at  least  where  his  professional  career  was 
concerned. 

In  five  years,  Jeff  rose  from  obscurity  to 
stardom  in  Sword  in  the  Desert,  Broken 
Arrow,  Two  Flags  West,  Bird  of  Paradise. 
He  signed  contracts  with  Universal  and 
20th  Century-Fox,  and  was  demanded  for 
loanouts  by  every  studio  in  town.  He  re- 
ceived fan  mail  in  droves,  as  well  as  mash 
notes,  proposals  and  innumerable  requests 
for  interviews.  The  whole  incredible  para- 
phernalia of  fame  was  his. 

What  happened  to  his  marriage  while  he 
was  making  a  success  of  his  career? 

To  tmderstand  that,  you  have  to  go  back 
to  the  time  Jeff  first  met  Marjorie  Hoshelle. 
This  is  a  portion  of  his  life,  incidentally, 
which  never  before  has  been  told  in  any 
magazine  story. 

"When  I  met  Jeff,"  Mrs.  Chandler  re- 
calls, "he  was  going  with  my  best  friend, 
a  girl  named  Jean  Sincere.  They  were 
both  in  the  same  summer  stock  company  in 
Marengo,  Illinois.  That  was  10  years  ago. 


"Naturally,  I  was  curious  to  see  what 
he  looked  like,  since  Jean  had  spoken  about 
him.  At  that  time,  I  was  an  actress  with 
the  Lake  Zurich  Stock  Company.  One  night 
I  went  over  to  visit  Jean  and  she  intro- 
duced me  to  Jeff.  I  didn't  see  him  again 
for  five  or  six  years. 

"He  joined  the  Army,  and  I  went  to 
Hollywood  where  I  worked  in  pictures 
for  Warners.  A  few  years  later,  I  was  in 
New  York  on  vacation,  visiting  Jean  Sin- 
cere, when  Jefi  called  up.  He  said  he'd 
just  come  back  from  the  Aleutians  and 
that  he  was  on  furlough.  Jean  told  him 
that  I  was  in  town,  too,  and  he  sug- 
gested that  we  all  get  together  and  do  the 
town. 

"Well,  we  did.  He  took  me  to  see  Anna 
Lucasta,  and  the  three  of  us  went  to  a 
lot  of  parties  together  before  his  furlough 
was  up.  He  went  back  to  Georgia  or  Texas 
or  wherever  he  was  stationed,  and  I  re- 
turned to  Hollywood.  He  wrote  letters 
occasionally,  because  he  was  lonely.  Even- 
tually, he  was  transferred  to  Ft.  Ord,  Cali- 
fornia. It  turned  out  that  I  was  the  only 
person  he  knew  in  the  whole  state  of 
California. 

"Weekends,  he  would  bum  down  to 
Hollywood,  and  I  would  see  him.  On  one 
such  trip,  he  was  in  a  nasty  auto  accident 
between  Ventura  and  Santa  Barbara.  Hs 
cut  his  scalp  open,  and  was  lucky  he  wasn't 
killed. 

"Jeff  got  out  of  the  Army  in  February, 
and  we  were  married  in  October." 

JEFF  didn't  have  much  money,  but  he  was 
working  in  radio.  One  night,  friends  told 
him  that  Ira  Grossel  was  a  terrible  name 
for  an  actor.  Jeff  agreed  with  them.  When 
he  saw  Van  Johnson  play  the  role  of  Bill 
Chandler  in  Easy  to  Wed,  he  took  the  name 
Chandler.  Out  of  thin  air,  he  added  Jeff  to 


it — but  that's  how  most  Hollywood  stars 
get  their  names. 

When  the  Chandlers'  first  little  girl, 
Jamie,  was  born  four  years  ago,  Jeff  still 
couldn't  get  a  break  in  pictures.  Dick 
Powell  got  him  a  bit  in  Johnny  O'Clock, 
and  Universal  used  him  occasionally,  but 
it  wasn't  until  Sword  in  the  'Desert  that 
the  fans  began  to  notice  him. 

After  that,  he  was  on  easy  street. 
29th  Century  borrowed  him  for  Broken 
Arrow,  and  when  Darryl  Zanuck  saw  the 
rushes,  he  quickly  signed  Jeff  for  one  pic- 
ture a  year  for  seven  years.  Twentieth  has 
already  completed  four  pictures  starring 
Chandler. 

While  Jeff's  acting  career  was  ascending, 
his  wife's  seemed  to  be  stationary.  She 
played  a  few  bit  roles  but  her  two  preg- 
nancies (their  youngest  daughter  Dana  is 
going  on  two)  kept  her  away  from  the 
cameras. 

There  are  those  who  claim  that  in  many 
marriages  the  wife  unconsciously  resents 
her  husband's  success,  especially  if  she 
was  originally  far  more  successful  than 
he. 

This  is  a  definite  possibility,  since  Holly- 
wood fame  always  breeds  outside  adora- 
tion. Single  actresses  see  a  new  stsir  on 
the  screen,  and  in  many  instances,  they 
set  their  caps  for  him.  They  invite  him  to 
cocktail  parties,  send  him  scripts,  request 
producers  to  get  him  for  their  next  pic- 
ture. A  wife  who  knew  her  husband  when 
he  was  of  little  or  no  prominence  might 
resent  such  action.  Some  wives  accept  the 
new  state  of  affairs  in  a  worldly  manner. 
They  let  their  husbands  sow  a  few  wild 
oats,  and  let  him  revel  in  his  new-found 
importance.  Confident  in  the  maturity  of 
his  emotions,  they  feel  that  eventually  he 
will  return  to  normal. 

In  many  cases  an  actor  doesn't  return. 
Success  changes  him.  He  takes  on  a  new 
set  of  values,  a  new  outlook,  a  new  en- 
vironment and  consequently  a  new  char- 
acter. 

HOWEVER,  this  doesn't  seem  to  be  true  of 
Chandler.  Basically,  he's  the  same 
rough-hewn  guy  that  bummed  down  from 
Ft.  Ord  in  1946.  Modest,  plain-spoken,  he 
puts  on  no  airs,  stays  out  of  chi-chi  restau- 
rants, lives  simply  and  in  quiet  dignity.  One 
of  his  first  radio  jobs  in  Hollywood  was  on 
the  Lux  Radio  Theater,  and  whenever 
that  program  wants  him,  he'll  drop  every- 
thing and  come  running. 

When  you  ask  him  about  his  impend- 
ing divorce,  he  says,  "I'm  willing  to  do 
anything  to  make  Marge  happy.  If  she  in- 
sists on  a  divorce,  okay.  I  guess  there's  no 
sense  in  quarreling  all  the  time.  Some- 
times, people  just  get  on  one  another's 
nerves.  There's  nothing  anyone  can  do 
about  it.  She's  a  very  fine  person  and  a 
very  .fine  actress,  and  I'm  sorry  it  had  to 
end  this  way." 

Since  Jeff  has  stopped  living  at  home, 
and  the  divorce  announcement  has  been 
made,  he's  been  seen  on  sind  off  with  Ann 
Sheridan.  Both  he  and  Sheridan  insist  that 
there's  "nothing  serious  between  us." 
Chandler's  name  will  probably  be  coupled 
with  many  other  women  by  the  time  this 
article  is  published. 

In  all  marital  breakups,  the  possibility 
of  a  reconciliation  should  never  be  ruled 
out.  There-  is  always  a  chance,  no  matter 
how  small,  that  Jeff  and  Marge  will  sit 
down  some  evening  and  find  a  solution 
better  than  divorce.  It's  entirely  pos- 
sible that  the  common  bond  of  their  past 
wiU  make  a  future  together  seem  more 
promising  and  even  capable  of  happy  ful- 
fillment. 

There  is  no  reason  why  success  in  Jeff 
Chandler's  career  should  breed  failure  in 
Jeff  Chandler's  marriage.  Especially  when 
success  hasn't  gone  to  his  head. 

The  End 


play 

CHARADES 

with 

maggi  mcnellis 

Do  you  like  to  play  charades?  Then 
Maggi  M.cNellis,  -femcee  of  NBC- 
TV's  celebrity  charade  session,  "Say 
It  With  Acting,"  wants  to  know  if 
you  can  guess  the  movie  title  she  is 
acting  out  in  these  pictures,  it  is  a 
film  about  the  U.  S.  Cavalry  with  a 
three-word  title: 

I  Maggi  says,  "This  one's  easy!" 

2 Be  careful,  and  be  sure  to  make  this 
word  plural. 

S Maggi  holds  her  ear  to  indicate  that 
the  action  she  is  showing  rhymes  with 
the  actual  word. 

Answer  on  page  101. 


no  guy  like  gable 

(Continued  from  page  29)  explained,  "I 
actually  didn't  fall  more  than  a  couple 
of  feet.  They  dropped  me  out  of  a  harness 
and  I  simply  fell  into  a  bunch  of  pads  right 
on  the  stage.  Isn't  it  wonderful  the  way 
they  make  movies?" 

That's  how  new  he  was  to  the  business, 
and  that's  how  marvelous  it  all  seemed  to 
this  unaffected  guy  from  Cadiz,  Ohio. 

Clark  Gable  has  never  lost  that  early 
enthusiasm. 

Barbara  Stanwyck  said  it:  "They'll  never 
come  any  greater  than  Clark,  because  he 
has  the  same  joy  of  living,  and  the  ability 
to  bring  joy  to  others  today  that  he  had 
when  he  arrived  here.  No  matter  what 
his  age,  he'll  never  be  old." 

It  was  with  Barbara  that  Clark  made  his 
first  hit,  in  Night  Nurse.  His  name  wasn't 
billed  very  high  when  they  were  making 
the  picture.  But  within  30  days  of  its  re- 
lease. Gable's  name  topped  all  the  others 
in  the  cast.  Theater  managers  simply  found 
it  good  business  to  put  it  there. 

Gable  slapped  Barbara  in  that  picture — a 
slap,  as  it  turned  out,  that  was  heard 
around  the  world. 

He  slapped  her  again,  some  20  years 
later,  in  To  Please  a  Lady. 

"He  hasn't  lost  any  of  that  old  punch," 
Barbara  says  of  him.  "Nor,"  she  adds, 
"any  of  that  old  charm." 

""The  tough  thing  about  describing  Clark 
Gable,"  says  Mervyn  LeRoy,  the  director, 
"is  that  there's  nothing  bad  to  say." 

Even  Hollywood's  most  careless  gossip 
writers  have  let  him  alone.  "He  isn't  a  guy 
we  like  to  monkey  with,"  one  of  them  said 
recently.  There's  something  in  Gable's  eyes 
that  discourages  Hollywood's  average 
character  assassins. 

A  MONO  his  many  friends  are  grips,  elec- 
tricians,  mechanics,  and  janitors. 

King  (that's  his  nickname)  grins,  waves 
a  hand  as  he  walks  down  a  studio  street, 
says.  "Hi'ya,  Bernie"  (or  Ed,  or  Joe,  or 
Bill).  For  each  he  has  a  personal  quip. 
"Still  foolin'  'em,  huh?"  he'll  ask  a  pro- 
ducer. Or,  to  a  cameraman,  "Get  that 
brownie  in  focus.  You're  going  to  shoot 
my  unholy  map  this  afternoon." 

But  when  it's  a  girl  he  meets,  there  are 
no  smart  cracks.  Call  him  old-fashioned, 
if  you  will,  but  Clark  is  loaded  with  the 
brand  of  chivalry  you  don't  find  these  days. 
He  ignores  the  passes  girls  make  at  him, 
and  makes  none  himself. 

He  hates  a  smutty  story.  And  if  conver- 
sation turns  to  gossip,  he  simply  walks 
away.  I've  never  heard  him  say  an.  unkind 
thing  about  anyone.  And  I've  seen  a  couple 
of  guys  intent  on  destroying  a  girl's  repu- 
tation suddenly  freeze  up  when  they  get  a 
look  at  his  eyes. 

You  leave  the  street  and  swing  onto  a 
stage  with  the  six-foot-two,  200-pound 
package  called  Gable.  He  walks  straight 
and  he  walks  quickly,  leaning  forward 
slightly,  the  way  a  good  fighter  will  do 
in  the  ring. 

Inside  his  dressing  room  he  relaxes. 
There's  a  phone  there  and  he  grabs  it  to 
make  a  call. 

"How  are  things  at  home,  mama?'"  he 
asks.  "Mama"  is  Mrs.  Gable,  or  "Mrs.  G.," 
his  other  name  for  her.  "Anything  I  should 
bring  home?" 

They  liked  to  say  that  Clark  Gable 
wouldn't  be  able  to  take  the  kind  of  life 
his  wife  enjoyed.  They  said  he  was  a 
somber  man,  even  a  sour-puss,  a  victim 
of  deep  purple  moods.  They  said  that  par- 
ties and  other  activities  which  amused 
Sylvia  would  leave  him  cold,  even  morose. 
They  were  wrong. 

Not  only  has  he  approved  of  the  way 
she's  decorated  his  San  Fernando  Valley 


ranch,  he  even  pitched  in  and  helped.  (He 
says  that's  the  only  way  he  could  be  sure 
ol'  at  least  a  little  masculinity  in  the  over- 
all decor.) 

And  if  he  hasn't  actually  lov/ed  the  bril- 
liant dinner  parties  Sylvia's  given  there', 
at  least  he's  survived  them  in  handsome 
style. 

Few  men  have  ever  filled  out  a  dinner 
jacket  the  way  Clark  does.  Once,  when 
he  was  vacationing  in  San  Francisco,  a 
group  of  sweet,  elderly  ladies  were  en- 
tranced by  the  figure  he  cut. 

It  was  Clark's  habit,  during  that  trip,  to 
come  into  the  hotel  wearing  slacks  and  a 
jacket  after  a  day's  sightseeing,  then  to 
change  to  dinner  clothes  each  night  for  a 
series  of  civic  social  affairs. 

Every  night  the  ladies,  dressed  in  their 
finest,  drew  up  their  chairs  in  a  sort  of 
semi- circle  to  watch  him  cross  the  lobby. 

This  went  on  for  a  few  nights  until 
Clark,  aware  of  his  timid,  quiet  and  ador- 
ing audience,  did  a  typically  Gable  trick. 

As  he  passed  the  chair  of  the  eldest  lady, 
he  stopped,  handed  her  a  rose^  and  kissed 
her  lightly  on  the  cheek. 

The  effect  in  that  lobby  was  approx- 
imately what  it  would  have  been  if '  the 
Golden  Gats  bridge  had  suddenly  toppled 
into  the  bay  and  sunk  quietly  out  of  sight. 


UNITED 

CEREBRAL 
PALSY 


Vou're  riding  down  Culver  City's  Wash- 
ington  Boulevard  with  him  in  that 
Jaguar  he  loves  so  much,  when  you  come 
to  a  traffic  light.  A  cop  heaves  up  along- 
side to  wait  for  the  green. 

"Hi'ya,  Clark,"  he  says. 

"Hello  hot-shot,"  Gable  grins.  "Wanta 
race?" 

So  they  make  a  date  for  the  following 
Sunday  morning  for  a  closed-course  run, 
just  for  the  fun  of  it. 

(Clark  left  him  so  far  behind  that  the 
cop  asked  for  a  try  at  the  wheel.  He  got  the 
Jag  past  120,  which  is  faster  than  Clark, 
has  revved  it.) 

"The  ground  comes  at  you  awful  fast 
when  you  pass  100,"  Clark  says. 

"Anyhow,"  he  adds,  "I  didn't  get  the  Jag 
for  speed.  I  just  love  to  look  at  the  thing. 
Real  purty,  that  car." 

Once  in  a  while,  though,  he  takes  it  out 
on  the  Culver  City  track  for  a  quick  work- 
out. Track  officials  and  race  drivers  line 
up  to  watch  him,  because  they  like  the  way 
he  handles  a  car.  If  you  were  ever  with 
him  on  such  a  run,  you'd  be  wise  to  skip 
breakfast.  But  glancing  at  him  out  of  the 
corner  of  a  cautious  eye,  you'd  know  at 
once  that  he  was  in  complete  charge  of  the 
buggy.  The  guy  can  drive. 

Sit  in  Clark's  dressing  room,  and  what 
does  he  talk  about?  Well,  a  grip  pushes 
his  head  in. 

"They're  biting  up  in  Oregon,  King." 


"Yeah,  they're  biting  for  you,"  Clark 
answers.  "But  will  they  bite  for  me?  You 
got  magic,  Eddie.  I  haven't." 

An  extra  peers  in.  "Hey,  King,"  he  says. 
"Thanks  for  that  tip  about  Warners'.  I 
got  seven  days'  work.  I  even  got  a  couple 
of  lines.  Thanks  to  you,  King." 

"Get  any  laughs?"  counters  Clark.  He 
hates  to  be  thanked. 

A  publicity  man  for  whom  he  got  a  job 
tries  to  thank  him. 

"Will  you  stop  it?"  Clark  answers.  "We 
need  good  men  here.  The  company  got  a 
break,  not  you." 

Sit  in  his  dressing  room  while  he  starts 
changing  for  the  next  scene.  His  actions  are 
quick,  efficient.  Off  comes  the  shirt,  reveal- 
ing a  well-knit  set  of  shoulders  and  a  chest 
that  is  massive  and  solid.  His  thighs  and 
legs  are  still  thos;e  of  the  vigorous,  outdoor 
worker. 

"Go  out  and  kill  the  people,"  Brownie, 
his  personal  wardrobe  man  and  pal  says  as 
Clark  heads  for  the  cameras. 

"I'll  murder  'em,"  Clark  smiles. 

On  location  a  fresh  guy,  wanting  to  get 
fresher,  offers:  "Pretty  soft  bein'  a  movie 
actor,  huh?" 

Clark  smiles.  "You  work  steady  and  the 
hours  are  good.  Where  could  a  guy  like  me 
make  a  softer  touch?"  The  fresh  guy 
doesn't  get  fresher. 

XTe  has  a  modesty  and  respect  for  others' 
feelings  that  is  fantastic. 

Once  a  Gable-struck  girl  left  her  escort 
at  a  Sunset  Strip  spot  to  gush  over  Clark. 
He  felt  sorry  for  the  girl  but  he  felt  a  lot 
sorrier  for  her  date.  Passing  her,  he  made 
his  way  to  the  embarrassed  guy's  table. 
The  girl  followed. 

"Tell  me  about  yourself,"  he  asked  the 
man.  "What's  your  name?  You  remind  me 
of  a  friend  I  had  back  in  the  oil  fields." 

He  ignored  the  girl  completely.  " 

It  was  his  way  of  showing  her  some 
simple  manners. 

Actions  through  the  years  often  mellow 
a  man,  but  Clark  seems  to  have  been 
mellow  from  the  beginning. 

Few  fathers  and  sons  had  the  wonder- 
ful camaraderie  shared  by  Clark  and  his 
dad,  the  late  BOl  Gable.  Bill  passed  away 
nearly  three  years  ago,  and  it's  Clark's 
greatest  regret  that  he  wasn't  able  to  say  a 
few  last  words  to  him. 

At  the  time,  Clark  was  taking  his  first 
and  only  pleasure  trip  to  Europe.  He  was 
touring  the  Continent  by  car  when  he  got 
word  of  his  father's  death. 

Completely  shattered,  he  left  the  car  in 
the  little  French  town  where  he  got  the 
cablegram,  rushed  to  Cherbourg  and  vain- 
ly sought  passage  on  a  boat.  (He  hasn't 
flown  commercial  lines  since  Carole  Lom- 
bard's tragic  death.) 

All  space  was  taken,  so  Speneer  Tr^cy 
(who  named  him  "King")  asked  Clark 
to  share  his  stateroom  for  the  sad  trip 
home. 

Bill  didn't  live  with  Clark,  but  occupied 
a  neat  small  home  in  Encino,  a  scant  mile 
from  his  boy.  However,  he  did  move  into 
Clark's  place  when  his  son  went  off  on 
trips,  in  order  to  keep  a  watchful  eye  on 
the  ranch. 

"My  dad,"  Clark  remembers;  "once  said 
something  to  me  I've  never  forgotten. 
'Son,'  he  said,  'I'm  too  old  for  the  girls.  I'll 
leave  them  to  you.  But  remember  one 
thing.  You  can't  tell  a  package  by  it's 
wrapper.  The  truly  attractive  girl  is  the 
one  whose  good  looks  start  here' "  (and 
Clark  indicated  his  heart) . 

/^LARK  and  Sylvia  had  what  amounted 
^  to  a  third  honeymoon  during  his  long 
location  at  Durango,  Colorado,  for  Across 
"  the  Wide  Missouri.  He  had  his  Ford  up 
there,  and  his  driving  proved  a  little  too 


fast  for  Lady  Ashley,  who  used  studio  cars. 
Apart  from  their  transportation,  they  were 
inseparable. 

And  that  Ford  turned  out  just  great 
for  Mrs.  G.  when  she  had  errands  for 
Clark.  Driving  like  mad  along  the  deserted 
country  roads,  Clark  whisked  into  town, 
some  30  miles  distant,  time  after  time 
to  pick  up  curtain  material,  fancy  work 
(she's  always  sewing),  and  hotdogs  for 
their  midnight  snacks. 

"What  the  heck,"  he'd  grin.  "What's  a 
few  errands  for  the  lady  you  love?" 

He  found  her  a  hot  plate,  a  tiny  ice-box 
and  some  of  the  best  dime  store  riapkins 
on  the  market  for  those  midnight  feasts. 
And  after  they  were  through,  Clark 
donned  an  apron  and  ht  into  those  dishes. 

"Show  me,"  he  says,  "a  couple  who  do 
the  dishes  together,  and  I'll  show  you  a 
happy  couple." 

Durango  is  eleven  thousand  feet  in  the 
clouds.  It's  cold  up  there  and  the  air  is 
thin,  and  Clark's  day  on  Across  the  Wide 
Missouri  was  from  five-thirty  in  the  morn- 
ing until  dark.  His  work  was  hard  and 
exacting,  leaving  him  fairly  exhausted  each 
evening. 

Yet,  on  his  first  day  free  from  cameras, 
he  went  into  town  to  lead  a  parade  for  a 
show  that  would  benefit  poor  kids.  And 
he  spent  whatever  other  free  time  he  had 
mingling  with  the  townspeople,  handing 
out  autographs  and  being  altogether 
charming  to  a  star-starved  populace. 

One  day  he  came  out  of  a  dime  store 
loaded  with  knick-knacks  Sylvia  had 
asked  him  to  get  for  the  house.  His  arms 
were  filled  with  the  gadgets,  but  just  out- 
side the  store  a  bunch  of  people  had 
gathered,  eager  for  his  autograph.  Very 
carefuUy  he  put  everything  dovm  on  the 
sidewalk,  signed  approximately  a  hundred 
books,  gathered  up  his  parcels  and  went  on 
his  way. 

Nothing?  That's  right.  It  was  nothing, 
perhaps,  but  I  can  name  you  a  hundred 
stars  today  who  wouldn't  have  allowed 
themselves  to  be  bothered. 

Tt  was  my  great  good  fortune  to  be  his 
guest  at  last  year.'s  Indianapolis  Motor 
Speedway  where,  with  Barbara  Stanwyck, 
he  was  making  MGM's  To  Please  a  Lady. 

The  crowds  were  unbelievable.  The  fans 
who  stormed  Clark  were  not  only  insistent 
but  panicky.  Indianapolis,  where  it  can 
really  get  hot,  was  having  its  hottest  simi- 
mer  in  years. 

Bareheaded,  always  smiling,  Clark  stood 
for  hours  autographing  hats,  gloves,  scraps 
of  paper,  souvenir  programs,  any  and 
everything  that  was  shoved  his  way. 

Finally,  a  Speedway  guard  decided  that 
Clark  had  done  enough.  He  and  a  couple 
of  burly  fellow- officers  started  shoving 
them  back,  muttering  something  about 
why  didn't  the  bums  leave  Clark  alone. 

Clark  heard  him,  stopped  him,  and  pull- 
ing him  aside,  told  him  quietly:  "First  of 
all,  these  people  aren't  bums.  They're  my 
friends.  If  I'm  anywhere  at  all,  it's  they 
who  are  responsible.  And  as  for  leaving  me 
alone,  my  worries  will  start  when  they 
decide  to  do  just  that." 

Clark  Gable  has  true  humility.  I^  a 
way  he's  still  the  farmboy  who  learned 
long  ago  that  it's  the  man  or  woman,  not 
their  clothes  or  social  standing,  that  counts. 
Clark  abhors  sham. 

I  remember  years  ago  when  one  of  the 
industry's  greatest  directors  and  also  one 
of  it's  greatest  bullies,  got  the  complete 
Gable  treatment. 

This  director  (and  you'd  know  him  in  a 
flash)  was  the  type  who  was  careful  to 
never  bawl  out  a  star  of  Clark's  calibre. 
He  saved  his ,  sarcasm  and  temper  for  the 
bit  players  and  extras  who  couldn't  strike 
back.  Every  working  man  and  woman  in 


the  business  loathed  him.  His  only  saving 
grace  was  that  he  did  make  good  movies. 

On  that  particular  day  Clark  wasn't  in 
the  scene,  but  sat  on  the  sidelines  studying 
his  script.  A  very  talented  and  highly 
nervous  girl  was  before  the  cameras.  With 
absolutely  no  guidance  from  the  director, 
she  went  through  her  scene  from  start  to 
finish.  After  each  take,  the  director  would 
simply  say,  "Do  it  again." 

After  the  tenth  or  twelfth  take,  with  the 
director  ordering  another,  the  girl  finally 
broke  down.  Between  sobs  she  asked: 
"What  am  I  doing  wrong?  What  is  it  that 
you  want?" 

"What  I  want,"  sneered  the  great  man, 


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"is  an  actress.  Who  ever  said  you  could 
act?"  And  with  that  he  stalked  off  the 
set,  leaving  a-  bewildered,  frightened,  and 
completely  shattered  girl  to  face  a  crew  of 
30  men. 

Now  there  wasn't  a  man  in  that  crew 
who  wasn't  on  the  girl's  side.  They  knew 
she  was  not  only  an  actress,  but  a  good 
one.  Yet  no  one  was  in  a  position  to  tell 
off  the  egomaniac  who  had  caused  her 
tears — no  one,  that  is,  except  Clark.  And 
he  would  have  done  it,  I'm  sure,  even  if 
he'd  been  an  extra. 

Following  the  raging  director,  he 
grabbed  him  by  the  shoulder,  wheeled  him 
about,  and  in  very  Gable-esque  language 
(and  brother,  he  knows  a  few  words!)  he 


let  him  have  it  right  between  the  eyes.  He 
wasn't  being  the  big  man.  He  was  just  be- 
ing human. 

CLARK  has  been  a  staY  for  18  of  his  20 
years  in  Hollywood.  He  has  earned  his 
bosses  in  excess  of  $240,000,000.  He's  seen 
literally  hundreds  of  men  and  women  sky- 
rocket to  stardom,  sputter  and  fizzle  out. 
Through  it  all,  he  has  remained  simple, 
honest,  and  straight-shooting. 

It's  no  trick  for  a  newcomer  in  fUms  to 
be  humble  and  thankful  when  the  man 
with  the  money  hands  him  that  first  con- 
tract. They're  all  hiunble  then.  But,  with 
that  second  and  third  option  renewal, 
something  happens,  not  to  all,  but  to  too 
many  of  them.  Their  scripts,  they  say,  don't 
do  them  justice.  Their  directors,  they 
swear,  are  oafs.  Their  leading  ladies,  they 
insist,  not  only  can't  act,  but  should  be 
hustled  back  to  Bent  Pin,  Arkansas. 

To  intimates  Gable  is  apt  to  say,  "I 
don't  get  it.  These  jokers  come  to  town 
with  one  pair  of  pants  and  a  paper  suit- 
case, and  in  nothing  flat  they're  telling  the 
studios  how  to  run  their  business." 

Clark  Gable  has  the  un-HoUywood 
theory  that  his  bosses  know  their  business. 
He  knows  mistakes  have  been  made  along 
the  line,  but  he  also  knows  that  to  err  is 
hvunan  and  that  there  isn't  a  big  business 
in  the  world  with  a  perfect  record. 

"One  time,"  he's  fond  of  telling,  "one 
of  Henry  Kaiser's  heutenants,  a  new  man, 
lost  a  million  dollars  for  the  company  on 
his  first  deal.  Did  Kaiser  fire  him?  Not 
exactly.  Going  to  the  frightened  executive 
he  grasped  his  hand.  'If  I'd  done  it,'  he 
said,  'I'd  have  lost  at  least  two  million. 
Now  let's  all  get  back  to  work.' " 

T  SAY  Gable  is  greater  than  ever  because 
he  has  today  the  same  humility  he  had 
in  his  no-cash-to-carry  days.  He'U  even 
tell  you  he  doesn't  know  anything  about 
his  number  one  hobby — ^fast  cars.  Yet  I've 
seen  grimy  and  sleep-starved  grease-mon- 
keys, who  were  trying  to  coax  enough 
speed  out  of  their  racing  cars  to  qualify 
at  Indianapolis,  turn  to  him  for  driving  ad- 
vice. 

He  could  have  hob-nobbed  with  the 
great  racing  figures  at  Indianapolis:  the 
Johnny  Parsons,  Mauri  Roses,  Bill  Hol- 
lands, Joie  Chitwoods  and  the  others.  In- 
stead, I  remember  him  in  the  highly 
restricted  garage  area  giving  a  word  of 
advice  here,  some  badly  needed  encourage- 
ment there,  to  the  boys  who  had  come 
thousands  of  miles  with  their  home-made, 
beat-up  boilers  called  racing  cars,  with 
the  fond  hope  of  making  a  buck.  These 
were  the  guys  he  knew.  These  were  the 
ones  who  spoke  his  language. 

He  knew  their  cars  wouldn't  even  quali- 
fy in  that  world's  fastest  company.  But  not 
by  the  flick  of  an  eyelash  did  he  reveal  it.. 

One  day  he  foimd  a  few  young .  hope- 
fuls who  had  brought  their  hopped-up 
jalopies  clear  from  California  to  meet  the 
big  test.  And  as  he  got  to  know  them  he 
found  they  weren't  eating,  unless  you  can 
call  mush  three  times  a  day,  eating. 

"What's  the  matter  with  you  guys?  Put 
it  all  on  the  car?"  Clark  asked. 

Sheepishly,  they  said  they  simply 
weren't  himgry.  Gable  let  it  go  at  that. 
But  just  somehow  that  crew  of  forlorn 
Californians  had  paid-up  meal  tickets  at 
the  track  restaurant  for  the  three  weeks 
preceding  the  race.  Gable  swears  he 
doesn't  know  how  it  happened,  just  as  he 
swears  he  doesn't  know  how  suddenly 
they  found  enough  money  in  their  garage 
to  get  home  on,  and  then  some. 

Greatness  is  a  word  that  can  be  defined 
a  hundred  different  ways  by  a  himdred 
different  people.  Maybe  you  wouldn't  call 
Gable  great.  I  would.  I  know  there's  not 
another  guy  in  the  world  quite  like  him. 
The  End 


"This  heaufy  care  makesmy  skm  so/fer,  smoofherf 


A  TIP  FROM  A  WORLD- 
FAMOUS  KEAUTT!  "Lux 

Soap  facials  are  mar- 
velous," says  Elizabeth 
Taylor.  "Here's  my 
daily  complexion  care: 
I  cream  Lux  Soap's  rich 
lather  well  in  .  .  . 


"AFTER  THE  CREAMY  LATHER 

has  done  its  work,  I  rinse 
thoroughly — with  warm 
water  and  then  with 
stimulating  cold.  Skin 
feels  satin-smooth  al- 
ready." Active  lather 
gives  quick  new  beauty! 


"NEXT  I  DRY  MY  FACE  with 

a  soft  towel.  I  wouldn't 
be  without  this  gentle 
care  a  single  day!"  Try 
these  active-lather  facials. 
See  how  much  lovelier 
Lux  Toilet  Soap  care  will 
make  your  skin! 


honeymoon  house 


62 


(Continued  from  page  39)  a  view  of  Los 
Angeles  that's  second  only  to  the  view 
of  New  York  from  the  top  of  the  Empire 
State  Building.  At  the  bottom  of  the  ter- 
raced hillside  looms  a  large,  irregularly- 
shaped  pool,  the  kind  of  pool  the  Grangers 
never  saw  in  their  own  country. 

"Coming  from  England  where  pools  are 
virtually  imheard  of,"  Jean  says,  "Jimmie 
and  I  are  simply  dotty  over  the  idea  of 
having  one  in  our  own  backyard.  And  to 
make  it  just  too  wonderful  for  words,  our 
water  can  be  heated." 

JEAN  and  Jirmnie  have  lived  in  their 
home  only  a  little  over  two  months, 
but  already  the  Granger  Sxinday  Open 
House  has  become  a  social  fixture  among 
their  friends.  Deborah  Kerr  and  Tony 
Bartley,  Sharman  Douglas,  Michael  Wild- 
ing, producer  Sam  Zimbalist  and  several 
others  are  consistent  guests.  They  drop 
by  for  a  swim  and  a  game  of  badminton, 
and  then  they  stay  for  one  of  Stewart's 
famous  man-made  meals. 

Stewart  Granger  collects  recipes  with 
the  same  zeal  he  exhibits  for  good  paint- 
ings and  classical  music.  A  frustrated 
chef,  he  loves  to  try  out  new  dishes.  His 
Sunday  specials  are  roast  beef,  baked  po- 
tatoes with  chives,  his  own  mixed  green 
salad  and  a  chocolate  mousse. 

"Our  Sundays,"  he  says,  "are  wonderful 
informal  days.  We  let  Carl  and  his  wife 
take  the  day  off.  Then  I  go  berserk  in  the 
kitchen.  We  eat  when  we  please,  and 
everyone  patters  around  the  house  in 
bathing  suits  and  bare  feet.  We're  a 
swimming  crowd  all  right. 

"The  time  I  enjoy  the  pool  most  is  at 
night.  Lots  of  times  when  Jean  and  I  are 
alone,  we  look  up  simultaneously  from  the 
scripts  we're  studying,  and  one  of  us  says, 
'Let's  go  swimming,  darling.'  Down  goes 
my  script,  Jean  tosses  hers  aside.  I  flip 
the  switch  that  floods  our  hillside  with 
light,  and  together  we  race  down  the  four 
flights  of  steps  and  dive  in.  Swimming 
under  the  stars  and  looking  at  our  house 
from  the  pool — well,  that's  when  we  know 
we've  got  a  really  wonderful  honeymoon 
house." 

Inside  this  honeymoon  house  most  of 
the  rooms  are  on  different  levels.  It  has 
the  curious  effect  of  being  a  large  home 
vifith  no  stairs.  There  are  four  bedrooms, 
but  each  has  complete  privacy.  There's  one 
dining  room,  but  several  extra  balconies 
and  dining  terraces.  From  the  Bel  Air 
road,  this  Spanish-type  house  is  rather 
unimpressive,  but  indoors  it's  as  exciting 
and  impredictable  as  a  new  love. 

The  high  ceilinged  foyer,  the  living 
room,  and  dining  room  are  all  on  the  same 
level,  and  they  constitute  the  main  part 
of  the  house.  When  the  newlyweds  first 
moved  in,  these  three  rooms  were  painted 
a  depressing  green  and  were  only  partly 
furnished.  Stewart  Granger  loved  his 
new  home,  but  he  couldn't  tolerate  some 
of  the  color  choices  of  the  former  owners, 
so  he  set  about  making  immediate  and 
superficial  changes. 

One  of  his  long-standing  hobbies  has 
been  to  collect  paintings  and  period  fur- 
niture. He  knew  what  he  wanted  done 
to  the  house.  He  had  the  walls  in  the 
living  room  and  hall  painted  a  warm 
grey,  because  there  was  enough  bright 
color  in  the  flowered  chintz  draperies  and 
crimson  sectional  couch.  Then  he  sent  to 
England  for  his  books,  his  paintings,  and 
his  prized  pieces  of  period  furniture. 

TTngland's  two  most  famous  contempo- 
rary  painters  are  Matthew  Smith  and 
Augustus  Johns.    Granger  owns  oils  by 
both  of  them.    They  hang  over  the  fire- 


place and  along  one  wall.  Other  evidences 
of  his  wide  cultural  interests  are  about  the 
room.  There's  a  child's  head  by  Epstein, 
a  copy  of  Rodin's  "The  Thinker,"  and  a 
fairly  large  collection  of  good  books.  A 
built-in  radio  and  record  player  is  being 
installed  in  one  section  of  the  book 
shelves.  In  order  to  hide  the  mechanics 
of  the  radio-phonograph,  a  fake  front  is 
being  painted  over  it  to  resemble  books. 

"Before  I  met  Jimmie,"  admits  Jean,  "I 
didn't  know  a  Queen  Anne  commode  from 
a  Duncan  Phyfe  console.  Now,  I  not  only 
define  periods  in  furniture,  but  I  have  a 
fair  understanding  of  art  and  music.  All 
of  which  is  another  way  of  saying  love  is 
a  wonderful  experience!" 

Two  master  bedrooms  of  the  Granger 
house  are  further  examples  of  Jean's  and 
Jimmie's  good  taste.  Jean's  room  is  fur- 
nished in  ivory-colored  regency  furniture. 
The  walls  of  the  room  are  a  soft  powder 
blue  and  the  draperies,  slipper  chair,  and 
dressing  table  are  done  in  a  simple  fresh- 
looking  chintz  with  a  white  background. 
Beside  the  bed  Jean  keeps  one  unfeminine 
feature — her  dog's  bed. 

The  pet  is  a  miniature  French  poodle 
her  husband  gave  her  for  Christmas.  Jean 
loves  Bess  dearly,  but  the  dog  causes  more 
excitement  than  a  child.  She  chews  razor 
blades,  eats  pills,  and  hides  shoes  as  though 
they  were  bones.  "She  has  me  weak  with 
fright  half  the  time,"  says  Jean,  "but  she's 
so  sweet  I  can't  discipline  her." 

Stewart  Granger's  large  room  is  a  few 
steps  above  the  level  of  the  living  room. 
A  small  balcony  and  stairs  join  the  two 
rooms.  His  private  quarters  are  domi- 
nated by  two  lifesize  portraits  of  his  wife. 
Oddly  enough  they  are  both  by  the  same 
portrait  artist  and  both  very  good.  "Jim- 
mie got  the  color  for  his  wall  paint  from 
the  shoulders  in  one  of  the  portraits,"  re- 
veals Jean,  "and  darkened  it  somewhat. 
It  turned  out  to  be  a  very  masculine  color 
tone." 

The  rest  of  the  room  is  filled  with  an 
overscale  bed,  pictures  of  Granger's  two 
children  by  his  first  wife,  a  desk  and  sev- 
eral comfortable  reading  chairs,  so  that 
the  master  may  work  in  his  room  when 
his  secretary,  Valerie  Douglas,  is  using 
the  living  room  desk. 

A  great  deal  of  the  furniture  was  bought 
with  the  house.    Usually,  in  such  package 


louella  parsons 

tells  all  about 
shelley  and 
farley  in  the 
july  issue  of 
modern  screen 
on  sale 
june  8  with 
irresistible 
june  allyson 
on  the  cover 


deals  the  buyers  get  stung.  The  Grangers, 
however,  were  more  than  lucky.  Many 
of  the  pieces  they  purchased  from  the 
former  owners — ^the  coffee  table,  covered 
with  a  finish  of  terrapin  scales,  is  a  good 
example — are  rare  furniture  items.  And 
the  two  guest  rooms  in  the  house  are  so 
attractive  that  Jean  and  Stewart  thought 
twice  before  deciding  which  would  be  their 
suite  and  which  would  go  to  the  guests. 

Both  of  these  rooms  have  twin  beds  and 
dressers  of  early  American  maple.  To 
distinguish  one  from  the  other,  the  front 
bedroom  is  outfitted  in  red  glazed  chintz 
and  the  back  room  in  dark  green.  The 
guest  portion  of  the  house  is  on  a  level 
with  the  main  terrace,  and  it  offers  a  sepa- 
rate entrance  so  that  visitors  can  come 
and  go  independently  of  their  host  and 
hostess.  It's  a  very  thoughtful  arrange- 
ment, as  Glynis  Johns,  their  recent  house 
guest  from  England,  wiU  quickly  testify. 

Like  all  new  home-owners  who  buy  a 
house  that's  been  lived  in  before,  Jean  and 
Jimmie  were  anxious  to  make  a  few 
changes — to  put  their  own  stamp  of  indi- 
viduality on  the  place.  They're  doing  this 
by  remodeling  a  playroom  near  the  swim- 
ming pool.  They're  making  it  into  a  com- 
bination bar,  television,  projection,  and 
trophy  room.  The  project  is  within  a 
month  of  completion,  but  it's  apparent 
right  now  that  it  will  be  imique. 

The  playroom  has  a  pitched  ceiling  made 
of  wonderful  old  beams.  The  rest  of  the 
room  is  being  panelled  in  pine  and  then 
*  rubbed  with  white  lead  to  match  the 
weathered  grey  look  of  the  ceiling  beams. 
Stewart  had  a  large  fireplace  of  used 
bricks  built  into  one  corner  of  the  room, 
and  an  overscale  day  bed  placed  in  the 
other.  The  wall  overlooking  the  pool  is 
almost  solid  glass.  Opposite  there's  an 
R.  C.  A.  television  console,  a  gun  case,  and 
a  bar  that  doubles  as  a  soda  fountain. 
Tbe  latter  is  a  special  concession  to  Jean, 
who  has  a  fondness  for  ice  cream  in  ginger 
beer  and  other  gooey  concoctions. 

Tn  one  part  of  the  panelling  Granger 
had  an  opening  cut  so  that  a  permanent 
movie  projector  can  be  set  up  and  ready 
to  go.  The  screen  will  be  rolled  up  and 
concealed  behind  one  of  the  ceiling  beams. 
He  also  designed  a  huge  coffee  table  that's 
a  masterpiece  of  ingenuity.  The  thick 
table  has  a  built-in  record  player  recessed 
into  one  end,  and  contains  all  the  controls 
for  the  radio  and  television  sets.  In  its 
imfinished  state  of  loose  wires  and  assorted 
jacks,  it  looks  like  a  Rube  Goldberg  con- 
traption, but  Stewart  insists  he'll  be  able 
to  control  all  the  entertainment  features 
of  the  playroom  from  a  sitting  position  in 
front  of  the  coffee  table. 

The  final  touch  to  the  playroom  and  the 
house  will  be  the  assembling  and  hanging 
of  the  trophies  Stewart  collected  in  Africa 
during  the  making  of  King  Solomon's 
Mines. 

"I'm  thinking  of  hanging  my  first  choco- 
late mousse  as  a  kind  of  trophy,  too,"  Jean 
jokes  good-naturedly.  "I  knew  nothing 
about  cooking  or  running  a  house  when 
Jimmie  married  me.  He  promised  to  su- 
pervise all  the  housekeeping  details  for 
the  first  six  months  while  I  picked  up  a 
few  domestic  hints.  I  think  he  expects 
me  to  be  utterly  hopeless  but  he's  in  for 
a  big  surprise.  I've  been  practicing  while 
he's  on  location  at  Sim  Valley.  When  he 
finds  out  that  I  can  actually  cook  a  meal, 
he'll  probably  withdraw  his  promise.  Any- 
way, whether  I  do  the  cooking  or  Jimmie 
remains  supreme  in  the  kitchen  doesn't 
matter.  This  place  will  always  be  our 
honeymoon  house."  The  End 

(Stewart  Granger  can  be  seen  in  Soldiers 
Three;  Jean  Simmons  will  soon  he  seen  in 
Androcles  And  The  Lion.) 


Copyright  1951.  The  International 


S:\-ceT  Co..  Mer'ie-..  C'  -r. 


"It  all  began  ivith  S3.00!" 

£i<en  a  career  girl  can  own  solid  silver. 
Someday  Helen  hoped  she  could  say. 
"\es,  this  is  ray  International  pattern ! " 

But  the  someday  is  jutz/'.' Because  she 
found  she  could  start  with  a  single 
teaspoon  for  as  litde  as  $3,001 

Ever)'  payday  her  set  grows.  Alread\- 
she  has  enough  for  entertaining  .  .  . 
and  her  beaux  love  it.  How  luxurious 
to  own  beautiful  Litemational  solid 
silver  with  beaut)-  that  lives  forever! 

AM  prices  include  Fed.  Tax. 


"A  wonderful  start . . . 
for  only  $27.50.'" 


When  Jim  aiid  Louise  got  engaged  they 
agreed  they  wanted  the  very  finest  life- 
time silver  . . .  even  if  the)-  started  with 
just  a  little. 

So  they  took  their  first  wedding 
check... went  to  their  silverware  deal- 
er's . .  .  lingered  over  the  15  exquisite 
International  patterns  . . .  chose  theirs. 

And  went  home  with  a  beautiful 
6-piece  place  setting  for  only  $27.50. 


"A  lifetime  of  pHde . . . 
for  $232.00!" 

A  brtde  may  ivell  ask :  "Why  begin 
witli  something  that  you'll  outgrow?" 

None  of  that  for  Hal  and  Janet!  They 
entertain  a  lot. .  .Uke  nice  things  them- 
selves . . .  wanted  their  whole  set  of  love- 
ly International  Sterling  at  once! 

Their  service  for  eight,  with  chest, 
costs  only  $232.00  —  and  there's  an 
easy -payment  plan.  Such  a  proud 
feeling  to  own  International  Sterling! 


LIPSTICK 

in  new  lip-width 
"shorty"  case 


OPEN 

it's  a  full 
size  lipsHck 


PLACE  THE  CAP 

on  the  base 
and  presto,  lt"s 
the  long 
length  size 


Go  ahead  and  try  it . . .  just  for 
the  beauty  of  it. . .  just  for 
softer,  tmoother,  more  excit- 
ing tips.  WHIP-TEXT  to  stay  on 
longer... and  perfumed  with 
Irresistible  fragrance. 
All  the  advantages  of  a  pencil 
plus  extra  strength  M  the  lip- 
width  "shorty.' 


the  old-fashioned  way 


(Continued  from  page  41)  Hollywood  ex- 
perts as  classics,  testifies  to  the  fact  that 
she  not  only  is  not  a  misfit,  but  is  a  supreme 
artist  who  belongs  in  no  other  line  of  work 
but  pictures.  As  for  a  convent,  there  is  no 
more  devout  woman  laboring  in  a  cloister 
for  her  faith  than  Ann  Blyth.  And  whole- 
someness  is  what  she  creates  wherever 
she  goes. 

The  trouble  with  Hollywood  is  that  Ann 
Blyth  is  hard  to  know — and  there  doesn't 
seem  to  be  enough  understanding  in  most 
fiollywoodites  to  ever  get  to  know  her. 
But  she  can  be  explained  very  simply. 
Ann  Blyth  is  just  an  old-fashioned  girl. 

Take  for  instance,  the  way  Ann  met  Dick 
Contino.  For  the  benefit  of  the  unfortunate 
few  who  don't  know  who  Dick  Contino  is, 
he  plays  the  accordion.  He  played  it  public- 
ly for  the  first  time  five  years  ago,  shortly 
thereafter  he  was  picked  up  by  band- 
leader Horace  Heidt  as  a  permanent  mem- 
ber of  his  traveling  radio  show  troupe. 
And,  while  he  has  never  appeared  in  a 
movie,  there  are  500  Dick  Contino  fan 
clubs  throughout  the  country,  the  mem- 
bers of  which  to  date  have  written  him 
a  milhon  letters.  He's  as  handsome  as 
any  chap  who  ever  tUted  his  chin  for  a 
collar  ad. 

\  YEAR  or  so,  ago,  Dick  attended  a  party 
-'^  in  Hollywood  to  which  Ann  was  in- 
vited. He  was  21  years  old  just  recently, 
so  you  know  he  was  the  youngest  present. 
But  that  didn't  make  much  difference  to 
the  girls.  They  tagged  after  him  every  time 
he  moved.  Ann  was,  as  \isual,  in  a  tight 
little  group  of  friends,  and  didn't  mix  much. 
But  she,  too,  looked  across  the  room  at 
Dick  and  liked  what  she  saw.  He  looked 
at  her — and  wished  he  were  smack  in  the 
middle  of  her  little  crowd. 

Well,  they  looked^and  liked — but  they 
were  brought  up  under  a  code  that  didn't 
permit  them  to  do  anything  about  it.  If 
that  doesn't  soimd  unusual,  you  don't  know 
your  Hollywood. 

It  was  eight  months  later  that  they  met ' 
again.  He  was  at  Universal  Studio  for  lunch. 
A  studio  worker,  showing  him  aroimd  the 
commissary,  stopped  for  a  chat  at  Arm's 
table  and  performed  an  introduction  that 
earned  him  two  life-long  buddies.  Dick  sat 
at  Ann's  table  and  held  up  his  end  of  a 
pretty  feeble  conversation.  They  were  both 
embarrassed.  However,  when  it  came  time 
to  go,  Dick  asked  if  he  might  take  Ann  out 
on  a  date.  She  said  she'd  let  him  know,  if 
he  telephoned  her. 

That  would  sound  like  a  stall  to  the  Blyth 
experts,  maybe  even  a  bit  prudish.  But  it 
wasn't — and  it  was  honest  to  her  principles. 
Ann  lives  with  an  aunt  and  uncle,  holding 
to  the  old-fashioned  law  that  a  single, 
young,  orphaned  girl  benefits  from  family 
life,  and  needs  the  influence,  advice  and 
guidance  of  mature  relatives.  She  will  not 
go  out  with  a  man  until  she  has  asked  for 
the  opinion  and  approval  of  her  folks — and 
is  proud  of  the  reputation  for  it. 

You  have  to  know  a  lot  more  about  Ann 
Blyth  to  buy  a  romance  between  her  and 
Dick  Contino — and  yoti  have  to  know  some- 
thing about  Dick,  too. 

A  sob  sister  could  make  'a  good  deal  about 
Ann's  imhappiness.  She  lost  her  father 
when  she  was  very  young.  She  went  into 
the  theater  in  New  York  as  a  child  actress, 
and  a  singer.  She  was  fanatically  devoted 
to  her  mother.  They  came  to  Hollywood, 
never  for  a  moment  thinking  Ann  would 
click  big,  and-  stayed  on.  Mrs.  Blyth  Jived 
long  enough  to  see  her  daughter  a  star — and 
then  Ann  was  completely  alone.  While  still 
in  her  teens,  she  broke  her  back  in  a  tobog- 
ganing accident,  and  it  looked  for  awhile 
as  though  she  would  never  be  normally  ac- 


tive again.  She  toughed  it  out,  and  a  sob 
sister  could  make  a  lot  of  that. 

But  anyone  who  has  spent  more  than  a 
day  in  the  company  of  Ann  Blyth  will  tell 
you  that  he  couldn't  imagine  her  feeling 
sorry  for  herself.  She  never  has.  She  ad- 
justed herself  to  her  losses  and  illness,  and 
went  on  to  become  an  even  bigger  star. 

If  there  is  one  fault  in  her  make-up,  it 
is  her  fanatic  devotion  to  the  Irish.  If  she 
can  be  said  to  be  narrow  in  any  respect,  it 
is  in  her  passion  for  the  lore  and  the  battles 
of  the  Erin  Isle.  If  there  is  a  prejudice  in  a 
man  by  the  name  of  Muldoon  as  he  parades 
down  Fifth  Avenue  in  a  green  suit  on  the 
17th  of  March,  then  there  is  a  prejudice 
in  Ann  Blyth.  They  both  feel  the  same  way. 
But  aside  from  that,  she  is  as  tolerant  as 
Abe  Lincoln. 

A  NN  Blyth  is  not  interested  in  partying; 

she's  not  prejudiced  against  them;  she 
just  doesn't  enjoy  them.  When  she  gets 
through  at  the  studio  in  the  evening,  she 
goes  home  to  an  entirely  different  en- 
vironment. She  will  loll  on  a  sofa  before 
a  fire  and  read  a  book  or  knit.  She  talks 
cn  the  phone  for  hours  with  her  girl 
friends,  or  one  of  the  few  boys  who  have, 
through  trial,  earned  the  status  of  buddy. 
She  seldom  goes  out  unless  it  is  a  studio 
publicity  occasion  or  an  approved  date, 
and  then  it  is  genersdly  to  a  place  that  is 
far  from  the  Hollywood  haunts. 

One  of  the  studio  dates  was  with  Scott 
Brady,  a  young  fellow  known  for  his 
hurried  pressing  of  issues  with  girls.  Their 
date  caused  quite  a  few  raised  eyebrows, 
for  Scott  was  as  attentive  as  a  mare  with 
a  new  colt.  A  columnist,  bent  on  a  scoop, 
approached  Brady  and  asked  for  the  low- 
down  on  the  romance. 

"Romance!"  said  Brady.  "I  love  her. 
But  vou  don't  have  a  romance  with  Ann 
Blyth!" 

Ann  is  the  epitome  of  sentimentality. 
Some  people  say  she  is  cold,  but  they  just 
don't  recognize  true  shyness  when  they  see 
it.  She  is  as  warm  in  her  heart  as  a  puppy 
who  has  found  a  home  with  a  yard  full  of 
bones.  She  doesn't  attend  studio  parties 
at  the  completion  of  a  picture,  because 
she  can't  face  the  fact  that  the  associations 
and  friendships  she  has  made  during 
shooting  are  at  an  end.  While  the  rest  of 
the  cast  and  crew  are  reveling  in  the  joy 
of  a  completed  assignment,  Ann  is  usually 
at  home,  crying  because  it  is  all  over.  If 
anyone  ever  gives  her  a  trinket  as  a  token 
of  esteem  or  affection,  you  can  be  sure 
she  will  never  part  with  it.  Pay  her  a 
sincere  compliment,  and  she'll  never  forget 
your  face  or  your  words. 

HPry  some  of  these  attributes  on  Dick 
Contino  and  you'U  'find  they  fit.  He 
is  Italian,  deeply  devoted  to  his  family, 
and  never  casual  in  love  or  friendship. 
When  he  played  a  Hollywood  night  club 
a  few  months  ago,  a  good  many  of  the 
female  wolf  pack,  including  a  number  of 
top  stars,  sent  their  hearts  and  phone 
numbers  back  stage.  But  Dick  dropped 
every  one  of  them  in  the  waste  basket. 
He  wasn't  brought  up  that  way — and  he 
didn't  want  to  meet  girls,  even  the  most 
glamorous  girls,  that  way. 

Although  only  21,  he  has  a  vital  sense 
of  responsibility  to  his  family  and  pro-' 
fession.  Like  Ann,  he  doesn't  smoke  or 
drink,  not  because  he  thinks  it  is  wrong, 
but  becatose  he  doesn't  like  to — and  maybe 
because  he  thinks  he  is  too  yoimg.  He 
is  a  strong  adherent  to  the  family  principle 
of  living,  and  his  first  concern  in  almosfc 
any  decision  he  has  to  make  is  his  father,' 
mother,  grandma,  and  his  sister,  and  two 
brothers.  The  most  that  any  reporter 
has  ever  gotten  out  of  him  on  the  subject 
of  romance  is  that  he  would  like  to  marry  i 
a  girl  just  like  his  sister.  When  his  con-. 


Fresh  ...  fragrant ...  smooth  all  over 
with 


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TALCUM 


Keeps  you 

cool,  dainty  in  hottest 
weather.  Smoottis  as 
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prevents  chafing. 


tract  with  Horace  Heidt  expired  and  he 
struck  out  on  his  own  to  earn  an  income 
of  $4000  a  week,  the  first  thing  he  did  was 
move  liis  entire  family  down  from  Fresno 
to  a  fine  home  in  Glendale. 

Dick  is  a  reasonably  ambitious  lad. 
He  wants  to  put  the  accordion  up  some 
day,  and  become  an  actor.  He  has  had  a  lot 
of  offers,  but  he  knows  that  he  has  to 
make  his  money  whUe  the  panic  is  on  for 
his  services.  He  is  not  in  the  movies  only 
because  he  will  not  sign  a  contract  that 
doesn't  give  him  radio  and  television 
rights.  If  you  were  to  take  him  apart  with 
the  greatest  of  care,  you  wouldn't  find 
a  trait  in  him  that  you  wouldn't  be  proud 
of  in  yourself. 

The  first  date  that  Dick  had  with  Ann 
endeared  them  to  one  another.  The  general 
rule  is  that  a  man  asks  a  movie  star  out 
and  makes  a  production  of  it.  He  gets 
the  best  table  at  one  of  the  best  restaurants, 
has  his  picture  taken,  trots  from  there  to  a 
premiere,  or  a  hit  play  and  winds  up  the 
evening  at  a  swanky  party. 

Dick  asked  Ann  what  she  would  like  to 
do.   Anything,  she  said,  he'd  like  to  do. 

"Well,''  said  Dick,  "I  kind  of  wanted 
to  go  to  see  a  pictxire." 

"You  did?"  said  Ann.  "I'd  like  to  see 
a  picture,  too." 

So  they  went  to  a  movie.  They  have 
gone  to  night  clubs,  but  it  hasn't  been 
the  same  as  it  was  when  Ann  went  to 
them  with  other  men.  Ordinarily,  Ann  is 
stem-faced  and  very  much  on  her  best 
behavior  in  a  night  club.  But  with  Dick, 
she  has  walked  into  clubs,  eyes  aglow, 
and  laughing  her  head  off. 

They  have  had  many  dates  during  the 
daytime,  foi:  usually  he  works  at  night. 
They  play  golf,  or  ride,  or  walk  the 
beaches.  In  the  matter  of  food,  Ann  has 
him  eating  stews  and  corned  beef — and  he 
has  turned  her  into  one  of  the  most  com- 
petent pizza  experts  in  California. 

THE  romance  between  Ann  Blyth  and 
Dick  Contino  might  well  blossom  for 
another  reason.  Ann  is  a  devout  CathoHc, 
and  so  is  Dick.  Throughout  the  years  she 
has  been  in  Hollywood,  Ann  has  met  and 
liked  a  good  many  men  who  were  eligible 
in  almost  every  respect.  But  they  were 
not  Catholics,  so,  according  to  Ann's 
religious  code  and  upbringing  they  could 
not  be  considered  as  husbands.  There  is 
no  prudery  or  bigotry  in  this,  it  is  just 
a  precept  of  Ann's  faith  that  she  can  not 
marry  outside  her  church. 

Very  soon  now,  Ann  Blyth  will  return 
from  England,  another  picture  done.  She 
will  land  at  the  Los  Angeles  International 
Airport  and,  with  a  lot  of  other  passen- 
gers, will  walk  toward  the  waiting  room 
entrance  where  friends,  relatives  and  lov- 
ers of  the  sky  travelers  will  be  there  to 
greet  them. 

It  is  pxu-e  fantasy,  of  course,  but  it  may 
be  that  in  that  crowd,  a  handsome  lad 
with  curly  hair  and  an  expression  of 
anticipation  on  his  face  wUl  be  waiting. 
She  will  look  into  the  crowd,  and  they  will 
spot  one  another  at  the  same  time.  She 
will  quicken  her  step,  maybe  run.  He  will 
run,  with  no  pretense. 

They  will  meet  in  a  confusion  of  travel- 
ers and  greeters,  but  they  won't  care. 
He  will  take  her  in  his  arms  and  kiss  her, 
right  there  in  front  of  everybody.  And 
she  will  kiss  him  back,  because  she  will 
be  glad  to  see.  him — and  he's  her  kind 
of  guy. 

And  if  you  want  to  take  a  longer  trip 
into  fantasy,  it  is  not  too  far-fetched  to 

:  imagine  them  married  one  day,  with  a  fine 
home  and  family.  You  see,  Ann  Blyth  is 

i  an  old-fashioned  girl — and  Dick  Contino 
is  the   first  old-fashioned   boy   she  has 

.  ever  met  in  the  crazy,  make-beUeve  town 

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wardrobe  so  that 
it  is  just  right  for 
your  holidays,  too. 


arleen  whelan 
chooses  a 
bolero  dress 


Fashion  combines  with  function  in 
this  Pima  cotton  sun-back  dress  both 
misses  and  half  sizes  that  Arleen,  who 
is  appearing  in  Paramount's  Passage 
West,  wears  for  town — spectator 
sport — or  travel.  It  is  washable, 
packable  and  does  double-duty  as  it 
may  be  worn  with  or  without  the 
jacket.  The  bodice,  edged  with  white 
Madeira  embroider>'  lace,  is  designed 
with  shoulder  straps  (see  photo  be- 
low) ...  the  skirt  has  soft,  front 
pleats  .  .  .  the  belt  is  self-covered. 
Misses  sizes:  12-20;  Half  sizes: 
14H-24>4.  Colors:  Lilac,  Aqua,  Pink, 
Maize.  $8.95.  By  Kay  Windsor. 


THIS  DRESS  CAN  BE  BOUGHT  IN  PERSON 
OR  BY  MAIL  FROM  STRAWBRIDGE  & 
CLOTHIER,  PHILADELPHIA,  PA.' TO  OR- 
DER BY  MAIL  SEE  PAGE  75. 


Summer  sheer  voile  dresses  that 
are  cool  as  a  breeze  and  smart 
for  every  casual  occasion.  Both 
dresses  have  two  pockets,  self- 
covered  belts  and  front  closings 
(so  easy  to  get  into) — both  come 
in  Misses  and  Half  Sizes. 


Ott  the  Right  Sheer  voile  in 
Black,  Brown,  Blue  check. 
Misses  Sizes:  12-20;  Half  Sizes: 
14>^-22>^.  $8.95.  By  Puritan. 


On  the  Left  Sheer  voile  paisley 
print — Red,  Purple  or  Brown. 
Misses  Sizes:  12-20;  Half  Sizes: 
14>^-22>4.  $8.95.  By  Puritan. 


Nylon  hosiery  by  Ri-.i.i'i 


pack  up  and  go 


Wherever  you  live — wher- 
ever you  go  you'll  be  perky 
and  trim  in  this  softly  tai- 
lored frock  of  small-check 
cotton  that  is  strikingly  con- 
trasted with  pique.  It  has  a 
"Bubble"  shirred  bodice, 
two  large  patch  pockets, 
self-fabric  belt  and  clay 
buttons.  The  cotton  is  san- 
forized— and  washable.  Jun- 
ior Sizes:  9-15.  Colors: 
Red,  Rust,  Blue  or  Purple 
with  White  pique  trim. 
$10.95.  By  Sue  Brett. 


Nylon  hosiery  by  Holeproof 
Linen  wedgies  by  Honeydebs 


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69 


Arleen  Whelan  chooses  four  separates  as  a  "practical  and 
pretty"  answer  to  her  playclothes  wardrobe  for  summer 
and  vacations.  Arleen  combines  a  single  blouse  with  three 
alternate  garments — shorts,  pedal  pushers  and  skirt.  The 
"Boy"  shorts  have  cuffs,  pleated  front,  two  pockets  and 
back  zipper;  the  pedal  pushers  have  a  tapered  leg  (with 
cuffs),  front  pleats,  one  pocket  and  side  zipper;  the  dirndl 
skirt  boasts  two  large  sag-proof  pockets  (with  a  hidden 
button  closing),  front  box  pleat  and  a  side  zipper.  The 
sleeveless  blouse  has  a  tailored  collar  (that  may  be  worn 
up  or  down) — it  is  closed  with  flat  pearl  buttons.  All  the 
separates  are  made  of  Playtone,  a  crinkled  shrunk-proof 
cotton  by  Fuller  Fabrics — guaranteed  fast  color  .  .  .  wash- 
able (lay  flat  to  dry)  .  .  .  requires  no  ironing. 


All  these  separates  come  in  Junior  Sizes:  9-15.  Colors: 
Jade  Green,  Navy,  Purple,  Lime  Peel,  Desert  Gold,  Black, 
Raspberry.  Prices:  Blouse  $2.98.  Shorts  $2.98.  Pedal 
Pushers  $3.98.  Skirt  $4.98.  By. Pandora  Novelty  Company 


70 


pack  up  and  go 


You'll  be  a  pretty  mermaid  in 
this  dressmaker-type  bathing  suit 
of  Dan  River  cotton  plaid  (fast 
color-washable)  that  gives  a 
youthful  line  to  every  figure.  It 
has  a  button  front  closing  effect, 
but  a  back  zipper  closing.  The 
bodice  is  boned  for  perfect  fit. 
This  suit  may  be  worn  with  or 
without  straps.  Sizes:  32-40. 
Colors:  Red,  Green.  Blue.  $7.98. 
By  Lee  Knitwear. 


Here  is  a  classic  bathing  suit 
{left)  that  is  particularly  de- 
signed to  enhance  even  the  per- 
fect figure — it  definitely  mini- 
mizes any  unwanted  bulges  or 
bumps.  It  is  fashioned  of  Laton 
elasticized  taffeta  with  a  shirred 
front  panel,  feather-boned  bra 
top  and  back  zipper  closing.  This 
suit,  too.  may  be  worii  with  or 
without  straps.  Sizes:  32-38. 
Colors:  Black,  Sky  Blue,  Maize. 
Aqua,  Violet,  Caribbean  Rose. 
$8.98.  By  Lee  Knitwear. 


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flatter  your 
figure 


1.  The  Tummy  Tucker  girdle  is  just  made  to 
enhance  your  figure — it  has  a  patented 
inner-boned  belt  to  flatten  your  middle  (see  miniature 
illustration  below).  In  two-way  stretch  woven  rayon 
and  cotton.  Sizes  S.M.L.  White  or  nude  $2.50. 
Waist  sizes  32-40.  Nude  only  $4.00.  Plunge  bra  with 
stitched  under-cups  for  lovely  uphft,  elastic  bands 

for  perfect  fit.  Satin  or  cotton.  White  only.  Sizes  32-38; 
A  and  B  cups.  $1. 

2.  Lustrous  satin  with  embroidered  eyelet 

bust  section  and  separation.  Adjustable  satin  shoulder 
straps.  White  only.  Sizes  32-38;  A  and  B  cups.  $1. 

3.  Strapless  bra  of  lustrous  satin  with 
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White  only.  Sizes  32-38;  A  and  B  cups.  $1. 


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HERE'S  THE  "INSIDE  STORY"  OF 
TUMMY  TUCKER  {girdle  in  photo) 

•  tuclts  in  your  tummy 

•  controls  your  silhouette 

•  slims  your  figure 


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love  sneaked  in 


(Continued  from,  page  33)  Melcher  drove 
to  the  home  he  had  been  visiting  for  a 
long  time  to  see  his  girl.  He  didn't  park 
his  car  in  the  street  as  he  had  done  so 
often  before,  but  drove  it  into  the  garage. 
Then  he  went  into  his  own  house  with 
his  own  key,  and  he  might  have  stopped 
in  the  dining  room  where  the  breakfront 
is  with  the  Spode  and  crystal  on  the 
shelves,  and  the  lace  runner  and  ceramic 
ducks  on  the  counter.  He  might  have 
opened  the  right  drawer  to  get  a  screw- 
driver to  tighten  something  in  the  radio. 
And  if  his  wife  had  come  in  to  see  what 
he  was  doing,  and  you  had  told  them 
that  they  were  standing  in  front  of  their 
engagement  ring,  they'd  have  said  you 
were  crazy. 

But  you  wouldn't  have  been  crazy — or 
far  from  right.  A  short  time  before  her 
marriage  someone  asked  Doris  Day  what 
kind  of  an  engagement  ring  Marty  had 
given  her. 

"We're  not  engaged,"  said  Doris.  "We're 
just  going  to  be  married  as  soon  as  we 
can."  And  she  laughed  her  infectious  little 
laugh.  "Nobody  promised  anybody  any- 
thing. Nobody  has  planned  anything.  We're 
just  in  love — and  we're  going  to  get 
married." 

To  this  day,  Doris  and  Marty  think  that 
that  is  how  it  happened,  but  Modern 
Screen  foxmd  out  differently.  There  were 
promises,  and  plans,  and  a  real  moment, 
before  a  green  and  silver  Christmas  tree, 
when  they  pledged  themselves  to  one  an- 
other. But  it  was  all  so  real  and  subtle 
that  Doris  and  Marty  didn't  know  about  it. 

Most  married  couples  are  required  by 
ancient  dictate  to  remember  every  detail 
of  their  first  meeting.  It  is  something  of 
a  major  sin  against  their  union  for  either 
of  them  to  forget  the  day,  hour,  place  and 
occasion  of  this  event.  If  a  man  first  set 
eyes  on  his  future  Missus  while  she  was 
struggling  with  a  bicycle  tire  on  a  country 
road  at  four  o'clock  on  a  Saturday  after- 
noon, he  must  comment  on  it  for  the  rest 
of  his  days  every  time  he  sees  a  bicycle, 
a  fiat  tire  or  a  cotintry  road.  And  at  four 
o'clock  every  Saturday  afternoon,  he  must 
audibly  hark  back  to  his  luckiest  hour  or 
get  cold  hash  for  dinner.  The  rules  are  not 
so  stringent  for  women  because  it  is  as- 
sumed that  they  never  forget  anything. 

But  Doris  Day  and  Marty  Melcher  don't 
remember  the  first  time  they  met. 

"Gosh,"  said  Doris,  "he  was  my  agent— 
and  it  seems  like  I've  always  known  him." 

I'p'oR  the  record,  it  was  some  time  after 
'  Doris  arrived  in  Hollywood,  a  band 
singer  of  note,  and  presented  herself  to 
the  head  of  Century  Artists — Marty  Mel- 
cher— to  find  out  how  much  was  being 
done  to  make  her  a  movie  star.  Suspicion 
was  her  strong  point  at  that  time.  She  had 
made  a  couple  of  smash  recordings  with 
Les  Brown's  orchestra.  But,  never  having 
considered  herself  a  raving  beauty,  she 
looked  with  a  cautious  eye  upon  all  the 
enthusiasts  who  predicted  fame  and  for- 
tune for  her  in  the  cinema.  Naturally,  her 
agent  was  one  of  these  dreamers. 

Marty  Melcher,  in  those  early  years, 
functioned  as  a  business  associate,  a  nice 
fellow  who  in  some  apparently  honest 
manner  got  her  a  lot  of  money  for  doing 
the  things  she'd  have  been  happy  to  do 
for  next  to  nothing.  Doris  professes  not 
to  know  when  Marty  Melcher  became  a 
necessity  in  her  life,  for  the  relationship 
developed  without  either  one  of  them 
realizing  it. 

"All  of  a  sudden,"  said  Doris,  "I  dis- 
covered that  I  leaned  on  Marty  for  almost 
everything.  If  a  faucet  started  to  leak  in 
my  house  I'd  call  him  and  say,  'Marty,  the 
faucet's  dripping  (Continued  on  page  75) 


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A.  SUMMER  SOKC.a  lovely,  cool 
Bamberg  sheer  with  a  marquisette  yoke. 
Fern-like  ground  in  a  grey,  white  and 
black  combination,sprink]ed  with  roses 
in  a  choice  of  colors:  red,  peacock, 
lilac  or  green.  Sizes  \6V>  to  24 V2. 


THERE  IS 

NO  BETTER  FITTING  DRESS 
AT  ANY  PRICE  .  .  .  than  a 

Rite-Fit  half -size  Dress-of-the-Month. 


If  your  favorite  shop  does  not  carry  these 
dresses,  we'd  be  delighted  to  tell  you  where 
they  can  be  bought.  (But  please  — send  no 
mail  order  to  us.) 


Always  look  for  this  distinctive  hang-tag 
on  every  RITE-FIT  Dress-of-the-Month. 


B.  WALTZ  TIME.  .  .  a  lace 
patterned  rayon  sheer  at  ease 
from  desk  thru  dusk. 
Solid  colors  in  navy, 
pink,  aqua,  lilac. 
Sizes  UV-  to  22V-1. 


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glamour 


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Sea  Molds  swim  suit  of  Nyralon  doe-skin  that  has 
been  especially  styled  to  fit  yow  figure 
type.  It  has  a  softly  draped  surplice  bodice  (so 
becoming  to  every  figure),  a  sleek  front  skirt 
and  detachable  shoulder  straps.  Each  smt  comes, 
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For  the  Average  Figure — 
Sizes  32-38.  Colors:  Black, 
Aqua,  Yellow,  White,  Royal  Blue. 

For  the  Shorter  Figure — 
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Geranium,  Yellow. 

For  the  Taller  Figure- 
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(Continued  from  page  73)  What  will  I 
do?'  or  'Marty,  my  car  won't  start.'  Or 
'Marty,  I've  been  thinking  of  going  to 
Palm  Springs.  What  do  you  think  about  it?'  " 

The  change  in  their  relationship  was 
slow  and  subtle.  The  natural  function  of 
an  agent,  getting  more  money,  became 
alm.ost  secondary  to  the  function  of  being 
a  male  friend.  Naturally,  Doris  and  Marty 
would  dine  together — business  required  it 
— and  the  gossip  colvminists  would  call  and 
ask  if  it  was  a  romance. 

"Certainly  not,"  they  would  say.  "It's 
strictly  business."  And  they  believed  it. 

If  you  listen  to  Doris  Day  talk  about  her 
son,  Terry,  you  will  soon  begin  to  believe, 
with  her,  that  he  is  the  smartest  thing 
since  Little  Willie  the  Wizard.  It  was 
Terry  who  first  saw  what  was  happening 
to  Ma  and  Marty. 

"Marty  used  to  come  to  dinner,"  said 
Doris,  "and  one  night  I  noticed  that  after 
we  were  seated  at  the  table,  Terry  moved 
his  place  mat  and  chair  so  close  to  Marty's 
that  the  poor  man  could  hardly  bend  his 
arm.  I  asked  Terry  what  he  was  doing  that 
for,  and  he  said,  'I  like  him.'  Maybe  that 
was  when  I  first  knew  I  liked  him  more 
than  just  as  a  good  manager." 

''■''he  business  dinners  became  dates  and 
J-  stretched  out  into  wonderful  evenings, 
and  pretty  soon  Doris  didn't  go  out  with 
other  fellows  any  more — and  Marty  never 
looked  at  another  girl.  It  was  Terry  again, 
and  Doris'  mother,  who  cemented  this 
situation,  and  the  boy  and  girl  didn't  even 
know  it  was  happening. 

On  a  Friday  afternoon,  Doris'  mother 
would  say,  "What  time  will  Marty  be  over 
— so  I  can  figure  dinner?"  And  after  dinner 
Terry  would  tug  at  Marty's  sleeve  and 
say,  "Hey,  tomorrow's  Saturday  and  you 
don't  have  to  work.  What  time  you  coming 
over?" 

Pretty  soon  there  were  experiences  like 
the  window  shopping  tour.  Doris  and 
Marty  began  thinking  of  doing  and  having 
things  in  the  vague  future  together,  but 
they  never  mentioned  it  to  one  another. 


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Both  of  them  had  suffered  the  tinhappiness 
of  marriage  breaking  up  before  and  they 
didn't  accept  love  as  quickly  as  others 
might.  But  soon  they  found  themselves 
holding  hands  in  movies  and  wanting  to 
be  close  to  one  another  and  touch  one  an- 
other. 

The  time  for  emotions  to  thaw  was  sure 
to  come  soon — and  it  did,  on  Christmas 
night. 

It  had  been  a  full  day.  The  living  room 
of  Doris'  home  was  disorderly  with  the 
gay  refuse  of  gift  giving.  Colored  papers 
and  ribbons  were  everywhere,  for  there 
hadn't  been  time  to  tidy  up.  Presents  were 
placed  about  the  room,  propped  on  dis- 
play in  their  festive  boxes.  A  large  log 
sputtered  quietly  in  the  fireplace,  glowing 
red  and  playing  idly  with  flame.  A  tall 
spruce,  decked  with  tinsel,  cotton  and 
shiny  artificial  snow,  stood  in  a  corner, 
still  regal  and  still  ruler  of  the  day.  And 
among  its  branches,  tiny  red,  green  and 
amber  lights  burned  steadfastly,  suffusing 
the  room  with  their  traditional  yuletide 
brilliance. 

Terry,  in  pajamas,  sat  beneath  the  tree, 
weary  now  with  a  small  boy's  excitement 
of  Christmas,  but  still  enchanted  by  the 
odd  assortment  of  wonders  his  fortune 
had  brought  him.  He  sat  silently  winding 
this  toy  and  peering  into  the  magic  innards 
of  that  one;  and  he  speculated  on  the 
wisdom  of  sleeping  in  full  Hopalong  Cas- 
sidy  regalia.  Doris'  mother  sat  in  the 
softest  chair,  gazing  at  the  dull,  hypnotic 
embers  on  the  hearth  and  remembering 
other  Christmases.  Doris  and  Marty 
loimged  on  a  divan  and,  without  speaking, 
lived  their  happiest  day  over  and  observed 
all  the  happiness  that  was  about  them. 

Presently,  Grandmother  Day  got  to  her 
feet.  "Come  on,  Terry,"  she  said,  "time  for 
bed." 

Terry  took  a  long  last  look  at  his  treas- 
ures and  rose  and  walked  to  where  his 
mother  and  Marty  were  sitting.  He  snug- 
gled between  them  and  took  both  their 
hands.  "Thanks  for  everything,"  he  said. 
"Thanks  to  both  of  you.  It's  wonderful  to 
have  such  a  nice  family  at  Christmas  time." 
Then  he  went  to  bed,  followed  by  his 
grandmother. 

The  boy  and  girl  were  alone  in  the  room 
now,  each  with  his  private  thoughts. 

"It's  true,  isn't  it?"  Doris  said. 

"What's  true?"  said  Marty. 

"About  it  being  wonderful  having  such 
a  nice  family  at  Christmas  time — like 
Terry  said." 

"Yes,  it's  true,"  said  Marty.  "It  wouldn't 
be  a  real  Christmas  without  a  boy  and 
his  mother  and  a  grandmother.  .  .  ." 

"And  a  father.  .  .  ."  said  Doris. 

"Sure — a  father,"  said  Marty.  "Let's  see 
that  he  always  has  a  nice  Christmas." 

"Yes,"  said  Doris. 

NOBODY  promised  anybody  anything, 
Doris  Day  said — but  they  did.  They 
didn't  do  it  the  way  its  done  in  books, 
but  in  that  warm  room,  with  the  night 
black  outside,  and  the  silent  log  in  the 
fireplace  and  the  pretty  Christmas  tree  as 
witnesses,  Doris  and  Marty  promised  each 
other  a  lot.  Terry  and  his  grandmother 
may  not  have  been  watching  and  listening 
through  a  crack  in  the  bedroom  door,  but 
they  knew  what  was  going  on.  They  stage- 
managed  most  of  it. 

From  that  night  on,  though,  it  wasn't 
friendship  between  Doris  and  Marty  any- 
more. It  was  love  and  not  denied.  She  was 
his  girl — and  he  was  her  guy.  Marriage 
was  something  that  would  come  when  cir- 
cumstances and  time  allowed.  The  time 
ripened  their  relationship  kindly,  for  it 
gave  them  the  opportunity  to  plan  and 
buy  and  for  the  four  of  them  to  get  to 
know  one  another  better  than  ever. 

The  buying  was  a  lark.  Marty  would 
find  a  piece  of  furniture  he  liked  and  drag 


it  out  to  Doris'  house  at  any  hour.  She 
would  shop  for  him.  And  long  before  they 
took  their  vows  they  had  a  home  ready 
to  move  into,  filled  with  the  things  they 
both  loved  and  had  selected. 

If  it  appears  that  Marty,  once  he  knew 
where  he  was  going,  moved  right  into  the 
role  of  father  and  head  of  the  family,  it 
was  nothing  to  the  speed  with  which 
Terry  moved  in  as  a  son.  If  he  liked  Marty 
before,  he  idolized  him  now.  And  he  took 
great  pride  in  abandoning  many  of  the 
rather  selfish  rights  of  a  small  boy  to 
shoulder  some  of  the  responsibilities  of 
getting  the  family  going.  Doris'  income  is 
very  large,  and  Marty  is  one  of  the  most 
successful  yovmg  men  in  Hollywood,  but 
they  are  both  level-headed  people  and 
dislike  ostentatious  living.  They  particu- 
larly think  it  unbecoming  in  small  boys 
who  have  families  in  the  chips. 

Terry  was  willing  to  cooperate  to  the 
hilt  in  this  if  his  mother  and  Marty  wanted 
him  to.  He  got  so  that  he'd  rather  have 
an  earned  dime  than  a  gift  dollar.  He 
would  discuss  his  financial  problems  with 
Marty  regularly,  for  he  was  the  business 
manager — and  abide  by  his  decisions.  There 
was  a  time  when  expansion  seemed  de- 
sirable in  Terry's  electric  train  enter- 
prise. He  was,  at  the  moment,  short  of 
capital.  A  parental  loan  seemed  a  solution. 
He  took  it  up  with  Marty. 

"Train  tracks  are  pretty  expensive, 
aren't  they?"  he  asked  cagily. 

"Very  expensive,"  said  Marty. 

"How's  Ma  doing  these  days?"  said 
Terry. 

"Oh  .  .  .  pretty  good,"  said  Marty. 

"Not  great,  eh?"  asked  Terry. 

"Let's  say — fair,"  said  Marty. 

Terry  thought  it  over  carefully.  "Okay," 
he  said,  "we'll  wait  for  the  train  tracks." 

He  had  them  in  a  week,  but  he  proved 
he  was  willing  to  go  along  with  an  economy 
program — as  long  as  it  was  in  the  family. 

"C'oR  a  while  the  Melchers  will  live  in 
the  house  Doris  has  lived  in  till  now. 
But  they  will  shop,  carefully  and  slowly, 
for  a  house  they  want  to  make  their  home 
in  the  future. 

Your  Modern  Screen  Reporter  sat  in  a 
1918  railroad  car  in  the  Warner  Brothers 
train  shed  during  the  last  day  of  shooting 
on  Doris'  last  picture.  On  Moonlight  Bay, 
and  she  told  about  that  house  in  the 
future. 

"I  want  it  to  be  on  a  hill,"  she  said, 
"high  above  the  city,  so  I  can  see  the 
lights  at  night.  I  want  there  to  be  trees 
around  and  lots  of  green,  growing  things, 
so  I  can  smell  them  when  I  wake  up  in 
the  morning.  I  want  it  to  be  on  a  long, 
quiet  street  where  Terry  can  ride  his  bike 
in  safety.  And  I  want  there  to  be  lots  of 
kids  around  for  him  to  play  with — and 
for  Marty  and  me  to  know.  I  want  it  to 
be  a  big,  soUd  house  that  will  stand  a 
hundred  years,  with  lots  of  beams  and 
stone.  It  doesn't  have  to  be  elegant,  but 
I  want  a  small  pool  where  we  can  all  swim 
in  the  simimer — but  it  has  to  be  big 
enough  to  hold  a  lot  of  kids.  I  want  many 
bedrooms,  because  there  will  be  Terry,  my 
mother,  if  she  will  live  with  us,  someone 
to  help  take  care  of  the  place,  and  Marty 
and  me.  It  may  take  some  time  to  find  it, 
but  we  will.  And  it  will  be  worth  the 
trouble,  because  it  wUl  be  the  home  of  a 
wonderful  family.  Just  ask  Terry." 

Yes,  it  is  Marty  and  Doris  Melcher  now 
— professional  name  Day.  They  are  a 
happy  couple,  even  though  they  think 
they  didn't  have  a  romance  like  other 
couples.  They  never  got  engaged — ask 
the  pickled  pine  breakfront.  Nobody  prom- 
ised anybody  anything — ask  the  spruce 
tree  and  the  lazy  log  in  the  fireplace.  And 
nobody  helped  them  make  up  their  minds. 
They  did  it  all  themselves,  and  it  just  hap- 
pened—ask Terry  Melcher.         The  End 


backstage  baby 


{Continued  from  page  56)  oven.  Maybe 
the  ends  of  pie-crust.  Once  in  a  while 
she  outdoes  herself.  The  other  night  while 
we  were  too  busy  to  notice,  she  mixed  a 
whole  bottle  of  roquefort  dressing  with 
a  bottle  of  half-and-half.  ^ 

"We  all  told  her  it  was  wonderful," 
Debra's  nose  wrinkled  slightly.  "Mother 
doesn't  believe  in  discoiuraging  anyone 
who's  trying.  We  all  have  done  things 
like  that.  Why,  when  I  was  her  age  I 
poured  five  pounds  of  sugar  and  a  lot  of 
eggs  into  mother's  electric  mixer  and 
turned  it  on.  It  flew  up  all  over  the 
kitchen.    What  a  mess!" 

AFTER  dinner  they  usually  collect  in  front 
of  the  television  set  to  catch  their 
favorite  mystery  programs. 
"The  real  scarey  ones,"  Debra  says. 
"Yes,"  her  mother  chimed  in.  "The 
scarier  they  are,  the  better.  The  other 
night  Debra  and  Lezli,  the  next  youngest, 
were  stretched  out  on  their  tummies  on 
the  floor  watching  one.  I  was  in  the 
kitchen  when  I  heard  Lezli  let  out  the 
most  awful  shriek.  My  heart  almost  stop- 
ped before  I  got  there  to  find  out  what 
was  happening.  Debbie  had  sneaked  out 
of  the  room,  smeared  her  face  with  some 
white  stuff,  and  sneaked  back  in  without 
Lezli  realizing  it.  Then  she  just  touched 
Lezli  on  the  shovdder.  You  should  have 
heard  that  girl  scream!" 

A  group  was  discussing  the  basket- 
ball fixes  (in  New  York  colleges) 
when  Shelley  Winters  entered  and 
said  that  a  major  studio  had 
phoned  and  wanted  her  to  "throw" 
her  next  picture. 

Sidney  Skolsky  in 
"Hollywood  Is  My  Beat" 

Other  times,  the  sisters  sit  around  and 
criticize  each  other  as  they  go  through 
scenes  for  plays,  pictures  or  tests.  Cur- 
rently they're  all  trying  to  imitate  Judy 
Garland's  singing.  And  they're  criticizing 
each  other's  tap  or  ballet  forms. 

So  it's  no  wonder  that  fellows  like 
Tommy  Cook,  Dick  Hennessey  and 
Richard  Allan  don't  mind  one  bit  when 
they  call  Debra  for  a  date,  and  she  says, 
"Look.  I  don't  want  you  to  think  this 
is  anything  against  you  personally,  but 
I  just  don't  go  out.  Why  don't  you  come 
over  here?" 

This  uninhibited  family  fun,  and  love  of 
theater  has  been  with  Debra  as  long  as 
she  can  remember.  As  a  matter  of  fact, 
if  she  had  continued  in  her  first  theatrical 
steps,  her  name  would  now  be  topping  a 
bill  of  burlesque.  For  at  six  she  was  an 
accomplished  stripper.  Her  performances 
were  only  for  the  family,  of  course,  but 
she  had  the  routine  down  pat. 

Most  little  girls  totter  around  in  high 
heels  pretending  to  be  Teacher  or 
Mother's-Best-Friend.  But  the  grown-ups 
Debra  imitated  were  the  colorful  folk  of 
backstage  theaters.  All  through  their 
childhood,  Debra  and  her  sisters  studied 
their  home  work  to  the  tune  of  a  theater 
orchestra,  and  played  dolls  while  the 
show  girls  pranced.  The  Griffin  children's 
early  life  sounds  like  something  from 
a  Betty  Grable  musical. 

A  family  didn't  keep  Margaret  Gibson, 
as  Debra's  mother  is  known  professionally, 
from  following  her  own  love  of  the  stage. 
"My  kids  were  raised  backstage,"  she  says, 
"and  not  just  the  pretty  ones.  Burlesque 
backstages  as  well  as  legitimate  theaters. 

"A  lot  of  folks  probably  think  that  wasn't 
very  good  for  them,  but  actors  respect 
children.  Maybe  they  didn't  always  hold 
their  language,  but  it's  all  so  natural  some- 
how, that  kids  don't  take  offense  or  get 


Important  young  Stars  choose 

-Guntner 


SWIM  SUITS 


Your  choice,  too,  because  they're  sleek,  figure-molding! 
'Sea  Spray". . .  chalky  nylon  Lastex  in  six  wonderful 

pastels,  $1495.  "Sea  Dream". . .  in  soft-lustred  satin  Lastex. 
Five  colors!  ^1495.  Both  worn  with  or  without  straps. 


At  Saks  -  34th  St.,  N.  Y.  and  The  Hecht  Co.,  Washington,  D.  C.  and  other  leading  stores. 
Or  write  Gantner  &  Mattern  Co.,  Dept.  N,  San  Francisco,  Calif. 


curbs  your 
curves  from 
waist  to  hip 

Made  of  flexible,  airy  nylon. 
tKis  is  a  girdle  to  control  your 

pounds,  extoll  your  curves.  Giving 
you  hips  you  11  Kooray,  a  waist  worth 
buying  a  belt  for.  All  at  a  purse-easy 
price — with  money  over  for  the 
matcliing  bra.  ■  Style  5452—14"  sizes 
25  to  34.  ■  Style  5652-16"  sizes  26  to  36 

While  and  pink.  $5.95  ■  Matching 
nylon  bra-Style  6094.  $1.50 


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strange  ideas.  My  kids  have  seen  a  lot 
and  heard  a  lot.  They  know  their  way 
around  better  than  most.  And  they're 
fine,  sweet,  good,  talented  kids." 

Debra's  talent  showed  early.  She  was 
always  acting  in  front  of  a  mirror,  trying 
to  imitate  someone  she'd  seen.  But  even 
her  fond  mother  couldn't  tell  who  she 
was  trying  to  copy.  And  Margaret  Gibson 
was  glad.  "My  kids  aren't  imitators,  thank 
goodness!" 

/Convinced  of  sure  fame  awaiting  her 
^  children,  Margaret  Gibson  admits  she 
gave  her  children  names  that  would  look 
good  on  a  marquee:  Debra,  Lezli,  Teala. 

But  Shakespeare  and  his  roses  not- 
withstanding, Debra's  mother  knew  that 
it  took  more  than  a  name  to  make  success. 
So  at  11,  Debra  was  studying  acting  with 
Queenie  Smith  of  the  New  York  Theater, 
at  13,  dancing  with  Frieda  and  Olga  Berk- 
hofi  at  the  Coronet  Theater.  And  along 
with  it  all,  making  appearances  such  as 
the  one  with  Charles  Coburn  in  the 
Biltmore  Theater's  stage  presentation  of 
The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor  in  Los 
Angeles. 

It  appears  Mama's  know-how  paid  off, 
because  when  Debra  was  just  14,  she 
caught  the  eye  of  20th  Century-Fox.  She 
was  just  what  they  needed  for  Richard 
Conte's  betrothed  in  House  Of  Strangers. 

It  happened  this  way.  Whenever  Debra's 
brother  or  one  of  her  sisters  was  having 
a  test  or  try-out,  another  went  along 
to  be  seen  too.  That  day  Frank  Griffin, 
Jr.,  Debra's  brother,  had  a  date  with  20th 
Century-Fox.  They  looked  past  the 
handsome  young  man  to  his  little  sister. 
But  Frank's  ttrni  wiU  come  again. 

Debra  expresses  her  own  modesty,  and 
the  family  philosophy  when  she  says, 
"It's  just  that  I  got  the  first  real  break. 
I  just  happened  to  be  a  type  they  were 
looking  for,  so  I  got  the  contract.  Frank 
took  Lezli  along  with  him  for  a  test  at 
another  big  studio,  not  long  ago.  Now 
it  looks  like  she's  getting  the  contract 
out  there.  Frank  says  if  he  can  just  get 
Teala  out  of  the  way  maybe  he'll  have  all 
his  sisters  set  up,  and  get  his  contract. 
He  forgot  about  little  Meg,  I  guess.  We 
have  news  for  him.  She's  talented,  too. 
She  isn't  quite  three,  but  she  can  sing 
most  of  the  songs  from  South  Pacific.  She's 
still  a  little  shy  about  strangers,  though, 
so  she  isn't  looking  for  a  job  yet. 

"Frank's  only  had  two  roles  at  Columbia, 
because  he  still  photographs  too  yo\mg  for 
what  he  does  so  well.  But  he'll  do  big 
things  later.  Now  he  v/orks  between  pic- 
tures as  a  laborer  at  Columbia.  He  doesn't 
mind  being  a  laborer,  but,  as  he  says,  it 
is  kind  of  funny  to  have  to  put  down  a 
pick-axe  so  the  wardrobe  department  tf: 
can  fit  him  for  a  costume."  i 

THIS  family  interchange,  and  mass  cast-  J 
ing  has  been  going  on  for  years.  More  ^ 
than  once,  when  Margaret  Gibson  was  ' 
tipped  off  by  old  show  friends  about  a  ■ 
possible  opportunity  for  one  or  all,  she'd  ' 
pack  them  all  into  her  old  car,  suitcases  ' 
tied  on  the  outside,  plenty  of  bedding 
inside,  so  she  could  drive  straight  through  \ 
from  Denver,  their  original  home,  to 
Hollywood  without  stopping  to  sl«ep. 

Father  Griffin  would  stay  home  from 
these  junkets.   He  was  working  steadily.  ; 
and  couldn't  afford  to  pack  up  and  leavs  ' ; 
on  a  white  hope  with  his  wife  and  the 
kids.    Margaret  also   kept  on  acting  to  c 
bring  in  money  to  promote  her  talented  ; 
family.  't 
It  was  during   one  of  these  financial  : 
fence-mending  spells  that  the  Great  Hal  J 
Tragedy  occurred.    They  laugh  about  it  r: 
now,    but    Debra    still    remembers    how  i 
terrible   she  felt   when   she   burned   uf  ^ 
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Is  "my  mother  won't  let  me"  your  complaint?  Then 
this  month  I  can  talk  to  you  from  a  movie  script! 


QJo  MANY  of  your  letters  begin,  "My 
parents  don't  understand,"  or,  "My 
mother  won't  let  me,"  or,  "If  you  can't 
talk  to  your  folks  what  do  you  do  when 
.  .  ."  Well,  I've  been  trying  my  best  to 
answer  this  and  other  types  of  teen-age 
problems.  I  don't  know  if  I've  always  suc- 
ceeded, but  something  wonderful  has  just 
happened  to  me.  I'm  making  a  movie  called 
On  The  Loose  that  really  illustrates  a 
teen-age  problem. 

I'd  like  to  tell  you  a  little  about  it.  The 
story  concerns  a  girl  who  is  neglected  by 
her  parents.  (I'm  the  girl,  and  I  just  loved 
playing  the  part.)  She  finds  love  outside 
her  home.  She  chases  around  with  a  lot  of 
boys  and  gets  a  bad  reputation.  Everyone 
begins  to  say  she's  "on  the  loose."  The  girl 
tries  to  talk  to  her  parents  but  her  mother 
is  too  busy  and  her  father,  on  hearing  her 
and  her  mother  quarreling,  thinks  they're 
just  a  couple  of  females  yaking.  Incidentally, 
Melvyn  Douglas  plays  my  father  and  he's 
so  fine.  But  that's  enough  about  On  The 
Loose.  What  I  really  want  to  talk  to  you 
about  is  the  problem  involved. 

I  got  a  letter  from  a  girl  in  Atlanta  who 
wrote,  "I'm  IS  but  my  mother  won't  let 
me  wear  lipstick,  even  though  all  the  girls 
in  my  class  do.  What  should  I  do?"  Well, 
I'd  like  to  address  my  answer  to  this  girl's 
mother.  If  all  the  girls  wear  lipstick  then 
I  think  your  daughter  should,  too.  Don't 
make  a  freak  of  her.  In  fact,  if  you  don't 
let  her  use  lipstick,  she  might  wear  it  be- 
hind your  back.  There's  nothing  wrong  with 
lipstick.  Anyway,  your  daughter  might  be- 
come so  rebellious  that  just  to  spite  you 
she  may  do  other  things  that  won't  meet 
with  your  approval.  If  she  does,  you'll  prob- 
ably say,  "She's  a  bad  girl."  But  honestly, 
the  only  reason  you  can  consider  her  bad  is 
because  she  wants  to  become  a  member  of 
her  group,  and  she  thinks  it's  worth  sneak- 
ing lipstick  to  do  it. 


You  know  how  I  feel.  There's  no  prob- 
lem between  parents  and  kids,  or  between 
anyone,  for  that  matter,  which  can't  be 
solved  by  calm  discussion.  Let  the  best 
argument  (and  I  don't  mean  fight)  win. 
But  this  month  a  lot  of  kids  have  written 
me  to  say  that  this  doesn't  work  with  their 
parents.  "I  try  to  tell  my  side  of  it,"  a 
girl  from  Denver  wrote,  "but  my  mother 
wouldn't  even  listen."  I  hope  that  her 
mother  sees  On  The  Loose,  because  that's 
exactly  what  Lynn  Bari,  who  is  my  mother 
in  the  picture,  didn't  do.  She  didn't  listen 
to  her  daughter's  problem. 

I  wish  I  could  persuade  this  girl's  mother 
to  try  to  understand  her  daughter.  Every- 
body would  be  a  lot  better  off.  Sure,  maybe 
your  girl  is  wrong.  But  she  certainly  has  a 
right  to  express  her  opinion.  And  you're  a 
lot  older  and  wiser  than  she — or  should  be 
— and  I'm  sure  she  would  be  willing  to 
listen  if  you  had  a  good  argument  to  put 
up  to  her. 

OH,  goll}',  I'm  so  full  of  this  subject 
and  I  think  it  is  so  important.  For- 
give me  if  my  enthusiasm  makes  me  sound 
off  too  violently. 

"I'm  IS,"  another  girl  writes.  "All  the 
others  in  my  class  are  dating — not  heavy 
dating,  just  going  to  picture  shows  with 
boys.  But  my  mother  says  she  didn't  date 
until  she  was  16,  so  I  can't  either.  I'm 
afraid  if  I  keep  turning  down  dates  until 
I'm  16  nobody  will  ever  ask  me." 

Well,  I  think  it's  unreasonable  for  a 
mother  to  want  her  daughter  to  behave 
exactly  as  she  did.  Perhaps,  in  the  mother's 
day,  girls  didn't  date  until  they  were  16. 
But  times  change.  And  if  all  the  kids  in 
this  girl's  class  are  dating  at  IS,  then  she 
should  be  allowed  to  go  along  with  the 
rest. 

I  not  only  enjoyed  making  On  The  Loose 
but  I  think  it  may  do  some  good.  It  may ' 


bring  a  lot  of  parents  to  a  realization  of 
their  responsibilities.  Sure,  I  know  that  a 
movie  can't  be  absolutely  true  to  life.  In 
this  movie  the  girl  is  so  misunderstood  that 
she  tries  to  commit  suidde.  Well,  that's  dra- 
matic and  looks  good  on  the  screen.  But,  hon- 
ritly,  a  lot  of  kids  have  written  me  that  they 
were  so  miserable  they  were  on  the  verge 
of  doing  something  drastic,  unless  they  could 
reach  some  sort  of  understanding  with  their 
parents. 

This  is  not  my  be-mad-at-parents  column. 
Lots  of  times  the  kids  are  wrong.  Lots  of 
times  kids  just  want  to  blame  their  mistakes 
on  their  parents.  And,  certainly,  teen-agers 
should  have  guidance  from  their  parents.  I 
don't  approve  of  a  12-year-old  wearing  lipstick. 
I  don't  think  a  12-year-old  should  go  steady. 
But  I  do  think  that  parents  should  explain 
to  this  12-year-old  why  she  can't  do  these 

.ings. 

I  guess  I've  taken  a  lot  of  words  to  say 
just  one  thing:  I  wish  there  could  be  a  better 
understanding  between  parents  and  kids.  I 

iih  parents  would  never  be  too  busy  to  discuss 
a  problem.  And  I  also  wish  that  the  kids  would 
take  their  problems  to  their  parents.  But  how 
can  they — ^unless  they're  sure  theyTl  receive 
understanding? 

7f  Bor  from  Washington,  D.  C,  wrote,  "'I 
want  to  be  a  singer.  I  told  this  to  my 
mother  and  father  but  they  laughed  at  me." 
I  wish  they  hadn't  done  that.  Nobody  should 
laugh  at  any  other  person's  ambition.  Maybe 
this  boy  will  never  be  a  good  singer,  but  he 
certainly  shouldn't  be  laughed  at  because  he 
wants  to  be. 

Those  parents  should  be  glad.  They  should 
find  out  whether  or  not  he  has  the  mak- 
ings of  a  voice  by  taking  him  to  a  teacher. 
If  the  teacher  says,  "No  go,"  then  he 
should  abide  by  that  professional  opinion. 
Or  if  he  has  a  fine  voice,  and  his  parents 
haven't  the  money  to  have  it  trained,  then 
this  should  be  explained  to  him.  I  think  that 
teen-agers,  on  the  whole,  are  pretty  reasonable 
when  they're  treated  like  reasonable  human 
beings.  Xobodj'  Ukes  to  be  laughed  at — and  this 
applies  to  grown-ups  as  well,  as  teen-agers.  If 
this  boy  really  can  sing,  and  has  the  ambition 
to  make  singing  his  career,  the  fact  that  his 
parents  can't  aSord  lessons  won't  stand  in  his 
way.  Somehow  he  wfll  find  the  way  to  get 
the  proper  lessons — thU  has  happened  so  many 
times  in  the  history  of  musicians  and  other 
ambitious  but  poor  artists. 

And  now  for  some  more  problems  that  have 
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"Dear  Joan:  I  have  read  that  you  wear 
glasses.  Do  you  wear  contact  lenses  in  pub- 
lic? I  wear  glasses  for  nearsightedness,  but 
don't  look  well  in  them,  and  I  can't  afiord 
contact  lenses. 

— C.T.,  Ann  Arbor,  ilich." 

I  wear  glasses  for  reading  and  for  movies.  I 
have  a  bad  astigmatism  in  one  eye,  but  I 
don't  wear  contact  lenses.  I  think  your  trouble 
is  that  you  don't  have  cute  glasses.  Today 
glasses  can  be  so  attractive,  dependent  upon 
the  t>-pe  of  frames  you  have.  If  I  were  you 
I'd  get  the  type  that  suits  my  face.  Your 
optician  can  advise  you  about  this.  I  shopped 
for  my  frames  as  carefuDy  as  I  shop  for  my 


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best  dress,  because  they're  just  as  important 
to  a  girl's  appearance. 

"Dear  Miss  Evans:  Would  you  please  ad- 
vise me  what  to  do  when  my  best  friend 
loses  her  temper  at  anything  I  ever  do  or  say. 

— A.N.,  Edmonton,  Alberta,  Canada." 

I'd  get  myself  another  best  girl  friend.  And 
I'm  not  being  funny.  People  who  can't  control 
their  tempers  should  be  taught  a  lesson.  If  you 
put  up  with  their  tempers,  they'U  only  get 
worse.  Don't  be  a  milk-toast  character.  But 
don't  lower  yourself  to  quarrel  with  her.  Tell 
her  you  can't  take  it — and  then  don't. 

"T^EAR  Joan:  For  three  years  I  have  been 
in  love  with  a  fellow  10  years  my 
senior.  He  left,  then  came  back,  and  told  me 
he  was  married.  Now  he  wants  me  to  go  out 
with  him  because  he  has  no  intention  of  stay- 
ing married.  I  don't  know  how  to  tell  the 
friends  who  know  about  us.  Please  advise  me. 

— S.G.,  Walton,  Ky." 

You  know  the  answer  as  well  as  I  do.  Of 
course  you  should  not  go  out  with  him.  No 
girl  should  go  out  with  a  married  man.  As  for 
telling  the  friends  who  knew  you  both  before 
he  was  married,  just  tell  them,  "I'm  not 
seeing  So-and-So  any  more  because  he's 
married."  It's  really  simple.  Sure,  you  may 
still  love  him,  but,  honey,  you  can't  risk  your 
reputation  by  going  out  with  a  married  man. 
"Dear  Joan:  I've  been  going  with  a  boy  for 
almost  two  years.  He's  been  called  into  the 
service.  Now  my  trouble  is,  should  I  be  the 
old  faithful,  or  should  I  go  out  with  others? 
I  may  not  see  him  again  for  a  couple  of  years. 
— R.O.,  Ridgewood,  N.  J." 

I  think  this  is  something  you  should  dis- 
cuss with  your  boy  friend.  If  you  love  him 
very  much  and  want  to  wait  for  him,  and  he 
wants  you  to  wait  for  him,  you  should  reach 
an  understanding.  But  he  can't  expect  you 
to  sit  at  home  night  after  night.  I  think,  if 
he  agrees,  you  ought  to  go  out  with  other  boys 
on  a  friendly  basis.  But,  as  I  say,  it  does 
depend  on  how  much  in  love  you  two  are. 
If  you're  really  in  love,  you  can  go  out  with 
other  boys  and  it  won't  affect  the  way  you 
feel  about  him. 

"Dear  Joan:  Ever  since  I  can  remember  I 
have  had  dark  rings  under  my  eyes.  Some 
people  think  it  is  from  staying  out  late,  but 
that's  not  true.  My  mother  has  them,  and 
so  has  my  grandmother.  It  makes  me  self- 
conscious.  I  hope  you  can  help  me. 

— S.M.,  St.  Paul,  Minn." 
Have  you  been  to  see  your  doctor?  He  may 
be  able  to  find  the  trouble  and  cure  this. 
That's  what  I'd  do  first.  If  he  can't— if  it  is 
congenital — then  I'd  wear  a  light  coating  of 
makeup.  There  are  several  things  on  the  market 
to  conceal  blemishes.  But,  if  you  do  this,  don't 
put  it  on  too  thick.  That  will  just  make  it 
look  worse. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  met  a  boy  who  is  not  able 
to  walk.  He  takes  me  to  school  every  morning 
in  his  car.  He  likes  me  and  I  like  him.  Do  you  j 
think  I  should  go  with  him  or  not? 

— M.R.,  Warren,  Mich." 
I  certainly  don't  see  what  difference  it  makes 
whether  the  boy  can  walk  or  not — if  you 
like  each  other.  And  if  your  parents  approve. 
After  all,  you're  very  young,  so  it  isn't  as 
if  you  had  to  decide  whether  or  not  you're 


going  to  marry  the  boy.  There  is  no  reason 
in  the  world  why  you  shouldn't  continue 
being  very  good  friends. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  am  16  and  I  believe  in  going 
with  a  lot  of  girls  till  I  find  the  right  one. 
Any  girl  will  go  with  me,  but  I  can't  ex- 
plain to  a  girl  that  I  don't  like  her  any 
more.  Right  now  I'm  supposed  to  be  going 
steady  with  five  girls.  What  should  I  do? 
— N.N.,  Shorewood,  Wis." 

Tn  the  first  place,  I  think  you're  quite  a 
*  conceited  boy  for  saying  "any  girl  will  go 
with  me."  I  wish  some  girl  would  give  you  a 
rousing  "No" — I  think  it  would  do  you  a 
lot  of  good.  Also,  since  you  don't  believe  in 
going  steady,  I  don't  see  how  you  get  yourself 
in  a  jam  like  this.  Why  can't  you  explain 
to  the  girls  immediately  that  you're  not  the 
going-steady  type?  But  since  you  haven't, 
there's  only  one  thing  to  do  now.  You  have  to 
be  fair,  and  you  have  to  be  honest.  You  must 
mend  your  fences,  boy,  by  explaining  the  sit- 
uation to  every  one  of  the  five  girls  and  taking 
the  consequences.  You'll  never  grow  up  un- 
less you  do. 

"Dear  Joan:  I  tried  your  diet  to  lose  weight 
but  it  just  doesn't  help,  mostly  because  I'm  con- 
stantly hungry.  After  school  I  eat  candy  and  all 
sorts  of  sweets.  Then  I  eat  a  large  dinner  and 
before  bed  I  eat  more  sweets.  What  do  you 
suggest  I  do? 

— S.S.,  Falmouth,  Ky" 
I  suggest  you  get  a  little  will  power.  Of 
course  you're  constantly  hungry  when  you're  on 
a  reducing  diet — that's  the  idea.  But  there's  only 
one  way  to  make  a  diet  work — and  that  is 
to  stick  on  it.  You  tell  me  my  diet  doesn't 
help.  My  diet  works,  honey,  but  you're  not 
giving  it  a  chance.  You  have  to  make  up 
your  mind  what  you  want — a  nice  figure  or 
the  few  moments  of  pleasure  when  you're 
filling  yourself  with  sweets.  Even  if  you  don't 
care  about  a  good  figure  all  that  candy 
is  very,  very  bad  for  your  health.  So  get 
smart  and  stop  stuffing  yourself. 

That  winds  it  up  for  another  month.  Let 
me  tell  you  again  how  I  wish  I  could  answer 
all  your  letters,  but  it  just  isn't  possible.  I  try 
to  pick  the  most  typical  ones  so  that  one  answer 
will  do  for  dozens.  So  'bye  now.  See  you  ! 

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■  Always  tasty 

and  tender. . .  always 
fresh  and  wholesome. 
No  wonder  so  many  folks 
—  young  and  old — are 
joining  the  big  "Swing 
To  Switzer's." 

BUY  Sv/itzer's  in  the  handy 
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SWITZER'S  •  ST. LOUIS 


flight  from  yesterday 

(Continued  from  page  51)  reported  the 
romance  was  not  kidding."  And  two  days 
later,  every  tabloid  in  the  country  head- 
lined Miss  di  Leo's  own  view  of  the  sub- 
ject. "I  am  confident  that  my  Bob  would 
marry  me  if  I  said  the  word,"  she  said. 
"But  I  would  rather  we  just  stayed  good 
friends." 

The  only  person  left  to  comment  was 
Bob  himself,  and  soon  he  did.  "I'm  not 
going  to  carry  on  a  transcontinental  argu- 
ment," he  said,  "but  I  do  not  plan  to  marry 
anyone  at  the  present  time." 

At  the  present  time.  Bob  obviously 
plans  to  "live."  Some  people  would  call 
it  "having  a  fling."  To  Taylor,  however, 
it  probably  means  that  now  at  last  he 
will  find  himself. 

Tn  Italy  he  found  himself  going  out  with 
a  different  girl  every  night,  and  he 
started  making  all  sorts  of  friends  with 
an  ease  and  abandon  that  was  new  to  him 
indeed.  He  developed  a  faculty  for  ap- 
pearing in  places  imexpectedly  with  com- 
panions who  would  not  know  a  social 
register  if  it  dropped  on  them.  And  one 
day  he  appeared  in  New  York,  after  he 
had  impulsively  headed  the  nose  of  his 
plane  in  that  direction. 

He  walked  into  one  of  New  York's 
smart  cabarets  and  gaily  greeted  his  ac- 
quaintances. Then  he  sat  down  to  dine 
with  the  Rex  Harrisons.  He  ordered 
champagne  with  a  festive  air,  toasted  his 
hostess,  and  settled  back  on  the  banquette 
and  sighed,  "It's  wonderful  to  be  foot-loose 
and  fancy-free!" 

Sitting  at  a  nearby  table  was  a  promi- 
nent columnist  who  was  busily  putting 
two  and  two  together.  He  leaned  toward 
Bob  with  a  confidential  smile.  "You're 
on  your  way  to  Europe,  aren't  you,  Mr. 
Taylor?" 

Mr.  Taylor  shrugged  his  shoulders. 
"Heck,  no!"  he  said.  "I'm  too  happy  to 
be  back  from  Italy.  It's  great  to  be  here, 
and  I  doubt  if  I'll  ever  leave  the  U.S.A. 
again." 

The  columnist  raised  his  eyebrows  and 
himself  as  he  slid  into  a  chair  next  to  Bob. 

"What  about  the  gal  in  Italy?"  he  asked. 

Taylor  fixed  him  with  a  cool  gaze. 
"What  about  her?  I'm  here,  aren't  I?  Is 
she  with  me?" 

The  columnist  took  a  quick  look  aroimd 
then  he  shifted  his  talk.  "Well,  what 
about  your  romantic  life  now  that  you  and 
Barbara  have — " 

"Well,  what  about  it?"  asked  Taylor. 
"I've  got  nothing  to  hide.  My  social  life's 
an  open  book  these  days.  In  fact,  every- 
body's got  into  the  act,  I've  read  so  many 
different  things  about  myself  that  half  the 
time  even  I  can't  keep  up  with  what  I'm 
supposed  to  be  doing." 

But  everyone  else  is  keeping  up  to  date 
for  him.  Especially  in  Hollywood.  There 
everyone  from  the  stock  girls  to  the  stars, 
from  the  gateman  to  the  top  executive, 
from  the  waitress  to  the  set  designer  is 
holding  forth  on  the  name  and  chances  of 
Bob's  latest  flame. 

His  latest  happens  to  be  a  ravishing 
blonde  ingenue  by  the  name  of  Sybil 
Merrit.  Sybil  and  her  friends  are  showing 
Bob  a  side  of  life  he  never  knew,  and 
never  had  time  to  wonder  about.  She 
takes  him  to  places  that  can't  even  afford 
a  head-waiter. 

A  T  least  50  people  can  tell  you  of  an 
episode  that  occurred  very  recently  at 
a  small  Hollywood  nightclub.  Bob  walked 
in  (casually  dressed  in  a  soft  blue  sports 
shirt,  gray  flannels  and  moccasins)  with 
Sybil.  The  people  already  there  were 
Sybil's  friends — musicians,  extras,  secre- 
taries and  college  kids.    Like  her,  they 


weren't  famous,  or  wealthy,  but  they 
were  on  their  way,  they  were  sure,  to  be- 
coming both.  Sybil,  herself  had  starred 
in  a  movie,  but  not  for  much  money  or 
publicity. 

Anyway,  these  people  greeted  Sybil  and 
gave  her  escort  a  passing  glance. 

It  would  never  have  occurred  to  any  of 
them  that  Bob  Taylor  would  deign  to 
mingle  w-ith  them.  So  Taylor  w-ent  \in- 
noticed  until  Sybil  introduced  him  in  an 
off-hand  manner  to  her  pals.  There  was 
an  expressive  pause  in  the  conversation, 
followed  by  a  stiffening  of  the  vocal  mus- 
cles of  those  present.  Gradually,  the  talk 
began  again,  but  somehow  Taylor  and 
Sybil  found  themselves  excluded. 

Bob  finally  said  to  Sybil.  "What's  the 
matter?   Don't  your  friends  like  me?" 

Sybil  laughed.  "You  forget  .  .  .  you're 
Mr.  Robert  Taylor,  and  out  of  their 
league.    They're  a  little  in  awe  of  you." 

"But  that's  silly,"  Bob  said.  "I  like 
these  kids.  I  w-ant  them  to  be  my  friends." 

After  that.  Bob  made  a  special  effort  at 
conversation,  and  Sybil's  friends  sensed 
his  sincerity.  Soon  they'd  almost  forgot- 
ten who  he  was  in  the  general  gaietj'. 

As  the  group  broke  up,  an  extra  who 
was  walking  out  of  the  door  with  his  date 
marvelled,  "Do  you  realize  I've  worked 
in  at  least  10  pictures  with  Taylor,  and 
tonight  was  the  first  time  I've  ever  gotten 
to  know  him?   He's  really  a  great  guyl" 

Bob  made  many  friends  that  night — just 
as  he  lost  many  when  he  divorced  Bar- 
bara, who  is  one  of  the  most  beloved 
women  in  Hollywood. 

Until  recently,  Taylor  was  always  con- 
sidered hard  to  know — a  little  high  hat  and 
exclusive,  but  he's  changed  all  that  in  his 
search  for  the  new  man.  He  goes  out  of 
his  way  to  talk  to  people  to  whom  he's 
said  only  hello  in  the  years  gone  by. 

The  other  day  he  stopped  a  young  con- 


tract player  in  front  of  the  shoe  stand  on 
the  Metro  lot. 

"Hi,  Nancy,"  he  said.  Nancy  nearly 
passed  out. 

"Why,  Mr.  Taylor,"  she  murmured,  "I'm 
so  glad  to  see  you  back." 

"Glad  to  be  back,"  he  said,  heartily. 
"Say,  I  caught  your  preview  last  night. 
You  were  great." 

"I  only  had  a  bit,"  said  the  amazed  girl. 
"But  thanks." 

"You're  welcome,"  said  Taylor.  "Keep 
it  up,  Nancy,  and  you'll  go  places." 

"Thank  you,  Mr.  Taylor,"  said  the  girl, 
weakly. 

"Name's  Bob,"  said  Taylor,  and  saun- 
tered off  with  a  wave  and  a  smile. 

'7"'aylor  changed?  He's  changed  all 
A  Holly^voOd  into  pseudo-psychiatrists. 
They  sit  and  talk  about  him  and  his  mo- 
tives. Recently,  a  well-kno%\'n  agent  and 
so-called  friend  of  Bob,  was  dining  in 
Lucey's  Restaurant  and  airing  his  theory. 

"I  know  why  Bob  and  Barbara  broke 
up,  '  he  said.  "She  mothered  him  too  much. 
Remember  when  she  gave  him  that  new 
convertible?  She  even  told  him  how  to 
drive  iti" 

Could  this  be  part  of  the  answer?  Ac- 
tually, Barbara  is  not  a  domineering  wom- 
an. Possibly,  she  may  have  felt  an  urgent 
need  in  Bob  for  someone  to  lean  on.  It 
was  only  natural  (if  that  need  existed) 
that  he  should  lean  on  her,  for  they  were 
inseparable.  It  might  have  seemed  strange 
to  Barbara  that  her  husband  who  por- 
trayed such  strong  and  mature  roles  on 
the  screen  was  turning  to  her  for  advice 
and  comfort  on  trivial  problems. 

But  Bob  isn't  weak.  He  is  a  \-irile  and 
determined  man,  although  it's  true  that 
he  had  little  knowledge  of  life  and  women 
until  he  met  Barbara.  Way  back  in  his 
pre-medical    days    at    Pomona  College 


(which  is  not  co-educational)  Bob  was 
considered  a  grind.  He  was  an  honor 
student,  active  in  sports,  a  prominent 
member  of  the  Phi  Delta  TTheta  fraternity. 
But  he  had  little  time  for  frivoUty,  he 
made  few  friendships,  and  girls  were  not 
yet  a  part  of  his  life. 

An  incident  that  happened  in  Korea  a 
few  months  ago  will  illuminate  this  point. 
A  group  of  soldiers  discovered  that  one  of 
their  buddies  had  been  a  fraternity 
brother  of  Taylor.  "Boy, "  one  of  them 
said,  "I  bet  Taylor  was  a  hit  with  the 
womenl" 

Taylor's  frat  brother  laughed.  "Are  you 
kidding?  You  couldn't  get  that  guy  out 
of  his  room.  He  was  more  interested  in 
calculus  and  catgut  than  he  was  in  girls. 
Everj'  dame  in  tovm  used  to  ask  me  to  fix 
up  a  blind  date  wdth  Arlington  Brugh — 
but  Taylor  nixed  it.  He  preferred  to 
study.  You  know,  I  honestly  think  that 
Barbara  Stanwyck  was  his  furst  girl." 

Barbara  was  his  first  girl.  And  for  12 
years  he  never  wanted  another.  Even  the 
war  didn't  separate  them.  If  anj'thing,  it 
brought  them  closer  together.  But  then 
came  his  recent  trip  to  Europe,  and  all  the 
hidden  impulses  ^^.d  resentments  he  ever 
had  seemed  to  rise  to  the  surface. 

Suddenly  he  may  have  felt  the  need  to 
prove  to  himself  that  he  could  stand  on  his 
own  two  feet,  though  no  one  had  ever 
doubted  that  he  could.  But  it  was  himself 
that  counted  now,  and  he  may  have  felt 
that  his  marriage  had  robbed  him  of  two 
basic  necessities — the  right  to  assume  the 
responsibilitj'  thnast  upon  most  married 
men  at  a  much  earher  age,  and  the  right 
to  crystallize  as  an  individual.  'Whether 
this  is  the  case  or  not.  Bob  Taylor  has 
made  a  decision.  He's  leaving  the  past 
far  behind  him,  and  he's  heading  on  his 
own,  straight  into  the  unknown  future. 
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report  on  a  bride 


(Continued  from  page  37)  So  went  the 
words  of  the  ecstatically — or  as  Ruth  mala- 
propped  esthetically — happy  bride. 

"But  don't  expect  me  to  gush  about 
being  married,"  she  said.  "I  think  people 
make  a  big  mistake  doing  that.  Too  many 
people  find  they  can't  live  up  to  that 
first  enthusiasm.  Both  Morty  and  I  have 
been  married  before.  We've  gone  into 
marriage  with  our  eyes  wide  open. 

"It  wasn't  any  whirlwind,  spur  of  the 
moment  marriage  the  way  so  many  people 
seem  to  believe  it  was,"  she  insisted.  "We 
talked  over  any  problems  which  might 
come  up.  For  instance,  he  insisted  it 
was  a  man's  privilege  to  provide  the  house 
for  his  wife,  so  I  gave  mine  to  my  mother 
and  we  came  straight  from  Las  Vegas  to 
the  house  he'd  rented  when  he  first  came 
out  here.  And  he  understands  how  im- 
portant it  is  to  me  to  have  a  career  of  my 
own.  Sympathetically,  too.  You  see,  his 
mother  is  publisher  of  the  New  York  Post. 
She's  a  vital  woman  who  can't  sit  back 
and  relax  any  more  than  I  can." 

TPhis  was  still  the  Ruth  Roman  I'd  known 
when  she  was  a  minor  Selznick  con- 
tract player — the  girl  who  didn't  realize 
that  in  signing  a  $75-a-week-with-option 
contract,  she'd  put  herself  in  the  caste 
of  a  possible  starlet.  It  was  as  such  that  I, 
a  Selznick  publicist,  regarded  her  when 
we  first  talked  in  the  dingy,  but  popular 
coffee  shop  just  outside  the  studio  gates 
back  in  those  days.  She  gave  me  a  good 
jolt  then,  but  I  soon  learned  that  I  wasn't 
the  only  one  she  could  startle. 

Knowing  her,  I  am  sure  that  whatever 
the  argument  was  about  that  day  at  the 
21  Club  with  Mortimer  Hall,  Ruth  started 
it  with  her  charming  frankness. 

It's  the  same  technique  she  used  to 
momentarily  divert  David  O.  Selznick's 
attention  from  Duel  In  The  Sun,  a  movie 
that  had  him  completely  obsessed. 

She  reached  his  inner  office,  over  the 
heads  of  countless  aides,  demanding  to  be 
released  from  her  contract.  When  he  asked 
why,  she  answered,  "I'm  not  getting  any- 
where. All  I  do  is  get  a  paycheck  every 
week.  I  don't  do  a  bit  of  work." 

"But  Ruth,"  he  reminded  her.  "Just 
last  week  we  had  a  chance  to  lend  you  to 
a  small  independent  studio  and  you  turned 
down  the  picture." 

"Of  course,"  she  answered  indignantly. 
"I  didn't  think  that  quickie  picture  was 
any  good." 

"But  it  cost  us  money  to  have  you  turn 
it  down,  yet  we  let  you  have  your  way," 
he  pointed  out. 

"Money!  What  does  that  mean  when  the 
picture  might  have  ruined  my  career  be- 
fore I  got  started!" 

Selznick  threw  back  his  head  and 
laughed,  but  he  didn't  release  her.  Instead 
he  sent  her  off  to  New  York,  still  under 
contract  to  him,  as  a  prospective  actress 
for  Broadway  producers  to  consider.  After 
six  months  when  nothing  came  up,  she 
threw  her  book  at  Selznick's  New  York 
man  by  announcing,  "I'm  bored.  I'm  going 
back  to  California." 

"But  Mr.  Selznick  told  me  to  line  up 
summer  theater  work  for  you,"  the  man 
protested. 

"Summer  theater!  I've  done  six  full  sum- 
mers of  that  already!"  she  stormed  and 
took  a  train  back  to  California — and  her 
release,  too.  Selznick  sent  her  a  beau- 
tiful letter  expressing  his  confidence  in 
her  eventual  success,  and  his  regret  that 
he  couldn't  do  anything  at  the  moment. 

\  s  everyone  knows,  Ruth  found  others 
who  could  do  much  for  her  profession- 
ally after  she  left  Selznick.     She's  been 
pretty  much  a  career  girl,  though  not  one 


of  those  upon  whom  men  showered  dia- 
monds.   But  now  the  story's  different. 

For  the  first  time  in  her  life,  Ruth  is 
learning  what  it's  like  to  receive  really 
magnificent  gifts.  Mort  started  her  off  with 
a  wonderful  wild  mink  coat  as  a  wedding 
present,  followed  it  with  a  Jaguar,  a  sen- 
sational foreign-made  car,  and  then  on 
Valentine's  Day  gave  her  diamond  ear- 
rings which  he'd  personally  designed. 

"And  to  show  you  how  practical  he  is, 
he  worked  out  the  design  so  I  can  wear 
them  as  pins  as  well,"  she  said.  "Speaking 
of  being  practical,  he  also  had  some  sort 
of  a  gadget  installed  in  the  bedroom  so 
that  when  I  wake  in  the  morning,  all  I 
have  to  do  is  reach  out  my  hand  and  press 
a  button  to  start  the  coffee  downstairs.  By 
the  time  I  get  down,  the  coffee's  made  and 
waiting  for  me.  Isn't  that  wonderful!" 

So  is  the  diamond  bracelet  which  Mort's 
mother,  Dorothy  Schiff,  gave  her  at  the 
end  of  a  flying  visit  out  West  to  meet  her 
new  daughter-in-law.  During  that  visit, 
Mrs.  Schiff  confessed  that  when  she'd 
heard  the  news  of  their  marriage,  she 
called  her  yoimger  daughter  and  asked, 
"What  kind  of  actress  is  she?" 

"Oh,  she's  the  one  who's  always  preg- 
nant and  doesn't  have  a  husband,  or  can't 
get  a  husband,  or  is  getting  married  at  the 
end  of  a  gun,"  came  the  answer. 

When  Don  Taylor  was  alerted  to 
stand  by  for  another  sequel  to 
Father  of  the  Bride  and  Father's 
Little  Dividend  with  Liz  Taylor,  he 
quipped,  "The  only  thing  they  can 
possibly  call  it  is:  Father  Stops  The 

Divorce,"       Erskinc  Johnson  in  the 

Serif ps-Hoimrd  newspapers 

"Then  the  first  picture  she  saw  me  in 
after  that,  I  played  a  lush,"  Ruth  grins. 
"None  of  that  scared  her.  She's  a  won- 
derful woman." 

Mrs.  Schiff  has  been  about  their  only 
guest.  Ruth  is  troubled  that  she  and  Mort 
have  been  on  the  receiving  end  of  so  much 
party-giving. 

"We  simply  haven't  had  a  chance  to 
retaliate,"  she  says  in  another  one  of  those 
famous  malapropisms.  "We  feel  we'd  rather 
wait  until  we  can  entertain  in  our  own 
home." 

They've  already  bought  a  nine  room  New 
England  colonial  house,  complete  with 
svwmming  pool,  in  Brentwood.  They  can't 
take  possession,  though,  imtil  the  present 
occupant's  lease  expires. 

"And  was  that  his  purchase?"  I  asked. 

"Ours,"  she  answered.  "I  believe  that 
after  a  couple  is  married,  everything 
should  be  'ours'  not  'his'  or  'hers.'  And 
that's  the  way  I  hope  it  will  always  be  with 
us.  I  like  being  married  to  Morty.  He's  the 
first  man  who  has  ever  dominated  me.  But 
he  does  it  in  such  nice  ways,  and  all  from 
the  standpoint  of  my  welfare  and  happi- 
ness. When  I'm  working,  he  sees  to  it  that 
I  go  to  bed  at  nine  o'clock.  He  insists 
upon  getting  up  at  six  with  me,  too.  He 
doesn't  have  to  be  at  klac  until  hours 
later,  but  he  gets  up  anyway.  He  goes  out 
to  make  sure  the  car's  in  good  running 
order,  sees  to  it  that  I  have  everything 
I  need  for  the  day  and — well,  he  just  looks 
after  me.  And  worries  about  me,  too. 

"The  other  night  when  we'd  been  shoot- 
ing scenes  on  location,  I  didn't  get  home 
until  a  little  after  midnight.  I  was  as- 
tonished to  find  Mort  pacing  the  floor, 
I  just  hadn't  stopped  to  think  I  should  call 
and  let  him  know  I  would  be  later  than 
usual.  You  know,"  she  said  thoughtfully, 
"it's  been  so  long  since  anyone  worried 
about  me.  I  never  used  to  tell  anyone 
where  I  was  going  or  when  I  was  coming 
back — except,  of  course,  the  studio.  I  al- 
ways kept  the  studio  informed." 

I  chuckled  at  that  last  statement.  One 
night,  a  while  back,  Ruth  rang  me  at 


home  saying  very  calmly,  "Is  it  all  right 
for  me  to  go  to  the  hospital  for  an  emer- 
gency appendectomy?" 

"What  are  you  talking  about?"  I  asked. 

"The  doctor's  here,  sind  he  says  I  have 
to  go  right  to  the  hospital  and  have  my 
appendix  out." 

"Do  you  want  me  to  go  with  you?"  I 
asked,  puzzled. 

"Oh,  no.  I  just  thought  I  ought  to  get 
permission  from  the  studio  and  you  could 
give  it  to  me." 

"Oh,  good  heavens!"  I  fairly  screamed 
into  the  telephone,  "Get  going!" 

'T'hat  wasn't  long  after  our  first  meeting 
in  the  dingy  little  coffee  shop  outside 
the  Selznick  gates.  Then  I'd  simply  been 
going  through  a  routine  publicist's  job  of 
getting  the  new  starlet's  backgroiind  so 
the  information  could  be  filed  away  for 
future  use.  She  opened  up  so  eagerly,  but 
somewhere  along  the  line  she  sensed  I 
wasn't  urgently  interested  right  then. 

"Look,"  she  said.  "I'm  an  actress.  Some- 
day I'm  going  to  be  as  big  in  this  town 
as  Bette  Davis  is.  Remember  that." 

I  wish  I  could  say  I  knew  right  then 
that  she  would  be.  I'm  afraid  that  I  only 
thought  to  myself,  "Not  xmtil  you've 
smoothed  off  an  awful  lot  of  rough  edges, 
baby!" 

A  few  days  later,  I  was  supervising  an 
art  layout  on  Ruth.  It  was  the  usual  leg 
art  procedure.  While  she  was  posing  I 
heard  a  voice  say,  "Oh,  to  have  legs  like 
yours!"  Looking  up,  I  saw  Rosalind  Rus- 
sell, skirts  lifted  high  to  reveal  her  legs 
which  had  been  padded  liberally  to  look 
like  Sister  Kenny's.  I  saw  the  star  take  a 
longer  look  as  Ruth  answered,  "And,  oh, 
to  get  a  chance  to  act  with  legs  like  those, 
Miss  Russell!" 

Well,  that's  enough  to  give  you  an  idea 
of  how  Ruth  made  it  clear  that  she  was 
going  to  be  right  up  there  among  the  best. 
By  the  time  she  left  Selznick,  she  had  a 
lot  of  people  pulling  for  her,  people  who 
wished  they  had  the  power  to  give  her 
that  break.  Those  people  moved  aroimd, 
too  .  .  .  Dore  Schary,  for  instance. 

When  he  became  head  of  production  at 
RKO  Studios,  Ruth  called  his  office.  Mary 


Rettick,  who  had  been  Selznick's  secretary 
and  one  of  Ruth's  boosters,  was  now  work- 
ing for  Schary.  She  explained  to  Ruth  re- 
gretfully, "Well,  I  don't  know,  Ruth.  Mr. 
Schary's  awfully  busy  right  now.  I  don't 
know  whether  he'll  have  time  to  see  you 
or  not." 

"Well,  you  tell  him  for  me,  that  I  think 
he's  got  a  big  head  now!"  Ruth  quipped. 
Within  a  few  hours,  Mary  called  her  back 
saying,  "Mr.  Schary  will  see  you  here  at 
12  tomorrow." 

Ruth  was  there  and  right  on  the  dot  of 
12,  Dore  Schary  came  out  of  his  office  say- 
ing, "Miss  Roman,  forgive  me,  but  may 
I  keep  you  waiting  for  just  a  few  mo- 
ments?" 

When  she  was  ushered  into  his  office, 
Dore  grinned  widely  at  her.  "Well,  so  I'm 
a  big  head  now.  I  really  am  busy,  you 
know.  Getting  started  and  so  much  to  line 
up  creates  a  lot  of  problems." 

Realizing  she'd  been  told  on,  Ruth  con- 
tinued the  act,  "Well,  why  can't  you  line 
up  a  good  picture  for  Ruth  Roman  while 
you're  about  it?" 

Thus  came  the  role  in  RKO's  The  Win- 
dow. That  performance  persuaded  Stanley 
Klramer  to  take  the  recommendation  of  his 
partner,  George  Glass,  to  cast  her  in  The 
Champion.  And  that  performance  took  her 
into  Warners'  pictures  with  columnists 
saying  she  was  being  readied  to  take  Bette 
Davis'  placei 

"You  always  start  something  good  for 
yourself  when  you  light  into  people  the 
way  you  did  Selznick,  Schary,  and  some 
others,"  I  said.  "Who've  you  been  heckling 
lately?" 

"Oh,  I've  sort  of  lost  that  brashness," 
she  answered.  "I'm  sort  of  sorry,  too." 

"But  you  hadn't  lost  it  when  you  met 
Mortimer  Hall,  huh?"  I  teased.  "Glad  of 
that,  aren't  you?" 

She  grinned  happUy. 

So  it  would  seem  that  in  acquiring  her 
screen  success,  and  the  husband  of  her 
dreams,  Ruth  Roman  has  what  she  set  hei 
heart  on  long  ago  when  she  came  out  to 
Hollywood  to  make  a  life  for  herself. 

In  a  way,  this  is  even  more  romantic  than 
any  honeymoon  story  could  hope  to  be. 
The  End 


love  comes  last 

(Continued  from  page  52)  were  rather 
elderly  when  she  was  bom. 

"All  Jane  wants,"  one  intimate  insisted, 
"is  a  happy  home  and  family.  Give  her 
that,  and  you'll  see  an  entirely  different 
girl.   She'll  probably  quit  the  screen." 

As  everyone  knows,  Jane  didn't  quit 
the  screen.  Even  after  she  married  Ronald 
Reagan,  even  after  their  two  children, 
Maureen  and  Michael,  came  along — Jsine 
Wyman  didn't  quit.  If  anything,  she 
tackled  her  career  with  new  vigor. 

After  her  first  substantial  role  opposite 
Ray  Milland  in  The  Lost  Weekend,  there 
was  no  stopping  her.  She  seemed  obsessed 
by  a  desire  to  develop  into  a  first-rate 
dramatic  actress. 

There  are  some  who  say  that  Jane 
Wyman  has  always  been  career  conscious. 
■'If  she  had  given  up  her  acting,"  one  of 
her  colleagues  recently  pointed  out,  "I 
think  she  would  still  be  married  to 
Ronnie;  or  she  might  never  even  have 
divorced  her  first  husband,  Myron  Fut- 
terman." 

Jane  married  Myron  Futterman,  a  cloth- 
ing manufacturer,  on  June  29,  1937.  She 
hardly  ever  mentions  his  name,  largely 
because  she  has  a  faculty  of  completely 
forgetting  any  portion  of  her  past  she 
dislikes.  Actually,  Jane  was  married  to 
Futterman  on.y  a  year  or  so,  after 
which  time  Jane  told  the  court  that  Fut- 


terman engaged  in  the  very  disagreeable 
habit  of  comparing  her  unfavorably  with 
the  previous  Mrs.  Futterman.  The  mental 
agony  this  caused  her  proved  to  be  in- 
tolerable, and  she  asked  the  judge  to  grant 
her  a  divorce.  On  November  11,  1938, 
he  did. 

Less  than  two  years  later,  "Plain  Jane" 
(that's  what  she  used  to  call  herself)  and 
"Dutch"  Reagan  (that's  what  she  used  to 
call  him)  were  married  in  Glendale  at  the 
Wee  Kirk  o'  the  Heather. 

Like  the  Barbara  Stanwyck-Robert  Tay- 
lor marriage,  this  one  was  offered  as  the 
classic  example  of  how  man  and  wife 
might  enjoy  both  career  and  home.  For 
eight  years,  Jane  and  Ronnie  sat  at  the 
head  of  HolljAvood's  marital  class. 

When  Jane  annoimced  that  she  and 
Ronnie  were  going  to  separate,  everyone 
was  shocked,  but  the  wise  guys  on  Holly- 
wood BoTilevard  had  an  immediate  answer. 
"It's  a  snap,"  they  said.  "The  dame's  mad- 
ly in  love  with  Lew  Ayres.  Has  been 
ever  since  they  made  Johnny  Belinda.  It's 
as  simple  as  that." 

But  nothing  about  Jane  Wyman  is 
simple.  And.  as  it  turned  out,  she  didn't 
divorce  Ronnie  Reagan  because  she  was 
in  love  with  Ayres.  She  divorced  him 
because  she  was  tired  of  him,  or,  as  she 
told  the  court,  tired  of  his  politics. 

"It  was  politics,  your  Honor,"  she  testi- 
fied, "which  biiilt  the  barrier  between  us." 
She  had  tried  to  make  his  interests  a  part 
of  her  life  she  confessed,   "but  finally. 


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there  was  nothing  in  common  between  us, 
nothing  to  sustain  our  marriage." 

"Were  your  husband's  political  activi- 
ties connected  with  his  profession?"  Judge 
Thurmond  Clark  asked. 

"Yes,"  Jane  said.  "He  was  president  of 
the  Screen  Actors'  Guild,  and  most  of  their 
discussions  were  far  above  me." 

Jane  was  given  custody  of  the  two 
children,  and  Ronnie  was  ordered  to  con- 
tribute $500  a  month  towards  their  sup- 
port.   Jane  asked  for  no  alimony. 

"D  EAGAN  who  is  very  rarely  without 
words,  was-  speechless.  "It's  impossi- 
ble for  me  to  believe,"  he  kept  saying.  "I 
don't  know  what  made  her  do  it.  I  can't 
understand  why  she  wanted  a  divorce." 

Friends  of  Ronnie  suggested  that  his 
loquaciousness  might  have  been  at  fault. 
One  or  two  writers  suggested  that  Jane 
was  overworked  and  exhausted  from  The 
Yearling,  Magic  Town,  and  Johnny  Be- 
linda. Only  Jane  knew  the  truth,  and  it 
was  pretty  complex. 

At  this  point,  Jane  started  seeing  a 
good  deal  of  Lew  Ayres.  Photographers 
began  recording  their  every  date  and 
Ayres  was  furious.  One  night  when  he 
took  Jane  to  watch  Kay  Thompson  at  the 
Beverly  Wilshire  Hotel,  he  almost  started 
a  fight  with  a  photographer.  Two  Sun- 
days later  when  he  took  Jane  down  to 
San  Diego  to  meet  his  parents,  a  reporter 
asked  for  the  story.  Neither  Lew  nor 
Jane  would  say  a  word  to  him.  Jane  was 
told  that  she  was  becoming  unpopular 
with  the  press. 

"Listen,"  she  said,  "ever  since  my  di- 
vorce I've  almost  had  to  turn  into  a 
recluse.  If  I'm  seen  with  anyone,  it  sud- 
denly becomes  a  big  thing,  a  big  love 
affair.  Ronnie  goes  out  with  lots  of  girls, 
and  no  one  says  anything." 

That's  why  Jane  is  shy  about  Greg  Baut- 
zer.  The  press  had  turned  her  friendship 
with  Lew  Ayres  into  a  full-blown  engage- 
ment when  it  had  been,  "just  a  pleasant, 
platonic  companionship." 

Jane  realizes  that  in  gossip-himgry 
Hollywood  she  and  Bautzer  are  news.  She 
doesn't  mind  that  so  much,  but  she  re- 
sents the  attempt  to  link  her  with  Bautzer 
in  a  torrid  love  affair.  It's  not  that  Jane 
is  incapable  of  love.  It's  just  that  she's 
had  it;  she  knows  what  it  is,  and  she  isn't 
wearing  her  heart  on  her  sleeve. 

To  her,  at  this  moment,  the  most  im- 
portant things  in  life  are  her  children  and 
her  career,  although  she  doesn't  under- 
estimate the  role  of  men. 

Recently  she  said,  "I  suppose  most  peo- 
ple think  career  girls  are  not  faced  with 
the  same  problems  that  daily  confront 
other  girls.  Actually,  the  problem  of  the 
career  girl  is  even  greater,  and  she  must 
make  a  special  effort.  She  is  likely  to 
seem  self-sufficient  because  her  work  has 
to  come  first;  but  she  also  wants  to  be 
courted  and  admired  by  men." 

RIGHT  now,  Jane  is  being  courted  and 
admired  by  Greg  Bautzer,  who  enjoys 
the  reputation  of  being  one  of  the  greatest 
suitors  of  them  all.  Despite  his  reputa- 
tion, however,  Jane  refuses  to  date  him 
while  working. 

Having  just  finished  Here  Comes  The 
Groom  with  Bing  Crosby,  she  is  currently 
hard  at  work  on  The  Blue  Veil  with 
Charles  Laughton,  and  after  that  she'll  do 
the  Ruth  Chatterton  novel  Homeward 
Bourne.  She  is  on  loan-out  from  her  home 
studio,  Warner  Brothers,  and  receives 
$100,000  a  picture. 

Jane  is  practically  the  only  top-flight 
actress  never  to  have  been  suspended  by 
her  studio,  Warner  Brothers.  She's  taken 
every  role  given  to  her  and  has  co- 
operated with  the  studio  in  every  way. 

She  still  sees  a  lot  of  Ronnie  Reagan, 
and  occasionally  she  dates  Mannie  Sachs, 


a  recording  company  ofBcial.  But  actually 
she  works  so  hard  and  so  consistently 
that  she  has  little  time  for  more  than 
one  man. 

When  Ginger  Rogers  was  in  the  East  | 
playing  tennis,  and  in  Florida  with  Steve  j 
Cochran  for  the  opening  of  Storm  Warn-  ! 
ing,  Greg  Bautzer  asked  Jane  Wyman  out  ] 
for  dinner.  They'd  known  each  other  for  j 
years,  and  Jane  accepted.  Handsome  es- 
corts are  rare,  even  in  Hollywood. 

One  dinner  progressed  to  another.  The 
Rogers-Bautzer  attraction  faded,  and  Wy- 
man moved  into  the  position  once  occu- 
pied bj'  Turner,  Lamour,  Crawford,  and  I 
Rogers.  She  became  Bautzer's  girl,  at  least  j 
to  the  press.  ! 

Jane  is  a  woman  who  has  seen  through  ] 
the  illusion  of  romance,  who  has  learned 
the  wisdom  of  silence,  who  more  and  j 
more  realizes  that  she  must  be  herself,  i 
She  knows  there  is  no  pleasure,  or  security 
in  hiding  behind  a  false  personaUty.  In 
the  weeks  to  come  she  will  probably  make 
one  of  the  most  fateful  decisions  of  her 
existence.   She  will  decide  between  love 
and  a  career. 

If  the  past  is  any  indication — and  if 
historj'  repeats  itself — Jane  Wyman  will 
let  love  come  last.  The  End 


the  greatest  show  on  earth 

(Continued  from  page  44)  They  call  her 
specialty  the  "Iron-Jaw  girl,"  and  when 
you  watch  her,  you  find  your  own  jaw 
hanging  open.  Gloria's  routine  is  just  as 
spectacular.  The  stunt  they  call  "Foot- 
and-Face"  means  that  an  elephant  ap- 
proaches her  prone  bodj%  walks  directly 
over  her  (making  sm-e  not  to  plant  a  foot 
on  her  ribs)  and  then  suspends  a  foreleg 
three  inches  above  Gloria's  glorioiis  kisser! 
How'd  you  like  to  earn  your  money  that 
way,  instead  of  with  vour  feet  up  on  a 
desk? 

T^ROM  what  I've  seen,  DeMille  and  his  j 

associate  producer,  Henry  Wilcoxon,  one 
of  the  past  stars  of  DeMiUe  extravaganzas, 
have  done  a  great  job  of  casting,  right 
do\ra  to  the  last  bit  player.  The  movie's 
roustabouts,  ballet  broads  (chorus  girls), 
flyers  and  clowns  look  absolutely  as  au- 
thentic as  the  real  ones  I've  gotten  to  know  I 
through  the  years — and  the  answer,  of 
course,  is  DeMille's  genius  for  detail.  The 
Old  Man  spent  large  chunks  of  two  j'ears 
traveling  %vith  the  Big  Top,  and  without 
his  understanding  of  the  terrific  problems 
involved,  this  whole  huge  project  would 
have  been  impossible. 

I  haven't  time  or  space  here  to  go  into 
those  problems — things  like  lighting,  con- 
struction, staging,  etc. — in  fact,  all  the 
problems  you  necessarily  take  on  when 
you  leave  the  confines  of  a  Hollywood  set 
and  go  out  on  location,  plus  the  complex 
workings  of  the  circus  itself.  But  I  can 
give  you  this  one  indication  of  how  De- 
MiUe is  reacting  to  the  wonderful  support 
he's  getting. 

Remember  that  silver  coin  I  mentioned 
— the  one  DeMille  had  given  Betty  Hut- 
ton?  Actually,  it's  a  half  dollar — one  of  a 
limited  issue  that  C.  B.  bought  up  in 
entirety — which  he  awards  to  his  stars  for 
exceptional  performance.  It's  a  DeMille 
trademark,  widely  known  and  respected  in 
the  industry.  Well,  until  this  picture,  C.B.'s 
average  was  one  such  award  per  picture. 
On  this  film,  he  has  already  handed  out 
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They  say  The  Greatest  Show  On  Earth 
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(Continued  from  page  30)  "I'd  like  to  see 
how  this  looks  on  you,"  he  said.  He  didn't 
have  to  say  where — she  held  out  her  third 
finger,  left  hand.  The  dialogue  wasn't 
very  original,  but  it  worked  very  well. 

"Will  you  marry  me?" 

"Yes."  Same  old  question,  the  same  old, 
but  always  new,  answer.  Only  then  did 
Arlene  look  down  at  the  ring  which 
circled  her  finger — and  her  heart. 

She  saw  a  blue-white  stone  which  had 
been  cut,  it  seemed,  into  a  million  glowing 
facets.  Thirteen  smaller  diamonds  banked 
it  on  either  side.  "It  caught  all  the  colors 
in  the  room,"  Arlene  remembers,  "and  set 
them  on  fire.  I  was  dizzy.  It  was  the  most 
beautiful  sight  I've  ever  seen." 

A  grand  duchess  of  Russia  had  once 
worn  that  glowing  gem.  Mrs.  Barker  told 
Arlene  the  tale:  Lex's  father  had  bought 
it  after  the  first  World  War  to  help  the 
royal  Romanoff  flee  the  Bolsheviks.  Mr. 
Barker  had  it  moimted  in  Paris  for  her 
on  their  honeymoon.  She  had  worn  it 
herself  for  three  decades  and  Lex  had  al- 
ways adored  it.  Mrs.  Barker  had  promised 
it  to  him  for  the  girl  who  matched  its 
beauty  and  richness.  "And  now,"  she 
said,  "you  are  the  girl.  It  looks  perfectly 
right  on  you,  dear  Duchess." 

CoMETiMES  it  happens  dreamily  like  that 
^  — and  sometimes  it  doesn't.  It  happened 
to  Jtuie  Allyson  in  the  middle  of  Wilshire 
Boulevard  with  traffic  piled  up  for  a 
block.  And  Ncincy  Olson  was  knocked 
out  with  flu  when  she  held  up  her  feverish 
finger  for  Alan  Lemer's  ring  (she  got 
well  fast). 

Geary  Steflen  bought  Jane  Powell's 
ring  after  a  certain  romantic  week-end  in 
Sim  Valley  where  he  popped  the  eternal 
question.  It  was  a  beauty,  a  big  round 
diamond  set  in  platinum,  surrounded  by 
miniatures.  Geary  really  couldn't  afford 
it;  he  was  trying  to  establish  himself  in 
business  so  he  could  marry  the  girl  and 
the  good  money  he  used  to  make  skating 
wasn't  rolling  in  any  more.  But,  the  way 
he  figured,  you  only  get  engaged  once. 
He  took  it  out  to  Jane's  one  evening — and 
he  took  it  back.  She  had  changed  her 
mind.  Geary  is  a  sensitive  soul — and 
proud.  That  ring  burned  his  icy  fingers 
and  his  face  drained  pale. 

"All  right,"  he  said,  getting  it  out  of 
sight.  "That's  fine  with  me.  Forget  it." 

"I  can't,"  trembled  Jane,  "I  mean  I  can't 
marry  you  now — but  I  might  change  my 
mind." 

"If  you  ever  do,"  gritted  Geary,  "you'll 
have  to  tell  me.  I'll  never  ask  you  again." 
And  Jane  knew  he  meant  it. 

Well,  it  was  weeks  after,  and  why  he 
happened  to  pick  that  ring  out  of  his 
handkerchief  drawer  where  he'd  tossed  it 
bitterly,  Geary  can't  teU  you  exactly  to- 
day. He  had  a  date  with  Jane  for  a  party 
and  the  dough  he  had  in  that  spurned 
sparkler  was  nothing  to  tumble  around 
loose  in  his  coat  pocket  and  get  lost.  But 
he  put  it  there  anyway.  "I  guess,"  he 
grins,  "I  had  a  hunch." 

He  was  herding  the  car  silently  along 
Sunset  Boulevard  staring  straight  ahead 
at  the  traffic  lights  when  he  heard  the 
small  voice  ask,  "Have  you  stiU  got  my 
engagement  ring?" 

He  said  "Yes."  It  was  the  only  time 
he'd  had  it  with  him  in  the  three  months 
since  he'd  bought  it.  Janie  said,  "Well, 
I'd  like  it  now."  He  gave  a  curt  "Okay," 
fished  it  out  and  handed  it  over.  But  he 
didn't  really  melt  until  later  that  evening. 
As  everyone  knows,  things  have  been 
wonderful  with  Geary  and  Jane  ever  since, 
just  as  they  have  been  with  June  Allyson 
and  Dick  Powell,  although  you  might  even 
have  to  laugh  at  their  big  moment. 


June  had  been  to  about  as  unromantic 
a  place  as  you  can  go — her  dentist's — and 
after  the  drilling  agony  was  over,  Dick 
picked  her  up.  June  thought  there  was 
something  odd  about  the  guy  when  he 
nicked  a  bus  with  his  back  fender,  pulled 
over  to  the  curb  without  signalling,  and 
got  honks  from  irate  drivers  who  screeched 
up  behind  him.  These  Powell  ignored 
because  he  had  something  on  his  mind. 
He'd  just  bought  this  knockout  star 
sapphire  set  in  gold  and  ringed  with  dia- 
monds, and  he  wanted  to  put  it  where  it 
belonged,  and  the  devil  with  traffic. 

"I  love  you,"  Dick  said.  "Here" — and 
that's  when  Jime  had  to  giggle.  The  love 
deranged  dope  had  slipped  it  on  the  third 
finger  of  her  right  hand.  And  when  he 
corrected  that  and  leaned  over  to  kiss  her, 
while  a  crowd  collected,  June  couldn't 
kiss  him  back.  She  couldn't  even  feel  the 
kiss;  her  lips  were  like  a  rubber  tire. 

"You're  overcome,"  said  Dick  tenderly. 

"It's  novacaine,"  explained  June. 

Now,  you  couldn't  play  "Moonlight  and 
Roses"  for  either  one  of  those  lovelocked 
moments,  but  to  both  Jime  and  Jane  their 
rings  glow  as  romantically  today  as  any 
girl's.  As  romantically,  for  instance,  as 
Patrice  Wymore's. 

Last  year  Errol  Flynn  drove  Paris 
iewelers  crazy  hunting  a  certain  dark 
blue  sapphire  to  match  Patrice  Wymore's 
eyes,  which  he  insisted  were  the  precise 
color  of  the  Mediterranean,  on  whose 
shores  they  would  spend  their  honey- 
moon. Paul  Douglas  picked  up  Jan  Ster- 
ling on  her  birthday  last  April  3rd,  took 
her  to  Romanoff's,  ordered  champagne  and 
spread  three  tiny  boxes  out  on  the  table- 
cloth. Inside  each  was  a  gold  ring  bearing 
a  roimd  creamy  pearl  with  a  tiny  diamond 
set  in  it.  "This  is  going  to  last,"  stated 
thrice-married  Paul,  slipping  all  three  on 
Jan's  finger,  to  make  one  beautiful  band. 
They  were  for  the  three  years  they'd 
known  each  other  and  a  triple  grip,  as 
Paul  explained  on  their  future  happiness. 

TDrobably  the  greatest  sentimental  search 
for  a  ring  worn  by  a  star  was  the  one 
Tony  Bartlett  carried  on  for  four  years. 
He  was  trying  to  match  a  huge  5 -karat 
yellow  diamond  that  could  have  come  right 
out  of  King  Solomon's  mines.  Tony  fell  in 
love  with  his  yellow  diamond  before  he 
fell  in  love  with  Deborah  Kerr,  back  in  the 
days  when  he  was  hunting  Nazi  Messer- 
schmitts  as  an  ace  fighter  pilot  in  the  RAF. 
He  collected  a  dozen  or  so  of  those  in  the 
Battle  of  Britain,  but  just  one  giant  yellow 
gem.   He  got  the  gem  from  a  good  friend 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by 
page  the  photographs  which  appear  in 
this  issue. 

6-7  Parry-Beerman,  8 — Wide  World,  11 — 
United  Cerebral  Palsy,  12 — MGM,  13 — MGM, 
16 — 20th  Century-Fox,  17 — United  Artists,  18 — 
Paramount,  19 — 20th  Century-Fox,  14 — Bob 
Beerman,  20-24 — Joe  Heppner,  27 — Acme,  28- 
29 — Parry-Beerman,  32 — T.L.  Jack  Albin,  T.R. 
Bert  Six,  Bot.  Bert  Parry,  33 — Bob  Beerman, 
34 — Bob  Beerman,  35 — Parry-Beerman,  36 — 
Bert  Six,  37 — T.L.  Associated  Press,  T.R.  C.R., 
Bot.  R.  Walt  Davis,  38 — MGM,  39 — T.L.,  T.R., 
MGM,  Cen.,  Bot.  Parry-Beerman,  40 — Univer- 
sal-International, 41 — Lt.  Bob  Beerman,  Rt. 
Hollywood  Picture  Service,  46 — T.L.  Bert 
Parry,  B.L.,  C.R.  Bob  Beerman,  47 — T.L.  Press 
Association,  Bot.  Wide  World,  48 — T.L.,  T.C. 
MGM,  T.R.  Nikolas  Murday,  B.L.  20th  Cen- 
tury-Fox, B.C.  Warner  Bros.,  B.R.  RKO,  49 — 
T.L.,  T.C.  MGM,  T.R.  Warner  Bros.,  B.L.  Virgil 
Apger,  B.C.  Warner  Bros.,  B.R.  Paramount,  52 
— B.farL.  Wide  World,  B.C.L.  Parry  Beerman, 
B.  C.  R.  Bob  Beerman,  B.  far  R.  Stork  Club  News 
Service,  53  T.  Bert  Six,  Bot.  Globe  Photos,  54 — • 
Lt.  20th  Century-Fox,  55 — Lt.  Bert  Parry,  Rt. 
20th  Century-Fox,  56-57 — 20th  Century-Fox, 
67-72 — Pagano. 

Abbreviations:  Bot.,  Bottom;  Cen.,  Center;  Lt., 
Left;  Rt.,  Right;  T.,  Top. 


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of  his  who  was  London  agent  for  a  South 
African  diamond  mine.  Tony  socked  all 
his  flight  pay  and  then  some  in  it  and  kept 
it  with  him  when  he  flew  as  a  precious  but 
potent  good  luck  piece.  When  the  little 
guy  with  the  bow  and  arrow  got  him  at 
last,  after  a  hectic  war-torn  courtship, 
Tony  knew  he  just  had  to  make  the  per- 
fect ring  for  the  perfect  girl  out  of  that 
lucky  stone.  He  needed  two  more  big 
yellow  diamonds  to  handle  that,  which 
turned  out  to  be  something  of  a  problem. 

Big  yellow  diamonds  are  rare  even  in 
Africa,  which  is  loaded  with  rocks.  Find- 
ing one  to  flank  the  beauty  he  owned  in  a 
perfect  match,  his  pal  told  him,  was  prac- 
tically impossible.  And  neither  love  nor 
Deborah  could  wait.  Tony  hopped  back 
from  Australia  one  day  with  a  plain  gold 
band  and  Deborah  didn't  get  her  fabulous 
ring  until  some  months  after  they  were 
married.  But  the  three  big  yellow  dia- 
monds are  there  on  her  finger  now,  and 
they  make  up  the  rarest  and  most  valuable 
engagement  ring  in  Hollywood. 

Dollars,  of  course,  don't  necessarily  make 
a  ring  rich  in  romance.  There's  no  price 
tag  on  true  love. 

/~\ne  day  in  1949,  for  instance,  a  reckless 
^  young  guy  with  a  cocky  cut  to  his  jib 
stood  in  Rockefeller  Center  Plaza  arm  in 
arm  with  a  cutie  still  in  her  teens,  who  was 
playing  Helen  of  Troy  on  the  straw  hat 
circuit.  To  him  she  was  all  that  Helen 
ever  was  and  more.  The  guy  himself  was 
strictly  from  hunger,  and  although  he  was 
confident  he  could  sing  more  than  a  sweet 
note  or  two,  at  that  point  he  was  earning 
his  cakes  and  coffee  as  a  page  boy  in 
Radio  City.  Before  their  starry  eyes 
loomed  suddenly  a  jewelry  store  window, 
one  of  those  with  signs  that  say,  "You  get 
the  girl — we'll  do  the  rest."  Gordon  Mac- 
Rae  had  the  girl,  his  SheUah,  but  some- 
body would  sure  have  to  do  the  rest,  be- 
cause he  had  all  of  five  frogskins  in  his 
pocket  and  payday  was  a  week  off. 

Nevertheless,  he  found  himself  saying 
"Let's  get  engaged!"  walking  inside  and 
signing  his  first  contract — a  time-payment 
contract — plunking  down  the  five-spot 
recklessly  and  promising  a  dollar  a  week 
for  a  considerable  time  after.  He  was  still 
ransoming  the  ring  when  he  married 
Sheilah — and  although  the  clerk  practically 
had  to  bring  out  a  magnifying  glass  for 
them  both  to  see  the  diamond,  it  has  al- 
ways been  the  light  of  Sheilah 's  life. 

Glenn  Ford  got  the  bum's  rush  from  a 
swank  Beverly  Hills  custom  jewelry  store 
when  he  tried  to  buy  the  ring  Eleanor 
Powell  wears  today.  When  Glerm  had 
object  matrimony  in  his  dizzy  head  he 
wasn't  the  star  Eleanor  was,  and  had  been 
for  quite  a  spell. 

When  he  trotted  into  this  elegant 
place  on  Rodeo  Drive  and  confided  that 
he  wanted  an  engagement  ring  for  Eleanor 
Powell,  they  gave  him  the  four-figure 
treatment.  "Be  reasonable,"  he  begged, 
and  described  what  he  could  afford. 

"Mister  Ford,"  replied  the  austere  gent, 
"I  have  been  designing  Miss  Powell's  jew- 
elry for  years.  She  is  a  big  girl,  and  an 
important  star.  She  can  wear  only  big, 
important  diamonds.  You  are  wasting  my 
time.    Please  go  somewhere  else." 

Glenn  did.  And  the  ring  he  came  up 
with — while  nothing  to  make  a  maharajah 
stare — is  the  most  precious  diamond  Elea- 
nor Powell  owns,  although  she  still  has  her 
jewel  collection  of  the  big,  important,  dia- 
monds, too.  And  even  though  Glenn, 
himself;  has  become  somewhat  on  the  big, 
important  side  since,  she  has  never  traded 
it  in  or  taken  it  off. 

Esther  Williams  and  Ben  Gage  wear 
matching  star  sapphires  of  periwinkle 
blue  today,  which  they've  given  each  other, 
but  underneath  hers  Esther  hides  an  in- 


conspicuous silver  band  that  means  a 
whole  lot  more  to  her. 

Inside,  it's  engraved  simply  "E.W.G.," 
but  on  a  certain  wartime  afternoon  when 
Sergeant  Benjamin  Gage  was  a  fellow  on 
a  furlough  herding  his  jalopy  wildly  up  the 
coast  from  camp  to  keep  a  mighty  impor- 
tant date,  it  had  only  "E.W."-  and  a  space. 
He'd  had  it  made  out  of  his  silver  identifi- 
cation bracelet — because  you  don't  buy 
diamonds  on  a  sergeant's  pay — and  he  was 
thinking  about  many  other  more  interest- 
ing things  than  his  speedometer.  That's 
when  the  cop  buzzed  him  down  and  in- 
quired, "Where  do  you  think  you're  going 
so  fast.  Soldier?" 

"To  see  my  girl,"  said  Ben. 

"That's  nice,"  he  got,  "she  must  be  terri- 
fic— tell  me  the  lucky  girl's  name." 

Ben  said  she  was  and  her  name  was 
Esther  Williams.  "I  can  imagine,"  said  the 
cop  sarcastically.  "Suppose  I  call  up 
Betty  Grable  and  we  all  have  fun."  That's 
when  Ben  pulled  out  his  photo  of  Esther, 
but  a  lot  of  soldiers  packed  pictures  of 
movie  stars.  So  he  brought  out  the  ring 
for  the  convincer. 

Ben  made  the  date  on  time  all  right  and 
it's  one  Esther  won't  forget  very  soon.  Be- 
ing a  clever  girl,  she  noticed  that  the  ini- 
tials weren't  exactly  centered,  that  some- 
thing was  missing. 


Perc  Westmore's  suit  for  divorce 
. . .  against  wife  number  four  recalls 
our  pre-war  comment  on  those 
marital-rifting  boys:  "The  trouble 
with  the  Westmores  is,  they  can 
make-up,  but  thev  can't  kiss." 

Herb  Stein  in 

The  Hollywood  Reporter 


"That's  for  the  'G,' "  explained  Ben, 
"when  you  want  me  to  put  it  there." 

So  it  isn't  the  ring — ^but  how  you  wear 
it — with  love  or  without  that  counts. 

Doris  Day  and  Marty  Melcher  were  en- 
gaged for  almost  two  years  but  Doris  never 
even  had  a  cigar  band  to  make  it  official. 

JIMMY  Stewart  brought  Gloria  McLean  to 
dinner  at  his  house  on  his  birthday, 
suddenly  saw  what  he  wanted  through  the 
candlelight  and,  looking  as  scared  as  Har- 
vey the  rabbit,  blurted,  "Will  you  marry 
me?"  Then  'he  took  a  skittish  glance  at 
Gloria's  right  hand,  on  which  perched  a 
mammoth  headlight. 

"Wow!"  gasped  Stewart,  "I  can't  ever 
top  that!" 

"Good  heavens,"  soothed  Gloria,  "don't 
try.  Wouldn't  I  look  ridiculous  with  two 
big  diamonds,  one  on  each  hand!"  So  Jim- 
my gave  her  just  a  plain  gold  band. 

The  most  whopping  engagement  dia- 
mond in  Hollywood  today — 12  karats — be- 
longs to  Irene  Dunne,  becatise  a  burglar 
broke  into  her  house  and  carried  away  the 
ring  Dr.  Francis  Griffin  bought  for  her 
years  ago  in  New  York.  Irene  grieved  so 
acutely  that  her  doctor  had  to  order  one 
three  times  bigger  to  soothe  her. 

A  few  Junes  ago  in  Hollywood  a  singu- 
larly unpleasant  fate  tagged  a  certain  small 
diamond  which  bounced  back  and  forth 
between  two  young  and  fiery  lovers. 

He  gave  it  to  her  and  she  gave  it  back — 
more  times  than  either  of  them  can  re- 
member— and  then  one  day  when  she 
wanted  it  back  again  he  said,  "I  haven't 
got  it  any  more." 

"Where  is  it?"  she  asked,  suspiciously. 

"I  hocked  it,"  he  said,  "to  go  fishing." 

This  girl  was  a  girl  who  can  roll  with  a 
punch.  "Have  any  luck?"  she  asked  him. 
He  shook  his  head. 

"Yes,  you  have,"  she  contradicted. 
"You've  still  got  me." 

Jane  Russell's  satisfied.  She  got  Bob 
Waterfield — and  he'll  never  be  able  to  take 
back  the  ring.  The  End 


why  Shirley  quit 


(Continued  from  page  27)  embarrassment, 
no  avenue  of  return  for  her  as  a  public 
figure. 

With  that  act,  Shirley  Temple  set  a 
precedent.  No  movie  star,  in  the  prime 
of  her  youth,  in  excellent  health  and  on  a 
rising  tide  of  popularity,  ever  before 
walked  away  eagerly  and  without  regret 
from  fame,  fortune  and  the  glamorous  life 
that  only  a  star  of  the  films  leads. 

Nobody  has  to  be  brought  up  to  date 
on  Shirley  Temple's  childhood.  It's  all 
in  the  recent  record.  She  was  the  brightest 
star  of  the  period  in  which  most  of  us 
have  lived.  But  there  may  be  points  of 
interest  in  her  adult  life  that  need  clarify- 
ing before  it  can  be  shown  why  Shirley 
Temple  quit  pictures. 

It  might  be  a  good  thing  to  illustrate 
her  enthusiasm  on  the  day  she  was  signed 
to  make  an  adult  movie,  20th  Century- 
Fox's  Mr.  Belvedere  Goes  To  College. 

It  had  been  .  ve  years  since  she  had 
walked  off  the  lot  in  a  bit  of  a  huff  over 
the  budgets  the  company  was  investing 
in  her  movies.  Shirley,  of  course,  wasn't 
sore,  she  was  too  young.  But  her  advisers 
were  worked  up.  At  any  rate,  it  had  been 
five  years  and  Shirley's  only  memories 
were  of  the  fun  she  had  had  at  the  studio 
as  a  child,  and  of  the  friends  she  would 
once  again  see  and  work  with. 

Che  walked  out  of  an  executive's  office 
and  down  a  long  hall  that  was  wide, 
very  modem  and  softly  carpeted.  She 
looked  at  the  names  on  the  doors  and,  with 
very  few  exceptions,  couldn't  remember 
any  of  them.  She  strolled  past  a  police- 
man and  instead  of  a  familiar,  smiling 
face,  she  saw  a  bluecoat  with  a  suspicious 
expression — a  lad  too  yoimg  to  have  been 


aroimd  when  everyone  knew  Shirley 
Temple. 

Crossing  the  lot,  the  great  lump  of  re- 
membering dying  slightly  in  her  throat, 
she  walked  to  the  schoolhouse  and  dress- 
ing room  that  had  been  hers  for  many 
childhood  years,  and  that  had  been 
photographed  more  times  than  any  other 
building  in  Hollywood.  Standing  in  the 
street  before  it,  unrecognized  and  im- 
noticed,  she  had  difficulty  identifying  it 
as  the  same  place.  The  paint  was  peeling, 
the  flower  beds  changed,  and  through  a 
window  she  saw  the  blue-white  light  of 
a  dental  office,  and  beneath  it  the  white- 
coated  dentist,  tools  in  his  hands,  peering 
down  into  the  open  mouth  of  a  man  in 
overalls. 

She  turned  on  her  heels  quickly  and 
dashed  to  the  studio  school  room  where 
she  knew  she  would  find  Florence  Klamt, 
her  tutor  and  friend  through  all  of  gram- 
mar school.  True,  she  hadn't  seen  much 
of  Klammy  lately,  but  she  wouldn't  have 
changed. 

Shirley  entered  the  school  house  and 
crept  to  the  classroom  where  a  session 
in  mathematics  was  in  progress.  The  door 
was  partly  open,  so  she  peeped  in.  Seated 
in  orderly  rows  were  about  10  pupils, 
every  one  of  them  as  beautiful  and  glam- 
orous as  anything  Shirley  had  ever  seen 
on  a  magazine  cover,  and  to  Shirley's 
rather  shocked  eyes,  every  bit  as  grown 
up.  Klammy  stood  at  the  head  of  the 
room  explaining  a  difficult  fraction  formula 
with  chalk  on  a  baby  blue  blackboard, 
and  when  she  was  through,  she  placed 
her  chalk  on  a  small  baby  blue  desk  that 
stood  at  the  bottom  of  the  board. 

Shirley's  eyes  filled  with  tears.  For 
Klammy  did  remember.  She  was  still  using 
the  desk  and  blackboard  Shirley  had 
used  as  a  baby — and  they  were  just  as 
she  had  left  them. 


"Klammy,"  she  said. 

The  teacher  turned  to  the  door,  saw 
her  visitor  and  immediately  dismissed  the 
class  for  the  rest  of  the  day.  When  the 
pupils  had  filed  out,  Klammy  took  Shir- 
ley's hands  in  her  own  and  led  her  to  the 
small  desk.  Shirley  sat  down. 

"Oh,  Klammy,"  she  said,  "I  was  so  ex- 
cited about  coming  back — and  now  every- 
thing is  so  different." 

Miss  Klamt  smiled.  "No  it  isn't,"  she 
said,  "Come  with  me,  and  I'U  show  you." 

For  the  rest  of  the  day  Shirley  and 
Florence  Klamt  toured  the  studio  acreage. 
They  went  to  prop  rooms,  paint  rooms, 
wardrobe,  make-up  and  cutting  rooms. 
They  found  tiny,  hide-away  offices  off  the 
beaten  paths,  and  walked  to  location  units 
way  down  on  the  back  lot.  And  during  the 
tour,  Shirley  met  again  many  of  the  men 
and  women  who  had  been  in  her  own  pro- 
duction xxnit  during  the  making  of  most 
of  her  pictures.  Everywhere  she  went  she 
was  greeted  warmly,  and  when  the  first 
stars  had  appeared  in  the  evening  sky  and 
it  was  time  to  go  home,  she  stood  at  the 
gate  with  Klammy  for  a  moment  and 
nearly  forgot  her  great  disappointment 
earlier  in  the  day.  Almost,  but  not  quite. 

Tt  was  a  minor  incident,  a  minor  dis- 
appointment,  you  might  say,  but  on  the 
other  hand,  it  was  not  the  happiest  day  in 
Shirley  Temple's  life — and  it  gave  no 
promise  of  happier  days  to  come.  She  had 
had  better  days  in  the  movies,  better  days 
at  Fox.  And  this  beginning  of  a  new  adult 
career  didn't  stack  up  with  any  of  the 
pleasant  memories  of  the  past. 

But  Shirley  went  back  to  work.  She  had 
been  married  a  couple  of  years  to  John 
Agar  and,  although  the  wedding  itself  had 
been  a  hoopla  affair,  her  private  life  since 
then  had  been  quite  free  of  outside  at- 
tention. However,  with  both  Shirley  and 


For  a  smile  ihai's 
Sparkling  bright ,  ,  .  ibe  onswer 
is  I  PAN  A! 


For  a  moufh  ihai's 
Sparklir\g  fresh  ..  .fhe  ar)swer 
islPANA! 


For  really  clearislng 
feefh  and  moufh, 
fhe  answer  is  IPANA I 


;  — 


'   for  cleaner. 


Nothing  like  a  sparkling 
bright  smile,  a  sparkling 
fresh  mouth,  to  give  you  a 
confident  lift!  So  start  with 
Ipana  — to  get  teeth  clean- 


healthier  teeth! 

er,  spark  up  your  smile 
—help  prevent  tooth  decay. 
You'll  love  Ipana's  spar- 
kling taste,  too.  Get  Ipana 
for  your  Smile  of  Beauty! 


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John  working,  she  found  that  their  social 
obligations  began  to  involve  more  business 
associates  and  movie  personalities  than 
she  had  ever  known  existed. 

She  noticed,  too,  with  some  distress,  that 
her  home  life  became  more  of  a  public 
property  than  it  had  ever  been  before.  And 
Linda  Susan,  the  daughter  she  had 
promised  to  raise  away  from  all  cinematic 
influences,  became  a  very  desirable  photo- 
graphic subject,  to  the  child's  detriment, 
Shirley  thought.  The  peace  and  security 
Shirley  had  known  as  a  sheltered  ward 
of  her  parents,  and  as  the  rather  anony- 
mous Mrs.  Agar,  began  to  fade. 

That,  too,  might  have  become  something 
she  would  have  adjusted  herself  to,  but 
worse  things  were  to  happen.  Yoxing  Agar, 
getting  his  first  taste  of  fame  and  ready 
money,  started  to  live  like  the  glamorous 
figure  his  publicity  said  he  was.  There 
were  parties  galore,  if  not  in  swanky  res- 
taurants and  night  clubs,  then  right  in  the 
Temple-Agar  home — something  Shirley 
hadn't  planned  on  at  all. 


Walking  out  of  a  theater  the  other 
night,  Lisa  Kirk  heard  a  woman  tell 
her  companion,  "I  wish  they'd  make 
some  pictures  with  happy  endings. 
Every  picture  lately  ends  with  the 
couple  getting  married!" 

Herb  Steiyi  in 

The  Hollywood  Reporter 


When  relations  became  strained  between 
Shirley  and  her  husband,  she  tried  val- 
iantly to  hide  the  fact,  but  learned  that  she 
was  living  imder  a  big  magnifying  glass. 
Friends  say  that,  at  that  time,  she  was  sure 
she  and  John  could  have  worked  things 
out  if  they  had  been  able  to  get  away  to- 
gether.   But  that  wasn't  possible. 

It  seemed  that  each  time  Shirley  ap- 
peared in  public  with  anything  but  an 
hysterical  grin  of  joy  on  her  face,  the  news- 
papers predicted  the  end  of  her  marriage. 
And  when  Agar  was  seen  about  the  town 
alone  of  an  evening,  she  would  read  the 
announcement  of  their  separation  in  the 
morning  papers  while  he  lay  sleeping  in 
the  next  bed.  According  to  her  personal 
physician,  in  the  court  testimony  at  the 
divorce,  Shirley  Temple  neared  a  nervous 
collapse. 

And  there  was  the  job  of  picture  making. 
It  had  never  been  a  job  before.  As  a  child 
she  had  danced  on  to  the  set  in  the  morn- 
ing brimming  with  good  fellowship  and 
filled  with  plans  for  the  day's  pranks.  Her 
spirit  pervaded  the  entire  stage  she  was 
working  on — and  a  day's  work  was  nothing 
but  a  great,  big  wonderftil  lark  for  which 
everyone  was  paid.  Now  there  was  always 
a  strained  atmosphere,  stem  with  tense- 
ness. No  grown-up  with  a  night  of  sleep- 
less unhappiness  behind  her  could  brighten 
a  dark  corner,  and  neither  did  Shirley. 
The  crews  of  her  pictures  were  different, 
but  whenever  an  old-timer  who  had 
worked  with  her  in  former  years  was 
assigned  to  her  troupe,  even  he  fell  in 
with  the  gloomy  newcomers. 

It  must  have  been  trying,  indeed,  for 
Shirley  Temple  to  walk  silently  to  her 
dressing  room  in  the  morning  in  the  same 
huge  stages  in  which  she  had  enchanted 
everyone  in  sight  with  her  roles  of  Curly 
Top,  Heidi  and  The  Littlest  Rebel,  with- 
out a  smile  or  a  joke  for  anyone — but  she 
couldn't  do  anything  about  it. 

Then  came  the  blow-off.  The  rumor  so 
persistently  printed  that  Shirley  and  John 
Agar  were  separating  became  a  reality. 
The  straw  that  broke  the  camel's  back  had 
been  delivered — and  at  a  Hollywood  party. 

A  s  she  testified  in  court,  Agar's  attitude 
toward  her  had  grown  more  and  more 
arrogant  in  public  places.  It  was  at  a  party 
celebrating  the  completion  of  one  of  his 
pictures  that  the  final  incident  in  their 


marriage  took  place.  Although  hating  the 
parties,  Shirley  felt  it  was  her  duty — and 
saved  a  lot  of  denials  to  the  gossip  colum- 
nists— to  attend  them.  At  this  one,  held  in 
a  private  home,  the  celebrating  was  par- 
ticularly energetic.  John  escorted  Shirley 
through  the  door  and  drifted  away. 

According  to  a  girl  friend  of  Shirley  who 
was  present,  this  included  taking  one  look 
at  another  girl  and  spending  the  rest  of 
the  evening  at  her  side  without  once  ever 
talking  to  his  wife  again.  Shirley  sat  alone 
and  unhappy  for  several  hours.  She  knew 
when  he  finally  came  to  take  her  home, 
that  this  was  the  end. 

It  is  possible  that  Shirley  Temple,  pro- 
nounced by  experts  to  be  the  finest  natural 
actress  Hollywood  has  ever  seen,  might 
still  have  continued  in  her  profession  if 
the  papers  had  handled  her  divorce  with 
a  lighter  touch.  But  they  didn't.  For  weeks 
she  remained  closed  in  behind  the  gates 
of  her  home,  afraid  even  to  go  down  to 
the  corner  drug  store,  for  fear  she  would 
attract  some  of  the  morbidly  sentimental 
public  wanting  to  cry  on  her  shoulder. 

When  she  went  to  court,  she  heard  a 
superior  court  judge,  with  all  good  in- 
tentions, pronounce  that  she  was  a  far  too 
important  person  to  be  granted  a  divorce 
without  some  extra  comments  on  the  shame 
of  it  all.  She  cringed  because  her  unhappi- 
ness,  even  in  the  sacred  hall  of  justice,  had 
to  be  publicly  aired  with  additional,  maud- 
lin comment. 

As  soon  as  she  was  able,  she  packed  her 
bags,  tucked  her  daughter  under  her 
arm  and  flew  away  to  Honolulu  to  be  free 
of  the  Hollywood  merry-go-round.  Kind 
friends  had  come  to  her  side  with  sincere 
advice  on  what  she  should  do  about  ad- 
justing her  personal  life  and  rescuing  her 
"career."  On  the  beach,  under  the  warm 
Hawaiian  sun,  she  had  a  lot  of  time  to 
think.  She  had  all  the  money  she  would 


ever  need,  had  lost  the  zest  for  acting  that 
once  ruled  her  life,  and  couldn't  find  a 
single  excuse  for  going  back  into  pictures. 
The  only  reason  she  could  find  was  that 
there  was  nothing  else  to  do — she  had  no 
other  interest. 

But  Fate  took  care  of  that.  Fate's  instru- 
ment was  a  tall,  handsome  lad  who,  when 
he  was  invited  to  a  party  for  the  famous 
Shirley  Temple,  declined  because  it  was  to 
be  held  at  an  hour  when  the  breakers  were 
rolling  at  their  best  for  surf  boarding. 
Somebody  told  Shirley  about  that,  and 
when  she  met  Charles  Black,  she  liked  his 
eyes,  his  beautiful  teeth,  his  quiet,  gentle- 
manly manners.  But,  at  first,  she  liked 
best  the  fact  that  he  wasn't  impressed  by 
a  movie  star  half  as  much  as  by  the  roll  of 
the  ocean  waves. 

Dack  in  California,  with  the  news  of  her 
meeting  with  Charles  Black  hot  copy, 
Shirley  had  a  lot  of  thinking  to  do.  Was 
it  right  to  continue  with  the  courtship 
Black  was  so  willing  to  press?  If  she  let 
herself  fall  in  love  with  him — and  him 
with  her — would  she  ruin  both  of  their 
lives?  These  musings  were  interspersed 
with  messages  from  producers  and  agents 
asking  when  she  was  going  to  come  back 
to  work. 

Just  when  she  made  her  decision,  Shirley 
Temple  will  never  tell.  She  won't  tell  be- 
cause, and  good  luck  to  her,  she  won't  tell 
anybody  anything  about  her  private  life 
anymore.  But  it  can*  be  learned  from  her 
close  pals  that  one  day,  after  she  and 
Black  had  confirmed  their  feelings  for  one 
another,  she  suddenly  had  the  solution.  She 
didn't  like  Hollywood  life.  She  wasn't 
happy  making  pictures  anymore.  She 
wanted  a  home  in  which  she  was  just  the 
wife  and  mother — and  that  was  the  kind 
of  a  home  Charles  wanted.  The  answer 
was  so  simple  it  made  her  laugh.  Quit. 


And    that's    exactly    what    Shirley  did. 

A  lot  of  people  are  under  the  impres- 
sion that  this  decision  was  made  by  the 
man  who  today  is  Shirley  Temple's  hus- 
band. It  was  not.  During  the  heat  of  the 
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(Continued  from,  page  55)  and  eventually 
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and  sound  in  outlook. 

Dailey  didn't  wait  for  anyone  to  send 
him.  He  went  of  his  own  free  will  long 
before  he  had  to  go.  "I  went,"  he  says,  "be- 
cause I  wanted  to.  It's  just  like  a  guy 
who  feels  a  cold  coming  on.  He  goes  to  the 
doctor  and  gets  a  shot  of  penicillin.  He 
hopes  it'll  stave  off  the  cold." 

When  Dan  left  for  Meiuiinger's  last 
November,  he  made  no  secret  of  his  des- 
tination. "There's  nothing  wrong,"  he  said 
flatly,  "in  going  to  a  clinic  for  a  little 
treatment.  People  wouldn't  be  shocked  if 
I  went  to  a  doctor  and  had  my  chest 
X-rayed.  Well,  they're  not  going  to  be 
shocked  if  I  go  to  a  doctor  and  get  my 
thoughts  X-rayed." 

Dan's  faith  in  his  public  has  been  more 
than  justified.  If  his  current  fan  mail  is 
any  indication,  his  fans  think  more  of  him 
now,  of  his  will-power,  his  intelligence, 
his  integrity  than  ever  before. 

When  Dailey  arrived  in  Topeka  the 
townspeople  paid  no  attention  to  him.  Ac- 
customed since  1925  to  seeing  some  of  the 
world's  great  celebrities  report  to  Men- 
ninger's,  they  regarded  Dan  as  just  another 
patient. 

When  he  checked  in  at  the  Clinic,  he 
was  surprised  to  find  that  it  consisted  of 
several  frame  buildings  set  on  grounds 
that  once  constituted  a  large  farm.  There 


was  no  hospital-look  about  the  place. 
Offices  for  the  doctors  at  Menninger's 
have  been  created  by  remodeling  a 
hamburger  stand  and  a  filling  station.  The 
recreation  hall  for  patients  used  to  be  an 
old  bam.  The  Research  Department  is  set 
up  in  a  small  building  which  once  was 
the  workshop  of  a  monimient-maker. 

Dailey's  room  was  equally  simple,  con- 
taining a  bed,  desk,  and  dresser. 

For  three  weeks,  the  staff  at  Menninger's 
studied  Dailey's  personal  background. 
Then  it  was  decided  that  his  treatment 
would  consist  of  two  basic  kinds  of  ther- 
apy: milieu  therapy  in  which  the  patient 
is  completely  removed  from  the  old  en- 
vironment which  troubled  him,  and  psycho 
therapy  in  which  the  patient  confers  regu- 
larly with  psychiatrists,  psychologists,  and 
a  psychiatric  social  worker. 

After  a  series  of  exhaustive  tests  and 
conferences,  Dan  decided  that  for  his 
milieu  therapy,  he'd  like  to  go  to  college. 
He'd  never  attended  college,  as  a  young- 
ster he'd  been  too  bxisy  making  a  living  as 
a  hoofer.  This  seemed  like  a  good  op- 
portimity  to  catch  up  on  his  neglected 
education  and  to  direct  his  intellectual 
energy  into  a  beneficial  channel. 

A FEW  miles  from  the  Menninger  Clinic 
there's  an  excellent  little  imiversity 
called  Washburn  Mvmicipal  University.  In 
January,  Dan  drove  down  to  the  campus 
and  signed  up  for  courses  in  Political 
Science  and  English. 
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accepted  just  as  any  other  student. 

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Hollywood,  no  one  made  him  feel  ill  at 
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Standing  in  the  hall  outside  his  English 
class,  he  was  interviewed  by  a  student  for 
the  local  newspaper. 

"How  come?"  she  asked,  "you're  going 
to  school  at  Washburn?" 

Dan  grinned  pleasantly. 

"I  never  had  the  time  before,"  he  ex- 
plained. "I  once  thought  I'd  take  ad- 
vantage of  the  G.  I.  Bill  of  Rights  and  go 
to  school  after  the  war,  but  something 
always  came  up." 

"Well,  how  do  you  like  it  here?"  the  girl 
continued. 

"Just  great,"  he  said.  "I  was  stationed  at 
Ft.  Riley,  you  know,  during  the  war,  and 
I've  always  liked  Kansas." 

The  girl  giggled.  "Kansas  has  always 
liked  you.  Call  Me  Mister  is  playing  down- 
town." 

There  was  no  mention  made  of  Men- 
ninger's. 

Dailey  who  attended  classes  every  Mon- 
day, Wednesday  and  Friday,  was  never 
once  stopped  and  questioned  as  to  his 
progress  out  at  the  clinic.  He  was  friendly 
with  everyone,  and  his  progress  was  more 
than  favorable. 

The  ability  to  get  along  well  with  other 
people  is  a  vital  factor  in  good  mental 
hygiene.  In  order  to  obtain  this  ability, 
a  patient  usually  has  to  submit  to  a  long 
analysis  of  where  and  how  he  lost  it,  or 
why  he  never  acquired  it. 

Tj^OR  a  long  time  Dan's  parents  were 
J-  against  his  going  into  show  business. 
Dan  was  bom  in  New  York  City  where  his 
father  is  currently  the  resident  manager 
of  the  Hotel  Roosevelt  on  Madison  Ave- 
nue. The  elder  Dailey,  having  come  in 
contact  with  hundreds  of  show  people 
through  the  years  was  mildly  alarmed 
when  Dan  told  him  of  his  ambitions. 

Dan's  father  felt  that  he  was  too  young, 
that  this  was  just  a  passing  whim.  But 
Dan  seemed  so  persistent  that  his  mother 
suggested  he  take  dancing  lessons  from  a 
woman  .who  lived  in  the  Baldwin,  L.  I., 
neighborhood  where  the  Daileys  then  had 
their  home. 

"Dancing's  for  sissies,"  Dan  protested. 

When  told  that  dancing  would  get  him 
on  a  stage,  however,  Dan  re-considered 
and  okayed  the  idea.  He  went  to  the 
teacher  who  promptly  taught  him  a  soft- 
shoe  routine,  "And  maybe  you  won't  be- 
lieve it,"  he  says,  "but  I've  been  doing 
that  same  act  for  years  now,  the  same 
steps  exactly." 

Barely  in  his  teens,  Dailey  organized  a 
song-and-dance  act  with  Dick  Mabry,  a 
schoolmate.  The  boys  were  paid  $5  a  per- 
formance, $2.50  each,  but  Dan  couldn't 
live  on  it,  so  he  made  the  rounds  of  the 
Long  Island  speakeasies.  The  customers 
tossed  coins  on  the  floor  as  he  danced. 

Instead  of  continuing  school,  Dan  caught 
on  with  a  vaudeville  unit.  After  that,  there 
was  no  turning  back.  In  between  appear- 
ances, he  clerked  in  a  grocery,  sold  shoes 
in  a  bargain  basement,  "worked  as  a  high- 
class  flunky  in  a  Long  Island  beach  club 
serving  drinks  to  big  shots,"  and  even 
taught  dcincing.  One  summer  he  worked 
as  a  dancer  on  the  cruise  ships  sailing 
between  New  York  and  the  West  Indies. 
During  another,  he  was  hired  as  social 
director  for  the  Breeze  Lawn  Casino,  El- 
lenville.  New  York. 

During  the  depression  Dan  was  kicked 
around.  He  developed  no  great  love  for 
the  human  race  and  he  decided  that  a 
fellow  had  to  know  all  the  angles.  A  friend 
of  his  introduced  him  to  Harold  Minsky, 
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He  entertained  the  audience  while  they 
waited  for  the  strip-teasers. 

It  was  a  living  all  right,  but  what  it  did 
to  Dailey's  ego  and  his  outlook  only  his 
analyst  would  know. 

At  this  point  he  also  got  married  for 
the  first  time.  It  took  less  than  a  year  for 
him  to  realize  it  had  been  a  mistake. 

Fortunately,  he  got  a  job  in  a  Broadway 
musical,  Up  In  Arms,  and  followed  that 
with  parts  in  Stars  In  Your  Eyes,  and  I 
Married  An  Angel. 

Billy  Grady,  the  MGM  casting  director, 
happened  to  catch  Dan  when  Angel  opened 
in  Los  Angeles.  Grady  didn't  particularly 
like  the  way  other  members  of  the  cast 
were  up-staging  him  in  order  to  hog  the 
spotlight  for  themselves. 

As  a  gag,  Grady  went  backstage  after 
the  performance  and  started  asking  people, 
"Where  can  I  find  this  guy  Dailey?" 

The  rest  of  the  cast  was  shocked.  "Not 
Dailey,"  one  girl  said.  "He's  nothing  but  a 
long-legged  puss!" 

Grady  barged  into  the  dressing  room 
that  Dan  shared  with  six  other  hoofers. 
"How'd  you  like  to  screen  test  for  Metro?" 
Billy  asked. 

Dailey  shrugged  his  shoulders.  "What've 
I  got  to  lose?" 

The  next  day  Grady  sent  a  studio  lim- 
ousine around  to  pick  up  Dailey.  When  Dan 
arrived  at  the  studio,  Billy  introduced  him 
to  Lillian  Burns,  the  dramatic  coach.  Five 
minutes  later,  Lillian  was  in  Grady's  office. 
"You  out  of  your  mind?"  she  demanded. 

Frank  DeVol  describes  o  Hollywood 
starlet  as  a  gal  who  buys  her 
clothes  at  half-off  and  wears  them 
that  way  too. 

Herb  Stein  in 

The  Hollywood  Reporter 

Grady  grinned.  "Catch  the  kid's  act 
down  at  the  Biltmore,"  he  suggested. 

Lillian  Burns  drove  down  to  the  Bilt- 
more that  night  and  watched  Dan  Dailey 
in  action.  For  once,  he  was  sensational 
Lillian  gave  him  a  screen  test  and  on  the 
strength  of  it,  Dan  was  signed  to  a  Metro 
contract  at  $250  a  week. 

He  acted  in  about  20  bit  parts  for  MGM 
and  then  left  to  go  into  the  Army  in  April, 
1942.  He  married  Liz  Hofert,  a  Los  Angeles 
girl,  during  one  of  his  furloughs,  and  she 
toured  the  Army  camps  with  him. 

After  the  war,  Dailey  returned  to  MGM 
but  the  studio  had  nothing  for  him.  His 
agent  showed  an  old  test  he  had  made  with 
Eleanor  Powell  to  the  big  boys  at  20th 
Century-Fox  and  with  Betty  Grable's  okay 
they  signed  him  to  appear  opposite  her 
in  Mother  Wore  Tights.  It  was  his  first 
big  Hollywood  break,  and  he's  been 
eternally  grateful  to  Betty  ever  since. 

Since  1946,  he's  made  four  other  mu- 
sicals with  Betty.  His  salary  has  jumped 
from  $750  to  $2750  a  week.  His  fan  mail 
has  reached  tremendous  proportions.  He's 
starred  in  two  non-musical  roles,  and 
his  future  seems  absolutely  assured. 

THE  troublesome  question  is:  How  can  a 
man  of  36,  who's  made  such  a  fabulous 
success  of  his  career,  reach  a  point  in  his 
thinking  where  he  considers  his  life  a 
failure,  and  finds  himself  on  the  edge  of 
a  nervous  collapse? 

People  who  know  Dan  fairly  well,  say 
that  his  nervous  state  was  due  to  over- 
work. Others  attribute  it  to  a  myriad  of 
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these  areas. 

Dan  returned  to  Holly^vood  early  in 
March  of  this  year,  just  for  a  week  or  so. 
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lawyer's  to  sign  the  property-  settlement 
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file  for  divorce  some  time  later  this  year. 
"There  is  absolutely  no  chance."  she  says, 
"for  a  reconciliation."  Probably  she  will 
retain  custody  of  their  son. 

Dan's  agent,  Al  Melnick,  spent  a  good 
deal  of  time  with  him  on  his  visit  home 
and  later  he  said.  "I've  never  seen  Dan  in 
better  condition.  His  v.-hole  outlook  seems 
fine." 

Dailej'  drove  back  to  Topeka  in  his  new 
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predictable. 

Suffice  it  to  say.  however,  that  here  is 
one  actor  who  did  not  ignore  the  prob- 
lems that  were  badly  affecting  his  feelings 
and  his  behavior.  Here  is  one  actor  who 
had  the  honestj*  and  the  good  sense  to 
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(Continued  from  page  47)  In  Hollywood's 
opinion  it  must  be  one  or  the  other,  be- 
cause love  never  stands  still,  emotions  are 
never  static. 

Before  Irene  and  Kirk  took  off  for  Palm 
Beach  to  see  her  father,  Irene  said,  "Kirk 
and  I  haven't  made  any  plans  for  mar- 
riage." But  the  chances  are  that  they  have 
matrimony  very  much  in  mind  these  days. 
Now  that  Kirk  has  finished  Detective 
Story,  he  has  some  spare  time  in  which  to 
reflect  upon  love.  life  and  the  futtire — how, 
and  with  whom  he  wants  to  spend  it. 

Having  both  been  up  to  the  altar  once 
before,  they  may  be  hesitating  now 
because  they're  determined  to  make  any 
future  wedding  march  the  last  for  each 
of  them. 

One  of  Kirk's  friends  says,  "Lots  of 
people  say  that  Kirk  and  Irene  wdll  never 
go  through  with  it.  They  say  that  if  he 
were  nuts  about  the  girl,  he  would've 
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up  to  his  neck  in  work.  First  there  was 
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there  was  all  that  time  he  spent  on  location, 
with  Irene  beside  him,  incidentally,  in 
New  Mexico. 

"When  he  finished  there,  he  went  into 
William  Wylers  Detective  Story.  What 
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done,  he  headed  straight  for  Palm  Beach 
to  meet  her  father. 

"My  guess  is  that  while  Kirk's  in  Palm 
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tell  me  anj'thing.  I  presume  they're  fond 
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"Kirk's  a  very  sweet  and  intelligent 
young  man.  Last  Christmas  we  were  all  in 
New  York  together — Irene  and  Kirk  and 
Charlene.  She's  Irene's  sister.  Used  to 
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I  must  tell  you  that  Kirk  is  a  very  dear 
and  charming  boy,  and  I  wouldn't  mind 
having  him  as  a  son-in-law  one  bit. 

"He  took  Irene  up  to  Albany  to  meet 
his  family,  he  has  six  sisters,  and  she 
thought  they  were  simply  swell.  He  was 
married  once  before,  you  know,  and  he 
has  two  little  boys,  and  Irene  has  a  little 
girl,  Stephanie.  Whatever  they  plan  to 
do,  I  hope  they'll  be  very  happy. 

"Frankly  though,  and  I  must  say  this — 
if  they  get  married  down  in  Palm  Beach 
I'll  never  forgive  them.  I  told  Irene  just 
the  other  day,  'If  you  two  decide  to  get 
married,  I  want  the  marriage  to  be  held 
right  here  in  California.'  Well,  Irene's 
answer  was,  'Mother,  we  haven't  made 
any  marriage  plans  as  yet.  If  and  when  we 
do,  you'll  be  the  first  to  know.'  " 

TThe  fact  that  Kirk  and  Irene  come  from 
two  different  worlds  is  what  makes 
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The  Kirk  Douglas  story  is  the  kind  of 
yarn  that  makes  Horatio  Alger  look  like 
a  bum.  The  son  of  immigrant  parents, 
he  worked  his  way  through  college,  and 
dramatic  school.  He  joined  the  Navy,  in- 
jured his  back,  and  had  a  medical  dis- 
charge in  time  to  be  with  his  wife  when 
she  gave  birth  to  their  first  son  in  1944. 

In  New  York  with  no  money  and  a 
wife  and  son  to  support,  he  took  an  apart- 
ment in  Greenwich  Village  and  finally 
secured  a  job  in  Kiss  and  Tell.  Hal  Wallis 
called  him  to  Hollywood  to  star  in  The 
Strange  Loves  of  Martha  Ivers.  Douglas 
hired  a  press  agent,  accepted  Stanley 
Kramer's  offer  for  the  lead  in  Champion 
and  almost  overnight  became  a  star. 

In  a  capsule,  that's  the  story  of  his 
amazing  and  meteoric  rise  to  fame.  How- 
ever, while  Kirk  was  in  the  process  of 
making  his  fortune,  he  was  also  in  the 
process  of  losing  his  wife.  A  wise  man, 
he  knows,  never  makes  the  same  error 
twice. 

Kirk's  first  wife,  Diana  Dill  Douglas, 
is  the  daughter  of  a  famous  British  bar- 
rister, Thomas  DUl,  one-time  attorney 
general  for  the  British  crowm  at  Bermuda. 
Diana  was  only  16  when  she  met  23- 
year-old  Kirk  at  the  American  Academy 
of  Dramatic  Arts  in  New  York.  He  was  tall, 
dimpled,  blond  and  handsome,  "and  I 
thought  him  very  attractive  but  there  was 
never  anything  really  serious  between 
us." 

In  1941  when  Kirk  went  into  the  Navy, 
Diana  was  signed  by  Warner  Brothers 
and  came  to  Hollywood.  The  studio  let 
her  hang  around  for  six  months,  then 
dropped  her.  Back  she  went  to  New 
York,  where  she  posed  for  magazine 
covers.  One  night  in  1942,  Kirk  enrolled  at 
the  Midshipmen's  school  at  Notre  Dame, 
picked  up  a  magazine  and  saw  Diana's 
photo  on  the  cover.  "I  know  that  girl,"  he 
shouted  to  a  friend.  "I'm  going  to  write 
her." 

Kirk  was  lonely  at  the  time,  and  he 
wrote  one  of  those  maybe-you-don't- 
remember-me-but  letters,  and  Diana  re- 
plied that  of  course  she  remembered 
him.  Kirk  proposed  marriage  on  their 
first  dinner  date,  but  Diana  was  no  girl 
to  be  rushed.  They  weren't  married 
until  the  following  year,  1943,  in  New 
Orleans. 

Kirk  had  no  means  of  support  except 
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She  had  faith  in  Kirk's  ability,  however, 
and  Kirk  didn't  let  her  down.  In  five  years 
he  ran  his  salary  up  from  nothing  to 
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a  marvelous  couple.  They  were  "two  kids 
trying  to  get  ahead."  The  only  trouble 
with  that  was  Kirk's  fierce  independence. 
He  insisted  that  one  bread-winner  was 
all  any  family  could  take. 

A  few  weeks  ago  when  Diana  was  asked 
to  explain  why  she  and  Kirk  divorced,  she 
said,  "He  was  a  perfectionist,  and  I  was 
more  or  less  happy-go-lucky.  I'd  patter 
around  the  house  in  bare  feet.  His  resent- 
ment over  such  child-like  behavior  was 
justified  when  I  dropped  a  dish  on  my  foot 
and  had  to  stay  in  bed  for  three  weeks. 
There  was  also  a  basic  difference  in  our 
temperaments.  My  wanting  to  act  was  an 
assertion  of  my  own  independence.  Any- 
way, we  separated  after  six  years,  and  I 
came  to  New  York  to  live  with  the  two 
boys. 

"Kirk's  name  was  coupled  with  a  lot 
of  girls'  names,  but  I  didn't  mind  that 
and  tried  to  keep  busy.  I  got  some  acting 
jobs  on  the  stage  and  in  television.  Luck- 
Uy,  I  found  an  apartment  near  Central 
Park.  I  furnished  it  myself  and  con- 
verted the  dining  room  into  a  playroom  for 
the  boys.  They  went  to  school  during  the 
weekdays.  I  went  to  work.  And  on  Sun- 
days we  went  horseback  riding  in  the 
park.  Michael  and  Joel  missed  their 
father,  but  he  came  East  as  frequently  as 
he  possibly  could. 

"Last   Christmas  he   came  with  Irene 


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on  Page  58 

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Wrightsman — she's  a  very  lovely  girl — ^to 
see  the  boys,  and  afterwards  one  of  them — 
I  guess  it  was  Michael,  said,  'Stepmothers 
are  wicked,  aren't  they?'  And  I  said,  'No, 
Michael,  stepmothers  can  be  very  kind 
and  sweet,  and  if  Daddy  marries  again, 
you'll  have  a  very  nice  one.'  " 

Diana  has  just  finished  playing  the  lead 
in  The  Whistle  At  Eaton  Falls,  a  film  which 
Louis  de  Rochemont  produced  in  New 
England,  and  now  she  is  very  "hot"  as  an 
actress.  Hollywood  wants  her  back. 

"What  irony,"  a  friend  of  hers  said  the 
other  day,  "if  she  eventually  turns  out 
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than  one  week  after  Freddie,  the  tennis- 
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Beatrice  Cartwright,  the  Standard  Oil 
heiress,  Irene  married  him.  Errol  Flynn 
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license  bureau,  and  Charles  Wrightsman 
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was  15  years  older  than  Irene  and  predicted 
that  he  would  leave  her  without  a  cent. 

A  few  years  later,  Irene  admitted  that 
on  her  wedding  night,  husband  Freddie 
had  left  their  honeymoon  suite  and  had 
dined  elsewhere. 

In  any  event,  the  McEvoy-Wrightsman 
marriage  wasn't  a  very  happy  one.  Not 
long  after  Irene  gave  birth  to  a  little  girl, 
her  husband  was  playing  around  Paris  and, 
according  to  reporters  there,  "courting 
Barbara  Hutton  in  great  style." 

When  told  of  this,  Irene  was  in  Santa 
Monica  with  her  baby  and  didn't  know 
what  to  do.  "According  to  Freddie,"  she 
announced,  "I  am  not  divorced.  He's  been 
asking  me  for  six  months  to  come  over  to 
Paris.  But  at  one  time  he  said  we  were 
divorced  in  Mexico.  I  personally  don't 
think  we're  divorced.  It  sounds  very  furmy, 
but  I  really  don't  know.  Anyway,  he  says 
I'm  not." 

TpOLKs  who  used  to  see  Freddie  and  Errol 
Flynn  and  Irene  Wrightsman  around 
the  West  Side  Tennis  Club,  prophesied 
that  the  McEvoy  marriage  would  never 
last.  And  they  were  right.  A  few  years  ago, 
Irene  took  her  baby  and  flew  over  to  Paris 
to  find  out  how  she  stood.  Once  she  got 
there,  McEvoy  chartered  a  yacht  and  an- 
nounced that  he  and  Irene  were  about  to 
enjoy  a  second  honeymoon  in  Southern 
France.  When  Irene  returned  to  Holly- 
wood in  1947,  she  announced  that  she  had 
not  only  obtained  a  Paris  divorce,  but  that 
she  was  following  it  up  with  an  American 
one. 

Out  of  the  whole  muddle,  Irene  began 
going  steady  with  Bob  Stack — they  went 
together  for  three  and  a  half  years,  during 
which  time  everyone  predicted  a  marriage 
that  never  came  off.  And  Irene's  divorced 
husband,  Freddie  McEvoy,  introduced  his 
good  friend  Serge  Troubetzkoy  to  Barbara 
Hutton,  who  married  the  guy. 

Last  April  when  Kirk  Douglas  drove 
down  to  Palm  Springs  with  his  press  agent 
and  checked  in  at  the  Hotel  Bon-Air,  Irene 
Wrightsman  happened  to  be  stopping  there. 

Kirk's  wife  had  just  filed  for  divorce, 
and  Irene  herself  was  free.  Kirk's  press 
agent  introduced  him  to  the  society  girl, 
and  the  actor  took  it  from  there. 

For  almost  a  year  now,  Kirk  and  Irene 
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while,  before  he  met  her.  Kirk  had  started 
playing  the  field.  He  dated  Pat  Neal, 
Marilyn  Maxwell,  Joan  Crawford,  but 
Irene  put  an  end  to  that. 

Nowadays,  Kirk  has  time  for  only  one 
girl.  Even  money  she  becomes  the  second 
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comes  with  cariying  them  out  at  last. 

"I  love  to  cook  for  Geary,"  she  says. 
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But  Geary  likes  plain  things  like  roast 
leg  of  lamb!  Anyway,  he  thinks  I'm  a 
good  cook,"  she  adds,  proudly. 

Her  friend,  Betty  Lynn,  said  that  Jane 
"adored  Geary  so  much,  she  wanted  to 
be  the  best  wife  in  the  world.  Her  career 
was  one  thing  .  .  .  but  her  marriage  was 
her  whole  life." 

"You've  just  got  to  make  the  effort  to 
be  happy,"  Jane  believes.  "You  can't  just 
think  that  you're  something  special  and 
entitled  to  it.  I  have  my  music,  my  sing- 
ing lessons,  my  career  in  pictures.  Geary 
has  his  insurance  work.  But  we  have 
something  together,  something  we  both 
share,  our  home  and  our  child.  That's 
what  makes  a  good  marriage  something 
to  share.  If  that  sharing  goes,  then  I 
think  that  love  goes,  too." 

"Tane  is  so  intelligent  about  life,"  Betty 
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just  21,  and  younger  than  I  am.  But  I 
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else,  because  he  represented  all  the  fine 
things  that  Jane  wanted  in  a  husband.  He 
was  charming,  intelligent,  and  hard  work- 
ing. Having  worked  so  hard  herself,  she 
expected  no  less  in  her  ideal.  Geary  had 
great  faith  in  his  ovm  ability  to  make 
a  big  success,  and  she  believes  in  a  man 
who  believes  in  himself.  Actually,"  said 
Betty,  "Geary  really  is  all  the  things  Jane 
saw  in  him. 

"I  laugh  sometimes  when  people  who 
don't  know  Janie  think  she's  just  a  sweet 
young  thing.  She  is  sweet  and  she  is 
yoxmg,  but  she's  so  much  more  than  that. 
There's  a  kind  of  glow  about  her." 

Jane  and  Geary  have  so  much  in  com- 
mon. They  both  adore  animals.  There's 
Demi-tasse,  that  very  sensitive  and  beau- 
tiful Siamese  cat.  Demi,  as  Jane  calls  her, 
is  torn  between  her  love  for  Jane  and  her 
adoration  for  Geary.  "Demi  compromises," 
says  Jane,  "by  waiting  on  the  top  step 
for  us  every  evening.  When  we  go  into 
our  room  she  follows  ever  so  quietly,  finds 
the  softest  spot  in  the  middle  of  the  bed, 
and  settles  down  for  the  night.  She  just 
won't  play  favorites."  Demi  owned  the 
house,  before  Geary  bought  a  German 
Shepherd  puppy  for  Jane  as  a  present 
on  their  first  anniversary.  They  call  him 
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Marshall  Thompson.  "Geary  and  I  have 
to  go  into  the  breakfast  room  and  get  into 
a  game  of  hearts  or  something."  "She 
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friends.  "And  she  loves  to  please.  Only 
a  few  months  ago  she  planted  hundreds 
of  daffodils  in  her  garden  because  Geary 
told  her  yellow  was  his  favorite  color." 

Jane  has  been  making  wonderful  plans 
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too,  was  the  day  they  took  us  out  to  see 
their  house  in  Brentwood. 

Betty  Lynn  says,  "Geary  has  an  unusual 
understanding  of  people  and  their  prob- 
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ple. When  he  married  Jane  he  knew 
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her  as  often  as  she  used  to;  that  she  adored 
her  just  as  much,  but  that  her  responsi- 
bilities were  different  now.  In  spite  of  all 
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my  mother  to  lunch  at  the  Brown  Derby, 
without  Jane.  He  has  continued  to  do 
this  and  of  course  both  my  mother  and 
Jane's  simply  adore  him."  Then  Betty 
laughed.  "Do  you  know  what  my  mother 
said?  She  said  'Betty,  I  just  hope  you 
marry  a  boy  just  like  Geary  Steffen!'  " 

Geary  is  interested  in  everything,  and 
because  of  his  enthusiasm  he  has  built  up 
an  enormous  fund  of  knowledge.  He  can 
speak  well  on  a  variety  of  subjects.  Jane, 
on  the  other  hand,  is  so  busy  with  her 
career  that  she  has  little  time  to  do  all 
the  things  she'd  like.  So  Geary  adds  color 
to  her  life  that  would  have  been  missing, 
if  she'd  married  a  man  in  her  own  pro- 
fession. Their  life  would  have  been 
limited.  But  life  with  Geary  is  not. 
He  is  never  bored,  or  self-centered.  "He 
knows  all  kinds  of  people,"  Barbara 
Thompson  says  "and  he  is  so  fascinated 
by  their  various  problems.  He  is  always 
welcomed  at  any  party,  because  he's  such 
an  interesting  and  amusing  guy.  You  just 
never  get  tired  of  listening  to  Geary." 

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been  jealous  of  the  glamor  that  sur- 
rounds Jane's  life,  and  Jane  has  never  al- 
lowed Geary  to  feel  that  she  was  more 
important  than  he.  Actually,  she  isn't.  He 
has  made  a  brilliant  success  in  his  own 
work.  He  loves  it  as  Jane  loves  singing. 

Having  been  a  performer  himself,  he 
knows  that  Jane  belongs  to  her  public, 
too.  He  smiles  so  proudly  when  she  is 
recognized  in  the  lobby  of  the  theater,  or 
in  a  shop,  or  on  the  street. 

Those  who  watch  them  walk  into  a  room 
together,  know  even  without  knowing  them 
personally,  that  here  are  two  people  won- 
derfully and  madly  in  love.  It  isn't  any- 
thing endearing  they  say  to  each  other,  or 
anything  they  do.  But  they  have  a  kind  of 
dignity  towards  each  other,  and  a  warm 
and  glowing  adoration.  You  can  see  it 
in  their  eyes.  They  can  be  standing  at 
different  corners  of  the  room,  surrounded 
by  different  groups  of  people,  but  Jane's 
eyes  follow  Geary,  and  Geary's  eyes  fol- 
low Jane.  There  is  a  silent  language 
between  them,  the  language  of  deep  and 
lasting  love.  The  End 


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Many  mysterious  changes  take 
place  in  your  body  as  you  ma- 
ture. Now,  the  apocrine  glands 
under  your  arms  begin  to  se- 
crete daily  a  new  type  of  per- 
spiration containing  milky  substances  which 
will  —  if  they  reach  your  dress  —  cause  ugly 
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You'll  face  this  problem  throughout  wo- 
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$1,000  Bond: 

Mrs.  Alice  Baiikert 
Denver,  Colorado 


2nd  PRIZE 

$600  Bond: 

Miss  Clara  Hobbs 
Charlotte,  N.  C. 


PRIZE 

$250  Bond: 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Denehie 
Terre  Haute,  Indiana 

$100  Bond  each: 

Miss  Donna  Morrison 
Columbus,  Ohio 

Mrs.  Paul  Ernst 
Knoxville,  Tenn. 

Miss  Jeanne  M.  Hall 
Wabasha,  Minn. 

$50  Bond  each: 

Mrs.  Roy  Frable 
Nazareth,  Pa. 

Mrs.  M.  Shore 
Peterborough,  Ontario, 
Canada 

Miss  Louise  Goff 
Charleston,  W.  Va. 

Miss  Sylvia  Grill 
New  York,  N.  Y. 


Mrs.  Judith  E.  Carlson 
Portland,  Oregon 

Mrs.  Bernice  Hunt 
Ranger,  Texas 

Miss  Joan  Patricia  Abell 
Indianapolis,  Indiana 

Mr.  Walter  Van  Frank 
Manteno,  Illinois 

Mrs.  H.  G.  McDaniel,  Jr. 
New  Orleans,  La. 

Miss  Judith  Glaser 
Gardiner,  Maine 


$25  Bond  eoch: 

Mrs.  Pauline  Hulsey 
Lawton,  Oklahoma 


Miss  Anne  Foley 
Roxbury,  Mass. 

Miss  Lucille  Delk 
Avant,  Oklahoma 

Mr.  John  W.  Krupa 
San  Diego,  Calif. 

Mrs.  James  Welte 
Bremerton,  Wash. 

Mrs.  Gordon  Hutching 
Seattle,  Wash. 

Miss  Patty  Aucoin 
Rumford,  Maine 


Miss  Gloria  Zakrzewski 
Buffalo,  New  York 

Mrs.  Alice  L.  Tweedy 
Taunton,  Mass. 

Miss  Marie  Myers 
Fort  Worth,  Texas 

Mrs.  W.  A.  Goerss 
Euclid,  Ohio 

Miss  Elane  Blackwell 
Tipton,  Oklahoma 

Mrs.  Lyle  D.  Corson 
Detroit,  Michigan 


Mrs.  Rosemarie  Rickwood  Mr.  Jim  Gardner 
Perth  Amboy,  N.  J.  Perkins,  Oklahoma 


William  D.  Sellers 
Charleston,  S.  C. 

Mrs.  Carrie  T.  Jackson 
Spokane,  Wash. 

Miss  Helen  Banks 
Kellerton,  Iowa 

Mrs.  Anne  M.  Taylor 
Westfield,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Elsa  F.  MacMillan 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Mrs.  Delia  Slaughter 
Greensboro,  Georgia 

Mr.  Albert  B.  Manski 
Boston,  Mass. 

Sgt.  Elvin  D.  Nichols 
San  Angelo,  Texas 

Mrs.  Alma  Ormsby 
San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Mrs.  N.  G.  Bartlett 
Kinston,  N.  C. 

Mr.  C.  S.  Gilbert 
Mansfield,  Pa. 

Mr.  Wes  Bird 
Dayton,  Ohio 

Mrs.  Barbara  White 
Richmond,  Virginia 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Beach 
Toledo,  Ohio 

Mrs.  Harry  M.  Cain 
Selmer,  Tennessee 

Mrs.  Toni  Evans 
Lantana,  Florida 


Miss  Effle  Alice  Artherton  Miss  Bettye  Jean  Keele 
Spring  Fork,  Missouri         Manchester,  Tenn. 


Miss  Lydia  Flores 
Pharr,  Texas 

Miss  Sarah  MuUins 
Sykesville,  Maryland 


Miss  Mary  Georgioff 
Portland,  Oregon 


Miss  Jeanette  Lafore 
Spokane,  Wash. 


Patricia  Louise  Counceller  Mrs.  Dorothy  B.  Harlan 
Anderson,  Indiana  Portland,  Oregon 


Miss  Barbara  Benson 
Fort  Hood,  Texas 

Mrs.  Regina  Bauks 
Shrewsbury,  Mass. 


Mrs.  Ellen  Rand 
Fayetteville,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  John  H.  Hudspeth 
Lubbock,  Texas 


Miss  Minnie  Gray  Stewart  Mrs.  Tina  Principato 

Farmerville,  Louisiana  Roslindale,  Mass. 

Miss  Margaret  Di  Stefano  Miss  Patricia  Beha 

106  Quincy,  Mass.  Minneapolis,  Minn. 


Miss  Rosalie  Abdallah 
Kinston,  N.  C. 

Mrs.  Josephine  Cole 
San  Francisco,  Calif. 

Miss  Patricia  Jensen 
Freeport,  Illinois 

Mrs.  Lawrence  Blair 
Chillicothe,  Ohio 

Ret.  John  J.  Miller 
Camp  Pickett,  Virginia 

Mrs.  Betty  E.  Roosa 
Albany,  New  York 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Johnston 
Port  Huron,  Michigan 

Miss  Patricia  Phillips 
Kansas  City,  Kansas 

Cadet  Billy  Woods,  Jr. 
Columbia,  Tenn. 

Mr.  Dean  Melang 
Seattle,  Wash. 

Miss  Patricia  Murray 
Burbank,  Calif. 

Mr.  Franz  F.  Beilfus,  Jr. 
Lowell,  Wash. 

Miss  Pat  Kahler 
Chicago,  Illinois 

Mrs.  Russell  Essick 
Chicago,  Illinois 

Miss  Lilyan  Brounstein 
Brooklyn,  New  York 

Miss  Kay  Gierke 
Chicago,  Illinois 

Mrs.  Eula  Fletcher 
CarroUton,  Georgia 

Miss  Beverly  Collver 
Madison,  N.  J. 

Miss  Dorothy  Windish 
Somers  Point,  N.  J. 

Miss  Esmeralda  Petalas 
Brooklyn,  New  York 

Mr.  Peter  Skinkus 
Kewanee,  Illinois 

Mr.  Wayne  Boykin 
Lubbock,  Texas 

Mrs.  M.  Weibel 
Seattle,  Wash. 

Mrs.  Clarence  R.  Bentz 
Durham,  Kansas 


Miss  Alberta  M.  Bonney 
Wind  Gap,  Pa. 

Miss  Anita  Borcia 
Chicago,  Illinois 

Mr.  Robert  McClay 
Woodbourne,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Frances  Auerbach 
Philadelphia,  Pa. 

Miss  Ninette  D'Agostino 
Elmont,  New  York 

Miss  Mary  Sale 
Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

Mrs.  Grace  H.  Buzzell 
Arlington,  Virginia 

Miss  Sally  Reichert 
St.  Louis,  Missouri 

Miss  Mary  E.  Goshe 
Fostoria,  Ohio 

Mrs.  Marjorie  C.  Reid 
Fort  Worth,  Texas 

Miss  Sharon  B.  Shapiro 
Irvington,  N.  J. 

Miss  Bernadette  Schell 
Miamisburg,  Ohio 

Miss  Ronnie  Buitenkant 
Bronx,  New  York 

Mr.  Nick  Sossong 
Scranton,  Pa. 

Miss  Marj  Khelokian 
Detroit,  Michigan 

Mrs.  Betty  Augustine 
Highland  Falls,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Jerry  Schneider 
St.  Louis,  Missouri 

Miss  Vicki  Festa 
New  York,  N.  Y. 

Mrs.  Marian  F.  Bireline 
Cedar  Falls,  Iowa 

Miss  Estelle  Barker 
West  Orange,  N.  J. 

Miss  Harriet  Shapiro 
Bronx,  New  York 

Miss  Audrey  Baker 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

Mrs.  Ruth  Feldman 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

Mrs.  Jack  McLeod 
Texarkana,  Arkansas 

Mrs.  Jeanne  Andersen 
Flourtown,  Pa. 

Miss  Elaine  Corriveau 
Manchaug,  Mass. 

Miss  Barbara  Farrell 
Revere,  Mass. 

Mrs.  Elmer  Bluschke 
Milwaukee,  Wisconsin 

Miss  Peggy  Gaston 
Dawson,  Georgia 

Miss  Marilyn  Henderson 
Monona,  Iowa 

Miss  June  Oliver 
Vienna,  Illinois 


Mrs.  R.  W.  Ballard 
Winder,  Georgia 

Mrs.  Louise  R.  Pepper 
Springfield,  Tenn. 

Mr.  Frank  J.  Krizek 
Seymour,  Wisconsin 

Mrs.  T.  W.  Tompkins 
Columbia,  S.  C. 

Miss  Charlene  Hawkins 
Tulsa,  Oklahoma 

Miss  Janet  Self 
Kosciusko,  Miss. 

Miss  Evelyn  Marie  Lock 
Henryetta,  Oklahoma 

Miss  Alma  Nadicksbernd 
Warner  Robins,  Georgia 

Mrs.  Morton  P.  Rowan 
Kansas  City,  Missouri 

Mrs.  Naomi  Ainsworth 
Texarkana,  Arkansas 

Mr.  &  Mrs.  Louis  Pelosi 
Cudahy,  Wisconsin 

Miss  Helen  Louise 

Huffstutler 
Miami,  Florida 

Mrs.  E.  Dorothea 

Moorcroft 
Cedar  Rapids,  Iowa 

Mrs.  Mary  Carpenter 
West  Hartford,  Conn. 

Miss  Elaine  H.  Browne 
Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Miss  Hazel  Mills 
Verdunville,  W.  Va. 

Miss  Elaine  Johnson 
Rio,  Wisconsin 

Miss  Marie  Vincent 
Mitchell,  S.  Dakota 

Miss  Betty  Minter 
Oklahoma  Cit3',  Okla. 

Miss  Elizabeth  Johnston 
McCredie,  Missouri 

Miss  Wanda  Irene  Mills 
Elkins,  W.  Va. 

Mrs.  Howard  Sellers 
Missoula,  Montana 

Miss  Bobbie  Jo  Jones 
Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana 

Mrs.  William  E.  Pickard 
Albany,  Georgia 

Mr.  Robert  Beaulieu 
Red  Lake,  Minn. 

Miss  June  Vaughn 
Indianapolis,  Indiana 

Mr.  William  A.  Kuehl 
Evanston,  Illinois 

Miss  Helen  B.  Haaland 
Southbury,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Charles  Merritt 
Saginaw,  Michigan 

Mrs.  Jo  Ann  Brown 
Washington,  D.  C. 


Mrs.  Jean  T.  Cook 
Newport  News,  Virginia 

Mr.  George  W.  Branham 
Martinsville,  Virginia 

Miss  Marlys  Norland 
Miles  City,  Montana 

Mrs.  Dorothy  Stout 
Aurora,  Missouri 

Mrs.  W.  E.  Newland 
Oklahoma  City,  Okla. 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Lewis 
St.  Joseph,  Missouri 

Mr.  Lloyd  Ira  Miller 
AUentown,  Pa. 

Miss  Phyllis  Eyleen  Davis 
Heyburn,  Idaho 

Mrs.  P.  Buonanno 
New  London,  Conn. 

Mr.  John  S.  Enginger 
St.  Louis,  Missouri 

Mrs.  Earl  Taylor- 
Anaconda,  Montana 

Mrs.  Naomi  Simpson 
Portales,  New  Mexico 

Miss  Patricia  Shields 
Port  Orange,  Florida 

Mrs.  A.  L.  Lmdall,  Jr. 
Washington,  D.  C. 

Miss  Barbara  Glascock 
Darlington,  Indiana 

Miss  Kathleen  Baumann 
Romulus,  Michigan 

Mrs.  Jimmy  L.  Cummins 
Carbin,  Kentucky 

Miss  Gertrude  M.  Espenan 
Baton  Rouge,  Louisiana 

Mrs.  W.  H.  Clayton 
Orlando,  Florida 

Mr.  Edward  W. 

Biegenzahn 
Billings,  Montana 

Mr.  Alfred  Andersen 
New  Milford,  Conn. 

Mrs.  E.  J.  Ogden 
Clarksburg,  W.  Va. 

Mrs.  Nadyne  Underbill 
Charleston,  W.  Va. 

Mrs.  Faye  Williams 
Birmingham,  Alabama 

Misses  Barbie,  Gina,  Sue 

Martin 
Portland,  Oregon 

Mrs.  R.  Taylor  Hall 
Baltimore,  Maryland 

Miss  Helen  Hotra 
Chesapeake  City,  Md. 

Miss  Louana  Visintainei' 
Ogden,  Utah 

Mrs.  L.  H.  McNish 
Riverview,  Florida 

Miss  Marie  Devenero 
Thompsonville,  Conn. 

Mrs.  Carolyn  Johnson 
Cranston,  R.  I. 

Mr.  Virgil  S.  Davis 
Anaconda,  Montana 

Miss  Margaret  Moore 
Glendale,  Arizona 


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What  mgkes  her -teerti 
so  Sparkling  brigW-?..  Tfie  answer 
is  IPANA! 


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for  cleaner,  healthier  teeth ! 


What  makes  her  moutti 
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Right  After  Eating  with 


COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
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AUGUST,  1951  _ 

modern  screen 

stories 


THE  NEW  MRS.  AGAR  (John  Agar)  by  Jim  Burton  10 

NO  MORE  PLAYBOYS  FOR  RITA  (Rita  Hay  worth)  by  Arthur  L.  Charles  29 

A  NEW  LOVE  FOR  COOP?  (Gary  Cooper)  by  Imogene  Collins  30 

HOLLYWOOD'S  BEDTIME  MANNERS  by  Sidney  Skolsky  32 

WHO  WANTS  A  PRIVATE  LIFE?  (John  Derek)  by  Frances  Clark  34 

BRIEF  MARRIAGE?  (Ruth  Roman)  by  Leslie  Snyder  36 

MY  SON,  PETER  by  Glenn  Ford  38 

LIZ  TAYLOR  TELLS  THE  TRUTH  ABOUT  HER  LOVES  by  Consuelo  Anderson  40 

THE  LOWDOWN  ON  MacRAE  (Gordon  MacRae)  by  Sheilah  MacRae  42 

CANDY  'N  CAKE  (Betty  Hutton's  children)  By  Beverly  Ott  44 

IS  GRABLE  QUITTING?  (Betty  Grable)  by  Steve  Cronin  46 

THE  PERFECT  HAPPINESS  by  Jane  Greer  53 

LOOK  OUT  FOR  THIS  GUY  (John  Wayne)  by  Tom  Carlile  54 

TONY  AND  PIPER  MEET  THE  PEOPLE  (Curtis-Laurie)   56 

special  section 

WHAT  DO  THEY  DO  WITH  ALL  THAT  MONEY?   48 

HOW  ESTHER  AND  BEN  LIVE  (Esther  Williams)                 .by  Marva  Peterson  50 

features 

THE  INSIDE  STORY  "  „   4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS  .,   6 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers)   80 

departments 

MOVIE  REVIEWS  by  Christopher  Kane  14 

VIRGINIA  MAYO,  YOUR  HOLLYWOOD  SHOPPER   20 

FASHION   68 


ON  THE  COVER:  Color  portrait  of  20th  Century-Fox's  Betty  Grable  by  Nick  Muray. 
Cover  designed  by  Angelo  Grasso. 
Other  picture  credits  on  page  97. 


CHARLES 

DURBIN  L.  HORNER,  managing  editor 
FLORENCE  EPSTEIN,  story  editor 
SUZANNE  EPPES,  associate  editor 
GWENN  WALTERS,  associate  editor 
FERNANDO  TEXIDOR,  art  director 
BILL  WEINBERGER,  art  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  reviewer 


D,  SAXON,  editor 

CARL  SCHROEDER,  western  manager 
BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
BOB  BEERMAN,  staff  photographer 
BERT  PARRY,  staff  photographer 
LIZ  SMITH,  assistant  editor 
IRENE  TURNER,  research  editor 
CAROL  CAHTER,  beauty  editor 


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lane  Powell  tops 
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Screen  Play  by  DOROTHY  COOPER  and  SIDNEY  SHELDON 

story  by  DOROTHY  COOPER 

Directed  by  NORMAN  TAUROG  •  Produced  by  JOE  PASTERNAK 
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9.  Why  do  agents  in  Hollywood  get 
10%  of  an  actor's  salary  and  agents  in 
New  York  only  5%  of  an  actor's 
salary?       — C.  O.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

A.  Actors'-  Equity  has  that  ruling  in 
New  York.  The  same  ruling  does  not 
apply  to  Hollywood.  The  Screen  Actors' 
Guild  has  discussed  the  reduction  of 
agents'  fees  but  has  never  done  anything 
about  it. 

9.  Will  Rock  Hudson  and  Vera-Ellen 
get  married  this  year,  or  is  that  love 
affair  simply  a  publicity  build-up? 

C.  R.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

A.  It's  genuine.  Rock  says  he  and  Vera 
will  marry  some  time  next  year. 

<?.  Does  Bob  Taylor  have  a  new  girl- 
friend named  Sybil  Merit?  Is  he  still 
carrying  a  torch  for  Barbara  Stanwyck? 

— M.  D.,  Phbla.,  Pa. 

A.  Taylor  has  been  out  with  Miss  Merit 
once.  He  and  Barbara  are  still  very  good 
'friends.  While  on  location  in  Utah  for 
Westward  the  Women,  Bob  used  to  fly 
to  Hollywood  each  weekend  just  to  see 
his  ex-wife. 

<?.  I  understand  that  Farley  Granger 
has  been  dating  Barbara  Stanwyck. 
What's  the  inside  story  behind  that  one? 
Isn't  Barbara  old  enough  to  be  his 
mother?    — S.    A.,    Stamford,  Conn. 

A.  Barbara  Stanwyck  is  43.  Several 
months  ago,  immediately  after  her  di- 
vorce from  Bob  Taylor,  she  was  invited 
to  a  Party  at  the  Gary  Coopers.  Mrs. 
Cooper  told  Barbara  that  Farley  Gran- 
ger would  stop  on  his  way  to  their 
house  and  pick  her  up.  Farley  did  ex- 
actly that.  He  was  simply  her  escort  for 
the  evening. 

9.  What's  become  of  Montgomery 
Clift?  Why  hasn't  he  made  another 
picture  recently? — D.  R.,  Bronx,  N.  Y. 

A.  Cliffs  traveling  at  the  moment.  He's 
been  to  Havana,  Dallas  {where  his  twin 
sister  lives).  New  York,  and  several 
other  cities.  He  hasn't  made  a  picture 
recently  for  two  reasons:  (1)  his  agent 
is  asking  too  much  money  for  him, 
$150,000  per  picture  and  up  (2)  Clift 
wants  to  choose  his  own  director. 

9.  Is  it  true  that  Frank  Sinatra  and 
Ava  Gardner  plan  to  star  in  a  picture 
together?         — B.  D.,  Dover,  Del. 


A.  Sinatra  would  like  to  very  much. 
He's  been  playing  around  with  the  idea 
of  purchasing  the  motion  picture  rights 
to  St.  Louis  Woman,  a  Broadway  musi- 
cal of  some  years  ago.  The  only  hitch 
in  the  setup  is  that  Metro  will  not  loan 
Ava  out.  Currently,  she's  the  hottest 
actress  on  the  lot. 

9-  I  understand  that  Elizabeth  Taylor 
has  told  her  friends  she's  flat  broke.  Is 
this  true?  Doesn't  she  get  any  aUmony 
from  Nicky?      — D.  O.,  Miami,  Fla. 

A.  Liz  has  told  that  to  her  friends.  She 
gets  no  alimony  from  Hilton,  but  her 
salary  is  $1,000  a  week. 

9.  Did  in-law  and  secretary  trouble 
have  anything  to  do  with  Clark's  not 
getting  along  with  Mrs.  Gable? 

— N.  T.,  Rye,  N.  Y. 

A,  Those  are  two  minor  reasons.  Major 
reason:  different  viewpoints  on  the  fun- 
damentals of  living. 

9.  What  is  the  lowdown  on  Yvonne 
De  Carlo  and  Mel  Hash? 

— T.  Y.,  Rocky  Mount,  N.  C. 

A.  This  must  be  a  publicity  plant.  Mel 
Hash  is  the  name  of  a  horse  that  ran 
at  Jamaica  last  May. 

9.  Whatever  happened  to  Dorothy 
McGuire?  Haven't  seen  her  in  a  pic- 
ture since  Mr.  880. 

— R.  R.,  Louisville,  Ky. 

A.  Dorothy  has  signed  to  play  the  lead 
opposite  Farley  Granger  and  Dana  An- 
drews in  the  Sam  Goldwyn  production, 
I  Want  You. 

9.  Is  it  true  that  many  of  the  MGM 
stars  are  under  personal  contract  to 
Louis  B.  Mayer  and  not  the  studio? 

— D.  Z.,  Evanston,  III.  : 
\ 

A.  Several  stars  used  to  be  under  per-  ij 
sonal  contract  to  Mayer,  but  when  he  r 
signed  a  new  contract  with  the  studio  |l 
S07ne  years  ago,  he  turned  those  con- 
tracts over  to  MGM. 

9.  Was  Steve  Cochran  ever  married 
before?  Is  he  still  dating  Ginger  Rogers? 

— C.  N.,  Laurel,  Miss. 

A.  Steve  was  married  to  Fay  Mackenzie. 
•The  Rogers-Cochran  affair  has  cooled. 


ROARING 

THROUGH  CHINA 
TODAY! 


Adventuress,  doctor,  thief, 
clergyman  .  .  .  they  all  ride 
the  peril  •  laden  Peking 
Express  .  .  .  rushing  through 
the  intrigue  and  the  terror 
of  the  strife-torn  Orient! 


WL  WALLIS' 


PRODUCTION  STARRING 

UOSEPH   CORINNE  EDMUND 

COTTEN  CALVET  GWENN 

with  MARVIN  MILLER  Directed  by  kV/LL/AM  D/ETERLE 

Screenplay  by  John  Meredyth  Lucas  Adaptation  byJu/es  Furthman 
From  a  Story  by  Hariy  Hervey  A  PARAMOUNT  PICTURE 


JOHN  AGAR'S  MARRIAGE  WAS  THE  SURPRISE  OF  MY  LIFE! 


GET 


Lana  Turner  and  Ava  Gardner  entered  into  friendly  competition  vying  for  costume 
honors  at  "The  Ribbon  Cabaret."  a  glamorous  charity  affair  benefiting  the  Minnie 
Barton  and  Bide-a-Wee  homes  of  Los  Angeles.  There  were  over  400  guests  present. 


I CALLED  Lana  Turner  and  asked  outright 
if  she  and  Bob  were  having  trouble. 
"Several  weeks  ago  we  weren't  happy, 
Louella,"    replied    the   most  sguare-shooting 
gal  in  Hollywood.    "I  didn't  know  whether 
we  were  going  to  be  able  to  work  it  out. 

"But  that  rough  spot  is  past  now,"  she 
went  on.  "We  are  happy  again  and  realize, 
perhaps  more  than  ever,  how  much  our 
marriage  means  to  both  of  us." 

Is  there  a  more  honest  person  in  pictures 
than  luscious  Lana?  I've  never  in  my  life 
asked  her  a  question,  no  matter  how  per- 
sonal, that  she  didn't  answer  me  straight. 

And  without  prying  further,  I  think  I  know 
what  the  trouble  between  the  Toppings  may 
have  been.  Too  much  "play"  at  a  time 
when  Lana  was  really  worried  about  her 
career.  She  was  very  upset  about  the  re- 
views on  her  picture,  Mr.  Imperium. 

Bob  had  bought  a  boat  and  was  spend- 


ing most  of  his  time  at  Balboa  aboard  his 
new  "toy."  The  Toppings  took  an  apartment 
at  the  harbor  resort  but  Lana  has  never  been 
an  outdoor  girl.  She  can't  take  too  much 
sun  because  it  poisons  her  .skin. 

The  rumors  started  crackling  when  she 
returned  to  their  Bel  Air  home  and  Bob 
stayed  on  the  boat. 

But,  I  believe  Lana  when  she  says  every- 
thing is  okay  again. 

FEW  happenings  in  this  town  surprise  me, 
but  John  Agar's  out-of-the-blue  elopement 
to  Las  Vegas  with  Loretta  Barnett  Combs 
and  their  subsequent  marriage,  did! 

When  I  interviewed  him  not  long  ago, 
John  told  me  he  wouldn't  remarry  for  years. 
That's  what  the  "man  said. 

So,  when  he  high-tailed  it  up  to  Las  Vegas 
with  Miss  Combs  for  a  license  and  was  told 
by  the  clerk  at  the  Court  House  to  "take 


a  couple  of  runs  around  the  block  and  get 
some  black  coffee  in  you" — all  I  could  say 
was,  "Well!" 

The  license  clerk  came  right  out  and  told 
reporters  Agar  was  "obviously  drunk"  and 
the  law  forbade  issuing  the  necessary  paper 
until  he  sobered  up. 

Shirley  Temple's  former  husband  was  not 
only  cold  sober  but  slightly  peeved  when 
the  honeymooners  flew  back  to  Los  Angeles. 
He  snapped  to  reporters,  "Well,  we're  mar- 
ried, aren't  we?" 

The  bride  is  a  former  model  and  she's  tall 
and  dark.    It's  her  second  marriage. 

Of  course,  the  "inside"  stories  started 
popping  high  wide  and  handsome.  One  was 
that  Loretta  and  another  girl  Agar  has  been 
dating,  Elaine  White,  were  both  guests  at 
his  mother's  home  for  dinner  the  night  before 
the  surprise  elopement.  John  is  whispered 
to  have  asked  Elaine  to  marry  him  first.  And 


LOAD  OF  DARLING  LITTLE  DEBBIE  REYNOLDS  ...  IS  THE  GARY  COOPERS'  BREAK-UP  REALLY  ALL  HIS  FAULT  .  .  .  ? 


Dazzling,  Ava,  Irene  Dunne,  Diana  Lynn,  and  Loretta  Young  stymied 
the  judges.  Diana  won  the  "most  original  costume"  prize  of  lingerie; 
Loretta  won  a  bottle  of  perfume  for  "the  most  beautiful"  erection. 


 if 

Sally  Forrest  only  had  eyes  for  agent  Milo  Frank  at  the  Go  For  Broke 
premiere.  Milo  is  still  Sally's  fiance,  but  so  far  no  marriage  announce- 
ment is  forthcoming.    .Sally's   latest  movie   is   Excuse   My  Dust. 


Jeanne  Grain,  Margaret  O'Brien,  and  Ruth  Hussey  were  among  the 
stars  gathered  at  the  McCarthy  estate  in  Beverly  Hills  to  publicize 
Father  Peyton's  book,  "The  Ear  of  Sod."  Movie  fans  had  a  field  day. 


Ann  Sheridan  and  Jeff  Chandler  have  kept  Hollywood  buzzing  about 
their  constant  dating.  Here  at  a  party  in  the  Mozzarino  restaurant, 
they   pitched    in   with    other   guests    preparing    foods    like  spaghetti. 


when  she  said,  "Nay,"  he  asked  Loretta. 

Another  yarn  goes  that  Loretta  had  a 
dinner  date  with  another  gent  that  night  after 
her  unscheduled  marriage.  So  when  she 
came  home  from  Las  Vegas,  she  politely 
called  him  and  said: 

"Sorry,  I'll  have  to  call  off  our  dinner 
appointment.    I  was  married  this  morning." 

(For  the  full  story  of  /oJ?n  Agar's  wedding 
Please  turn  to  page  10. — Ed.) 

Annelle  and  Mark  Stevens  are  expecting 
their  second  child  this  summer  which  is  the 
"key"  to  the  funniest  sayings-of-children- 
story  I've  heard  this  month. 

Five-year-old  Mark  Jr.  was  asked  by  his 
school  teacher  what  his  parents  did  for  a 
living.  It  was  a  questionnaire  sent  around 
to  discover  how  many  youngsters  had  both 
parents  working. 

"My  father,"  said  Junior,  "gets  up  in  the 


morning  and  goes  to  the  studio." 

Then,  he  added,  "And  my  mother  gets  up 
in  the  morning  and  throws  up!" 

You  think  movie  fans,  even  teenagers, 
aren't  loyal  to  the  stars  they  admire? 
Veronica  Lake  broke  down  and  wept  over 
the  many  letters  which  came  to  her  and 
Andre  De  Toth  enclosing  money  after  it 
was  announced  that  their  home  had  been 
taken  over  for  back  income  taxes. 

Some  of  the  letters  contained  as  much  as 
five  dollars.  Some  sent  one  dollar.  Others 
offered  twenty-five  cents — still  others  a  dime. 

"It  was  the  thought  that  meant  so  much," 
Veronica  cried,  "what  a  wonderful  thing  it 
is  to  know  that  there  are  kind,  warm  friends 
in  the  world." 

IF  I  sound  like   a  walking  hospital  chart 
this  month  it  is  because  I  have  been  spend- 


ing most  of  my  free  time  at  the  Cedars  of 
Lebanon  Hospital  where  my  husband.  Dr. 
Martin,  is  recuperating  from  a  long  illness. 

And  it  seems  half  of  the  drama  of  Holly- 
wood was  taking  place  at  the  Cedars  at 
the  time. 

I'll  never  forget  Jimmy  Stewart's  face  the 
afternoon  I  met  him  in  the  elevator  just  a 
few  hours  before  the  birth  of  those  adorable 
twins,  Judy  and  Kelly. 

He  looked  so  drawn  and  harassed. 

"Jimmy,"  I  said,  "have  you  eaten  any- 
thing in  days?" 

"Oh,  sure,  sure,"  he  replied  like  a  man 
in  a  trance,  "I'm  all  right.  I  just  can't  think 
about  anything   except  Gloria." 

The  birth  of  the  baby  girls  by  Caesarean 
section  was  very  successful.  But  two  days 
later,  Gloria  underwent  an  operation  for 
an  intestinal  obstruction  followed  within 
hours  by  a  second,  more  serious  operation.  7 


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Believe  me — everybody  in  that  hospital, 
doctors,  nurses,  and  even  patients  were  pray- 
ing for  her  recovery  and  everybody's  heart 
went  out  to  that  tall,  lanky,  devoted  Jimmy 
who  never  left  her  bedside.  What  a  won- 
derful husband  and  father  he  is! 

Now  that  Gloria  is  so  much  better,  I  want 
to  tell  you  a  cute  story  she  told  me  of  how 
Jimmy  had  fed  the  children  the  other  evening 
(the  twins  were  taken  home  weeks  before 
their  mother  could  leave  the  hospital). 

"He  gave  them  their  bottles,"  laughed 
Gloria,  "and  then  proudly  reported  that  he 
burped  them." 

At  the  same  time  Gloria  was  so  desperate- 
ly ill,  Marie  Wilson  was  in  a  critical  con- 
dition in  the  same  hospital — her  second 
trip  within  days. 

Our  Friend  Marie  had  been  pronounced 
completely  out  of  danger  from  phlebitis 
(blood  clots  in  the  legs)  and  had  been 
dismissed  by  her  doctor.  Then,  what  does 
she  do  but  go  to  another  doctor  for  a  vitamin 
"shot." 

Within  24  hours  she  was  back  in  the  hos- 
pital with  a  fever  of  105  and  just  the  barest 
chance  to  survive.  At  one  time,  it  was  thought 
she  was  dead. 

But  Marie  is  young  and  healthy,  and  she 
miraculously  survived.  She  is  well  on  the 
way  to  recovery — but  here's  hoping  she 
never  comes  as  close  again  and  that  she 
never  does  such  a  foolish  thing  without 
consulting   her  own  doctor. 

Because  I  was  on  hand  during  all  the 
crises — I  really  found  myself  in  the  role  of 
a  hospital  reporter.  On  one  day  alone,  I 
wrote  three  news  stories  on  Mrs.  Stewart's 
condition  for  my  newspaper — and  two  on 
Marie! 

No  girl  boosted  so  fast  to  stardom  as 
Debbie  Reynolds  has  remained  such  on 
unsophisticated  child  at  heart.  Debbie  is 
the  same  age  as  the  now  quite  worldly 
Liz  Taylor — 19.  But  one  is  a  kid  around  the 
MGM  lot — the  other  a  glamor  queen. 

Debbie  wears  blue  jeans  and  sweaters. 
Elizabeth's  wardrobe  is  "created"  by  lead- 
ing designers. 

Elizabeth  "watches"  her  diet.  Debbie  walks 
around  with  hot  dogs  and  ice  cream  cones 
in  her  hands  between  meals  and  what  she 
"stokes"  away  for  a  regular  meal  would 
do  justice  to  a  day  laborer. 

Miss  Taylor  is  a  frequent  visitor  to  the 
nightclubs.  Debbie  attends  Girl  Scout  meet- 
ings and  recently  presented  her  particular 
group  with  an  Outdoor  Theater.  When  the 
gentlemen  around  town  try  to  date  Mis& 
Reynolds,  her  stock  reply  is,  "I'm  sorry.  I 
can't.  I  gotta  go  to  a  meetin' "  (Girl  Scouts). 

Elizabeth  is  quietly  taking  singing  lessons. 
Debbie  still  proudly  toots  the  French  horn, 
an  instrument  she  played  for '  a  year  in  the 
Burbank  Youth  Symphony. 

She  is  Gene  Kelly's  co-star  in  Singing  In 
the  Rain  but  she  calls  him.  "Mr.  Kelly."  She 
is  a  movie  fan  and  has  written  several  stars 
(off  the  MGM  lot)  asking  for  their  auto- 
graph or  a  signed  picture. 

She  hates  to  wear  mascara  off  screen 
because,  "it  gets  in  my  eyes.  I  forget  and 
rub  my  eyes." 

Debbie  was  bom  on  April  Fool's  Day  and 
the  fact  makes  her  giggle,  "for  obvious 
reasons." 

^Continued  on  page  18) 


FROM 
WARNER  BROS. 

STARRING 

DORIS 


GORDON 


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STREETCAR  NAMED  DESIRE 


The  unusual  prelude  to  the  wedding  of  John  Agar  and  model  Loretta  Combs  on  May  16th  odded  to  the  bad  publicity  obout  the  actor. 


In  this  frank  story, 
John  Agar's  mother  and 
the  marriage  bureau  answer 
the  critical  charges 
made  about  his  wedding. 

BY  JIM  BURTON 


■  Judge  Edward  McManee  looked  down  at  John  Agar  from  his  dais  in  the 
county  courthouse  at  Las  Vegas. 

The  judge  wanted  to  be  absolutely  certain  that  Agar  was  sober.  Two  and 
a  half  hours  previously  at  about  1: 30  in  the  afternoon,  John  had  come  into 
the  courthouse,  and  in  a  voice  made  rough  by  alcohol,  said,  "We'd  like  to  get 
married.   Where  do  we  get  the  marriage  license?" 

Helen  Scott  Reed,  the  motherly,  bespectacled  county  clerk,  gazed  at  Agar.  He 
was  dressed  neatly  in  slacks,  a  hounds-tooth  sports  jacket,  and  a  striped  tie. 
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She  looked  next  at  Loretta  Barnett  Combs,  the  fashion  model  John  wanted 
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certainly  make  a  fine  married  couple.  But  the  county  clerk  wasn't  sure 
that  Agar  realized  the  importance  of  the  step  he  was  about  to  take. 

"He  appeared  intoxicated  to  me,"  Clerk  Reed  said,  "and  I  just  didn't  want 
to  take  any  chances.  He  might  have  known  what  he  was  doing.  The  girl 
certainly  did^  but  he  seemed  unsure,  and  it  isn't  our  (Continued  on  page  12) 


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(Continued  from  page  10)  policy  to  issue 
marriage  licenses  carelessly.  I  said  to  him, 
'Why  don't  you  think  it  over  and  come 
back  later?' 

"He  was  the  perfect  gentleman.  No 
argument  or  anything.  He  grinned  kind  of 
boyishly  at  me  and  then  they  left.  But 
even  if  he  had  been  drinking,  I  don't  think 
it's  a  crime.  After  all,  lots  of  men  take  a 
drink  or  two  before  their  wedding.  It 
bolsters  their  nerves." 

Two  and  a  half  hours  later,  John  and 
Loretta  were  back  in  the  county  clerk's 
office.  "He  was  simply  fine,"  Mrs.  Reed 
says.  "I  swore  him  in,  and  he  gave  the 
answers  to  the  marriage  license  appli- 
cation quickly  and  clearly." 

So,  too,  did  Loretta.  Like  John,  she'd 
been  married  once  before,  and  like  him 
she'd  been  divorced  in  1949. 

The  couple  was  then  escorted  into  Judge 
McManee's  chambers.  Their  witnesses 
were  the  County  Clerk,  and  Margaret  Hin- 
son,  the  Judge's  court  reporter. 

Aware  of  what  had  gone  before.  Judge 
McManee  improvised  the  following  mar- 
riage ceremony: 

"Do  you,  John,"  he  asked,  "swear  that 
you  are  sober,  in  your  right  mind,  and 
know  full  well  the  action  you  are  taking?" 

Agar  looked  puzzled  for  a  moment,  then 
answered,  "I  do." 

Judge  McManee  turned  to  the  bride. 
"Do  you,  Loretta,  swear  that  you  are  in 
possession  of  all  your  faculties,  that  you 
believe  John  to  be  the  same,  and  that  you 
fully  imderstand  what  you  are  doing?" 

Loretta  nodded.  "Yes,  I  do,"  she  replied, 
whereupon  the  Judge  began  the  regular 
ceremony. 

After  the  ceremony,  John  and  Loretta 
drove  out  to  the  Las  Vegas  airport  and 
caught  the  7:30  p.m.  plane  to  Los  Angeles. 
When  they  alighted,  John  was  asked  if 
he'd  had  any  difficulties  in  obtaining  a 
marriage  license.  By  that  time  the  story 
of  his  little  escapade  had  been  put  oii  the 
teletype  by  newsmen,  and  was  heing 
readied  for  public  consumption. 

John,  who  justifiably  feels  that  the  press 
has  been  making  him  its  scapegoat  for 
years,  was  irritated.  "There  was  no 
trouble  at  all  in  getting  the  license.  We're 
married,"  he  said. 

The  next  morning,  all  hallelujah  broke 
loose.  "AGAR  WEDS  AFTER  LICENSE 
DELAYED,"  screamed  one  headline. 
"AGAR,  DRUNK,  SOBERS  UP,  GETS 
MARRIED,"  roared  another. 

Most  vicious  of  all  the  comments  was 
the  following  news  item:  "No  matter  what 
you  read  about  the  very  recent  marriage  of 
a  well-known  yoimg  star  to  a  local  model, 
a  half  hour  before,  he  had  asked  another 
gal  to  hitch  with  him.  He  got  the  turn- 
down, turned  the  request  over  to  another 
gal,  who  accepted.  Both  girls  were  at  his 
mother's  home  for  dinner." 

John  was  sickened  when  he  read  that 
item.  So,  too,  were  his  bride  and  his 
mother. 

No  names  were  mentioned,  but  all  Hol- 
lywood interpreted  the  item  as  meaning 
that  John  had  first  proposed  marriage 
that  afternoon  to  Elaine  White,  the  attrac- 
tive secretary  in  MGM's  legal  department 
who  has  dated  Clark  Gable  and  half  a 
dozen  other  actors. 

Everyone  knew  that  Elaine  and  Loretta 
had  dined  with  the  Agars  the  previous 
evening. 

John  Agar  has  never  proposed  marriage 
to  Elaine  White.  He's  been  in  love  with 
Loretta  Barnett  Combs,  his  present  wife, 
for  the  past  six  months. 

"I  don't  know  why  they  keep  hounding 
John  like  that,"  his  mother  says.  "The 
newspapers  make  him  out  to  be  a  dypso- 
maniac.  He  isn't  anything  of  the  sort.  He 
takes  a  drink  once  in  a  while,  but  not  to 


excess.  What's  wrong  about  celebrating  an 
hour  or  two  before  your  marriage?  If 
you  don't  celebrate  then,  when  can  you? 
I'm  not  saying  John  is  the  perfect  angel. 
He  has  his  faults.  Plenty  of  them.  He 
wouldn't  be  human  if  he  hadn't.  But  why 
do  they  make  him  sound  like  a  silly,  irre- 
sponsible boy? 

"This  marriage  of  his  was  no  elop>ement. 
He'd  spoken  to  me  about  it,  he  called  his 
brother  in  Stanford  and  his  sister  in  Chi- 
cago and  told  them  what  he  planned  to  do. 

"He  isn't  the  kind  of  boy  who  goes 
around  proposing  to  every  girl  he  meets. 
Elaine  and  Loretta  were  both  at  the  house 
for  dinner  on  the  night  of  May  15th. 
After  dinner,  Elaine  left.  Loretta  and  John 
sat  in  the  living  room  for  an  hour.  Dur- 
ing that  hour,  John  proposed  to  Loretta. 
She's  a  very  sweet  and  wonderful  girl — 
they've  been  going  together  for  about  a 
year — and  Loretta  accepted. 

"John  came  into  my  room  and  said, 
'Mother,  I'm  ^oing  to  tell  you  something. 
Loretta  and  I  are  going  to  get  married.  I 
think  we'll  fly  to  Las  Vegas  and  do  it 
very  quietly.' 

"I  was  happy  for  them,  but  I  said,  'Why 
don't  you  get  married  here,  in  the  house?' 
But  John  said  he'd  prefer  Reno.  So  I  gave 
them  my  blessings.  Then  he  called  up  his 
brother  and  sister  and  told  them  all  about 
it.   They  were  very  happy. 

"They  left  the  following  morning  on  the 
plane  to  Las  Vegas,  and  they  came  back 
the  same  night.  John  didn't  propose  to 
anyone  else." 

When  contacted  at  MGM,  Elaine  White 
corroborated  Mrs.  Agar's  version.  "John 
has  never  proposed  to  me.  The  man  who 
wrote  that  item  called  me,  and  I  told  him 
the  truth,  but  somehow  he  went  and  wrote 
what  he  wanted  to.  I've  been  a  friend  of 
the  Agar  family  for  some  time.  I  think 
Loretta  is  a  wonderful  girl,  and  John  is  a 
wonderful  guy,  and  I  know  they're  going 
to  be  extremely  happy." 

T  ORETTA  Barnett  Combs  Agar,  John's 
^  28-year-old  bride,  took  the  entire  p)ost- 
marriage  mess  with  her  usual  good  nature. 

"They've  got  to  sell  newspapers,"  she 
says,  "and  I  guess  John's  name  helps  sell 
them.  I've  known  John  over  a  year  now. 
I  met  him  through  Peggy  and  Larry 
Springer,  some  friends  who  run  a  chemical 
company — and  I've  always  had  a  lot 
of  fun  with  him. 

"I  was  with  him  the  night  the  police 
accused  him  of  drunken  driving,  and  I  can 
tell  you  he  wasn't  drunk  at  all.  He's  a 
very  sweet  person,  very  thoughtful  and 
considerate.  And  of  course,  I  love  him. 
That's  why  I  married  him. 

"Right  now,  we're  looking  around  for  an 
apartment.  I  work  as  a  model,  but  John 
will  be  the  breadwinner  in  the  family.  I 
don't  think  two  careers  mix.  We're  going 
to  have  lots  of  children. 

"Where  do  I  come  from?  Right  here  in 
Los  Angeles.  I  was  born  here  and  went  to 
LeConte  Junior  High  and  then  to  Lawlor's 
Professional  School.  Yes,  I've  been  mar- 
ried before  for  five  years,  but  it  didn't 
work.  What's  his  name?  Chester  Combs. 
You  wouldn't  know  him.  He  didn't  come 
from  Hollywood.    He  came  from  Texas." 

By  the  time  this  article  appears  in  print, 
the  John  Agars  will  have  returned  from 
their  honeymoon,  and  will  be  living  in  an 
apartment  of  their  own. 

"I'm  sure,"  Agar  says,  "that  Loretta  and 
I  are  going  to  be  very  happy.  I  don't  have 
a  chip  on  my  shoulder,  and  I'm  not  par- 
ticularly mad  at  anyone.  I  didn't  get 
married  on  the  re-bound,  either.  I  love 
Loretta  very  much.  I'm  glad  we're  mar- 
ried, and  that's  all  I  can  say." 

For  Agar,  who's  not  the  communicative 
type,  that's  saying  a  lot.  The  End 


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ACE  IN  THE  HOLE 

In  Ace  in  the  Hole,  Kirk  Douglas  plays  almost 
as  nice  a  guy  as  he  played  in  Champion. 
An  unscrupulous  newspaperman,  Douglas  ar- 
rives oh  the  scene  the  very  day  that  a  man 
is  trapped  in  an  Indian  cliff  dwelling  (the 
roof  has  caved  in),  in  New  Mexico,  and  sets 
about  turning  the  accident  to  his  (Douglas') 
advantage. 

This  is  the  big  story,  the  one  that  will 
win  him  a  Pulitzer  prize.  There's  a  way 
to  get  the  trapped  man  out  in  24  hours,  but 
Douglas  makes  a  deal  with  a  crooked  sheriff, 
has  the  contractor  go  at  the  rescue  operation 
the  hard  way,  by  drilling  through  rock,  a 
method  that'll  take  at  least  a  week,  and  give 
the  story  time  to  build. 


Ambition-crazed  reporter,  Kirk  Douglas,,  mokes 
a  deal  with  a  crooked  sheriff  to  delay  the  rescue 
of  o  man  trapped  in  a  New  Mexicon  cave-in. 


The  victim's  wife,  Jan  Sterling,  readily  falls 
in  with  Kirk.  A  morbid  crowd  has  gathered,  and 
she's  making  money  at  her  hamburger  stand. 


Kirk  keeps  the  injured  man,  and  his  story,  alive 
for  six  days.  Finally  the  betrayed  man  dies;  and 
tragedy  comes  to  greedy  Kirk  and  Jan,  too. 


Sure  enough,  the  site  becomes  a  picnic 
ground.  Curious  spectators  flood  in  from 
all  over;  they  camp,  and  sing  and  buy 
souvenirs.  The  trapped  man's  hard-boiled 
wife  (Jan  Sterling)  turns  the  crowds  into 
profit.  The  morbid  eagerness  of  the  mob, 
the  cynical  willingness  of  the  newspaperman 
and  the  wife  to  glean  fame  and  fortune  out 
of  agony,  are  nicely  explored  in  j'ice  in  fhe 
Hoie. 

And  there  were  touches — a  song  about 
the  trapped  man,  composed  and  wailed  ty  a 
hillbilly  band  selling  sheet  music,  for  instance 
— which  were  sheer  mastery. 
Cast:  Kirk  Douglas,  Jan  Sterling,  Bob  Arthur, 
Porter  Hall.— Para. 


STRANGERS  ON  A  TRAIN 

Hitchock  goes  back  to  trains,  a  subject  that's 
always  fascinated  the  gieat  man.  On 
a  certain  train,  he  Introduces  young  tennis 
star  Farley  Granger  to  young  maniac  Robert 
Walker.  This  Walker's  a  lulu.  Wants  his 
father  done  away  with  so  he  can  live  in 
peace  on  his  father's  money.  And  he's  got 
a  bully  idea.  Why  doesn't  he  kill  Farley's 
faithless  wife-who-left-him-but-won't-give-him- 
a-divorce,  and  then  Farley  can  kill  his 
(Walker's)  father.  Exchange  murders,  so 
to  speak.  Nobody's  going  to  suspect  an  ab- 
solute stranger  of  being  involved  in  a  killing. 
Farley  wants  to  marry  Ruth  Roman,  but  not 
bad  enough  to  kill  his  wife,  so  he  laughs 
Walker  off.  Walker,  who's  the  serious  type, 
goes  ahead  with  the  plan  anyway.  That's 
a  rough  idea.  There  are  nice  nightmarish 
Hitchcock  trademarks  (a  carousel  gone  wUd, 
a  strangling  in  an  amusement  park,  etc.); 
there  are  some  corny  moments  too,  but  on  the 
whole  it's  an  exciting  thriller. 

Cast:  Farley  Grangei,  Rutb  Roman,  Robert 
Walker.   Leo   G.   Carroll. — Warners. 

JIM  THORPE— ALL  AMERICAN 

The  rise  and  fall  of  the  greatest  all-round 
athlete  America  ever  produced  is  dealt  with 
by  Warners,  and  the  result  is  an  excellent 
movie.  A  young  Indian  boy,  loving  to  run 
free,  hating  to  feel  himself  closed  in,  disci- 
plines himself  to  go  to  school  and  try  to 
make  some  kind  of  mark  in  the  white  man's 
world  because  that's  what  his  father  wants. 
Sports  help  him  find  relief  from  the  pressure 
of  lessons  and  books  and  little  rooms;  he's 
so  successful  he  decided  to  make  his  living 
as  a  coach,  eventually.  He  walks  away  with 
the  1912  Olympic  honors  single-handed,  only 
to  be  stripped  later  of  all  prizes.  (The  authori- 
ties find  out  he  played  baseball  one  summer 
for  money,  and  claim  he's  forfeited  his 
amateur  standing.)  This  disgrace  knocks 
the  starch,  out  of  him.  His  son  dies,  he 
qtiarrels  with  his  wife,  he  starts  drinking, 
he  tries  to  pick  up  money  playing  bush- 
league  ball,  at  the  end,  but  he  has  no  stuff 
left.  There's  something  really  painful  about 
this  pictiire — the  slow  deterioration  of  a 
beautifvd  body,  a  beautiful  talent,  the  lone- 
liness of  a  man  who's  seen  the  parades  go 
by.   The  actors  all  do  fine  jobs. 

Cast:  Burt  Lancaster,  Charles  Bickiord, 
Steven  Cocbran,  Phyllis  Tbaxter. — Warners. 

EXCUSE  MY  DUST 

Red  Skelton,  as  the  genius  who's  always 
setting  fire  to  the  bam  trying  to  make  his 
horseless  carriage  run,  Sally  Forrest  as  the 
girl  who  loves  him  against  the  hopes  and 
prayers  of  her  poppa  (the  ovTner  of  a  livery 
stable),  Macdonald  Carey  as  the  Yale  man 
who's  got  a  yen  for  Solly,  and  Monica  Levris 
as  the  visiting  menace  who  once  spent  a  few 
days  in  Paris  and  now  says  everything  with 
a  n'est-ce  pas  flavor,  combine  talents  to  make 
Excuse  My  Dust  a  honey  of  a  comedy.  The 
bathing  suits  and  the  humor  of  the  era  are 
faithfully  reproduced.  Sally  dances  like  a 
dervish;  there's  a  horseless  carriage  race 
that's  a  howling  riot,  and  mere  words  cannot 
convey  the  gentle,  jolly  charm  herein  dis- 
played. 

Cast:  Red  Skelton,  Macdonald  Carey,  Sally 
Forrest,  Monica  Lewis. — MGM. 


PIPSODEIST 

gets  your  teeth 

BRIGHTER  BY  FAR 


YES, 
BRIGHTER  THAN 
THE  AVERAGE 
OF  ALL  OTHER 

LEADING 
TOOTH  PASTES 
COMBINED! 


Make  this  1-Minute  Test,  today!  Run 

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A  world  of  wonders 

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Wall  A  Disney  s 

Alice 

in  WOM)mMD 

The  all-cartoon  Musical  Wonderfilm 


Adventure  with  Alice  Into  a  joyful 
world  of  wonders,  and  meet  the  funni- 
est famous  people  who  ever  came  to  life. 

The  Mad  Hatter,  the  March  Hare, 
the  Cheshire  Cat,  the  White  Rabbit  — 
all  of  Wonderland's  merry  madcaps  — 
will  live  in  your  memory  as  long  as 
there's  a  laugh  left  in  your  heart. 

l(bu'll  be  forever  happier  for  having 
seen  it.  It's  coming  your  way— joow.' 

EVEN  THE  SONGS 

RING  WITH  LAUGHTER 

"I'M  LATE" 

"ALICE  IN  WONDERLAND" 
"VERY  GOOD  ADVICE" 
"THE  UNBIRTHDAY  SONG" 
"  'TWAS  BRILLIG" 


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STARRING  THE  VOICES  OF: 

ED  WYNN  The  Mad  Hatter 

RICHARD  HAYDN  .    .    .  The  Caterpillar 
'■■■^        ^   STERLING  HOLLOW  AY  77!«  CA«/mV£  Ca< 
/      JERRY  COLONNA  .    .     The  March  Hare 
KATHRYN  BEAUMONT  ....  ALICE 


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HAPPY  GO  LOVELY 

Here's  musical  plot  number  34.  Broke 
producer  doesn't  know  how  to  open  show, 
creditors  threatening  to  take  away  scenery, 
etc.  On  top  of  everything,  leading  lady  quits. 
Chorus  girl  gets  lift  from  millionaire's  chauf- 
feur, producer  sees  this,  thinks  girl  is  million- 
aire's sweetie,  stars  her  in  show.  She  doesn't 
even  know  millionaire,  but  once  they  do  meet, 
they  love.  Passionately.  Vera-Ellen's  the 
chorus  girl,  Niven's  the  millionaire,  Romero's 
the  producer.  Minor  deviation  from  standard 
plot:  locale  is  Edinburgh,  Scotland.  Picture's 
Technicolored,  and  it  has  a  happy  ending. 
As  the  studio  synopsis  points  out  about 
Niven — "His  millions  aside,  he  is  now  just 
a  man — a  man  in  love."   So  there. 

Cast:  David  Niven,  Vera-EUen,  Cesar  Bo- 
mero.— RKO. 

ALICE  IN  WONDERLAND 

Some  of  the  wonder  experienced  by  Lewis 
Carroll's  Alice  may  now  be  shared  in  Tech- 
nicolor by  us  cartoon  addicts.  A  very 
British-sounding  little  Alice  goes  plunging 
down  into  the  world  of  make-believe,  attends 
a  teaparty  with  the  March  Hare  and  the 
Mad  Hatter  (sounds  courtesy  of  Jerry  Co- 
lonna  and  Ed  Wynn),  talks  with  dodos, 
and  cats,  and  flowers,  and  doorknobs,  helps 
some  playing  cards  paint  white  roses  red, 
gets  bigger  and  gets  smaller,  and  laughs 
and  cries  and  lives  in  front  of  your  bewitched 
eyes.  For  me  the  high  points  of  the  movie 
were  Richard  Haydn's  voicing — and  what  a 
voice! — of  the  caterpillar's  philosophy,  and 
some  baby  oysters  so  ingratiating  as  to 
face  and  manner  that  I  could  hardly  bear  it 
when  the  carpenter  performed  his  act  of 
cannibalism  on  them. 

DISNEY— RKO. 

AS  YOUNG  AS  YOU  FEEL 

"Acme  Printing  Services"  gives  Monty 
WooUey  his  notice,  because  it's  the  policy 
of  Consolidated  Motors  ("Acme"  is  only  a 
subsidiary  company)  to  retire  men  at  65. 
This  is  the  signal  for  Woolley's  revolt  against 
society.  He  dyes  his  beard,  impersonates 
the  president  of  Consolidated  Motors,  makes 
speeches  at  the  Chamber  of  Commerce, 
dances  with  a  beautiful  woman  for  the  first 
time  in  30  years,  and  altogether  sets  his 
small  world  on  its  ear.  Among  the  astonished 
— but  later  proud  and  happy — bystanders 
are  his  daughter-in-law,  Thelma  Ritter,  his 
granddaughter,  Jean  Peters,  his  grandson- 
in-law-to-be,  David  Wayne,  and  a  lot  of  65- 
year-old  men  who've  been  fired.  That 
Connie  Bennett  could  seriously  consider  her- 
self in  love  with  Mr.  Woolley  seemed  highly 
unlikely  to  me  (she's  still  got  plenty  of 
glamor).  But  if  it's  okay  with  her,  why 
should  I  complain? 

Cast:  Monty  WooUey,  Thelma  Ritter,  David 
Wayne,  Jean  Peters,  Constance  Bennett. — 
20th  Century-Fox. 

THE  LONG  DARK  HALL 

Happily  married  Rex  Harrison  has  been 
playing  around  with  a  showgirl,  and  when 
she  goes  and  gets  herself  murdered,  the 
authorities  are  all  for  Rex's  following  her  in 
death,  as  he  did  in  life.  They  want  to  'ang 
'im,   guv'nor.    Lilli  Palmer,  his  more  than 


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understanding  mate,  stands  by  while  a  web 
of  circumstantial  evidence  is  woven  around 
him  to  prove  his  guilt.  Letters  from  him  to 
the  dead  girl,  threats  overheard  by  the  dead 
girl's  landlady,  testimony  of  the  dead  girl's 
friend.  Since  you  and  I  know  the  real  killer 
(we've  watched  him  polish  off  a  couple 
other  victims)  who's  nutty  as  a  fruit  cake, 
and  we  know  darn  well  he's  never  going  to 
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Cast:  Rex  Hariison,  Lilli  Palmer,  Denis  O'Dea, 
Raymond  Huntley. — United  Artists. 

MR.  IMPERIUM 

MGM  can  make  the  best  Technicolor  musi- 
cals in  the  world —  and  the  worst.  This  one's 
on  a  par  with  Pagan  Love  Song  for  sheer 
dullness.  It's  amazing,  when  you  consider 
that  Lana's  luscious,  Pinza  sings  good,  Debbie 
Reynolds  continues  to  be  as  cute  as  they 
come,  the  color  is  gorgeous,  the  scenes  of 
Italy  are  ravishing,  and  yet  the  picture  adds 
up  to  hogwash.  The  story's  about  a  king  in 
love  with  an  American  girl,  and  the  various 
pains  and  aches  they  endure  before  they 
part  forever.  Sir  Cedric  Hardwicke  has  a 
silly  role  (he  plays  the  king's  foreign- 
minister-conscience}   and   that's  about  that. 

Cast:  Lana  Turner,  Ezio  Pinza,  Marjorie 
Main,  Debbie  Reynolds. — MGM. 

A  PLACE  IN  THE  SUN 

Based  on  Theodore  Dreiser's  famous  novel, 
"An  American  Tragedy,"  A  Place  in  the  Sun 
is  a  moving  experience.  Montgomery  Clift 
plays  the  boy  who  comes  to  work  for  a  rich 
uncle,  in  a  strange  town.  Lonely,  sensitive, 
he  meets  a  girl  (Shelley  Winters)  in  the 
uncle's  factory,  goes  out  with  her,  makes 
love  to  her.  But  he's  ambitious  for  a  more 
gracious  life,  clothes,  cars,  and  most  of  all  a 
beautiful,  spoiled  rich  girl  (Elizabeth  Taylor) 
whom  he  meets  at  a  party.  When  Elizabeth 
becomes  infatuated  with  him,  he  wants  to 
ditch  Shelley,  but  Shelley's  pregnant.  So 
you  have  the  principals,  trapped,  and  tor- 
tured. For  Shelley,  marriage  is  the  answer; 
Cliffs  answer  comes  up  murder.  The  piti- 
ful strivings  of  pitiful  human  beings  are 
mercilessly  outlined  here,  young  love  is 
treated  with  respect  and  tenderness,  and 
every  character  seems  real.  This  is  a  sad 
picture;  it  probes  the  himian  heart  and  finds 
it  frightening. 

Cast:  Montgomery  Cliit,  Ehzabeth  Taylor, 
Shelley  Winters,  Anne  Revere. — Paramount. 

ON  THE  RIVIERA 

Darmy  Kaye  confines  himself  to  a  mere 
double  role  (in  Walter  Mitty,  he  had  several 
more  lives)  but  this  double  role  is  meaty. 
He  plays  a  French  flyer  who  has  a  suave 
way  with  the  ladies  and  is  a  regular  devil- 
may-care  public  hero,  and  also  an  American 
night  club  entertainer.  When  the  flyer's 
away,  the  night-club  entertainer  will  play 
at  impersonating  him,  and  the  whole  thing 
takes  place  along  the  Mediterranean  in 
Technicolor.  Gene  Tiemey's  the  flier's  neg- 
lected wife,  Corinne  Calvet  is  the  night 
club  entertainer's  girl  friend;  there's  music, 
dancing,  even  the  semblance  of  a  plot,  and 
plenty  of  amusing  dialogue.   It's  fun. 

Cast:  Danny  Kaye,  Gene  Tiemey,  CoTiiuie 
Calvet.   Marcel   Dalio. — 20th  Century-Fox. 


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A HIDDEN  camera,  concealed  behind  banks 
of  flowers,  recorded  in  color  film  one 
of  the  most  beautiful  parties  of  the  season 
and  the  gayest.  What  a  scene  of  beautiful 
belles  and  handsome  gents  it  was  as  the 
guests,  in  costumes  of  1871,  arrived  for 
the  costume-ball  given  in  honor  of  the  80th 
birthday  of  Mrs.  S.  W.  Straus. 

The  charming  and  witty  guest  of  honor, 
one  of  our  few  remaining  matriarchs,  is  the 
grandmother  of  Stuart  and  Spencer  Martin 
(Stu  is  married  to  Angela  Green)  and 
greeted  as  many  movie  star  guests  as  she 
did  sociolites. 

The  tennis  court  had  been  converted  into 
a  ballroom  of  the  1870's — and  even  the 
waiters  and  musicians  were  done  up  in 
costumes  of  that  period. 

Flowers,  flowers  in  great  profusion  every- 
where made  this  a  breathtaking  background 
for  the  be-bustled  belles  and  beaux  with 
sideburns. 

Among  the  few  not  in  gala  costume  were 
Peter  Lawrford  with  Mrs.  Gary  Cooper,  and 
Merle  Oberon  with  Dr.  Rex  Ross,  who  had 
come  from  Lena  Home's  opening  at  the 
Coconut  Grove. 

"Angle"  Green,  who  had  just  finished 
work  on  the  newest  Weissmuller  picture,  was 
a  vision  in  pale  green  taffeta  with  a  bustle 
and  so  tiny  in  the  waist  I  just  couldn't 
believe  it  when  she  whispered  that  she 
and  Stu  are  expecting  their  second  baby 
in  August. 

All  eyes  turned  on  Renee  Jeanmarie,  when 
that  star  of  the  Paris  ballet,  who  is  here 
to  make  a  movie  for  RKO,  swept  in  wearing 
a  formfitting  black  satin  gown  with  a  black 
beauty  spot  with  a  diamond  in  it  on  her 
cheek!  With  her  black  eyes  heavily  made-up, 
her  white  skin  and  straight  black  hair. 
Mile.  Jeanmarie  is  the  "sexiest'  looking  dish 
to  hit  our  region  since  the  days  of  the  silent 
screen  vamps. 

Kirk  Douglas  particularly  handed  me  a 
laugh  dressed  up  as  a  "dandy"  with  a 
sporty  suit  and  a  derby  so  big  it  rested  on 
his  ears  most  of  the  evening.  Kirk's  date 
was  lovely  Irene  Wrightsman,  of  course. 

Joy  Page  (Mrs.  Bill  Orr),  who  has  a  hit 
picture  in  The  Bullfighter  and  the  Lady  looked 
like  a  dream  walking  in  her  black  and 
white  lace  hoop-skirted  costume  and  a  red 
rose  in  her  hair. 

I  particularly  enjoyed  talking  with  Pierre 
La  Mure,  author  of  the  best  selling  "Moulin 
Rouge",  who  is  living  in  Hollywood  while 
he  writes  his  new  book,  "Clare  De  Lune." 
Believe  me,  girls,  this  Frenchman  who  writes 
so  brilliantly,  is  as  charming  as  any  actor 
and  is  good-looking  enough  to  take  up  that 
career  should  he  ever  grow  tired  of  writing. 

PERSONAL  Opinions:  i  I  think  Dr.  Peter 
Lindstrom  was  wise  in  insisting  that  the 
meeting  between  Ingrid  Bergman  and  their 
13-year-old  daughter,  Jenny  Ann,  should 
be  held  in  a  place  where  Roberto  Rossellini 
— isn't!  The  long  delayed  reunion  took 
place  in  London  at  the  home  of  friends  with 
Roberto  remaining  in  Paris.  .  .  .  Gene  Tierney 
is  wearing  the  cutest  white  summer  gloves 
of  the  season;  "shorties"  with  little  artificial 
daisies  around  the  cuffs.  .  .  .  Isn't  it  a  scream 
that  Shelley  Winters  and  Farley  Granger 
worked  together  all  through  Behave  Your- 
self without  a  single  tiff.    And  then,  when 


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that's  safer  because  it's  softer.  A  product  as  superior 
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they  went  vacationing  to  New  York  you 
could  hear  the  din  of  the  battles  from  Maine 
to  Texas.  .  .  Don't  take  Ava  Gardner's 
new  dates  with  her  old  beau,  Howard  Duff, 
seriously.  She  and  Frankie  Sinatra  may 
fight  but  they  always  make  up.  It's  so 
much  fun!  .  .  .  Speaking  of  Ava — did 
you  hear  her  singing  "Can't  Help  Lovin' 
That  Man"  on  my  radio  show?  Ava  sings 
as  sex-y  as  she  looks  and  that's  sex-y.'  .  .  . 
Edith  Ward,  a  charmer  from  Palm  Springs 
was  very  honest  when  I  asked  her  if  she 
were  going  to  marry  Brian  Donlevy.  "I 
don't  think  hell  ever  marry  again,"  replied 
the  lady  who  manages  a  successful  dude 
ranch  there.  .  .  ,  Tony  Curtis  and  Janet  1 
Leigh  say  they  will  be  married  as  soon  as  i 
they  are  both  free  from  making  a  picture. 
And  when  that's  going  to  be,  I  don't  know. 
.  .  .  June  Allyson  is  proud  as  punch  over 
her  brother,  Arthur  Peters,  who  graduated 
cum  laude  from  Culver  Military  Academy 
in  Culver,  Indiana.  She  and  Dick  Powell 
will  sponsor  Arthur's  education  at  Colum- 
bia University's  medical  school  this  Fall. 

1 

GARY  Cooper's  first  night  back  in  Holly-  i 
■  wood  after  Rocky  announced  a  "legal  ' 
separation"    (he    had    been    on    a  Florida 
location  jaunt  when  she  up  and  announced 
the  end  of  their  marriage)  was  to  take  his 
daughter,  Maria,  to  dinner  at  a  quiet  place. 

How  Gary  loves  that  child!  The  13-year- 
old  girl  is  adored  by  both  her  mother  and  her 
father  and  while,  naturally,  she  is  the  inno- 
cent victim  of  their  marital  troubles,  both 
Gary  and  Rocky  will  do  everything  possible 
to  shelter  her. 

I  want  to  say  one  thing  for  this  big  Cooper 
guy;  He  is  not  entirely  to  blame  in  this 
break-up,  although  most  of  the  buzz-buzz 
gossip  has  circled  around  his  head.  There 
are  always  two  sides  to  every  story  of  mar- 
riage trouble — and  the  Coopers  are  no  ex- 
ception. 

He's  never  been  the  social  type,  for  one 
thing — and  Rocky  loves  the  Blue  Book  whirls. 
I  think  that  even  she  must  admit  that  for 
most  of  their  17  years  together,  Gary  has 
been  a  wonderful,  husband. 

Two  days  before  Gary's  return,  Patricia 
Neal  popped  off  in  the  newspapers  that 
she  had  "nothing  to  do"  with  the  Coopers' 
parting  and  was  very  "upset"  that  her 
name  was  being  gossipped  into  the  case. 

Why  Pat  felt  she  had  to  say  anything, 
m  never  know.  No  one  has  officially  men- 
tioned her  in  the  case,  certainly  not  Mrs. 
Cooper,  and  her  outburst  drew  a  lot  of  at- 
tention her  way  she  might  have  escaped. 

THE  Letter  Box:  Yipes!  I  mean  all  the 
letters  about  Tony  Dexter,  the  Valentino 
kid.  It  is  worth  more  than  a  passing  com- 
ment that  much  of  the  mail  is  from  kids  so 
young  they  never  saw  the  original  on  the 
screen.  Anthony  is  off  to  a  good  start  with 
the  fans  if  his  producers  are  lucky  enough 
to  find  another  "sultry"  lover  role  for  him. 

Debbie  Reynolds  beat  out  June  Allyson 
for  praises  among  the  girls. 

Don  Taylor  (the  likeable  young  husband 
of  Father  of  the  Bride  and  Father's  Little 
Dividend)  is  quietly  coming  up  the  popularity, 
poll  among  my  correspondents. 

There  is  a  division  of  opinion — about 
equal — on  the  Larry  Parks  thing. 

Raves,  just  raves,  for  Mario  Lanza  in  The 
Great  Caruso. 

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it's  yours  for  only  i5c  (to  cover  post- 
age and  handling )  .  .  .  see  the  coupon. 
It  gives  dozens  of  valuable  tips  that  , 
will  help  fill  up  your  date  book,  make 
you  happier,  more  popular  — all  in  one- 
book  for  the  first  time!  Clip  the  coupon 
now! 


find  Tips  Like  These 
In  Tfiis  Amazing  Book: 

12  questions  to  ask  yourself 
about  your  charm 

How  to  be  your  real  self 

How  to  talk  to  a  date 

Some  tricks  for  forgetting 
self-consciousness 


NoHTHAM  Wakren,  Box  No.  1500,  Dept.  E-1, 
Grand  Central  Station,  New  York  17,  N.  Y. 
I  enclose  1-5^  in  coin  (to  cover  postage  and  handling) 
and  the  word  "Odo-Ro-No"  from  the  cardboard  con- 
tainer of  an  Odo-Ro-No  Spray  or  Cream  package,  for 
which  send  me  the  new  book— "7  Secrets  of  Popularitv  ." 
(Offer  good  while  supply  lasts.) 


Name- 


Address- 
City  . 


-State- 


a 


Hollywood 
goes 
shopping 
for  you! 


■  Here's  the  coolest,  most  comfort- 
able idea  that  ever  happened  on  a 
hot  summer's  day.  Why  not  go 
shopping  without  moving  from  your 
chair?  Our  stars  are  used  to  the  sun, 
and  they  love  to  shop  for  you.  All 
through  the  year,  sleet  or  sun-spots, 
they'll  share  with  you  just  the 
things  they  choose  for  themselves — 
at  a  price  that's  right  for  everj'one. 

To  get  any  of  these  star-selected 
items,  just  write  to  the  shops  men- 
tioned below  each  picture,  enclosing 
a  check  or  money  order  (and  gift 
card  if  you  like).  Your  selection  will 
be  rushed  to  any  address  you  name. 
Modern  Screen  guarantees  de- 
livery. Prices  all  include  postage  and 
tax  where  necessary.  Money  will  be 
refunded  on  any  items  that  are  re- 
turned within  10  days  after  delivery. 
Only  personalized  merchandise  can- 
not be  returned. 


Virginia  mayo 
your  hollywood  shopper 


monograms,"  says  Virginia  of  these  twin  items. 


"Mike  says  you  can  tell  us  apart  only  by  the 


THIS  WILDLIFE  Will  CAPTURE  YOU  (oul  Inid  its 
way  onto  your  lapel,  siveater  sleeve  or 
shoulder— wherever  they'll  take  a  pinning. 
They  are  tiny  chenille  animals,  2"  long, 
and  look  just  like  their  untamed  brothers. 
Bears,  skunks,  tigers,  wildcats,  squirrels, 
penguins  or  docile  dogs  and  cats  comprise 
the  pin-on  zoo.  Worn  singly  or  like  scatter 
pins,  they're  bound  to  start  a  new  fad. 
SI. 00  ea.  Fisherman's  Net,  821  June  St., 
Jacksonville  7,  Florida. 


EXERCISE  YOUR  RIGHT  TO  GLAMOUR  through 
these  musical  reducing  records  on  which 
Betty  Dean  acts  as  your  peppy  companion 
and  constant  booster  as  she  calls  out  exer- 
cises to  \ou  step  by  step.  Album's  three 
unbreakable  records  give  12  super  daily 
exercises  to  do  xvonders  for  your  tummy, 
hips,  ivaist  and  whip  you  into  shape. 
You'll  feel  tip-top.  Booklet  gives  12  exer- 
cises, diet,  health  hints.  S4.98.  Ronnie 
Sales,  Inc.,  487  Broadway,  New  York  13. 


for  august 

■  Call  it  the  luck  of  the  Irish,  call  it 
anything  you  like,  but  here  I  am,  Your 
Hollywood  Shopper  for  August.  Modern 
Screen  didn't  know  it,  but  they  were 
getting  a  bargain  right  from  the  start 
with  Mike,  my  better  half,  as  a  (not  so) 
silent  partner.  He's  boss  in  the  O'Shea 
family  and  what  he  says  goes,  shop-wise 
or  otherwise,  and  that's  no  blarney!  Be- 
sides, there's  nothing  like  a  male  .  .  . 
point  of  view. 

When  it  comes  to  making  a  buy  I 
must  confess  I'm  a  bit  of  a  copy-cat  and 
usually  end  up  getting  the  same  thing 
Mike  does.  So  we  have  twin  cars,  twin 
suits  and  look  sort  of  like  ditto  marks, 
on  occasion.  Speaking  of  twin  buys,  how 
do  you  like  us  in  these  stunning  terry 
robes.  For  all  the  dope,  see  my  column. 
To  round  you  up  some  prize  plums, 
he'd  sneak  me  out  during  the  filming  of 
Along  the  Great  Divide  and  we'd  spend 
a  few  hours  treasure-hunting. 

We  have  things  for  you,  for  your  fam- 
ily and  friends  as  well  as  for  the  house. 
I've  been  campaigning  for  a  vacation 
myself,  so  I  spent  every  spare  moment 
unearthing  travel  items  which  I  hope 
will  help  you  plan  yours  too. 

To  get  any  (or  many)  of  these  things, 
write  directly  to  the  stores  mentioned 
for  anything  that  you  like,  and  enclose 
the  price  stated. 

Please  invite  me  (I  mean  us)  again 
and  happy  hunting  (I  mean  for  bargains, 
of  course). 


WE'RE  A  TRUVI  TERRY  TWOSOME.  We  love  to 
stroll  on  the  sand  in  our  smart  white 
beach  shirts.  Mine  is  the  new  short  shirt 
luith  elasticized  waist  a  la  Eisenhower 
jacket.  In  meri's  sizes  too,  but  Mike  liked 
the  longer  tou'cling  shirt  ivith  two  front 
pockets  to  ivear  ox'er  his  trunks.  There's 
nothing  like  a  thirsty  terry  to  make  you 
comfy  after  a  dip.  Sizes  S-M-L  both  for 
gals  and  guys.  $6.50,  for  3  initials  add 
$1.00.  John  Blye,  565  Fifth  Ave.  N.  Y .,  17. 


Virginia  mayo 

your 

Hollywood 
shopper 

for  august 

I  loved  the  wide  open 
spaces  in  Warner's 
Along  The  Great  Divide, 
but  America's  cities  can't  be 
beat  for  shopping  prizes. 


NO  DAMPNESS  GETS  IN  HERE.  Special  chemicals 
sealed  in  the  chromium  tops  of  these  stun- 
ning crystal  salt  shakers  absorb  all  the 
moisture  from  the  air,  and  keep  the  salt 
flowing  freely ,  even  on  sticky  summer-days. 
The  moisture-proofing  element  constantly 
recharges  itself  so  they're  always  working. 
Sparkling  and  graceful  shakers  with  hand- 
cut  bases,  they're  4"  tall.  Gift  boxed,  $1.10 
pr.  Airko  Manufacturing  Co.,  Clermont, 
Flcnida. 


TABLE  TAIK  HAS  IT  that  this  is  one  of  the 
cleverest  devices  to  come  along  since  B.C. 
(Before  Cokes.)  It's  a  folding  wooden 
table,  27"  high  with  17"xl9"  top  of  ma- 
sonite  pressed  wood  with  liquid  resistant 
finish.  Nifty  for  serving  snacks  while 
you're  TV-ing,  as  an  extra  night  table,  or 
as  a  cocktail  table— in  fact,  it  gives  round 
the  clock  service.  Not  in  use  it  folds  for 
easy  storage.  Mandarin  red  or  jade.  $3.48. 
Terry  Roberts,  116  E.  53  St.,  N.  Y.  22. 


MAKE  IT  IN  A  SHAKE!  l-vcn  I  can  compete 

■with  the  corner  drug  store  with  this  elec- 
tric shaker.  It  makes  the  best  concoctions 
you  ever  tasted  in  the  way  of  malteds  and 
milk  shakes.  Does  wonders  to  more  potent 
drinks,  too.  One-quart  plastic  shaker  is 
topped  by  a  chrome-plated  cap  with  pour- 
ing spout.  Plug  in  cord  and  the  staitiless 
agitator  does  tlie  rest.  A  treat  for  the 
whole  family.  $9.95.  Miles  Kimball,  Kim- 
ball Bldg.,  Oshkosh,  Wisconsin. 


SEA  SHELLS  FOR  SUMMER  DINING.  These  decora- 
tive hand-wrought  ceramic  shells  are  beau- 
tiful on  any  table.  Shell  salt  and  peppers 
are  adorable  and  conch  shell  senting  dish 
is  stunning  even  as  a  centerpiece.  I  espe- 
cially like  to  use  them  -when  Mike  and  I 
eat  outdoors.  White,  pink,  turquoise, 
green,  grey  or  chartreuse  with  gold  or 
platinum  flecking.  Salt  and  Pepper  set, 
$2.95;  Conch  Shell  dish,  $6.50.  Studio  of 
Ceramics,  2751  Coral  Way,  Miami,  Florida. 


BY  LAND  A  CHARMING  HEADDRESS,  by  sea  a 

bouquet  of  floating  flowers.  It's  a  fasci- 
nating new  floral  bathing  cap  that  makes 
any  other  kind  strictly  old-hat.  Clusters 
of  hand  made  petals  and  brightly -colored 
flowers  cover  the  cap,  which  is  lined  and 
has  an  adjustable  chin-strap.  I  never 
dreamed  a  bathing  cap  could  be  so  flat- 
tering. It's  as  becoming  as  your  best  chap- 
eau.  White  or  charcoal  petals.  Sizes  m,  I, 
$6.08.   Gimbels,  New  York  1. 


A  DOUGHNUT-DUNKER'S  DREAM  COME  TRUE.  It's 
an  automatic  doughnut-maker  that  turns 
out  perfect  jobs  as  fast  as  you  can  press 
the  plunger.  No  need  to  roll,  cut  or  form 
the  doughnuts  by  hand,  the  machine  does 
all  the  work  for  you,  makes  24  at  one 
filling.  Just  fill  up  durable  red  and  white 
plastic  container,  then  the  gadget  takes 
over.  Doughnut  recipes  included.  $1.25. 
L.  F.  Black  ir  Co.,  99-20  Metropolitan  Ave., 
Forest  Hills,  N.  Y. 


FOLKS,  MEET  BASIL  THE  ALLIGATOR!  This  fero- 
cious animal  has  been  specially  trained  to 
do  your  slightest  bidding.  His  long  slither- 
ing body  makes  him  a  roomy  ashtray.  Or 
use  him  as  a  candy  or  nut  dish.  When  the 
gang  drops  around  for  a  feast,  he'll  play 
host  as  an  eye-catching  server  of  olives, 
pickles,  celery  or  cracker  snacks.  His  sulky 
stare  is  sure  to  set  the  party  on  its  ear. 
Green  'gator,  $3.95.  Bodine's,  444  E.  Belve- 
dere Ave.,  Baltimore  12,  Maryland. 


To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


INTRODUCING  "MISS  CAIIENTE"  OF  MEXICO.  It's 
(I  slutiuiug  sport  coat  from  that  trip  \ou 
didn't  take.  You  couldn't  have  turned  up 
■with  anything  smarter  or  more  practical 
if  you'd  shopped  your  way  down  to  Aca- 
pulco.  It's  all  wool  u'ith  colorful  hand- 
embroidered  Mexican  motifs.  Sure  ivill 
start  flattering  chatter  in  the  crowd.  Blue, 
matador  red,  apple  green,  ivhite.  Sizes  10- 
18.  $10.95.  Sanford's,  3119  Wilshire  Blvd.. 
Los  Angeles  5,  California. 


TOOTSie  PALCTTi 


PLEATED  TO  SHEER  PERFECTION.  A  dream  of  a 
a  gown  in  nylon  tricot  made  with  such 
lovi7ig  care  it  needs  ahi}ost  none  from  you 
for  its  beauty  upkeep.  Entire  front,  from 
scoop  neckline  to  sweeping  hem,  including 
the  tiuv  sleeve,  is  permanently  pleated; 
needs  no  ironing.  Figure's  molded  by  elas- 
ticized  waist  hugger.  It  irashes,  dries,  in  a 
jiffy,  packs  any  place.  Black,  white,  coral. 
Sizes  10-20.  S14.99.  Jonas  Shoppers,  Dept. 
MS,  62  If.  14  St.,  New  York  11. 


ON  YOUR  TOES,  GAIS!  IVith  all  eyes  on  your 
bare  feet,  better  give  your  toes  a  profes- 
sional pedicure  with  these  flexible  plastic 
tootsie  palettes.  Just  slip  into  the  toe  sepa- 
rators, tie  ribbons,  and  it's  easy  to  get 
polish  on  evenly.  Walk  around  in  comfort 
without  smearing  polish  or  teetering  on 
your  heels.  Styled  here  in  Hollywood  where 
we  know  the  value  of  a  "well-turned"  foot. 
Sl.OO  pr.  Sunset  House,  Dept.  J-4,  8818 
Sunset  Blvd.,  Hollywood  46,  California. 


TUMBLER  WITH  BUTLER-COASTER  ATTACHED.  Now 

here's  a  gadget  that  makes  life  easy  for  the 
hostess  ...  a  smart  higlibalt  glass,  coaster, 
and  ashtray  all  in  one  unit,  yet  easily 
separated  for  cleaning!  No7i-skid  alum- 
inum coaster  has  a  built-in  ashtray  that 
pops  out  at  the  touch  of  a  button.  Perfect 
for  the  many  "long,  cool  drinks"  ahead, 
and  it  saves  your  guests  from  a  juggling 
act.  Set  of  four,  S5.95.  Price  Specialty  Co., 
4721  Miller  Ave.,  Bethesda,  Maryland. 


FOR  REALLY  "BUTTERING  THEM  UP."  Corn  on 
the  cob  is  on  our  menu  all  summer,  so  I 
find  this  attractive  set  of  6  crystal  corn 
coasters  and  12  plastic  non-tarnishable 
metal  holders  a  treat  for  spreading  butter 
evenly,  economically.  Holders  set  firmly 
into  ends  of  dishes  to  prevent  twisting 
once  corn's  buttered.  Dishes  also  for  aspar- 
agus or  relishes.  18-piece  set,  S2.95.  Cay- 
lord,  Dept.  BK-33,  Fifth  and  Hamilton, 
Pittsburgh  6,  Pennsyhvania. 


"SEW"  SMART  TO  BE  THRIFTY  that  you'll  u'ant 
to  whip  up  most  of  your  fall  -wardrobe  with 
this  portable  electric  sewing  machine. 
Made  in  Miniature  (9"xS"x6")  and  en- 
closed in  a  red  lizard-giain  case,  it  goes 
on  your  vacation,  school,  anywhere.  You 
can  dream  up  a  dress  almost  overnight 
for  an  unexpected  BIG  DATE.  Sews  the 
regular  link  stitch  like  a  whiz,  adjusts  for 
tension  and  stitch.  AC  only.  S22.00. 
Randel  Assoc.,  1123  B'-way,  Neir  York  10. 


SHUFFLE  OFF  TO  THE  SEASHORE  or  any  other 
i^acationland  -with  these  -washable  terry- 
cloth  scuffs.  They  take  up  practically  no 
space,  and  will  give  you  24-hour  senjice  as 
playshoes,  beach  shoes  and  bedroom  slip- 
pers. The  foam  rubber  sole  makes  you  feel 
like  you're  walking  on  air.  They  come  in 
white,  yellow  or  blue  and  are  priced  so  low 
that  I've  splurged  and  bought  several  pair. 
97c  pair.  Sizes  s,  m,  I.  R.  H.  Macy,  New 
York  1. 


ANY  TOT  CAN  LIGHT  IT.  Just  a  touch  on  the 
Mother  Goose  shade  of  this  sweet  all- 
plastic  child's  lamp,  and  on  or  off  it  goes. 
There's  no  fumbling  in  the  dark  for  a 
switch.  One  bulb's  a  nightlight,  the  other 
gives  a  stronger  glow.  Kids  untl  love  being 
able  to  work  it  themselves,  safely,  easily. 
In  pink,  blue.  It  comes  complete  with 
Mother  Goose  book  and  bulbs.  $4.25.  Max 
Schling  Seedsmen,  620  Madison  Avenue, 
New  York  22. 


Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  where  personalised. 


PORTABLE  PORTER  NEEDS  NO  HAILING.  It's  yours 
and  is  alicays  on  tap  to  roll  your  luggage 
along  on  -wlieels  to  sai>e  your  back,  your 
time,  and  pocketbook.  Comes  complete 
iL'ith  -wheel  carrier  and  rubber-tread 
wheels,  strap  and  handle.  Fits  any  suit- 
case without  inarring,  and  is  quickly  at- 
tached or  removed.  Need  not  be  detached 
when  you  open  your  suitcase.  An  inspired 
gift.  S4.95.  MacArthur  Products,  Inc., 
Dept.  49,  Indian  Orchard,  Massachusetts. 


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mayo 
your 

Hollywood 

shopper 

for  august 


DOZE  ON  YOUR  BEACH  BAG.  This  jaunty  terry- 
cloth  bag  holds  all  your  paraphernalia,  and 
besides,  stuffed  with  your  robe,  it  makes 
a  comfy  pillow.  You'll  use  it  to  tan  or 
snooze  on  the  sand  for  hours.  Rubber- 
lined,  it' has  a  colorful  design  on  either 
side.  There's  an  all-round  rope  handle, 
nautical  style,  and  zipper-top  opening. 
It  goes  so  well  with  my  terry  robe,  too. 
White  with  red  print.  $9.70.  Best  &  Co., 
New  York  22. 


PICTURE  THIS  FOR  SNAPSHOTS.  Handy  purse- 
size  album  for  12  favorite  photos  of  that 
never-to-be-forgotten  vacation.  Leather- 
bound,  it  snaps  open  to  show  folks  at 
school,  office,  or  back  home  what  fun  you 
had.  There's  still  room  for  "steadies"  like 
Mom,  Pop,  hubby,  best  beau  or  "little 
dividend."  Red,  blue,  green,  brown.  For 
pix  2i/2"x3i/2",  $1.95.  For  pix  3i/2"x4i4", 
$2.95,  add  25c  postage.  Green  Jade  Tree, 
10  Sanford  St.,  Fairfield,  Connecticut. 


MAKE  NOTE  OF  THIS  COMPACT.  What  a  gadget! 
It's  a  compact,  note  pad  and  pencil  all  in 
one.  Square  gold-toned  case,  leather-cov- 
ered, holds  a  loose  powder  compartment 
with  mirror  and  sifter.  Hidden  beneath  is 
another  section  with  pastel  paper  pad. 
Case  topped  off  with  a  gold-toned  auto- 
matic pencil.  Handy  for  traveling  or  to 
take  to  school  or  office.  Red,  green,  tan  or 
navy,  gold-tooled  leather.  $4.95.  Lord  and 
Taylor,  New  York  18. 


You'll  BE  A  "MARKED"  WOMAN  if  you  use  this 
handy  cartridge  marker.  The  gals  in 
school  ivill  know  you're  you  'cause  this 
clothes  marker  writes  with  fast-color  ink 
that  won't  smudge;  takes  lots  of  launder- 
ing or  cleaning.  A  boon  to  the  lady  of  the 
house  for  personalizing  clothing,  laundry, 
household  items  to  avoid  losses.  Pen  loads 
with  cartridge.  Sold  with  extra  cartridge 
$1.50.  3  more  cartridges  $1.00.  Elron  Prod- 
ucts, 156  W.  Chicago  Ave.,  Chicago  10,  III. 


SAFE  STORAGE  FOR  SWEATERS.  New  zippered 
plastic  bag  does  a  swell  job  of  keeping 
clothes  dust-free,  laundry-fresh  and  away 
from  hungry  moths  {moth  killer  goes  into 
bag).  Around  the  house  it's  grand  for 
neatly  stashing  away  shirts  or  baby  clothes. 
Makes  packing  for  your  vacation  or  back- 
to-school  a  cinch.  Holds  3  to  5  sweaters, 
l-t"xl2"  xcith  3"'  expanding  gusset.  2  for 
$1.35.  Mastercraft  Products,  212  Summer 
St.,  Boston  10,  Massachusetts. 


THE  FEAR  OF  DIVING  HEADLONG  into  the  bath- 
tub every  time  you  have  to  clean  it,  can  be 
quickly  banished  with  this  "no  stoop,  no 
stretch"  bathtub  cleaner.  It's  a  long-lasting 
cellulose  sj}onge  securely  fastened  to  a  24- 
inch  handle  set  at  the  right  angle  to  cover 
the  entire  situation  competently.  You'll 
find  your  family  doing  its  own  tidying  up 
without  a  word.  It's  as  easy  as  fne  to  use. 
Only  $1.10.  Janet  Forister,  Dept.  Fl, 
Bloomington,  Illinois. 


I'M  JOINING  THE  "EGG  GANG",  a  cunning 
group  of  six  hand  made  wooden  egg  cups, 
with  whimsical  faces  hand  painted  in  red, 
white  and  black  doodles.  With  them  is  a 
round  salt  shaker.  The  whole  bunch  have 
a  special  stand  as  a  hang-out,  made  luith 
room  for  each.  Set  finished  in  elderwood, 
lacquered  to  resist  stains.  Fun  for  kids  and 
grown-ups,  it  can  take  lots  of  hard  wear. 
$4.50.  Haig  Giftware,  446  E.  20  St.,  New 
York  9. 


BUTTERFIY  THAT  LIGHTS  ON  YOU.  This  new 
clutch  pin  fascinates  me.  It's  a  saucy  little 
butterfly  with  a  novel  way  of  clinging  to  a 
cuff,  collar,  glove  or  hand  bag.  Newest 
wrinkle  is  to  perch  it  on  your  chignon  for 
swank  summer  evenings.  Close  by  pinch- 
ing its  wings  so  clutch  fastening  opens;  re- 
leased it  has  a  tight  grip.  Looks  poised  for 
flight.  Set  with  rhinestones  or  multicolor 
stones.  $3.80.  Bitran's,  45  W.  34  St.,  New 
York  1. 


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To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned .  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 
Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  where  pcrsonaliccd. 


The  hottest  combination 


that  ever  hit  the  screen!' 


-LOUELLAO.  PARSONS 


HOWARD  HUGHES  presents 


ROBERT  MITCHUM -JANE  RUSSEIL 

HIS  KIND  OF  WOMAN! 

,iti,  VINCENT  PRICE  •  TIM  HOLT  •  Charles  mcgraw 

A  JOHN  FARROW  PROOUCTION  "t/ 


Sun, 


(Otl 


[tdont 


nobody  can  "tell" 
when  you  use*Tampax 


What  a  pity  it  is  to  let  fear  of  embarrass- 
ment keep  you  out  of  the  water  on 
"those  certain  days  of  the  month." 
Hasn't  anyone  ever  told  you 
about  Tampax  for  swimming? 
With  Tampax  monthly  sanitary 
protection,  you  can  throw  to  the 
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dinners  .  .  .  buys  his  shirts  .  .  .  adores  his  height  .  .  . 

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his  dad's  an  L.A.  tailor  .  .  .  Tony  loves  his  mom's  gefulte 
fish  and  cabbage  bolls  .  .  .  hopes  to  buy  the  folks  a  dream 
home  soon  and  concentrate  on  finding  out  "what  kind  of  a  guy 
I  am"  .  .  .  Friday  nights  ore  always  reserved  for  dinner 
at  home  .  .  .  Tony's  helping  little  brother  Bobby  get  rid 
of  his  "dem,  dees  and  doze"  accent  .  .  . 

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Take  back  your  palaces 
and  diamond  rings; 
Rita's  had  her  fill, 
and  money  can't  buy 
what  she  wants  now. 

BY  ARTHUR  L,  CHARLES 


■  Rita  Hayworth,  the  one-time  dancer  who  became  a  real-life  princess  is  back  where 
she  started — an  American  working  girl. 

That  is  unless  she's  suddenly  changed  her  mind  about  divorcing  her  Moslem  prince. 
But  this  seems  hardly  possible.  A  few  weeks  ago  when  Rita  was  interviewed  in  Glen- 
brook,  Nevada,  her  mind  was  definitely  made  up. 

"I  know,"  she  said,  "there's  been  a  lot  of  talk  about  my  calling  off  the  divorce,  or 
setting  it  aside,  or  reconciling  with  Aly.  But  none  of  it's  true.  Reporters  keep  writing 
that  my  father-in-law,  the  Aga  IChan,  will  talk  me  into  going,  back  to  Aly.  I  don't 
think  so. 

"Aly,  as  you  know,  has  written.  He  suggested  a  separation  (Continued  on  page  62) 


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ANEW 
LOVE  FOR 
COOP? 

If  you've  thought  of  him 

as  shy  and  quiet,  then  the  Gary 

Cooper  break-up  should 

serve  to  remind  you  that  Coop  has 

always  been  one  of  Hollywood's 

great  romantic  figures. 

BY  IMOGENE  COLLINS 


■  When  Mrs.  Gary  Cooper  announced 

that  she  and  her  husband  were  calling  it  quits, 

no  one  in  Hollywood  was  surprised. 

Away   from   Hollywood,   however,  it 
came  as  a  shock — because  away  from 
Hollywood,  Gar\'  Cooper  is  a  myth  concocted 
of  skillfully-angled  publicity. 

To  mention  him  in  connection 
with  another  woman  smacks  of  heresy 
— and  yet,  the  belief  exists  in- HolljTvood  that 
Gary  Cooper  has  gone  overboard  for  Pat 
Neal.  The  opinion  is  that  Coop  fell 
for  her  several  years  ago  when  they  both 
starred  in  The  Foiintainhead. 

Significantly,  it  is  pointed  out 
that  Pat  and  Gary  met  by  "a  strange 
coincidence"  in  Havana  a  few  weeks  ago 
when  Coop  went  to  vacation  there  be- 
fore starting  Distant  Drums  in  Florida. 

Back  in  November  of  last  year, 
when  Rocky  separated  from  Gary,  he  said,  "In  17 
years  of  marriage,  you're  liable  to  have  a 
spat  or  two,  but  it's  nothing  serious." 

It  turned  out  to  be  a  whole  lot  more 
serious  than  Gary  thought  when  Rocky  leased 
an  apartment  in  the  swank  Carlton  House  in 
New  York  and  more  recently  announced:  "I've 
had  my  lawyer  give  out  a  statement  to 
the  newspapers  that,  after  17  years,  we've 
decided  to  separate.  We  are  in  the  process 
of  working  out  a  financial  settlement.  I  am 
a  Catholic  and  I  do  {Continued  on  page  66) 


Although  Rocky  announced  the  Coopers' 
seporation  after  17  years  of  marriage, 
friends  say  she'd  be  happy  to  take  him  back. 


Gossip  has  it  that  Pat  Neal  and  Gory  carried  their  love  scenes  from 
The  F ountainhead  over  into  real  life.  Pat  denies  she's  the  cause  of 
the  trouble,  but  in  the  past  she  hinted-  she  v/as  in  love  with  Gary. 


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Alfhough  Lana  Turner  needs  drawn 

cur+ains  to  aid  her  sleep  at  home, 
like  many  stars,  she  finds  it  easy  to  relax 

between  takes  on  the  set. 


They're  charming 
on  the  screen — 
are  they  as  charm- 
ing in  the  boudoir  ? 
Here's  a  frank 
and  frankly  funny  h 
story  of  Hollywood 
stars  in  bed. 


■  Soon  after  Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Robert 
Taylor  announced  their  divorce,  their  household 
belongings  were  auctioned  off  in  a  swanky  Bev- 
erly Hills  gallery.  Do  you  know  what  items 
among  all  their  furniture  and  art  objects  made 
news  stories  from  coast  to  coast,  what  items 
brought  the  most  active  bidding?  Barbara's  and 
Robert's  beds! 

It  seems  that  people  are  not  only  interested 
in  beds  of  celebrities,  but,  when  possible,  want 
to  possess  them.  Robert  Taylor's  single  bed 
brought  $270  more  than  Barbara  Stanwyck's 
double  one.  Robert's  went  for  $630.  His  bed  has 
one  side-wall  of  lace  leather  and  an  end  table 
built  into  the  headboard.  A  carved  wooden  horse 
supporting  a  -  lamp  was  included  in  the  sale. 

It  could  be  that  these  separate  beds  were 
partially  responsible  for  the  failure  of  the 
Taylor- Stanwyck  marriage.  I  remember  June 
AHyson,  among  others,  saving  to  me  that  "a 
double  bed  goes  toward  making  a  happy  mar- 
riage. I  used  to  sleep  in  a  single  bed,  but  that 
was  when  I  was  single." 

Gene  Tiemey  and  Oleg  Cassini  call  the  play- 
room in  their  house  "the  makeup  room,"  and 
often  go  there  after  a  quarrel  to  make  up  be- 
fore retiring.  Gene  doesn't  believe  a  married 
couple  should  go  to  bed  angry.  Corirme  Calvet, 
a  staunch  member  of  the  double  bed  club,  once 
told  me  she  couldn't  sleep  until  husband  John 
Bromfield  gave  her  a  goodnight  kiss  the  last 
thing  before  turning  out  the  lights.  If  she  and 
John  had  differed  about  anything,  she  didn't 
sleep  at  all  and  always  woke  him  up  to  tell  him 
she  was  sorry.  "I  have  to  kiss  and  make  up," 
Corinne  said,  "and  then  I  am  happy  all  over  and 
go  to  sleep." 

Over  the  years  I  have  made  a  study  of  the 
bed  -habits  of  the  movie  stars.  I  can  tell  you 
whether  they  sleep  in  the  raw,  in  a  nightgown 
or  pajamas,  and,  if  (Continued  on  page  84) 


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John,  Pati  ond  Russsll  Derek  are  all  in  favor  of  publicity — as  long  os  the  pictures  and  interviews  reflect  them  as  they  really  are. 


"Privacy's  not 

for  actors,"  says  John 

Derek — he  decided 

long  ago  that 

living  in  a  glass  house 

was  a  small  price 

to  pay  for  fame  .  .  . 

BY  FRANCES  CLARK 


MO  WANTS 


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■  Not  long  ago,  a  now  divorced  Hollywood 
couple  came  to  Dr.  Willsie  Martin  to  be  mar- 
ried. "We  intend  to  have  a  real  private  life." 
they  told  the  minister. 

"That  will  be  very  difficult,"  Dr.  Martin 
warned.  "Publicity  will  play  on  you  pitilessly. 
Many  factors  will  try  to  destroy  your  privacy, 
and  perhaps  even  your  happiness." 

The  couple  weren't  convinced.  Like  many 
other  Hollywood  stars  they  tried  to  shut  out 
the  public  who  worshipped  them.  And,  like 
these  stars,  they  endangered  and  eventually 
destroyed  their  marriage. 

But  there's  one  couple  in  Hollywood  who 
never  thought  their  marriage  was  a  private 
affair,  and  partly  because  of  this,  they're  secure 
in  their  happiness.  Their  names  are  John  and 
Pati  Derek. 

"We  simply  decided  to  face  facts,"  said 
John.  "If  you're  in  the  spotlight,  you  should 
accept  the  public's  interest  in  you  as  a  normal 
one  which  comes  with  success." 

"After  all,"  added  Pati.  "It  was  because  the 
public  liked  John  in  Knock  On  Any  Door  that 
we  were  able  to  get  married.  Otherwise  we 
might  have  had  to  wait  a  long  time  before  he 
could  support  a  family." 

"The  public  sure  works  fast,"  grinned  John. 
"We  were  a  little  unnerved  when  we  were 
asked  to  take  a  writer  and  photographer  along 
with  us  on  our  honeymoon." 

"Naturally,  we  wanted  to  refuse,"  said  Pati. 
"A  honeymoon's  a  pretty  sentimental  journey. 
And  honeymooners  are  self-conscious  enough 
without  having  other  people  reporting  on 
them." 

"But,"  said  John,  "we  realized  that  this 
would  really  test  our  ability  to  take  all  that 
went  with  our  profession  in  our  stride.  So  we 
took  them  with  us  {Continued  on  page-  63) 


MODERN  SCREEN'S  reporter  came  away  from  this  interview 
knowing  why  John  was  a  close  runner-up  to  Alan  Ladd  for  the 
Hollywood  Press  Club's  "cooperative  actor"  award  for  1950. 


k  mm  m  ? 

35 


I! 


Here's  an  eye-witness  report 

on  the  Ruth  Roman-Mort  Hall 

marriage,   li  it  breaks  up 

it  will  be  a  record 

for  brevity,  even  in  Hollywood. 

BY  LESLIE  SNYDER 


■  It's  not  pleasant  to  write  about  any 
couple  in  the  throes  of  marital  dif&culties, 
especially  when  the  couple  turns  out  to  be 
likeable  Ruth  Roman  and  her  charming 
husband,  Mortimer  Hall. 

There's  always  a  possibility  that  the 
stories  of  discord  are  the  outgrowth  of 
malicious  gossip.  In  Hollywood  it's  not 
unusual  to  hear  rumors  of  divorce  before 
the  echo  of  the  marriage  vows  has  died 
down. 

But,  recently,  a  close  business  associate 
of  Ruth  was  unable  to  conceal  his  con- 
cern when  asked,  "What  do  you  think  of 
Ruth  Roman's  marriage?"' 

'"Well,"  he  said,  reluctantly,  "I'm  very 
fond  of  both  those  kids.  You  know  how 
I  feel  about  Ruth,  and  Mortimer  is  a 
wonderful  guy,  but  I  guess  they  just 
can't  hit  it  off  together." 

"Then,  would  you  say  the  marriage  was 
shaky?"  ■ 

"I'd  say  so,"  he  answered.  "In  my 
opinion,  it's  just  a  matter  of  time  before 
they  break  up." 

Hiis  man's  opinion  coincided  with  the 
views  of  others.  It  seems  that  Ruth 
and  Mortimer,  (Continued  on  page  78) 


A  PICTURE  OF  WEDDED  BLISS?  Snapped  at  the  Mocambo, 

Ruth  and  Mortimer  seem  more  bored  with  each  other  than  is 
usual  for  a  couole  married  a  scant  six  months. 


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my 
son 

peter 


I  take  him  fishing, 
and  he  falls  in. 
I  show  him  how 
I  stunt  ride  and  he  says, 
"Hoppy  does  it  better." 
I  take  him  for  a  drive, 
and  he  whistles  at  every 
blonde.    Is  that  a  boy 
for  you?    That's  my  boy! 


Gienn,  Ellie  and  Peter  ride  a  lol  at  their  ranch.  While  making  The  tack-room  is  in  apple-pie  order  these  days.  One  of  Glenn's  projects 
The  Redhead  and  The  Cowboy  Glenn  invited  Peter  to  "  was  fo  get  Peter  to  slick  up  his  room.  This  brought  down  a  rash  of 
watch  him  ride.  "You're  okay,"  he  said,  "but  Hoppy's  better."      neatness  on  the  whole  family,  with  Glenn  the  primary  "good  example." 


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■  The  other  day  I  had  Pete  with  me  in  the  car  and  had 
stopped  for  a  trafiBc  hght  on  Sunset  Boulevard  when  a  neatly 
fashioned  blonde  crossed  the  intersection  in  front  of  us. 
Pete  gave  me  a  sharp  nudge  in  the  ribs  with  his  elbow. 
"Hubba,  hubba!"  he  yelled. 

My  son's  voice,  even  at  the  age  of  six,  is  far  from  that  of 
a  boy  soprano,  and  so  when  the  blonde  turned  around  she 
looked  directly  at  me — the  darkest  kind  of  look  a  woman 
can  bestow  on  a  man.  I  could  almost  hear  her  muttering 
about  "those  Hollywood  actors." 

"Hubba!"  Pete  yelled  again. 

I  ducked  my  chin.  "Pipe  down!'"  I  said. 

Now,  this  is  not  my  idea  of  a  model  child.  But  it  was  my 
own  fault.  You  see,  whenever  a  shapely  femme  hove  into 
\-iew  on  our  television  screen  at  home  I  gave  out  with  this 
"hubba.  hubba"  routine.  It  always  got  a  rise  out  of  Ellie.  and 
it  amused  Pete,  so  it  was  a  success  while  it  lasted. 


But  since  that  street  comer  incident,  I've  given  up  the 
practice.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  I've  changed  in  a  lot  of 
respects  because  of  Pete.  I  think  that  the  way  a  cluld  de- 
velops is  almost  solely  the  responsibility  of  his  parents,  and 
I've  done  a  lot  of  floundering  around  tr\-ing  to  find  the 
right  path  for  fatherhood. 

I  guess  I'm  Uke  most  guys,  or  was,  before  Pete  was  bom. 
I'd  never  thought  much  about  becoming  a  father,  and  to  tell 
the  truth  I  was  more  than  a  little  flabbergasted  when  I  knew 
we  were  going  to  have  a  baby.  It  was  even  worse  w^hen  he 
arrived  because,  suddenly,  there  he  was  and  I  was  a  father, 
but  I  didn't  feel  different  at  all. 

During  the  waiting  period.  I  had  drdamed  up  a  lot  of  fancy 
ideas  about  how  I  was  going  to  bring  up  this  chUd,  but  some- 
how they  all  went  out  the  window  when  I  looked  at  him.  New 
babies  are  such  little  things  and  they  don't,  as  I  was  to  find 
out,  offer  much  in  the  way  of  (Continued  on  page  82) 


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LIZ  TAYLOR  TELLS 


TRUTH  A 


UTHER 


Exclusive  to 
Modern  Screen: 
Liz  confides  her  inmost 
emotions  about  the 
three  notorious 
romances  tliat 
changed  her  life. 

BY  CONSUELO  ANDERSON 


This  is  how  she  lives  as  a  bachelor  girl 


THE 

LOVES 

■  This  is  a  story  that  should  have  been  told  long  ago.  It 
hasn't  been  because  friends  of  Liz  Taylor  thought  that 
only  silence  could  still  the  gossip  and  guard  the  little 
privacy  she  has  left.  But  now  it  is  time  that  the  public 
knew  more  about  Liz  Taylor,  for  despite  the  millions  of 
words  written  about  her,  people  know  as  little  as  her 
co-workers,  which  is  very  close  to  exactly  nothing. 

Liz  has  been  cruelly  hurt  by  so-called  friends  who  have 
referred  to  her,  in  a  laughing,  but  nonetheless  heartless 
manner,  as  a  "headline  grabber."  I  have  talked  with  Liz 
for  hours,  and  about  this  false  accusation,  she  says: 

"I  had  my  first  experience  w'ith  the  terrible  manner  in 
which  someone  in  the  public  eye  can  become  misunderstood 
when  I  began  going  with  Glenn  Davis.  You  can  believe  me, 
up  until  this  time,  it  meant  nothing  to  me  that  I  was  con- 
stantly being  interviewed  and  photographed.  All  of  these 
things  were  simply  a  matter  of  my  job  as  an  actress,  a 
job  I  had  been  trained  to  do  since  childhood. 

"I  know  that  you,  as  a  friend,  believe  me  when  I  say 
that  this  was,  in  the  beginning,  a  nice  httle  romance,  and 
nothing  more.  Of  course  I  was  aware  that  I  was  an  actress. 
None  of  us  can  forget  it,  because  every  time  we  pass  a 
newsstand,  we  see  pictures  of  ourselves.  But  that  doesn't 
mean  that  we  are  vain,  or  that  we  think  we  are  all- 
important. 

"Glenn  Davis  was  the  idol  of  millions  of  teen-age  girls. 
Girls  just  like  me.  As  an  Ail-American  football  player,  an 
Army  officer  and  a  fine  gentleman,  he  was — and  is — all  any 
girl  could  ask  for  as  a  companion.  Now  that  he  is  married  to 
such  a  lovely  girl  as  Terry  Moore,  I  can  only  wish  him 
every  happiness.  It's  two  years  ago,  though,  since  we  first 
met  at  the  Santa  Monica  Beach  Club.  I  was  sincerely 
thrilled  to  know  him,  first  because  of  who  he  was,  and  then 
because  we  had  so  many  interests  in  common. 

"It  was  simply  wonderful  to  be  with  someone  who  didn't 
know  anything  about  movies — and  cared  less.  Up  until,  this 
time,  because  I  was  so  young,  movies  had  been  my  whole 
world.  Now  I  had  a  companion  whose  horizons  were  far 
more  interesting  and  important  than  mine.  Basically,  we 
had  so  much  in  common.  We  went  riding,  played  volley 
b'all,  and  swam  together  in  the  ocean.  I  don't  know  how 
there  could  have  been  a  more  wholesome  and  delightful 
prelude  to  a  romance.  After  he  gave  me  a  gold  football,  I 
thought  that  some  day  this  might  (Continued  on  page  66) 


For  the  first  time  Liz  is  living  completely  on  her  own. 
She  shares  a  small  two  bedroom  apartment  in  Wes+wood 
with    her   good   friend    and    secretary,    Peggy  Rutledge. 


Flowing  Chinese  lounging  pajamas  ore  Liz'  favorite  in- 
formal costume  for  the  hot  weather.  She  and  Stanley 
Donen  often  dine  and  listen  to  records  at  the  apartment. 


Liz  tried  hotel  living,  then  stayed  with  her  stand-in.  After 
finishing  A  Place  In  The  Sun  she  settled  into  this 
sleek    apartment    with    her    mother's    happy  approval. 


We've  been  married  10  years 

and  he  still  hasn't  bought  me  a  mink. 
But  I've  got  an  ice-box  with  a  whole  house  around  it, 

and  three  small  geniuses  to  keep  me  warm. 


the  Lowdown  on 


I  have  a  healthy  respect 
for  the  way  Gordon  earns  a  living,  and_ 
I  often  take  the  children 
along  to  watch  him  work  on  the 
set.  {Left  to  right)  Meredith, 
Heather  and  Gar, 


We  [ust  moved  into  a  big 
house  with  a  playground  in  back.  Gor- 
don has  OS  much  fun  there 
as  the  kids.  The  girls  worship  Gar. 
Meredith  baked  him  a  cake  (soggy  but 
nice)  when  he  was  three. 


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mm 


mm 


i 


MacRae 


■  I  used  to  be  a  a  nice  normal  girl. 
In  my  youth.  My  adolescence.  I  dabbled 
in  astrology.  I  did  a  little  writing, 
and  a  little  acting,  but  in  our 
civilization  these  are  considered 
only  minor  eccentricities. 

For  the  past  10  years,  however,  I've 
been  married  to  Gordon  MacRae.  I'm 
happier,  but  I'm  screwier.  I've  got 
a  husband  so  busy  that  when  I  bump 
into  him  he's  apt  to  say,  "Pardon 
me,  Madam,"  and  keep  right  on 
going.  I've  got  three  children  such 
individualists  they  don't  even 
talk  to  each  other.  Meredith  doesn't 
approve  of  Heather's  baby-talk, 
and  Gar's  too  small  to  carry  on  much 
conversation  anyhow.  Mother  MacRae, 
that's  me.  If  the  dear  silver  isn't 
shining  in  my  hair,  well,  wait  a  minute. 

All  mothers  have  geniuses 
for  children.  I  know  that.  The  fact  that 
I'm  outsmarted  by  my  offspring  isn't 
unique.  But  you  have  to  be  married  to  a 
movie  star  before  you're  faced  with 
some  of  my  other  day-to-day  problems. 

Example:  Gordon  and  I  meet  a 
friend  on  the  street.  Friend,  to 
Gordon,  jovially:  "Hey,  haven't 
read  the  movie  mags  lately.  Don't  know 
how  you're  treating  your  wife." 

Gordon,  equally  jovial:  "Haven't 
beaten  her  lately.  Not  since  1944." 

Sheila,  ecstatically:  "Oh,  hahaha, 
hohoho,"  (Continued  on  page  92) 


■V. 


\ 


Daddy  and  Candy  cut  the  cake  while  Mother  stands  by  to  give  support.  But  big  sister  Lindsay  is  anxious,  and  David  Ladd  just  can't  look. 


THE  KIDS  AT  CANDY'S  PARTY  HAD  A  PINT-SIZE  CIRCUS— WITH  A  TENT,  CLOWN,  AND  BETTY  AS  RINGMASTER. 


mmxmm 


Overnight  big   dive  tree   In    Betty's   back   yard    became  the      The  cellophane  dining  tent  carried  out  the  circus  motif.  Miniature 

v/ondertu  Birthday  Tree,  its  trunk  and  branches,  wrapped  in' crepe  hot-dogs  and  hamburgers  were  the  bill  of  fare.  Everybody  put  on 
paper,  bloomed  with  presents  for  every  guest  at  Candy's  party.      his  party  jockey  cap  or  crown  for'  Ted  Briskin's  movie  camera. 


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candy 'n  cake 


Big  doings  at  Betty  Hutton's: 

A  lamb  is  loose  in  the 
bedroom,  there's  a  monkey  in  the  garden, 

and  Candy's  just  struck  three. 

BY  BEVERLY  OTT 


Candy  and  her  nnotJier  saw  that  the  organ  grinder's  monkey  and 
the  clown  had  supper,  too.  But  the  star  of  the  day  was  Candy's 
"weal,  wive,  wammy" — ^the  baby  lamb  she  got  as  a  surprise  gift. 


■  Being  a  bachelor  girl,  I'm  about  as 
comfortable  around  children  as  I  am 
around  Bengal  tigets.  That's  why  I  got  the 
idea  that'  Betty  Hutton  was  greatly 
amused  by  my  feeble  attempt  at  conver- 
sation with  Lindsay  and  Candy  one  day. 
"My,  how  you've  grown,"  I  brightly  ob- 
served. "How  old  are  you  now?" 

"I'm  four,"  Lindsay  volunteered.  "And 
Candy'll  be  three  next  Saturday." 

"Saturday's  my  birthday,  too,"  I  told 
them. 

"I'm  having  a  party,"  Candy  announced. 
"Are  you?" 

"Well,  no  ..."  I  admitted. 

The  small  Briskins  gave  me  two  sym- 
pathetic looks.  "Then  you  can  come  to 
Candy's,"  said  Lindsay,  soKang  a  very 
grave  problem.  Her  sister  nodded. 

I  glanced  at  Betty.  "That  makes  it  of- 
ficial," she  grinned.  "Want  to  bet  you'll 
have  the  time  of  your  life?" 

Candy  and  her  mother  were  standing  at 
the  gate  that  cheery  Saturday  afternoon. 
The  small  Briskin  shook  my  hand,  intro- 
duced me  to  the  organ  grinder  and  his 
monkey,  also  in  the  reception  line,  and 
then  led  me  into  the  yard  to  meet  the 
other  guests  who  were  gathering  in  the 
sandbox  or  beside  the  jungle  gym.  This 
accomplished,   {Continued  on  page  91) 


Betty  called  studio  casting  for  the  dog  act.  The  six  puppies  did  every  trick  in  the 
book:  fascinated  Mimi  and  Monica  'Henreid,  David  Ladd,  Penny,  Dawn,  and  David 
DeFore,  Liza  Minnelli,  and  other  guests,  including  the  attendant  mothers  and  nurses. 


After  supper  the  party  moved  into  the  living 
room  to  see  My  Friend  Flicka.  Ted  master- 
minded the  projection  machine  for  the  kids. 


Betty  loves  ranch  life  with  Harry  and  her 
daughters  Victoria  and  Jessica.  Married  eight 
years,  she  hasn't  had  enough  time  at  home. 


hHorses  are  as  much  business  as  pleasure  tor 
Betty.  She  and  Harry  own  a  string  of  racers — 
and  Betty  may  someday  retire  to  breed  them. 


The  spat  Betty  had 
with  her  studio  wasn't 
a  lovers'  quarrel. 
Insiders  say  she  wants  to 
part  company — 
this  time  for  keeps. 

BY  STEVE  CRONIN 


IS 


rable 
quitting? 


■  A  few  weeks  ago  the  editor  of  a  Hollywood 
newspaper  answered  his  telephone,  listened  a  minute,  granted 
a  few  times  and  replaced  the  receiver.  He  looked  about 
the  city  room  until  his  eyes  fell  on  his  ace  movie 
reporter. 

"Hey,  George,"  he  called.  "Come  here.  The  sky  just 
fell  in." 

George  ambled  over  to  the  desk. 
"Say  it  again,"  he  said.  "I  thought  you  said  the 
sky  fell  in." 

"Same  thing,"  said  the  editor.  "That  was  Fox  on  the  phone. 
They've  just  suspended  Grable." 

"Betty  Grable?"  gasped  the  reporter.  "I  don't  be- 
lieve it." 

"Well,  check  it  anyway,"  said  the  editor,  "and  let 
me  know." 

The  reporter  grabbed  some  copy  paper  and 
left,  mumbling  about  pranksters  wasting  a  busy  man's  time. 

But  it  was  true.  After  12  years  of  uninterrupted  harmony, 
and  a  relationship  that  went  back  22 
years,  Betty  Grable  and  20th  Century-Fox  had 
reached  a  crisis;  a  situation  presented  itself  which  was 
mutually  intolerable  and  their  contract  had  been  declared 
inactive  until  such  time  as  both  parties  agreed  to  put  it  in  force 
again. 

A  suspension  is  by  no  means  {Continued  on  page  74) 


46 


miiiiiii 


what 


do  they  do 


Swimming  pools  ore  a  common  Hollywood  luxury — but  for  Esther  Williams  it's  a  working  necessity;  she  swims  20  lops  a  day. 


48 


Unlike  many  Hollywood 
couples,  the  Gages'  manner 
of  living  doesn't  exceed 
their  pocketbook.    The  babies'  wash 
is  done  at  home;  the  attic 
[center)  is  crammed  with 
articles  they  can't  bear 
to  discard;  and  a  file  cabinet 
under  the  stairs  at 
home  [cArtrcme  right)  was  Ben's 
idea  of  a  way  to  conduct 
business  without  an  office. 


(with  all  that  money? 


DOES  IT  GO  FOR  SERVANTS,  SABLES,  FOREIGN  CARS— THE  HOLLYWOOD  LUXURIES?  NOT  ALL  OF  IT;  NOT  BY  A  LONG  SHOT! 


■  A  few  months  ago,  agents  of  the  Bureau  of  Internal  Rev- 
enue nailed  a  sign  to  the  front  gate  of  the  Northridge  estate  of 
Veronica  Lake  and  Andre  DeToth  announcing  that  the  prop- 
erty was  to  be  auctioned  off  a  week  later  to  satisfy  an  income 
tax  Hen  of  some  $38,000.  The  date  of  the  sale  arrived,  the 
auctioneer  pounded  his  gavel,  stated  that  because  of  other 
liens  the  lowest  figure  he  would  consider  was  $68,000,  and 
waited  for  bids.  None  came.  After  five  minutes  of  pleading  he 
shut  up  shop  and  went  home. 

This  would  appear  to  be  an  odd  situation  on  two  counts. 
First,  that  Veronica  Lake,  a  still  quite  active  star,  and  her 
husband,  a  working  director  commanding  a  good  fee,  could 
not  pay  a  paltry  $38,000  in  taxes — and,  secondly,  that  in  all 
Hollywood  there  wasn't  a  person  well  oft'  enough  to  snatch 
an  estate  worth  close  to  a  quarter  of  a  million  dollars  for  the 
minor  sum  of  $68,000.  However,  this  situation  is  common. 
Stars  lose  their  homes  because  of  mismanagement  and  high 
taxes,  and  buyers  are  scarce  for  the  same  reason — mismanage- 
ment and  high  taxes. 

Here,  in  the  Fabulous  Land,  in  the  community  known  as 
the  richest  on  earth,  there  is  genteel  poverty.  And  the  threat 
of  old  age  in  the  poor  house  is  a  constant  nightmare.  Tre- 
mendous salaries  don't  mean  a  thing.  There  hasn't  been  a  new 
milhonaire  made  in  Hollywood  in  1 5  years ;  there  has  not  even 
been  a  truly  rich  man  made  here  in  that  period  of  time.  This 
is  a  fact— despite  what  you  read  in  the  newspapers  about  the 
fortunes  being  piled  up  everj^  day. 

True,  there  are  many  big  people  in  Hollywood  who  live  like 
Vanderbilts,  but  if  you  could  get  a  look  at  their  bank  balances 


and  asset  and  liability  ledgers  you  would  find  an  arrow  point- 
ing directly  to  disaster.  There  are  a  few  folks  about  with 
bundles  that  would  clog  a  water  main,  but  they  are  either  old- 
timers  like  Chaplin  or  Harold  Lloyd,  or  men  like  Howard 
Hughes,  who  came  into  the  business  with  millions,  made  in- 
vestments, and  are  still  waiting  for  the  first  dollar  of  tax-free 
profit.  The  rest  are  fancy  paupers. 

Of  course,  there  are  stars  with  money,  but  they  are  the 
careful  ones — not  necessarily  stingy,  but  extremely  cautious 
with  a  dollar.  They  have  business  managers  who  put  them  on 
a  strict  budget  and,  despite  their  fabulous  incomes,  they  pare 
and  scrimp  like  any  other  man,  not  in  the  hope  of  becoming 
rich,  but  fn  the  hope  that  they  will  be  able  to  sit  in  the  sun 
and  relax  when  they  have  drawn  that  last  pay  check. 

Whenever  instances  hke  the  Lake  liquidation  are  in  the 
news  headhnes,  less  glamorous  and  poorer  folk  over  the  nation 
ask  a  ver\'  reasonable  question.  "What  do  they  do  with  all  that 
money?""  The  answer  is,  ''What  money?"  Some  time  ago  a 
business  manager  told  a  client  he  was  li\Tlng  far  beyond  his 
means. 

"What  are  you  talking  about,""  snorted  the  actor.  'T  make 
more  than  $100,000  a  3'ear!  I'm  not  going  to  live  hke  a  guy 
who  makes  50  bucks  a  week!" 

"You  don't  make  $100,000  a  year,"  said  the  business  man- 
ager. "You  gross  that.  But  for  the  sake  of  argument,  let's  say 
you  net  that  sum.  Your  taxes  would  be  close  to  $70,000,  leav- 
ing you  a  net  income  of  $30,000  a  year.  Right  now  you  make 
less,  so  if  you  want  to  remain  solvent,  you've  got  to  live  like 
a  man  making  $20,000."  {Continued  on  page  88) 


what  do  they  do  with  all  that  money?  confd 


how  esthe 


Kimmie,  in  his  antique ■  cradle,  is  always  near  the  center  of  ac- 
tivily.  Esther  had  the  furniture  specially  scaled  to  Ben's  height, 
and    she    designed    the    utility    coffee-jug    lamp    behind  her. 


Opposite  the  kitchen,  a  stone  fireplace  dominates  the 
dining  area  with  its  big  "hutch"  table.  This  huge  all- 
purpose,  family-used  living  room  cuts  down  overhead. 


■  On  the  night  of  October  29,  1950,  the  stork  flew  low 
through  Mandeville  Canyon,  11  miles  west  of  Hollywood. 

This  storic  was  looking  for  a  couple  of  expectant  parents 
named  Esther  Williams  and  Ben  Gage,  who  lived  in  a  farm- 
house painted  butter-yellow,  with  swimming  pool  attached, 
of  course. 

As  he  circled  above  the  sycamores  that  shade  the  homes  in 
this  area,  the  aroma  of  broiled  steak  and  the  strains  of 
"Happy  Birthday"  rose  to  meet  him.  The  sounds  and  smells" 
were  wafting  up  from  the  large  kitchen-sitting  room  of  the 
farmhouse  where  Esther,  Ben,  and  a  group  of  friends  were 
celebrating  Ben's  birthday  and  the  Gage's  first  night  in  their 
new  home. 

It  was  a  gayj  self-help  party.  Esther  was  mixing  a  salad 
behind  the  copper-topped  counter  that  divides  the  work 
section  from  the  sitting  portion  of  the  kitchen.  Ben  was 
hovering  over  the  fireplace  grill  basting  the  giant  porter- 
house steaks.  And  the  guests  were  taking  turns  demonstrating 
the  new  kitchen  gadgets. 

The  legendary  bird  hesitated  a  moment,  then  decided  not 
to  interrupt  such  a  festive  occasion.  (Continued  on  page  52) 


SO 


nd  ben  live 


The  Gages'  home 
reflects  their  sane  attitude 
toward  living.  They 
don't  confuse 
old-fashioned  comfort  with 
expensive  luxury. 

BY  MARVA  PETERSON 


"Esther  relaxes  scientifically  in  the  Contour  chair.    It's  a  playground  for  Benjie,  c  safe  one  because  the  fire  screen  is  securely  locked. 


The  Gages  have  a  small  guest  house  near  their  pool;  plan' to  add  a  barbecue. 


how  esther  and  ben  live  contd 

He  flew  off  and  didn't  make  delivery  until  the  next  day. 

Even  so  the  bundle  marked  Kimball  Austin  Gage  arrived  seven  weeks 
ahead  of  schedule. 

As  Kimmie's  mother  loves  to  tell  the  story,  the  house-warming  turned 
into  a  baby-warming. 

"It  makes  me  a  little  weak  in  the  knees,"  Esther  says,  "to  think  of  how 
close  a  race  with  the  stork  it  really  was.  Fifteen  hours  after  we  moved  into 
our  new  house,  the  new  baby  arrived." 

For  those  who  think  of  Esther  Williams  as  a  stream-lined  modern  mer- 
maid, it  may  come  as  a  big  surprise  to  learn  that  she  chose  to  move  her 
family  into  an  early  American  farmhouse. 

Actually,  Esther  is  an  old-fashioned  girl.  According  to  Melvina  Pumphey, 
her  closest  friend,  "Esther  and  Ben  are  about  as  down-to-earth  and  whole- 
some as  you  can  get.  They're  the  kind  of  people  w'lO  believe  in  all  the  time- 
tested  customs:  sharing  a  big  double  bed,  father  carving  the  Sunday  roast, 
children  romping  all  over  the  place.  What's  more  they  live  the  way  they 
believe." 

Not  only  is.  the  Gage  philosophy  based  on  this  solid  American  foundation, 
but  so  is  their  home.  In  every  respect  the  plan  of  their  house  copies  an 
authentic  farmhouse. 

The  front  door  takes  you  directly  into  the  hving  room.  There's  no  foyer, 
no  powder  room,  no  nonsense.  Just  step  inside  {Continued  on  page  87) 


Theirs  is  a 

successful  business  and 
marriage  combination. 

■  There  is  in  spirit,  if  not  in 
fact,  a  corporate  entity  known  as 
Esther  Williams  Enterprises.  Esther 
and  Ben  Gage  run  this  completely 
informal  organization  from  their 
living  room.  A  good  deal  of  non- 
sense has  been  written  about 
Esther's  business  ventures.  Critics 
accuse  her  of  being  a  money-making 
machine,  but  they  don't  take  into 
consideration  the  fact  that  she 
has  created  jobs  for  matiy  peo- 
ple. And  those  who  accuse  her  of 
investijig  her  movie  salary 
simply  to  avoid  high  taxes,  forget 
that  every  successful  venture  she's 
gone  into  {and  she's  never  gone 
into  an  unsuccessful  one)  has 
created  still  more  tax  mottey.  The 
Gages'  initial  investment  was  a 
filling  station,  to  which  another 
was  quickly  added.  Both  boomed 
until  a  price  war  started  to  cut 
down  their  income.  They 
promptly  sold  out  at  a  tidy  profit. 
Their  second  investment  was  in 
a  broken-down  restaurant  near 
Westchester  called  The  Trails.  They 
picked  it  after  making  a  long  and 
detailed  study  of  population 
concentrations  throughout  the 
entire   Los   Angeles   area.  They 
bought  The  Trails,  redecorated 
it,  and  held  a  grand  opening  in 
the  Hollywood  manner.  It's  been  a 
success  ever  since,  partly  because 
the  food  is  good,  partly  be- 
cause they  both  spend  as 
7nuch  time  as  possible  there  mingling 
with  the  guests.  The  Gages  also 
own  a  machine  shop  and  a 
tool-tnaking    company,   and  they 
draw  profit  from  a  real-estate 
venture  in  Twenty  Nine 
Palms.  Esther  is  under  contract 
to  Cole  of  California  for  whom  she 
designs  and  promotes  swim  suits. 
Two  non-profit  activities  con- 
trolled by  her  are  the  counselling 
service,  specializing  in  parent-child 
problems,  which  her  mother  directs, 
and  the  swimming  course  given 
thrice-weekly  to  blind  and  par- 
tially-blind children  by  Esther 
herself.  — d.4n  jenkins 


52 


No.  W  in  a  tertes: 

HOW  THE  STARS  FOUND  FAITH 


Her  two  sons   (that's  A.oe 


rt   a  c  G  e  i  a 


a    ner   nusband,   Edv/ard   Lasker,   are  three  reasons  tor  Jane's  contented  view  of  life. 


the  perfect  happiness 


It  can't  be  demanded,  schemed  or  fought  for.  Happiness  comes  from  giving  as  much  as  you  want 


to  receive.    M   \^  M  ^AdlUl 


■  My  whole  little  scheme  of  living  has  been  cooked  up  out  of  this:  that  real  happiness  can 
only  be  •warmed  into  existence — ^it  cannot  be  demanded,  schemed  for,  or  fumed  and  fought 
over.  You  can  demand  attention,  comforts,  luxures.  even  your  "rights,''  and  you  will  get  them, 
perhaps.  Yet  you  can  feel  strangely  discontented  after  they  are  yours.  You  can  scheme 
tor  j'our  own  benefit  and  you  can  succeed,  sometimes.  Yet  when  you  tr\'  to  cash  in  on  your 
success  there  is  just  no  inward  satisfaction  to  be  had.  Evidence  of  your  prestige,  like  your 
name  and  Ukeness  on  a  big  outdoor  poster  is  gratifying,  but  not  lastingly  so.  Next  week 
somebody  else's  name  and  face  is  plastered  over  yours. 

You  ask  yourself  finally,  where  can  you  make  a  permanent  hit?  And  in  time  you  know 
the  answer — only  in  somebody's  heart.         .  {Continued  on  page  96) 


53 


Esperanza  (Chata)  Wayne  sdys  goodbye  again  to  Duke  as  he  leaves  for  Ireland  fo  make  The  Quiet  Man  directed  by  John  Ford. 


■  "Just  wait  till  those  British  newspapermen  get  their 
hooks  into  you,"  a  fellow  actor  warned  John  Wayne  one 
day  in  the  RKO  commissary.  "They're  death  on  American 
actors,  particularly  big,  robust  characters  like  you  who  act 
tough  in  films.  I'll  bet  they  barbecue  you  alive." 

"Oh,  I  don't  think  so,"  Duke  drawled.  "I've  always  man- 
aged to  get  along  with  newspapermen." 

The  subject  was  dropped  until  the  night,  several  weeks 
later,  when  Duke  left  for  England  with  Mr.  Herbert  Yates, 
president  of  Republic  Studios,  to  open  the  company's  new 
film  exchange  in  London,  As  their  airliner  droned  high 
above  the  Atlantic,  Duke  said,  "What's  so  tough  about  the 
British  press?" 

"Nothing,  really,"  answered  Mr.  Yates.  "They're  per- 
haps more  serious  than  most  American  reporters.  Just  be 
careful  not  to  say  anything  that  might  be  misconstrued. 
You  know,  you  are  sort  of  blunt  and  outspoken  at  times!" 


"Don't  worry,  I  won't,"  Duke  laughed.  "I'm  not  going 
to  spout  off  a  lot  of  opinions.  But  I  was  thinking.  Why 
don't  we  have  all  of  the  guys  up  to  our  room  after  the  open- 
ing? Then  we  can  sit  around,  roll  up  our  sleeves,  and  swap 
windies.  I've  never  known  a  newspaper  guy  who  wouldn't 
rather  kill  an  hour  talking  than  rush  back  to  the  oflSce  and 
work.  They  can't  be  that  much  different  in  England." 

As  it  turned  out,  Duke  was  right.  The  seven  British 
reporters  who  came  up  to  his  room  for  a  few  roimds  of 
liquid  fellowship  stayed  for  nearly  two  hours  talking  about 
the  war  crisis,  American  women,  the  London  fog,  California 
smog,  the  high  price  of  good  Scotch,  and  other  vital  topics. 
Next  morning,  their  interviews  were  glowing,  to  say  the 
least. 

"Those  guys  would  haye  murdered  me  if  I'd  talked  to 
them  like  a  big  shot  actor,"  Duke  told  his  employer,  as 
they  flew  home.  "But  I  spent  {Continued  on  page  64) 


look 
out 
for 
this 


guy 


I 


He's  putty  in  the  hands  of  his 

family,  but  Duke  Wayne's  no  softie  to 
Hollywood.  He  got  to  the  top  the  hard  way 
— and  he's  not  stepping  down  for  anyone. 

BY  TOM  CARLILE 


if  '  i 


Duke's  Sfefson  hat  and  pisfol  twirling  skill  charnned 
this  young  British  fan  when  he  was  in  England.  An 
ideal  good-will  ambassador,  he'll  tour  S.  America  next. 


DUKE  AND  HIS  BIG  FAMILY  threw  a  birthday  party  for  Melinda  timentol  obout  his  family,  Duke  is  especially  devoted  to  his  daughters. 
[above  center)  at  Oceanside  where  he  was  on  location.  Incurably  sen-      (Toni's  above.)  He  plans  to  take  them  all  on  a  vacation  cruise  soon. 


55 


United 


Tony  and  Piper  left  L.A.  at  7:15  A.M.;  were  met  at  the 
Denver,  Colorado,  airport  by  first  prize  winner,  Mrs.  Alice 
Bankert.  KL2  announcer,  Matt  McEniry,  interviewed  them. 


MEET 

THE 

PEOPLE 


Six  pages  of  exciting  photographs — Universal- International's  Tony  Curtis  and  Piper  Laurie 


Crowds  of  eager  Denverites,  including  a  contingent  of  Before  the  gala  premiere  of  The  Prince  Who  Was  A  Thief,  Mrs.  Bankert  gave 
wounded  Korean  war  veterans,  were  on  hand  to  greet  the  a  dinner  for  Tony  and  Piper.  Neighbors  jammed  her  house  until  the  walls  bulged, 
young  stars.  They  drove  into  Denver  with  a  50-car  party.      Denver's  Dale  Morgan  was  on  hand  to  describe  events  for  the  radio  audience. 


56 


AN  ENTHUSIASTIC  AUDIENCE  GAVE  TONY  AND  PIPER  AN  11 -MINUTE  OVATION  AFTER  THE  PREMIERE.  TONY  HAD  TO  CARRY  PIPER  OFFSTAGE. 


^dsit  the  lucky  winners  of  modern  screen's  "Bring  A  Star  to  Your  Home"  contest 


Denver's  most  ou+s+onding  high  school  journalists  got  a  special 
close-up  of  Tony  and  Piper  and  a  chance  to  interview  them  at  a 
banquet  held  for  the  stars  on  the  third  day  of  their  Denver  visit. 


FIRST  STOP!  DENVER,  COLO.  It  was  a  shudderingly 
cold  morning.  Heavy  fog  billowed  in  off  the  Pacific  Ocean, 
sweeping  across  the  Los  Angeles  International  Airport. 
High  above,  a  half  dozen  planes  droned  patiently,  waiting 
for  the  overcast  to  lift,  and  below,  a  dozen  huge  four 
motor  planes  taxied  to  their  positions,  impatient  to  rise. 
■  At  exactly  6:38  a.m.  the  doors  to  United  Airlines  burst 
open.  In  rushed  Tony  Curtis,  hair  uncombed,  tie  askew, 
the  cuff  of  one  of  his  shirts  hanging  out  of  a  brand  new 
leather  traveling  case. 

"Where  is  ever>-body?"  he  shouted.  "Am  I  late?" 

Early  morning  passengers  seated  in  neat  rows  looked  up, 
and  those  who  weren't  asleep,  laughed  out  loud. 

"If  you're  looking  for  your  girl,"  a  tall  Texan  boomed, 
"in  bet  that's  her,  over  there!" 

Tony  swung  around,  and  sure  enough,  there  was  Piper 
Laurie,  equally  tousle-headed,  standing  in  front  of  an 
automatic  insurance  machine.  In  two  jumps,  Tony  was  by 
her  side.  He  grabbed  her  by  an  elbow  and  tugged.  "Come 
on,  honey,"  he  exclaimed.  "We're  {Continued  on  page  39) 


Piper  was  selected  as  Miss  Flame  Tony  throws  flames  in  an  entirely  different  manner. 

Thrower  of  1951  by  the  Headquar-  The  heat  was  terrific  when  he  got  together  with 

. ters    Colorado    Military    District.  his  fan  club  in  Denver.    They  really  poured  it  on. 


In  cooperation  with  the  Denver  Post,  the 
Pepsi-Cola  company  gave  a  big  party  for 
Piper  and  Tony  at  their   new   Pepsi  plant. 


GOVERNOR  DAN  THORNTON  SHOWED  PIPER  AND  TONY  THE  MAGNIFICENT  VIEW  FROM  THE  CAPITOL.    "THE  CITY  IS  AT  YOUR  FEET."  HE  TOLD  THEM. 


The  prize  was  a  $25  bond,  and  teen-ager 
Georgia  Loudernnilk  won  a  kiss  irom  Tony, 
too,   for   her   letter  about  the    Post  party. 


And  promenade,  all!"  The  Rocky  Mountain  motion 
picture  exhibitors  and  their  wives  held  a  square- 
dance   for   Piper  and   Tony  at  the   Variety  Club. 


So  who's  a  square  now?  "  shouts 
Piper  as  she  whisks  merriiy  around 
the  floor  at  the  Variety  Cub  dance. 


These  pictures  capture  a  few  of  the  memorable  events  of  Piper  and  Tony's  Denver  visit. 


{Contmued  from  page  57)  going  to  miss  our  plane." 

Piper  wouldn't  budge.  She  pounded  on  the  machine, 
furiously.  "I  don't  care,"  she  said,  stubbornly.  "My  dad 
told  me  never  to.  travel  on  land  or  air  or  sea  without 
insurance.  Now  I've  put  three  quarters  in  this  machine — 
that's  $15,000  worth  of  insurance,  and  know  what?" 

Tony  put  down  his  traveling  case  impatiently.  "No 
Piper,  what?" 

"Tony,"  Piper  wailed,  'T've  got  a  tilt!" 

That  was  that.  The  insurance  papers  wouldn't  jump  out, 
the  way  they  do  99  times  out  of  a  hundred.  So  Tony  went 
for  help.  They  shoved  some  papers  at  him.  He  shoved  the 
papers  at  Piper.  She  signed.  She  put  in  more  quarters. 
The  sweep  hand  of  the  big  airport  clock  kept  circUng  off 
the  precious  seconds.  Piper  signed  the  insurance"  papers, 
put  them  in  an  envelope,  borrowed  a  stamp  from  Tony, 
who  swears  he's  never  carried  a  stamp  in  his  life  before, 
and  handed  her  valuable  papers  to  a  total  stranger. 

"Please,"  she  begged,  with  a  melting  look.  "Drop  these 
in  a  mailbox." 

Then  her  feet  left  the  ground  as  Tony  grabbed  her  by 
one  hand,  and  sailed  her  through  the  underground  ramp, 
up  to  the  take-off  gate.  Their  giant  United  Airlines  Mer- 
cur>'  plane,  FUght  606,  was  slowly  swinging  around. 

"Hey  !"  Tony  yelled.  "We're  on  that  plane  I" 

A  courteous  but  firm  attendant,  in  the  act  of  closing 
the  gate,  exclaimed,  "Oh  no  you're  not — that  plane's  full!" 
He  gestured  his  flight  manifesto  board  in  Tony's  direction. 

"Please,"  Piper  said.  "We're  with  the  Moderx  Screen 
photographers.  If  they  go  without  us  it  will  be  terrible!" 

As  though  in  answer  to  Piper's  plea,  the  big  plane 
paused,  a  door  opened,  and  out  peered  the  anxious  face  of 
Bert  Parry,  Moderx  Screen  photographer.  Instantly,  the 
big  automatic  ramp  sHd  toward  the  plane,  and  Piper  and 
Tony  scrambled  aboard.  At  exactly  7:15  a.m.,  the  very 
special  Flight  Number  606  was  airborne. 

(Continued  on  page  76) 


Piper  and  Tony  visited  Korean  veterans  at  Fitzsimmons  Gen- 
eral Hospital.  Tony,  once  hospitalized  himself,  said,  "I  wish 
ecc-  c2-e--  cc.  z  ;5=  r-e  f.z,  '  :  ion%  are  treated  here." 


"Nothing  like  a  day  with  your  fans,"  says  Tony.  "The  lip- 
stick's not  bad — but  it  looked  better  on  the  girls.  And  how 
am  I  going  to  explain' losing  those  cuff-links  to  Janet  Leigh?" 


59 


MEET  THE  PEOPLE 


THIRD  STOP:  COLUHBUS,  OHIO 

Two  pretty  ladies  shake  hands,  as 
Donna  Morrison  proudly 
introduces  Piper  and  Tony  to  her 
family  (above).  Not  only  Donna's 
sophomore  class,  but  practically 
the  whole  high  school  turned  out  when 
Tony  and  Piper  offered  to  sign 
all  the  autographs  anybody 
wanted.  Tony  got  cornered  against 
one  window — while  Piper  and 
Donna  were  surrounded  on 
the  other  side  of  the  lawn. 


FOURTH  STOP:  CHARLOTTE,  N.  C. 

Tony  said,  "It  sUre  is  true  what  they 

say  about  the  South.  Never  had 

such  a  warm  welcome  as  from 

Clara  Hobbs  and  her  family  in 

Charlotte  (right).  Clara  joined  the 

stars  on  WAYS  broadcast  with 

Gladys  Lavitan  and  Lindsay  Brooks  (above). 

Her  deep  soth'n  accent  surprised 

her  when  she  heard  a  playback.  It 

tickled  Tony,  atid  Piper  went 

around  envying  it  for  days. 


no  more  playboys  for  rita 

{Continued  jrom  page  29)  instead  of  a  di- 
vorce— but  when  you've  come  to  the  parting 
of  the  ways  as  we  have,  then  I'm  all  for  a 
clean  break. 

"I  didn't  go  into  this  divorce  lightly.  I 
thought  over  all  the  possibilities,  particu- 
larly the  possibihty  of  giving  the  mar- 
riage another  try.  But  after  a  lot  of  soul- 
searching  I  decided  that  a  divorce  was 
the  best  thing  for  ms." 

When  asked  if  there  was  a  third  party 
involved,  perhaps  another  woman,  maybe 
two  (after  all,  under  Moslem  law,  Aly 
is  permitted  to  take  four  wives)  Rita 
smiled  and  referred  to  the  statement  by  her 
lawyer,  Hartley  Crum:  "The  divorce  is 
based  on  the  general  grounds  of  incom- 
patibility." 

Aly  himself  wrrote  Rita,  "I  certainly  do 
not  want  to  remarry  or  have  any  woman 
in  my  heart  except  yourself.  So  I  do  not 
want  a  divorce  from  my  side." 

JACKSON  LEiGHTER,  a  radio  agent  who 
drove  to  Reno  with  Rita,  volunteered 
to  act  as  her  spokesman,  and  it  was  he  who 
said,  "Don't  ask  Rita  about  any  other 
women  in  their  marriage.  The  'other  wo- 
man' in  this  case  is  gambling — 24  hours  a 
day  of  it." 

Rita  admitted  that  Aly  gambled.  "But 
who  ddesn't?"  she  added. 

The  true  story  behind  Rita's  divorce  is 
that  she  and  Aly  never  should  have  mar- 
ried. They  were  swept  up  in  a  grand 
passion— tempestuous,  mad,  altogether  in- 
credible. But  the  day  tq  day  living  of 
marriage  couldn't  sustain  it  because  by 
backgrotmd,  inheritance,  and  temperament 
Rita  is  not  a  play  girl.  She  has  worked 
hard  most  of  her  life. 

What  Aly  Khan  has  done  beside  taking 
care  of  his  horses,  his  estate  in  Ireland, 
skiing  in  Switzerland,  hunting  in  Kenya, 
speed-racing  in  Italy,  moonlight-dancing 
on  the  Riviera,  and  sunning  in  Spain — not 
too  many  people  seem  to  know. 

Some  of  his  friends  insist  that  he  spends 
a  good  deal  of  his  time  traveling  around 
the  world  and  visiting  various  Moslem 
populations.  This  is  understandable  since 
these  are  the  people  who  indirectly  con- 
tribute to  his  support. 

Rita  herself  said,  "Since  my  marriage 
to  Aly,  I  have  visited  all  the  countries 
of  England  and  practically  all  of  Africa 
including  Madagascar.  I  particularly 
liked  the  city  of  Nairobi.  I  stayed  there 
while  my  husband  went  big- game  hunting, 
and  it  is  fascinating  to  see  the  game  in 
their  natural  state.  Yes,  there  is  a  large 
Indian  population  in  Nairobi  and  also 
Madagascar. 

"Naturally  wherever  I  went  with  my 
husband,  I  was  cbnstantly  being  inter- 
viewed, and  that's  why  it's  good  to  be  in 
Nevada  away  from  all  that.  This  is  my 
residence,  you  know,  and  I  like  it  so  jnuch 
that  I  intend  to  stay  .  here  after  the 
divorce.  I  really  do.  It's  so  wide  open 
and  the  air  is  so  invigorating  and  the 
children  like  it  so  much. 

"Of  course  I'U  go  back  to  Hollywood 
and  make  a  picture,  but  I  haven't  seen  a 
script  on  anything  and  I  can't  really  say 
whether  I'll  make  any  film  before  1952. 
I'm  not  asking  for  a  penny  of  aUmony 
for  myself.    I  still  can  work. 

"I  think  Nevada  is  a  wonderful  spot 
to  rest.  I  play  golf  and  take  my  children 
down  to  the  beach,  and  I  read  a  lot." 

"How  about  your  children?"  she  was 
asked.  "Do  you  think  they  should  be 
raised  here  or  abroad?" 

Rita  thought  for  a  moment.  "Ideally," 
she  said,  "I  think  they  should  be  raiseid 
partly  in  the  United  States  and  partly  in 
Europe.    There's  no  coimtry  like  America 


in  the  entire  world.  It's  the  best  place  to 
raise  children,  but  travel  does  none  of 
them  any  harm.  Besides,  Yasmin  (her 
18-month  old  daughter  by  Aly)  wiU  have 
to  spend  some  of  her  time  with  her  father. 
I  think  that's  only  fair.  She's  his  daugh- 
ter as  well  as  mine." 

Although  Rita  was  not  compelled  to 
adopt  the.  Moslem  rehgion  when  she  mar- 
ried Aly,  she  promised  to  raise  any  off- 
spring as  Moslems,  and  the  question  of 
Yasmin's  faith  came  up. 

"I  promised,"  Rita  says,  "to  raise  Yas- 
min as  a  Moslem,  and  that's  the  way 
she  will  be  reared." 

Under  Moslem  law,  Yasmin  inherits 
one-fifth  of  her  father's  fortune — Rita  has 
asked  for  a  $3,000,000  trust  fund  for  the 
child — but  the  other  four-fifths  go  to  Aly's 
sons  by  a  previous  marriage.  Moslem  law 
makes  it  mandatory  that  each  male  child 
inherit  twice  as  much  as  each  female  child. 

There  are  no  Moslem  temples  in  Los 
Angeles  where  Rita  and  the  children  will 
undoubtedly  live.  The  only  oflScial  Mos- 
lem congregation  in  this  country  is  located 
in  New  York  City. 

When  these  facts  were  pointed  out  to 
Rita,  she  refused  to  say  anything.  She  is 
interested  in  the  future  not  the  past. 


Michael  Curtis  recently  was  work- 
ing with  the  cavalry.  He  wanted 
to  order  them  to  charge.  Curtiz 
couldn't  think  of  the  word,  so  he 
cried,  "Lunge!"  Everybody  broke 
for  lunch. 

h'vinp  Hoffman  in 

The  Holly~,vood  Reporter 


But  for  those  who  are  interested  in  her 
past,  too,  the  pages  can  be  turned  back 
to  1948  when  Rita  was  touring  the  Con- 
tinent. It  was  rumored  then  that  she 
was  being  wildly  pursued  by  Ted  Straeter, 
a  Swiss  orchestra  leader.  Reporters  said 
that  Straeter  tried  to  get  into  her  room 
at  the  Hotel  Lancaster  in  Paris  by  climb- 
ing out  a  window  and  cat-walking  across 
a  ledge  while  himdreds  of  amazed  citizens 
stood  in  the  street  cheering. 

That  svimmer  she  motored  down  to  the 
Riviera,  and  at  Cannes  where  the  society 
playboys  sidestroke  in  the  Mediterranean, 
Rita  was  introduced  to  Prince  Aly  Khan  by 
Elsa  Maxwell. 

Aly  was  married  at  the  time,  but  on 
a  friendly  basis.  He  and  his  wife  had 
agreed  to  a  separation  but  no  divorce. 

When  Rita  returned  to  Hollywood  and 
was  asked  about  the  Prince,  she  dismissed 
him  casually.  He's  a  friend,"  she  said, 
"a  good  friend,  nothing  more." 

Aly  made  himself  something  more.  He 
came  to  the  States,  and  was  seen  every- 
where with  Rita.  People  started  talking, 
so  Rita  and  Aly  flew  to  Mexico,  then  to 
Havana,  then  to  New  Orleans,  then  back 
to  Hollywood. 

When  Aly  sailed  for  Europe  aboard  the 
Britaimic  that  year,  he  occupied  Cabin 
51-A.  Rita  had  the  adjoining  cabin — 
51-C.  This  was  one  of  the  great  infatua- 
tions of  all  time.  But  even  though  the 
whole  world  loves  a  lover,  there  were 
some  dissenting  opinions.  These  opinions 
were  voiced  most  loudly  in  England. 

Roared  the  London  Sunday  Pictorial: 
"The  current  behavior  of  Miss  Rita  Hay- 
worth  and  the  millionaire  Prince  Aly 
Khan,  if  described  in  a  film  script,  would 
never  get  by  the  censors." 

Added  The  People,  another  English  news- 
paper: "This  is  the  last  time  that  this  news- 
paper will  report  in  its  columns,  details 
of  the  squalid  love  affair  of  film  star  Rita 
Hayworth  and  Prince  Aly  Khan  .  .  .  We 
have  taken  this  decision  on  the  grounds 
of  public  decency,  because  we  believe  that 
the  extravagant  expeditions  of  this  Indian 
prince  and  his  'friend'  have  become  an  in- 


sult to  decent-minded  women  everywhere." 

Despite  these  occasional  journalistic 
blasts,  Rita  Hayworth  said  nothing.  She 
was  convinced  that  Aly  would  marry  her 
just  as  soon  as  he  could  obtain  a  divorce. 

He  took  her' to  meet  his  father,  the  Aga 
Khan.  The  Aga  fotmd  her  "intelligent, 
charming  and  very  beautiful." 

Aly  then  took  Rita  to  meet  his  step- 
mother. She,  too,  consented  to  the 
marriage. 

Aly  settled  $3,000,000  each  on  his  two 
sons  and  entered  into  divorce  negotiations 
with  his  wife.  At  one  time,  Aly,  Rita,  and 
Aly's  wife  were  all  hving  in  the  •  same 
Swiss  Hotel  together.  Aly  was  even  com- 
pelled to  write  one  of  his  now  famous 
letters  to  the  press. 

This  one,  dated,  January  18,  1949 — four 
months  before  he  and  Rita  were  married 
— said:  "I  have  hitherto  refrained  from 
making  any  comment  upon  the  unin- 
formed and  often  scurrilovis  rep»orts  which 
have  recently  appeared  in  some  sections 
of  the  press  in  connection  with  my  do- 
mestic affairs. 

"I  should  now  like  it  to  be  made  known 
that  by  mutual  consent  my  wife  and  I 
have  lived  apart  for  almost  three  years  .  .  . 
I  am  going  to  marry  Miss  Hayworth  as 
soon  as  I  am  free  to  do  so. 

"In  these  circumstances  I  hope  that  my 
private  affairs  will  be  treated  with  the 
consideration  which  is  usually  extended 
to  the  private  affairs  of  individuals  in 
general." 

Rita's  marriage  turned  out  to  be  a  three- 
ring  circus.  It  received  almost  as 
much  publicity  as  the  marriage  between 
the  now  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Windsor. 

In  January  of  1950,  after  the  birth  of 
Yasmin,  Rita  toured  the  continent  with 
Aly.  There  was  a  perpetual  round  of  auto 
races,  horse  races,  dinners,  social  affairs. 
Now  the  Prince  was  on  his  home  grounds, 
and  Rita  was  the  visiting  celebrity. 

In  Europe,  the  husband  is  the  boss.  He 
gives  an  order,  and  the  wife  obeys.  Rita 
tried  to  be  a  good  wife.  She  accompanied 
Aly  into  all  sorts  of  affairs,  parties,  and 
countries.  But  when  would  the  mad  whirl 
stop?  When  and  where  would  they  come 
to  rest?  Where  cind  how  could  she  bring 
up  her  two  children  in  normal,  healthy 
surroundings?  Evu-opean  nobility  was 
decadent,  spending  what  it  had,  contribut- 
ing little.  Rita  didn't  belong  on  the  Riviera. 

Then,  too — what  was  to  become  of  her? 
Must  she  renounce  her  career?  Aly  didn't 
particvdarly  care  about  spending  the  rest 
of  his  life  in  Holljrwood.  Most  of  his  money 
is  in  British  poimds.  His  horses,  his  plane, 
his  motor  cars  are  in  Europe.  So  is  his  real 
estate.  The  town  apartment  is  in  Paris.  The 
castle  is  in  Ireland.  The  chateau  is  in 
Cannes.  Would  he  give  up  all  this  because 
Rita  wanted  to  return  and  star  in  films? 

There  are  some  who  say  that  Rita  felt 
strongly  that  she  was  losing  her  glamor 
appeal  to  Aly,  that  vuiless  she  retimied 
to  Hollywood  Etnd  made  a  picture  she 
would  lose  him,  too. 

There  are  others  who  say  she  refused 
to  renounce  her  career,  refused  to  live 
her  entire  life  in  Europe,  and  that  Aly 
would  not  move  to  the  U.S.A. 

Rita  herself  says,  "Aly  and  I  are  still 
very  good  friends.  The  parting  was  very 
amicable.  If  he  comes  to  this  country,  I 
shall  always  be  glad  to  see  him.  We  just 
fovmd  living  together  incompatible." 

A  womEun  as  physically  attractive  and 
as  yoimg  as  Rita  will  imdoubtedly  get 
married  again.  Just  who  husband  nvmiber 
four  wiU  be  is  vague  at  this  point.  The 
chances  are,  however,  that,  imlike  Aly,  the 
lucky  fellow  will  work  for  a  living.  Rita 
won't  come  right  out  and  say  it,  but  she 
thinks  that  workingmen  make  the  best 
husbands.  And  she  ought  to  know.  The  End 


Iwho  wants  a  private  life? 

B(Contin,ued  from  page  35)  to  Palm  Springs. 
KThey  stayed  at  the  Racquet  Club,  too.  We 
Kdidn't  know  just  what  to  expect.  But  they 
Rweren't  nearly  as  demanding  as  we  antici- 
Hpated.  In  fact,  they  were  very  considerate. 
IpWe've  found  that  true  in  99  per  cent  of  the 
situations  since." 

So  thoroughly  have  John  and  Pati  ad- 
j^hered  to  the  open  door  policy  that  John 
Kwas  a  close  rurmer-up  to  Alan  Ladd  in  the 
^Hollywood  Women's  Press  Club  election 
of  1950's  most  cooperative  actor. 

This  doesn't  mean  they've  turned  into 
publicity  hounds — the  kind  who'U  do  any- 
thing to  get  their  pictures  in  print.  When 
a  photographer  asked  to  accompany  ihem 
to  the  hospital  for  their  baby's  birth,  John 
yelled,  "Are  you  kidding?  Why,  I'd  have 
to  call  you  before  I  called  the  doctor!"  But 
John  had  permitted  himself  to  be  photo- 
graphed practicing  fatherhood  from  pre- 
paring formulas  to  changing  diapers.  And 
photographers  trailed  them  on  shopping 
expeditions. 

"That  was  tiring!"  Pati  recalls.  "I'd  been 
feeling  pretty  good  and  wanted  to  go  to 
the  Anticipation  Shop,  a  book  store,  a 
candy  store,  and  a  couple  of  other  places 
in  Beverly  Hills.  Well,  shopping's  exhaust- 
ing enough,  but  just  add  being  pregnant 
and  having  to  stop  often  to  pose  for  those 
pictures!" 

As  has  been  told  many  times,  Russell 
Andre's  first  weeks  were  touch-and- 
go.  A  delicate  operation  gave  him  his 
chance  to  live,  and  finally  the  day  came 
when  he  was  strong  enough  for  the  Dereks 
to  permit  writers  and  photographers  in. 

It  would  have  been  easy  enough  to  follow 
the  course  taken  by  many  celebrities  who 
simply  call  a  studio  photographer  and  have 
him  make  an  assortment  of  photographs 
suitable  for  release  to  publications.  Others 
invite  all  interested  publications  to  send 
their  photographers  and  writers  at  the 
same  time  for  one  wholesale  session. 

But  not  the  Dereks.  For  one  whole 
week,  they  entertained  photographers  and 
writers  individually,  morning  and  after- 
noon, giving  each  pubhcation  an  oppor- 
tunity to  get  its  own  personal  stories. 

"Sure  it  was  trying,"  John  said,  smiling. 
"I  foimd  out  then  that  neither  of  us  has 
enough  clothes!  'How  about  changing  into 
another  shirt  for  this  next  shot?'  they'd 
keep  asking.  And  there  went  another  fresh 
shirt." 

"To  top  it  all  off,"  said  Pati,  "one  publi- 
cation came  out  saying  we  were  proudly 
presenting  our  new  daughter  to  the  public! 
But  really,  everyone  was  wonderful!  Pa- 
tient about  the  baby's  naps,  bottles,  rest 
periods  and  all." 

"Not  one  of  them,"  said  John,  "asked  for 
anything  out  of  character,  or  were  peeved 
when  I  made  a  resisonable  denial, 

"There  are  a  few  writers  who  are  hard 
for  me  to  take,"  John  went  on.  "The  ones 
who  say,  'Tell  me,  what  do  you  think 
about?'  Usually  I'm  thinking  about  my 
next  scene,  but  quite  willing  to  answer  any 
questions  they  may  ask.  Or  there's  the 
rare  photographer  who  says,  'Get  up  on 
your  toes  cind  dance  with  joy'  in  Ein  effort 
to  get  a  smile  from  ear  to  ear!  I'm  not  a 
fellow  with  a  ready  grin.  Yet  they  seem 
to  think  an  actor  ought  to  be  able  to  do 
anything  on  the  spur  of  the  moment 
because  he  is  an  actor.  They  don't  under- 
stand that  when  we're  enacting  a  role, 
we're  disassociated  from  our  own  person- 
ality. We've  had  time  to  study  the  char- 
acter we're  portraying,  and  to  take  on  that 
personality.  But  here  at  home,  being  my- 
self, I'm  not  the  kind  of  person  who  goes 
around  grinning.    Nor  do  I  clown!" 

"Nor  give  formal  dinner  parties,"  Pati 


spoke  up.  "We  were  asked  to  give  one 
once  and  we  refused  because  we  wouldn't 
cooperate  in  anything  which  presented  a 
false  picture  of  our  marriage.  A  formal 
dinner  would  have.  We're  the  kind  who 
love  to  entertain  informally.  And  that's 
the  way  we're  going  to  show  up  in  that 
spotlight." 

Her  words  were  vehement  and  John 
grirmed  at  her.  "Well,  I  CEm  remember 
dinners  in  the  morning,  breakfasts  in  the 
afternoon,  and  a  New  Year's  Eve  party 
when  you  walked  in  saying,  'You  will  have 
to  set  the  clock  at  either  10  of  or  10 
after  12  because  we  were  photographed 
somewhere  else  with  the  clock  set  at  12 
midnight." 

"John,  we  aren't  supp>osed  to  spill  that 
secret,"  Pati  laughed. 

"More  than  one  magazine  came  out  early 
in  December  showing  Hollywood  celebrat- 
ing Christmas  and  New  Year's  Eve.  Peo- 
ple must  realize  that  some  of  those  parties 
are  staged  long  before  the  holidays,"  John 
pointed  out  logically. 

"Well,"  Pati  answered  thoughtfully,  "it 
isn't  a  bad  idea,  you  know.  Anyone  who's 
planning  a  holiday  party  likes  to  get  new 
ideas  for  one,  and  those  advance  pcirties 
we  attend  are  a  wonderful  source  for 
them." 

"Speaking  of  parties,"  John  said  wist- 
fully, "that's  when  I  sometimes  get  irri- 
tated, but  only  momentarily.  I  look  for- 
ward to  going  to  a  big  party  because  I 
know  we're  going  to  see  a  lot  of  people 
we  like  but  don't  get  to  see  often.  Not  long 
ago,  I  was  selfishly  pleased  to  see  Barbara 
(Hale)  and  Bill  Williams  f(Jr  a  particular 
reason.  Next  day  I  was  going  to  start 
building  a  new  wall  out  here.  Bill's  a 
fellow  who  does  things  like  that  well,  so 
I  was  all  sst  to  ask  him  how  I  should  go 
about  it  when  a  photographer  asked  me' 
to  pose  for  a  picture.  By  the  time  the 
picture  was  taken,  others  had  joined  our 
group,  and  I  didn't  get  another  chance  to 
talk  to  Bill.  And  I  didn't  get  up  nerve 
enough  to  make  a  point  of  asking  him. 
That  happ)ens  often.  You  get  into  an  in- 
teresting discussion  with  someone  and  the 
interruption  leaves  your  conversation 
hanging  in  mid-air,  never  to  be  finished." 

TJe  shook  his  head  when  asked  about 
'-■^  other  annoyances — like  having  to  bare 
his  chest  and  pose  lecming  but  of  a  shower. 


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"Oh,  I've  posed  for  a  few  of  those,"  he  said. 

"He  sees  nothing  wrong  with  them  be- 
cause he  has  a  good  figure,"  Pati  teased. 

The  Dereks  have  foiuid  there  are  times 
when  being  cooperative  isn't  fair  to  them 
or  the  press.  Pati  tipped  that  off  when 
she  said,  "Tell  about  that  interviewer.  The 
one  on  the  roof." 

"Oh,  yes,"  John  recalled.  "I  was  work- 
ing in  Saturday's  Hero,  and  had  only  a 
half  hour  for  lunch.  I  was  to  spend  that 
time  on  the  roof  to  get  back  some  of  the 
tan  I'd  lost  working  inside.  That  meant  a 
sandwich  and  milk  lunch.  Then  the  pub- 
licity department  called  to  tell  me  an  inter- 
viewer had  to  see  me  that  day  between 
certciin  hours  or  not  at  all.  He  was  a  writer 
I'd  never  met  before,  here  in  Hollywood 
on  a  flying  trip  from  New  York.  When  I 
explained  the  situation,  he  said  he'd  inter- 
view me  on  the  roof.  WeU,  knowing  I 
couldn't  talk  and  eat  at  the  same  time,  I 
just  took  milk  with  me  for  my  lunch.  He 
was  a  nice  fellow  and  I  did  the  best  I 
could  imder  the  circumstances.  But  I 
wasn't  surprised  to  hear  later  that  he  said 
he'd  never  had  such  a  bad  interview  before. 

"I  learned  something  then  that  I'm  not 
forgetting.  By  being  too  cooperative  I'd 
put  him,  as  well  as  myself,  on  the  spot.  He 
couldn't  excuse  his  bad  story  to  his  boss 
by  telling  him  he  hadn't  seen  me.  Yet  it 
wasn't  a  fair  opportunity  for  him  to  report 
on  what  I'm  actually  like.  My  mind  was 
half  on  the  scene  I  was  to  play  right  after 
lunch  because  it  was  a  difficult  one.  If  he'd 
had  the  chance  to  turn  his  publicity  spot- 
light on  me  at  home,  where  I'm  a  married 
man  and  a  father,  he  might  well  have  had 
a  better  opinion  of  me." 

John  says  he's  fortvmate  to  have  married 
such  a  good  trouper  as  Pati.  "Well,"  says 
Pati,  "a  wife  has  to  see  herself  as  part  of 
a  team.  Some  wives  help  their  husbands 
by  being  prominent  in  club  circles,  devot- 
ing a  lot  of  time  to  that  kind  of  work.  My 
husband  needs  a  different  kind  of  help." 

They  both  agree  that  the  publicity  spot- 
light is  a  real  challenge. 

"It  makes  you  realize  that  you  have  to 
become  progressively  more  interesting,  and 
it  broadens  you.  It  makes  you  more  care- 
ful about  quarrelling  senselessly,  too.  If 
one  of  us  does  some  utterly  ridiculous 
thing,  the  other  doesn't  yell  angrily,  'How 
stupid  can  you  get!'  Instead,  the  words, 
'Well,  that's  one  for  the  interviewer  to- 
morrow!' "  Pati  laughed. 

"A  couple  of  irresponsible  radio  com- ' 
mentators  rumored  Pati  and  I  were  sep- 
arating," John  said,  "but  too  many  re- 
porters and  photographers  were  seeing  us 
during  that  time.  What  they  saw  didn't 
let  them  take  much  stock  in  those  rumors. 
There's  nothing  like  making  your  mar- 
riage a  public  one  to  kill  that  kind  of  false 
talk!" 

So  the  Dereks  have  foimd  the  price  of 
fame  and  popularity  a  cheap  one,  becaiise 
they've  taken  the  publicity  spotlight  on 
their  marriage  of  nearly  three  years  as  a 
matter  of  course.  Wherever  they've  gone, 
writers  and  photographers  have  been  free 
to  record  their  activities  for  the  interested 
public.  They  had  a  breather  on  a  recent 
trip  to  Tijuana;  The  photographer  who 
happened  to  be  along  couldn't  stomach  a 
bull-fight,  so  they  saw  that  alone.  But  all 
their  other  activities  were  duly  photo- 
graphed. 

And  they  never  put  on  airs  for  the 
public.  If  they're  busy  painting  the  walls 
of  their  new  house,  they  put  down  their 
pEuntbrushes  and  settle  down  in  their  old 
jeans  to  share  a  cup  of  coffee  or  a  coke 
with  the  interviewer  and  photographer. 
Barely  a  year  old,  Russell  Andre  already 
imitates  them,  holding  out  a  welcoming 
hand  to  whomever  drops  in. 

The  whole  Der-ek  family  is  a  lesson  for 
a  good  many  stars!  The  End 


look  out  for  this  guy! 

(Continued  from  page  54)  most  of  the 
time  during  that  bull  session  listening. 
.  "When  I  was  a  kid  in  school  I  thought 
I  could  solve  anything  by  charging  it  head- 
on,"  Duke  said  recently.  "I  didn't  have  a 
lick  of  sense,  but  that  didn't  stop  me  from 
thinking  I  knew  it  all.  In  fact,  I  didn't 
really  know  what  thinking  was  until  I  had 
already  had  one  big  opportxmity  in  pic- 
tures and  flopped  on  my  face.  Then,  with 
failure  staring  me  down,  I  finally  realized 
what  was  wrong.  For  more  than  20  years, 
well-meaning  people  had  been  telling  me 
things  to  help  me,  and  I'd  forgotten  every 
word  they'd  said.  Real  self-assurance,  I 
discovered,  isn't  something  you  come  by 
with  your  eyes  and  ears  closed." 

TODAY,  big  John  Wayne  is  one  of  the  most 
self-assured  men  in  Hollywood,  a  man 
who  moves  with  poise  and  quiet  confidence 
in  a  profession  that  traditionally  is  popu- 
lated with  neurotic  individuals. 

Of  course,  you  might  say  that  Duke  has 
lots  of  reasons  for  his  self-assurance.  Last 
year  he  earned  slightly  more  than  $1,000,- 
000.  He  owns  a  third  of  a  very  profitable 
oil  field  in  Texas.  He  has  achieved  the 
distinction,  which  comes  rarely  to  actors, 
of  being  recognized  as  an  important  man 
in  the  industry.  Yet  all  these  things  have 
happened  to  others,  and  they  have  been 
caught  in  a  trap  of  self-adulation  which 
ruined  their  lives. 

"None  of  Duke's  friends  are  worried 
about  all  this  glory  going  to  his  head," 
one  of  his  closest  buddies  reported.  "He'd 
rather  have  the  electricians  on  his  set  say 
hello  to  him  than  be  a  friend  to  all  the 
bank  presidents  in  America." 

It  was  not  so  very  long  ago,  as  time  is 
measured  in  motion  picture  circles,  that 
Duke  was  making  feature-length  horse 
operas  in  three  days.  His  take-home  pay, 
less  deductions,  was  $1,000  for  each  of  these 
headlong  wonders.  Sometimes,  when  the 
budget  was  padded,  he  made  as  much  as 
$1,500  a  picture.  Duke  couldn't  act  then, 
and  he  didn't  pretend  that  he  could.  But 
he  knew  that  a  few  more  horse  operas 
would  spell  doom  for  his  career. 

One  day,  in  desperation,  he  looked  up  his 
old  friend  Paul  Fix,  and  asked  him  to 
work  with  him  on  dialogue.  "I  guess  I 
can't  escape  it  any  longer,  Paul,"  he  said. 
"I'm  going  to  have  to  learn  how  to  act." 

Duke  has  learned  plenty  about  acting 
since  that  day.  He's  learned  it  the  hard 
way  from  tough  directors  like  John  Ford, 
from  other  actors,  good  and  bad,  but  espe- 
cially from  technicians  on  his  sets  like  the 
electrician  who,  some  years  ago,  came  up 
to  apologize  for  the  way  he  had  to  light 
Duke's  famous  leading  lady. 

"I'm  sorry,  Duke,"  he  said.  "I'm  going 
to  have  to  light  her  up  like  a  Roman 
candle,  and  you'll  have  to  grope  around  in 
the  leak-light.  She  has  it  in  her  contract." 

Duke's  knowledge  of  the  motion  picture 
business  is  an  accimiulation  of  a  thousand 
such  experiences,  some  starkly  fresh  in  his 
mind,  some  only  half-remembered.  His 
tremendous  memory  for  technical  detail 
never  fails  to  amaze  other  actors  who  work 
with  him  for  the  first  time.  Janet  Leigh,  his 
co-star  in  Jet  Pilot,  had  never  encountered 
anyone  like  him  before.  "He's  always  com- 
ing up  with  little  bits  of  action  that  add 
color,  not  only  to  his  own  performance, 
but  to  everyone  else's  as  well.  Coming  from 
some  actors,  that  kind  of  advice  would  be 
resented.  But  Duke  is  sincerely  interested 
in  making  the  whole  picture  good." 

Perhaps  the  most  alarming  discovery 
which  the  skeptical  critics  of  Duke's 
career  have  made  is  that  his  phenomenal 
success  isn't  entirely  due  to  luck.  For 
nearly  10  years,  John  Wayne  has  had  a 
reputation  for  being  a  stubborn,  argu- 


mentative, and  downright  ornery  man  to 
deal  with.  "Look  out  for  this  guy,"  was 
the  general  opinion,  "his  energy's  likely 
to  explode  into  a  storm  at  any  time."  To- 
day almost  everyone  is  .wiUing  to  admit 
that  there  must  have  been  a  grain  of 
sense  somewhere  in  his  polar-bear  battles 
with  the  front  office. 

"Duke's  biggest  problems  have  always 
arisen  from  his  refusal  to  do  pictiures  that 
he  felt  were  phony  or  unnatural  for  him," 
said  a  director  who  has  known  him  since 
his  horse  opera  days.  "He  knows  more 
about  making  movies  than  half  the  people 
in  Hollywood,  and  he'll  prove  it  con- 
clusively someday.  But  even  now,  when 
he's  in  a  position  to  throw  his  weight 
around,  he  only  does  it  when  it'll  help  the 
picture.  Anyone  who  doesn't  listen  to  his 
advice,  particularly  about  action  scenes, 
should  have  his  head  examined." 

For  the  second  consecutive  year,  Duke 
is  the  No.  One  box-office  star.  Even  The 
Angel  and  the  Badnian,  made  in  1946, 
brought  in  a  six-figiire  profit.  Already  this 
year,  he  has  completed  Operation  Pacific, 
Jet  Pilot,  and  Flying  Leathernecks,  and 
is  now  working  in  Ireland  on  The  Quiet 
Man  for  John  Ford.  Soon  after  his  retvirn, 
he  will  produce  and  direct  his  own  spec- 
tacular production  of  The  Alamo  in  Mexico. 


Hair  stylist  Mildred  Seamster 
rushes  in  to  tell  us  about  the  actor 
who  has  made  such  a  good  living 
in  westerns  in  which  he  points  and 
says,  "They  went  thataway,"  he 
has  obtained  $50,000  insurance  on 
his  forefinger! 

Irving  Hoffman  in 

The  Hollywood  Reporter 


"The  only  catch  about  Duke's  over- 
whelming success,"  one  of  his  old  poker 
partners  complained,  "is  that  we  never  see 
him  any  more.  Last  year,  he  worked  341 
days.  This  year,  it  will  be  almost  as  bad." 

In  the  old  days,  Duke  used  to  spend  all 
of  his  leisure  time  hunting  deer  high  in 
the  Sierras  or  trolling  for  marlin  off  the 
coast  of  Mexico.  Three  years  ago,  he 
bought  a  membership  in  a  duck  hunting 
club  in  central  California,  but  he  hasn't 
been  there  yet.  Last  season,  the  members 
finally  hung  his  picture  above  the  fire- 
place with  a  label  which  reads,  "Forever 
Absent." 

Duke  feels  bad  about  that.  In  fact,  while 
he  was  making  Flying  Leathernecks  at 
Camp  Pendleton,  he  took  a  morning  off 
from  work  to  shoot  a  limit  of  ducks  from 
the  commanding  general's  private  blinds. 
He  got  an  immense  boot  out  of  sending 
a  picture  of  his  fat  catch  to  the  club,  in- 
scribed, "Here's  mine.  Where's  yours? 
— ^Forever  Absent." 

"Even  so,  1  still  felt  like  I  was  playing 
hooky  all  the  whUe  I  was  hxmtrng,"  Duke 
later  confessed. 

"pj  uke's  hectic  schedule  hasn't  helped  his 
domestic  life,  either.  This  spring,  while 
he  was  away  on  location,  Esperanza 
(Chata  to  him)  went  to  visit  her  mother  in 
Mexico  City.  When  she  lingered  there 
nearly  three  months,  recuperating  from 
a  recurrent  illness,  the  gossips  howled  that 
a  divorce  was  impending.  Diike  didn't  even 
bother  to  deny  the  rumor,  and  when  Chata 
became  well  enough  to  accompany  him  on 
his  six  weeks  tour  of  South  and  Central 
America  as  Howard  JEughes'  good-will 
ambassador,  it  died  quickly.  Now  Chata  is 
awaiting  Duke's  return  from  Ireland  so 
they  can  begin  the  involved  job  of  deco- 
rating their  new  home.  Duke  bought  it  last 
November  from  Norris  Goff,  of  Lum 
and  Abner.  It's  a .  four-and-a-half  acre 
ranch-style  place  in  Encino,  equipped 
with  stables,  swimming  pool,  and  plenty  of 
trees  and  lawn.  For  a  short  while  after  he 
bought  the  house,  Duke  thought  of  having 


it  completely  decorated  as  a  surprise  for 
Chata's  homecoming,  but  reconsidered. 

"She'll  brain  me  if  it  isn't  the  way  she 
wants  it,"  he  apologized  to  the  decorator 
he'd  asked  to  come  out.  "Perhaps  I'd  better 
call  you  later." 

DuJce  and  Chata  lived  for  five  years  in 
their  old  home  in  Van  Nuys,  and  loved 
it,  right  up  to  the  moment  a  housing  pro- 
ject started  going  up  across  the  road, 
destroying  boQi  their  view  and  their  pri- 
vacy. That  was  the  end. 

"Chata  wUl  be  broken-hearted  if  she 
has  to  leave  the  rose  bushes  she  has 
worked  for  years  to  bring  into  bloom," 
Duke  said.  "I'm  not  much  of  a  hand  with 
flowers,  but  I  suppose  we  can  dig  them 
up  and  move  them  to  the  new  place." 

The  one  area  into  which  Duke's  self- 
reliance  doesn't  extend  is  the  management 
of  their  home.  Chata  nms  that  domain. 

"Duke  may  be  a  lion  when  he's  setting 
up  a  movie  deal,"  says  Bo  Roos,  his  business 
manager.  "But  he  can't  add  three  and  five 
when  it  comes  to  anything  practical  like 
bottles  of  mUk." 

For  that  reason,  Chata  does  all  of  the 
household  buying,  including  the  numerous 
guns  and  cameras  Duke  likes  to  collect. 
Duke,  as  is  the  prevalent  custom  in  Holly- 
wood, spends  only  his  weekly  allotment  of 
pocket  money.  He  rarely  manages  to  have 
any  left  at  the  end  of  the  week. 

His  only  personal  extravagance  is  gad- 
gets. He  orders  every  one  he  sees  adver- 
tised. He  usually  fiddles  around  with  them 
for  a  couple  of  weeks  untU  the  novelty 
wears  off,  and  then  Chata  systematica^y 
carries  them  out  to  a  comer  of  the  garage. 
He  refuses  to  have  them  thrown  away 
because,  like  the  completely  equipped 
pottery  kiln  that  stiU  sits  there  unused, 
they  are  all  things  he  hopes  to  get  around 
to  again  some  day. 

If  the  rigors  of  his  expanded  career 
have  made  it  necessary  for  Duke  to  cut 
out  the  himting  and  fishing  he  loves,  they 
have  also  given  him  a  deeper  dependence 
than  ever  before  on  his  home,  his  family, 
and  his  few  close  friends.  He  is  almost 
pathologically  addicted  to  privacy,  sim- 
phcity,  and  old  clothes. 

"He  has  an  old  beaver  hat  he  stole  from 
John  Ford  that  looks  like  it's  been  through 
the  sewers  of  Paris,"  a  friend  says.  "But 
I  bet  you  couldn't  buy  it  from  Duke  for 
$1,000  cash." 

One  of  the  principal  reasons  why  Duke 
bought  a  home  with  such  large  groimds 
is  so  his  four  children,  Toni,  Michael, 
Patrick,  and  Melinda,  can  have  plenty  of 
room  to  play  when  they  visit  on  weekends. 

Duke  is  incurably  sentimental  about 
his  children.  On  Melinda's  tenth  birthday, 
for  instance,  he  was  working  on  Flying 
Leathernecks  and  unable  to  stage  the  kind 
of  party  he  usually  throws  on  his 
daughters'  birthdays.  But  the  whole  family 
came  down  anyway,  and  they  had  the 
best  party  that  could  be  arranged  in  the 
nearby  beach  town  of  Oceanside.  "Duke 
rushed  around  for  two  hours,  looking  for 
presents  that  would  make  up  for  the  lack 
of  a  birthday  cake  with  Melinda's  name  on 
it,"  his  makeup  man  said. 

When  he  returns  from  Ireland,  Duke 
hopes  to  take  Chata  and  the  kids  for  a  long 
shakedown  cruise  on  the  yacht  he  just 
bought  They  haven't  had  a  real  vacation 
since  early  in  1949,  when  they  spent  six 
wonderful  weeks  looking  at  Catalina 
Island.  Ever  since  then  Duke  has  been 
having  a  recurrent  dream  about  falling 
asleep  on  a  small  sandy  isle  far,  fcir  away 
from  everybody.  He  always  wakes  up  with 
the  alarm  clock  on  the  night-stand  ring- 
ing nrilitantly  in  his  ear.  This  summer, 
he  hopes  that  he  can  actually  faU  asleep 
on  a  sandy  isle  and  then  dream  that  he 
hears  the  alarm  clock.  That,  he  figirres, 
would  be  a  perfect  beginning  of  a  perfect 
day.  The  End 


"My  Lux  beauty  bath  leaves  my  skin 
so  smooth,  so  fragrant! 

"I'm  delighted  with  Lux  Toilet  Soap  in  the  big 
bath  size,"  says  Rhonda  Fleming.  "It  makes  my 
daily  beauty  bath  more  Ixixurious  than  ever!" 

You'll  agree  when  you  try  this  generous  satin 
smooth  bath  size.  You'U  enjoy  the  rich  creamy 
lather,  abundant  even  in  hardest  water. 

Lux  Soap  has  active  lather  that  leaves  your 
skin  sweet,  exquisitely  fresh.  Scented,  too,  with 
a  delicate  lingering  fragrance  you'll  love.  Try 
this  new  bath  size  screen  stars  recommend ! 

9  out  of  10  Screen  Stars  use  Lux  Toilet  Soap 


sai|s  Rhonda  Fleming 


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a  new  love  for  coop? 

(Continued  from  page  31)  not  believe  in 
divorce.  I  will  never  divorce  Gary.  .  .  . 

"I'm  heartbroken,  completely  heart- 
broken that  our  marriage  had  to  end  this 
way,  but  I  don't  «ee  any  other  way  our 
troubles  can  be  taken  care  of  except  by 
making  a  clean  and  definite  break." 

WHEN  this  announcement  hit  the  press, 
Gary  was  in  Naples,  Florida,  making 
a  film.  Pat  Neal  was  in  Los  Angeles,  star- 
ring for  20th  Century-Fox  in  The  Day 
The  Earth  Stood  Still,  and  Rocky  was 
packing  her  bags  in  the  Cooper  nicinsion 
in  Brentwood  preparatory  to  a  trip  to 
New  York. 

Gary  refused  to  answer  any  of  the  long- 
distance calls  put  to  him  in  Florida,  the 
long-distance  operator  usually  volunteer- 
ing the  information  that  "Mr.  Cooper  is 
out  working  in  the  swamps  today  and  can't 
be  reached." 

Gary  did,  howfever,  phone  his  lawyer 
and  fmancial  adviser,  I.  H.  Prinzmetal  of 
Beverly  Hills  and  say,  "You'd  better  start 
looking  around  for  an  apartment  for  me. 
I  guess  Rocky  and  Maria  will  live  in  the 
house." 

Pat  Neal,  her  feelings  ruffled  that  she 
had  been  mentioned  as  the  cause  behind 
the  separation,  angrily  said,  "Friends 
have  been  going  around  quoting  me  as 
saying  I'm  in  love  with  Gary  Cooper.  Well, 
that's  simply  not  true.  I  think  Gary  is  a 
great  actor  and  a  very  wonderful  person, 
but  I've  had  absolutely  nothing  to  do  with 
the  trouble  between  him  and  Mrs.  Cooper." 

A  few  months  previously  when  Pat  had 
been  asked  to  tell  how  she  felt  about 
Cooper,  she'd  said,  "Am  I  in  love  with  him? 
Could  be.  But  I'd  be  silly  to  go  around 
advertising  it,  wouldn't  I?  After  aU,  he's 
a  married  man.  Where  does  that  leave  me?" 

Right  now,  if  Pat  really  cares  for  Gary — 
and  the  overwhelming  opinion  is  that  she 
does — she's  in  the  very  same  position  that 
Ava  Gardner  occupied  when  she  fell  in 
love  with  Frank  Sinatra.  Gary  has  no 
grounds  for  divorce.  The  chances  always 
exist  for  a  reconciliation  as  long  as  there 
is  no  divorce,  and  while  she  won't  say 
so,  that's  pretty  much  what  Rocky  Cooper 
has  in  mind.  She  feels  strongly  that  her 
13-year-old  daughter,  Maria,  needs  a 
father.  She  knows  that  Gary  is  tremend- 
ously fond  of  his  only  child,  and  she  hopes 
in  time  that  he  will  stray  back  into  the 
home  fold. 

'T'he  picture  of  Cooper  as  a  lover  may 
-■-  seem  an  inaccurate  description  to  many 
young  movie  fans,  but  to  the  older  ones 
with  longer  memories  it  is  very  fitting. 
Before  1933,  Cooper's  love-life  was  one 
of  the  most  tempestuous  and  incredible  in 
Hollywood. 


Clara  Bow,  the  "It"  girl,  the  Paramount 
actress  who  actually  sizzled  when  she 
wiggled,  was  reportedly  Coop's  first  Holly- 
wood love.  Today,  Clara  is  a  respectable 
married  woman  living  in  Nevada,  but 
25  years  ago,  she  was  Hollywood's  original 
bombshell.  "Twenty-five  years  ago.  Cooper 
was  25  himself,  just  starting  in  the  business, 
and  not  particularly  experienced  with 
women. 

When  Clara  Bow  liked  a  man  she  went 
into  action.  In  1927,  for  instance,  Clara 
got  a  sudden  crush  on  Morley  Drury, 
captain  of  the  University  of  Southern 
California  football  team.  After  seeing  laim 
play,  she  phoned  him.  "This  is  Clara 
Bow,"  she  announced.  "I'd  like  to  meet 
you."  Amazingly  enough,  Drury  turned 
Clara  down,  but  the  following  week,  a 
notice  was  posted  on  the  bulletin  board 
in  the  USC  locker  room:  "All  members  of 
this  football  squad  are  to  stay  away  from 
Clara  Bow." 

Gary,  who  has  never  played  football  in 
his  life,  was  not  included  in  that  notice. 
Clara  took  up  with  the  Montana  cowboy, 
and  in  a  little  while  the  Paramount  pub- 
licity department  announced  that  they 
were  engaged.  This  meant  relatively  little 
since  two  months  later,  Clara  was  reported 
engaged  to  Harry  Richman,  then  to  Gilbert 
Roland,  then  to  director  Victor  Fleming. 

From  Clara  Bow,  Gary  progressed  to 
tempestuous  Lupe  Velez,  which  was  Uke 
stepping  out  of  the  frying  pan  into  the 
fire. 

Lupe  and  Gary  were  in  love,  and  they 
admitted  it.  "Are  we  married?"  Lupe  used 
to  ask.  "Who  cares?  Maybe  one  day  I 
marry  him.  Maybe  today,  tomorrow.  I  don't 
know.  He  is  all  I  live  for.  I  love  him  so 
much  some  time  I  want  to  make  "him  die 
with  pleasure." 

Lupe  almost  did.  At  least,  she  succeeded 
in  completely  shattering  his  health.  And 
at  the  conclusion  of  their  romance  he  was 
a  mere  shell  of  his  former  self.  Doctors  told 
him  that  unless  he  left  Hollywood  on  an 
extended  vacation  he'd  better  make  im- 
mediate cemetery  reservations. 

Gary  left  Hollywood.  By  the  time  he 
reached  Italy,  he  was  in  worse  shape  than 
ever.  Friends  said  he  was  not  only  heart- 
broken about  his  crackup  with  Lupe  but 
that  he  had  no  physical  reserve  left. 

In  Rome,  the  Countess  Dorothy  di 
Frasso,  an  American  girl  who  had  married 
into  Italian  royalty,  took  Cooper  under 
her  wing.  She  nursed  him  back  to  health 
in  her  beautiful  villa,  and  in  the  process 
they  fell  in  love. 

A  year  later  she  accompanied  him  to 
Hollywood.  It  is  popularly  supposed  that 
it  was  she  who  taught  Coop  all  the  social 
niceties.-  The  Countess  di  Frasso  was  one 
of  the  great  Hollywood  hostesses.  She 
herself  was  no  actress,  but  the  parties 
she  threw  were  the  gayest,  most  imagina- 
tive social  functions  Hollywood  has  ever 


seen.    At  many  of  these.  Coop  was  re- 
garded as  the  host.  j 

WHILE  the  countess  was  still  in  HoUy-  i 
wood,  Gary  met  Veronica  Balfe,  a  ( 
socialite  who,  bored  with  life  on  Long 
Island,  had  come  west  and   obtained  a 
job  at  RKO  under  the  name  of  Sandra 
Shaw. 

People  who  knew  her,  called  her  Rocky 
and  quickly  explained  that  her  step-father 
was  Paul  Shields,  a  big-time  broker  and 
member  of  the  New  York  Stock  Exchange.  ' 

Gary  was  very  much  taken  by  Rocky  . 
when  he  met  her  on  the  set.  She  was 
not  only  good  looking,  but  also  poised, 
charming,  dignified,  and  well  bred. 

Although  his  publicity  had  pictured  him 
as  the  soft-spoken  cowboy  of  quiet  hayseed  > 
charm.  Cooper  had  many  of  these  attri-  : 
butes  himself.  He  had  been  educated  in 
England  as  a  youngster,  and  had  attended 
Grinnell  College  in  Iowa.  His  father,  a 
lawyer,  was  a  Superior  Court  judge  in 
Montana.  In  shoi-t.  Coop  wasn't  the  coimtry 
bumpkin  most  of  his  fans  thought  he  was, 
and  for  that  matter,  still  think  he  is. 

Rocky  Balfe  was  the  kind  of  girl  he  had 
always  wanted  for  a  wife.  They  were 
married  in  1933  at  tJie  bride's  Park  Avenue  | 
apartment.  Five  years  later,  their  one  | 
daughter,  Maria  Veronica,  was  born.  The  { 
Coopers  moved  into  a  Georgian  mcinsion  i 
on  a  three-and-a-half-acre  lot  in  Brent-  > 
wood,  and  after  a  few  years,  Gary  came  to 
be  regarded  as  one  of  the  more  sedate  and 
conservative  citizens  of  Hollywood. 

On  screen  he  continued  playing  the  ' 
bashful,  awkward  All-American  boy  but 
in  real  life,  he  lived  like  one  of  those 
widely-advertised  men  of  distinction.  His 
clothes  were  impeccably  tailored,  his 
manners  were  beyond  reproach,  his  friends 
'  were  hand  chosen. 

No  one  mentioned  Lupe  Velez,  Clara 
Bow  or  the  Countess  di  Frasso.  In  fact, 
these  ladies  were  more  or  less  completely 
overlooked  in  Cooper's  life. 

Before  his  brecikup  with  Rocky,  he  was 
mentioned  in  connection  with  only  one 
other  woman.  That  was  Ingrid  Bergman, 
and  the  gossip  started  while  they  were 
making  For  Whom  the  Bell  Tolls.  This 
was  just  gossip,  however,  Ingrid  wound 
up  with  Roberto  Rossellini,  and  Gary 
stayed   with  Rocky. 

Since  their  separation,  it  has  been 
rumored  that  Peter  Lawford  has  been 
frequently  seen  in  Rocky  Cooper's  com- 
pany. According  to  a  mutual  friend, 
though,  "the  only  thing  Rocky  and  Law- 
ford  have  in  common  is  that  they  both 
like  the  beach." 

There  is  little  doubt  that  Gary  is  the 
only  man  who  counts  in  Rocky's  hfe.  If 
he  wants  to  return,  she'll  certainly  take 
him  back. 

Whether  he  wants  to  or  not,  however, 
Gary  isn't  saying.  In  the  meantime,  all 
.  eyes  are  on  Patricia  Neal.  The  End 


liz  taylor  tells  the  truth 

(Continued  from  page  41)  become  the  real 
thing,  as  I  knew  it  wasn't,  then.  However, 
we  were  both  in  the  spotlight  of  public 
interest,  and  the  result  of  that  simple, 
friendly  gift  was  a  false  interpretation  that 
we  were  engaged. 

J TRIED  to  deny  it,  and  so  did  he,  but 
the  reporters  and  publicity  men  were 
so  excited  that  they  simply  wrote  the 
next  chapter  before  we  had  a  chance 
to  come  anywhere  near  living  even  a  por- 
tion of  it.  It  was  natural  that  I  resented 
what  was  going  on.  Pictures  were  con- 
stantly being  made  of  us  until  we  felt 
like  a  pair  of  criminals. 


"Who  can  say  what  might  have  hap- 
pened if  we  had  been  left  alone?  All  I  know 
is  that  to  me,  this  almost-romance  might 
have  become  the  real  romance  in  my  life. 

"Glenn  went  to  Korea.  After  he  re- 
turned, I  flew  back  to  Florida  to  meet  him. 
During  this  time,  I  wore  the  gold  football, 
and  I  didn't  go  out  with  anyone  else.  At 
this  point,  the  situation  beccime  completely 
impossible.  There  were  millions  of  ques- 
tions, and  it  is  still  incredible  to  me  how 
anyone  can  ask  you  when  you  are  going 
to  be  married — and  then  resent  it  when 
you  say  you  don't  know.  If  I  had  said 
he  hadn't  asked  me  yet,  then  he  would  have 
been  asked  what  was  wrong.  You  see, 
neither  of.  us  had  come  anywhere  near 
living  up  to  the  point  at  which  the  pub- 
lic thought  we  had  already  arrived.  Both 


of  us  knew  by  now,  that  it  was  impossible 
for  our  lives  to  blend  normally.  We  had 
a  quiet  talk  about  the  problem  and  de- 
cided to  break  up,  which  we  did  in  as 
friendly  a  way  as  was  possible  under  the 
circumstances." 

Liz  was  just  a  little  past  16  when  she 
went  through  this  romance.  The  exper- 
ience must  have  jolted  her  more  than 
any  other  event  in  her  lite  up  to  that  time. 
It  seems  only  logical  that  once  she  had 
awakened  to  a  world  beyond  the  disci- 
plined sphere  of  her  life  as  an  actress,  she 
would  seek  other  male  companionship  to 
substitute  for  what  she  had  lost. 

All  of  us  are  familiar  with  the  old  term, 
"caught  on  the  rebound."  I  think  that  is 
what  happened  in  the  case  of  Elizabeth's 
next  romance  with  Bill  Pawley,  Jr.  It  was 


in  March'  1949,  that  Elizabeth  broke  up 
with  Glenn  Davis,  but  they  had  not  seen 
each  other  for  a  long  time,  and  except  in 
the  wishf\d  thinking  of  Liz'  heart,  there 
was  nothing  to  break  up.  However,^  when 
June  1949,  arrived,  the  public  was  not 
aware  of  this.  It  couldn't  be,  and  for 
Elizabeth  to  become  engaged  to  Bill  Paw- 
ley  was  something  of  a  shock.  Actually, 
the  circimistances  were  as  normal  as  they 
would  have  been  in  any  other  town  in 
America,  with  the  single  and  vital  excep- 
tion that  Elizabeth  had  been  denied  the 
normal  development  in  human  relations 
that  most  girls  have.  She  was  not  denied 
this  by  her  mother  or  father,  or  her  studio, 
but  by  the  complicated  circumstances  of 
life  as  an  actress. 

Of  her  romance  with  BUI  Pawley,  Ldz 
says:  "I  met  Bill  Pawley  at  a  party  in 
Florida  when  I  was  visiting  my  vmcle.  He 
was  28  and  I  was  17.  He  is  a  fine  man. 
He  is  also  a  rugged  individualist.  He 
seemed  strong  enough  to  resist  the  tide  of 
rumor  and  speculation  that  had  complete- 
ly spoiled  the  Glenn  Davis  romance  before 
it  was  a  romance.  I  won't  go  into  all  the 
details,  again,  but  BUI  and  I  did  fall  in 
love,  or  thought  we  had.  He  gave  me  a 
beautiful  ring,  and  then  as  the  days  flew 
by,  I  once  again  realized  what  my  profes- 
sion as  an  actress  could  do  to  my  life. 

"When  we  discussed  marriage.  Bill  firm- 
ly insisted  that  I  give  up  my  career.  I  just 
couldn't.  The  compromise  was  that  I  would 
live  in  Florida  and  commute  to  Hollywood. 
But  as  time  went  on  I  knew  that  this  was 
almost  completely  impossible.  Man-iage 
needs  more  attention  than  can  be  given 
to  it  under  such  circimistances,  and  I  could 
not  bring  myself  to  give  up  something  I 
had  worked  so  hard  for  aJl  my  life.  I 
want  to  point  out  that,  although  I  was 
coxmseled  by  my  parents,  the  decision  to 
break  this  engagement  was  strictly  on 
my  own.    And  it  hurt  me  deeply."  - 

Not  only  did  the  broken  engagement 
cause  Elizabeth  suffering,  but  she  was 
caught  in  the  web  of  public  mistmderstand- 
ing.  Newspapers  have  little  time  to  delve 
into  much  more  than  what  appears  on 
the  surface;  they  saw  only  a  girl  who 
had  two  "engagements"  in  one  year,  and 
the  immediate  reaction  was  to  call  her 
"fickle."  Nothing  could  have  been  further 
from  the  truth.  Bewildered,  hurt,  sus- 
picious of  publicity  men  and  reporters,  as 
well  as  of  her  family  who  were  naturally 
over-solicitous  and  at  this  point  prone  to 
say  and  do  the  wrong  thing,  Elizabeth  was 
now  almost  openly  defiant.  She  had  only 
herself  to  look  to,  and  she  didn't  have 
the  answers.  Another  girl,  in  like  finan- 
cial circumstances,  could  have  gone  away 
for  a  time  until  her  wounds  healed.  But 
Liz  had  to  go  to  work  every  day,  conscious 
that  her  entrance  on  the  sound  stage  or 
in  the  commissary  caused  an  immediate 
flood  of  whispering. 

SHE  had  no  one  to  turn  to  until  she  met 
Nicky  HUton.  In  Nicky  were  aU  the 
apparent  answers.  Scion  of  a  rich  hotel 
man,  he  was  not  one  of  the  Hollywood- 
type  men  who  had  been  barraging  her 
with  telephone  calls.  He  obviously  was 
not  going  to  woo  her  for  her  ability  to 
earn  big  money  as  an  actress.  In  his  busi- 
ness, he  had  seen  the  world.  There  could 
be  no  career  competition.  He  understood 
her  problems,  and  many  of  the  objections 
her  parents  had  to  other  men  vanished. 
Nicky  was  not  "too  old,"  as  Mrs.  Taylor 
had  felt  BUI  Pawley  was.  There  was  not 
the  anxiety  that  comes  with  possible  mar- 
riage to  a  military  man,  as  in  the  case  of 
Glenn  Davis. 

"During  our  courtship,  Nicky  was  won- 
derful," Liz  says.  "We  went  together  for 
six  months,  during  which  he  didn't  drink 
or  gamble.  He  was  attendant  to  my  every 


whim,  and  I'm  sure  that  we  were  just  about 
like  any  other  couple,  showing  each  other 
our  best  sides.  And  to  make  the  situa- 
tion seem  stUl  more  ideal,  at  that  time, 
Nicky  got  along  beautifully  with  aU  my 
friends.  Perhaps  I  should  have  known, 
in  view  of  past  experience,  that  the  situ- 
ation was  too  ideal." 

Only  behind  the  scenes,  to  veteran  re- 
porters, was  there  a  clash  of  temperament; 
a  mUd  hint  that  all  might  not  be  well. 
For  instance,  publicity  announcements 
were  made  concerning  who  was  to  do  the 
trousseau.  By  accident,  several  names 
were  mentioned!  But  naturaDy,  Helen 
Rose,  Metro  designer  and  close  friend  of 
Elizabeth,  had  the  job.  It  never  occurred 
to  her  that  this  would  bring  forth  some 
rather  distasteful  arguments.  Suddenly, 
these  jealousies  broke  out  into  the  open. 
Elizabeth  and  her  mother  became  in- 
volved with  doing  things  the  way  other 
people  wanted  them  done.  The  greatest 
diplomacy  was  necessary  in  handling  all 
sorts  of  people  who  were  really  unimpor- 
tant to  the  actual  event. 

Meantime,  Elizabeth  was  trying  to  work, 
to  crowd  in  her  instructions  in  the  Cath- 
olic church,  and  to  enjoy  those  serene  pre- 
marriage days  with  the  man  of  her  choice. 
In  the  end,  the  marriage  was  about  as 
they  pictured  it  would  be,  except  perhaps 


I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

During  a  bond 
drive  in  San  Fran- 
cisco I  had  tried 
all  moTming  to  get 
within  admiring 
distance  of  Victor 
Mature,  hut  to  no 
avail.  That  after- 
noon M  adame 
Chiang  Kai  Shek 
drove  through  the 
expectant  throng 

of  the  city.  Imagine  my  amazement 
to  see  standing  right  beside  lue  on 
the  curbing  Victor  Mature,  ogling  and 
admiring  the  spectacle  as  much  as  I! 

Mildred  McLain 

Colorado  Springs,  Colorado 


for  the  delay  caused  by  a  last  minute 
breakdown  of  the  chiurch  organ.  This  made 
them  laugh  and  they  joked  about  it  as  an 
iU  omen  that  couldn't  possibly  effect  their 
perfect  union. 

The  Ul  omens  were  there,  though,  hid- 
den in  the  other  experiences  that  Eliza- 
beth had  had.  Obviously,  Nicky  Hilton 
had  steeled  himself  for  the  ordeal  of  the 
big  public  wedding.  Obviously,  too,  he 
knew  what  they  were  both  in  for  at  the 
beginning.  But  it  is  now  apparent  that 
he  was  simply  tolerating  these  intrusions 
and  that,  without  showing  it,  he  resented 
them  deeply.  He,  like  Elizabeth,  expected 
that  once  the  ceremony  was  over,  they 
would  be  left  alone. 

They  were  naive,  of  coiirse.  Otherwise, 
they  probably  never  would  have  allowed 
all  these  fancy  trappings.  They  would 
have  wed  quietly  in  a  distant  town.  At  any 
rate,  they  discovered  that  it  was  neces- 
sary to  throw  people  off  the  track  by  mak- 
ing false  plane  reservations,  and  then  to 
practically  sneak  out  of  town. 

They  had  promised  themselves  complete 
freedom  on  their  ocean  voyage,  but  pub- 
lic interest  had  grown  so  great  that  this, 
too,  was  denied  them.  And  now,  Nicky's 
smouldering  resentment  began  to  show. 

As  Elizabeth  puts  it,  "Two  weeks  after 
cur  marriage  I  discovered  that  Nicky  was 
jealous.  Of  what  and  whom,  I  couldn't 
tell.  At  the  time,  I  didn't  know  how  to 
handle  the  situation,  and  when  we  sailed 
for  Europe,  we  were  hardly  speaking  to 


each  other.  In  a  way,  we  were  both 
spoiled,  and  didn't  know  it.  We  were 
trying  to  grow  up,  but  under  the  circum- 
stance, we  couldn't  possibly  do  it  together. 
I  had  never  been  exposed  to  any  sort  of 
drinking  or  gambling,  and  I  didn't  know 
the  reasons  why  Nicky  was  compelled  to 
do  these  things.  I  simply  couldn't  reach 
him  for  an  understanding.  As  a  result,  I 
became  afraid,  negative,  and  defiant. 

"When  we  came  back  from  the  honey- 
moon, there  were  more  quairels.  I  dis- 
covered that  he  didn't  like  my  friends. 
Under  other  circumstances,  this  might  not 
have  been  the  case,  but  I  covUd  only  see  his 
resentment.  One  day  the  Geary  Steffens 
and  the  Marsh  Thompsons  suggested  we 
join  them  on  a  picnic  and  afterwards  have 
fun  flying  a  new  type  of  kite. 

"I  won't  say  exactly  what  NicP.'s  retort 
was,  but  the  gist  of  it  was  that  I  could  go 
on  and  grow  up  with  my  friends,  he'd 
stick  around  home.  Of  course,  there  are 
not  any  more  normal,  adult-minded,  and 
sensible  people  than  the  Steffens  and  the 
Thompsons,  and  we  both  knew  it.  This 
was  just  a  way  young  couples  have  of 
hurting  each  other  when  their  problems 
reach  a  point  that  defies  solution. 

"We  had  foimd  out  that  I  Uked  one 
type  of  people.  He  preferred  an  older, 
more  sophisticated  group." 

'D  ECENTLY,  there  have  been  certain  re- 
J-t-curring  remarks  about  Elizabeth  in 
various  columns  and  over  the  air.  They 
suggest  she  is  a  "run-around,"  heartless, 
and  too  obviously  sophisticated. 

This  is  an  extreme  half-truth,  if  my 
choice  of  words  is  correct.  Elizabeth  does 
have  about  her  a  certain  air  of  disUlusion- 
roent.  She  does  appear  to  be  sophisticated. 
Yet,  she  is  still  the  type  of  girl  who  would 
rather  go  to  a  quiet  preview,  a  concert,  a 
play,  or  a  zoo,  than  a  crowded  night  club. 

If  they  told  the  truth,  the  hardened  young 
men  about  HoUywood  who  "play  a  circuit" 
of  young  divorcees,  could  confirm  my 
opinion.  They  have  tried  every  means  to 
make  Elizabeth  Taylor  an  "on  the  town" 
girl.  They  have  telephoned,  sent  flowers, 
contrived  to  met  and  fascinate  her  at 
every  turn.  MeEintime,  she  has  only 
remained  closer  to  her  friend,  director 
Stanley  Donen,  who  offered  her  sympathy 
and  understanding  when  she  needed  it. 

The  fact  is  that  Stanley  Donen  could 
be  the  one  permanent  man  in  Elizabeth's 
life.  CertaiiUy  he  is  openly  in  love  with 
her,  and  she  is  completely  fond  of  him. 
But  it  is  doubtful  that  this  romance  will 
lead  to  marriage.  It  is  a  romance  only 
because  Liz  has  preferred  the  company  of 
one  man,  rather  than  become  a  "patsy" 
for  Hollywood  wolves.  However,  only  re- 
cently she  attended  the  races  at  Hollywood 
Park  with  young  Lin  Howard.  In  the  weeks 
and  months  that  follow,  she  wUl  un- 
doubtedly begin  to  have  other  dates. 

She  has  successfully  avoided,  at  least 
untU  now,  any  complicated  situations.  She 
wUl  probably  continue  to  avoid  them.  She 
lives  quietly  in  her  small  apartment  with 
her  friend  and  secretary,  Peggy  Rutledge. 
I  believe  that  she  has  found  a  new  and 
quiet  dignity  in  her  life — a  way  of  living 
that  may  occasionally  be  upset  by  publi- 
city outbursts  intimating  more  exciting 
and  imaginative  romances. 

But  Elizabeth  Taylor  is  no  longer  a 
frantic  little  girl.  GraduaUy,  she  seems  to 
be  moving  toward  a  more  imderstanduig 
relationship  with  her  mother,  Eind  now 
she  has  an  opportunity  to  prove  that  she 
is  not  only  a  beautiful,  but  an  intelligent 
and  worthwhUe  girl,  too. 

Elizabeth  explains  herself  well  when  she 
says,  "This  is  my  life — and  I  only  ask  the 
chance  to  live  it." 

We  shovild,  at  least,  give  her  this  chance 
The  Ejo) 


Soaping  dulls  hair. 
Halo  ^orifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Hah  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  your  hair  with 
even  finest  liquid  or  oily  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thus  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo — America's 
favorite  shampoo — at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  counter! 


Gives  fragrant 

soft-water"  lather  '-%\}rM^. 
—needs  no  1^ 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable— 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights! 


Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair ! 


groundwork 
for 

glamor 

build  your  fall 
wardrobe  like  shelley 
winters  does — around 
dreamy  but  practical 
all-purpose  lingerie. 


■  Gay  and  glamorous  Shelley  Winters, 
wearing  a  pastel  pink,  blue,  and  green  plaid 
silk  organza  Tula  negligee,  previews  our 
luscious,  summer-cool,  perfect-fit  feminine 
lovelies.  Shelley  is  currently  appearing  in 
RKO's  Behave  Yourself. 

On  this  page:  An  intriguing  and  exquisite 
nitie  of  satin  and  sheer  rayon  (crossed 
braided  straps  in  back).  White,  black,  pink. 
$8.95.  Sizes  32  to  38.  Order  from  Petite 
Paris  Lingerie,  P.  O.  Box  71,  Sanford,  Flor- 
ida (add  15c  for  postage) — or  write  for 
catalog.  Satisfaction  guaranteed.  In  front  of 
the  lovely  nitie  Seamprufe's  irresistible 
"knee-deep-in-lace-petit-flirt"  of  Bur-Mil 
rayon  crepe  and  lavish  Alencon-type  lace. 
Small,  medium,  large.  White,  black,  navy, 
$3.98.  Arnold  Constable,  New  York;  Man- 
del  Brothers,  Chicago;  May  Company,  Los 
Angeles.  The  full  length  slip  is  by  Stardust. 
This  four-gore-cut,  lace  trimmed  "miracle" 
sUp  is  of  acetate  rayon  with  nylon — ^it  is 
porous,  cool,  shadow-proof,  easy  wash'n 
dry  and  guaranteed  for  one  year.  White  and 
pink.  Sizes  32-44.  $2.39.  Litt  Brothers,  Phil- 
adelphia; Mandel  Brothers,  Chicago;  Bul- 
lock's, Los  Angeles. 

Tula  negligee  (with  cord  tie  not  shown) 
worn  by  Shelley  Winters.  About  $25.  Sizes 
10  to  18.  B.  Altman,  New  York;  Carson 
Pirie  Scott  &  Co.,  Chicago;  Joseph  Magnin, 
San  Francisco. 


All  coiffures  by  Mr.  Donn  of  Lentheric  Hair  Salon, 
New  York.  All  ballet  slippers  by  Capesio,  New  York. 

Prices  may  vary  slightly  in  different'  areas — or 
because  of  government  regulations. 


figure  perfection  with  gentle  persuasion 


(On  this  page)  Stardust's 
bra  and  petticoat  modeled 
by  "Miss  Stardust  of  1951". 
The  pre-shrunk  cotton  bra.  $1.00. 
The  Sanforized  fine  cotton 
petticoat  is  generously  flounced 
with  eyelet  embroidery*.  $1.98. 
Both  in  white  only.  Guaranteed 
for  one  year — and  are  available  at : 
Gimbels,  New  York;  Rallman 
&  Sons,  Cincinnati. 
(At  the  right)  is  Perma-lift's 
sensational  Stitched  Cup  bra 
and  lightweight  (yet  powerfully 
strong)  pantie  girdle.  The  bra 
has  built-in  uplift — the  pantie  girdle 
also  has  this  Magic  inset 
(can't  roll  over,  wrinkle  or 
bind).  Bra:  wtite  cotton,  $3; 
white  or  pink  satin,  S3. 50; 
white  nylon,  $4.  Pantie  girdle: 
white  only,  $5.95;  girdle,  white 
only,  $6.95.  All  available  at: 
Bloomingdale's.  New  York; 
Bullocks,  Los  Angeles:  Straw- 
bridge  and  Clothier,  Philadelphia. 
Nylon  hosiery  in  the  new 
summer  color — Iced  Tea — by 
Holeproof.  (Opposite  page) 
Maidenforms  "Dream  Girl  of 
Television"  models  the 
Maidenette  Declatay  three-way 
bra  (halter-fashion,  conven- 
tional with  straps,  or  strapless 
as  shown).  White  only — of 
nylon  sheer  and  marquisette.  $3. 
James  McCreer>',  New  York; 
DeMilo  Shop.  Beverly  Hills. 
(At  tlie  top)  Lovable  s  strapless 
bra  of  embroidered  cotton  eyelet. 
White  only.  $1.50. 
Marshall  Field,  Chicago; 
May  Co..  Cleveland.  (Below ) 
Peter  Pan's  Merr\'-Go-Round 
bra  with  the  new  "Secret 
Scenter'  (a  perfume  disc  that 
hides  in  a  net  pocket  inside 
the  bra  between  the  cups).  Broad- 
cloth, $3.  Nylon  taSeta,  $3.50. 
White  only.  A.  Harris, 
Dallas;  Jordan  Marsh,  Boston: 
May  Co..  Los  Angeles. 


beauty — slim  and  trim.  „        u  .  ^  ,u  , 

J  For  an  enchanted  silhouette  you  11  love  these 

cool,  invisible  Playtex  Pink-Ice  girdles  that  are  like  'a  second  skin — that  move  as  you  move, 
are  light  as  snowflakes,  smooth  as  mountain  ice,  and  fashK)nrright  from  dawn  to  dusk.  Of 
latex,  without  a  single  seam,  stitch,  or  bone,  they  wash  and  pat  dry  in  seconds.  The  three 

Playtex  Pink-Ice  styles  pictured  (pantie  girdle  with  garters,  pantie  girdle  without  ga:rters,  and 
girdle)  are  also  available  in  the  Playtex  "Living"  and  Fab-Lined  girdles.  All  Playtex 

girdles  sold  at  department  stores  and  better  specialty  shops  everywhere  from  $3.95  to  $6.95. 
Reach-right,  proportioned  nylon  hosiery  in  the  glorious  new  color — Radiant  Blush — ^by  Glen  Raven  Hosier^'. 


72 


daintiness 

.means 

everything 


Lingerie  must  be  forever 
feminine  for  true  glamor.  Start 
the  "little  miss"  out  right  with 
Carter's  precious  princess  slip  of 
Celanese  run-proof  jersey, 
cotton  lace  and  ribbon  trim. 
Blossom  pink,  and  white. 
Sizes  1,  2,  3,  4.  $1.69. 
Gimbels,  New  York. 
Carter's  straight-cut  Junior  slip 
of  nylon  tricot  has  a  classic 
sweetheart  neck — lace  trim. 
White  and  black.  Junior  Sizes 
9-15.  Under  $8.00.  The  Emporium, 
San  Francisco. 

Nylon  hosiery,  in  the  lovely 
color — Sunbloom,  by  Rivoli.  Cool 
and  sheer — the  Luxite  by 
Holeproof  nitie  (in  the  center) 
is  of  all-nylon  tricot,  with 
satin  trim  and  ties.  Pink,  blue, 
basque  gold  and  white.  $8.95. 
Sizes  32-42.  B.  Altman,  New- 
York;  Bullocks,  Los  Angeles, 
Carson  Pirie  Scott  &  Co., 
Chicago;  Brandeis  and  Sons, 
Omaha.  The  "new  fashion" 
Bur-Mil  rayon  crepe  strapless  bra 
slip  by  Seamprufe  has  nylon  net 
top  edging,  elasticized 
shirring  deep  in  back  and 
across  the  front  top — the  top 
is  cut  to  fit  all  bust  cups. 
White,  veil  pink,  heavenly  blue,, 
jonquil,  black,  and  navy.  $3.98. 
Sizes  32-38.  Stem's,  New 
York;  Mandel  Brothers, 
Chicago;  May  Company,  Los 
Angeles.  W^ith  this  Seamprufe 
slip  we  show  Seamprufe  nylon 
stockings  in  the  exciting 
color — Sparkle. 


"In  your  hair — flowers,  ribbons, 
jewels^ — these  are  the  gay 
and  exciting  coiffure  notes  for 
summer  coiffures,"  says  Mr. 
Donn  of  Lentheric  Hair 
Salon,  New  York. 


A  pert  and  pretty  daytime 
dress  in  a  woven  checked  ging- 
ham with  delicate  traceries  of 
white  embroidery  at  the 
shoulders  and  on  the  pockets. 
Simulated  pearl  buttons  dot 
the  front  opening.  Skirt  is  full 
and  flared.  In  black,  brown, 
green,  red  and  lilac.  Sizes  12 
to  20  and  141/2  to  22y2. 

At  leading  stores  or  write: 


COTTON  CLUB  FROCKS  Inc. 

]3,50  Broadway,  New  York,  N.Y. 


74 


is  grable  quitting? 


(Continued  from  page  46)  an  iinusual 
thing.  The  clause  covering  siispensions 
is  an  instmment  of  value  to  both  sides 
and  is  used  frequently.  In  many  cases  it 
is  invoked  amicably.  A  star  wants  to  do 
a  play,  so  he  arranges  a  leave  without  pay. 
A  studio  has  no  picture  lined  up  for  an 
actor,  so  it  arranges  extra  vacation  time 
for  him,  while  still  retaining  its  rights  to 
his  services.  All  on  a  friendly  basis.  Then 
there  is  the  other  kind.  A  player  doesn't 
like  a  part — ^the  studio  does — so  he  plays 
it  or  goes  off  salary.  The  procedure  in 
these  cases  is  that  the  actor  remains  un- 
paid until  the  film  in  dispute  is  completed. 
These  are  the  nasty  ones.  And  this  was 
the  kind  of  suspension  20th  Century-Fox 
handed  Betty  Grable. 

If  Dean  Acheson  had  taken  a  poke  at 
Harry  Truman,  it  would  have  caused  no 
more  consternation  in  Washington  than 
the  Fox-Grable  quarrel  caused  in  Holly- 
wood. These  two  have  been  wedded  with 
splendid  success  from  the  first  day  Betty 
Grable's  initial  starring  film  appeared  xm- 
der  the  Fox  barmer.  They  have  both 
profited  financially  beyond  their  wildest 
hopes,  and  Betty  has  never  had  anything 
but  the  super  AA,  velvet  glove  treatment 
from  her  bosses. 

Her  contract  is  the  most  unusual  in 
Hollywood,  for  it  calls  for  Technicolor  in 
any  movie  she  makes,  and  one  of  the 
largest  salaries  paid  any  star  at  any 
studio.  She  has  never  been  asked  to 
make  more  them  two  pictures  a  year,  and 
she  has  a  good  deal  to  say  in  the  choice 
of  cast,  story  and  directors.  Where,  then, 
is  Betty  Grable's  discontent? 

Like  George,  the  reporter,  we  checked 
— and  we  think  we  know.  We  believe 
Betty  Grable  wants  to  quit,  that  she 
wants  to  hang  up  the  dancing  shoes, 
straighten  out  the  pin  curls,  pack  the 
pretty  costumes  in  an  attic  trunk  and 
settle  down  as  Mrs.  Harry  James,  35- 
year-old  wife  and  mother. 

You  can't  say  she  didn't  warn  us.  Betty 
Grable  hasn't  been  interviewed  in  the 
last  fi.ve  years  without  making  the  specific 
statement: 

"When  I  get  out  of  the  top  10  box- 
office  attractions — I'll  get  out  of  the  busi- 
ness." 

And  she  meant  it.  She  said  it  first  at 
a  time  when  she  was  number  one  in  the 
list  of  10 — and  she  said  it  more  em- 
phatically when  she  dropped  to  number 
five.  At  that  time,  however,  she  was 
still  the  leading  female  star.  She  is  not 
today.  She  is  still  fifth  in  line  all  right 
but  the  roster,  according  to  the  latest 
survey  of  Box  Office  magazine  is:  June 
AUyson,  Bing  Crosby,  Clark  Gable,  Clau- 
dette  Colbert  and  Betty  Grable.  She's  the 
number  three  woman  now,  and  it  might 
be  that  is  Betty's  point  of  no  return. 
She  may  want  to  step  aside  before  she 
catches  her  first  glimpse  of  that  famous 
skid. 

ANOTHER  statement  that  Betty  Grable 
has  made  constantly  is  that  she  will 
never  let  her  career  interfere  with  her 
marriage.  At  this  point  it  could.  As  a 
matter  of  fact,  the  current  disagreement 
which  led  to  her  suspension,  concerns 
the  studio's  demand  that  Betty  go  into 
another  picture  with  just  a  few  weeks  off 
from  the  last  one.  This,  Betty  contended 
in  a  public  statement,  does  not  give  her 
enough  time  with  her  husband  and  kids. 

Just  how  much  does  the  glitter  and 
rewards  of  movie  success,  mean  to  Betty 
Grable?  Well,  it  must  mean,  above  all,  the 
living  enactment  of  a  very  old  dream,  for 
she  has  been  climbing  a  ladder  to  the  stars 
since  she  was  five  years  old.  She  has  been 


working  in  pictures  since  she  was  12. 
It  must  mean,  too,  a  lot  of  money.  Betty 
Grable's  income  is  regulated  only  by  her 
desire;  and  combined  with  her  husband's 
huge  pay  checks,  she  has  had  available 
all  the  money  she  could  use  for  a  number 
of  years  now.  What  else  does  it  mean? 
We'll  say  nothing — less  than  nothing! 
You'd  have  to  be  an  old  timer  in  Holly- 
wood to  remember  seeing  Betty  Grable 
at  a  swank  social  affair  or  an  elegant 
industry  gathering.  She  just  doesn't  go  to 
them.  Why?  Because  she  gets  no  kick  from 
the  adulation  of  the  crowd  and  the  com- 
pliment of  a  request  for  an  autograph. 
Someone  who  has  seen  her  private  ward- 
robe says  she  has  bought  three  new  eve- 
ning .gowns  in  the  last  five  years — and  two 
of  them  have  never  been  worn.  It  has  to 
be  a  really  good  show  to  get  Betty  Grable 
into  one  of  the  chi-chi  Hollywood  night 
spots.  Check  the  fan  magazine  photo- 
graphs and  you'U  find  there  hasn't  been 
a  shot  of  Grable  at  Mocambo  in  ages.  When 
she  goes  out  at  night  it's  to  a  neighborhood 
cafe — a  place  the  little  people  patronize 
and  the-  autograph  hoimds  ignore.  No, 
there  is  nothing  in  the  idolatry  that  goes 
with  stardom  that  appeals  to  Betty  Grable! 

How  about  the  power  of  a  star?  Here's  ( 
the  routine  she  followed  making  Call  Me 
Mister.  Betty  got  up  at  six  o'clock  in  the 
morning  every  day  for  an  average  of  seven 
months  a  year  and  checked  into  the  studio 
at  a  time  ordered  by  a  hundred-doUar-a- 
week  assistant  director.  She  took  a  chciir 
pointed  out  by  a  staff  make-up  man  and 
sat  and  followed  instructions  imtil  he 
told  her  to  get  up.  She  dropped  into  her 
dressing  room  and  signed  the  papers  and 
made  the  calls  her  secretary  told  her  to, 
and  she  left  for  the  set  when  the  director 
sent  for  her.  As  soon  as  the  cameraman 
was  ready,  Betty  stepped  into  the  area 
he  designated,  rehearsed  the  lines  the  dia- 
logue director  gave  her,  and  then  played 
the  scene  the  way  the  director  told  her 
he  wanted  it.  At  lunch,  she  ate  with  the 
reporter  the  publicity  department  assigned 
to  her,  and  went  back  to  the  set  at  the  time 
the  first  assistant  director  said  would  I 
please  him  most.  And  before  she  knocked  | 
off  for  the  evening,  she  listened  humbly 
while  they  all  told  her  what  they  required 
of  her  the  next  day.  In  her  dealings  with 
the  big  shots  in  the  front  office,  she  says 
cind  does  just  what  her  agent  prescribes. 
Does  that  sound  as  if  Betty  Grable  gets 
a  kick  out  of  her  power  as  a  star? 

Without  the  thrill  of  being  a  glamorous 
celebrity  to  spur  Betty  Grable  on;  with- 
out the  need  of  money  and  the  urge  to 
earn  it;  without  a  feeling  for  ppwer  over 
lesser  people  to  drive  her,  what  does  Betty 
Grable  get  out  of  the  movies?  Just  one 
thing — work!  Hard,  tiring  endless  work.  It 
is  not  a  fair  exchange  for  the  best  hours 
of  the  best  days  of  her  daughters'  and  hus- 
band's life,  and  we  say  Betty  Grable  wants 
out. 

There  is  no  man  who  can  point  a  finger 
at  Betty  Grable  today  and  charge  her  with 
climbing  anything  but  that  ladder  in  her 
ascent  to  her  place  among  the  stars.  She 
victimized  no  one,  cUmbed  aboard  no  band 
wagons.  She  learned  her  arts,  develof>ed 
her  talents,  and  sold  herself  to  the  big 
time  the  hard  way — ^by  proving  herself  a 
standout  performer  in  her  profession. 
Consequently  she  has  no  obligations  or 
commitments  to  anyone  in  Hollywood. 
From  her  first  moment  before  a  camera, 
22  years  ago,  to  the  completion  of  her 
last  picture,  she  has  paid  on  in  effort  and 
superior  ability  for  every  dollar  the 
movies  have  given  her.  And  during  her 
period  of  stardom,  when  the  bulk  of 
responsibility  for  the  sale  of  her  pictures 
rested  on  her  shouldeirs,  there  is  only  one 
film  on  record  which  hasn't  been  a  smash 
hit.  Her  studio  has  never  had  to  list  her 
as  a  temporary  liability. 


Her  mother  and  the  friends  who  knew 
Betty  in  the  early  days  will  tell  you  she 
really  wanted  to  be  a  fine  dramatic  actress. 
But  with  the  first  blush  of  success  there 
came  the  realization  that  in  Betty  Grable, 
20th  Century-Fox  had  a  rare  personality. 
And  this  personality  was  the  perfect  com- 
posite for  a  star  of  glittering  musicals.  The 
drama  went  out  the  window.  Grable  the 
song-and -dance  gal  was  bom,  and  they've 
never  let  her  be  anything  else.  It  was  a 
disappointment  to  Betty  Grable  that  she 
never  had  a  chcince  to  really  act,  but  she 
never  made  an  issue  of  it. 

Tn  simimation,  it  would  appear  that  Betty 
Grable  has  devoted  a  lifetime  of  honor- 
able labor  to  a  career  that  has  fulfilled 
her  every  dream.  As  the  saying  goes,  she's 
now  "got  it  made,"  and  the  fields  she's 
trod  so  long  are  no  longer  green  and  invit- 
ing, for  they  have  been  long  harvested. 

The  last  disagreement  Betty  Grable 
had  with  20th  Century-Fox  (in  those  days 
it  was  known  as  Fox  Studio)  was  in  1929. 
Things  were  different  then.  She  was  an 
eager  kid  of  13  under  contract  to  the 
company  as  a  stock  dancer  at  a  salary  of 
$60  a  week.  It  wasn't  much,  but  it  was 
the  fulfillment  of  a  crazy  dream  she  had 
back  home  in  St.  Louis  that  someday 
she'd  be  in  the  movies. 

Everyone  on  the  lot  liked  the  Grable 
kid.  She  was  skinny,  not  too  pretty,  but 
she  made  up  in  energy  and  willingness 
what  she  lacked  in  adolescent  glamor.  It 
would  be  no  time  at  all,  her  boosters 


Bette  Davis,  asked  by  a  London  re- 
porter to  give  her  recipe  for  a 
long,  iiappy  marriage,  said,  "I  have 
none.  Remember,  Gary  Merrill  is 
my  fourth  husband." 

Hedda  Hopper  in 

The  New  York  Daily  News 


predicted,  before  she  would  be  a  featured 
performer — and  then  anything  might  hap- 
pen. But  her  world  tumbled  about  her 
ears  when  the  Los  Angeles  Coiuity  Board 
of  Education  notified  the  studios  they 
would  have  to  get  rid  of  all  minor  em- 
ployees, and  Betty  was  fired. 

But  Betty  didn't  give  up.  She  wanted 
show  business,  but  mainly  movies,  and  she 
was  willing  to  keep  trying.  UntU  she  was 
21,  nobody  was  more  active  in  theatrical 
circles  than  Betty  Grable.  She  personified 
the  popular  co-ed  of  the  period  and  her 
picture  was  in  the  magazines  and  news- 
papers constantly.  She  married  Jackie 
Coogan,  a  helter-skelter  lad  if  there  ever 
was  one,  and  she  began  making  the  front 
pages  without  cheesecake. 

After  Coogan,  she  was  signed  by  Fox 
again,  this  time  by  Darryl  Zanuck,  who 
has  been  the  mentor  behind  the  marriage 
of  Betty  Grable  and  Color-Music-Ex- 
travaganzas. He  couldn't  find  the  right 
spot  for  her  at  the  moment,  so  when  a 
chance  to  go  to  New  York  and  play  a 
leading  role  in  DuBarry  Was  A  Lady 
came  along,  Zanuck  gave  her  a  "sus- 
pension" to  go  ahead  and  take  it.  She  was 
a  smash  hit,  and,  some  time  later  when 
Alice  Faye  decided  she  had  had  enough 
of  pictures,  the  studio  called  Betty  back 
and  starred  her  in  Down  Argentine  Way. 
The  rest  is  dull,  professionally — nothing 
but  hit  after  hit,  more  money,  more 
fame  and  soon  Betty  Grable  became  an 
expression  as  self-explanatory  as  Satur- 
day night  or  Spearmint  gum. 

Betty  played  the  glamor  circuit  for  a 
while,  all  right.  She  had  her  day  as  a  movie 
star.  She  signed  the  autographs  and  wore 
mink  and  ermine.  And  she  got  men — any 
she  wanted.  Her  romances  were  photo- 
graphed and  written  about  for  years. 
George  Raft,  Victor  Mat\u-e,  Ty  Power, 
Vic  Orsatti,  Bob  Stack,  John  Payne  and 


a  good  many  more  eligibles  kept  the 
Grable  phone  busy — and  she  danced  the 
soles  off  their  shoes,  and  laughed  and  sang 
with  them  far  into  the  night. 

With  Harry  James  it  was  different.  Al- 
most from  the  first  date,  James  seemed  to 
exert  a  sobering  influence  on  Betty.  They 
didn't  get  out  to  the  hot  spots  as  much  as 
she  did  with  the  other  lads.  They  skipped 
the  usual  publicity. 

On  Monday,  July  4,  1943,  very  close 
to  dawn,  Betty  and  Harry  were  married 
in  a  hotel  room  in  Las  Vegas,  to  avoid 
the  crowd  in  front  of  the  wedding  chapel. 
And  they  have  lived  in  almost  semi- 
seclusion  ever  since. 

That  is  the  way  it  was— and  that  jis  the 
way  it  is.  Betty  Grable  has  her  man,  her 
two  kids,  Vicki,  7,  and  Jessica,  4.  She 
has  more  money  than  she  can  spend,  a 
fine  home,  and  a  lot  of  years  of  good  health 
and  good  living  ahead  of  her. 

It  is  true,  however,  that  no  decision  of 
profound  importance  is  made  without 
some  strong  reason.  We  have  recited  why 
Betty  Grable  wo\ild  want  to  quit.  But 
what  is  the  reason  for  her  retirement  at 
this  time?  She  will  not  talk  about  it,  and 
neither  will  the  studio.  The  veil  of  ethical 
secrecy  that  hides  the  happenings  beyond 
this  shelters  many  things,  personal  and 
business  alike.  Things  that  are  rightly 
private  information.  But,  basing  our  con- 
clusions on  known  facts,  here  *are  some 
reasonable  guesses. 

A  NY  movie  star,  who  works  12  con- 
secutive  years  for  one  company  must 
draw  a  tremendous  annual  salary,  plus 
many  bonuses  and  stock  option  cer- 
tificates. Often,  in  bad  times,  the  bankers 
of  the  film  companies  decide  that  no 
matter  what  the  star's  box  office^ppeal; 
a  contract  written  in  greener  years  and 
still  expanding  toward  a  distant  date  of 
expiration,  might  well  wreck  the  sol- 
vency of  the  company.  In  this  event,  the 
order  is  given  to  take  off  the  velvet  gloves. 

It  is  not  the  contention  here  that  this 
happened  at  20th  Century-Fox  with  Betty 
Grable.  But  it  must  be  pointed  out  that 
the  studio  announced  a  50%  reduction  in 
all  major  salaries  at  almost  the  same  time  it 
announced  Betty's  suspension.  An  in- 
vestigation of  Grable-studio  relations 
through  some  of  her  friends  brought  out 
the  information  that,  "the  studio  hasn't 
been  as  nice  to  her  during  the  past  year." 
And  the  clincher  is  the  bare  fact  that  the 
box-office  is  in  bad  shape,  and  there  seems 
no  current  likelihood  of  it  getting  better. 

If  20th  Century-Fox  wanted  to  break  its 
contract  with  Betty  Grable,  it  coiildn't 
have  used  a  better  device  than  the  issue 
at  hand.  It  has  been  Betty's  one  demand 
that  she  be  given  a  vacation  during  the 
Del  Mar  racing  season.  That  is  Harry's 
vacation  time  and  they  look  forward 
during  the  entire  year  to  bathing  with  their 
kids  in  the  nearby  surf,  and  watching  their 
horses  run  at  the  track.  For  years  the 
studio  has  established  Betty's  schedules 
to  suit  this  arrangement,  and  have  even 
kept  the  press  away  from  her.  The  picture 
they  wanted  her  to  make  would  be  shoot- 
ing during  that  season  this  year.  And 
Betty  said,  "No." 

Was  it  accident  or  design? 

Intentionally  caused  or  not;  the  situa- 
tion is  what  is  known  in  Hollywood  as  a 
hassle.  An  unpleasant  situation  that  re- 
quires a  lot  of  jockeying  to  iron  out.  But 
our  bet  is  that  Betty  Grable  won't  jockey. 

She  may  not  quit  officially,  or  make  an 
annotincement.  She  may  even  make  another 
pictxure,  maybe  more.  But  as  far  as  she's 
concerned,  Betty  Grable  has  had  it. 

Betty  Grable  is  a  star,  but  she'll  trade 
it.  Not  too  cheaply,  though.  She'll  take  in 
exchange  Harry,  Vicki  and  Jessica,  and  the 
quiet  peace  of  a  horse  ranch  where  a 
camera  never  turns.  The  End 


bright,  sun-kissed  red 

For  tantalizing  new  color . . . 
for  softer,  smoother  lips, 
Irresistible's  'Tangerine 
Kiss'.  Creamier,  non- 
drying.  Really  stayson 
longer .  .  .  brighter ! 
Scented  with  ex- 
otic Irresistible 
Perfume. 


LIPSTICK 


Stay  Cool .  . . 
Fresh  .  .  . 

Fragrant  all  day! 

Use  Djer-Kiss  lavishly. 
Soothes,  smooths,  pre- 
vents chafing.  Delicately 
yet  deeply  scented,  the 
fragrance  lasts  longer. 

The  "KISS  ME,  DEAR!"  fragrance 


tony  and  piper  meet  the  people 


(Continued  from  page  59)  Inside,  con- 
fused but  happy,  the  Modern  Screen  party 
found  itself  pointed  toward  Denver, 
Colorado,  the  home  of  Mrs.  Alice  Bankert, 
first  prize  winner  in  the  big  Modern 
ScREB»f,  Universal-International,  Pepsi- Cola 
"Bring  A  Star  to  Your  Home"  contest. 

As  the  big  plane  found  its  cruising 
level.  Piper  and  Tony  retired  to  the 
club  room  accommodations  at  the  rear,  and 
Piper  looked  out  at  the  world  above. 
"Look,  Tony,"  she  exclaimed,  "we're  fly- 
ing above  a  huge  stack  of  pillows."  They 
were  traveling  at  273  air  speed  miles  per 
hour,  and  the  earth  couldn't  be  seen 
through  the  fleecy  clouds. 

While  the  other  passengers  looked  on, 
Piper  straightened  Tony's  tie.  They  seemed 
like  honeymooners,  which  they  weren't, 
as  they  settled  down  to  a  breakfast  of 
superb  United  Airlines  fare.  Stewardess 
Mary  Wallace  laughed  as  Piper's  and 
Tony's  eyes  popped  at  the  sight  of  fluffy 
scrambled  ■  eggs,  crisp  bacon,  warm  toast, 
coffee  and  two  kinds  of  fruit. 

"I  should  eat  like  this  at  home,"  Tony 
exclaimed,  gulping  his  second  cup  of  coffee. 
Afterward  he  went  up  forward  to  take  the 
morning  shave  he'd  missed.  He  never  got 
that  shave,  for  he  spotted  a  pretty  girl  with 
a  pair  of  blue  eyes  that  would  stop  a  man 
dead  in  his  tracks  at  50  paces. 

"Bless  your  heart,  little  girl,"  Tony 
said.  "Haven't  we  met  somewhere  before?" 

It  was  doubtful,  although  that  honey- 
haired  charmer,  Julie  Anne  Grant  didn't 
say  so.  She  simply  threw  him  an  angelic 
smile,  followed  by  a  big  kiss.  Julie  Anne,  a 
debutante  from  Castle  Rock,  Colorado,  has 
probably  forgotten  about  that  kiss  by 
now,  even  though  Tony  promised  he'd 
write  to  her,  and  that  someday  they  might 
even  get  married.  Julie  Anne  is  an  ex- 
tremely fickle  little  two-year-old. 

Might  just  as  well  be  factual.  Mr.  Tony 
Curtis  has  a  way  with  women.  And  as  for 
Piper  Laurie.  Well!  By  the  time  the  plane 
was  winging  pafet  Las  Vegas,  Piper  had 
fascinated  every  man  in  the  place,  even  if 
she  did  kick  off  her  shoes,  curl  up  and  go 
to  sleep  with  her  hair-do  still  uncomb^. 

Blame  all  this  giddy  excitement  on  the 
altitude  if  you  want  to.  But  the  effect  these 
two  enchanting  young  people  had  on  those 
aboard  Flight  606  this  morning  was  small 
potatoes  compared  to  the  arrival  at  Denver. 

United  Airlines  Captain  Eddie  Brooks 
taxied  the  plane  to  a  halt  at  the  Denver 
airport,  Tony  peered  out  and  exclaimed, 
"Hey — ^brass  band  stuff!"  And  it  was  almost 
that.  There  were  people  crowded  fast 
against  the  heavy  steel  gates,  and  inside, 
close  to  the  big  ship  as  it  came  to  rest  were 
all  manner  of  jeeps  and  other  military 
vehicles.  This  was  a  reception  committee 
of  Korean  War  Veterans,  and  another 
group  of  handsome  soldiers,  on  hand  to 
name  Piper  "Miss  Flame  Thrower  of  1951!" 

Contest  winner,  Mrs.  Alice  Bankert  was 
there,  too,  glowing  with  pride  in  behalf  of 
her  city  and  aU  the  movie-goers  there,  for 
having  brought  Piper  and  Tony  to  her 
home  town.  Now  the  feverish  round  of 
activity  started.  There  was  an  open  air 
broadcast  over  the  Colimibia  Broadcasting 
System,  with  Piper  and  Tony  being  wel- 
comed by  Mrs.  Bankert  against  a  back- 
ground of  roaring  military  planes.  Then, 
the  50-people-party  was  rushed  into  a 
cavalcade  of  army  cars  and  along  the  route 
to  downtown  Denver,  with  banners  flying. 

First  stop — the  famous  Brown-Palace 
Hotel  in  Denver.  While  Frank  McFad- 
den  and  Cliff  Brown  of  Universal-Inter- 
national checked  on  their  reservations, 
Piper  and  Tony  strolled  around  the  huge 
lobby,  the  ceiling  of  which  extends  clear 


to  the  very  top  floor  of  the  old  building. 

In  a  few  moments,  they  were  whisked 
up  to  their  rooms,  535  for  Piper's  cute 
suite  decorated  in  shades  of  soft  green; 
and  735  for  Tony's  rooms,  done  in  knotty 
pine.  They  both  felt  every  bit  as  important 
as  the  visiting  Presidents  and  cattle  barons 
who  have  made  the  Brown-  Palace  a 
Denver  boast  for  more  than  50  years. 

But  that  feeling  of  luxury  lasted  only 
a  few  minutes,  for  the  military  summoned 
Piper  again.  She  was  called  for  by  a  hand- 
some top  sergeant  and  rushed  off  to  the 
army  base  to  be  christened  "Miss  Flame 
Thrower  of  1951."  The  situation  was  so 
filled  with  excitement  that  Piper  nearly 
fainted  when  nearly  1,000  fighting  men 
paraded  by  in  salute  to  their  visitor. 
Then,  with  an  actual  flame  thrower  tossing 
a  blaze  a  half  block  long  for  a  backgromid, 
Piper  received  her  high  honors.  It  was  an 
impressive  moment,  relieved  only  when 
a  flustered  Lieutenant  rushed  up  to  her 
and  said,  "Gosh,  it  was  wonderful  of  you 
to  come  out  here,  Miss  Piper  cub." 

Meantime,  Tony  was  having  an  experi- 
ence never  matched  before  in  his  young 
life.  Alone,  he  dared  to  accept  an  invitation 
to  pay  a  visit  to  Loretta  Heights  College. 
While  it  is  one  of  the  educational  prides 
of  the  State  of  Colorado,  Tony's  visit  was 
something  that  has  rarely  happened  in  the 
history  of  Loretta  Heights,  for  it  is  an 
all-girl  college. 

"I've  had  some  wonderful  experiences 


Dance  Director  Milton  Hill  gags 
that  in  Hollywood  when  on  actor 
gets  outfitted  "from  head  to  toe" 
it  means  from  toupee  to  elevator 
shoes. 

Irving  Hoffman  in 
The  Hollyivood  Reporter 


since  I've  been  in  Hollywood,"  Tony 
said,  "but  nothing  quite  as  impressive 
as  the  sight  of  those  dozens  of  attractive 
girls,  on  horseback,  riding  out  with  their 
school  colors  to  bid  me  welcorne." 

Sounds  a  little  formal  for  a  guy  like 
Tony?  Well,  he  can  make  a  pretty  good 
speech  when  he  means  it,  and  wants  to, 
as  the  sisters  and  the  students  all  agreed. 
But  they'd  hardly  agree  that  having  Tony 
present  at  classes  would  help  them  all 
concentrate  on  the  studies  at  hand. 

Hardly  had  Piper  and  Tony  arrived 
back  in  their  rooms  at  the  Brown-Palace 
than  their  telephones  were  ringing  again — 
This  time  they  were  reminded  that  if  they 
didn't  hurry  they'd  miss  the  big  event  of 
the  day — the  party  being  given  by  the 
Denver  Post  and  tiie  Pepsi-Cola  folks  at 
the  big  new  Pepsi  plant. 

This  was  the  high  fever  point  of  the 
day,  for  the  fans  of  both  Piper  and  Tony 
had  written  special  letters,  and  the  win- 
ners were  invited  to  the  party.  More  than 
300  of  them  had  gathered  for  the  welcome. 
Wisely,  the  studio  limousine  was  driven 
in  a  side  entrance,  and  Piper  and  Tony 
were  smuggled  to  the  party  room. 

For  the  better  part  of  an  hour,  the  Tony 
Curtis  Fan  Club  took  over,  and  in  their 
enthusiasm,  almost  took  their  favorite 
apart.  So  many  of  the  boys  and  girls 
wanted  to  dance  with  the  co-stars  of 
The  Prince  Who  Was  A  Thief  that  arrange- 
ments finally  were  made  to  select  the 
dancers  by  applause. 

Then  the  Denver  ■  Post  awarded  war 
bonds  to  the  writers  of  winning  letters, 
refreshments  were  served,  and  the  stars 
signed  autographs  for  almost  two  hours. 
When  they  left,  Piper  had  to  be  hurried 
out  an  emergency  exit,  while  a  flying 
wedge  was  formed  to  get  Tony  to  the  car. 
The  wedge  miss-fired,  somehow,  and  when 


the  door  was  finally  slammed  after  him. 
Tony  was  covered  with  lipstick  from  ear  to 
ear.  Not  only  that,  he  was  minus  his  tie, 
and  a  pair  of  cuff  links — something  he 
said  he'd  have  a  hard  time  explaining  to 
Janet  Leigh,  later. 

"But  don't  get  me  wrong,"  he  enthused, 
"I  love  every  second  of  this.  Where  else 
could  an  ex-sailor  get  such  kicks?" 

There  was  no  denying  it,  Piper  and 
Tony  were  completely  exhausted.  Al- 
though they  danced  together  at  dirmer  that 
night,  they  were  yawning  widely,  and  they 
retired  early  in  preparation  for  the  next 
day's  big  events. 

IT  was  Sunday  morning  when  they 
emerged  on  the  streets  of  Denver  to 
have  a  look  at  the  city.  First,  they  mingled 
with  the  church-going  crowds,  and  later 
they  went  to  see  the  State  Capitol  building, 
climbing  to  the  mile  high  step,  where  they 
posed  for  their  pictures.  Here  they  met 
Dick  Peuser,  a  Californian  from  Redondo 
Beach,  stationed  at  Lorring  Field,  and  a  few- 
minutes  later  were  on  their  way  to  the 
huge  Fitzimmons  General  Hospital. 

Welcoming  them  were  Major  William 
F.  Shutt,  and  First  Lieutenant  Jamkochian, 
Chief  of  the  Welfare  Division.  Piper  and 
Tony  broadcast  over  Fitzimmons'  own 
radio  station  KFG,  to  all  the  patients  in 
this  hospital,  which  is  a  city  of  almost 
7,000  inhabitants.  And  afterwards,  re- 
questing that  no  pictures  be  made,  they 
went  visiting  the  more  than  900  wounded 
Korean  veterans  there. 

As  they  left,  late  in  the  afternoon,  Tony 
said:  "This  has  been  a  remarkable  ex- 
perience. I  wish  that  the  parents  of  these 
fighting  men  could  see  how  well  they 
are  taken  care  of  in  this  great  hospital. 
Some  of  the  finest  medical  minds  in  the 
world  are  here,  and  I  was  svirprised  to 
learn  that  at  Fitzimmons,  some  of  the 
greatest  discoveries  in  medical  history 
have  been  made." 

Next  morning.  Piper  was  wakened  at 
seven  a.m:.  by  a  telephone  call,  and  a 
pompous  voice  which  said,  "Miss  Laurie, 
this  is  the  general  major  domo  factotum 
of  the  Brown-Palace  Hotel." 

"Yes,  Mr.  Factotum,"  Piper  said,  a  little 
puzzled.  "What  can  I  do  for  you?" 

"Well,"  the  voice  went  on,  "we  endeavor 
to  make  all  our  guests  happy,  and  we 
understand  that  your  lifelong  ambition 
has  been  to  have  breakfast  in  bed  ..." 

Piper  gasped.  "Why,  yes,  but  it  was  only 
a  joke." 

"A  joke?"  Tony's  voice  tiirned  back  to 
normal.  "Well,  joke  or  not — you  climb 
into  a  robe,  because  I'm  on  my  way  down 
with  that  breakfast  right  now. 

And  he  was,  properly  chaperoned  by 
a  waiter,  of  course. 

Right  here  is  a  good  place  to  explain 
to  people  who  don't  know  Tony  Curtis  that 
he  may  have  soared  to  stardom  almost 
over-night  but  he's  strictly  a  down-to- 
earth  fun  guy. 

That's  why,  when  they  returned  to  the 
State  Capitol  at  10  a.m.  the  next  morning 
to  meet  Governor  Dan  Thornton,  Piper 
squeezed  his  hand  as  they  walked  into 
his  private  offices,  and  whispered,  "See  if 
you  can  behave  yourself,  you  big  lug." 

Tony  could,  and  did.  Matter  of  fact, 
before  Governor  Thornton  knew  it,  he 
was  being  subtely  interviewed  by  one  Mr. 
Curtis.  Also,  before  he  knew  it,  he  had 
put  on  his  big  hat  and  was  climbing  the 
sharply  turning  97  steel  steps  which  lead 
to  the  breathless  top  of  the  gold  domed 
capitol  building.  As  they  stepped  out  on 
the  cement  balcony.  Piper  and  Tony  con- 
fessed to  being  completely  winded.  But 
the  Governor  grinned  broadly  and  said 
he  guessed  he  was  in  pretty  good  condition 
from  winning  the  race  for  his  position. 

Then  the  conversation  took  a  serious 
turn.  With  his  broad  arms  around  both 


Does ^our  daughter  ha\/G  truths  shs  can  trust  about 


Modern  mothers  ^vill  make  sure  their  daughters  have  the 
latest  scientific  information  on  this  intimate  subject.  .  •  , 


"these  young  people,  Governor  Thornton 

explained  a  little  about  the  great  state 

"of  Colorado  which  they  could  see  spread 
^  •out  for  many  miles  below  them. 

"I'll  never  forget  those  few  moments," 
^  Piper  told  Tony  later.  "It  proves  that  there 
^  is  still  great  opportunity  in  our  country. 

Just  think,  Governor  Thornton  was  born 
"il  of  share-cropper  ancestors,  and  today  he  is 

■  Governor    of  Colorado." 

"Yeah,"  Tony  agreed  solemnly.  Then  he 
■1  grinned,  and  winked  at  Piper.  "Not  only 

that,  but  from  a  plain  Texas  cowboy,  Dan 
I  Thornton  worked  his  way  up  to  become 

one  of  the  biggest  ranchers  in  Colorado. 
■?  And  without  an  enemy  in  the  world.  He's 
to  i  not  only  a  big  man — but  he's  rich — why  he 
i  i  has  almost  as  much  money  as  Bing  Crosby. 

And  maybe  that's  why  the  people  love 
I,  him  so  much.  They  know  he's  not  like 
y  most  other  politicians — he  has  enough 
:t   money  so   they'll  never  have  to  worry 

0  i  about  him  dipping  into  the  cash  register." 

V  For  an  answer.  Piper  kicked  Tony 
e   squarely  in   the  shins. 

1  A  T  noon  that  day,  Piper  and  Tony  were 
,  guests    at    a    luncheon    of  Denver's 

I  most  outstanding  high  school  journal- 
i!  ists.  A  group  of  fine  reporters  and  editors, 

I I  they  fired  questions  at  the  pair  for  a 
;j  couple  of  hours,  before  Modern  Screen's 

stars  were  removed,  almost  bodily,  back 
to  the  hotel  to  rest  in  preparation  for  that 
night's  big  preview-premiere  of  The  Prince 
Who  Was  a  Thiej. 

I  First  came  a  gala  dinner  for  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
George  Bankert  and  their  friends,  followed 

I  by  a  visit  to  the  Bankert  home,  where 

I  all  the  neighbors  had  come  to  see  Mrs. 

I  Bankert's  prize  guests. 

j  On  hand  to  broadcast  the  reactions  of 
those  present  was  Dale  Morgan,  whose 
"Where's  Morgan?"  program  is  must 
listening  all  over  Denver. 

The  most  amusing  moment  of  the  evening 
came  when  Dale  asked  one  charming 
girl   whether   she   was   related   to  Mrs. 

'  Bankert.  "Oh  no,"  she  gasped.  "Nobody 
knows  me.  I  just  slipped  in  because  I  had 
to  see  Tony  Curtis  and  ask  him  some- 
thing!" 

"All  right,  honey,"  Morgan  "said.  "You 
go  right  ahead  and  ask  him." 
"Oh,  I  couldn't!" 

"Come  on,"  Tony  broke  in.  "You  can 
ask  me  anything  you  want." 

"Well,"  the  girl  exclaimed,  blushing 
deeply,  "I  just  want  to  know — do  you 
know   Peter  Lawjord?" 

Tony  gulped.  He  admitted  that  he  knew 
Pete,  all  right,  and  that  he  was  a  nice  guy. 
Later  he  said,  "That'll  teach  me  not  to  get 
the  big  head — also  not  to  open  my  big 
mouth."  An  hour  later.  Piper  and  Tony 
were  sneaked  backstage  into  the  Fox  Den- 
ver Theater,  where  The  Prince  Who  Was  a 
Thief  was  nearing  its  climax.  Quietly, 
they  slipped  into  a  dark  aisle  and  over 
the  shoulder  of  a  husky  usher,  watched 
themselves  in  the  final  big  love  scene. 

As  the  lights  went  up,  applause  roared 
through  the  house.  And  then  they  came  out 
together  from  the  wings  to .  thank  the 
people  in  that  packed  theater — people  who 
by  now  were  their  old  friends. 

The  ovation,  timed  by  a  stop  watch, 
lasted  exactly  11  minutes  and  28  seconds 
before  Piper  could  make  herself  heard. 

I She  didn't  have  the  slightest  idea  what 
she  would  say  before  she  faced  that  crowd, 
but  her  words  of  simple  gratitude  set  off 
another  hurricane  of  applause. 
As  for  Tony,  every  time  he  opened  his 
mouth,  there  were  yells  of  approval,  so 
he  finally  just  picked  Piper  up  in  his  arms, 
kissed  her  soundly,  and  raced  off  the  stage. 

It's  difficult  for  any  reporter  to  try  and 
effectively  set  down  in  words  the  reactions 
of  two  young  people,  who  have  worked  hard 
in  their  profession,  when  they  are  suddenly 
confronted  with  the  fact  of  their  instan- 


When  your  grown  daughter  wants  to 
know  more  about  the  intimate  facts  of 
life — what  a  relief  it  must  be  to  know 
that  you  can  give  het  the  most  modern 
scientific  knowledge  because  you,  your- 
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You  certainly  will  tell-her  how  impor- 
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Your  daughter  will  appreciate  know- 
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taneous  success.  Perhaps  it's  enough  to  say 
that  all  of  the  editors  of  Modern  Screen 
are  proud  that  their  "Bring  a  Star  to  Your 
Home"  idea  made  it  possible  to  record  this 
big  event.  As  for  this  particular  reporter, 
he  had  coffee  at  six  a.m.  the  next  morning 
in  the  drug  store  across  from  the  Brown- 
Palace  Hotel  with  Piper. 

She  was  toiisled,  sleepy,  but  game  and 
ready  to  catch  the  plane  for  their  next 
stop,  Terre  Haute,  Indiana.  And  even  a 
hardened  newsman,  who  has  seen  celeb- 
rities by  the  dozen  come  and  go,  had  to  ad- 
mit to  himself  that  here  was  a  really  fine 
girl — somebody  he'd  like  to  have  for  a  kid 
sister. 

"DuT,  let's  not  get  emotional — on  to  Terre 
-L^  Haute,  where  third  prize  winner,  Mrs. 
Elizabeth  Denehie,  a  veteran  educator, 
welcomed  our  stars. 

"I've  never  met  a  more  wonderful  person 
in  my  life,"  Tony  exclaimed,  later.  "Why 
everybody,  from  taxi  drivers  to  bank 
presidents  in  Terre  Haute,  have  learned 
English  from  Mrs.  Denehie,  and  every- 
body in  town  loves  her." 

Piper  added  fervently  to  that.  "It's 
just  like  I  keep  repeating,  Tony,"  she  said. 
"These  people  we've  been  meeting  didn't 
win  the  contest.  We  really  won  it,  because 
we've  had  a  chance  to  meet  theml" 

It  would  take  a  complete  issue  of 
Modern  Screen  to  fully  relate  the  further 
adventures  in  detail.  The  entire  party 
fell  in  love  with  Columbus,  Ohio,  prize 
winner.  Donna  Morrison,  a  high  school 
sophomore. 

And  then  came  the  climactic  last  visit 
to  the  home  town  of  Miss  Clara  Hobbs, 
of  Charlotte,  North  Carolina.  "We  had 
a  great  beginning,  on  this  trip,"  Tony 
said.  "And  like  a  successful  play,  a  second 
act  that  didn't  sag  in  the  middle,  but 
we   never    expected    such    a  whirlwind 


finish.  That  Clara  Hobbs!  Piper  and  I  just 
grabbed  her  and  put  her  in  the  act.  She 
was  terrific! 

"You  know,  it  \vas  our  first  trip  into 
the  South.  And  when  we  heard  Miss  Hobbs 
talk,  we  couldn't  believe  it.  I'm  not  polish- 
ing an  apple  when  I  say  everybody  was  sc 
wonderful  it  was  hard  to  believe.  But — 
about  Miss  Hobbs.  We  njade  a  radio 
transcription  together.  Then,  when  we  got 
together  later  at  the  hotel  and  played  it 
back,  out  came  that  same,  rich,  wonderful, 
slow  Southern  voice.  And  Miss  Hobbs 
her  eyes  opened  real  wide,  said,  'Wha — 
is  that  me — bless  me.  Ah  din  no  Ah  had 
such  uh  Sothrn  accent!' " 

When  Piper  and  Tony  left  for  the  air- 
port that  day,  they  were  followed  by  a 
20-car  escort  of  cheering  fans.  And  just 
before  their  plane  took  off,  Tony  grabbed 
pretty  little  Miss  Hobbs  and  kissed  her 
like  there  was  no  tomorrow.  "That  did 
it!"  said  Miss  Hobbs,  and  acted  as  if  she 
were  fainting  dead  away. 

And  as  we  go  to  press,  Modern  Screen 
adds  to  its  archives,  the  following  tele- 
gram: MR.  CHARLES  SAXON,  MODERN 
SCREEN,  261  FIFTH  AVENUE,  NEW 
YORK  CITY.  DEAR  CHUCK.  "WE'VE 
OFTEN  HEARD  THAT  MOST  OF  THE 
AMERICAN  PUBLIC  WOULD  LOVE  TO 
VISIT  HOLLYWOOD  AND  GET  A  PASS 
TO  SEE  THE  MOVIE  STARS.  WE  THINK 
THAT'S  SILLY.  AFTER  'WHAT  WE'VE 
JUST  BEEN  THROUGH,  "WE  THINK 
THAT  MOVIE  STARS  SHOULD  TRY  TO 
USE  THEIR  INFLUENCE,  IF  ANY  WHAT- 
EVER, TO  GET  A  PASS  TO  SEE  THE 
AMERICAN  PUBLIC.  LOVE.  AND  IF 
WE'VE  LEFT  ANY  LAUNDRY  BILLS  IN 
DENVER,  COLUMBUS,  TERRE  HAUTE, 
OR  ATLANTA,  JUST  CHARGE  THEM 
TO  MODERN  SCREEN. 

PIPER  AND  TONY. 
The  End 


brief  marriage 


{Continued  from  page  37)  practically 
newlyweds,  had  been  bickering  off  and  on 
ever  since  their  marriage.  Although  they 
have  tried  to  keep  these  spats  quiet,  it 
was  inevitable  that  rumors  should  spread, 
and  the  old  cliche,  "Where  there's  smoke, 
there's  fire,"  seems  to  be  true. 

Both  Ruth  and  Mortimer  have  persis- 
tently denied  all  talk  of  a  rift  between 
them.  To  an  inqmring  Hollywood  coltimn- 
ist,  they  present  a  picture  of  perfect 
marital  bliss.  This  must  mean  that  they 
still  hope,  some  way,  somehow,  to  over- 
come the  obstacles  that  threaten  their 
happiness.  But,  at  a  party  recently,  those 
barriers  came  out  in  the  open. 

'It  was  a  gay  gathering  in  a  San  Fernando 
Valley  home.  Among  the  guests  were 
John  Ireland,  Joanne  Dru,  Veronica  Lake, 
Andre  DeToth,  Joyce  Holden  and  a  host 
of  other  celebrities.  It  was  an  informal 
affair  with  most  of  the  guests  in  casual 
clothes,  and  everyone  seemed  to  be  having 
fun.  But  there,  in  a  comer  off  by  them- 
selves, were  Ruth  and  Mortimer  Hall. 
Ruth,  wearing  dungarees  and  a  sweater, 
was  crying  as  though  her  heart  would 
break,  and  whatever  Mortimer  was  saying 
to  her  didn't  seem  to  help. 

Surprisingly  enough,  the  others  were 
paying  no  attention  to  them. 

"What's  the  matter  with  Ruth  Roman?" 
someone  standing  near  John  Ireland  asked. 

"Oh,  the  same  old  thing,"  Ireland 
answered,  shrugging.  "They're  just  fighting 
again." 

"Fighting?"  - 

He  nodded.  "It's  been  going  on  aU  eve- 
ning." 

Suddenly  Ruth  got  up  and  ran  into  one 


of  the  bedrooms.  Mortimer  foUowed  her 
and  slammed  the  door.  No  one  could  hear 
exactly  what  was  said  within  those  four 
walls,  but  from  the  angry  pitch  of  their 
voices,  it  was  obvious  that  they  weren't 
cooing. 

C  CON,  Mortimer  came  out,  his  face  flushed. 
^  He  went  over  to  the  bar,  had  a  straight 
drink,  and  then  stalked  out  of  the  house. 
Ruth  left  a  few  moments  later.  Her  face 
was  streaked  with  tears. 

It  could  have  been  that  Mort  waited 
outside  for  Ruth  and  drove  her  home. 
But,  the  fact  remains  that  they  didn't 
leave  the  hovise  together,  and  about  25 
people  noticed  it.  Here  was  a  juicy  morsel 
for  the  gossips;  an  incident  to  be  told, 
repeated,  and  exaggerated  far  beyond  any 
semblance  of  the  truth. 

And  so  the  stories  spread:  "Ruth  Roman 
and  her  husband  are  headed  for  a  split. 
That  marriage  can't  last.  They're  just 
not  meant  for  each  other." 

But  surely,  these  two  people  are  entitled 
to  a  chance  to  work  out  their  own  destiny. 
After  all,  is  it  imusual  for  a  married 
couple  to  have  disagreements?  The  path 
of  married  love  is  often  a  rocky  one,  but 
the  union  is  all  the  stronger  for  it. 

No  marriage  in  Hollywood  has  caused 
more  predictions  of  failure  than  that  of 
Lana  Turner  and  Bob  Topping.  They  have 
had  their  share  of  spats  in  pubUc,  and  no 
one  knows  how  many  in  private,  "^et  they 
seem  to  have  weathered  the  stormy  days 
that  come  in  the  first  few  years  of  matri- 
mony. 

This  may  be  true  in  the  case  of  Ruth 
and  Mortimer  Hall.  Perhaps  time  and 
patience  can  erase  the  differences  that 
exist  between  the  dark,  tempestuous 
actress,  and  her  suave,  sophisticated  hvis- 
band. 


These  differences  are  not  trivial.  Picture 
;a  freak  show  in  Revere  Beach,  the  Coney 
Island  of  Boston.  A  barker  spiels  his  wares 
(luring  the  curious  and  the  suckers  into 
his  "odditorium."  There's  the  fat  lady,  and 
the  strong  man,  and  the  magician  who 
(Saws  a  woman  in  half.  There's  a  snake 
charmer  who  winds  the  deadly  reptiles 
r  around  her  neck  and  strokes  them  and 
I  purrs  to  them  until  they  lapse  into  their 
habitual  torpor.  And  then,  there's  the 
little  girl,  barely  eight  years  old,  amazing 
all  onlookers  with  her  ability  as  a  knife 
thrower. 

I  That  little  girl  was  Ruth  Roman.  The 
barker  was  her  father,  and  the  snake 
.charmer,  her  mother. 

I  Today,  Ruth  is  a  beautiful,  impeccably 
I  groomed  young  woman;  a  highly  regarded 
I  actress  with  a  brilliant  career  in  front  of 
;her.  But  those  years  in  the  carnival  have 
I  left  their  imprint.  Ruth  is  strong-willed, 
;independent   with   a    self   reliance  that 

comes  of  a  lusty  childhood;  fired  with  the 
1  burning    ambition   that   took    her  from 

almost  hopeless  poverty  to  Hollywood 
1  stardom. 

•  The  story  of  Mortimer  Hall  would  have 
;to  be  written  with  a  different  pen.  He  is 
J  a  product  of  wealth  whose  daily  existence 
(has  been  sheltered  by  the  padding  of 
(privilege  and  the  luxury  of  social  standing. 
;  The  rich  young  man  is  prone  to  lack 
iambition.  The  poor  young  girl  is  apt  to  be 
loaded  with  it. 

In  the  American  tradition,  these  two 
opposites  are  compatible.  But  a  look  at 
;the  Hollywood  divorce  records  shows  that 
'this  is  often  not  the  case. 

You  can  find  quite  a  few  people  in  Holly- 
I  wood  who  can  compare  the  Ruth 
Roman-Mortimer  Hall  marriage  to  the 
Betty  Hutton-Ted  Briskin  match. 

"Ruth  Roman  is  like  Betty  Hutton,"  they 
say.  "Those  girls  came  up  the  hard  way. 


and  those  rich  guys  can  never  understand 
them." 

A  well-known  screen  writer,  who  dated 
Ruth  a  few  times,  says,  "Ruth  is  earthy, 
like  Betty  Hutton.  She  has  too  much 
ambition  to  be  fenced  in  by  a  lot  of  social 
embroidery." 

Ruth  and  Mort  have  done  a  lot  to  induce 
this  feeling.  Before  their  wedding  in 
December  of  1950,  Ruth  didn't  display 
much  confidence  when  she  stated  in  an 
interview:  "I'd  be  the  world's  worst  wife, 
but  I'm  willing  to  try." 

Mort  let  it  be  known  that  he  was  tired 
of  the  tinsel  of  Hollywood  and  intended  to 
make  his  permanent  home  in  New  York. 

Since  their  marriage,  both  have  changed 
their  attitudes.  But,  their  underlying  psy- 
chology is  not  so  easily  altered.  It's  not 
simple  for  a  girl  who  has  worked  all  her 
life  to  become  a  movie  star  to  turn  into 
a  dutiful  home  maker.  Being  a  good  wife 
and  preserving  a  marriage  takes  any 
woman's  best  effort.  With  Ruth,  her  friends 
will  tell  you  that  her  career  comes  first. 

Mortimer,  in  turn,  has  been  a  man  of 
importance  in  society  circles  and  a  re- 
spected figure  in  New  York.  In  Hollywood, 
his  importance  is  dwarfed  by  his  glamor- 
ous wife. 

The  dignity  of  the  male  is  a  sensitive 
quality  which,  when  outraged,  is  much 
like  the  wrath  of  a  woman  scorned. 

Recently,  Ruth  and  Mortimer  attended  a 
Hollywood  premiere.  When  the  show  was 
over,  hundreds  of  adoring  movie  fans 
crowded  around  the  lobby  hoping  for  a 
peep  at  the  celebrities.  As  Ruth  and  Mort- 
imer stood  near  the  curb,  waiting  for  their 
car,  a  couple  of  teen-agers  edged  up  within 
hearing  distance. 

"Gee,  she's  beautiful,"  said  one  of  the 
youths. 

"Yeah.  Ruth  Roman.  She's  a  doll,"  his 
chum  agreed^ 

Their  eyes  swung  to  Mort. 


"Who's  the  guy  she's  with?"  ' 

"That's  her  husband." 

"What's  his  name?" 

"I   don't   know.   Mortimer  something." 

Luckily,  the  kids  wandered  off,  saving 
Mort  from  any  further  humiliation. 

For  a  man  like  Mort  Hall,  who  was 
managing  editor  of  a  New  York  news- 
paper and  accustomed  to  a  large  amoimt 
of  deference,  this  type  of  thing  is  crushing. 
And  yet,  this  is  what  he  must  face  and 
learn  to  tolerate  as  long  as  he  remains 
married  to  Ruth  Roman. 

In  a  way,  Ruth  faces  a  similar  problem. 
Most  of  Mort's  friends  and  associates  are 
upper  strata  socialites,  and  Ruth  has 
probably  had  many  qualms  as  to  whether 
or  not  they  really  accept  her. 

These  anxieties  can  rob  people  of  their 
equanimity  and  irk  them  to  a  point  where 
they  become  short-tempered  and  vm- 
congenial.  A  person  in  this  mood  finds 
the  tiniest  oversight  reason  for  an  argu- 
ment and  becomes  practically  impossible 
to  placate. 

However,  Ruth  and  Mortimer  are  in- 
telligent people  who  realize  their  problems 
and  are  fighting  sincerely  to  preserve  their 
marriage.  The  mere  fact  that  they  deny 
all  rumors  of  a  rift  proves  that  they  are 
trying  to  make  a  go  of  it. 

When  two  people  tiff  bitterly  and  then 
find  within  themselves  the  willingness  and 
the  humility  to  make  up  again,  it  means 
only  one  thing.  They're  in  love. 

Whether  that  love  is  strong  enough  to 
last  remains  to  be  seen. 

One  thing  is  certain.  Ruth  Roman  and 
Mortimer  Hall  have  many  friends  rooting 
for  them  to  stick  together.  And  when  two 
people  are  as  courageous  and  determined 
as  they  are,  nothing  is  impossible. 
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Does  your  dream-man  consider  you  a  "pal?" 
Here's  a  tip  on  how  to  make  him  feel  romantic. 


71  GIRL  from  Port  Arthur,  Texas,  who 
■**  signs  herself  E.F.  writes,  "I  am  a  girl 
of  16  and  my  problem  is  this:  Every  boy 
considers  me  just  a  good  pal.  One  of  my 
friends  told  me  that's  why  I  don't  have 
dates.  Please  help  me."  In  the  same  mall 
there  was  a  letter  from  a  younger  girl  from 
Bellmore,  Long  Island.  "Whenever  anyone 
has  a  party  of  any  kind  the  boys  won't 
dance  or  play  games.  Refreshment  time  the 
•boys  are  the  first  ones  at  the  table.  Could 
you  give  us  a  suggestion  about  what  to 
do?" 

It  boils  down  to  how  to  make  a  boy 
romantic.  And,  kids,  this  has  been  a  prob- 
lem for  a  long  time,  but  maybe  by  kicking 
it  around  we  can  discover  what  some  of  the 
trouble  is. 

I  remember  a  dance  my  mother  gave  for 
me  when  I  was  13.  We  were  living 
in  New  York  and  the  whole  episode  was 
so  funny  that  my  mother  wrote  a  short 
story  about  it  called  "They  Won't  Dance." 

When  the  boys  arrived  they  sat  around 
reading  comic  books  and  talking  among 
themselves,  and  all  of  us  girls  were  simply 
furious.  What  happened  to  make  my  party 
a  success  is  kind  of  unusual,  but  you  can 
learn  something  from  it.  It  happened  that 
Lucille  Ball,  who  is  a  great  friend  of  ours, 
was  in  New  York  and  when  my  mother 
saw  the  party  dying  on  its  feet  (or  not  on 
its  feet)  she  asked  Lucille  to  come  over. 
You  can  imagine  what  that  did.  All  of  a 
sudden  the  party  became  alive.  Then 
Lucille  put  all  of  us  in  a  circle  and  taught 
us  a  little  Cuban  dance  she  had  learned 
from  her  husband,  Desi  Arnaz.  And  pretty- 
soon  all  the  kids  were  paired  off  and  danc- 
ing on  their  own. 

Most  boys  seem  to  think  dancing  is 
"sissy."  But  the  big  trouble  is  that  when 
a  group  of  boys  are  together,  they  are 
afraid  that  the  others  will  laugh  at  the  boy 
who  starts  to  dance  first.  Boys  are  so  ter- 


ribly bound  by  the  group  spirit  which  is 
sometimes  good  and  sometimes  not  so  good. 

So  why  don't  you  take  a  tip  from  Lucille 
Ball?  Begin  the  dance  with  everyone  join- 
ing hands  and  going  around  in  a  circle  and 
then  have  the  girl  who  is  giving  the  party 
say,  "Dance  with  the  girl  on  your  right." 
Then  everyone  is  started  together,  and  no 
one  boy  has  to  break  the  ice.  This  is  one 
of  the  reasons,  I  think,  that  square  dancing 
has  been  so  successful. 

We  all  know  that  girls  grow  up  faster 
than  boys.  Boys  are  more  shy  than  we 
girls  are  and  this  makes  it  difficult  for 
them  to  ask  us  to  dance.  Get  around  this 
by  making  every  other  dance  "girl's 
choice."  This  means  that  the  girls  ask  the 
boys  to  dance.  It's  fun  and  if  you  have 
the  same  number  of  girls  as  boys  it  means 
that  no  girl  will  be  a  wall  flower. 

But  remember  this — all  these  things  are 
up  to  the  girl  who  is  giving  the  party,  and 
don't  be  afraid  of  being  called  "bossy,"  just 
because  you  insist  on  making  the  kids  do 
these  things.  Honestly,  aU  good  hostesses 
are  "bossy"  but  when  you're  older  it's 
called  being  a  good  hostess. 

The  perfect  hostess  always  plans  a  party 
in  advance.  If  she  has  a  friend  who  can 
sing  or  play  the  piano,  she  asks  him  to 
entertain  her  guests  and  then  afterwards 
she  arranges  the  groups  so  that  the  people 
who  will  like  each  other  best  are  together. 
And  she  insists  on  this  rather  than  just 
leaving  the  grouping  to  chance.  Don't  be 
afraid  to  ride  herd  on  the  kids.  It's  your 
duty  as  a  hostess  to  force  them  into  doing 
the  things  that  will  make  them  have  a  good 
time. 

And  this  all  leads  up  to  how  to  make 
boys  romantic.  Just  as  the  younger  boys 
are  shy  about  dancing,  so  the  older  ones  are 
shy  of  romance.  Actually,  many  boys  would 
rather  pal  around  with  a  girl  than  to  get 
serious.  Boys  hate  to  be  pinned  down. 


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IN  the  picture  I  finished  not  very  long  ago 
called  On  the  Loose  this  situation  is 
brought  out  very  clearly.  The  girl — that's  me 
— gets  serious  with  the  boy — that's  Bob 
Arthur.  She  starts  talking  about  getting  mar- 
ried and  having  a  home  and  he  is  so  fright- 
ened by  this  that  he  never  wants  to  see  her 
again.  This  is  true  to  Ufe  and  the  girl  is  wrong 
to  get  serious  with  a  boy  at  once,  or  to  be 
obvious  in  her  feelings  for  him. 

But  there  are  other  ways.  The  girl  who  is 
"just  a  good  pal"  should  ask  herself  why  boys 
consider  her  so.  She  has  probably  read  that 
she  should  always  fall  in  with  the  boy's  mood 
and  if  he  wants  to  go  to  the  bowling  alley 
.she  should  learn  to  bowl,  or  if  he  wants  to 
skate  that's  what  they  should  do.  Now  this 
is  fine  up  to  a  point,  but  when  a  boy  knows 
he  can  always  have  his  own  way  he  some- 
how loses  respect  for  that  girl.  So,  it  seems 
to  me,  she  should  surprise  him  some  time 
and  when  he  suggests  bowHng  or  skating  she 
should  say,  "I'd  rather  see  a  movie.  There's 
one  I've  been  mad  to  see  that's  playing  at 
such-and-such  a  theater  tonight."  Seeing  a 
movie,  by  the  way,  often  sets  the  mood 
for  romance. 

Very  often  the  girl  who  acquires  the  repu- 
tation of  being  "just  a  good  pal"  is  the  girl 
who  has  been  a  tom-boy  when  she  was  a  kid. 
So  she  has  to  become  more  feminine.  I'll  bet 
most  girls  who  are  the  good  pal  type  go 
around  in  blue  jeans  and  shirts  all  the  time. 
(I  can  be  wrong  but  I've  seen  it  happen.) 
Jeans  and  shirts  are  swell  for  horse  back 
riding  or  hiking,  but  they  certainly  aren't 
romantic.  No  matter  what  they  say,  boys  are 
suckers  for  feminine  clothes.  And  they  like  a 
girl  who  behaves  in  a  feminine  manner. 

I  don't  mean  you  should  put  on  a  phony 
glamor  act,  or  try  to  make  yourself  mysterious. 
The  main  thing  is  to  be  conscious  that  you're 
a  girl  and  not  to  compete  with  boys  on  their 
own  territory.  Swimming,  riding,  tennis,  bowl- 
ing, skating — all  the  sports  are  wonderful  for 
girls  to  do.  But  when  you  start  beating  the 
boys  at  these  sports  then  they  think  of  you 
as  "just  a  good  pal." 

now  for  a  few  more  questions: 
"Dear  Joan:  About  two  years  ago  a 
dog  bit  my  cheek  and  it  left  two  scars.  What 
can  I  put  on  my  face  so  that  no  one  will 
notice  them?— E.  R.,  Panama  Canal  Zone." 

There  are  several  good  products  on  the 
market  that  will  cover  scars  and  blend  in  with 
your  makeup.  Some  of  these  are  advertised 
in  the  magazines.  I  suggest  you  look  for  these 
ads,  or  speak  to  your  druggist  who  is  sure 
to  know  of  these  products. 
"Dear  Joan:  Recently  I  went  on  my  first  date. 
Everything  went  fine  until  he  brought  me 
home.  We  fumbled  around  for  words  and  made 
a  mess  of  everything.  What  should  a  girl  say 
to  her  date  when  he  brings  her  home? 

— C.  McG.,  Tacoma,  Wash." 

I  know  it's  tough  but  the  simplest  way  is 
the  best  way.  You  should  say  something  like 
this,  "I  had  such  a  good  time.  Thank  you  for 
a  lovely  evening  and  I  hope  I  see  you  soon." 
If  he  lingers  on  the  doorstep  it's  easy  to  say, 
"I'd  like  to  ask  you  to  come  in  but  it's  pretty 
late  so  I'll  say  'Good-bye'  now."  And  then 
you  say  "Good-bye"  and  that's  that. 


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and  she  knows  it.  And  every  time  I  start  to 
like  a  boy  she  does,  too,  just  to  see  if  she  can 
get  him.  — B.  R.,  Indiana,  Penna." 

I  thought  there  was  a  kind  of  law— a  lady's 
agreement,  sort  of.  A  girl  who  tries  to  take 
a  boy  away  from  another  girl  can't  be  a 
good  friend.  If  you  are  really  fond  of  this 
girl,  you  should  discuss  the  situation  with  her 
and  tell  her  to  lay  off.  Then  if  she  doesn't, 
if  I  were  you  I'd  get  myself  another  girl 
friend. 

"Dear  Joan:  My  girl  friend  and  I  would  like 
to  write  fan  letters  to  a  lot  of  stars  but  we 
don't  know  what  to  say.  We  are  not  afraid 
to  write  to  you  because  you  are  just  two  years 
older  than  we  are. — J.  T.  and  C.  S.,  Elm- 
wood  Park,  III." 

Honestly,  movie  stars  are  just  people  like 
anyone  else,  no  matter  what  their  ages  are. 
And  most  of  them  are  surprised  that  they  are 
movie,  stars.  So  you  just  write  to  them  as  you 
would  to  any  friend.  You  first  figure  out  what 
you  want  to  say.  Do  you  want  a  picture? 
Do  you  want  to  tell  them  you  enjoyed  their 
movies?  Do  you  want  to  tell  them  you  think 
they  are  nice?  Whatever  you  want  to  tell 
them — why,  just  say  it  simply  and  sweetly 
as  you  did  in  your  letter  to  me. 
"Dear  Joan:  What  would  you  do  if  you're 
at  a  party  and  they  serve  something  that  you 
don't  like?  Or,  even  worse,  if  it  makes  you 
sick.  — B.  J.  P.,  Omaha,  Neb." 

If  it  is  something  that  you  just  don't  like, 
I'm  afraid  you  have  to  eat  it  anyhow.  If  it 
is  something  that  really  makes  you  sick,  or 
gives  you  an  allergy  just  quietly  leave  it  alone. 
If  your  hostess  notices  that  you're  not  eating 
and  is  rude  enough  to  remark  about  it  (which 


she  should  not  do)  then  you  have  to  say, 
"I'm  terribly  sorry.  I  know  it  is  awfully  good 
but  I  have  an  allergy."  'And  if  she  offers  to 
get  you  something  else  you  should  refuse 
gently  but  firmly.  However,  if  she  insists,  then 
accept  whatever  else  she  prepares.  Always  the 
rules  of  etiquette  are  to  do  everything  in  the 
simplest,  easiest,  and  most  comfortable  way.  If 
the  hostess  doesn't  notice  that  you're  not  eat- 
ing then  you'll  just  have  to  grin  and  go  hungry. 
"Dear  Joan:  A  very  bashful  guy  asked  me 
for  a  date  a  week  in  advance.  When  the  eve- 
ning arrived  he  didn't  show  up.  What  should 
I  do?  — W.  L.,  MoRRiSTOWN,  Minn." 

First  of  all  you  should  give  everybody  the 
benefit  of  the  doubt.  What  I  would  do  is  to 
call  him  the  ne.xt  day — or,  if  you  go  to  the 
same  school,  meet  him  after  class — and  say 
something  like  this,  "I  must  have  had  the 
night  wrong.  I  thought  we  had  a  date  last 
night.  Was  it  supposed  to  be  last  night  or 
when?"  You  know,  you  might  have  been  mis- 
taken and  had  the  night  wrong.  On  the  other 
hand,  if  you  say  something  like  this  then  you'll 
know  what  happened.  If  he  admits  that  he 
did  make  the  date  for  last  night  and  stood 
you  up,  then  you  have  to  tell  him  this  is 
unforgivable.  But  if  he  has  a  very  good  ex- 
cuse, then  I'd  give  him  another  chance. 

^ND  that's  it  for  this  month.  As  I've  said  so 
often,  you're  all  wonderful  to  write  to  me, 
and  I  wish  I  could  answer  every  letter  I  get. 
Since  that's  impossible,  I  pick  the  most  inter- 
esting ones.  Also  a  lot  of  you  ask  questions 
that  I've  already  answered.  Some  day  I'll  do 
a  big  repeat  column. 

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my  son,  peter 


{Continued  from  page  39)  annoyed,  I 
guess,  because  I'd  come  home  from  work 
at  night  and  look  at  Pete  in  his  crib  with- 
out any  show  of  emotion. 

"You  don't  act  like  a  father,"  she  used 
to  tell  me. 

"What  am  I  suppposed  to  do?"  I  said. 
"If  he'd  just  say  hello  or  something  maybe 
we  could  strike  up  a  friendship.  But  good 
night,  EUie,  he  just  lies  there." 

It  took  me  a  long  time  to  warm  up  to 
him,  and  I  guess  my  delayed  reaction 
bothered  my  conscience  after  a  while. 

I've  made  up  for  it  since  then,  however. 
Pete  and  I  are  closer  than  fraternity 
brothers.  The  warming  up  process  on  my 
part  started  when  I  got  over  the  shock 
of  having  a  son,  and  began  to  think  that 
EUie  was  being  too  easy  with  the  baby. 
Ellie  lost  her  father  when  she  was  quite 
young,  and  she  never  had  any  brothers  to 
fool  around  with  when  she  was  little,  and 
on  this  basis  I  figured  she  wouldn't  know 
too  much  about  how  to  raise  a  boy.  So 
whenever  her  discipline  began  to  slip,  I'd 
step  in  and  be  the  heavy.  At  least  I  in- 
sisted he  do  what  he  was  told,  and  finish 
what  he  started.  I  figured  it  would  break 
him  in  for  life  later  on. 

FOR  several  years  I  tried  to  be  the  perfect 
father,  and  then  I  realized  it  would 
too  tough  on  the- boy.  So  what  if  his  hair 
wasn't  combed  once  in  a  while?  The 
world  wouldn't  come  to  an  end. 

It's  like  my  role  of  Ben  Hogan  in  Follow 


the  Sun.  1  was  so  intent  on  getting  my 
golf  form  perfect  for  the  cameras  that  I 
wasn't  getting  any  fun  out  of  the  game. 
Ben  noticed  it,  too,  one  day.  "Relax,"  he 
said.  "Don't  be  so  rigid,  and  you'll  get 
some  fim  out  of  it."  It  was  like  that  with 
Pete.  He  came  to  know  that  when  I  said 
no  I  meant  no,  but  that  in  between  we 
could  have  fun. 

It's  a  wonder  to  me  that  he  doesn't  think 
I  have  a  bolt  loose  somewhere,  because  I 
always  pitched  headlong  into  imaginative 
things.  I  told  him  about  all  the  creatures 
who  lived  cuider  our  house.  Alec  the  alli- 
gator, Cecil  the  seal,  the  little  brownie 
who  wore  a  beanie  hat.  And  the  mouse 
who  let  the  light  come  through  the  wall 
so  that  the  movies  would  show  up  on  the 
screen.  There's  a  door  in  our  house,  be- 
tween the  den  and  the  dining  room,  that 
swings  open  when  the  kitchen  door  is 
opened;  the  result  of  a  vacuum,  I  suppose. 
Sometimes  that  door  would  glide  open  a 
half  dozen  times  throughout  dinner,  but 
always,  as  far  as  Pete  was  concerned,  it 
was  Alec  the  alligator  going  into  the  den. 
I  think  he  suspected  that  it  was  one  of  my 
tricks,  for  I'm  sort  of  an  amateur  magi- 
cian and  have  often  amused  him  with 
sleight  of  hand.  There's  a  magnolia  tree 
in  our  garden  which  to  Pete  and  me  has 
always  been  the  chewing  gum  tree.  When- 
ever he  was  extra  good,  he  would  tele- 
phone me  of  the  fact,  and  when  I  got 
home  I  would  take  him  out  to  the  tree, 
reach  up  into  the  branches  and  palm  a 
stick  of  chewing  gum  for  him.  Even  now, 
when  he's  almost  seven,  he  never  passes 
that  tree  without  looking  up  at  it  in  awe. 

We  had  a  lot  of  fun  with  the  magic 


routine.  I'd  tap  underneath  the  table  and 
tell  him  Cecil  was  signaling  that  Peter 
should  eat  his  carrots.  Thing  is,  I  didn't 
count  on  his  gettmg  smart.  I  came  home 
from  work  the  other  night  and  found  him 
in  the  den,  folding  a  paper  napkin. 

■'What  have  you  there?"  I  said. 

"I'll  show  you,"  he  said.  He  held  the 
napkin  up  to  the  light  and  I  could  see 
a  round  object  within  its  folds.  "That's 
a  nickel.  If  you  don't  believe  it,  feel  it." 

After  my  inspection  he  proceeded  to 
tear  the  napkin  into  small  bits.  The  nickel 
had  disappeared. 

"See?"  he  said.  "It's  simple." 

Tt's  hard  for  me  to  know  what  Pete  feels 
about  my  being  an  actor.  He's  too 
young  right  now  to  understand  the  movie 
industry,  but  he  seems  to  think  that  the 
world  is  filled  with  cameras. 

His  opinion  of  me  was  considerably 
heightened  one  day,  although  it  was  small 
satisfaction  to  me.  The  two  of  us  were 
walking  along  the  street  when  we  met 
Bill  Boyd,  who  called  me  by  name  and 
had  a  long  conversation  with  us.  Pete 
stood  there  beside  me,  his  eyes  like  saucers, 
and  for  the  rest  of  the  day  I  noticed  he 
treated  me  with  a  new  deference. 

Now  '  I  like  Bill — he's  a  great  guy — and 
I  know  that  he  has  millions  of  fans,  but  I 
do  some  riding  myself,  and  the  fact  that 
my  son  was  so  impressed  by  Hopalong 
Cassidy  rankled  a  little  bit.  So  when  I 
was  working  in  The  Redhead  and  the 
Cowboy  I  did  some  scheming  that  I  was 
sure  would  fix  me  up  pretty  well  with  Pete. 
There  was  a  lot  of  stunt  riding  to  be  done 
for  the  picture,  and  I  saved  it  all  for  one 
day.  Then  I  asked  El  lie  to  bring  Pete 
out  to  the  set. 

I'd  spent  half  the  morning  and  most  of 
the  afternoon  at  it,  and  by  the  time  Ellie 
and  Pete  arrived  in  the  afternoon,  I  was 


pretty  bushed.  But  there  were  still  some 
chores  left  to  do,  and  I'd  saved  the  most 
difficult  for  the  last.  We  ended  up  with 
the  scene  where  I  take  a.running  leap  from 
a  raised  sidewalk  and  land  on  my  run- 
ning horse.  When  it  was  finished,  I 
strutted  across  to  where  Pete  was  standing. 

"Well,  son,"  I  said.  "What  did  you  think 
of  it?" 

He  shrugged  his  shoulders.  "Hoppy 
would  have  jumped  from  a  roof,"  he  said. 

Another  problem  I  used  to  have  with 
Pete  was  to  get  him  to  eat  his  meals.  The 
doctor  had  recommended  a  lot  of  tomatoes, 
but  the  little  guy  wouldn't  even  look  at 
one,  let  alone  eat  it.  So  I  got  the  idea 
that  if  we  planted  some  around  the  garden 
and  he  helped  me  with  the  job,  he  might 
take  such  an  interest  that  he'd  begin  to 
like  them.  The  awful  part  was  that  I  knew 
next  to  nothing  about  tomato  growing, 
and  ignorant  of  the  fact  that  four  tomato 
plctnts  \vi\l  supply  a  whole  family,  I  went 
overboard  and  bought  several  hundred 
plcints.  Pete  helped  me  put  them  in,  and 
when  the  rcimd  ripe  tomatoes  appeared 
he  began  to  eat  them  right  off  the  vine. 
My  plan  had  worked  its  initial  purpose, 
but  the  entire  neighborhood  was  inundated 
with  tomatoes  that  year. 

p)ETE  took  a  dim  view  of  fish,  too,  and  I 
figured  if  the  tomatoes  had  worked,  so 
would  the  subject  of  fishing.  So  whenever 
I  went  fishing  I'd  bring  home  the  catch 
on  a  string  and  Ellie  would  say,  "Look 
what  Daddy  caughtl"  Pretty  soon  Pete 
was  tasting  his  first  trout  and  liking  it, 
so  when  we  bought  fish  at  the  store  from 
then  on,  we'd  get  it  whole  and  I'd  show 
it  to  Pete  and  lie  in  my  teeth,  "Look  what 
Daddy  caught!" 

He  grew  so  interested  that  I  began  to 
talk  up  the  possibility  of  a  fishing  trip  that 
would  include  him.  I  told  him  that  if  he 


got  a  gold  star  in  Sunday  school  for  six 
straight  weeks,  silver  stars  in  school  for 
a  month,  and  the  required  number  of 
credits  on  the  chart  in  his  room  for  teeth 
brushing,  fireplace  stuffing,  etc.,  his  mother 
and  I  would  take  him  fishing.  There's  a 
place  out  in  the  valley  called  Sportsman's 
Lodge  where  they  invite  customers  to 
catch  their  own  trout  for  dinner,  and  I 
thought  this  would  be  the  easiest  way  to 
initiate  Pete  into  the  sport.  He  strained 
himself  being  good  for  weeks  on  end,  and 
finally  the  big  day  arrived.  He  and  Ellie 
and  I  got  dressed  to  the  teeth  for  a  Sun- 
day dinner  and  drive  out  to  the  Lodge. 

They  gave  Pete  a  fishing  pole,  and  he 
was  almost  expiring  with  excitement.  He 
dropped  his  line  and  not  a  second  later 
hooked  probably  the  biggest  trout  in  the 
pool.  I'd  told  him  all  about  the  art  of 
hauling  in  a  fish,  but  he  forgot  every  word 
of  it  at  that  moment,  and  instead  of  pull- 
ing in  his  line,  walked  right  off  the  bridge 
into  the  water.  Ellie  screamed  cind  I  yelled, 
and  there  was  Pete,  up  to  his  neck  in  the 
briny.  There  was  nothing  for  me  to  do  but 
jump  in  myself,  in  my  brand  new  suit,  and 
haul  out  our  small  Izaac  Walton,  who  was 
still  holding  to  his  fish  like  grim  death. 

By  this  time  Pete  was  becoming  pretty 
interested  in  sports,  and  I  started  telling 
him  about  what  a  great  hunter  I  was. 
Everj'  lamb  chop  that  came  into  the  house 
had  been  personally  shot  by  me.  If  I  had 
let  it  go  at  this,  things  would  have  been 
better.  But  no,  I  had  to  open  my  big 
mouth  and  tell  him  what  a  torrid  Indian 
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one  white  man  whose  scalp  they  were 
afraid  to  take.  And  every  time  he  saw  an 
Indian  on  television  he'd  point  and  say. 
"You'd  shoot  him,  wouldn't  you,  Daddy?" 
And  like  an  unshirted  idiot  I'd  say,  "'Sure 
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where  Ellie  was  making  Duchess  of  Idaho, 
next  to  the  set  of  Annie  Get  Your  Gun, 
a  film  that  was  crawling  with  Indians. 
Now  I've  done  quite  a  batch  of  westerns 
in  my  time  and  as  a  result  know  just  about 
every  Indian  ia  Hollywood.  So  just  as 
Pete  and  I  were  passing  that  set,  the  stage 
door  opened  and  out  came  a  whole  tribe 
of  the  boys,  wearing  fuU  war  paint  and 
feathers. 

^  "Hi,  Glenn,"  they  all  said.  "How's 
tricks?" 

I  looked  down  at  Pete.  He  was  standing 
there  thunderstruck. 

"Aren't  you  going  to .  shoot  them, 
Daddy?"  Pete  said. 

That  was  one  I  just  couldn't  handle. 

Actually,  I've  improved  myself  in  a  lot 
of  little  ways  just  to  set  an  example  for 
Pete.  Before  he  came  along  I  never  paid 
much  attention  to  my  food,  but  these  days 
I  have  to  eat  every  last  kernel  on  my 
plate,  or  else  I  can't  expect  him  to  finish 
his  dinner.  Then  there  was  that  sermon  I 
gave  him  on  keeping  his  room  tidy.  That 
one  cost  me  four  hundred  bucks,  because 
one  day  while  I  was  working,  Pete  wan- 
dered into  my  den  and  when  he  saw  the 
mess  on  my  desk,  decided  to  clean  it  up 
for  me.  Into  the  trash  can  went  my  rare 
and  valuable  Columbian  stamp,  and  since 
that  day  nothing  shows  on  top  of  my  desk 
except  the  blotter. 

Peter  Ford  is  no  angel,  but  he  does  have 
one  quality  that  Ellie  and  I  are  pretty 
happy  about.  It's  his  consideration  of 
others,  a  thing  which  I  think  a  person  is 
born  with  and  can't  very  well  be  taught. 
If  Ellie  or  I  happen  to  be  ill,  he'll  come 
into  the  room  on  his  own  volition,  holding 
a  glass  of  milk. 

"Here,"  he  says.  "If  you  drink  this  you'll 
feel  better." 

He  can't  bear  brutality  in  any  form,  par- 
ticularly to  animals,  and  he  suffers  tor- 
ments when  he  sees  other  kids  break  toys. 

I've  tried  to  teach  him  to  share,  and 
the  value  of  money,  and  good  sportsman- 
ship and  honesty  and  all  those  things,  and 
feel  I've  done  pretty  well  in  everything 
except  his  fibbing,  which  he'll  always  do 
in  order  to  save  my  feelings.  I  used  to 
spank  him  for  those  little  white  lies,  but 


he's  growing  up  now,  because  the  worst 
thing  I  can  do  to  him  these  days  is  to 
say,  "Peter,  I'm  disappointed  in  you." 
That's  all.    It's  better  than  any  spaiiking. 

He's  growing  up,  all  right.  He  hates  to 
see  me  go  away  on  business,  but  he  stands 
up  to  it  and  faces  it  very  well  for  a  kid. 
I  want  him  to  grow  up — I  think  it's  unfair 
for  parents  to  try  to  keep  a  child  forever 
a  baby.  Ellie  thinks  I  go  oft  my  trolley 
on  this  subject,  though,  for  I  hold  long 
conversations  with  Pete  on  serious  things 
like  the  United  Nations  and  the  price  of 
beef,  and  Pete  babbles  right  back  at  me. 
He  doesn't  know  what  he's  saying,  but 
at  least  he  feels  he's  a  pretty  important 
guy  if  his  father  consults  him. 

By  now  he's  reached  the  stage  where 
he  wants  to  be  manly,  and  his  newest  ob- 
session is  keeping  his  word.  Or  maybe  I 
should  say  my  word.  If  I  leave  the  room 
and  tell  him  to  turn  off  the  television  at 
seven  o'clock,  nothing  in  this  world  will 
prevent  him  from  doing  it.  The  other  night 
EUie  wanted  to  see  Ed  Sullivan's  show. 

"You  can't,"  Pete  told  her.  "Daddy  said 
it  should  be  turned  off." 

Ellie  came  out  to  me  in  the  kitchen 
where  I  was  making  a  Dagwood  sandwich. 

"I  only  live  here,"  she  said.  "This  thing 
about  Peter  keeping  his  word  can  go  too 
far." 

But  she  smiled  when  she  said  it.  Ellie 
gets  a  big  boot  out  of  the  close  relationship 
between  Pete  and  me.  It  goes  so  far  that 
I  won't  let  him  know  when  I'm  in  a  bad 
mood,  and  for  his  part,  he  refuses  to  cry 
in  front  of  me.  He  can  be  bawling  his  head 
off,  surrounded  by  the  rest  of  the  house- 
hold, but  when  I  come  into  sight  he  tvirns 
off  the  tears  as  though  he  had  a  faucet 
growing  out  of  his  head. 

But  Ellie  has  her  times,  too.  Pete's  fa- 
vorite dish  is  the  revolting  combination  of 
French  fried  potatoes  topped  with  ice 
cream,  the  thought  of  which  makes  me 
mildly  ill.  Ellie  figures  it  can't  kill  him, 
and  as  long  as  he  likes  it,  she  gives  in. 
So  whenever  I  see  the  two  of  them  sneak- 
ing out  of  the  house  together,  I  know 
Pete's  headed  for  his  own  peculiar  heaven. 
The  privilege  of  joining  him  is  all  Ellie's. 
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(Continued  from  page  33)  the  latter, 
whether  it  is  the  tops  or  bottoms,  or  both. 

To  give  you  a  few  quickies:  Jeanne 
Grain  sleeps  in  a  sheer  white  nightgown 
in  a  double  bed.  Jeanne  requires  plenty  of 
sleep  and  is  a  quiet  sleeper.  She  usually 
wakes  up  in  the  same  position  in  which 
she  fell  asleep — which  is  generally  on  her 
back.  Susan  Hayward  sleeps  in  a  twin 
bed  and  usually  wears  an  old-fashioned 
nightgown  or  a  pair  of  snuggles,  or  some- 
times a  striped  jersey  shirt.  Susie  often 
wanders  in  her  sleep,  but  doesn't  get  far. 
Either  husband  Jess  Barker  wakes  her  or 
walking  into  the  bedroom  wall  does.  Van 
Johnson  generally  sleeps  in  an  old  slip- 
over sweater,  and  he  eats  graham  crackers 
in  bed.  Evie  has  tried  to  break  him  of 
this  habit  by  serving  him  a  hearty  mid- 
night snack  before  retiring,  but  she  has 
only  partly  succeeded.  Joan  Crawford 
sleeps  in  a  medium-sized  bed  with  oil 
portraits  of  her  two  oldest  children  hang- 
ing above  the  headboard.  On  the  opposite 
wall  are  similar  portraits  of  the  twins. 
Joan  always  sleeps  with  the  windows  wide 
open  and  a  stack  of  blankets  over  her.  In 
the  winter  she  wears  elegant  pajamas,  and 
in  the  summer  she  sleeps  in  nightgowns 
fingertip  in  length  with  matching  panties. 

According  to  historians,  the  first  beds 
were  piles  of  leaves  on  the  floor  cov- 


ered with  skins  of  animals.  But  people  al- 
ways were  trying  to  improve  their  beds 
and  to  sleep  more  comfortably.  The  early 
Egyptian  bed  consisted  of  a  cushion  placed 
on  a  framework  in  the  shape  of  an  animal, 
with  back  curved  to  carry  the  human  form 
in  comfort. 

In  literature,  you'll  find  that  next  to  love, 
sleep  has  fascinated  the  poets  most.  Stories 
about  sleep  and  bed  go  back  to  those  two 
original  characters,  Adam  and  Eve. 

The  tale  is  told  about  how  distressed 
Eve  was  when  Adam  disappeared  for  two 
days  from  Eden.  On  the  third  day  of  his 
absence  Eve  was  really -worried.  "There's 
no  other  woman  in  the  world,"  she  told 
herself.  But  she  still  worried.  On  the 
third  evening  Adam  returned,  and  Eve 
asked  him,  "Where,  have  you  been?" 
Adam  answered,  "Why,  I've  been  out 
searching  for  a  new  home  for  us,  and  I 
think  I've  found  the  cutest  place." 

"That's  a  nice  story,"  said  Eve.  "Who 
is  she?" 

"Darling,"  Adam  said,  "don't  be  like 
that.  You  know  there  isn't  another  woman 
in  the  world." 

They  had  dinner  and  retired  for  the 
night.  While  Adam  was  sleeping,  Eve  put 
out  her  hand  and  started  coimting  his  ribs. 

Hviman  nature  hasn't  changed  much 
since  then.  Woman  stiU  wants  a  man  to 
belong  to  her.  Proof  of  this  is  uttered  in 
the  modern  All  About  Eve,  when  actress 
Margo  Channing  says:  "In  the  last  analy- 
sis nothing  is  any  good  unless  you  can 


look  up  just  before  dinner,  or  turn  around 

in  bed — and  there  he  is.  .  ." 
Bette  Davis,  who  played  the  role  '  of 

Margo  Charming,  must  have  believed  those 

lines,  for  she  married  her  leading  man, 

Gary  Merrill,  and  sleeps  in  an  extra  large 

bed.  She  is  never  in  the  same  position 

when  she  awakes  as  when  she  goes  to 
I  sleep.  Bette  wears  sheer  nightgowns,  when 
I  she  wears  a  nightgown. 
/    Nancy  Olsen  wears  nightgowns  in  hotels, 
«only  the  tops  of  pajamas  in  her  own  bed. 

Mel  Ferrer,  who  is  very  tall,  has  an  extra 
ilong  bed  at  home.  In  hotels  he  always  takes 

a  double  bed  and  sleeps  on  it  diagonally. 
iMercedes  McCambridge,  who  has  spent 
I  the   greater  part   of  her   life  traveling, 

sleeps  best  on  boats  and  trains,  and  has 
'trouble  falling  asleep  in  the  luxurious  bed 

in  her  new  home.  Doris  Day  listens  to  disc 
I  jockey  programs  before  going  to  sleep 
(and  sings  along  with  the  recordings.  Doris 
!  sleeps  in  shortie  nightgowns  because  she 
lUkes  to  feel  free,  and  says  that  pajamas 
ibind  her.  Janet  Leigh  is  another  "nightie" 

gal,  preferring  nylons  of  pastel  blue.  June 
I  Haver  belongs  to  the  pa  jama  set  and  wears 

what  she  calls  "midriff"  pajamas.  June 
I  sleeps  in  a  large  double  bed  with  a  single 

pillow  and  plenty  of  blcinkets. 

I    John  Wayne  and  his  wife  sleep  in  an 

(Oversized  bed  which  was  built  especially 

for  them.  John  tosses  and  turns  in  his 
isleep.  He  can't  wear  the  tops  of  his  pa- 
(jamas  because  they  tie  him  in  knots  after 
Ian  hour  of  tossing.  John  says  his  wife  loves 
!bim  because  he  doesn't  snore. 

Lex  Barker  might  be  interested  to 
learn  liis  wife,  Arlene  Dalii,  is  an 
inventor.  She  was  granted  Design 
Patent  No.  162,714  for  a  boudoir 


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Kathryn  Grayson  sleeps  in  a  bed  that  is 
the  size  of  two  full  beds  plus  a  few  inches. 
Everything  in  her  bedroom  is  over-sized 
and  comfortable.  The  room  is  decorated 
in  waiin  reds  with  cheerful  yellow  accents. 
When  Kathryn  sleeps  in  anything,  she 
sleeps  in  nightgowns.  Marie  Wilson,  a 
nightgown  gal,  sleeps  on  three  small  pil- 
lows and  has  her  sheets  and  blankets  es- 
pecially made  for  her.  When  traveling, 
Marie  likes  to  take  along  her  personal 
sheets.  Esther  Williams  sleeps  in  a  flannel 
nightgown  in  the  winter,  and  in  the  sum- 
ner  wears  a  thin  nightgown  which  she 
iiescribes  as  "loose  and  happy."  Esther's 
bedroom  is  softly  colored  with  plaid  taffeta 
draperies.  She  believes  a  bedroom  should 
36  "soothing  and  relaxing."  Esther  and 
tiusband  Ben  have  a  super  king-size  bed. 

Ceveral  firms  in  Hollywood  build  king- 
^  size  beds  for  the  stars.  You  may  won- 
ier  how  the  term  "king-size"  originated, 
tt's  a  throwback  to  the  beds  of  the  French 
kings  of  the  15th  century.  These  beds  were 
io  large  and  rich  in  detail  that  it  even 
Decame  customary  to  hold  receptions  in 
aed.  There  was,  for  example,  "The  Great 
Bed  of  Ware,"  which  was  widely  famed 
'or  its  size,  accommodating  12  persons. 

Prevalent  among  the  nobility  and  the 
-ich  was  "The  Marriage  Bed."  This  was 
Iraped  in  ornate  white  hangings  and  cover- 
ets.  Immediately  after  the  marriage  cere- 
nony,  the  bride  and  groom  retired  to  their 
narriage  bed  to  receive  their  wedding 
ruests,  congratulations  and  gifts.  Often 
he  wedding  feast  itself  was  served  here. 

Beds  have  always  been  important,  but 
jerhaps  most  to  royalty.  Louis  XIV  had 
US  beds  in  his  palace.  His  favorite  was 
I  funny  flat  one.  A  jester  remarked,  "If 
liouis  had  one  drink  he  couldn't  get  into  it, 
md  if  he  had  two,  he  couldn't  stay  on  it." 

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reasons  than  applied  to  Louis.  Cagney's 
bed  is  a  very  high  four-poster  affair;  the 
mattress  comes  to  about  the  level  of  my 
shoulder.  This  style  of  high  bed  dates  back 
to  the  time  when  snakes  were  rampant, 
and  beds  were  built  on  elevated  frames 
reached  by  short  steps.  This  permitted 
the  occupant  of  the  bed  to  sleep  peace- 
fully without  concern  abovft  snakes.  Like- 
wise the  canopied  beds  are  a  holdover 
from  those  times  when  people  would  sur- 
roimd  their  beds  with  draperies  or  net- 
ting to  protect  themselves  from  insects. 
Betty  Hutton  sleeps  in  an  oversized  cano- 
pied bed  and  probably  doesn't  know  the 
origin  of  it.  Betty  sleeps  all  curled  up  and 
with  the  windows  open.  She  wears  tailored 
silk  pajamas  in  pastel  shades,  and  wears 
both  the  trousers  and  jacket.  Shelley  Win- 
ters, at  least  the  last  time  I  was  at  her 
house,  had  an  oversized  canopied  bed. 
Shelley  reads  in  bed  while  nibbling  on 
chocolate  cookies.  She  wears  men's  pa- 
jamas "because  they're  more  comfortable 
than  nightgowns."  If  you  care  to  know 
about  Farley  Granger,  he  sleeps  in  a  big 
double  bed  and  wears  pajamas  when  it's 
cold  outside.  Otherwise,  Farley  sleeps  in 
the  raw. 

Lana  Turner's  bedroom  is  an  ultra- 
modern version  of  the  centuries -old  bed 
with  the  drawn  draperies.  Lana  sleeps  in  a 
double  bed  and  likes  to  sleep  late  when 
not  working.  Lana  has  "blackout"  cur- 
tains hidden  beneath  the  tapestry  draper- 
ies which  are  drawn  to  keep  out  all  light. 
She  sleeps  in  hand-embroidered  night- 
gowns. 

A  MONG  the  Hollywood  actresses  who  pre- 
fer  feminine  bedrooms  is  Ava  Gard- 
ner. Ava  sleeps  in  an  upholstered  over- 
sized bed  in  a  modern  bedroom.  She 
always  has  a  book  on  the  night  table  next 
to  the  bed.  Ava  sleeps  in  tailored  flan- 
nelette pajamas,  which  must  be  the  bright- 
est colors  she  can  find.  Ava  says  she  likes 
to  be  gay  in  bed.  Marlene  Dietrich  once 
told  me  that  she  spends  almost  as  much 
time  preparing  for  bed  as  she  does  pre- 
paring to  go  to  a  party.  "A  woman  should 
look  her  best  in  bed,"  said  she. 

Betty  Grable,  who  is  strictly  feminine, 
has  just  that  type  of  bedroom.  Betty  sleeps 
in  a  large  bed  and  without  a  pillow  and 
with  mountains  of  blankets.  She  used  to 
wear  pajamas,  but  now  she  wears  only 
white  satin-and-lace  nighties.  Betty  ad- 
mits this  is  because  Harry  prefers  night- 
gowns. She  always  tries  to  please  Harry. 
Elizabeth  Taylor  is  re-doing  the  bedroom 
in  her  new  Westwood  apartment.  It  will  be 
all  in  lilac — with  a  blue-lilac  rug — very 
dainty,  frilly  and  feminine.  But  Liz  isn't 
one  to  stay  in  bed  for  breakfast.  She  likes 
to  have  it  on  a  card  table  in  front  of.  the 
fireplace.  She  wears  chintz  housecoats  or 
cute,  short,  organdy  breakfast  coats.  She 
sleeps  in  nightgowns,  now  preferably  lilac 
in  color.  She  has  to  have  plenty  of  air  and 
lightweight  blankets.  She  cannot  sleep 
unless  a  goosedown  comforter  is  over  her — 
even  when  she  lies  down  for  a  cat-nap, 
which  isn't  often.  Anne  Baxter,  who  has 
become  a  cute  dish  since  her  marriage  to 
John  Hodiak,  sleeps  in  a  large  bed  and 
wears  lacy  black  nightgowns.  Anne  wanted 
to  wear  one  of  her  own  nightgowns  in  a 
boudoir  scene  for  one  of  her  pictures.  She 
was  told  she  couldn't — that  the  censors 
would  object. 

All  bedroom  scenes  in  movies  must  be 
approved  by  the  Johnston  Office  which 
insists  that  all  bedroom  scenes  be  photo- 
graphed in  good  taste.  Producers  and  di- 
rectors appear  to  believe  that  twin  beds 
guarantee  good  taste.  Very  seldom  will 
you  see  a  married  couple  in  a  double  bed 
in  the  movies.  It  may  be  okay  in  real  life, 
or  even  on  television,  but  the  movies  are 
even  afraid  of  taking  a  chance  on  heaving 
Percy  Kilbride  and  Marjorie  Main,  play- 


ing man  and  wife,  get  into  a  double  bed. 
The  bedroom  sequences  of  Hollywood 
movies  usually  provoke  laughs  when  shown 
in  Europe. 

'C' ORTUNATELY,  however,  no  censor  has 
any  jurisdiction  over  how  a  glamor 
girl  like  Linda  Darnell  retires  at  home. 
Linda  sleeps  in  those  new  short  nylon 
gowns  which,  she  says,  "feel  like  a  cloud." 
She  has  them  in  yellow,  pink,  blue  and 
white,  with  matching  short  robes.  Linda 
likes  to  be  active  in  bed,  eating  and 
reading.  She  admits  to  an  odd  bed  habit: 
she  always  tosses  salt  over  her  shoulder 
when  getting  up  in  the  morning.  Hedy 
Lamarr,  who  sleeps  in  neither  a  nightgown 
nor  pajamas,  has  her  own  idiosyncrasy. 
Hedy  always  makes  her  own  bed.  She 
claims  she  can't  sleep  unless  she  fixes  it 
herself. 

I  don't  know  of  any  actress,  but  I  know 
of  a  couple  of  actors,  who  can  fall  asleep 
faster  than  you  can  say  "insomnia."  I  have 
seen  Gary  Cooper  go  sound  asleep  in  his 
chair  on  the  set,  despite  all  the  noise  and 
activity  going  on  aroimd  him.  Coop  snoozes 
peacefully  until  the  director  wakens  him 
to  play  a  love  scene.  The  only  other  actor 
in  a  league  with  Cooper  is  George  Sanders, 
but  he  can't  hit  the  sack  as  quickly.  San- 
ders insists  his  favorite  exercise  is  sleep- 
ing, but  he  goes  to  his  portable  dressing- 
room  to  do  it.  Sanders  gets  annoyed  with 
directors  who  waken  him  before  they're 
ready  to  shoot.  The  story  is  told  that  his 
kitchen  once  caught  fire  while  he  was 
napping.  After  firemen  had  extinguished 
the  blaze,  he  sleepily  appeared  to  inquire 
what  was  going  on.  When  he  was  told,  he 
said,  "All  right,  but  don't  make  so  much 
noise  about  it."  Sanders  is  particular 
about  his  pajamas  and  has  them  designed 
for  him.  He  always  wears  both  the 
trousers  and  jacket.  He  sleeps  in  an  over- 
sized bed  big  enough  for  his  huge  frame 
and  reinforced  so  he  doesn't  have  to  be 
careful  when  he  gets  into  it.  Sanders  sleeps 
so  much  he  wears  out  a  mattress  a  year. 

"Hopalong"  Cassidy  is  another  gentle- 
man who  can  take  a  cat-nap  whenever  he 
desires,  and  finds  this  very  helpful  on  his 
strenuous  tours  throughout  the  country.  I 
hate  to  be  disillusioning,  but  William 
Boyd  sleeps  in  pajamas — not  "Hopalong" 
Cassidy  pajamas,  either — and  he  snores! 
I  would  say  that  rather  a  frank  fellow 
about  his  bed  habits  is  Steve  Cochran,  who 
confesses,  "I  sleep  in  pajamas — if  the 
laundry  came  back." 

Tony  Curtis,  unlike  other  movie  heroes, 
hasn't  an  elaborate  or  fancy  bedroom.  He 
resides  in  a  two-bedroom  apartment  in 
San  Fernando  Valley  with  his  mother, 
father  and  10-year-old  brother,  Bobby. 
Tony  shares  a  bedroom  with  Bobby.  It 
is  light  gray  with  a  king-size  bed  in  the 
middle.  They  also  share  pajamas,  splitting 
up  the  tops  and  bottoms  between  them. 
Tony  usually  wears  the  bottoms.  Records, 
books,  and  boyish  junk  are  strewn  all  over. 
Tony  has  a  large  picture  of  Janet  Leigh  on 
his  nightstand.  The  family  is  just  getting 
used  to  the  fact  that  soon  Tony  will  be  an 
important  movie  star.  One  day,  after  he'd 
finished  The  Prince  Who  Was  a  Thief, 
Tony  returned  home  completely  exhausted. 
He  didn't  even  stop  for  dinner,  but  went  at 
once  into  the  bedroom  and  flung  himself 
across  the  bed.  Soon  his  mother  tiptoed 
into  the  room,  looked  at  him  and  pleaded, 
"Bernie,  give  it  up." 

Events  happen  rapidly  in  Hollywood. 
When  I  started  to  write  this  article,  Rob- 
ert Taylor  and  Barbara  Stanwyck  had  an- 
nounced their  divorce  and  auctioned  off 
their  sepeirate  beds.  Just  as  I  reached  this 
page,  I  learned  that  Stanwyck  and  Taylor 
may  effect  a  reconciliation.  "Go  get  your- 
selves a  good  double  bed  this  time,"  is  my 
advice  to  them. 

And  so  to  bed.  The  End 


how  esther  and  ben  live 

(Continued  from  page  52)    (the  door  is 
usually  wide  open)  and  you're  in  a  high- 
i  beamed  room  with  a  brick  fireplace  at  one 
end  and  a  spinet  piano  at  the  other. 

A  loi  of  living  goes  on  in  this  com- 
fortably cluttered  room.  Ben's  desk 
stands  against  one  wall  so  that  he  can  do 
'  some  of  his  bookkeeping  here.  Esther 
keeps  dress  designs,  scripts,  and  other  stu- 
dio paraphernalia  in  a  filing  cabinet  imder 
the  stairs.  After  the  children  have  gone  to 
bed,  she  pulls  out  a  stack  of  papers  and 
does  her  homework.  Kimmie's  antique 
cradle  is  always  somewhere  in  the  living 
room.  It  gets  moved  about  to  accommo- 
date whomever  is  tending  him  at  the 
'  moment.  Benjie's  Salem  rocker  is  usually 
pulled  squarely  in  front  of  the  table  model 
R.C.A.  television  set  awaiting  "Time  for 
Beany"  and  "Howdy-Doody." 

When  the  Gages  have  four  or  more 
:  guests,  the  living  room  serves  as  a  din- 
'  ing  room,  too.    This  arrangement  is  true 
to  the  farmhouse  tradition.    Like  genera- 
tions of  WiUisimses  before  her,  Esther  owns 
a  Hutch  table  which  can  be  tipped  down 
for  dinner.    As  a  matter  of  fact,  she  has 
two.    The  smaller  one  stands  just  inside 
the  kitchen  door  with  its  top  up.   At  din- 
'  ner  time  it's  pulled  in  front  of  the  fire- 
place and  the  table  is  set  for  six  or  eight. 
The  larger  table  is  permanently  set  up 
[  in  the  living  room.   It  was  built  especially 
I  for  Esther  by  her  pet  cabinet  maker,  Sam 
;  Morse.  He  made  the  top  from  two  beauti- 

■  ful  old  hand  hewn  planks  so  that  the  wood 

■  is  antique  but  the  construction  is  new.  Mr. 


Because  Olivia  De  Havilland  likes 
to  be  called  "Mrs.  Goodrich," 
friends  now  call  her  "Olivia  De 
Goodrich." 

Earl  Wilson  in 

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.  Morse  had  to  make  it  larger  than  the  cus- 
tomary Hutch  table  because  Esther  needed 
,  an  over-size  piece  that  would  seat  at  least 
1  12.  "Anything  smaller  would  have  appeared 
i  dinky  in  this  huge  living  room,"  Esther 
explains.    And  on  this  table  is  one  of 
Esther's  original  and  smart  ideas  for  en- 
;  tertaining  a  crowd.     At  first  glance  it 
!  appears  to  be  a  lamp  with  a  blue  and 
:  white  ceramic  base.    It  is  that  and  more. 
The  lamp  base  is  a.ctually  a  two-gallon 
jug  sitting  on  a  miniature  milking  stool. 
;  For  a  long  time  Esther  and  Ben  used  the 
i  jug  whenever  they  gave  a  buffet  supper 
party.    Esther  would  fill  it  with  coffee, 
surroimd  it  with  cups  and  let  the  gang 
I  help  themselves.    Between  parties  it  sat 
!  on  the  shelf.    This  bothered  Esther  be- 
'■  cause  she's  a  practical  girl  and  hates  to 
let  anything  gather  dust  in  a  back  closet. 
,     One    evening    when    she    was  leafing 
through  a  home  magazine,  she  saw  an  ad 
'  for  miniatiu-e  antique  furniture.    The  ad 
;  gave  her  the  spring-board  for  her  idea, 
i  With  a  three-legged  stool  as  a  pedestal  she 
'  figvired  she  could  suspend  a  bulb  and 
shade  over  the  jug  and  she'd  have  a  useful 
and  handsome  lamp.  She  did  and  it  worked 
j  better  than  she'd  dreamed.    In  addition, 
!  the  small  stool  brought  the  jug  up  to  just 
'  the  right  height  for  fitting  a  coffee  cup 
under  the  spigot.    Now  the  jug  is  in  con- 
tinual use.    It's  a  lamp  all  the  time  but 
for  parties  it's  the  centerpiece  and  foim- 

■  tainhead  of  Esther's  dinner  table. 

'•  T)en  and  Esther  don't  go  in  for  elaborate 

■  parties.  They  have  the  sort  of  adapt- 
^  able  meals  that  can  always  be  expanded 

to  include  a  few  more  guests.  "My  moth- 
er's home  was  like  that,"  Esther  says.  "I 
guess  I  learned  it  from  her.  Besides,  it 
fits  in  when  you  live  farm-style  as  we  do." 


When  Esther  says  "farm-style"  she's  re- 
ferring to  her  kitchen-sitting  room. 

In  Grandma  Austin's  (Ben's  side  of  the 
family)  day  such  a  multi-purpose  room 
was  called  the  "keeping  room."  Literally 
everything  was'  kept  in  this  one  room  ex- 
cept the  livestock.  And  sometimes  on 
winter  nights  back  in  Bloomington,  111., 
the  stock  was  brought  in,  according  to  Ben. 

The  only  real  difference  between  Grand- 
ma Austin's  time  and  today  is  that  Esther 
has  a  Thermador  stove  with  two  ovens,  Ein 
electric  dishwater,  a  telephone,  a  garbage 
disposal  and  a  lot  of  Revereware  pots. 
Otherwise  the  room  functions  in  exactly 
the.  same  way. 

A  typical  supper-time  scene  at  the 
Gages  has  Alice,  the  cook,  preparing  din- 
ner in  the  fenced-off  work  area.  Annie, 
their  Hawaiian  nurse,  is  feeding  Kimmie 
in  his  highchair.  Esther  is  comfortably 
settled  in  the  fireside  chair  reading  to 
Benjie,  and  making  conversation  over  his 
head  to  Ben,  who's  carrying  on  a  business 
discussion  over  the  phone  from  a  reclining 
position  on  the  day  bed.  This  slightly 
mad  combination  of  working  whUe  sur- 
roimded  by  the  family  seems  to  be  the 
secret  of  their  cheerful  household. 

The  children  love  it.  They  never  fuss 
or  cry  for  attention  because  they  are 
right  smack  in  the  middle  of  everything. 
Esther  and  the  women  who  help  her  with 
the  house-work,  like  it  because  they  have 
companionship  as  they  bustle  aroimd  the 
kitchen.  At  first,  Ben  called  it  "hodge 
podge  lodge"  and  went  looking  for  a  quiet 
corner.  But  he's  getting  used  to  the 
friendly  hub-bub.  He  can  even  fill  his 
pipe,  answer  the  telephone  and  stir  the 
chili  all  at  one  time.  "Great  for  improv- 
ing your  powers  of  concentration,"  he 
often  remarks. 

At  the  opposite  end  of  the  house  away 
from  the  kitchen  are  the  children's  rooms. 
A  lot  of  careful  plarming  went  into  these 
two  rooms. 

Esther  spent  months  figuring  out  good, 
sensible  baby  decorating.  She  came  up 
vdth  some  unusual  but  practical  ideas. 
For  example,  the  wallpaper  in  Benjie's 
room  is  an  entrancing  circus  mural,  but  it's 
put  on  the  wall  at  a  point  above  the 
natural  wood  panelling  where  it's  too  high 
for  the  boy  to  crayon  or  peel  it  off.  In 
his  room,  Kimmie  is  separated  from  his 
niu-se  by  a  white  louvred  partition.  This 
makes  it  possible  to  cut  out  the  light  but 
not  the  air  when  he's  sleeping,  and  Annie 
can  hear  his  smallest  whimper. 

Both  children's  rooms  are  connected 
with  the  kitchen  by  a  Talk-A-Phone  sys- 
tem. When  it's  turned  on,  Esther  or  who- 
ever is  working  at  the  cooking  coimter, 
can  hear  baby  noises  from  the  niirsery. 
Esther  loves  to  enter  the  house  by  way  of 
the  kitchen  and  call  through  the  Talk-A- 
Phone.  The  babies  recognize  her  voice 
immediately. 

Before  moving  into  the  new  home, 
Esther  and  Ben  went  over  the  whole 
house  as  only  two  conscientious  parents 
can.  They  studied  every  possible  hazard 
and  then  had  it  baby-proofed.  In  other 
words,  they  put  safety  devices  at  aU  points 
where  they  anticipated  danger  for  their 
little  ones. 

A  gate  with  a  firm  catch  prevents  tod- 
dlers from  coming  inside  the  work  sec- 
tion of  the  kitchen  and  touching  the  stove. 
All  the  fireplaces  have  an  ingenious  metal 
lock  which  makes  it  impossible  for  any 
child  to  open  the  screen  and  get  near  the 
fire.  Esther  figured  she  couldn't  keep 
boys  from  trying  to  climb  a  fence  around 
a  pool  so  she  had  Ben  enclose  a  part  of 
the  backyard  as  a  playground  for  the  chil- 
dren. Then  she  equipped  it  with  all  sorts 
of  swings  and  toys  to  keep  them  happy 
inside  the  enclosure.  As  a  further  pre- 
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Benjie's  already  like  a  duck  in  the  water. 

In  designing  a  room  for  themselves, 
Esther  and  Ben  had  most  of  the  furniture 
built-in.  His  chest  of  drawers  is  tucked 
under  the  eaves.  Her  vanity  table  is  a 
shelfiike  drawer  in  the  dressing  room, 
and  one  wall  of  their  room  is  solid  with 
wardrobe  closets. 

"We  don't  have  a  lot  of  furniture  in  our 
bedroom,"  Esther  points  out,  "but  what  we 
have  is  pretty  special.  Take  our  bed,  for 
instance.  Ben  surprised  me  with  it  the 
first  Christmas  after  we  moved  in  the 
house.  I  had  always  talked  about  owning 
an  ideal  headboard  that  combined  all  the 
useful  features  of  night-stands.  Of  course 
I  couldn't  find  one  anywhere.  Ben  got 
together  with  Mr.  Morse,  and  the  two  of 
them  doped  out  our  bed.  Using  beautiful 
old  wood,  Mr.  Morse  built  a  deep  head- 
board. It  has  a  six-foot  shelf  along  the 
top  for  books  and  Ben's  pipes.  Behind 
two  sliding  panels  are  hidden  compart- 
ments for  our  two  telephones,  Kleenex, 
cold  cream,  and  all  the  necessary  bedside 
clutter.  During  the  day  we  keep  the  panels 
closed  and  the  headboard  looks  like  the 
top  of  a  massive  double  bed.  At  night  we 
open  the  two  niches  and  have  everything 
we  need  within  easy  reach. 

"Another  custom-made  piece  is  the 
wooden  valet  I  gave  Ben  for  his  birthday. 
I'll  admit  I  had  it  copied  from  a  rare  and 
expensive  antique  I  once  saw.  I  sketched 
it  tor  Mr.  Morse  and  he  built  me  a  replica 
to  fit  Ben's  suit  measurements. 

"And  lastly  there's  my  Contour  chair.  I 
didn't  have  anything  to  do  with  the  design 
of  this  but  I  might  have  had  because  it 
suits  me  to  a  "T."  It  holds  me  in  the  best 
and  most  relaxing  posture,  and  it's  the  first 
spot  I  land  on  after  a  day  at  the  studio. 
Then  Benjie  comes  and  plops  on  me  and 
we  have  our  evening  tussle." 

Naturally,  no  home  belonging  to  Esther 
Williams  would  be  complete  without  a 
pool.  Her  oval-shaped  tank  is  located  on 
a  rise  of  ground  away  from  the  large  oak 
trees  and  the  children's  bedrooms.  There's 


a  small  guest  house  and  snack  bar  beside 
the  pool,  EUid  this  summer  Ben  plans  to 
add  a  barbecue. 

As  a  rule,  Esther  keeps  the  water  at  a 
comfortable  80°  She  swims  an  easy  20 
laps  a  day.  Benjie,  at  21  months,  fsincies 
himself  quite  a  swimmer,  too.  He  can 
paddle  along  without  help  but  Esther  in- 
sists on  two  precautions.  She's  taught  him 
to  lie  on  his  stomach  whenever  he  comes 
near  the  edge  of  the  pool,  and  he  must 
wear  an  inflated  tube  so  that  he  doesn't 
get  tired  and  cramp  up. 

Almost  any  sunny  afternoon  from  May 
to  December  you  can  stop  by  the  Gages' 
and  find  them  out  by  the  pool.  Benjie  will 
probably  be  splashing  and  bobbing  in  the 
water  while  Kimmie  bounces  in  his  car- 
riage in  an  effort  to  mimic  his  brother. 
Ben  will  undoubtedly  be  waging  a  losing 
battle  with  the  leaves  that  blow  into  the 
pool.  Esther's  most  likely  taking  a  sun 
bath  and  keeping  an  eye  on  her  active  off- 
spring. It's  a  refreshing  and  pleasant 
sight — worth  stopping  to  watch. 

"We  always  intended  to  build  a  modern 
farmhouse  on  the  property  we  own  in  the 
Pacific  Palisades,"  Ben  reflects  idly,  "but 
I  don't  suppose  we'U  bother  now." 

"I  don't  suppose  so,"  Esther  echoes. 
"This  is  our  home  for  good."        The  End 


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what  do  they  do  with  all  that  money? 


88 


(Continued  from  page  49)  Few  stars  in 
that  situation  can  face  those  stern  facts. 
Few  stars  can  ask  themselves,  "What 
money?" 

Victor  Mature  is  a  good  example  of  the 
rare,  prudent  actor.  Although  his  income 
is  as  large  as  most,  he  has  resisted  every- 
one's efforts  to  make  him  live  like  a 
movie  star.  When  he  came  back  from 
the  service,  he  lived  for  almost  a  year  in 
a  small  bungalow  on  the  studio  lot,  and 
kept  his  money  in  a  metal  box  under  a 
cot.  This  showed  almost  complete  dis- 
regard for  the  money  itself,  but  not  the 
slightest  inclination  to  toss  it  into  the 
luxury  market.  Mature  seldom  lets  any- 
one else  take  a  dinner  check  or  buy  a 
drink,  but  he  lives  like  a  successful  real 
estate  salesman  rather  than  a  movie  star. 

The  Mature  home  is  on  a  middle  class 
residential  street  and,  according  to  Holly- 
wood standards,  is  tiny.  It  is  well  fur- 
nished and  nicely  decorated.  One  day 
when  he  found  out  that  the  same  news 
was  in  four  daily  papers,  he  stopped  tak- 
ing three  of  them.  He  has  a  bar  in  his 
home,  but  there  is  no  line  of  fancy  liqueurs 
on  the  shelf.  He  buys  the  same  brand 
suit  you  do,  and  he  thinks  a  Cadillac  was 
built  to  last  several  years.  He  ovras  a 
radio  and  television  store,  not  as  a  hobby, 
but  to  make  money — which  it  does  or  the 
manager  has  a  lot  of  explaining  to  do. 

Sunset  Boulevard  gave  the  public  a 
rather  exaggerated  idea  of  how  movie 
stars,  past  and  present  live.    No  old  time 


star  lives  so  extravagantly,  nor  does  a 
current  one.  The  flashy  present-day  stars 
live  in  elegance  almost  as  splendid  but 
on  a  more  modern  plane.  Gene  Kelly,  for 
instance,  has  a  home  that  would  be  hard 
to  beat  anywhere.  Van  Johnson  has  a 
private  theater  in  his.  Bing  Crosby's 
menage  is  a  palace.  And  most  of  the  top 
stars  have  anywhere  from  two  to  seven 
servants.  It's  hard  to  figure  out  how 
they  do  it. 

T^o  assist  the  reader  in  understanding 
why  movie  stars  can't  afford  to  live 
like  movie  stars  and  pay  taxes,  let  us 
take  four  fictional  movie  stars  and,  with- 
out attempting  absolute  accuracy,  see 
what  happens  to  their  dollars  in  a  general 
way. 

We  will  begin  with  Eric  Lansdowne.  He 
is  of  the  era  of  Gary  Cooper,  Gary  Grant, 
John  Wayne  and  other  stars  who  have 
been  making  big  money  for  about  20  years. 
He  is  still  a  big  star,  very  much  in  de- 
mand and  makes  two  pictures  a  year  for  a 
total  income  of  $300,000.  He  is  married, 
has  a  daughter  of  10,  and  is  paying  ali- 
mony to  a  former  wife. 

Because  Eric  can  barely  make  out  a 
laundry  list,  he  has  employed  a  business 
manager  who  picks  up  his  checks,  pays 
his  bills  and  handles  a  hundred  kindred 
matters  for  him.  Therefore,  Eric  never 
sees  his  money,  he  just  hears  about  it. 
The  first  thing  the  business  manager  does 
with  Eric's  dough  is  deduct  the  sum  of 


$16,000  as  legitimate,  off-the-top  expen- 
ditures for  charitable  contributions,  lesser 
taxes,  interest  paid  and  legitimate  enter- 
tainment. 

He  figures  up  other  deductible  items 
which  include  $30,000  (10%)  paid  an 
agent;  $15,000  (5%)  paid  a  business  mana- 
ger; $5,000  salary  for  a  secretary  and 
another  $5,000  for  office  expenses  (sup- 
plies, photos,  fan  mail  stationery,  stamps, 
etc.);  $5,000  retainer  to  his  attorney;  and 
$15,000  annual  alimony  to  his  ex-wife.  He 
is  also  allowed  to  deduct  $1,800  for  him- 
self, wife  and  child.  These  items  amount 
to  $92,800,  a  neat  tax  saving  except  that 
he  hasn't  got  the  money.  He  had  to  spend 
it  to  save  it.  He  subtracts  these  amounts 
from'  the  $300,000  and  winds  up  with  a 
net  taxable  income  of  $207,200. 

If  Eric  ever  looked  at  his  books  he 
would  be  delighted — until  he  looked  fur- 
ther and  saw  that  this  income  obliged 
him  to  give  Uncle  Sam  a  flat  $130,000— 
and  all  he  has  left  is  a  mere  $67,200.  What 
is  bad  about  $67,000,  you  might  ask,  but 
Eric  can  tell  you. 

In  the  first  place,  Eric  is  not  only  a 
movie  star  but  a  man  who  makes  $300,000 
a  year — and  he  must  live  like  both.  What 
does  it  cost  him?  Well,  take  his  home. 
It's  rather  lavish;  it  has  to  be.  However, 
in  the  interest  of  economy  he  has  cut 
down  to  two  servants,  a  cook  and  butler- 
maid.  He  pays  them  $400  a  month  or 
$4,800  a  year,  and  lucky  to  get  them  for 
that.  He  has  a  gardener  whom  he  pays 
$250  a  month  or  $3,000  a  year.  Upkeep 
of  the  grounds  and  house,  including  such 
necessities  as  new  plantings,  a  new  hose 
or  sprinkler  once  in  a  while,  replacing 
faucets,  painting  a  kitchen,  etc.  cost  him 
$1,200  a  year.  He  is  feeding  five  regular 
eaters  and  the  drop-in  trade  and  his 
grocery  bills  average  $750  a  month  or 
$9,000  a  year.  Then  there  is  liquor,  flowers 
for  the  house,  broken  lamps  and  ash 
trays  after  parties,  recovering  or  replac- 
ing minor  pieces  of  furniture  and  such 
and  all  this  works  out  to  another  $500  a 
month  or  $6,000  a  year.  Household,  then 
nicks  Mr.  Lansdowne  for  a  fast  $24,000 
a  year. 

But  that  isn't  all. 

Eric  never  did  get  his  mansion  fully 
paid  for,  so  he  is  paying  $7,000  a  year  on 
a  mortgage.  His  kid  goes  to  a  private 
school  and  that  costs  .$1,500  a  year.  Cloth- 
ing for  the  family  runs  $10,000  a  year.  He 
has  a  bad  gall  bladder,  his  wife  is  a 
hypochondriac  and  his  daughter  is  sus- 
ceptible to  everything  that  comes  along, 
so  he  pays  the  family  doctor  $5,000  a 
year  to  keep  them  all  functioning.  Eric 
himself  carries  $150,000  in  insurance  and 
sends  the  agent  $6,000  a  year  to  keep  them 
in  force.  There  are  two  Cadillacs  in  the 
garage  and  a  Ford.  The  upkeep,  gas,  oil, 
washing,  lubrication  and  trade-in  cash 
paid  out  on  these  cars  is  never  less  than 
$7,000  per  annum.  He  belongs  to  two 
clubs,  doesn't  patronize  them  much,  but 
manages  to  work  up  a  tab  of  $300  a  month 
at  them,  including  dues,  so  that  accounts 
for  another  $3,600  a  year. 

Now  you  can  begin  feeling  sorry  for 
Eric,  because  the  total  of  all  these  neces- 
sary expenses  is  $64,100.  Uncle  Sam  left 
him  with  $67,000,  so  he  has  a  residue  of 
$2,900 

These  figures  have  not  been  exaggerated 
in  the  least,  and  have  been  computed 
after  the  careful  examination  of  many 
confidential  income  and  outgo  reports  on 
famous  movie  stars  in  Eric's  bracket.  At 
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farther  out  of  town  than  the  Cadillac  will 
drive  on  a  full  tank,  if  his  gall  bladder 
doesn't  have  to  come  out,  if  he  doesn't 
have  another  child,  if,  if ,  if .  .  .  .  One  bad 
break  in  any  direction  could  easily  ruin 
Eric  Lansdowne  for  life.  And  if  he  ever 
lags  in  his  tax  payments  he's  a  gone 
goose,  for  the  interest  and  added  layout 
of  cash  to  pay  them  up  to  date  would  be 
ruinous.  If  you  feel  unhappy  for  Eric 
now,  shudder  a  bit,  because  these  figures 
do  not  include  his  state  taxes. 

HAVE  you  ever  dreamt  that  you'd  like 
to  get  out  of  that  advertising  agency 
and  come  to  Hollywood  and  be  a  movie 
star?  Don't  do  it,  young  fellow.  You 
might  make  good  like,  let's  say  Dalton 
Crewcut,  the  idol  of  the  bobby-soxers, 
and  really  be  unhappy. 

Dalton  is  of  the  era  of  Van  Johnson, 
Peter  Lawford,  Robert  Walker  and 
others.  He  is  single,  28  years  of  age,  lives 
simply  in  a  nice  home  with  a  houseboy. 
He  is  a  ladies'  man  and  his  salary  is  $3,500 
a  week.  He's  on  top  of  the  world,  isn't  he? 
Let's  look  at  his  books. 

Because  his  contract  calls  for  40  weeks 
work  a  year,  Dalton  draws  $140,000  in 
studio  salary  and  another  $12,000  for  four 
radio  shows,  making  a  total  income  of 
$152,000.  His  business  manager  promptly 
knocks  off  $7,200  for  contributions,  in- 
terest, taxes,  etc.,  $15,200  for  his  agent 
and  $7,600  for  his  business  manager,  a 
total  of  $30,000  leaving  Dalt  a  solid  $122,- 
000  in  net  income.  The  Crewcut  lad  is 
nice  to  his  mother,  sending  her  a  few 
bucks  now  and-  then,  but  because  Ma  has 
another  source  of  income,  he  is  not  allowed 
to  deduct  it,  so  he  pays  a  tax  of  $78,000 
and  finds  himself  holding  $44,000  to  live 
on  for  the  year.  That  shouldn't  be  hard, 
should  it? 

Now  let's  estimate  what  it  takes  to 
keep  Dalton  going  in  his  fine,  new  life. 
A  houseboy  costs  him  $300  a  month  or 
$3,600  a  year.  The  house  isn't  paid  for, 
so  that  naUs  Dalt  for  another  $5,000  per 
annum  on  the  mortgage.  The  gardener 
gets  $200  a  month  to  jockey  the  lawn 
mower — after  aU  a  man  can't  live  in  a 
weed  patch — and  that's  $2,400  a  year.  He 
doesn't  eat  in  too  much,  so  food  and  a 
Uttle  grog  for  the  portable  bar  runs  into 
$300  a  month  or  $3,600  per  fiscal.  But, 
because  Dalton  dines  out,  mostly  with 
glamor  girls,  and  then  takes  them  to 
swanky  night  clubs  and  shows  (a  very 
fair  average  for  such  pastimes  in  Holly- 
wood runs  to  about  $100  a  night)  the 
tab  at  the  end  of  the  year  is  $12,000. 

You  never  saw  a  successful  young  movie 
star  without  a  brand  new  convertible 
Cad,  and  Dalt  has  one  that  after  oil,  gas, 
servicing,  a  couple  of  minor  accidents  and 
a  couple  of  greind  lost  on  trade-in,  costs 
him  $5,000  for  the  year.  He  wants  to  get 
as  much  insurance  as  he  can  at  a  good 
rate  while  he  is  young,  so  he  obligates 
himself  for  $5,000  a  year  in  premiums. 
Then  his  club  dues  and  expenses  take 
$300  a  month  or  $3,600  for  12  months.  He 
is  a  sharp  dresser,  and  when  he  figures 
it  all  up  at  tax  time,  he  finds  he  has 
dropped  $3,000  in  haberdashery  and  tailor 
bills.  He's  pretty  healthy,  but  even  so, 
what  with  shots  for  hangovers,  cold  treat- 
ments and  a  lame  back  or  two  he  pays  a 
doctor  $1,000  to  keep  him  in  acting  shape 
for  12  months.  We  don't  have  to  go  any 
further  to  show  you  that  Dalton  Crewcut 
has  worries,  because  he  has  spent  $44,200 
to  live,  on  a  net  income,  after  taxes,  of 
just  $44,000. 

These  figures,  too,  do  not  include  emer- 
gency loans  to  old  pals,  the  dough  to 
Mom,  cigarettes,  hair  tonic,  shaving 
stuff  (the  studio  won't  let  him  grow  a 
beard),  a  couple  of  trips  to  New  York, 
90  presents  to  girls,  poker  losses  and  other 


nonsense.  Dalton  is  sometimes  not  so 
sure  he  did  the  right  thing  by  enrolling 
in  that  little  theater. 

AND  how  about  the  lad  who  was  picked 
off  a  bus  two  years  ago  and  iDecame 
an  immediate  smash  with  fan  mail  com- 
ing in  by  the  truckload?  They  started 
him  at  $75.00  a  week  and  now  his  salary 
is  $12,000  a  year.  He  is  like  Tony  Curtis 
of  some  time  ago,  Rory  Calhoun  or 
Guy  Madison,  a  couple  of  years  after 
they  got  in  the  movies..  Let  us  name  him 
Laddy  Washburn. 

Laddy  is  not  in  too  bad  a  shape,  actually, 
because  after  he  has  paid  his  taxes,  he  has 
a  balance  of  $8,100.  He  is  a  big  star  but 
he  can't  live  like  one — he  hasn't  got  the 
money.  When  he  came  to  Hollywood,  his 
mother  and  father  came  with  him  and 
because  their  income  is  only  about  $100 
a  month  from  a  small  investment,  they 
all  move  into  a  house  together.  It's  a 
modest  place,  furnished,  that  costs  $150 
a  month  or  $1,800  a  year.  Laddy  has  a 
small  car  a  few  years  old,  but  it  still 
costs  $600  a  year  to  keep  it  running.  Ma 
is  a  sharp  customer  in  a  super  market, 
so  food  for  the  family  runs  to  $100  a 
month  or  $1,200  a  year.  Laddy  keeps  a 
small  insurEince  policy  on  which  he  pays 
$150  a  year.  He  belongs  to  an  athletic 
club,  lifts  weights  and  such,  and  that 
drains  $600  a  year  from  his  roll. 

There  is  nothing  Laddy  would  Uke  more 
than  to  be  a  clothes  horse  like  Dalton 
Crewcut,  but  he  can't  afford  it,  so  he 
struggles  along  on  $500  a  year  for  garb. 
Medical  care  for  the  family — they  don't 
call  a  doctor  unless  absolutely  necessary 
— is  $500  a  year  and  the  household  utilities, 
gas,  water,  phone,  etc.,  are  kept  to  a 
small  $300  a  year  expenditure.  Laddy  has 
one  joy  in  life,  really,  and  it  is  his  biggest 
expense.  He  is  in  love  with  that  glamorous 
young  movie  star  Sally  Singer.  Every- 
where they  go  they  are  photographed  to- 
gether and,  being  young,  they  go  plenty. 
But,  despite  the  fact  they  don't  drink 
much  and  seldom  order  pheasant  under 
glass  for  diimer,  it  still  costs  Laddy  $2,500 
a  year  to  court  his  girl.  Everything  listed 
here  runs  into  $7,900,  and  taken  from  his 
net  of  $8,100,  Laddy  has  a  neat  $200 
left  with  which  to  play  the  stock  market 
or  buy  an  engagement  ring. 

They're  a  lovely  couple,  Laddy  Wash- 
burn and  Sally  Singer,  and  so  obviously 
in  love.  The  gossip  columnists  write  about 
them  all  the  time,  and  they  are  the  pets 
of  the  photographers.  Their  romance  has 
been  going  on  for  quite  a  few  months 
now,  though,  and  people  are  begirming  to 
get  a  httle  impatient.  Sally  and  Laddy 
want  to  get  married.  But  do  you  know 
why  they  don't?   They  can't  afford  to! 

They  figured  it  out,  so  let  us.  Imagine 
they've  been  married  for  a  year.  We'll 
forget  the  wedding  and  honeymoon.  Some- 
body had  to  pay  for  that  and  neither  Sally 
nor  Laddy's  folks  could  afford  it — so  a 
few  thousand  dollars  is  a  debt  we  will 
saddle  them  with. 

Their  combined  incomes,  her  $30,000  and 
his  $12,000  is  $42,000  a  year.  Deductible 
items,  before  the  tax  bite  are  $12,000, 
leaving  them  $30,000.  The  tax,  on  a  double 
return,  is  $8,000  and  they  wind  up  with 
$22,000  net. 

Laddy  and  Sally  are  sensible,  so  they 
rent  a  fiirnished  house  for  $300  a  month 
or  $3,600  a  year.  They  find  a  couple  who 
will  work  cheap,  $3,600  for  both.  They've 
got  a  yard  and  a  front  lawn  and  the 
man  with  the  hoe  charges  them  $1,800  to 
take  care  of  it  for  the  four  seasons.  They 
market  carefuUy,  very  carefully,  and  spend 
only  $150  a  month  for  food;  that  makes 
another  $1,800  a_  year.  They  remember 
the  courting  places,  but  they  only  go  out 


once  a  week.  At  a  low  $50  an  evening,  that 
comes  to  $2,500  a  year — a  big  bite,  to  be 
sure,  but  they  have  to  be  seen  around. 
Now  they  have  two  good  cars,  and  that 
puts  a  nick  of  $5,000  a  year  into  the 
budget  for  upkeep  and  trade-ins.  Laddy 
keeps  his  clothing  bills  down  and  Sally 
slices  hers  a  little,  so  it  costs  $1,200  be- 
tween them  for  rags.  Insurance  comes  to 
$150  a  year  and  medical  expenses  $300. 
Sally  still  goes  to  the  beauty  psirlor  for 
$400  and  still  buys  $300  worth  of  cos- 
metics. Two  go  to  the  club  now,  so  the 
price  goes  up  to  $1,000;  and,  because 
they  now  have  a  household  and  accept 
invitations  themselves,  the  Washbums 
spend  $1,400  a  year  entertaining  at  home. 
Laddy  sends  his  elderly  parents  $1,800 
a  year  ($150  a  month)  to  augment  their 
tiny  income,  making  a  grand  total  of 
$24,250  worth  of  expenditures  for  the  year. 

Alone,  Laddy  and  Sally  remain  reason- 
ably solvent  but  frustrated  emotionally; 
married,  they  wind  up  with  a  deficit  of 
$2,200.  And  everybody  wants  to  know  why 
they  don't  get  married.  If  Laddy  and  his 
bride  want  to  enjoy  their  youth  and  go 
to  shows,  take  trips,  have  hobbies,  give 
presents,  buy  a  small  boat  for  weekends, 
go  on  picnics  and  do  any  of  the  other 
things  young  couples  like  to  do,  they 
wUl  wind  up  in  the  poor  house. 

"lYJoviE  stars  in  the  main,  believe  they 
■L'-l  can't  live  on  a  strict  budget  because  it 
doesn't  look  good.  They  can't  economize 
too  much  or  people  will  say  they  are 
cheap — people  who  can't  add,  that  is. 
They  have  to  maintain  the  honorable  front 
of  the  idol,  so  they  go  in  the  hole. 

It  is  obviously  impossible  to  Uve  in  the 
proper  manner  and  come  out  with  enough 
to  start  an  estate,  so  what  does  the  star 
do?  He  doesn't  pay  all  of  his  taxes,  figur- 
ing to  make  it  up  later,  and  the  first  thing 
he  knows  he  is  in  so  deep  he  cannot  get 
out.  Uncle  Sam  is  a  kindly  but  firm 
creditor.  His  agents  don't  make  the  laws, 
they  only  enforce  them,  and  they  are 
sworn  not  to  jeopardize  the  Boss's  in- 
terests. Therefore,  when  a  star  gets  to  the 
point  where  current  income  won't  pay 
present  and  back  taxes,  an  Internal  Rev- 
enue Bureau  man  sticks  up  a  sign  and 
takes  away  a  house,  or  cars,  or  anything 
else  that  is  owned  (paid  for  in  full  or 
not)  and  sells  them  to  settle  the  debt. 
This  doesn't  help  the  movie  star  too  much. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  it  might  hinder  him, 
for,  as  in  the  case  of  the  DeToths,  when 
the  government  moves  in,  all  the  other 
creditors,  to  protect  their  interests,  file 
liens,  too,  cind  the  panic  is  on.  The  star 
can't  pay — and  might  have  to  go  into 
bankruptcy.  In  the  case  of  the  DeToths 
again,  their  assets  slightly  exceeded  their 
liabilities,  but  with  everyone  demanding 
payment  at  once,  they  were  forced  to  go 
to  court  to  ask  a  receiver  to  liquidate 
them  peacefully. 

A  star's  only  chance  is  a  business  man- 
ager. There  are  two  kinds;  one  the  aggres- 
sive type,  like  Bo  Christian  Roos,  Holly- 
wood's most  successful,  who  is  a  wizard 
at  investments  that  pay  a  long  profit;  the 
other  is  represented  by  Joseph  Wren,  a 
conservative  model — and  one  of  the  old- 
est-operating— who  rules  his  clients  with 
the  temperament  of  a  shrew.  He  saves  and 
invests  in  only  the  soundest  of  enterprises, 
hewing  to  the  thought  that  it  isn't  his 
money  and  he  has  to  be  careful  with  it.  A 
few  former  tax  agents  are  now  in  the  field 
and  doing  weU  because  of  their  experi- 
ence in  Uncle  Sam's  front  office.  One  is 
Jack  Schroader,  a  lad  who,  when  he 
was  an  agent,  once  gave  a  star  making 
close  to  a  half  million  a  year  the  choice 
of  living  on  $100  a  week  until  the  tax 
tab  was  paid  or  recommending  that 
the  government  sell  him  out.    The  star 


paid  off — and  sends  clients  to  Schroader. 

When  next  you  envy  a  star,  think  of 
this.  If  it  is  Gary  Grant,  and  he  makes 
8300,000  a  year,  he  pays,  more  than  likely, 
at  least  8130,000  to  the  government.  If 
it  is  Howard  Duff,  and  he  makes  8150,000 
a  year,  he  will  likely  drop  $75,000  into  the 
income  tax  kitty  and  have  to  spend  the 
rest  of  it  hving  up  to  the  gross  income 
and  star  status.  If  it  is  Shelley  Winters,  or 
Farley  Granger — and  the  gossips  say  they 
average  about  $1,000  a  week  each — you 
can  bet  that  after  they  pay  Washington 
they  hardly  have  enough  left  to  buy  a 
brace  of  beers.  And  if  it  is  Tony  Curtis, 
feel  real  sorry  for  him,  or  any  of  the  kids 
like  him.  They  come  into  the  business  at  a 
salary  a  good  deal  less  than  a  fair  plumber, 
and  even  when  they  reach  the  top  (in 
popularity — not  income)  thej'  seldom  get 
over  8500  weekly,  so  that  they  are  forced 
to  spend  their  days  acting  like  millionaires 
and  their  nights  wrapped  in  the  arms  of 
fear  and  worry. 

Gone  is  the  era  of  fabulous  jewels,  hand- 
built  cars,  closets  full  of  mink,  magnifi- 
cent mansions  and  underfoot  servants. 
Now  upon  Hollywood  is  the  era  of  the 
pinched  penny,  the  wary  credit  manager 
and  elegant,  genteel  poverty.      The  End 


candy  'n'  cake 


(Continued  from  page  45)  she  returned  to 
the  gate.  Betty  took  me  aside.  "You 
know,"  she  said,  "I  think  Candy'U  grow 
up  to  be  another  Emily  Post.  But  for  a 
while  I  had  my  doubts." 

It  seems  that  for  weeks  before  the  party 
Betty  and  the  children's  nurse,  Kirshie, 
had  been  coaching  Candy  on  the  gentle  art 
of  being  a  perfect  hostess.  Candy  hadn't 
appeared  to  be  absorbing  any  of  the  rules. 
It  wasn't  until  the  time  came  to  apply  them 
that  Betty  realized  she'd  been  paying  close 
attention. 

ONE  glimpse  of  the  backyard  convinced 
me  that  the  Big  Top  had  set  up  head- 
quarters on  the  spot.  The  color  scheme 
was  green  and  yellow.  The  trunk  of  a 
large  olive  tree  was  wrapped  with  crepe 
paper.  Yellow  ribbons  streamed  from  the 
branches  and  attached  to  each  ribbon  was 
a  gaily  wrapped  gift.  A  big  sign  labeled 
it  The  Birthday  Tree. 

An  immense  cellophane  tent  had  been 
set  up.  Inside  were  favor-laden  tables 
and  small  chairs. 

"Lindsay  had  a  western  party  on  her 
birthday,"  Betty  explained,  "so  we  wanted 
Candy's  to  be  different." 

Betty  and  her  babies  have  been  circus- 
minded  ever  since  she  worked  in  The 
Greatest  Show  on  Earth,  and  it  didn't  take 
long  to  find  out  that  everyone  had  caught 
the  spirit.  I  was  heading  in  the  general 
direction  of  the  clowm  when  I  heard  a 
scream.  "Here  comes  my  boyfriend!" 
Candy  was  shouting.  In  walked  Bruce 
Tebbe,  a  handsome  young  gentleman  who, 
rising  to  the  occasion,  planted  a  birthday 
kiss  on  her  cheek,  and  proceeded  to  hug  her 
so  hard  she  fell  downl 

Most  of  the  guests  were  too  busy  to 
notice  this  touch  of  romance,  however. 
Some  of  the  30  smaU  fry  were  friends  whose 
families  are  movie-folk.  There  were  Mimi 
and  Monica  Henreid,  whose  own  birthday 
parties  are  looked  forward  to  by  the  young 
set.  Mrs.  Don  DeFore  brought  Penny, 
Dawn,  and  David.  The  girls  and  their 
mother  were  dressed  in  mother-daughter 
outfits,  and  Mom  looked  as  young  as  her 
daughters.  Sue  Ladd  and  David  were  on 
hand.  And  Vincente  MinneUi  had  escorted 
Liza  and  her  nurse  to  the  gate,  and  prom- 
ised to  return  for  them.  The  majority  of 
the  guests  were  from  the  Brentwood  Town 


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pranced  on  their  hind  legs,  and  had  their 
audience  begging  for  more. 

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as  they  jumped  for  presents.  Betty  and 
Ted  helped  those  who  couldn't  quite  reach 
the  packages.  Then  the  wrappings  flew  as 
the  boxes  were  opened.  Inside  were  toy 
animals — bears,  elephants,  seals,  tigers. 
Candy's  gifts  were  placed  in  a  basket  to  be 
opened  the  next  morning. 

Things  moved  along  at  a  mighty  speed. 
"Isn't  it  wonderful?"  Betty 'd  stop  to  say 
every  so  often.  "Sometimes  they  get  tired 
and  start  to  cry,  or  Wcint  to  go  home — but 
they  seem  to  be  having  too  much  fun!" 

It  was  easy  to  see  why  no  one  would 
think  of  climbing  over  the  back  fence.  The 
crowd  was  adjourning  to  the  tent.  Betty 
had  had  the  local  bakery  make  up  tiny 
rolls.   Cocktail  sausages  made  perfect  min- 


iature hotdogs.  The  hamburgers  were 
pint-sized,  too. 

The  colorful  horns  and  balloons  gave 
the  food  a  bit  of  competition.  And  there 
were  jockey  caps  for  the  fellows  and 
crowns  for  the  girls.  Candy  drew  all  eyes 
when  the  birthday  cake  was  brought  out. 
The  frosted  production  was  set  before 
her  and  she  did  her  ovsm  slicing,  after 
blowing  out  the  candles  and  making  her 
wish.  She  never  told  her  wish,  but  a  few 
minutes  later  she  raced  up  to  her  mother. 
"Has  it  come?"  she  asked. 

"I  think  so,"  Betty  smiled.  "It's  a  very 
special  present,"  she  told  me. 

"A  weal  wive  wammy,"  Candy  informed 
me. 

"A  what?" 

"She  means  a  real  live  lamb,"  Ted  trans- 
lated. 

The  lamb,  it  seems,  was  Candy's  and 
Lindsay's  hearts'  desire.  "But  is  it  really 
for  real?"  Everybody  had  to  be  shown. 

Came  the  journey  to  the  nursery.  The 
children  were  taken  in  a  few  at  a  time. 
There  indeed  was  a  real  live  lamb — all  of 
two  weeks  old.  David  Ladd  was  enchanted. 
He  knew  just  the  place  for  the  "wammy" 
and  was  all  for  taking  it  along  to  Alsulad, 
the  Ladd's  ranch. 

"Wammy" — who  later  came  to  be  known 
as  "Nancy  Frances,"  nearly  stole  the  show 
from  My  Friend  Flicka,  who  was  only  on 
film.  The  movie  was  shown  in  the  living 
room  to  the  group  happily  seated  on  the 
floor. 

It  was  7: 30  when  The  End  flashed  upon 
the  screen.  The  only  thing  the  guests  were 
vmhappy  about  was  going  home.  "I  had 
a  wonderful  time,"  I  told  Candy  and  right 
away  I  knew  I'd  made  the  imderstatement 
of  the  year.  And  from  the  twinkle  in 
Betty's  eye  as  she  watched  me  skip  out  the 
door  with  my  balloon  and  crown,  I  think 
she  knew  it,  too.  The  End 


the  low  down  on  macrae 


(Continued  from  page  43)  (If  you  don't 
laugh  ecstatically  people  think  you've  gone 
Hollywood.  Going  Hollywood  means  you're 
a  stuck-up  bum.)  Gordon  actually  got 
named  as  "uncooperative"  by  the  press 
last  year,  even  though  he  gave  58  inter- 
views, and  every  interview  you  give  at 
home  involves  dressing  up  three  reluctant 
children  and  making  them  act  human 
until  the  nice  reporter  goes  away. 

Speaking  of  interviews,  we're  beginning 
to  worry  about  running  out  of  material. 

"I'd  like  to  stay  in  this  business  15  years," 
Gordon  said  the  other  day,  "and  I  don't 
know  what  we're  going  to  tell  them  that 
they  don't  already  know."  He  fixed  me 
with  an  eye.  "You'll  have  to  have  a  dozen 
more  kids,  we'll  make  them  into  a  La- 
crosse team,  and  when  you  get  your  new 
mink  coat,  you  can  walk  on  it,  like  who- 
ever that  actress  was." 

I  fixed  him  with  an  eye  right  back.  "I'm 
going  to  put  my  new  mink  in  the  ice-box." 

"Hmm,"  he  said.  "Good  copy." 

So  far  he  hasn't  bought  me  the  mink, 
but  I've  got  the  ice-box,  with  a  whole 
11 -room  house  around  it.  And  a  pool. 
We  searched  for  a  year  and  a  half  before 
we  foimd  this  place.  I  wanted  a  house 
that  looked  like  it  came  from  the  East. 

When  I  told  this  to  the  owner  (an  artist 
who'd  raised  his  own  family  there)  he 
seemed  surprised.  "But  this  is  a  Southern 
Colonial  house,"  he  said. 

"New  England,"  I  said. 

"New  Orleans,"  he  said. 

"Nouveau  riche,"  said  Gordon.  "Here's 
a  check." 

That  house  is  a  dream.  Our  room  is 
turquoise  and  white;   white  shutters,  a 


white  fireplace,  beautiful  polished  ma- 
hogany floor,  and  a  door  that  opens  right 
out  onto  the  peol. 

The  girls  have  a  wing  to  themselves, 
with  identical  dressing-rooms  and  bed- 
rooms and  closets,  and  their  bathroom  has 
its  own  small  size  equipment.  Heather 
likes  the  shady  side  of  the  house,  so  we've 
got  her  there,  and  we're  decorating  in 
blue;  Meredith  likes  sun,  so  she's  yellow 
with  butterflies.  Gar's  room  is  on  the 
ground  floor,  with  a  separate  entrance, 
but  since  he's  only  three,  he  won't  be 
needing  it  for  a  while.  He's  got  wall  paper 
called  "Happy  Valley,"  red,  green,  yellow, 
with  farmers,  apples,  etc.,  and  his  furn- 
iture's big  and  washable,  and  his  bath  has 
roosters  all  over  it.  Since  it's  downstairs, 
we  can  use  it  as  a  powder  room  when 
there's  company. 

I  picked  out  all  the  wall  paper  on  our 
recent  trip  to  New  York  (Gordon  goes 
there  twice  a  year  to  do  personal  appear- 
ances) and  for  several  reasons  this  last 
jaimt  is  one  I  won't  forget  in  a  hurry. 

New  York  City  is  full  of  mixed  sen- 
sations for  Gordon  and  me,  nowadays. 
It's  beautiful  and  exciting,  it  holds  a 
million  memories,  but  we  don't  have  fun 
there  the  way  we  used  to.  Not  that  I'm 
unhappy  over  the  fabulous  success  Gor- 
don's having,  or  the  things  it's  brought  us. 
Only  that  I  sometimes  think  you  expe- 
rience more  thrills — or  at  least  they  mean 
more — while  you're  still  struggling,  and 
you  have  time  for  just  the  two  of  you.  And 
you  get  to  take  a  ferry  ride  once  in  a  while. 

This  year,  we  arrived  at  the  Park 
Sheraton  Hotel,  and  the  phone  started 
ringing.  Gordon  was  booked  for  several 
shows  a  day  at  the  Strand  Theater,  and 
the  record  company  thought  it  would  be  a 
good  idea  for  him  to  guest  on  some  disc 
jockey  shows.  Then  there  were  various 


benefits  (which  he  likes  to  do),  and  after 
all,  he  wanted  to  see  his  mother  who  lives 
in  Jersey,  and  he  had  to  take  a  music 
lesson  every  morning.  (He's  crazy  about 
subways;  he'd  taxi  up  to  his  teacher  at 
86th  Street,  then  subway  back.)  And  on 
top  of  that,  interviews. 

There  were  kids  who  hxmg  around  the 
Strand  stage-door,  too,  waiting  to  have 
their  autograph  books  signed.  That  took  an 
hour  after  every  show,  but  what  are  you 
going  to  do,  turn  'em  down,  when  they 
stand  there  with  their  hearts  in  their  eyes? 

And  always,  you  insult  somebody.  "How 
come  you  can't  see  so-and-so's  grandchild 
who's  a  very  talented  little  tap-dancer? 
Huh?"  is  the  way  the  chant  goes. 

But  I  remember  when  New  York  used 
to  be  different  for  us.  I  remember  1942. 
Gordon  was  making  $65  a  week.  We 
owed  half  of  it,  and  Gordon's  brother- 
in-law  (who  bears  the  impressive  name 
Duncan  Van  Cleef  II)  worked  out  our 
budget.  The  budget  allowed  a  restaurant 
meal  once  a  week,  and  the  restaurant  we 
haimted  was  a  little  place  called  The 
Epicvure,  over  on  the  East  side.  It's  narrow 
(about  half  a  brownstone),  and  it  smells 
like  heaven. 


Dinah  Shore  gave  me  the  lowdown 
at  lunch  yesterday  on  why  she, 
husband  George  Montgomery  and 
daughter  Melissa,  three,  are  leaving 
that  dream  home  of  theirs  In  Encino. 

"It's  too  expensive,"  Dinah,  who 
is  now  a  blonde  for  her  role  in 
>laron  Slick  From  Punkfn  Creek, 
confided.  "Our  business  manager 
says  we've  got  to  cut  down." 

The  Shore-Montgomery  early 
American  style  menage,  which  he 
designed  and  built  with  the  assist- 
ance of  two  friends,  is  one  of  the 
Valley  show  places.  They've  got 
six  and  one-half  acres,  four  of 
them  landscaped,  and  Dinah  says 
it's  rough  just  to  keep  the  garden- 
ing crew. 

"It's  a  luxury,  we  know  that 
now,"  she  admitted,  "but  after  six 
and  a  half  years  there  it's  kinda 
hard  to  give  up.  But  the  only  ones 
who  can  afford  those  kind  of 
places  any  more  are  the  coupon 
clippers.  Certainly  no  salaried 
people  like  us  can  afFord  it. 

"But  whatever  we  do,"  prom- 
ised   Dinah,    "we'll    stay    in  the 

Valley."  ^,^6  Williams  in 

Los  Angeles  Mirror 


We'd  eat  baked  stuffed  oysters,  and 
chicken  Tetrazzini,  and  converse  sophis- 
ticatedly  with  Jack,  the  manager.  He 
still  remembers  us,  and  we  still  remember 
him.  The  Epicure's  our  hangout  when 
we're  in  tovm.  "Sentimental,  aren't '  you," 
my  husband  says  to  me.  "Tonight  I  think 
I'll  have  shrimp  cocktail."  "In  the  end,  he 
orders  baked  stuffed  oysters,  and  tries 
to  look  matter  of  fact. 

There  were  other  years  in  New  York 
that  I  remember  .  .  .  Gordon  fresh  out  of 
the  army,  and  Meredith  not  quite  a  year 
old,  and  our  whole  future  a  question 
mark  .  .  .  We  dximped  the  baby  on  my 
mother  in  Long  Island,  and  started  con- 
centrating on  rebuilding  MacRae.  He'd 
been  away  a  long  time,  and  all  the  con- 
tacts, the  radio  people  we'd  known,  were 
gone,  and  CBS  couldn't  have  cared  less 
about  the  returning  hero. 

My  htisband's  determined;  I'm  made  of 
weaker  stuff.  "I  wish  we'd  stayed  in  the 
army,"  I  said.    CBS  seconded  the  motion. 

"We  don't  need  another  singing  bar- 
itone. We've  got  Jack  Smith,  Danny 
O'Neill— but  we'U  pay  your  old  salary  for 
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gram  that  guaranteed  veterans  would  get 
their  jobs  back,  or  at  least  come  home 
to  some  measure  of  security.) 

Gordon  didn't  care  about  the  money. 
"We  can  live  off  what  we've  saved,  or  off 
my  family,  or  even  borrow.  What  I  want 
is  to  get  going,  I  want  people  to  hear  my 
voice  again." 

The  powers  shrugged.  "If  you  can  work 
out  a  format  for  some  original  program, 
maybe.  Something  different." 

They  never  expected  to  hear  from  us 
again,  but  we  decided  otherwise.  We  got 
an  idea  for  a  show:  songs,  and  some  skit 
material  involving  Gordon  and  a  girl  we 
called  Cathy  (me)  with  whom  bobby-sox 
listeners  could  identify  themselves.  Cathy 
was  stuck  on  Gordon.  It  wasn't  "War  and 
Peace,"  but  it  was  cute. 

We  took  the  idea  to  CBS,  and  told 
Wendell  Adams  we  had  it  ready. 

"Fine,"  he  said.  He  picked  up  the  phone 
and  asked  for  Mr.  Paley,  the  president. 

"Okay,"  Mr.  Paley  said.  "Put  'em  in  one 
of  the  studios.  I'll  catch  it  upstairs." 

"Look,"  I  said,  clutching  Adams'  arm 
hysterically,  "I  said  we  have  the  idea. 
Nothing  is  written,  nothing  is  on  paper — 
we  have  no  script!" 

"Yes,  dear,"  said  Mr.  Adams,  shoving  us 
into  a  studio  and  closing  the  door. 

We  ad-libbed  that  show  for  20  minutes. 
Gordon  would  say  he  had  to  buy  a 
present  for  a  girl,  and  Cathy  would  be 
properly  nosey-but-heartbroken,  and  then 
the  girl  would  turn  out  to  be  his  mother, 
etc. 

After  20  minutes,  Paley  called  Adams. 
"Sign  both  of  them,"  he  said.  "And 
whoever  wrote  the  program."  Technically 
speaking,  this  was  also  me.  MacRae  and 
I  looked  at  each  other,  and  like  the  song 
says,  we  saw  blossoms  though  the  trees 
were  bare.  This  was  the  first  step  in  his 
comeback  and  we  knew  it. 

UR  show  went  on  five  times  a  week,  and 
"  we  got  so  good,  if  I  do  say  so  as 
shouldn't,  that  our  time  was  moved  up  from 
five  to  seven  in  the  evening.  We  were  given 
a  real  professional  writer  (I'm  no  Mrs. 
Danny  Kaye)  and  we  even  had  an  audience. 
(For  the  pre-audience  shows,  we  used  to 
let  Meredith  sit  in  the  control  booth.  She'd 
watch  with  big  sad  eyes,  and  comment 
later,  "Daddy  sang.  Mommy  didn't  sing." 
She  never  smiled;  thought  it  was  frivol- 
ous, I  guess.)  Everything  was  fine  until  I 
got  pregnant.  Three  months  later,  we 
were  still  doing  the  show,  and  I  was 
growing  fatter  and  fatter  and  fatter. 

Archie  Bleyer  (who's  with  Arthur  God- 
frey now)  was  in  charge  of  our  musical 
accompaniment.  He  came  out  with  the 
subject  of  my  figure  one  day.  "You're  get- 
ting fat,"  he  said.  "Or  you're  pregnant." 
Sort  of  as  though  he  wondered  if  I  knew. 

I  hunched  down  in  my  loose  jacket.  By 
then  I  was  in  the  loose  jacket  stage.  "It's 
true,"  I  said. 

"Sheila,"  Archie  said.  "You've  got  to  tell 
them." 

So  Gordon  and  I  were  on  the  spot  again. 
Pregnant  bobby-soxers  are  looked  upon 
with  some  disfavor,  and  we  knew  Cathy's 
days  were  numbered.  But  our  luck  held. 
Along  came  Stanley  Gilkey,  who  was 
doing  a  Broadway  musical.  Three  To  Make 
Ready,  and  he  wanted  Gordon. 

"Do  you  work  as  a  single  or  a  double?" 
he  asked. 

I  looked  at  Gordon.  "He's  a  single." 

Gilkey  grinned.  "That's  good.  I  don't 
know  what  I'd  have  used  you  for." 

'T'hat  afternoon  seems  a  long  time  ago. 
-1-  I've  got  it  packed  away  among  my 
other  New  York  souvenirs — opening  night 
of  Three  To  Make  Ready,  Heather's  arrival, 
the  funny  days,  the  worried  days,  all  the 
days  when  we  were  awfully  young  and 
awfully  hopeful. 


In  New  York,  we  went  to  bed  late,  we 
got  up  late,  we  had  breakfast  together. 
When  we  first  came  to  Warners,  we  were 
plunged  into  a  totally  different  kind  of 
life,  and  we  didn't  like  it.  Gordon  got  up 
at  seven,  went  to  bed  at  seven,  and  was 
so  dog-tired  he  was  asleep  by  7:02.  The 
only  time  he  saw  the  kids  was  in  the 
morning,  at  breakfast,  and  I  had  to'  get 
used  to  the  idea  of  literary  evenings.  A 
book's  good  company,  but  you  can't  talk 
back  to  it,  and  I'm  a  gabby  sort  of  girl. 

Gordon  and  I  worked  out  a  way  to  be 
together  for  at  least  part  of  every  day 
by  meeting  for  lunch.  Not  less  than  four 
times  a  week,  I  meet  him  and  we  eat  in 
the  Green  Room  at  Warners,,  or  we  hop 
over  to  the  Lakeside  Coimtry  Club,  which 
is  right  close  by. 

OFTEN,  I  take  the  kids  over  to  watch  the 
shooting  on  Gordon's  set.  They  behave 
because  they  know  they'll  get  whisked 
home  if  they  make  a  peep.  I  once  had  to 
clap  my  hand  over  Heather's  mouth  at  a 
crucial  moment,  and  S.  Z.  Sakall,  who  was 
working  in  the  picture,  was  horrified. 

He  came  over  to  me  later.  "What  a 
terrible  thing  to  do  to  such  a  beautiful 
child."  Heather's  blonde,  with  fat  legs, 
and  people  love  her  at  sight.  She  returns 
the  compliment.  In  fact,  she'd  have  gladly 
gone  home  with  Sakall  that  day. 

I  don't  think  I'm  a  tremendous  dis- 
ciplinarian, but  I've  got  a  healthy  respect 
for  the  way  my  husband  earns  his  living, 
and  you  can't  have  children  messing  up 
takes. 


Marie  Wilson  is  in  the  hospital  with 
0  chest  cold.    No  comment. 

Earl  Wilson  in 

The  N CM  York  Post 


Some  picture  people  don't  let  their 
children  know  anything  about  "daddy's 
business."  We  don't  believe  in  that.  If 
daddy's  a  plumber,  the  kids  know  what 
he  does;  why  not  if  he's  an  actor?  Kids 
of  people  in  show  business  often  fail  to 
make  out  on  their  own,  in  later  life,  and 
I  think  it's  partly  because  the  clothes,  the 
toys,  the  money,  have  all  been  there, 
ready  for  them;  things  have  come  too 
easily,  but  they  don't  imderstand  the 
effort  that's  gone  into  getting  them. 

Part  of  this  I  learned  from  Jack  Haley,  a 
real  professional  who  sweated  for  years  to 
achieve  solid  security.  His  children  were 
always  around  the  theater,  seeing  what 
went  on.  They  learned  that  "Be  quiet  when 
I'm  rehearsing"  meant  "Be  quiet  when  I'm 
rehearsing,"  and  it  didn't  hurt  them  any. 

Once,  in  front  of  Haley,  Meredith  asked 
me,  "Where's  Daddy?" 

"Singing,"  I  said. 

Haley  held  his  head  and  moaned.  "Sing- 
ing!" he  said.  "Workingl  He's  working] 
Let  them  respect  it!" 

Developing  a  respect  for  money  in  chil- 
dren is  harder  on  the  parent  than  on  the 
child,  I've  found  out.  When  I'm  in  New 
York,  I'd  like  to  go  into  Schwarz  and  buy 
the  place  out.  It's  a  terrific  temptation  to 
get  stuff  for  Meredith  because  she  takes 
wonderful  care  of  her  belongings.  But  I 
know  that  young  lady.  We  used  to  give  her 
an  allowance  of  50  cents  a  week  to  cover 
the  cost  of  comic  books,  Hoppy  buttons, 
all  such  essentials.  After  a  while,  she 
figured  she  needed  more,  and  she  went 
and  charged  things  at  the  local  five  and 
dime  store.  It  was  smart,  but  it  wasn't 
very  nice,  so  we  had  to  come  to  an  im- 
derstanding. 

She's  a  reasonable  child,  though.  Very 
logical,  and  if  she  doesn't  do  what  you 
tell  her  to  every  time,  at  least  she's 
always  got  an  explanation. 

The  mind-of-her-own  doesn't  keep  her 
from  being  polite,  even  though  she  de- 


clines  to  curtsey.  I  love  it;  -  she  doesn't. 
I'm  old-fashioned;  she's  not.  Can  I  punish 
her  for  that? 

Her  biggest  avocation  is  writing  away 
for  things  she  sees  on  television.  She  has 
a  mania  for  cooking,  and  she's  much  more 
interested  in  the  commercials  than  in  the 
programs.  An  announcer  wiU  stand  up  and 
start  burbling,  "We  have  a  special  mix 
that  makes   biscuits — " 

My  daughter,  pencil  poised,  copies  down 
painstakingly,  "Box  25,  etc.,  etc.,"  in  a  large 
slanting  hand,  and  then  sends  away  for 
whatever  it  happens  to  be. 

She  made  her  first  cake  in  honor  of 
Gar's  third  birthday.  It  was  a  horribly 
soggj'  cake  (she  beat  it  so  much)  but  to 
Meredith,  the  moment  when  Frances 
(our  wonderful  cook)  torned  on  the  oven 
for  her  was  one  of  rare  splendor. 

Gar  had  three  cakes  for  his  birthday. 
Frances  turned  out  a  beautiful  heart  with 
strawberries,  my  mother  brought  over  one 
she'd  made,  and  Meredith's  was  right  in 
the  middle,  tired,  yet  awe-inspiring. 

Meredith  and  Heather  both  worship  Gar, 
but  they  don't  get  on  too  wonderfully 
together.  For  one  thing,  Heather  doesn't 
speak  English.  She's  a  very  contented  child, 
didn't  talk  at  all  till  she  was  two.  Now 
she  says  "Merediss,"  and  "I  doe  wan  to 
do  dat,"  which  her  older  sister  views  with 
contempt. 

At  four.  Heather's  in  nursery  school 
(Meredith  was  in  kindergarten  at  the  same 
age) ;  they're  geared  differently.  Not  that 
Heather   isn't   showing   signs   of  violent 


esthetic  advance.  She  demanded  that  we 
bring  her  back  toe  shoes  from  New  York. 
Miss  Biscuit  Mix,  on  the  other  hand  (my 
daughter  who  lives  by  television  com- 
mercials) wanted  "a  magic  set  that  makes 
colors."  Naturally. 

I  get  a  present  from  MacRae  myself,  now 
and  again.  He  once  bought  me  a  gold  charm 
bracelet,  and  adding  charms  has  become 
a  ritual.  Every  important  event  in  our 
lives  is  commemorated  by  a  charm.  The 
wheels  on  the  little  train  (that  brought  us 
to  Hollywood)  really  run,  and  I've  got  a 
tiny  movie  camera  (in  celebration  of 
Gordon's  movie  contract)  with  a  heart  on 
the  side  that  says  "you  are  the  heairt  of 
my  work." 

For  our  eighth  anniversary,  he  pre- 
sented me  with  an  8-ball  inscribed  "option 
renewed  with  interest." 

About  the  charm  he  chose  when  he 
signed  his  recording  deal,  I,  had  reser- 
vations. It  was  a  little  bag  of  gold. 

"What's  that  for?"  I  said.  I'd  been  expect- 
ing maybe  a  record  with  his  autograph. 

"I  don't  know,"  said  my  bright  husband. 
"I  thought  it  would  be  nice." 

"It  seems  a  trifle  mercenary,  or  com- 
mercial— " 

"Well,  for  continued  success  or  some- 
thing, oh,  you  know — " 

At  which  climactic  point  I  leave  you.  If 
my  husband  had  ever  won  an  academy 
award,  I'd  have  ended  the  story  more 
thrUlingly,  but  give  the  man  time.  I'm 
willing  to  give  him  the  rest  of  my  life. 
I'm  fimny  that  way.  The  End 


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(Continued  from  page  53)  in  his  love  for 
you  and  his  esteem  for  you.  And  you  can't 
fake  or  storm  your  way  to  this.  You  can 
only  earn  it  by  giving  of  yourself  as  you 
yourself  want  to  receive. 

You  couldn't  have  sold  me  this  idea 
when  I  was  younger.  My  hazy  evaluation 
of  things  then  was  that  a  well-lived  life 
must  be  more  glamorous  that  that. 

How  I  got  to  what  I  am  from  what  I  was 
I'll  never  know.  To  begin  with,  I  started 
out  with  everything  I  needed  to  nurture 
a  nice,  fat  neurosis: 

A  frustrated  girlhood  in  which  I  per- 
sisted in  trying  to  impress  everyone  that 
I  was  "different"  .  .  . 

A  frantic  teenhood  trying  to  convince 
vocal  teachers  I  could  sing  operatically 
and  being  absolutely  rejected  by  them  .  .  . 

A  constant  series  of  slight  gains  and 
sharp  losses  in  my  fight  to  be  somebody; 
"optioned"  for  Hollywood  and  then  for- 
gotten; finally  installed  in  a  studio  and 
then  ignored;  tested  for  dozens  of  pictures 
and  consistently  turned  down;  auditioned 
for  radio  and  "walked  out  on"  by  the 
producer. 

Yet  here  I  am  today  and  my  contract 
reads  "starring  roles."  My  husband  has 
a  smile  for  me  every  morning  even  before 
his  coffee,  and  my  two  little  boys  have 
a  thousand  ways  of  telling  me  that  nothing 
counts  more  than  I  in  their  lives.  And 
this,  even  if  it  isn't  so  high  a  place  in  the 
world  that  all  the  rest  of  it  has  to  look 
up  at  me,  .is  the  only  place  I  want. 

Happiness,  in  one  form  or  another,  was 
near  me  always.  But  I  was  always  rushing 
past  it.  I  had  the  kind  of  girlhood  in  which 
you  keep  saying  to  yourself  desperately, 
"But  nothing  ever  happens  to  mel"  That 
was  self-delusion. 

Plenty  was  happening.  While  I  was 
concentrating  on  myself,  hopping  from 
one  dream-scheme  or  pretense  to  another, 
I  was  immaking  friends,  influencing  peo- 
ple to  stay  clear  of  me,  and  even  unloading 
a  good  part  of  my  troubles  on  my  family. 

Thus  I  ran  in  nervous,  harried  circles 
until  one  Hollywood  day  in  my  calmer 
twenties  when  I  got  the  thought  that 
maybe  it  would  be  interesting  to  be  useful 
to  someone  other  than  myself.  And,  won- 
der of  wonders,  from  that  day  on  it  seems 
that  my  whole  world  warmed  up  for  me. 

I  think  I  got  serious — and  miserable — 
about  my  life  as  early  as  the  age  of  nine. 
I  heard  LUy  Pons  and  she  fixed  me  good. 
I,  too,  would  be  a  coloratura  soprano!  For 
five  years  I  screeched  everybody  glassy- 
eyed  around  the  house,  and  then  insisted 
that  mother  take  me  to  a  vocal  coach. 

Maestro  Papalardo,  of  Washington,  D.C., 
where  we  lived,  heard  me.  He  had  an 
honest  face  and  at  my  first  note  the  ex- 
pression that  fell  over  it  was  unmistakable. 
He  was  suffering  from  excruciating  pain. 
His  words  were  plain.  A  coloratura? 
Never!  I  didn't  sing  my  high  notes — I 
screamed  them.  Nor  would  I  ever  be  able 
to  sing  them. 

"But  Maestro,"  I  protested.  "Let  me 
sing  just  once  more  for  you." 

"No!"  he  begged.  "Please,  no." 

On  the  way  home  with  mother  I  sobbed 
— a  broken-hearted  14-year-old  girl  (I 
didn't  know  then  that  I  was  also  due  to 
be  a  broken-hearted  15  and  16-year-old 
girl).  Mother  was  sympathetic  but,  it 
seemed  to  me,  not  unduly  concerned.  To- 
day I  know  why  it  is  a  good  thing  that 
mothers  don't  fall  apart  when  their  chil- 
dren do.  Then  there  would  seem  to  be  no 
hope  at  all.  As  it  was,  her  calmness  suggests 
that  there  may  be  something  left  in  life 
after  all,  even  if  you  have  just  had  a 
wonderful  dream  bubble  pvmctured,  and 
your  life  lay  in  pieces  around  you. 


In  my  case  I  was  to  be  shattered  almost 
completely.  Not  six  months  later,  after  I 
had  decided  there  was  nothing  left  for  me 
but  acting,  I  suffered  a  -  unique  malady 
which  paralyzed  the  muscles  on  one  side 
of  my  face!  You  couldn't  think  of  a  worse 
stroke  of  luck,  at  first,  yet  it  turned 
out  to  be  a  great  thing  for  me.  After  the 
doctors  gave  me  up,  I  used  to  stand  in 
front  of  a  mirror  and  will  my  dead  facial 
muscles  alive.  One  side  of  my  mouth  was 
drawn  up  in  a  permanent  srtiile  by  the 
paralysis.  Month  after  month  I  worked 
on  that  smile  and  slowly,  painfully,  I  be- 
gan to  get  the  curve  out  of  it.  Before  a 
year  was  up  I  not  only  had  conquered 
the  paralysis,  I  had  acquired  control  over 
all  the  principal  muscles  in  my  face.  This 
was  a  decided  asset  for  anyone  who 
wanted  to  act.  But  I  learned  it  takes  more 
than  Lon  Chaney  tricks  to  be  an  actress. 

So,  perversely  enough,  I  went  back  to 
singing.  I  began  using  my  voice,  but  in  the 
lower  register,  trying  it  out  on  ballads. 
When  I  was  17  I  embarked  on  a  new  big 
career.  I  was  singing  with  Ralph  Hawkins' 
orchestra  in  a  night  club  outside  of  Wash- 
ington, not  getting  home  until  3  a.m.,  and 
feeling  like  a  very  special  person  indeed. 

It  was  a  little  disconcerting  that  I  would 
invariably  get  drowsy  between  numbers 
after  midnight  (often  falling  asleep  on  my 
bandstand  chair) .  And  it  was  very  annoy- 
ing to  look  so  young  that  the  only  attitude 
of  the  boys  in  the  band  towards  me  was  a 
protective  one.  Nevertheless,  I  quickly 
got  back  my  old  sense  of  destiny  and  lived 
up  to  it  by  playing  the  role  of  a  very 
smart  and  sophisticated  young  lady. 

My  only  difficulty  was  my  family's  atti- 
tude. Mother  and  Dad,  and  my  twin 
brother,  Donald,  were  interested  in  my 
career,  but  not  feverishly.  It  was  all  right 
with  them  if  I  wanted  one,  but  also  all 
right  if  I  didn't.  How  can  you  set  the 
world  afire  when  your  own  people  are 
fond  of  you  but  hardly  impressed?  In  the 
back  of  my  mind  I  was  always  trying  to 
overcome  this. 

One  morning  when  I  got  home  from 
the  club  I  felt  odd.  Mother  was  waiting 
for  me  and  I  announced  dramatically 
that  something  was  wrong.  I  looked  in 
the  mirror  and  the  face  I  saw  seemed 
distorted,  the  eyes  gleaming  too  brightly 
over  dark  circles,  and  the  skin  showing  up 
red  through  the  makeup. 

"Mother!"  I  cried. 

She  just  said,  "Yes?"  gently. 

"Mother!  I  can't  stand  it!  I'm  going  to 
have  a  nervous  breakdown!" 

"Yes,"  said  Mother,  peering  at  me  closely. 
"You  know,  darling,  it's  hard  to  believe 
at  your  age  .  .  ." 


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6 — Parry-Beerman,  7 — T.Lt.  Parry-Beerman, 
T.Rt.  Bert  Parry,  Cen.Lt.  Walt  Davis,  Cen.Rt. 
Bob  Beerman,  10 — Bob  Beerman,  19-22 — 
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Beerman,  43 — Bob  Beerman,  44-45 — Beerman- 
Parry,  46 — 20th  Century,  Bot.  Bob  Beerman, 
47 — 20th  Century,  48-49 — Walt  Davis,  50-52 

— Bob   Beerman,    53 — Ernest   Bachrach,  54  

INS,  55 — T.  INS,  Bot.  Modern  Screen  Exclu- 
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"But  it's  true!"  I  interrupted. 

"It's  hard  to  believe,"  she  went  on, 
quietly,  "but  you  have  the  measles." 

I  know  this  is  the  kind  of  story  that 
brings  a  laugh  but  to  me  it  was  pure 
tragedy.  Just  as  the  other  "furmy"  stories 
I  now  remember  were  heartbreaking  to 
me  when  they  happened. 

I  was  still  just  17  when  a  movie  scout 
for  Paramount  saw  me  and  took  an  option 
for  his  company.  I  didn't  know  it  was 
just  an  option.  I  didn't  even  know  what 
an  option  was.  I  immediately  announced 
to  my  family  and  friends  that  I  was  on 
my  way  to  Hollywood.  Everybody  was 
thrilled,  there  were  going-away  parties 
.  .  .  and  then  there  came  a  letter  from 
Paramount.  Being  overstocked  with  girls 
of  my  type,  they  were  not  taking  up  my 
option. 

VV7hat  to  do?  I  was  still  in  Washington 
"  when  everyone  thought  I  was  gone.  I 
hid  around  the  house  for  three  days  crying 
my  eyes  out.  Finally,  one  afternoon.  Moth- 
er forced  me  out  of  the  house  and  I 
sneaked  into  a  movie  in  downtown  Wash- 
ington. All  through  the  picture  I  cried 
again  because  the  girl  on  the  screen 
should  have  been  me.  And  when  I  stum- 
bled out  of  the  theater  whom  did  I  see 
walking  towards  me  but  two  of  my  most 
"questionable"  friends  .  .  .  real  backstab- 
bers.  They  nudged  each  other  significantly 
the  second  their  eyes  fell  upon  me  and  I 
knew  I  was  in  for  a  bad  time.  Why,  Jane! 
What  are  you  doing  in  Washington?  We 
thought  you  were  in  Hollywood  by  now. 
Well!  Scratch,  bite,  scratch.  That's  the  way 
their  questioning  would  go.   And  it  did. 

It  was  awful.  It  was  always  awful  with 
me  then,  I  recall,  because  I  was  always 
leaping  ahead  of  myself,  of  my  actual 
accomplishments,  which  is  the  same  thing 
as  leaping  into  nervousness  and  wretch- 
edness. Later,  when  I  had  actually  been 
signed  for  movies  by  Howard  Hughes,  it 
was  six  months  before  I  even  saw  him  in 
person.  And  as  for  getting  into  a  picture — 
I  just  didn't. 

I  couldn't  stand  it.  I  decided  to  get  out 
of  my  contract  because  I  was  sure  I  would 
be  signed  by  another  company  the  moment 
I  was  free.  I  got  out  of  the  contract  and 
I  was  signed  by  nobody. 

Things  were  so  desolate  for  me  by  this 
time  that  it  was  no  wonder  I  began  to 
get  an  inkling  of  my  wrong  attitude  to- 
ward- life.  Yet  I  still  wasn't  cured  and 
when,  another  six  months  later,  I  found 
myself  under  contract  to  RKO  the  old  ego 
started  sailing  again.  It  was  either  the 
top  or  nothing  for  me.  If  I  got  a  script 
to  read  I  automatically  saw  myself  in  the 
starring  part.  Consequently  my  fate  was 
sealed.  In  my  first  picture  I  had  exactly 
nine  words,  six  initials  and  a  throat- 
clearing  business  as  my  speaking  part. 
The  picture  was  Pan-Americana  and  my 
lines  were: 

"Yes,  J.  D. 

"No,  J.  D, 

"Yes,  mam.  I  mean,  yes,  sir. 
"Yes,  J.  D." 

The  throat  clearing  came  when  I  said 
"mam"  instead  of  "sir." 

Oh,  those  mixed  up  days!  I  used  to 
pay  great  attention  to  my  wardrobe.  I  had 
no  pictures  to  dress  up  for,  so  I  dressed  up 
for  the  commissary.  I  believe  I  have  made 
some  of  the  finest  commissary  entrances 
in  the  history  of  that  lunch  room.  I  would 
sweep  in  regally,  producers  would  look 
up  disinterestedly  and  then  go  back  to 
their  goulash.  And  I  had  primped  for 
hours! 

I  was  so  hungry  for  recognition  .  .  . 
even  if  I  was  the  only  one  to  recognize  my- 
self. And  poor  mother!  I  dragged  her  out  to 
see  Pan- Americana  with  me  about  25  times. 
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Winston-Salem,  N.  C. 


1  he  smokers  of  America  have  made  many  tests  for 
cigarette  mildness.  The  quick  tests.  The  trick  tests. 
And  the  thorough  Camel  30-Day  Test.  After  all  the 
testing,  Camel  has  its  biggest  lead  in  25  years! 

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more  people  smoke  Camels  than  any  other  cigarette! 


c/^/6i  four  (W/i  SO'l^Y^^ 


PAUL  LUKAS  has  delighted  millions  on  the  stage  ...  in  movies  .  .  . 
on  television.  "There's  no  room  for  throat  irritation  in  show  busi- 
ness," says  Mr.Lukas.  "I  smoke  Camels— they  agree  with  my  throat!" 


Noted  throat  specialists  report  on  30-day  Mildness  Test; 

Not  one  single  case 
of  throat  inrHotion 

GiVMElS! 


Yes,  these  were  the  fi tidings  of  rioted  throat  specialists  after  a  total  of 
2,470  weekly  examinations  of  the  throats  of  hundreds  of  men  and 
women  who  smokedCamels— and  orilyCamels— for  30  consecutive  days. 


You'//  haye  a  c/earer,  softer  s/c/n 

w/f/i  your  first  ca/ce  of  Camay  / 


This  radiant  Camay  Bride  is 
MRS.  DAVID  CON  ANT  FORD—  the  former 
Bette  George  oj  McKeesport,  Pa. 

She's  all  fire  and  sparkle— this  radiant  bride 
with  the  dancing  brown  eyes . . .  the  alert, 
alive  expression.  But  it's  Bette's  complexion 
that  really  takes  your  eye.  It's  a  thing  of 
beauty— a  miracle  of  soft  freshness.  Her  first 
cake  of  Camay  made  a  thrilling  difference! 

And  Bette  doesn't  keep  her  beauty  secret  to 
herself!  "Why,  Camay  is  simply  wonderful," 
she  writes.  "I  can't  help  raving  about  it, 
since  my  first  cake  gave  me  a  fresher, 
smoother  skin.  I  changed  to  regular  care— 
and  Camay  did  the  rest!  Camay  is  my 
beauty  advice  to  any  girl! " 

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—with  your  first  cake  of  Camay!  Change 
to  regular  care— use  mild,  gentle,  creamy- 
lathering  Camay.  Never  let  a  lesser  soap 
than  Camay  touch  your  skin.  You'll  find 
Camay  will  wake  your  sleeping  beauty! 


There's  no  finer 

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Camay  is  so  mild  and  gentle— and 
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lather.  Always  use  the  Beauty  Bath 
Size— that's  Camay  at  its  best!  It's  a 
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everything  you  like  about  Camay! 


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SEPTEMBER,  I95i 


^^^^.^i  modern  screen 


stories 

Duff's  Gone  Fishin'  (Howard  Duff)  by  Jim  Burton  10 

A  Love  Like  Nancy's  (Nancy  Sinatra)   by  Imogene  Collins  31 

Sex  Is  Not  Enough!     by  Lana  Turner  32 

Hot  Copy  Coming  Up!   by  Louella  Parsons  34 

It's  Reigning  Cats  and  Dogs   by  John  Maynard  58 

Dana  Andrews:  Problem  Father                                                 by  Jane  Wilkie  60 

Abba-Dabba-Debbie  (Debbie  Reynolds)   by  Kirtley  Baskette  62 

Roy  s  Ranch  (Roy  Rogers)  by  Marva  Peterson  64 

young  lovers  section 

Hollywood's  Young  Lovers    37 

Why  Tony  and  Janet  Had  To  Elope  (Curtis-Leigh)  by  Caroline  Brooks  38 

They  Made  Fun  of  Love  (Farley  Granger-Shelley  Winters)         by  Steve  Cronin  40 

We  Swam  Our  Way  To  Giro's  by  Beverly  Ott  42 

The  Truth  About  Hollywood  Wolves                                         by  Cynthia  Miller  44 

Marriage  and  Joan  (Joan  Evans)                                         by  Marsha  Saunders  46 

Who'd  Marry  Me?   by  Marilyn  Monroe  48 

What  I'll  Tell  My  Sons  About  Women  by  Kirk  Douglas  50 

features 

The  Inside  Story   4 


/     COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM  CLEANS 
t    OUR  BREATH  WHILE  IT  CLEANS  YOUR 
TEETH.  AND  THE  COLGATE  WAY  OF 
'Si    BRUSHING  TEETH  RIGHT  AFTER  EATING 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST! 


READER'S  DIGEST*  Reported  The  Same 
Research  Which  Proves  That  Brushing  Teeth 
Right  After  Eating  with 

COLOATI  DEHTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST 

Reader's  Digest  recently  reported  the 
same  research  which  proves  the  Colgate 
way  of  jjrushing  teeth  right  after  eating 
stops  tooth  decay  best!  "The  most  thor- 
oughly proved  and  accepted  home  meth- 
od of  oral  hygiene  known  today! 

Yes,  and  2  years'  research  showed  the 
Colgate  way  stopped  more  decay  for  more 
people  than  ever  iDefore  reported  in  denti- 
frice history!  No  other  dentifrice,  ammo- 
niated  or  not.offers  such  conclusive  proof! 


Use  Colgate  Dental  Cream 
'Z  To  Clean  Your  Breath 
'/  While  You  Clean  Your  Teeth- 
V  And  Help  Stop  Tooth  Decay' 


*YOU  SHOULD  KNOW!  While  not  mentioned  by  nome, 
Colgate's  was  the  only  toothpaste  used  in  the  reseorch 
on  tooth  decay  recently  reported  in  Reader's  Digest. 


Louella  Parsons'  Good  News   

Hollywood  Air-Conditioned 

Tell  It  To  Joan  (Joan  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers).. 


6 

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departments 


Movie  Reviews  \        by  Christopher  Kane  14 

Anne  Baxter,  Your  Hollywood  Shopper    20 

Hollywood  Approved  Fashions  fo-  Fall    52 

Modern  Screen's  Hollywood  Fashion  Party  .'   18 

ON  THE  COVER:  Metro-Gold wyn-Mayer's  Elizabeth  Taylor. 
Other  picture  credits  on  page  17. 


CHARLES  D.  SAXON,  editor 
DURBIN  L.  HORNER,  managing  editor 
FLORENCE  EPSTEIN,  story  editor 
SUZANNE  EPPES.  associate  editor 
FERNANDO  TEXIDOR,  art  director 
BILL  WEINBERGER,  art  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  reviewer 


CARL  SCHROEDER,  western  manager 
BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
BOB  CEERMAN.  staH  photographer 
BERT  PARRY,  staff  pliotographei 
LIZ  SMITH,  assistant  editor 
tRENE  TURNER,  research  editor 


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His  name  is  GufFy! 
A  loud,  proud  guy 
who  lived  alone  and 
liked.it...unti]  an 
angel  said  "Hellol" 


The  screen's  most 
lovable  young  star 
in  a  role  rich 
with  humor,  happiness 
and  heart-throbs  I 


STARRING 


w«.  KEEN  AN  WYNN 
SPRING  BYINGTON 


LEWIS  STONE 
BRUCE  BENNEH 


Screen  Play  by  DOROTHY  KIN6SLEY  and  GEORGE  WELLS 

Based  on  a  story  by  Richard  Conlin 

Produced  and  Directed  by  CLARENCE  BROWN  AN  M-G-iVI  PICTURE 


Says  model  Dolores  Parker: 

"My  hair  must  always 
look  pretty  please' " 

her  camera  curls  stay  free 
of  hroken  ends  wifh 


the  bob  pin 
with  the  stronger, 
smoother  grip 


You  too,  can  always  have  lovelier, 
longer-lasting  hair-do's.  But  be  sure 
to  xise  De  Long  bob  pins.  The 
stronger,  smoother  grip  means  longer 
lastfng  curls  .  .  ,  greater  freedom 
from  fuzzy,  split  ends.  No  wonder 
De  Long  is  the  "smart  set"  favorite! 


You're  always  "set"  with  De  Long  Hair  Pins  • 
Curt  Setting  Pins  •  Safety  Pins  ♦  Hooks  and  Eyes  ♦ 
Pins    •    Hook  and  Eye  Tapes    •    Diaper  Pins 


Here's  the  truth  about  the  stars — as  you  asked  for  it.  Want  to 
spike  more  rvimors?  Want  more  facts  ?  Write  to  THE  INSIDE 
STORY,  Modern  Screen,  1046  N.  Carol  Drive,  Hollywood,  Cal. 


<?.  How  much  alimony  and  what  kind  of 
a  financial  settlement  is  Syhaa  Gable 
seeking  from  Clark? 

— T.  W.,  Pensacola,  Fla. 

A.  Mrs.  Gable  is  not  asking  for  alimony 
or  a  settlement,  only  a  divorce.  She 
would  prefer  a  reconciliation,  but  Gable 
wants  a  divorce  and  insists  that  he's  fin- 
ished with  marriage. 

Q.  Is  it  true  that  Aly  Khan  settled 
$3,000,000  on  each  of  his  sons?  Is  that 
why  Rita  asked  for  $3,000,000  for 
Yasmine?       — T.  C,  Dallas,  Texas 

A.  Rita  was  told  that  Aly  had  settled 
that  sum  on  each  of  his  sons,  but 
according  to  people  who  know  Aly 
intimately,  that  figure  is  a  great  exag- 
geration. Rita  will  be  lucky  to  get  even 
a  small  part  of  that  sum;  she  herself 
wants  no  alimony. 

Q.  Who  are  the  richest  actors  in  Holly- 
wood?       — R.  O.,  Toronto,  Canada 

A.  Charles  Chaplin,  Harold  Lloyd,  Bing 
Crosby,  Bob  Hope,  Gary  Cooper  and 
Cary  Grant. 

<J>.  I  read  that  Elizabeth  Taylor  admitted 
she  had  a  child's  mind  and  a  woman's 
body.  Is  this  true? 

— G.  T.,  DuLUTH,  Minn. 

A,  Miss  Taylor  said  that  she  had  a 
child's  emotions,  by  which  she  meant 
that  she  was  emotionally  immature.  As 
a  matter  of  fact,  she's  an  intelligent  girl. 

Q.  Why  don't  June  Haver  and  Betty 
Grable  appear  together  in  any  more 
pictures?  — B.  D.,  Chicago,  III. 

A.  There's  a  small  feud  between  them. 

Is  it  true  that  Gary  Cooper  con- 
tributes large  sums  to  the  Catholic 
church  and  is  devoutly  religious? 

— V.  C.,  Denver,  Col. 

A.  Cooper  is  a  Protestant  who  contrib- 
utes S%  of  his  earnings  to  charities  of 
every  kind.  One  of  his  favorites  is  the 
Brandeis  Camp  Institute  for  under- 
privileged Jewish  boys;  no  one  religion 
receives  any  greater  contribution  than 
another. 

Was  Janet  Leigh's  marriage  to  Tony 
Curtis  her  first  or  second  marriage  ? 

— N.  P.,  Phila.,  Pa. 


A.  Her  third. 

<5>.  Can  Lana  Turner  ever  again  give 
birth  to  a  baby? 

— S.  O.,  Memphis,  Tenn. 

A.  Medical  authorities  have  advised 
Lana  that  because  of  a  blood  deficiency, 
she  "probably"  cannot  give  birth  to 
another  child. 

Q.  In  the  Liz  Taylor  divorce  testimony, 
your  magazine  gave  Liz  Taylor's  mar- 
riage date  as  March  1,  19S0.  Wasn't  she 
married  on  May  6th,  19S0? 

— A.  v.,  Hartford,  Conn. 

A.  May  6th,  1950  is  correct. 

Q.  Isn't  it  true  that  Judy  Garland  and 
Sid  Luft  were  secretly  married  in  Europe 
a  few  months  ago  ? 

— B.  C,  Durham,  N.  C. 

A.  No.  Judy's  divorce  from  Vincente 
Minnelli  won't  be  final  for  some  months. 
Any  such  marriage  would  be  considered 
illegal  in  California  which  is  the  official 
residence  of  both  Judy  and  Sid. 

Q.  How  old  is  Ronald  Colman,  and  why 
hasn't  he  made  any  motion  pictures 
lately?  — S.  C,  Miami,  Fla. 

A.  Colman  is  hitting  60.  He  hasn't 
found  any  movie  roles  he'd  like  to  do. 
His  radio  show,  "The  Halls  of  Ivy,"  is 
one  of  the  best. 

Q.  Which  of  the  movie  stars  have 
twin  children? 

— D.  E.,  Ellenville,  N.  Y. 

A.  David  Wayne,  Susan  Hayward, 
Jimmy  Stewart,  Bing  Crosby,  Joan 
Crawford. 

p.  Is  it  true  that  all  three  of  Doris 
Day's  husbands  have  been  musicians  or 
connected  in  some  way  with  the  music 
business  ? 

— V.  Y.,  Columbus,  Ohio 

A.  The  first  two  were  musicians.  Her 
present,  Marty  Melcher,  is  an  agent- 
manager. 

Q.  When  Vic  Damone  was  drafted  into 
the  Army,  under  what  name  did  he 
register?  — T.  O.,  Dover,  Del. 

A.  Under  the  name  of  Vito  Rocco 
Farinola — his  real  name. 


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ANN  BLYTH  FLIES  TO  IRELAND   FOR  THE  VERY 


Hedy  Lamarr's  three 
children  go  along 
on  her  honeymoon  .  .  . 
Sonja  Heme's  dinner-dance 
sparkles  with  jewels  .  .  . 
disregard  Aly-Joan  Fontaine 
rumors  ,  .  .  your  reporter 
turns  actress! 

LOUELLA 
PARSONS' 


Ann  flew  to  Dublin  from  London.  Her  Aunt  Cissie  and 
Uncle  Pat  Tobin  (who  live  with  her  in  California) 
arrived  soon  after  by  boat  to  help  her  explore  Eire. 


Ann  stops  to  chat  with  a  passing  Franciscan  monk. 
She  prayed  at  the  church  in  which  her  mother  was 
christened;  visited  all  the  places  she'd  heard  about. 


WHO,  but  Hedy  Lamarr  would  take  three 
small  children  along  on  a  honeymoon? 
I  mean  outside  of  a  movie  plot? 

In  typical  fashion,  Hedy  packed  her  three 
youngsters  and  their  two  pups  in  the  back 
seat,  and  with  bridegroom  Ted  Stauffer  at  the 
wheel,  took  off  for  her  Carmel  honeymoon. 

"I  promised  the  children  a  trip  up  the  Coast 
before  Ted  and  I  made  up  our  minds  to  get 
married,"  said  Hedy  as  though  that  explained 
everything. 

Of  all  the  surprise  happenings  of  the  sea- 
son, Hedy's  sudden  marriage  to  Stauffer  ranks 
No.  1.  So  sudden  was  their  decision  to  take 
the  big  leap  that  they  awakened  the  marriage 
license  clerk  in  Santa  Monica  and  asked  her 
to  open  the  office  at  11:00  o'clock  at  night! 

Stauffer  is  not  entirely  new  to  movie  fans. 
At  one  time,  just  prior  to  her  meeting  Aly 
Khan,  he  was  Rita  Hayworth's  most  persistent 
beau.  He  was  once  married  to  Faith  Dom- 
ergue.  He  was  also  a  very  successful  orchestra 
leader  before  taking  over  the  management 
of  one  of  the  most  successful  resorts  in  Mexico. 

Ted  has  made  a  lot  of  money  in  Acapulco 
with  Don  Carlos  Bernard.  They  bought  an 
old  hotel  and  made  it  over  into  one  of  the 
most  fashionable  resorts  south  of  the  border. 
It  was  while  Hedy  was  vacationing  there 


seven  years  ago  that  she  met  her  bridegroom. 

I  had  the  tip  that  their  romance  was  more 
serious  than  anyone  realized  and  announced 
on  my  radio  show  that  they  had  plans  to  wed. 
But  no  one  thought  it  would  happen  so  soon. 

I  must  say  that  Hedy  is  starting  out  her 
marriage  to  Ted  with  a  clean  slate. 

She  turned  over  everything  she  owns — 
furniture,  silver,  clothing,  books,  records  and 
paintings — to  on  auctioneer  telling  him  to  get 
rid  of  all  of  it. 

SONJA  Henie  and  Winthrop  Gardiner's  din- 
ner-dance— the  first  of  filmland's  summer 
social  events — was  a  dazzler  in  all  depart- 
ments, including  the  wonderful  jewels  worn 
by  the  women,  and  the  brilliant  moon  hung  out 
by  Mother  Nature  as  though  just  to  illuminate 
the  gorgeous  gardens,  and  the  gay  balloons. 

When  little  "Skatie,"  as  the  people  who 
love  Sonja  call  her,  gives  a  party — it  is  a 
party,  my  friends. 

She  has  the  gift  for  creating  such  a  wonder- 
ful setting  that  all  the  women  guests  seem 
to  be  more  beautiful,  and  the  men  more  hand- 
some than  ever.  I've  never  seen  our  beauties 
look  more  radiant  than  at  Sonja  and  Winnie's 
party. 

The  hostess  wore  white  lace  and  exquisite 


emeralds.  She  was  the  picture  of  elegance. 

Barbara  Stanwyck  and  Nancy  Sinatra  ar- 
rived together  without  escorts  and,  laughing, 
said  they  were  each  other's  "dates."  But  they 
hadn't  been  there  two  minutes  before  they 
were  surrounded  by  all  the  eligible  bachelors. 

Dan  Dailey,  particularly,  seemed  to  be 
moon-struck  by  Barbara  who  looked  wonder- 
ful in  a  bouffant  gown  with  her  famed  gar- 
denia-diamond necklace  adding  to  her  sparkle. 
Barbara  and  Dan  twirled  around  the  floor 
dance  after  dance. 

It  was  the  first  chance  Tyrone  Power  and 
Linda  Christian  had  to  greet  many  of  their 
old  pals,  and  it  was  like  a  welcome-home  con- 
vention to  them.  Linda,  who  is  expecting  a 
baby,  confided  to  me  that  she  was  disobeying 
doctor's  orders  by  coming — "But  I  so  much 
wanted  to  see  all  our  friends  again,"  she 
confessed. 

Ann  Sheridan's  red  hair  blazed  brightly 
over  a  silver-cloth  sheath,  the  shortest  evening 
gown  of  all. 

Evelyn  Keyes,  who  was  with  Greg  Bautzer, 
looked  very  smart  with  her  new  short  hair- 
cut and  cm  eyelet  evening  gown. 

Janie  Powell,  with  her  Geary  Steffen,  looked 
cute  as  a  button  in  a  gold  maternity  coat. 
Jane  made  two  trips  back  to  the  laden  buffet 


I 

1ST  TIME.  AND  FINDS  IT'S  NO  BLARNEY  WHEN  THEY  SAY  THAT  THE  LAND  OF  HER  FOREBEARS  IS  A  LITTLE  BIT  OF  HEAVEN. 


Ann  and  her  Uncle  Peter  O'Connor  Inspect  the  bar-  Ann's  exciting  two-week  visit  was  climaxed  by  her  personal  appearance  at  Dublin's 

rels  of  Dublin's  Montjoy  Brewery,  where  her  uncle  has  Royaie  Theater.    A!l  her  mother's  relatives,  who'd  seen  Ann  only  on  the  screen,  came, 

worked  for  42  years.     Ann  met  over  100  relatives.  She  was  tnrilled  when  one  said,  "Your  mother  had  the  face  of  an  ongel — iike  yours." 


tables.  "I  know  I  shouldn't  do  it,"  she  wliis- 
pered,  "but  I'm  hungry  all  the  time." 

Loretta  Young's  gown  was  an  Adrian — 
bouifont  and  decorated  on  skirt  and  bodice 
with  pastel  organdy  flowers.  Her  best  fella, 
Tom  Lewis,  was  in  New  York. 

Mrs.  Louis  B.  Mayer  was  a  vision  in  an 
Orry  Kelly  creation,  wearing  her  fabulous 
diamond  necklace. 

Marion  Davies'  blonde  beauty  was  set  off 
by  a  black  gown  with  a  white  lace  top  that 
would  cause  any  style-conscious  woman's 
aeort  to  miss  a  beat  She  wore  gorgeous 
rubies  worth  a  king's  ransom. 

William  Powell  and  "Mousey,"  his  cute 
wife,  drove  up  from  Palm  Springs,  and  I 
Jiought  I  had  never  seen  BUI  look  so  well. 
He  has  put  on  a  few  pounds  which  are  very 
aecoming,  and  he  is  very  suntanned  from  all 
he  outdoor  desert  living. 

I  saw  Mildred  and  Harold  Lloyd  among 
hose  dancing  every  dance  to  the  strains  of 
he  lovely,  haunting  Hawaiian  music  that 
went  on  and  on  into  the  wee  hours  of  the 
noming.  No  one  wants  to  leave  Uttle 
'Skotie's"  parties  early. 

Nicky  Hilton  was  dining  with  his  favorite 
late,  Mona  Knox,  at  the  Tollyho  when  a  re- 
x)rteT  tracked  him  down  to  ask  what  he 


thought  about  Montgomery  Clift  meeting  Liz 
Taylor  at  the  plane  in  New  York  on  her  way 
to  Europe. 

"1  don't  think  anything  about  it,"  said  Nick. 
"Should  I?" 

I'm  inclined  to  share  Nick's  nonchalance 
about  this  much  publicized  meeting  between 
Elizabeth  and  her  co-star  in  A  Place  in  the 
Sun. 

My  spy  in  New  York  (who  knows  Monty) 
says  Clift  was  at  the  airport  seeing  off  another 
friend  when  he  accidentally  ran  into  Liz's 
brother  and  her  mother  and  father  out  to  meet 
her  plane  from  the  Coast 

So  Monty  just  stayed  on  to  say,  "Hello,"  as 
any  old  friend  might  do. 

It  strikes  me  funny  that  their  meeting  at- 
tracted so  much  attention.  All  the  time  they 
were  making  the  picture  together  at  Para- 
mount, Monty  went  out  of  his  way  not  to  be- 
come involved  in  a  "publicity  romance"  with 
lovely  Elizabeth. 

He  flatly  refused  to  escort  her  to  a  pre- 
miere because,  he  said,  "it  would  stir  up  a 
lot  of  fuss  about  nothing," — and  Elizabeth 
agreed. 

Rita  Hayworth  is  going  to  have  plenty  of 
trouble  getting  53,000,000  or  any  amount  of 
money  out  of  Prince  Aly  Khan  for  a  couple  of 


good  reasons.  One,  the  Prince  is  quite  short 
on  cash.  Two,  his  wealthy  father,  the  Aga 
Khan,  isn't  going  to  kick  in  with  a  cent. 

The  "inside"  on  why  poppa,  who  likes  Rita, 
won't  help,  is  because  Rita  and  the  Begum, 
the  Aga's  current  wife,  never  hit  it  off  and 
she  will  see  to  it  that  the  Aga  keeps  his 
purse  closed.  I  might  add  that  Aly  and  the 
Begum  aren't  any  too  friendly,  either. 

I  don't  put  a  dime's  worth  of  stock  in  the 
gossip  that  lovely,  blonde  Joan  Fontaine  is 
Aly's  new  heart  interest  or  vice  versa.  The 
Prince  is  tres  charming  and  he  has  always 
paid  attention  to  glamorous  women. 

But  I  can't  see  Joan  marrying  Aly — or  he 
her. 

Clark  Gable,  who  planked  out  5350,000  to 
get  his  freedom  from  Rea  Gable,  can  relax. 
Sylvia  wants  not  a  cent  from  him — nor  any 
part  of  his  property.  She  sent  word  to  me 
from  Honolulu  where  she  had  fled  after  the 
bitterness  of  their  parting.  "Why  should  I 
ask  for  part  of  his  20-acTe  ranch  in  Encino 
when  I  own  4,000  acres  in  Del  Mar?"  Sylvia 
asked. 

Although  Clark  remains  as  mum  as  an 
oyster,  he  told  a  mutual  friend  that  he  has 
never  spent  as  much  money  in  his  life  as 
he  did  curing  the  yeor-ond-a-half  he  was  7 


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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 

married  to  the  former  Lady  Ashley.  He  says 
he  built  a  studio  and  made  all  sorts  of  im- 
provements on  the  ranch  at  her  insistence, 
plus  redecorating  the  whole  house.  As  for 
clothes — well,  Sylvia  is  a  gal  wot  likes  to 
dress. 

Maybe  Clark  has  been  a  bachelor  too  long 
to  get  used  to  paying  a  lady's  bills — espe- 
cially when  the  lady  has  a  million  dollars 
of  her  own. 

No  visitor  to  Hollywood  in  years  created 
so  much  social  furor  as  Perle  Mesla, 
Minister  to  Luxemburg,  famed  as  the  Wash- 
ington "hostess  with  the  mostest." 

Theda  Bara,  vamp  of  the  silent  screen,  was 
the  first  to  honor  Madame  Minister  with  a 
cocktail  and  dinner  party. 

At  socialite  Dolly  Walker's  party  the  next 
night  in  Perle's  honor,  Mai  and  Ray  Milland 
disclosed  that  they  have  bought  part  of 
Dolly's  Beverly  Hills  estate,  and  are  going  to 
build  their  new  home  there. 

I  sat  next  to  Gene  Markey  and  whispered 
in  his  ear  that  the  paper  had  just  telephoned 
me  that  his  ex-wife,  Myrna  Loy,  had  re- 
married in  Virginia. 

"Why  doesn't  she  tell  me  these  things," 
said  Gene,  who  is  always  witty  and  composed. 

ONE  day  last  month  I  grabbed  my  portable 
typewriter  in  one  hand  and  my  secretary 
by  the  other  and  took  off  over  the  hills  to 
Warner  Brothers  studio  to  emote  in  SfarJif f.  Yes, 
I  am  turning  actress  in  this  musical  based 
on  Travis  Air  Field  where  our  fighting  boys 
take  off  and  return  from  Korea. 

Many  Hollywood  stars  entertain  there  and 
several  months  ago  I  took  up  a  troupe  in- 
cluding Shirley  Temple,  Pat  O'Brien  and 
Margaret  Whiting  to  the  base  near  San 
Francisco.  When  they  got  around  to  making 
the  picture.  Jack  Warner  asked  me  if  I  would 
play  myself. 

By  golly,  I  may  not  win  an  Oscar  playing 
Louella  Parsons,  but  I  ought  to  be  natural! 

Frankly,  however,  it  isn't  easy  for  a  non- 
professional to  stand  in  the  spotlight  and 
"emote"  even  when  just  called  upon  to  play 
one's  self. 

It  was  so  pleasant  to  find  such  welcoming 
friends  on  the  set  as  Doris  Day,  Ruth  Roman, 
and  Janice  Rule.  The  girls  presented  me  with 
a  gold-topped  rabbit's  foot  for  good  luck,  and 
the  attached  card  read,  "So  very  nice  to 
have  you  with  us." 

I'll  be  happy  if  they  feel  that  way  when 
I  have  completed  my  scenes.  I've  studied  my 
"lines"  and  tried  to  be  up  on  the  script 
so  the  visiting  lady  columnist  won't  hold  up 


the  scenes. 

When  you  realize  from  first  hand  experience 
what  hard  work  movie  acting  is — ^well,  I 
wonder  if  Critic  Louella  Parsons  will  ever 
again  have  the  heart  to  "pan"  any  acting 
performance? 

Celeste  Holm  tells  me  that  the  big  thrill  of 
her  singing  engagement  at  La  Vie  En  Rose  in 
New  York  is  when  she  peered  past  the  spot- 
light into  the  audience  and  saw  General 
Douglas  MacArthur  sitting  ringside. 

She  was  even  more  delighted  when,  after 
her  stint,  she  was  invited  to  the  table  to 
meet  the  General  and  his  charming  wife. 

"I  told  the  General  that  Jack  Benny  had 
invited  me  to  go  with  his  show  to  Korea," 
said  Celeste.  "His  eyes  twinkled  for  a  min- 
ute, and  then  he  said: 

"  'I  don't  think  you  will  like  it  there.  Miss 
Holm.' " 

JANE  Russell  has  a  wonderfully  placid  dis- 
position and  so  has  her  husband.  Bob 
Waterfield. 

But  Jane  came  close  to  blowing  her  top 
because  Bob  admitted  they  have  plans  to 
adopt  a  baby.  She  had  so  hoped  to  keep  it  a  ' 
big  secret  until  the  baby  had  been  in  their 
home  three  or  four  months. 

So  it  is  true  that  the  Waterfields  will  soon 
have  a  little  stranger  in  their  home,  but 
everybody  is  helping  Bob  keep  mum  by  not 
telling  when  he  or  she  arrives. 

The  Letter  Box:  Shirley  Newman,  age  12,  of 
Norwood,  Ohio,  wants  Shirley  Temple  to  keep 
on  writing  to  her  even  if  her  "dearest,  darling 
favorite"  has  retired.  Are  you  listening,  Mrs. 
Charles  Black,  now  busy  being  a  Navy  wife 
in  Washington,  D.  C?  (Many,  many  letters 
asking  about  Shirley  in  this  month's  mail. 
Her  fans  certainly  have  not  forgotten.  Nor 
have  any  of  us  here  in  Hollywood.) 

Answering  D.  V.  of  Saint  Louis,  Missouri: 
Yes,  Tyrone  Power  and  Linda  Christian  are 
expecting  a  baby.  He  is  very  glad  to  be  back 
in  Hollywood  again  but  he  would  be  "glad- 
der" if  he  weren't  on  suspension  at  20th — he 
told  me  so. 

Lots  of  letters  wishing  the  best  of  luck  and 
health  to  Dan  Dailey.  He  is  much  admired 
for  his  frank  and  sensible  outlook  on  his 
recent  illness. 

A  clever  Japanese  boy  in  Tokyo  who  can 
write  English  tells  me:  "We  see  American, 
English,  French,  Italian,  and  Russian  movies 
— and  we  like  best  the  American.  A  recent 
poll  here  in  famous  Japanese  movie  magazine 
voted  Little  Women  most  popular  American 
movie  here,  with  Letter  To  Three  Wives  and 
Snov  White  and  the  Seven  Dwarfs  second 
and  third."  Very  interesting,  my  Tokyo  friend 
— write  again. 

That's  all  for  this  month.  See  you  again! 


With  Potfi  and  Jerry  Lewis  as  attendants,  Janet 
Leigh  became  Mrs.  Tony  Curtis  on  June  4+h. 
Judge   Knox  of  Greenwich,  Conn.,  officiated. 


Jimmy  Stewart,  named  Screen  Father  of  the 
Year,  poses  with  his  family:  Ronald,  Gloria, 
Michael,  and  the  new  twins,  Judy  and  Kelly. 


DIRECTED  BY  RAOUL  WALSH 

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ke"  Howard  Duff  gefs  some  boating  know-how  from  fleet-ov/ner  E 


Howard  signed  on  as  an  ordinary  seoman. 


His  pay:  two  bucks  a  week.  His  companions:  dead  fish.  His  reward:  a  su^ntan,  and  a  new  slant  on  women.'^ 


duff's 
gone 
fishin^ 


BY  JIM  BURTON 


■  A  few  weeks  ago,  right  after  he'd  finished  The  Lady  From  Texas  with  Mona 
Freeman,  Howard  DufiE  decided  to  get  away  from  it  all. 

This  meant  no  more  dates  with  glamor  girls — like  Ava,  when  she  was  eUigry 
with  Frankie,  and  no  more  beach  parties  with  Ida  Lupino,  and  no  more  pre- 
mieres with  Marta  Toren.  No  more  Hollywood  for  a  while,  because  Duff  had 
things  to  think  over.  Marriage,  for  instance. 

Howard  Duff  isn't  the  happiest  man  in  the  world.  He's  an  introvert,  who's 
always  studying  his  own  soul,  and  right  now  the  sight  depresses  hinx  He  thinks, 
though,  that  he'd  be  very  happy  if  he  were  married  and  had  a  family.  "After 
all,"  he  says,  "that's  what  counts  most  in  life."  But  he  can't  find  a  wife. 

During  the  war  he  thought  he'd  fotmd  one,  but  when  he  was  shipped  overseas 
she  went  off  and  got  married.  Today  she  has  two  children.  Is  Howard  carrying 
a  torch  for  her?   "Don't  be  ridiculoiis,"  he  says.   "That's  all  done  and  forgotten." 

In  June  of  this  year,  Duff  started  looking  for  a  place  to  mull  over  his  prob- 
lems. What  place  is  more  conducive  to  long  thoughts  than  the  ocean?  No  place, 
thought  Howard,  so  he  signed  on  as  a  hired  hand  aboard  a  fishing  vessel  for 
two  dollars  a  week.  The  name  of  the  vessel  was  "Mike."  It  was  50  feet  long 
and  headed  for  Mexican  waters  to  find  albacore.   (Continued  on  page  12) 


so  9  shampoo  tiHtft  D/imel 


SAYS  JEANNE  BAL, 
RISING  STAR  OF  BROADWAY 


"MY  HAIR  SHINES  ITS  BRIGHTEST  when 
'  I  shampoo  with  Drene!"  says  sparkling 
Jeanne  Bo/,  of  ffie  hit  musical  Call  Me  Madam. 


Jeanne  keeps  shining  through  eight 
performances  a  week  by  shampooing 

at  least  twice  a  week!  She  uses  Drene 
for  the  shine  it  reveals,  and  also,  she  says . 

"NO  MATTER  HOW  OFTEN  I  SHAMPOO, 
gentle  Drene  never  dries  out  my  hair!" 
And  Jeanne  likes  the  natural  silky  softness 

of  her  hair  when  she  uses  today's 
wonderful  Drene  with  Conditioning  Action. 
"Try  Drene  yourself,"  she  suggests, 

"and  you'll  shine  too,  tonight!" 


"I  LOVE  the  gorgeous  highlights 
Drene  reveols  in  my  hair,"  Jeanne 
soys.  And  you  will,  too.  For  Drene's 
exclusive  formula  cleanses  in  o 
special  way.  It  never  dries  out 
your  hair — always  leaves  it  nat- 
urally soft  and  shining! 


"MY_HAIR  is  so  soft,  so  easy  to 
manage,  I  thank  my  lucky  sfqrs 
every  night  for  Drene,"  scrys 
Jeanne.  Your  first  Drene  shampoo 
will  show  you  how  soft  and  shining 
P^^e^e  Conditrbning  Aetipn  leaves 
your  hoir.  Try  Drene  today! 


duff's  gone  fishin' 


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in  Ar^'^'L  to 


dabbling  ^-^^.^^  come say 


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(Continued  /rom  page  10) 

(Albacore  is  a  long-finned  tunny,  closely 
related  to  the  tuna.  Like  tuna,  it's  highly 
valued  for  canning  and  brings  a  good  price 
over  the  grocery  counter.) 

When  Duff  signed  up  as  an  ordinary 
seaman,  he  also  signed  to  receive  a  per- 
centage of  the  catch.  "Mike"  departed 
from  Point  Loma,  outside  of  San  Diego, 
and  stayed  on  the  high  seas  for  18  days. 

Once  aboard,  Duff  was  treated  like  any 
member  of  the  crew.  He  asked  no  favors, 
and  he  got  none.  He  pulled  watch,  swabbed 
down  the  decks,  haxiled  in  the  catch, 
worked  'round  the  clock. 

"When  he  first  came  aboard,"  one  of 
the  regular  crew  says,  "we  thought  we 
were  going  to  have  a  Hollywood  dude. 
We  didn't  know  who  he  was,  but  when 
those  photographers  came  aroimd  and 
started  taking  pictures,  we  figured  he 
must  be  somebody. 

"Anyway,  he  didn't  pull  any  airs  with 
us.  He  told  us  right  off  that  he  was  a  land- 
lubber and  didn't  know  the  bow  from  the 
stern,  but  he  sure  learned.  I  used  to  think 
those  Hollywood  actors  were  a  bxinch  of 
fancy  pants.  But  that  sure  ain't  true  of 
Duff.  That  kid  can  sail  with  us  any  time 
he  wants. 

"Matter  of  fact  when  Ernie  (Ernie  owns 
the  boat)  told  us  that  Duff  was  an  actor, 
a  lot  of  the  boys  wouldn't  believe  it.  He 
siure  doesn't  look  like  Etn  actor.  He  looks 
like  a  regular  fisherman,  I  mean,  a  hvmian 
being." 

rJow  Duff  came  to  sign  on  the  "Mike"  is 
a  pretty  interesting  story  in  itself. 
Having  finished  his  picture  at  Universal, 
he  was  lying  on  his  shoulder  blades  at 
home  one  Saturday  evening  when  the 
phone  rang.  It  was  director  George  Sher- 
man. 

"Some  of  the  boys  are  coming  over  for 
a  while,"  George  said.  "Why  don't  you 
drop  in?" 

"Thanks,  I  wUl,"  Howard  said,  and,  since 
he  didn't  have  a  date,  he  drove  right  over. 

At  Sherman's,  Howard  ran  into  Ernie 
Gann.  a  writer  and  flier  who  also  owns  a 
fleet  of  fishing  boats  out  at  Monterey. 

"A  ftmny  thing,"  Howard  said.  "I  was 
going  up  to  San  Francisco  in  a  few  days, 
and  I  was  going  to  call  you  there." 

"What  for?"  Ernie  Gaim  asked. 

"I  want  you  to  give  me  a  job  on  one 
of  your  boats,"  Duff  said. 

"You  kidding?" 

"No,  I'm  dead  serious,"  Howard  asserted. 
"I'm  a  little  fed  up,  hanging  around  town. 
I'd  like  to  get  away.  You  know,  get  a 
chance  to  think  things  out.  How  about 
it,  Ernie?" 

"How  soon  could  you  leave?" 

Duff  thought  for  a  moment.  "Practically 
any  tune." 

"That's  fine,"  Gaim  said,  "because  I  have 
a  boat  pulling  out  of  San  Diego  tomorrow 
morning  at  nine." 

"Whom  do  I  see  to  sign  on?"  Duff  asked. 

"You  see  me,"  Ernie  said.  "I'm  the 
skipper." 

"Okay,"  said  Howard.  "I  want  on." 
"I  want  to  warn  you,  this  is  no  pleasiu:e 
crtiise." 

"I  know,"  Diift  said.  "I  can  work  as  well 
as  the  next  guy." 

"Okay,"  said  Gann.  "We're  going  out 
looking  for  albacore.  You'll  get  a  cut  on 
whatever  the  catch  is  worth." 

Duff  and  Gann  shook  hands.  The  next 
morning,  they  both  flew  down  to  San 
Diego  and  boarded  the  "Mike."  A  short 
circuit  in  one  of  the  motors  delayed  the 
boat's  scheduled  departure  but  after  a 


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clearance  from  the  insurance  company, 
the  "Mike"  took  off. 

But  on  the  ocean,  pulling  watch  at  night, 
Howard  Duff  had  time  to  think,  to 
evaluate  his  life,  to  find  out  whether  it 
had  any  meaning  for  him  or  whether  he 
was  aimlessly  drifting. 

"I  decided,"  he  says,  "that  if  I  don't  get 
married  within  the  next  two  or  three  years, 
the  chances  are  I  will  probably  never  get 
married." 

"Once  a  fellow  hits  35  (DufFs  33  now), 
he  becomes  pretty  set  in  his  ways.  Then, 
too,  how  good  are  the  chances  of  marrying 
a  girl  who's  28  or  29?  By  that  age  most 
of  the  girls  have  been  grabbed  up,  so  that 
usually,  .a  man  in  my  spot  marries  a  girl 
who  is  20  or  22.  That's  too  great  a  difference 
in  age  I  think. 

OVT  there  in  the  Pacific,  I  had  a  pretty 
good  chance  to  work  things  out.  I  love 
Hollywood,  and  I  think  it's  been  great  to 
me,  but  in  order  to  get  any  perspective, 
a  fellow's  got  to  get  far  away  from  it  once 
in  a  while. 

"When  you're  at  sea,  things  become 
pretty  elemental.  Problems  that  were 
complicated  on  land  seem  to  reduce  them- 
selves to  essentials. 

"Take  me,  for  example.  I'm  ready  for 
marriage.  People  make  me  out  to  be  a 
recluse,  but  I'm  nothing  of  the  sort.  And 
I'm  not  that  moody,  brooding  guy  you  read 
about. 

"I'm  very  much  in  the  market  for  a  wife, 
only  Hollywood  is  a  very  tough  spot  to 
find  one.  Naturally,  I  meet  a  lot  of 
actresses,  but  unless  they  give  up  their 
careers,  actresses  usually  don't  make  good 
wives.  Two  acting  careers  in  one  family 
rarely  mix.  So  where  am  I?  I  can't  go 
beating  around  the  U.S.,  annoimcing  that 
I'm  looking  for  a  wife,  and  there's  no 
sense  in  proposing  to  the  first  girl  who 
comes  along. 

"Some  of  my  friends  have  suggested  that 
perhaps  I'm  afraid  of  marriage.  Well,  that's 
true  of  some  bachelors,  but  I  honestly 
don't  think  it's  true  of  me. 

"As  soon  as  I  find  the  right  girl,  I'm 
proposing.  And  say — if  you  know  someone, 
let  me  have  her  number.  One  thing  I  can 
assure  you.  Howard  Duff  isn't  hard  to  get." 
The  End 


IT  HAPPENED  TO  ME 

Sometime  ago  I 
went  to  LaGuardia 
Airport  with  my 
sister  and  a  friend 
to  meet  another 
friend  who  was 
coming  in  at  11:30 
P.M.  on  Interna- 
tional Airlines.  We 
weren't  sure 
whether  the  plane 
was  to  land  at  Gate 
2  or  4,  so  we  went  to  Gate  2  to  ask. 
A  man  and  woman  were  standing  at 
the  gate  and  the  woman  caught  our 
eyes  because  she  kjos  wearing  a  beau- 
tiful fur  coat  and  carrying  a  lovely 
bouquet  of  red  roses. 

She  must  have  felt  us  staring  at  her, 
for  in  a  moment  when  she  turned  to 
go  through  the  gate  to  the  field,  she 
paused,  came  back  toward  tis  and 
said,  "Would  you  like  to  have  these?" 
Then  she  harided  me  the  flowers. 

I  gulped  my  thanks  and  watched 
Laraine  Day  rejoin  Leo  Durocher  and 
board  her  plane. 

Miss  Annette  De  Gaetan^ 
Brooklyn,  New  York 


Timely  Tips  by  Little  Lulu 

HOW  00  VOU  SCORB  ON  THESE  HELPFUL  WAYS   TO  SAVE 


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What's  best  to  limber  meat  grinders? 

I  I  Chicken  bones  Q  Salad  oil  Q  Bacon  fat 

Balky  meat  grinders  get  back  to  work  — 
when  you  dose  'em  with  salad  oil.  Keeps 
the  food  taste-worthy.  Speaking  of  grind- 
ers, there's  no  ground  wood  in  Kleenex! 
It's  a  pure  tissue;  perfectly  uniform. 
Free  from  weak  spots,  hard  particles! 


How  to  foil  a  dripping  faucet? 

O  Try  a  cork  □  Attach  a  string 

Can't  sleep  for  that  "bloop-bleep"  ?  Tie 
a  string  on  the  faucet  .  .  .  water  slides 
down,  silently.  And  see  how  Kleenex 
tissues  save  your  nerves  — for  Kleenex 
serves  one  at  a  time  (not  a  handful). 
No  fumbling!  No  waste.  Saves  money. 


Chair  marks  on  carpets  call  for— 

I  I  Cleaning  fluid       XH  Steaming 

Cover  furniture-flattened  spots  with  damp 
cloth,  then  steam  with  hot  iron.  Lifts  nap, 
saves  carpet.  Let  Kleenex  tissues  give 
jOM  a  lift  in  your  household  tasks.  Extra 
soft!  So  absorbent;  sturdy!  And  no 
other  tissue  has  that  handy  Kleenex  box! 


To  peel  peaches  quickly,  try— 

O  A  teakettle  O  Steel  wool  HH  A  scouf  knife 

Peaches  will  shed  their  skins  pronto; 
just  pour  boiling  water  over  them.  Like- 
wise, save  beauty-care  time,  trouble  — 
use  gentle  Kleenex  to  peel  off  clinging 
makeup.  Because  this  tissue  has  the 
perfect  balance  of  softness  and  strength. 


Kleenex  ends  waste  -  saves  money... 


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the  giant 
Goliath  fell  before 
the  boy  David, 
so  did  David 
the  King  fall  before 
Bathsheba,  the  adulteress! 


will.  RAYMOND  MASSEY  •  KIERON  MOORE 

and  a  cast  of  many  thousands! 

Produced  by  DARRYL  F.  ZANUCK  •  Directed  by  HENRY  KING 

Wrillen  ior  Ihe  Scieen  by  PHILIP  DUNNE 


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Kim  Hunter  and  Marlon  Brando  recreo+e  their  Broadway  hit  roles  in  Tennessee  Williams'  drama. 


MOVIE  REVIEWS 


A  STREETCAR  NAMED  DESIRE 

■  William  Saroyan,  one  of  our  better  playwrights,  was  represented  on  the  screen  by  a  movie 
called  The  Human  Comedy  some  years  ago.  Now  Tennessee  Williams,  another  top-flight  drama- 
tist, has  had  his  Streetcar  Named  Desire  film-treated,  and  I  keep  thinking  of  it  as  "the  human 
tragedy."  Saroyan  and  Williams  are  both  concerned  with  life,  death,  and  the  dreams  between, 
but  Saroyan's  note  has  almost  always  been  one  of  hope,  and  Williams'  note  has  almost  always 
been  of  despair.  Sfreefcar  is  the  story  of  Blanche  Du  Bois  (Vivien  Leigh^,  a  woman  who  can't 
face  the  bright  light  of  day,  or  her  lost  youth,  or  the  terrible  fact  that  everyone  is  not  kind  and 
well-mannered.  She  comes  to  New  Orleans  to  stay  with  her  married  sister  (Kim  Hunter),  and 
finds  the  sister's  husband  (Marlon  Brando)  crude,  antagonistic,  bestial;  the  place  where  they 
live  a  slum.  Her  brother-in-law,  discovering  various  sordid  facts  about  Blanche's  past,  sets  out 
to  destroy  her,  and  succeeds  quite  thoroughly.  It'^  a  saga  of  rape,  insanity,  loneliness,  rejection, 
man's  inhumanity  to  man.  The  locale  is  authentically  old  South,  the  music  is  magniHcent,  and 
a  cast  which  simply  could  not  be  bettered  has  helped  to  make  a  masterpiece.  1  thou.ght  Vivien 
Leigh  had  a  little  trouble  with  her  Southern  accent  (in  her  zeal  to  slur  authentically,  she  lost 
her  "r"  altogether)  but  as  I  said  before,  Warner  Brothers  has  an  honest-to-God  masterpiece  here, 
and  I  haven't  got  the  heart  to  quibble. 


THE  FROGMEN 

Up  until  recently,  the  whole  thing  was  a 
secret,  but  it  seems  that  in  World  War  II, 
we  had  what  was  referred  to  as  "paddlefoot 
commandos,"  or  UDT's  (Underwater  Dem- 
olition Teams)  "spearheading  every  inva- 
sion from  Sicily  to  Okinawa." 

These  incredibly  brave  men,  wearing  swim- 
ming trunks  and  flippers  on  their  feet,  and 
Buck-Rogers-looking  masks,  went  slithering 
around  under  enemy  waters,  blowing  up 
mines,  making  notes  of  defense  installations, 
etc.  Richard  Widmork,  as  a  commander  who 
has  to  win  over  his  crew  (they've  been  crazy 
about  his  predecessor);  Dana  Andrews  as  the 
chief  man  he  has  to  win  over;  and  the  rest  of 
the  cast  outdo  each  other  in  feats  of  bravery 
and  heroism. 

The  whole  company  spent  so  much 
time  in  ice  cold  water — ^they  were  on  location 
in  the  Virgin  Islands,  and  off  Cape  Hat- 
teras — that  they  all  caught  cold.  It's  a 
fascinating  picture,  entirely  anusual  in  theme, 
and  execution. 

Cast:  Ricbaid  Widmaik,  Dana  Andrews,  Gary 
Menill. — 20th  Century-Fox. 


NIGHT  INTO  MORNING 

This  picture  is  exceedingly  well  done,  and 
so  grim  you  wonder  why  they  did  it. 

Roy  Milland's  wife  and  child  are  blown  up 
in  a  freak  accident.  And  Ray,  an  English  pro- 
fessor, in  an  effort  to  find  escape,  once  his 
life  has  been  thus  desolated,  toys  with 
drink,  with  suicide,  with  reckless  driving. 
He's  mean  to  his  students,  and  he  worries 
his  friends,  Nancy  Davis  and  John  Hodiak, 
both  of  whom  are  fellow  members  of  the 
English  department. 

Hodiak  and  Davis  are  engaged,  and  Davis, 
herself  having  sustained  a  widowhood,  does 
all  she  can  to  alleviate  Roy's  pain.  Accord- 
ing to  Hodiak,  she  begins  to  do  a  little  too 
much,  even,  but  that's  really  neither  here  nor 
there. 

As  the  story  of  a  man  plunged  into  a  very 
terrible  reality,  and  his  adjustment  to  that 
reality.  Night  into  Morning  has  good  mo- 
ments. But  since  they're  mostly  suicidal  or 
otherwise  depressing  I  think  you'd  hardly 
call  them  entertaining.  If  you're  a  student  of 
the  drama,  though,  go  see. 

Cast:  Ray  Milland,  John  Hodiak.  Nancy  Davis. 
Lewis  Stone,  Jean  Hagen. — ^MGM. 


'J  was  shipwrecked 
5  times  in  one  day  ! 


f/ 


says  EVELYN  KEYES,  co-starrin?  with  Jeff  Chandler  in  "SMUGGLER'S  ISLAND"  a  U-l  release,  Color  by  Technicolor 


"If  sweeping  floors  is  rough  on  your  hands,  imagine  mine  after  retakes  of  this  ship- 
WTeck  scene  for  'SMUGGLER'S  ISLAND.'  The  heavj'  oars  made  my  hands  sting. 


Learning  the  ropes  on  a  sloop 
left  my  hands  raw  again  . . . 


But  bet\\'een  scenes,  I  used 
soothing  Jergens  Lotion  . , . 


CAN  YOOR  LOTION  OS  HAND 
CII£AM  PASS  THIS  fiLM  TEST? 

To  soften,  a  lotion  or  cream 
should  be  absorbed  by  upper 
layers  of  skin.  Water  won  t 
"bead  'on  hand  smoothed  with 
Jergens  Lotion.  It  contains 
qutckly-at>sort)ed  ingredients 
tliat  doctors  recommend,  no 
heavy  oils  that  merely  coat 
the  skin  with  oily  film.  " 


It  kept  my  hands  lovely  for 
romantic  closeups!" 


Being  a  liquid,  Jergens  is 
absorbed  by  thirsty  skin. 


Prove  it  with  this  simple  You'll  see  why  Jergens 
test  described  above  . . .         Lotion  is  my  beauty  secret. 


More  women  use  Jergens  Lotion  than  any  other  hand  care  in  the  world 

STILL  lOc  TO  $1.00  (PLUS  TAX) 


Sparks  your  hair  with 
brighter,  richer  color  ^ 


hair  takes  on  a 
burnished  glory 


hair  shines 
with  silver 


Not  g  tint!  Not  a  dye!  But  a  super  cleansing  shampoo 
that  makes  even  dull-looking  hair  sing  with  brighter  color 


A  DAZZLING  IIFT!  New  lanolin-enriched 
Shasta  Cream  Shampoo  glorifies  your 
natural  hair  color.  It  does  not  add  arti- 
ficial color  to  your  hair,  but  gives  your 
oivn  true  color  a  dazzling  lift. 

"SUPER"  CLEANS  HAIR !  New  Shasta  con- 
tains an  amazing  sparkle-giving  cleanser 
that  "super"  cleans  your  hair.  This  super 
cleansing  action  is  the  secret  of  the  shin- 
ing, sparkling  color  after  your  Shasta 
shampoo.  For  Shasta  leaves  each  strand 
so  radiantly  clean  the  natural  color  spar- 
kles like  sunshine  streaming  through  a 
clean  window  pane. 

SHASTA  IS  SAFE!  Yet  for  all  its  color- 
sparkling  magic,  Shasta  is  safe.  Lathers 
out  color-dulling  grime.  Leaves  in  pre- 


NEW  COLOR-SPARKING 


cious  natural  oils  your  hair  needs  to  be 
soft,  healthy,  glamorous. 

MAKE  THIS  CONVINCING  TEST  TODAY 
BEFORE  SHAMPOOING,  snip  off  a  lock  of 

hair.  Put  this  lock  aside  whUe  you  shampoo 
the  rest  of  your  hair  with  new  Shasta. 
AFTER  SHAMPOOING,  when  hair  is  dry, 
compare  the  unwashed  lock  with  your  soft 
and  radiant  Shasta-washed  hair.  If  not 
convinced  that  new  Shasta  sparks  your 
hair  with  brighter, 
richer  color,  return 
the  jar  to  Procter  & 
Gamble  and  get  your 
money  back  in  full. 

Big  economy  jar  QQ^ 
4  full  ounces  Ow 

Regular  size  .  .  . 


SUPER  CLEANS  SAFELY 
DOES  NOT  ROB  HAIR  OF  NATURAL  OILS 


SHOWBOAT 

The  newest  version  of  the  beloved  old 
show,  and  it's  warm  and  corny,  and  beauti- 
ful and  perfect — for  both  those  young  enough 
to  be  new  to  this  Hammerstein-Kem  classic, 
and  those  who  know  it  by  heart.  Ava  Gard- 
ner's the  luckless  riverboat  entertainer,  Julie, 
who  falls  in  love  with  a  white  man;  Kathryn 
Grayson's  Magnolia,  the  captain's  daughter, 
who  loses  her  heart  to  that  dashing  gambler, 
Mr.  Gay  lord  Ravenal  (Howard  Keel);  and  Joe 
E.  Brown  plays  Cap'n  Andy.  There's  never 
been  such  soft,  melting  Technicolor,  and  all  the 
great  songs — "Old  Man  River,"  "Make  Be- 
Ueve,"  "Can't  Help  Loving  That  Man" — are 
staged  with  loving  care.  Ava  goes  to  her  tragic 
end  gallantly;  Kathryn  and  Howard  pull  a 
happy  ending  for  themselves  out  of  a  messy 
middle  (he  comes  back  to  get  a  look  at  the 
child  he's  never  seen,  and  Kathryn  forgives 
him);  and  there's  a  dance  sequence  involving 
said  child  and  Joe  E.  Brown  which  is  reminis- 
cent of  Shirley  Temple-Bill  Robinson  numbers. 
If  I've  seen  a  more  enjoyable  picture  recently, 
I  don't  remember  it  now. 

Cast:  Kathryn  Grayson,  Ava  Gardner,  How- 
ard Keel,  loe  E.  Brown,  Agnes  Moorebead. 
— MGM. 


HER  FIRST  ROMANCE 

Small,  super-charged  Maggie  O'Brien,  who 
could  bawl  as  quick  as  look  at  you,  seems 
to  have  grown  into  a  pleasantly  easy-going 
adolescent,  and  Columbia's  fashioned  a 
pleasantly  easy-going  picture  around  her. 
Maggie's  got  a  crush  on  Allen  Martin,  Jr., 
and  so  has  a  girl  named  Lucille.  All  the 
kids  are  off  at  summer  camp  and  there's  a 
prize  for  the  kid  who  builds  the  best  money- 
making  project.  Maggie  steals  money  from 
her  father's  safe  in  order  to  help  Allen 
get  the  cash  he  needs  to  build  his  project. 
There  are  complications  having  to  do  with 
a  valuable  paper  which  means  fortune  or 
disaster  to  Maggie's  pop,  which  disappears 
from  his  safe  the  night  the  money  is  taken, 
but  the  plot's  secondary.  The  kids  are  all  cute; 
the  loughs  are  mUd  but  many. 

Cast:  Margaret  O'Brien,  Allen  Martin,  Jr., 
Jimmy  Hunt,  Sharyn  Motiett. — Columbia. 


PEKING  EXPRESS 

A  Chinese  train,  traveling  from  Shanghai 
to  Peking,  has  various  personalities  aboard: 
Joseph  Gotten,  a  United  Nations  doctor,  is 
off  to  perform  an  operation  on  General 
Chiang,  and  spends  his  spare  time  wondering 
who's  diverting  U.N.  medical  supplies  into 
the  Chinese  black  market.  And  Corinne  Cal- 
vet,  a  spy  for  so  many  different  folks  she 
can  hardly  remember  who  she's  spying  on. 
(She  and  Joe  were  once  in  love,  but  he 
didn't  trust  her.)  Then  there's  a  Chinese 
man — Marvin  Miller — who  tries  to  stab  his 
wife  in  Corinne's  compartment.  This  man 
is  eventually  revealed  as  the  leader  of  an 
insurgent  military  group,  and  king  of  the 
black  market  in  medical  supplies.  He  wants 
Corinne.  Corinne  wants  Joe.  Edmund  Gwenn, 
a  priest  about  to  be  shot  by  Marvin's  men, 
wants  peace  on  earth.  Also  Marvin  is  trying 
to  get  his  son  back  from  the  underground 
Nationalists.  Do  you  follow  all  this?  It's  not 
easy,  but  it's  very  picturesgue. 

Cast:  Joseph  Gotten,  Corinne  Calvet,  Edmund 
Gwenn,  Marvin  Miller. — Paramount. 

SIROCCO 

In  1925,  in  Damascus,  the  French  were  so 
unpopular  that  the  Syrians  kept  shooting  them. 
As  this  picture  opens,  the  Syrians  are  getting 
their  guns  courtesy  of  Humphrey  Bogart,  a 
profiteer  who  runs  stuff  through  the  French  oc- 
cupation troops  to  the  headquarters  of  Emir 
Hassan,  head  of  the  natives.  Lee  J.  Cobb,  a 
French  officer,  doesn't  approve  of  this,  but  his 
good-for-nothing  girl  friend,  Marta  Toren,  ad- 
mires Humphrey  in  a  big  way,  once  she  dis- 
covers the  size  of  his  wallet.  Cobb  goes  to 
reason  with  Emir  Hassan  (Humphrey's  shown 
him  the  secret  way,  in  return  for  a  free  pass 
to  Cairo,  instead  of  a  bullet  in  his  head). 
But  then  a  French  general  starts  working  on 
Humphrey,  and  first  thing  you  know,  he 
(Humphrey)  is  doing  an  unselfish  thing. 
He's  making  an  attempt  to  save  Cobb's  life.  He 
gets  a  grenade  in  the  face  for  his  pains.  And 
as  far  as  I'm  concerned,  I  still  don't  know 
whether  the  French  belonged  in  Damascus. 

Cast:  Humphrey  Bogart,  Marta  Toren,  Lee  }. 
Cobb,  Everett  Sloane. — Columbia. 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by 
page  the  photographs  which  appear  in 
this  issue. 

6-7 — 20th  Century-Fox,  8 — International  News 
Photos,  10 — ^Edward  Sievers,  20-23 — Parry- 
Beerman,  31 — Modern  Screen  staff,  32- — Parry- 
Beerman,  33 — MGM,  34 — Rt.  American  Airlines 
Press  Photo,  Lt.Cen.  86  Lt.Bot.  Universal-Inter- 
national, 35 — TopRt.  Parry-Beerman,  Cen.Rt. 
MGM,  Bot.Rt.  Milt  Transchel,  Lt.  Clarence 
Bull,  36 — Rt.  Warner  Bros.,  Lt.Top  Bert  Parry, 
Lt.  Above  Cen.  Bert  Six,  Lt.Cen.,  MGM,  Lt. 
Below  Cen.  20th  Century,  Bot.Lt.  MGM,  38 — 
Bert  Parry,  39 — Acme  Photo,  40 — RKO,  42 — 
Bill  Bailey,  43 — Bob  Beerman,  44 — Bob  Beer- 
man,  45 — Bert  Parry,  46 — Nelson  Morris,  48-49 
— Beerman-Parry,  50 — Top  Bert  Parry,  Bot. 
Bob  Beerman,  51 — Rt.  Bob  Beerman,  18,  52-57 
— Beerman-Parry,  Virgil  Apger,  Eric  Carpenter, 
Bruce  Bailey,  58 — Top  Gus  Gale,  Bot.  Lt.  20th 
Century,  Bot. Cen.  Walt  Davis,  Bot.Rt.  M.  S. 
Staff,  59 — Top  Wide  World,  Cen.  &.  Bot.  Bob 
Beerman,  60 — Lt.  Bob  Beerman,  61 — Top  85 
Bot.Lt.  Gus  Gale,  62 — Lt.  MGM,  Rt.  Wide 
World,  63 — MGM,  64-66 — Parry-Beerman. 


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"Who  can  concentrate  on  food?"  says  Charlie  McCarthy  as  he  admires  Liz  Taylor. 
Liz  is  modeling  one  of  the  outfits  that  won  the  votes  of  the  stellar  board.  (See  text] 


Not  everyone  can  wear 
Paris  gowns  .  .  .  but  everyone  can 
afford  star-selected  clothes — 
especially  picked  by  Modern  Screen's 
Hollywood  board  of  judges. 


MODERN  SCREEN'S 


Hollywood  Fashion 


■  The  editors  of  Modern  Screen  looked  into  their  wives'  wardrobes  and  had  a 
thought.  It  was,  "Who  can  afford  Paris  creations?"  Their  answer  almost 
choked  them.  It  was,  "No  one."  Meditating  along  this  vein,  they  got  very 
excited  and  still  another  thought  crossed  their  minds.  It  was,  "Why  should 
Paris  be  the  fashion  center  of  the  world  when  Hollywood  is  just  arovmd  the 
Rockies  and  loaded  with  style  experts  and  best-dressed  women?"  And  finally, 
they  asked  themselves,  "Why  not  bring  the  stars'  knowledge  of  fashion  and 
their  valuable  advice  directly  to  our  readers?" 

Right  away  they  contacted  Loretta  Yoiing,  who's  received  innumerable 
awards  for  being  Hollywood's  best-dressed  actress.  "What  do  you  think  of  the 
idea?"  they  asked  Loretta. 

"It's  wonderful!"  she  said.  "What  could  be  better  than  having  the  stars,  who've 
learned  about  fashions  from  the  finest  designers,  share  their  knowledge  with 
your  readers?" 

The  editors  beamed.  "You'll  share?"  they  asked. 

"I'd  be  delighted,"  she  said. 

Now  Loretta  is  a  lady  who  has  a  way  of  doubling  a  person's  enthusiasm  for 
any  worthy  project.  That's  what  she  did  to  ours,  and  before  long  we'd  planned  a 
fashion  show — and  a  luncheon  to  go  with  it.  Then  we  got  down  to  the  business 
of  setting  up  an  Advisory  Board  of  Experts  comprised  of  representative  stars. 
As  the  fall  fashions  paraded  past  these  members  of  the  board,  they  would  select 
and  recommend  the  clothes  which  they  considered  the  best  buys  for  Modern 
Screen  readers. 

The  time  and  place  for  these  events  to  occur  were  rapidly  chosen.  The  time: 
noon.  The  place:  the  spacious  lawn  beside  Edgar  Bergen's  pool.  Frances  Bergen  is 
a  former  model  and  one  of  the  most  fashion  conscious  yoimg  matrons  in  our 
town.  Mr.  Bergen,  as  you  may  know,  is  employed  as  straight  man  for  Charles 
McCarthy,  who  provides  the  laughs  on  the  Coca-Cola  radio  show.  Edgar  also 
approves  of  Mrs.  B.'s  gowns  and  writes  the  checks  for  them  and  is  quite  aware 
of  what  goes  on  in  the  style  world.  CharMe,  of  course,  will  tell  you  that 
McCarthy's  an  expert  on  everything. 

The  remaining  members  of  the  board  were  selected.  Ricardo  Montalban  ac- 


Party 


cepted  the  invitation  with  pleasure.  Ri- 
cardo's  married  to  Loretta's  sister,  who's  a 
fashion  plate  in  her  own  right.  And  as  a 
young  husband,  he's  an  authority  on  what 
young  wives  should  wear. 

Every  girl  is  interested  in  a  beau's 
opinion  of  her  clothes.  Consequently,  we 
called  on  Peter  Lawford  and  Howard  Duff, 
two  of  Hollywood's  most  eligible  bachelors 
— both  noted  for  taste  in  clothes  and  ladies. 

"C*  UZ.4BETH  Taylor,  who  has  shopped  in 
stores  all  over  the  world,  seemed  like 
an  ideal  choice  for  the  board.  Also  per- 
fect were  Diana  Lynn  and  Mona  Freeman 
of  Hollywood's  young  married  crowd. 
They've  had  considerable  experience  in 
balancing  wardrobe  budgets  and  always 
manage  to  look  as  though  they  just  stepped 
out  of  bandboxes. 

Last,  and  far  from  least,  there  was  Walter 
Pidgeon,  well-traveled,  noted  for  his  charm 
and  sophistication. 

The  day  of  the  show  began  as  a  cloudy 
one.  However,  around  noon,  the  sun  came 
out  to  see  what  was  going  on.  The  Brown 
Derby  had  taken  over  luncheon  arrange- 
ments and  the  lawn  was  a  beehive  of 
preparations.  Dainty  finger  sandwiches  and 
a  variety  of  salads  were  on  the  table,  and 
everything,  done  with  great  flourish. 

Howard  Duff  was  the  earliest  arrival. 
"It's  my  first  fashion  show,"  he  said, 
happily  looking  aroimd  at  the  lovely 
models.    "And  it  won't  be  my  last." 

About  that  time  Mona  Freeman  walked 
up.  "Aren't  you  slightly  out  of  character?" 
she  wanted  to  know.  The  last  time  she'd 
seen  him  he  was  a  cowpoke  on  a  Western 
set.  The  two  co-starred  in  The  Lady  From 
Texas. 

Others  soon  followed.  And  this  was  quite 
a  feat.  Edgar  and  Frances  live  on  a  Holly- 
wood hilltop.  It  may  not  be  the  highest,  but 
it's  the  most  difficult  to  get  to.  Edgar 
usually  sends  out  small  maps  when  folks 
are  coming  to  call.  In  case  this  only  proves 
confusing,  there  are  signs  along  the  way. 
But  you  still  need  the  intuition  of  a  moun- 
tain goat.  For  instance,  Walter  Pidgeon  was 
driving  up  the  road  and  took  a  sharp  left 
turn.  Seemed  logical  enough  because  a 
sharp  right  turn  woiild  have  sent  him 
hurtling  down  a  mountainside.  He  reached 
a  house  and  saw  that  Nancy  Davis  and 
Phyllis  Kirk  (she's  in  Three  Guys  Named 
Mike)  had  arrived.  They  were  going  to 
model  winning  clothes.  "This  is  Bergen's?" 
Walter  asked,  surveying  the  sight.  There 
was  a  patio  aU  right,  but  it  was  filled  with 
boards — as  the  house  was  in  the  process  of 
being  built. 

"This  must  be  where  Charlie  keeps  his 
relatives,"  grinned  Nancy,  glancing  at  the 
limiber. 

Phyllis  was  nose  deep  in  a  map,  trying 
to  figure  just  where  they'd  gone  wrong. 

"Follow  me,"  said  Walter  as  he  backed 
down  the  steep  incline. 

He  almost  backed  into  Ricardo  Mon- 
talban.  "Follow  me,"  Ricardo  suggested. 

Several  hilltops  and  one  phone  call  later, 
they  reached  the  Bergens'. 

'T'he  event  was  taking  on  a  festive  air. 
-■-  Beside  the  pool,  Peter  Lawford  con- 
ferred with  Jeanne  MacDonald,  who'd 
dropped  by  for  a  few  minutes.  And  Liz 
Taylor  was  absent-mindedly  swinging  her 
foot  in  the  direction  of  the  water.  Sud- 
denly her  shoe  came  off  and  there  was  a 
smaU  splash.  But  fortunately  she  was 
sitting  near  the  shallow  end  where  the 
shoe  could  be  retrieved.  "Guess  I  should 
have  worn  a  bathing  suit,"  she  laughed, 
as  Frances  fetched  her  a  pair  of  slippers. 

Several  of  the  men  nearby  were  heard 
to  sigh. 

Time  came  for  the  judges  to  adjourn 
to  their  tables,  upon  which  there  were 
favors  for  the  ladies  and  for  the  men,  too 
(for  their  ladies) —  {Continued  on  page  93) 


For  Fall  Fashions  and 

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The  ^^tissue  test"^  proved  to  Alexis  •  •  • 


that  Woodbury  floats  out  hidden  dirt! 


The  "Tissue  Test"  convinced  Alexis  Smith 
that  there  really  is  a  difference  in  cleans- 
ing creams.  Alexis  is  co-starring  in  the 
Paramount  production,  "Here  Comes  the 
Groom." 

We  asked  her  to  cleanse  her  face  with 
her  regular  cleansing  cream.  Then  to  try 
Woodbury  Cold  Cream  on  her  "immacu- 
lately clean"  face  and  handed  her  a  tissue. 

The  tissue  told  a  startling  story !  Wood- 
bury Cold  Cream  floated  out  hidden  dirt! 


Why  is  Woodbury  so  different?  Because 
it  has  Penaten,  a  new  miracle  ingredient 
that  actually  penetrates  deeper  into  your 
pore  openings  .  .  .  lets  Woodbury's  won- 
derful cleansing  oils  loosen  every  trace 
of  grime  and  make-up. 

It's  wonder-working  Penaten,  too,  that 
helps  Woodbury  to  smooth  your  skin  more 
effectively.  Tiny  dry-skin  lines,  little  rough 
flakes  just  melt  away. 

Buy  a  jar  today — 25^  to  914,  plus  tax. 


0\  I  Woodbury 


Woodbury 
Cold  Cream 

floats  out  hidden  dirt. 


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penetrates  deeper  because  it  contains  Penaten 


a 


Hollywood 
goes 
shopping 
for  you! 


■  You  can  sit  right  back  and  shop 
from  home,  because  now  Hollywood 
stars  are  doing  the  footwork  for  you. 
They  scout  the  stores  from  coast  to 
coast,  and  what  they  don't  see  they 
ask  for.  You  can  be  sure  they  know 
what's  new  in  styles  and  ideas,  and 
get  the  most  value  for  the  least  ex- 
pense. That's  a  good  trick  if  you  can 
do  it — and  our  glamorous,  smart 
shoppers  can! 

To  get  any  of  these  star-selected 
items,  just  write  to  the  shops  men- 
tioned below  each  picture,  enclosing 
a  check  or  money  order  (and  gift 
card  if  you  hke).  Your  selection 
will  be  rushed  to  any  address  you 
name.  Modern  Screen  guarantees 
delivery.  Prices  all  include  postage 
and  tax  where  necessary.  Money 
will  be  returned  on  any  items  that 
are  returned  within  10  days  after 
delivery.  Only  personalized  mer- 
chandise cannot  be  returned. 


anne  baxter 
your  Hollywood  shopper 

for  September 


Anne  shows  John  Hodlak  her  clippings  for  Follow  The  Sun.  She  keeps  a  book  for  him,  too. 


BEST  USE  OF  "WAIST"  MATERIAL.  Either  of  these 
belts  lias  the  makings  of  a  whole  wardrobe. 
They're  leather  front  belts  with  detachable 
sailcloth  backs  iyi  mixed  or  matched  shades. 
Gimmick  is  that  you  can  substitute  another 
material  for  the  sailcloth  anytime.  It's  an 
easy  switch  too!  Leather  fronts  in  red, 
black,  natural,  brown,  navy;  sailcloth  backs 
in  same  or  contrasting  shades.  Give  waist 
size,  color,  belt  choice.  $3  JO  ea.  Thea  Bag, 
)3i  E.  79  St.,  New  York  21. 


I  "STOLE"  THIS  FOR  YOU  because  it's  the  neat- 
est piece  of  sorcery  I've  seen  in  7nan\  a 
moon.  Of  lacy  crocheted  rayon,  edged  in 
fringe,  72"  x  18"  it  does  tricks  to  make  it 
your  pet  fashion  accessory.  Wear  it  over 
your  shoulders,  hair,  tied  around  your 
waist  as  a  sash,  or  criss-crossed  and  tucked 
under  your  belt.  "Siren  stole"  wraps  you  in 
glamor  day  and  night.  In  beguiling  black, 
white,  navy,  pink,  yellow,  red,  blue.  $3S8. 
Ronnie  Sales,  487  B'way,  New  York  13. 


■  A  ^Modern  Screen  editor  recently 
asked  me  to  plunge  into  fall  shopping 
for  their  September  issue.  I  was  an 
easy  mark.  I've  a  passion  for  shop- 
ping and  bargains  are  my  meat.  Ask 
John  .  .  .  he's  in  charge  of  my  budget. 

Thrilled  with  my  mission.  I 
planned  my  strategj^  as  though  I 
were  bidding  for  an  Oscar,  to  be  sure 
I'd  cover  the  finest  shops  all  over  the 
countr}^  for  special  buys  for  all  of  us. 
I  turned  many  a  town  topsy-turvy 
looking  for  last  minute  travel  tips, 
personal  and  household  items. 

As  you  can  imagine,  I  was  looking 
particularly  for  smart  fall  fashions  to 
wear  after  our  '"bambino"  arrives. 
Besides,  all  of  us  gals  want  something 
new  to  pep  up  our  wardrobes  now 
that  faU  is  practicallj'  here.  Whether 
it's  back  to  work,  back  to  school  or 
back  home  from  a  vacation,  you'll 
want  to  get  these  smart  new  clothes. 

Take  your  pick,  then  order  direct- 
ly from  the  store  mentioned  below 
each  picture. 

Lots  of  luck  with  youx  shopping. 
Hope  you'll  have  great  fun! 


KNIT  YOUR  OWN  EVENING  GLAMOR.  Original 

design  for  a  hand-made,  ribbed  sweater 
that  I  found  a  cinch  to  knit.  Bare-topped 
bodice  with  separate  sets  of  puffed  or 
straight  cuffs  to  give  it  the  effect  of  a  short- 
sleeved  sweater.  Moth-proof,  fast-dyed  yarn 
in  black,  white,  red,  beige,  grey  pastels. 
Yarn  and  instructions  for  sizes  12-14 
(bodice,  1  set  cuffs)  $8.75.  Sizes  16-18  $9.75. 
Add  $1.75  for  second  set  cuffs.  Couture 
Fashion  Yarns,  107  E.  60  St.,  New  York  22.  21 


anne  baxter 

your 

Hollywood 
shopper 

for  September 

John  put  an  enthusiastic  . 
olcay  on  this  fall  wardrobe, 
so  gals,  after  Junior 
arrives,  watch  me  go! 


JUST  CAN'T  GET  ENOUGH  CORDUROY.  Lucky  me 
to  find  this  wonderful  horseshoe  neckline 
jumper.  Snug  waist  and  flared  skirt  give  it 
a  smart  shape— and  you  too.  Belted,  with 
tiny  self-covered  buttons  at  the  waist.  Slash 
pockets  over  each  hip.  Mostly  you'll  wear 
it  with  blouses— a  change  of  blouse  changes 
its  personality.  Try  it  minus  blouse  for  a 
really  chic  dressed-up  air.  Red,  green,  rust. 
Sizes  12-18.  $7.99.  Jonas  Shoppes,  Dept. 
SMJ,  62  West  14  St.,  New  York  11. 


IT'S  LOVELY,  IT'S  NYLON,  it's  engaged  to  go  to 
the  hospital  with  me  so  I  can  look  really 
fetching  after  Junior's  arrival.  Nylon-rayon 
robe's  designed  to  meet  every  situation 
gracefully.  Washes,  dries  in  a  jiffy,  so  it's 
always  fresh.  Tailored  but  feminine,  it's 
piped  in  white  with  a  white  tasseled  sash. 
Smart  chevron  embroidery  on  lapel  bal- 
ances a  roomy  right  hip  pocket.  Fuchsia, 
blue.  12-18.  $8.99.  Jonas  Shoppes,  Dept. 
LMR,  62  W.  14  St.,  New  York  11. 


STRICTLY  PERSONAL  .  .  .  IZED  PANTY  WARDROBE. 

Set  of  7  brief  snugfit  panties  in  resist-run 
rayon  tricot  jersey.  Wear  a  different  pair 
each  day  of  the  week  in  one  of  several 
dainty  shades.  Your  initials  -worked  into  a 
smart  triangular  monogram  on  the  pant 
leg.  Double  re-inforced  crotch,  seams;  elas- 
tic waist  band.  Sizes  S,  M,  L.  7  for  $4.99.  7 
matching  initialed  Lovable  rayon  satin 
bras  $6.99.  Jonas  Shoppes,  Dept.  LMP,  62 
W.14  St.,  New  York  11. 


"AN  APPLE  A  DAY"  does  wonderful  things  for 
you,  that's  why  these  cuddly  sleeping  or 
TV-ing  pajamas  are  covered  with  them. 
Soft  flannelette  top  in  all-over  apple  print 
on  white,  has  long  sleeves,  patch  pockets. 
Bright,  bright  red  collar  matches  peddle 
pusher  pants  that  taper  to  below  the  knee. 
Or,  if  you  prefer,  take  the  all  apple  print 
and  ruffle-neck  instead.  Both  in  sizes  S,  M, 
L.  $4.95.  Blackton  Shops,  398  Fifth  Ave., 
New  York  1. 


To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


ORDER  BY  MAIL! 


YOURS  FROM  AN  ANGORA 
KITTEN.  This  frothy  pull- 
on  sweater  is  part  wool, 
part  softest  angora,  looks 
and  feels  divine.  Little- 
boy  collar  and  neck 
opening  edged  in  white, 
and  smart  rhinestone 
buttons  '^tud  the  hnnt. 
Short  sleeves.  Sweater's 
sweet  under  suits,  or  do 
as  I  will,  and  take  it  out 
for  a  gay  evening,  teamed 
with  a  dressy  skirt.  Worn 
the  year  round.  In  lus- 
cious pink,  white,  maize, 
baby  blue,  aqua.  Sizes 
34-38.  $3.99.  Ralph  H. 
Miller,  505  8th  Ave., New 
York  1. 


YOU'LL  LOOK  REALLY 
"TWEEDY"  in  this  novel 
all-wool  cardigan  knit  in 
a  heather  mixture  to  re- 
semble sporty  tweed. 
Smartly  tailored  with  a 
trim  peter  pan  collar, 
shoe-button  closing,  and 
short  cuffed  sleeves.  I'd 
call  it  a  smart  match  for 
any  suit  or  skirt  in  your 
wardrobe, and  it  will  fol- 
low' you  faithfully  right 
through  Spring.  Sizes  34- 
40.  Comes  in  heavenly 
heather  grey  or  beige. 
$3.99.  Ralph  H.  Miller, 
505  Sth  Ave.,New  Yorkl. 


HIGH,  WIDE,  AND  HANDSOME! 

Here's  a  high-necked, 
dolman-sleeved  and  truly 
handsome  striped  pull- 
over. Stripes  are  cleverly 
spaced  to  do  the  most  for 
you  and  the  sweater. 
Slimming  dark  side  pan- 
els and  waist  band  are 
contrasted  with  a  ivhite 
center  bound  by  sets  of 
stripes.  I've  found  it  as 
dressy  as  I  make  it,  de- 
pending on  m\  skirt  and 
accessories.  34-40.  Navy, 
dark  green,  or  purple 
striped  with  iL'hite.S3.99. 
Ralph  H.  Miller,  505 
Sth  Ave.,  New  York  1. 


clioitdise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  H'itjiin  10  days,  c.rccft  n'licre  personalized. 


cm  25  "FRENCH  FR/ES" 

IN  ONE  STROKE! 

Just  insert  whole  potato, 
press  handle,  and  presto! 
— you  have  25  perfect 
"French  Fries"  all  ready 
for  cooking!  Mrs.  Damar  s 
Food  Cutter  is  wonderful 

for  dicing  other   

foods    and  sal- 
ads,   too.  Made 
exclusively  for 
us  in  rust-proof,  gleaming  plated  steel.  Sold  by 
mail  only.  Price,  S2.98,  plus  25c  for  postage. 

COLD  FRESH  DRINKS  ON  TAP! 

Just  fill  Tap-a-Glass 
with  water  or  lemon- 
ade, soda,  etc.  and 
place  it  on  your  re- 
frigerator shelf.  You'll 
always  have  a  cold 
drink  "on  tap."  Easy 
to  use — especially  for 
youngsters.  Holds  over 
a  gallon — fills  a  glass  in  seconds!  5"x5"xl3"  with 
tray  lid  that  supports  other  items.  Made  of  un- 
breakable clear  plastic.    Only  S2.95,  postpaid. 

NOW!  Wash  Delicate  Lingerie!  Nylons, 
etc. — in  your  washing  machine 

Now  you  can  safely  laun- 
der even  the  most  delicate 
washables  in  your  wash- 
ing machine — with  Mrs. 
Damar's  Softi-Bag!  Just 
hang  as  laundry  bags — 
one  for  handkerchiefs, 
one  for  lingerie,  etc. 
When  filled,  snap  shut, 
toss  into  washer — that's 
all!  This  cotton  mesh  bag 
prevents  small  articles  from  tangling,  tearing  in 
machine — eliminates  sorting,  hand  washing. 
$1.69  each,  2  for  §3.25,  ppd. 


HOME  CHARCOAL  BAR-B-Q 
FOR  INDOOR  OR  OUTDOOR  USE! 

A  new  low-priced  charcoal-broiler  that  requires 
no  matches,  no  kindling.  Just  place  a  few  pieces 
of  charcoal  in  the  bottom,  set  it  over  stove — it 
ignites  in  seconds,  then  burns  for  hours!  Steaks, 
chops,  fish,  fowl  have  all  that  tantalizing  charcoal- 
broiled  flavor  sealed  in!  And  because  Charcook 
has  been  proven  over  90%  smokeless — you  can 
use  it  indoors,  at  your  dining  room  table!  Nickel- 
plated  steel,  10^2"  grill.  Ash  and  drip  jjan  elim- 
inates dirt,  grease.  Bag  of  charcoal  included. 
Only  55.95,  ppd. 

COPPER  CLAD  7"  SKILLET 


Yes,  a  hard-to-get  copper  skillet  with  satin  chrome 
inside!  .035  extra-thick  sheet  of  copper  outside 
assures  fastest,  most  uniform  heating.  Acid,  stain, 
rust  resistant.  Cannot  dent  or  chip  in  ordinary 
use.  Very  easy  to  clean.  Firm-grip  handle,  metal 
hanging  ring.  A  rare  value  at  only  §1.98,  ppd. 

Send  cash,  check,  money  order — or  items  sent 
C.O.D.  at  prices  indicated  plus  postage.  Use  them 
for  10  days,  and  if  not  completely  satisfied — re- 
turn any  of  them  for  full  purchase  price  refund. 

ASK  FOR  FREE  CATALOG! 

We  have  just  prepared  a  wonderful  new  catalog, 
full  of  handy  household  and  gift  items.  To  re- 
ceive your  FREE  copy,  just  write  and  ask  for  it. 

MRS.  DAMAR 

121    Datnar  BIdg.,   Treat   PI.,   Newark,   2,   N.  J. 


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anne  baxter 
your 
hollywood 
shopper 

for 

September 


KEYED  TO  YOUR  FAVORITE  SCREWBALL.  Here's 

a  key  ring  that's  a  cute  gadget  to  own  or 
give  to  someone  special.  Gold-plated  flexi- 
ble snake  chain  is  closed  at  each  end  with 
a  tiny  ball.  Balls  unscrew,  so  loads  of 
keys  may  be  added— enough  for  even  a 
Bluebeard.  Around  5i4"  long,  it's  light- 
weight and  easy  to  handle.  Screwball  key 
ring,  besides  doing  its  job,  will  get  many  a 
chuckle.  I've  ordered  several.  Only  $1.00. 
Seth  if  Jed,  New  Marlborough,  Mass. 


ANYONE  CAN  PLAY  BY  COLOR.  Anyone  who 
knows  red  from  green  can  sit  at  the  piano 
for  the  first  time  and  play  his  favorite 
melodies  with  both  hands— chords  too, 
without  reading  a  note.  Book  of  14  hymns 
shows  all  notes  in  color;  comes  with  color 
chart  to  stand  behind  keyboard.  Kids  or 
grownups  can  play  in  minutes.  Book  of 
hymns  or  Book  of  Christmas  carols  $2.00 
ea.  Wolfe's,  Dept.  MS,  986  Sanford  Ave., 
Irvington  11,  N.  J. 


YOU'LL  LOOK  POSITIVELY  DAZZLING  in  this 
stunning  set  of  rhinestone  sparklers.  The 
cluster  earrings  dangle  fetchingly  as  you 
greet  your  man  of  the  evening.  A  pendant 
necklace  on  a  non-tarnishable  white  metal 
chain  completes  the  pretty  picture.  With 
this  glamorous  glitter  you'll  have  all  the 
guys  agog.  It  does  exciting  things  for  you 
and  your  costume.  {Screw-type  earrings.) 
Whole  set  only  $2.40.  Consumers  Mart, 
127  W.  33  St.,  New  York  1. 


TAKES  A  SHINE  TO  METAL.  'Tec/"  is  a  new  pro- 
tective coating  for  your  metal  possessions; 
keeps  them  free  from  tarnish,  rust  or  cor- 
rosion. Get  out  your  copper,  brass,  chrome 
and  silverware  and  give  them  a  treatment 
with  this  liquid  coating.  They'll  positively 
sparkle  and  will  stay  sparkling.  Comes  with 
a  bottle  of  "Tect"  solvent  which  removes 
oil,  grease,  or  "Tect"  coating  for  metal 
surfaces.  Both  3  ounce  bottles  for  $1.00. 
Tect,  Inc.,  Englewood,  N.  J. 


FLEET  OF  ANTIQUE  AUTO  MINIATURES.  Back  to 

"horseless  carriage"  days  for  these  authen- 
tic scale  models  of  the  colorful  1909  Stan- 
ley Steamer,  1910  Model  T  Ford  and  1903 
Packard.  These  tiny  buggies  are  completely 
handpainted  and  will  thrill  any  collector 
of  miniatures.  Oldtimers  will  find  them 
sentimentally  appealing;  the  rest  of  us 
consider  them  quaint  and  cunning. 
Only  $130  ea.;  set  of  3,  $4.00.  Sally  Graye, 
80  E.  11  St..  New  York  3. 


TO  BAG  YOU  MANY  FRIENDS!    Here  are  two 

stunning  suede  handbags  with  eye-catch- 
ing insignias  of  the  big  fraternities  and 
sororities.  On  campus  or  of}  I  think 
they're  smart  accessories.  In  supple  beige 
suede  leather  with  hand-blocked  terra- 
cotta insignia.  Envelope  bag  is  trim  and 
fabric-lined  with  zipper  closing.  10"x6", 
$4.73.  Pouch  bag,  91/2"  deep,  leather- 
lined,  draw  string,  $11.94.  Walter  Thomas, 
116  Wilshire  Blvd.,  Santa  Monica,  Calif. 


SCHOOL  DAYS,  .  SCHOOL  DAYS.  A  wonderful 
writing  case  to  take  back  to  school.  If  those 
carefree  days  are  over,  it's  still  wonderful! 
Of  plastic,  with  no  seams,  it's  a  real  port- 
able desk.  Conies  with  a  writing  tablet, 
pencil  in  holder,  bound  address  book,  en- 
velopes, identification  card  and  more.  A 
place  for  that  special  photo  and  pockets 
for  correspondence.  Maroon,  naxry,  brown, 
royal,  green,  red,  tan.  $2.95.  Otto  Ulbrich. 
386  Main  St.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 


NO  SUDS  IN  MY  EYES!  //  you're  "gonna  wash 
that  man  right  out  of  your  hair",  or  just 
shampoo  it,  these  terry-rimmed  goggles 
are  a  big  help.  Elastic  back  makes  them 
fit  snugly,  comfy  terry-cloth  cushioning 
keeps  liquid  from  seeping  in.  It's  grand 
to  have  both  hands  free  for  action.  Use 
during  home  waves  or  hair-tinting  to  keep 
chemicals  out  of  eyes.  Made  for  kiddies 
too.  Reg.  or  Jr.  sizes.  $1.65.  Finders'  Keep- 
ers, 160  E.  38  St.,  New  York  17. 


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Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days,  except  where  personalised. 


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new  sparkling  high  lights  in  your  hair,  no  matter  what  soap  or 
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Softer!  Xew  Prell  solves  the  age-old  shampoo  problem.  Here  is  a 
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you  want  it. 

With  it  throw  away  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  odor-forming  bacteria  that 
other  types  of  deodorants  leave  under 
your  arms.  It's  sheer  magici 

Better  tlian  Creams,  Sprays,  Liquids! 

For  stars  of  the  screen,  TV  and  radio, 
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Presenting  selected 
tid-bits  from 
Modern  Screen's 
"Hollywood  Editor" 
program,  heard 
Monday  thru  Friday 
over  the  Liberty 
Broadcasting  System: 


■  It  is  a  pleasure  to  report  on  a  really  happy  marriage,  that  of  ex-Army  ski 
trooper,  Geary  Steffen,  to  22-year-old,  95-pound  dream  girl,  Janie  Powell.  When 
Geary  was  asked  what  sort  of  present  he  was  going  to  give  her  on  her  birthday, 
he  said  he'd  been  thinking  about  a  recording  machine.  But  when  he  asked  her 
what  she  thought,  she  exclaimed,  "What  a  horrible  waste  of  money.  How  much 
of  a  ham  can  I  be?"  Geary  was  stuck  for  awhile.  But  on  the  day,  he  got  up  early, 
cooked  breakfast  and  yelled  for  his  bride  to  come  and  get  it.  Then  he  hid  in  a 
closet — and  when  Janie  walked  in — so  did  a  small  duck.  Around  the  duck's  neck 
was  a  yallar  ribbon — together  with  an  expensive  gold  and  pearl  necklace.  Well, 
Janie  laughed  until  she  cried.  They're  a  really  happy  pair. 

■  You'll  see  plenty  of  romance  in  Paramoiint's  new  movie,  A  Place  In  The  Sun. 
In  two  nights  on  location  for  the  picture,  counting  rehearsals  and  actual  shooting, 
Montgomery  Clift  kissed  Shelley  Winters  132  times.  And  she  never  complained 
once.  Not  only  that,  but  in  this  picture,  Elizabeth  Taylor  is  going  to  be  seen 
wearing  a  bathing  suit  for  the  first  time. 

■  A  writer  swears  he  saw  columnist  Sidney  Skolsky  lying  in  a  gutter  in  Bev- 
erly Hills. 

"Why  Sidney,"  he  exclaimed,  "I  never  expected  to  find  you  lying  in  a 
gutter,  drunk!" 

"I'm  not  drunk.  I  don't  drink,"  Sidney  retorted.  "I'm  just  saving  a  parking 
space  for  Darryl  F.  Zanuck." 

■  Who  are  Hollywood's  best  poker  players?  Well,  as  selected  by  people  who 
have  had  to  write  them  big  checks  .  .  .  Poker  Player  No.  1  is  Glenn  Ford.  Runners- 
up  are — Clark  Gable,  Robert  Walker,  Brod  Crawford,  Charles  Ruggles,  and  Van 
Heflin.  And  while  we're  making  lists,  Terry  Hunt,  the  famous  guy  who  keeps 
movie  stars  in  top  physical  condition,  names  his  idea  of  the  10  most  powerful 
men  in  Hollywood.  For  pure  brute  strength,  he  rates  them  this  way — Joht  Wayne, 
Victor  Mature,  Paul  Douglas  and  Johnny  Weissmuller.  The  toughest  little 
man  in  Hollywood  is  Dick  Widmark.  Actor  Bob  Stack  can  chin  himself  a  number 
of  times — with  one  arm  only.  Paid  Lucas  at  the  age  of  65,  cotdd  pick  a  man  in  a 
chair  up  with  one  hand.  Western  star  Tom  Tyler  was  once  named  the  strongest 
man  in  the  world.  Bob  Ryan  and  John  Payne  round  out  the  list  of  Hollywood 
actors  you'll  never  want  to  meet  in  a  dark  alley. 

■  Judy  Garland's  big  hit  in  Europe  is  going  to  make  her  okay  for  good.  One  man 
and  one  man  alone  deserves  most  of  the  credit.  While  Judy  was  busy  taking 
advice  from  .psychiatrists,  it  was  Bing  Crosby  who  put  her  to  work  several 
times  on  his  show.  It  gave  her  back  her  courage.  Thank  you.  Doctor  Crosby! 


so  MILD  .  .  . 

SO  PURE! 


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WHILE  IT  CLEANS  YOUR  SKIN! 

36  LEADING  SKIN  SPECIALISTS  IN  1285 
SCIENTIFIC  TESTS  PROVED  THAT  PALMOLIVE'S 
BEAUTY  PLAN  BRINGS  MOST  WOMEN  LOVELIER 
COMPLEXIONS  IN  14  DAYS 


Start  Palmolive's  Beauty  Plan  today!  Discover  for  your- 
self—  as  women  everywhere  have  discovered  —  that 
Palmolive's  Beauty  Plan  brings  exciting  complexion 
loveliness. 

Here's  all  you  do:  Gently  massage  Palmolive's  extra- 
mild,  pure  lather  onto  your  skin  for  just  a  minute, 
three  times  a  day.  Then  rinse  and  pat  dry.  You'll  see 
Palmolive  bring  out  your  beauty  while  it  cleans  your  skin. 


ANN  BLYTH  in  "THUNDER  ON  THE  HILL"-a  universal-international  picture 


ANN  BLYTH,  beautiful  LuStre-Creme  Girl,  one  of  the  'Top-Twelve,"  selected  by  "Modern  Screen"  and  a  jury  of  famed 
hair  styHsts  as  having  tiie  world's  loveliest  hair.  Ann  Blyth  uses  Lustre-Creme  Shampoo  to  care  for  her  glamorous  hair. 


The  Most  Beautiful  Hair  in  the  World 
is  kept  at  its  loveliest . , .  with  Lustre-Creme  Shampoo 

When  Ann  Blyth  says  ...  "I  use 

Lustre-Creme  Shampoo". . .  you're  listening 
to  a  girl  whose  beautiful  hair  plays  a  vital 
part  in  a  fabulous  glamour-career. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  "Modern  Screen," 
a  committee  of  famed  hair  stylists  named 
Ann  Blyth,  lovely  Lustre-Creme  Girl, 
as  one  of  12  women  having  the  most 
beautiful  hair  in  the  world. 

You,  too,  will  notice  a  glorious  difference 
in  your  hair  from  Lustre-Creme  Shampoo. 
Under  the  spell  of  its  rich  lanolin-blessed 
lather,  your  hair  shines,  behaves,  is  eager 


to  curl.  Hair  dulled  by  soap  abuse,  dusty 
with  dandruff,  now  is  fragrantly  clean.  Rebel 
hair  is  tamed  to  respond  to  the  lightest 
brush  touch.  Hair  robbed  of  natural 
sheen  glows  with  renewed  sun-bright 
highlights.  All  this,  even  in  the  hardest 
water,  with  no  need  for  a  special  after-rinse. 
No  other  cream  shampoo  in  the  world 
is  as  popular  as  Lustre-Creme.  Is  the 
best  too, good  for  your  hair?  For  hair  that 
behaves  like  the  angels,  and  shines  like 
the  stars  .  .  .  ask  for  Lustre-Creme,  the 
world's  finest  shampoo,  chosen  for  "the 
most  beautiful  hair  in  the  world" ! 


The  beauty-blend  cream 
shampoo  with  LANOLIN. 
Jars  or  tubes,  27^  to  |2. 


Famous  Hollywood  Stars  use  Lustre-Creme  Shampoo  for  Glamorous  Hair 


A  love  like  Nancy's 


Memories  were  not 

enough  for  Frank, 

but  Nancy  knew  that 

because  of  them, 

her  love  was  strong  enough 

to  let  him  go. 

BY  IMOGENE  COLLINS 


■  Telling  about  it  later,  Nancy  said  that  when  Frank  came  to  the  house  to  ask  for  the 
divorce,  he  was  like  a  little  boy — ^humble  and  defenseless. 

It  was  towards  the  end  of  May.  He'd  flown  in  from  New  York,  to  visit  his  three  children 
and  talk  to  her. 

Their  relationship  had  long  since  cooled  (they'd  legally  been  separated  for  more  than  a 
year)  but  there  was  sincere  deference  and  respect  in  Frank's  attitude. 

"Nancy,"  he  said  simply,  "I'd  like  my  freedom.  How  about  a  divorce?" 

Nancy  looked  at  this  man  who  through  the  years  had  brought  her  great  happiness  and  great 
heartache,  and  in  a  sweet  voice  which  hardly  broke  the  silence,  she  said,  "If  a  divorce  is  what 
you  want,  Frank,  you  most  certainly  may  have  it." 

She  smiled  a  little,  and  the  expression  in  her  eyes  was  gentle. 

"Thanks,"  Frank  Sinatra  said.  "Thanks  very  much,  Nancy."  (Continued  on  page  98) 


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■  When  I  was  a  teen-ager  I  was  known  as  whistle-bait. 

According  to  one  writer,  I  possessed  "the 
kind  of  figure  men  looked  at  twice, 
because  they  didn't  believe  it  the  first  time." 

I  was  physically  precocious.  Men  found  me 
attractive;  boys  considered  me  pleasant;  and  my  ego 
found  the  c<»nbination  completely  satisfying. 

More  important  still,  my  phj^ical  charms 
were  responsible  for  my  getting  into  motion  pictures. 

Back  in  1937,  when  Billy  Wilkerson,  publisher 
of  the  Hollywood  Reporter,  saw  me  sipping  a  coke 
in  a  drug  store  across  from  Hollywood  Boulevard, 
he  was  not  impressed  by  my  mind.  He  felt 
that  I  had  the  kind  of  photogenic  face  and  figure  that 
belonged  in  motion  pictures,  and  he  insisted 
that  I  go  see  Zeppo  Marx,  an  agent. 

Zeppo  thought  I  had  possibilities,  and  turned  me  over  to  one 
of  his  assistants.  For  five  months,  we  saw  the  casting 
director  at  every  studio  in  town.  They  all  turned  me  down, 
which  was  when  the  {Continued  on  page  81) 


Mi+zi  Goynor 
has  that  electric  spark 
which  mokes  her  a 
publicity  "natural."  She 
attracts  attention  even 
in  movie  gatherings. 


A  Hottest  copy  among 
the  new  crop  of  men 
is  Tony  Curtis  whose 
intelligence    and  charm 
make  him  more  than  o 
mere  bobby-sox  idol. 


A  Unpredictable — Shelley 
Winters  is  constantly 
good  copy.  No  matter 
how   many  jams  she 
gets  into,  there's  warm 
human  interest  about  her. 


A  Not  all  sfars  make 
good  reading,  buf  stories 
about   Farley  Granger 
are  always  popular. 
His  ronnance  with  Shelley 
hasn't  hurt  any  either. 


Who  says  today's 
stars  can't  hold 
a  candle  to  yesterday's 
hot  personalities? 
There's  more  news  in 
Hollywood  than  ever — 
and  here  are  the  people 
who  make  it! 


A  Elizabeth  Taylor's 
lightest  nnove  is  of  such 
interest  to  the  public 
thot  she  is  now  in  the 
weU'established  very 
hot  copy  bracket. 


HOT  COPY-COMING  UP! 


BY  LOUELLA  PARSONS 


A  Ava  Gardner  has 
that  extra  something  be- 
yond the  line  of  talent 
'1     that  makes  her 
'X     personal  life  exciting. 

]     ■^There's   more  to  print 
about  Jeff  Chandler 
than  a  compliment  or 
two,  which  is  why  he's  as 
hot  today  as  the  young 
Gable  once  was. 


■  I  hear  them  say,  "Oh,  sure — these  new  kids  coming 
up  are  attractive  and  some  of  them  can  really  act. 

"But  where  among  them  are  the  personalities 
with  the  excitement  of  a  Jean  Harlow,  Joan 
Crawford,  John  Gilbert,  Dietrich  or 
Garbo?  None  of  the  newcomers  can  hold  a 
candle  to  those  stars  for  news  interest." 

Strawberries,  say  I!  Not  yet, 
maybe — but  believe  me — there  are  some 
fascinating  candidates   coming,  up. 

Nobody  loves  hot  copy  Hke  your  girl  friend. 
I've  been  making  a  most  pleasant  living  for 
more  years  than  I  intend  to  tell  writing  about  screen 
stars  who  make  news  as  well  ^s  movies,  and  who 
are  exciting  personalities  to  write  about. 

From  long  experience,  I  can  sight  a 
newsworthy  personality  the  moment  I 
spot  one  on  the  screen,  or  better 
still,  as  I  interview  him  or  her  in  my  playroom. 

In  .  a  paragraph  or  two  I'm  going  to 
tell  you  about  these  newcomers  who, 
in  my  opinion,  have  enormously  exciting 
possibilities  for  making  hot  copy. 

First,  I  want  to  say  that  not  all  stars 
are  hot  copy  by  a  longshot.  As  popular 
as  they  are  with  the  fans,  as  a  reporter  I  cannot 
list  Jeanne  Craine,  Doris  Day,  Peggy  Dow,  Nancy 
Davis,  Kathryn  Grayson  and  even  Betty  Grable 
as  hot  copy.  {Continued  on  page  36) 


hot  copy  coming  up!  continued 


For  20  yeors  Joan  Crawford  hos  been  ihe 

darling  of  the  press  (sometimes  referred  to  as  its 

meal  ticket).  She's  hot  copy  queen. 


On  the  other  hand,  already  established  as  hot  copy  per- 
sonaUties  are  Ava  Gardner,  Farley  Granger,  Elizabeth  Taylor 
and  Lana  Turner  (the  latter  not  as  hot  as  she  used  to  be). 

Tm  not  implying  that  slightly  scandalous  copy  makes 
the  most  interesting  reading.  Neither  Ingrid  Bergman 
nor  Rita  Hayworth  are  hot  copy  today.  (Ask  Ye  Ed 
of  Modern  Screen,  Chuck  Saxon,  how  many  stories 
he's  buying  this  season  on  either  girl.) 

Then,  take  John  Agar — who  has  been  hitting 
the  headlines  regularly  with  several  drunken- 
driving  arrests  and  his  recent  almost  shockingly  casual 
elopement  to  Las  Vegas.  Barbara  Peyton  is 
another  who  gets  in  print  regularly,  and  so  does  Sonny 
Tufts.  The  best  that  can  be  said  for  this  type 
of  copy  is  that  it  is  "too  hot"  to  handle. 

The  question,  then,  is — what  is  hot  copy?  The  answer  is: 

It  is  that  extra  something  beyond  the  line  of 
talent — that  electric  spark  which  (CoiUmued  on  page  77) 


36 


Public  interest  in 
Anthony   Dexter  (Valen- 
tino) belies  the  critics 
who  say  he's  o  "one-role" 
star.  Tony  packs  a 
wallop  all   his  own. 


Steve  Cochran  didn't 
steam  up  much  notice 
until  he  turned  into  a 
ladies'  man  with  Ginger 
Rogers.  That 
poid  off  in  hot  copy. 


In  her  hey-day,  Lana 
Turner  fairly  sizzled.  Now 
she  isn't  as  hot  as  she 
used  to  be  for  the  press, 
but  still  outdoes  stars 
like  Grcble  and  Crain. 


Newcomer   Dale  Robert- 
son slays  reporters  with 
his  sexy  voice.  Take  Care 
of  My  Little  Girl 
should  estoblish  his  fever- 
rating  for  good. 


A  news  photographer 
first  spotted  the  "differ 
ent"  quality  possessed  b' 
Phyllis  Kirk.  Now  a  serie 
of  colorful  roles  has  cre- 
ated warm  interest  In  her 


STORIES  IN 
THIS  MODERN  SCREEN 
SPECIAL  SECTION 


why  Tony  and  Janet  had  to  Elope  P  J8 

they  made  fun  of  love  P.*o 

we  swam  our  way  to  Giro's  P.42 

the  truth  about  Hollywood  wolves  P.44 

marriage  and  Joan  P.46 

who'd  marry  me?  PM 

what  I'll  tell  my  sons  about  women  P.so 


Kolly  wood's 

youngs 

lovers 

■  Love  never  used  to  stand  a  chance  in  Hollywood.  There  were  too 

many  beautiful  people  having  a  fling.  Parties  had  to  be  wild;  houses  had  to 

be  huge;  and  marriage  had  to  be  short  and  snappy.  There  wasn't  any  time  or  desire  for 

lasting  emotions.  The  stars  had  everything  else,  and  life  in  the  limelight  was 

too  short  and  fast  for  them  to  stop  and  consider  their  values. 

It  was  not  really  very  long  ago  that  Hollywood  emerged  from  that  era  of  wild 
and  gaudy  extravagance.  Some  actors  still  bear  the  scars.  Every  day  you 
read  bulletins  of  divorces,  of  four-time  losers  at  marriage,  of  husbands  deserting  wives, 
of  ugly  scandal. 

Around  the  world  goes  the  sad  news  of  famous  Hollywood  lovers  whose  bright 
promises  have  failed,  the  news  of  unbalanced  emotions  and  inadequate  human  beings. 

But  what  of  *^he  young  lovers  in  Hollywood  today,  the  ones  who  were  babies  when 
Hollywood  was  out  carousing?  Will  they  suffer  from  the  hangover?  Will  love  and 
happiness,  too,  shuttle  in  and  out  of  their  lives? 

Ask  them.  Ask  the  kids  like  Tony  Curtis,  Ann  Blyth,  Marilyn  Monroe,  Jane  Powell, 
Joan  Evans.  The  first  thing  they'll  tell  you  is,  "Hollywood  isn't  what  it  used  to 
be.  Lucky  for  us!"  They  mean  that  Holl>TVOod  isn't  a  circus  any  more, 
and  the  people  in  it  don't  have  to  act  like  sideshows. 

These  youngsters  have  proof  that  a  normal  life  doesn't  mean  poison  at  the 
box-office.  And  they  know  that  marriage  is  even  nicer  when  you  have  a  family.  In  short, 
love  and  the  homely  virtues  are  sacred  to  them. 

Xever  before  did  young  people  in  Hollywood  have  the  chance  for  lasting  happiness  that 
they  have  now.  Will  they  muff  it?  They  don't  think  so.  They're  too  sure  of  what  they 
want,  and  they're  too  tired  of  ballyhoo.  You  can  read  for  yourself,  on  the  next  13  pages, 
what  these  young  lovers  feel,  and  why  they  have  faith  in  their  own  futures. 


Tony  and  Janet  had  been  hazy  about  wedding,  plans,  but  their  elopement  to  Connecticut,  on  June  4th,  put  an  end  to  speculation  about  their  romance. 


38 


Why  did  Holly- 
wood's most  popular  lovers 
have  to  steal  away 
for  the  wedding  the 
whole  world  was 
expecting?  Here's  the 
true,  inside  story. 

BY  CAROLINE  BROOKS 


why  Tony 
sincl  Janet 
had  to  Elope 


The  newlyweds  had  a  one-weelt 
honeymoon  before  Tony  werwh  on  tour,  and 
Janet  returned  to  the  Coast. 


■  A  few  months  ago  Janet  Leigh  and  Tony  Curtis  confided 

to  friends  that  they  would  be  married  late  in  August  or  early  in  September. 

"By  that  time,"  Tony  said,  "I'll  be  finished  making  a  personal 
appearance  tour  with  Piper  Laurie.  You  know,  for  The  Prince  Who  Was  A 
Thief.  Janet'll  have  some  time  off,  and  Jerry  Lewis — ^he's  my  best 
friend — ^will  be  back  in  CaUfornia.  Janet  and  I  will  be  married  in  his 
house.  Nothing  big.  A  small  wedding.  Just  friends  and  family." 

As  you  all  know,  Janet  and  Tony  didn't  wait  until  September.  They 
eloped  to  Greenwich,  Connecticut,  on  June  4th,  and  were  married  in  the 
Pickwick  Arms  Hotel.  Judge  John  ELnox,  an  old-time  actor  who 
once  played  with  Francis  X.  Bushman,  performed  the  honors, 
and  while  he  referred  to  Janet  once  or  twice  as  Florence,  the  ceremony 
came  off  without  a  hitch.  Jerry  Lewis,  the  best  man,  turned  up  two  hours 
late,  but  his  wife,  Patti,  who  served  as  Janet's  bridesmaid  was  on 
time.  A  few  minutes  after  Lewis  arrived,  Jeanette  Helen  Morrison 
Carlyle  Reames  Leigh  legally  became  Mrs.  Bemie  Schwartz. 

Why  did  Janet  and  Tony  advance  their  wedding  date?  Why  did 
they  get  married  when  both  of  their  families  were  far  away  in  California? 
Was  this  an  impetuous,  spontaneous  decision? 

It  was  not. 

Tony  and  Janet  eloped  because  certain  persons,  powerful  persons, 
were  opposed  to  their  marriage.  Tony's  {Continued  on  page  70) 


Farlty  iamii  H  when  they  Wf*  j*\  love  you' 


?    BY  STEVE  CRONIN 


they 
msLcl 
fun 


love 


■  Shelley  Winters  and  Farley  Granger  stood  side  by  side  on  a  huge 
sound  stage  at  RKO,  surrounded  by  the  cast  and  crew  of  Behave  Your- 
self, and  cut  a  huge  cake.  It  was  their  party,  given  by  the  studio  to 
announce  their  engagement.  Photographers  were  called  in,  and  they  took 
hundreds  of  pictures  of  the  stars,  the  cake,  the  other  actors,  and  of  the 
ring  Farley  had  given  Shelley  a  short  time  before.  At  long  last  the 
engagement  everyone  had  been  expecting  was  practically  admitted.  It 
was  a  great  day  for  love. 

A  day  or  so  later  the  lovers  skipped  down  the  steps  of  an  airliner  in 
New  York  and  were  met  by  a  crowd  of  reporters.  The  flash  bulbs  popped 
and  then  the  reporters  moved  in. 

"What  about  this  engagement?"'  one  reporter  asked.  "When  are  you 
getting  married?" 

"Who,  us?"  said  Farley  or  Shelley.  "We're  just  good  friends." 

"But  what  about  the  ring?"  queried  a  newspaperman.  He  pointed  to 
the  circle  on  Shelley's  finger. 

"A  friendship  ring,"  said  Shelley.  "Like  I  said — we're  really  just  good 
friends." 

To  the  cynics  and,  unhappily,  to  many  fans  it  seemed  like  an  old 
story.  It  seemed  hke  a  pubUcity  romance,  a  device  which  uses  young  love 
to  ensnare  the  trusting  fans,  to  lure  them  to  the  side  of  a  pair  of  stars. 

The  publicity  romance  has  long  been  defended  by  movie  salesmen  on 
the  grounds  that  throughout  literary  histor>',  people  have  desired  to  escape 
their  own  sterile  existences  by  reading  of  the  loves  of  the  heroes  and 
heroines  of  mythology  and  actuahty.  This  is  true.  Love  stories  have  always 
been  popular.  But  think  of  the  kickback  if  almost  any  of  the  classic 
love  tales  had  been  proven  a  fake.  If  Edward,  King  of  England,  had  made 
his  historic  renunciation  of  the  throne  for  his  love  of  Wallis  Simpson — 
and  a  few  days  later  when  asked  about  it  by  a  (Continued  on  page  75) 


Nicic  Savano,  Mala  Powers,  Marilyn  Monroe  end 
Craig  Hill  looked  more  like  chilly  Indians  than 
water  bobies   in    Herman    Hover's  ample  towels. 


L 


Croig  and  Nick  wanted  to  see  if  Marilyn's  24- 
Icaret  gold  suit,  by  Rose  Marie  Reid,  would  rust. 
Of  course  it  didn't— consider  the  healthy  goldfish. 


Host  Herman  Hover,  owner  of  Giro's,  continued 
his  famous  hospitolity  at  home.  Cokes  and  sand- 
wiches were  served;  orange  trees  provided  dessert. 


Croig  ond  Nick  weren't  sure  they  approved  of  gilding  the  lilies.  But  after  Marilyn  and 
Mala  finished  the  job  they  agreed  there  weren't  two  prettier  rrrermaids  in  town.  Nick 
also   opproved    Mala's   suit;   business   manager  of  many   stars   he's   expert   at  figures. 


we  swsim  our  wsiy 


42 


The  'mirror  mirror  on  the  wall"  at  Giro's  would  hove  a  hard  time 
naming  the  loveliest  of  oil  when  three  ladies  like  Mala,  Marilyn, 
and    Corinne"  Calvet   stop   to   freshen   their    molceup    before  it. 


Marilyn  and  Craig  didn't  miss  a  dance  all  evening.  Corinne  and 
her  husband,  John  Bromfield,  joined  the  gang  at  Ciro's  after  the 
swim  fest.    They  had  to  skip  the  pool  party;  John  was  on  location. 


Come  on  in, 
the  water's  fine!  And 
so  is  Ciro's  Herman 
Hover.  He  led  us 
from  his  pool-side  to 
his  ring-side  in  one  •. 
blissful  afternoon. 

BY  BEVERLY  OTT 


to  Ciro'^s 


■  You've  heard  of  Ciro's.  It's  the  nightspot  where 
everybody  who  is  somebody  goes  to  have  fun.  And  even  folks 
who've  never  had  their  names  in  hghts  end  up 
having  a  whale  of  a  time.  I  did — along  with 
■  Craig  Hill,  Marilyn  Monroe,  Mala  Powers,  Nick  Savano, 
Corinne  Calvet,  and  John  Bromfield.  You  might  say  that 
we  swam  our  way  to  Ciro's,  but  if  that  sounds  fishy  let 
me  explain.  The  last  time  I  went  there  it  was  for  a 
Modern  Screen  party.  I  grew  right  fond  of  the 
place.  "This  is  the  life,"  was  my  unique  comment  to  its 
owner,  Herman  Hover. 

"You'll  have  to  come  back  sometime,"  he  invited. 
However,  months  passed  before  I  ran  into  Mr.  H.  at  lunch  one 
noon.  "What  are  you  doing  here?"  I  wanted  to  know. 
Because  if  I  owned  Ciro's  I  wouldn't  leave  it 
even  in  the  daytime. 

But  it  seems  that  Mr.  Hover  has  a  fine  house  and 
a  lovely  pool  in  Beverly  Hills,  and  he  lives  in  both. 
In  fact,  that's  his  idea  of  hving.  "Come  see  what  I  mean,"  he 
suggested.  "Bring  a  crowd  over  tomorrow  for  swimming  and 
later  we'll  adjourn  to  the  club." 

"You  mean  I  can  really  bring  people?"  I  said. 

"Yes,  of  course,"  he  replied  politely.  "People." 

This  was  my  day  for  running  into  people.  I  saw  Craig 
Hill  at  the  comer  drive-in  later  in  the  afternoon.  Between 
pictures,  he  does  construction  work — to  keep  in  shape 
physically  as  well  as  financially.  He'd  dropped  by  the  drive-in 
for  a  coke.  "This  is  no  day  to  work,"  I  told  him.  "Neither 
is  tomorrow — how  about  going  swimming?" 

I'm  not  terribly  dumb.  Craig  was  the  handsome  lifeguard 
in  Cheaper  By  The  Dozen.  He's  also  been  a  hfeguard  for  real.  And 
since  I  swim  like  a  ton  of  bricks  I  figured  he'd  be  nice  to  have 
around.  Besides,  he's  one  of  the  best  looking  young  actors 
in  Hollywood  (see  Detective  Story).  {Continued  on  page  68) 


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■ 

l^^fB  here  are  plenty  of  wolves  in  Hollywood — not  enough 

to  be  alarming,  but  annoying  nevertheless.  There  are  naale  wolves 
'BBI  and  females,  too.  It's  hard  to  say  which  is  the  deadlier  variety. 

The  important  thing  about  wolves  is  to  be  able  to  spot 
one,  or  else  you're  courting  disaster.  There  was  once  a  young 
and  naive  actress  in  Hollywood  who  ran  into  a  wolf  so 
experienced  and  subtle  that. she  was  helpless  to  fight  back. 

This  girl — ^you  may  call  her  Mary — had  a  nice  contract  with  one 
of  the  major  studios.  She  was  married  to  a  very  personable  boy 
who  worked  for  an  investment  corporation.  It  seemed  like  an 
ideal  arrangement.  She  would  become  a  big  star,  and  he  would  become 
her  financial  manager.  And  also — ^they  were  in  love. 

One  day  Mary  had  trouble  on  the  set.'  She  couldn't  put  the  right 
emotion  into  the  lines  she  was  delivering,  and  after  fruitless 
coaching  by  the  director,  the  director  took  a  stand.  He  told  her  she'd 
better  improve  or  else  he'd  get  another  girl.  Mary  left 
the  stage  in  a  great  depression.  To  add  to  that — it 
was  raining.  So,  naturally  enough,  Mary  started  to  cry. 

Suddenly  the  associate  producer  was  at  her  elbow, 
with  a  big  handkerchief  and  a  friendly  (but  not 
flirtatious)  smile.  He  persuaded  her  to  come" 
back  to  the  studio  where  he'd  coach  her  on  the  next  day's  scenes. 

She  was  grateful,  and  he  was  really  very  nice.  He  seemed 
honestly  interested  in  helping  her.  But  when  Mary  got  home  that  night, 
her  husband  was  wild  with  worry.  "I  called  your  set,"  he  said.  "Your 
company  broke  at  six.  I  thought  you  had  an  accident." 

Mary  explained  the  situation  to  him,  and  although  he  didn't 
like  the  idea  of  the  lessons  too  well,  he  understood. 

But  he  grew  less  understanding  when  night  after  night  Mary  was. 
late  because  she  had  been  coaching  with  the  associate  producer. 
Since  it  was  all  so  extremely  innocent  Mary  was  furious 
because  her  husband  was  suspicious.  So  they 
had  bitter  quarrels.  And  all  the  time  the  associate  producer,  so 
immaculately  dressed  in  sheep's  clothing,  was  biding  his  time. 

The  husband  became  the  heavy  in  the  girl's  eyes.  She  thought  he  was 
unreasonable,  foolishly  jealous  and  distrustful.  So  they  separated, 
ajid  she  turned  to  the  associate  producer  for  comfort,  as 
he  had  known  all  along  she  would.  And  after  that  it  was  not  so  innocent. 

A  few  months  later,  when  the  producer  had  tired  of  her 
and  was  "helping"  another  pretty  girl  Mary  was 
bitter  and  disillusioned.  She  tried  to  return  to  her  husband,  to 
tell  him  he  had  been  right  all  along  but  he  didn't  want  her. 

Was  that  a  wolf  for  you!  And  the  interesting  thing  is  that  he 
was  so  subtle  and  patient  in  his  campaign  that  studio  executives 
couldn't  pin  a  thing  on  him.  They  would  have  liked  to, 
though,  because  they  do  not  approve  of  wolves. 

That's  one  approach.  What  about  the  wolf  howls  of  the  younger 
set — boys  like  Scott  Brady,  Peter  Lawford,  Robert  Stack, 
Farley  Granger,  Rock  Hudson,  Howard  Duff,  Vic  Damone — to 
name  a  few.  Are  they  wolves?  They've  all  dated  a  lot  of  different  girls. 

The  truth  is  that  young  men  in  pictures  are  good,  healthy 
American  males.  Certainly  they  are  excited  by  girls.  But  they  are 
much  busier  than  the  average  young  man.  They  work  on  the  set 
sometimes  12  hours  a  day  and  they  have  to  look  alert  early 
in  the  morning.  They  don't  spend  their  lives  in  night  clubs. 
In  fact,  the  big  complaint  of  Hollywood  news  cameraman  when  he 
covers  the  night  clubs  is,  "Where  is  everybody!"  You  may  think 
they  nightclub  often  because  you  see  so  many  candid  shots  of  them, 
but  that's  because  a  photographer  shoots  (Contimied  on  page  67) 


Scott  Brady  can't  wait  to  try  out  his  new  nL 
Wh&n     Tony     Curtis     married     Janet  Leigh 
June,  he  gave  his  buddy  his  "little  blacit  book." 


Is  a  girl  safe 

in  Hollywood,  or 

had  she  better  take 

her  mother  along  when 

she  dates  an  actor? 

Read  this  surprising  report 

on  West  Coast  Romeos. 

BY  CYNTHIA  MILLER 


±he  truth 


44 


The  steam  room  is  to  men  what  the  beauty  parlor  is  to  the  ladies.    Here  Scott  Brady,  Hugh  O'Brien,  Rock  Hudson  and  Tony  Curtis  hash  over  women. 


sil>ou±  hollywood  wolves 


"I'm  all  for  marriage, 
says  Joan  Evans. 
"But  marriage 
isn't  for  me  until 
I'm  positive  that 
my  head  agrees  with 
what  my  heart  says." 


sincl  joan 


BY  MARSHA  SAUNDERS 


iss  Joan  Evans  was  mad.  Real  good  and 
mad.  But  she  didn't  tear  up  the  newspaper 
and  jump  up  and  down  on  it.  When  Joan  gets  mad 
only  her  eyes  let  you  know  it.  Those  big  black  eyes  flash  fire.  That's 
a  cliche,  I  know,  but  there's  no  getting  around  it — when  Joan 
Evans  is  mad  her  eyes  flash  fire. 

Another  symptom  of  the  Evans'  rage  is  silence.  Joan 
usually  talks  90  miles  an  hour.  Ask  her  what  she  thinks  about 
the  soul  of  a  canary  or  the  pohcy  of  the  United  Nations  and  5,000 
words  later  you  make  a  telephone  call  to  say  you'll  be  late  for 
your  next  appointment. 

But  on  this  day  Joan  said,  ''Listen  to  this  column.  Tf  Joan 
Evans  will  say  "yes  '  she  and  Carleton  Carpenter  will  be  married  soon.'  " 
She  folded  the  paper  and  commented  quietly,  "This  I  wasn't 
prepared  for.'' 

You  see,  when  Joan  signed  her  contract  with  Samuel 
Goldwyn — at  the  age  of  14 — she  was  prepared  by  her  background 
and  her  own  good  common  sense  for  a  lot  of  the  occupational  hazards 
of  being  in  the  movies.  She  was  prepared  for  pubhc  criticism — 
and  she  certainly  got  it.  Her  evening  dresses  were  cut 
too  low.  Her  makeup  was  two  inches  thick.  (Except  for 
lipstick  and  a  little  powder  Joan  doesn't  wear  makeup.) 
How  dare  she  call  her  parents  by  their  first  names!  (This 
was  her  parents'  choice,  not  Joan's.) 

She  was  also  prepared  for  the  items  in  the  local  columns 
stating  that  she  was  seen  at  a  restaurant  to  which  she  had  never 
been  with  a  boy  she  didn't  know.  In  fact,  the  item  which 
announced  that  Joan  and  John  Barr>-more,  Jr.  were  a 
big  item  gained  such  widespread  circulation  that  hundreds  of  girls 
wrote  Joan  to  ask  what  young  Jack  was  like,  and  was  it  true 
that  they  were  in  love.  Joan  and  John  met  for  the  first 
time  a  couple  of  weeks  ago.  They  laughed  about  the  item.  They 
could  laugh  because  both  of  them,  brought  up  as  they  had  been, 
knew  what  to  expect. 

Joan  laughed  longest  when  she  met  a  young  actor  with  whom, 
according  to  a  columnist,  she  had  been  "a  duo."  She  saw  him  for 
the  first  time  long  after  the  item  appeared.  At  the  same  time 
she  met  his  wife  and  his  two  children. 

This  was  all  very  funny  and  she  was  ready  to  laugh  because 
she  expected  it.  But  she  was  not  prepared  for  the  marriage 
rumors.  She  didn't  think  it  was  a  bit  funny  when  several 
papers  announced  that  she  would  be  married  to  Carleton  Carpenter. 
At  almost  the  same  time  a  story  ran  saying  that  she  would  marry 
Lee  Kirby,  the  handsome  young  advertising  man.  When 
that  item  came  out,  she  lost  her  sense  of  humor  for  sure. 

After  Joan's  eyes  stopped  shooting  off  fireworks  she  said,  "I 
honestly  think  it's  about  time  that  I  have  a  chance  to 
talk  about  how  /  feel  about  marriage  and  me." 

Joan  feels  violently  on  every  subject.  Her  feeling  about 
marriage  is  deep  and  sincere  and  very  important  to  her.  Her 
opinions  are  logical  and  ordered. 

'Tn  the  first  place,"'  she  said,  "when  people  ask  me  if  I'm  going 
to  say  'yes'  to  this  or  that  boy  they  should  stop  to  remember 
that  it's  not  my  decision.  I'm  still  a  minor.  Before  I  could 
marry  anybody  my  mother  and  father  would  have  to 
say  'yes.'  But  that's  beside  the  point.  That's  just  a  little  tech- 
nicahty.  The  big  thing  is  that  I  respect  marriage,  and  when  I  marry 
I  want  it  to  be  forever. 

"You  see,  I've  had  a  fantastic  example  of  what  true 
marriage  is  in  nnfy  own  home.  My  mother  and  father  have 
been  married — let's  see — it  wiU  be  20  years  in  September.  It  is 
the  only  marriage  for  both  of  them.  Since  I've  said  how  long  they  have 
been  married,  Katherine  would  (Continued  on  page  91) 


A7 


He'd  have  to  hold 
me  awfully  tight  to 
keep  me  home. 
Because  I'm  a  girl  who 
wants  to  go  places  .  .  . 
and  who'd  put  up  with 
a  footloose,  fame- 
hungry  female? 


By  MARILYN  MONROE 


wKo^d 


■  As  a  wife  I  wouldn't  be  completely  unprepared.  I 

can  broil  chops  or  make  a  salad.  I  can  make  a  bed.  I 

can  sew  something  simple  and  dam  socks.  I  can  iron  a  shirt, 

and  I  can  actually  bake  bread.  I  can  do  all  these 

things  and  would — ^if  my  heart  were  in  it.  But  it 

isn't.  The  safest  place  for  my  heart,  I  have  found,  is  all 

wrapped  up  in  a  breathless,  interesting  thing  called  a  career. 

The  boy  would  have  to  tear  off  all  this  wrapping  .  .  . 

and  probably  without  any  encouragement  from 

me  at  first.  Who  would  take  the  trouble  to  marry  me? 

These  are  my  reasons  now,  but  right  from  the  start 
of  my  life  I  wondered- about  it,  it  seems.  I  remember 
my  first  "romance"  .  .  . 

He  was  22  and  I  was  not  yet  14.  He  lived  across  the 
street  from  me,  and  I  know  now  that  I  was  just  a  kid 
as  far  as  he  was  concerned.  I  should  have 
known  that  from  the  way  he  would  pat  me  on  top  of 
the  head  when  he  came  home  and  I  happened  to  be  standing 
near  the  fence  on  his  side  of  the  road.  But  I  didn't. 
To  me  he  was  the  center  of  my  thoughts,  my  feelings,  my 
whole  world. 

One  day  he  came  out  of  his  house  and  was  already  in  his 
car  when  he  noticed  me  (there  I  was  hanging  around  again!). 
"Hey!  I'm  going  to  a  movie,"  he  called,  impulsively. 
"Ask  your  Aunt  Anna  if  you  can  come  along.  It's 
a  good  picture." 

Aunt  Anna,  who  was  my  guardian,  and  who  liked  him,  said 
yes,  and  I  flew  out  to  join  him.  When  I  sat  down  beside 
him  my  heart  was  pounding,  my  head  in  a  whirl,  and  an  inner 
voice  kept  whispering  to  me,  (Continued  on  page  86) 


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Kirk's  devoted  to  Joel  (the  sleepyhead)  and  Michael — children  of  his  first  marriage.    He  tells  them  no  man  ever  won  an  argument  with  a  woman. 


wha-t  VU  tell  my 


I 


"The  only  way  to  live 
with  women  is  to  love 
'em.  The  only  way 
to  keep  on  lovin' 
women  is  to  leave  'em 
alone.  And  who 
caUs  that  Uvin'?" 


■  Women.  God  bless  them! 

Since  the  beginning  of  time,  the  subject  of  women  has  confounded  the 
philosophers,  confused  the  poets,  and  mystified  the  common  man.  Myself 
included. 

All  of  my  life,  women  have  confounded,  confused,  and  mystified  me.  And 
it  hasn't  helped  that  I  have  known  quite  a  few  of  them.  If  anything,  the 
variety  has  only  added  to  the  confusion. 

The  subject  of  women  has  always  weighed  heavily  on  the  mind  of  eveiy' 
man — ^in  everj'  age  bracket.  Just  the  ether  day,  I  was  looking  out  into  the 
front  yard  at  my  two  sons  playing  cowboys  and  Indians  with  the  two  Uttle 
girls  next  door.  Suddenly  an  argument  started  (I  later  heard  four  versions) 
and  the  girls  left  in  tears.  Their  departing  blast  to  the  Douglas  boys  was, 
"You  can't  ever  play  in  our  yard  anymore  .  .  ."' 

I  couldn't  help  but  think  to  myself.  "There  it  is.  the  battle  of  the  sexes 
starting  already." 

For  it  won't  be  long  before  the  pattern  of  eternal  confusion  begins  for  my 
sons.  Perhaps  what  I  can  tell  them  wiU  save  them  from  some  of  the  problems 
I  had.  On  the  other  hand,  five  years  from  now  they  may  read  this  and  laugh 
their  heads  off  at  the  craz>-  ideas  the  old  man  had  back  in  1951. 

in  any  event,  I  think  my  boys  are  pretty  smart.  ( Continued  on  page  89 j 


Kirk  feels  qualified  to  talk  about  women  since  he  grew  up  surrounded 
by  six  older  sisters,  all  of  whom  were  "infinitely  wiser"  than  he.  Here 
he  is  with  Kay,  Ruth,  Marion,  Petty  (on  couch)  and  twins,  Fritz!  and  Ida. 


-Love's  the  web  that  traps  us  all,"  says  Kirk. 
But  his  much  publicized  romance  with 
Irene  Wrightsman  is  reportedly  still  "on."^ 


sons  a. bout:  women 


By  KIRK  DOUGLAS 


51 


i 


Hollywood  Approved  Fashions 


At  Edgar  Bergen's  home  Modern  Screen's  Hollywood  Fashion  Board 

makes  selections.   (Seated  clockwise  around  the  table:)  Mrs.  Bergen  (back  to  camera),  Diana 
Lynn,  Mono  Freeman,  Howard  Duff,  Peter  Lawford,  Liz  Taylor,  Walter  Pidgeon, 
Ricardo  Montalban,  host  Edgar  Bergen,  and  Loretta  Young.  All  of  the  award-winning 
fashions  can  be  bought  in  person  or  by  mail  at  May  Company  stores,  Los  Angeles 
(Downtown,  Wilshire,  Crenshaw)  and  throughout  the  country  as  listed — 
as  well  as  at  other  stores  also  named  on  page  80. 


Hostess  turns  model  as  MGM's  Diana  Lynn  takes  RKO  let  Jane  Greer  have 

Frances  Bergen  shows  prize  her  turn  in  her  pet  of  the  show,  j/jg  afternoon  off  to  model  this 

coat  to  Loretta  Young.  an  After-Fine  black  taffeta.  pyi^g  corduroy  sports  dress. 


*  For  the  complete  story  of  Modern  Screen's  fashion  party  see  page  18 


52 


for  Fall 


Presenting  a  brand 
new  idea  of  fashions  for 
you — Modern  Screen  s 
Hollywood  Fashion 
Board!   At  a  festive  lunch 
eon  a  star-studded  panel 
selected  glamorous 
clothes  by  secret  ballot. 
On  these  and  the  four 
following  pages  are  their 
aivard-winning  choices. 


This  suit  was  high  oa  f'ctcr  When  she  saw  it,  Nancy 

LmufoTd^s  ballot,  and  MGM's  Davis  put  in  her  bid  to  cut  a 
Phyllis  Kirk  shews  why.  figure  in  this  black  net  formal. 


Liz  Taylor  fell  in  love  with 
this  sports  ensemble.  She  was  justified 
— it  won  the  grand  award 


Hollywood  Approved  Ffishions  For  Fall 


WINNERS  ALL  exciting  sportswear  m 


Hosts  Edgar 
ond  Frances  Bergen 
serve  punch  and 
Hollywood  chit-chat  over 
the  punch  bowl  to 
Ricardo  Montalban  .  .  . 


Voting  over,  Diano 
Lynn  and  Mono  Freeman 
chat  with  a  happy 
award-winner.  Willys  of 
Hollywood.  Howard 
Duff  ogles  models  .  ..  . 


Duff  and  Mono,  who 
recently  co-starred,  cast 
on  eye  at  the 
models   passing    in  review 
and  ponder  their 
balloting  choice  .  .  . 


the  award  winning  fashions 
can  be  bought  in  person  or  by  mail  at  the 
may  company  stores,  los  angeles 
(downtown,  Wilshire-Crenshaw) 

and  throughout  the  country  as  listed  as  well 

as  at  other  stores  also  named  on  page  80. 


Beautiful  Lorelta  Young,  who  has  won  many  fashion  awards 
herself,  and  who  is  now  in  the  20th  Century-Fox  picture 
Half  Angel,  chats  with  Mrs.  Edgar  Bergen  who  poses  in 
the  award-winning  coat — a  Lassie  Maid  original.    It  is  made  o 
a  large  block  plaid  in  100  per  cent  virgin  wool  with 
velveteen  collar  and  cuffs.  Colors:  Gold  and  grey,  or  royal  an 
black.   Sizes  8-18.   -555.   A  plaid  coat  is  a  wonderful  contrast 
for  all  your  monotone  sport  dre.<;ses  and  town  costumes. 


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checks,  and  plain  fabrics 


Elizabeth  Taylor,  now 
appearing  in  MGM's  Love  Is 
Better  Than  Ever,  models  the 
grand  award  winner — a 
two-piece  sportx  costume  by 
Junior  House  oj  Milwaukee.  The 
skin  and  stole  is  ail-wool  Hounds- 
tooth  check — the  stole  is  lined 
with  Sinbad  red  to  match  the  belt 
— the  white  blouse  is  all-wool. 
.Also  available  in  brown, 
beige  and  while  check  ivith  white 
blouse — kelly  green  st<de  lining 
and  belt.  Sizes  9-/5.  .4 bout  $40. 


1  ( 


RKO's  Jane  Greer,  next  to  be  seen 
in  the  20th  Century-Fox  production  Friendly  Island. 
is  pretty  as  n  picture  in  Henry  Rosenfeld's 
award-winnei — a  one-piece  dress  of  pin-ivale 
corduroy.  Colors:  Red,  green,  brown,  beige, 
grey.  Sizes:  10-18.  $17.95.  Jane  carries  an 
exceptionally  smart  red  handbag  from  the  large, 
award-winning  Julius  Resnick  collection. 


Bill  Campbell  oj  MGM  poses  with  Leslie  Caron. 

who  stars  in  MGM's  ^Ajnerican  In  Paris,  as  she  pertly 

models  the  "separates''  award-winner  by 

Morlane  Sportswear.  The  jersey  blouse  comes  in 

black  with  red,  royal  blue,  or  kelly  green  trim 

and  matching  plaid  scarf.  Sizes  10-18.  About  $15.  The 

velveteen  skirt  also  in  black  with  red,  royal  blue. 

or  kelly  green  trim.  Sizes  10-18.  About  $19. 


J 


55 


Hollywood  Approved  Fashions  For  Fall 


WINNERS 
ALL 


Dapper  Charlie 
McCarthy  watches  Walter 
PIdgeon   mark   down  a 
vote  while  Edgar  Bergen 
mulls  choices. 


5 

Let's  hove  another  cuppa 
coffee,"  soys  Ricardo  Montolban 
to  sister-in-law  Loretta 
Young.  The  Brown  Derby 
provided  plentiful  refreshments. 


Phyllis  Kirk  sips  her  Coca-Cola  and 
chats  with  Peter  Lawford  while 
being  photographed  in  Rosenblums' 
award-winning  five-button  classic  suit  of 
all-wool  menswear  flannel. 
Colors:  Grey  or  oxford  blue.  Sizes: 
Regular.  10-20;  Petite  {five-foot-four 
and  under),  10-20.  About  $45. 
On  the  suit  lapel — an  exciting  fake 
baroque  pearl  and  gold  finish  pin  chosen 
from  Cora's  award-winning  jewelry 
collection.    Phyllis  wears  "Moongold" 
a  double-woven  nylon  slip-on  from 
Kayser's  award-winning  glove  collection. 


Edgar  Bergen  and  Charlie  McCarthy  look 
approvingly  at  Nancy  Davis  wearing  the  award- 
winning  evening  gown  original  by  David  Klein. 
The  bodice  of  the  imported  net  gown  is  high- 
lighted by  illusion  embroidery.  Colors:  Black, 
white,  dream  blue.  Sizes  10-16.  About  $40.  Nancy  is 
appearing  in  MGM's  Rain.  Rain,  Go  Away. 
Fashion-wise  Edgar  and  Charlie  wear  new 
resort  dinner  suits  by  Don  Loper. 


The  models,  who  were 
oil  lovely  enough  to  be  stars 
themselves,  do  the  usual 
pre-oppeorance  chores  before 
taking  their  turns  outdoors. 


]eif  Richards,  (left),  and  John 
Lupton  of  MGM  applaud  the  Junior 
Towne  of  Milwaukee  sports  dress 
award-winner  so  smartly  worn  by  Monica 
Lewis,  next  in  MGM's  Excuse  My 
Dust.    This  one-piece  dress 
has  an  authentic  clan  plaid  skirt  and 
scarf  combined  with  a  solid 
contrasting  wool  top  that  buttons 
down  the  back.    This  dress  is 
available  in  the  following  authentic 
clan  plaids:  McLeod  plaid — 
brown  plaid  with  gold  top:  Prin- 
cess Mary  plaid — red  and  green  with 
red  top;  McLean  of  Duart  plaid — 
green  and  red  with  green  top. 
Sizes  9-15.   About  $18. 


L\z  Taylor  compliments  Mona  Freeman, 
of  Paramount's  Darling,  How  Could  You,  on 
the  award-winning  Junior  House  of  Milwaukee 
"after  five"  sensation.    The  taffeta  skirt  has 
appliqued  bands  of  jersey  to  match 
the  W yners  all  worsted  jersey  top. 
Crinoline  petticoat.    Black  only.  Sizes 
9-15.  About  $35.  "Sparkler"  stockings 
by  award-winner  Willys  of  Hollywood. 


Diana  Lynn,  currently  appearing  in  MGM's 

The  People  Against  O'Hara,  is  charming  and  ready 

for  any  date  in  the  Junior  Towne  of  Milwaukee 

award-winner — a  one-piece  rustling  taffeta 

dress  appliqued  with  velveteen,  and  sparkling  with 

rhinestone  buttons.    Beneath  the  frock — a  crinoline 

petticoat.    Black  only.    Sizes  9-15.    About  $18. 

Black  faille  box  handbag  from  the  award-winning 

Harry  Levine  collection. 


THE  AWARD  WINNING 
TASmONS  CAN  BE  BOUGHT 
IN  PERSON  OR  BY  MAIL 

AT  THE  May  Company 
STORES,  Los  Angeles 
(downtown,  Wilshire- 
CIrenshaw),  and  through 
OUT  the  country  as 

LISTED  AS  WELL  AS  AT 

OTHER  STORES  ALSO 
NAMED  ON   PAGE  80. 


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Poodles  are  high  on  the  Hollywood  pet  popu-  Joan  Crawford's  white  poodle,  Cliquot,  is  every  Like  master,  like  dog.  Most  popular  actor,  Alan 
larity  list.  Specially  trained,  Betty  Grable's  bit  the  tancy  French  lady.  She's  equally  at  honne  Ladd,  chooses  the  most  popular  breed,  boxer 
well-mannered  Punkin  never  barks  on  the  set.     on    the    tennis    court    or    in    the    drawing    room,     for  a  pet.    He  has  seven  of  them  on  his  ranch. 


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Gregory  Peck  sometimes  wonders  what  hamsters  have  that 
his  white  German  Shepherds  don't.  Every  time  he  turns 
around  they  present  him  with  a  litter  of  12  or  13  pups. 


John  Agar  con  look  as  tough  as  he  pleases,  it  won't  scare 
Ragmop.  The  only  thing  that  frightens  this  Christmas  gift 
to  John  is  his  own  four-legged  reflection  in  the  mirror. 


Doris  Day  s//ears  they're  poodles,  but  the  dogs  aren't 
sure.  Beany  is  a  fella  who  likes  oranges;  Smudgy's  busy 
all  day  snubbing  his  mistress'  husband,  Marty  Melcher. 


Anybody  would  want  to  live  a 

dog's  life  in  pet-happy  Hollywood 
where  many  a  poodle  has  his  master 

jumping  through  hoops. 

BY  JOHN  MAYNARD 


■  Once  upon  a  time  the  phone  rang  in  a  West  Los  Angeles  pohce 
station  and  the  caller  wanted  to  know  what  the  local  ordinance  was 
about  peace-disturbing  lions. 

"Did  you  say  lions?"  asked  the  desk  sergeant  politely. 

"That's  right,"  said  the  caller.  "There  is  a  roaring  lion  in  the 
yard  next  to  me  and  I  can't  sleep.  I,"  he  added  thought  full}',  "am  a 
Uon-hater." 

"You're  a  lyin'  something,"  murmured  the  sergeant,  who  had 
practically  cut  his  teeth  on  Joe  Miller,  "but  we'll  be  around.'' 

Since  lions  are  a  little  better  than  par  for  the  course  even  in  pet- 
daffy  Hollywood,  the  sergeant  was  inclined  to  jocularity  as  he 
contacted  the  handiest  squad  car.  The  squad  car  was  similarly 
lighthearted  as  its  team  poked  their  flashlights  into  the  back  yard 
of  Paul  and  Jeanne  Grain  Brinkman.  Naturally  there  was  nothing 
there  except  a  roaring  lion.  Slightly  taken  aback,  the  policemen 
sprinted  for  the  front  where  they  fell  against  the  Brinkman  door- 
bell. Presently  the  masters  of  the  house  emerged. 

"Uck,"  said  the  senior  member  of  the  law,  loosening  his  necktie 
a  trifle. 

"Uck  to  you,"  said  Mr.  Brinkman  courteously.  "But  surely  you 
didn't  wake  us  up  just  to  say  that?  There  must  be  something 
meatier  on  your  mind,  something — '' 

"Lion,"  gurgled  the  law,  a  word  extremely  difficult  to  gurgle. 

"Lion,"  said  Mrs.  Brinkman  encouragingly.  "Keep  going  and 
we'll  ask  questions  when  we're  stuck." 

The  law  recovered  its  dignity.  "You  have  a  roaring  lion  in  your 
yard,"  it  said,  "and  you  can't  have.  I  think." 

"Nonsense,"  said  Mrs.  Brinkman  firmly.  "Shah-Shah  doesn't 
roar." 

"Must  be  some  other  lion,"  said  Mr.  B. 

The  law  pushed  its  cap  back  on  its  head  and  ran  its  hand  down 
its  face  in  a  gesture  made  classic  by  the  late  Edgar  Kennedy.  "It's 
this  Hon,"  it  said  with  ominous  quiet.  "There  is  an  ordinance 
about  it,  too.  There  has  to  be.  In  fact,  I  ain't  sure  there's  not  an 
ordinance  against  just  being  a  lion.  But  roaring — definitely." 

Oddly  enough,  the  law  was  correct.  Shah-Shah  was  a  lion  all 
right  and  still  is — a  female  acquired  by  the  Brinkmans  at  a  Holly- 
wood party.  They'd  raised  her  from  a  cub,  principally  in  a  three- 
room  West  Los  Angeles  apartment.  Now,  when  they  snapped  the 
cuffs  on  her  she  was  crowding  500  pounds.  Regretfully,  the  Brink- 
mans  handed  her  over  to  the  curators  of  Griffith  Park  Zoo,  where 
Shah-Shah  has  lived  happily  ever  after,  except  for  an  occasional 
urge  to  break  out  and  get  the  rat  who  sang  on  her. 

The  Brinkmans  later  settled  for  a  dog,  which  is  more  like  it  as 
Hollywood  pet  preferences  go.  Right  now,  dogs  are  running  ahead 
of  cats  about  seven-to-two.  And  cats  are  (Continued  on  page  94) 


In  the  real-iife  drama  at  Dona's  house,  he  tries  to  play  the  "heavy"  but  his  four  kids  won't  let  him. 


dana 
andrews: 

problem 
father 


~fe((jilJiy 


■  When  Dana  Andrews  was  in  his  young  and 

hopeful  twenties  he  went  -to  college  and  studied  child  psy- 

cholog>'.  Thus  armed  with  knowledge  he  faced  the 

world  bravely,  certain  that  if  he  should  ever 

become  a  father  he'd  know  exactly  what  to  do. 

It  was  not  long  after  the  birth  of  his  first  child,  David, 
that  Dana  realized  there's  very  little  you  can 
learn  about  children  from  books.  In  the  first  place,  the 
books  said  that  a  father  and  his  son  should  be  pals. 
Dana  was  wilUng,  even  anxious,  but  every  time 
he  flexed  his  muscles  for  a  little  roughhouse  with  David. 
David  eyed  him  as  if  he  were  crazy. 

As  David  grew,  so  did  his  supply  of  baseball 
bats  and  gloves,  fishing  rods  and  basketballs.  But  none  of 
this  interested  him.  He  cared  only  for  music — all  kinds. 

When  Da\id  got  to  be  about  four  years  old.  Dana 
began  to  fear  he'd  have  an  introvert  on  his 
hands.  But  that  was  before  a  certain  Sunday  School  pro- 
gram when  David,  who  was  not  scheduled  to  perform, 
strode  onto  the  stage  and  sat  down  at  the  piano. 

"I  will  now  play  'High  and  Low,'  "  he  announced 
in  his  baby  tenor.  Then  he  struck  three  high  keys 

{Continued  on  page  96) 


Stephen,  Susan  and  Ka+hy  are  the  youngest, 
but  very  influential.  When  teen-age  brother 
David   grew  a    mustache,   they   laughed   it  off. 


Though  Bona  is  a  strict  disciplinorian,  the  house  is  usually  full  of  kids.  Here's  Stephen 
(in  the  Eton  collar)  at  his  birthday  party  surrounded  by  his  pals.  Kathy  is  spellbound 
on  the  couch,  while  David,  in  back,  looks  o  little  bored  to  be  among  the  smoll  fry. 


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^^-daiiiia- DEBBIE 


Debbie  and  Carleton  Carpenter's  "Abba-Dabba"  record 
sales  hit  the  million  mark.  They  performed  so  well  together 
that    now    many   fans   always   think   of  them    as    a  team. 


Debbie   dotes   infrequently  and  when   she  does,   prefers   neighborhood  boys. 


SHE  CAN  SING;  SHE  CAN  DANCE;  SHE  CAN  DO  ANYTHING!  THAT'S 


■  Gene  Kelly  stopped  whirling  the  little  featherweight  doll 
in  his  arms,  stepped  back  and  frowned.  He  was  patiently 
rehearsing  the  new  numbers  for  Singing  in  the  Rain  and 
right  in  the  middle  of  a  romantic  waltz,  this  crazy  kid  had 
tossed  back  her  head  and  gone  limp  with  laughter.  Gene's 
an  exacting  dance  master;  he  doesn't  like  foolishness  mixed 
with  business. 

"Listen,  Freshie,"  he  barked.  "You  know  this  is  a  sweet 
dance.  The  scene  is  love — not  comedy.  Why  the  yaks?" 

"Oh,  dear,"  sighed  Debbie  Reynolds,  "I'm  sorry.  But — 
well — I  used  to  practically  fall  off  my  seat  when  I  saw  you 
on  the  screen.  And  here  I  am — actually  dancing  for  a  picture 


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Debbie  was  a  dud  in  high  school  dramatics;  entered  t.ne  contest  tnat  won  her  a  screen  rest  because  contestants  received  free  blouses. 


T  THEY  SAY  ABOUT  THIS  SCREEN-STRUCK  KID  WHO  STILL  CAN'T  BELIEVE  SHE  HAS  A  CONTRACT. 


m 


mm 


with  Gene  Kelly!  I  mean,  it's  absolutely  the  end,  don't  you 
see?  I  can't  believe  it.  I'm  losing  my  mind!  Isn't  it  all  just 
too  killing?" 

Gene  leaned  back  against  a  ladder  they  used  in  another 
routine  to  digest  this  outburst  before  he  grinned.  But  Deb- 
bie's green  eyes  stared  back  in  horror.  "Don't  move!"  she 
yelped.  "My  gum!"  Kelly  felt  a  few  precious  hairs  leave 
his  scalp  as  Deb  leaped  to  the  rescue.  ''I  won't  park  it  there 
again,"  she  promised. 

Gene  Kelly  didn't  really  mind  losing  the  hair,  or  the  re- 
hearsal time  either.  Like  ever\-one  else  at  MGM,  he  knows 
that  just  being  around  Debbie  Reynolds  is  like  having  a 


double-shot  from  the  Fountain  of  Youth — and  what  shght 
hangovers  result  are  well  worth  it.  As  for  Debbie  RevTiolds, 
she  was  making  true  talk;  she's  having  herself  a  real  ball — 
and  so  is  ever\one  even  remotely  exposed  to  her  around 
Holl\-wood. 

It  was  barely  two  years  ago  that  a  sputtering  '32  Chev^y 
sedan  rattled  through  the  formidable  gates  of  Metro-Gold- 
w\n-Mayer  studios  and  skidded  dust  on  the  elegant,  fish- 
tailed  Cadillacs  parked  inside.  This  ancient  heap  was  a  sight 
to  behold.  It  sported  a  flashy  dragon  radiator  cap.  whirlaway 
hubs,  a  raucous  truck  horn  and  Venetian  blinds.  One  door 
flopped  open  when  the  brakes  (Continued  on  page  72) 


ROTS  RANCH 


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Roy's  "wide  open  spaces'"  are  overrun  with  children  and  animals,  which  is  just  the  way  he  likes  it. 


■  Roy  Rogers  is  an  animal-lover.  When  he  acts  with  a 
squirrel  in  a  picture,  he  brings  the  squirrel  home.  When  he 
acts  with  a  possum,  he  brings  the  possum  home.  A  few  weeks 
ago,  Roy  strode  into  his  ranch-house  with  a  beautiful  German 
Shepherd  named  Bullet  who  plays  opposite  him  in  Pals  of  the 
Golden  West. 

"I  felt,"  Roy  says,  "that  if  Bullet  lived  with  me  a  little,  both 
of  us  would  develop  a  closer  working  relationship — like  the 
relationship  I  have  with  Trigger." 

The  first  night  the  dog  stayed  at  the  ranch,  five-year-old 
Junior,  better  known  as  Dusty,  began  calling  his  father.  "Hey, 


Dad,"  he  shouted.  "Come  here  and  see  what  Bullet  is  doing." 

"In  a  minute.  Son,"  Roy  answered  from  his  small  home 
office. 

"You'd  better  hurry!"  Dusty  yelled. 
"Take  it  easy,"  Roy  said. 

"Okay,"  Dusty  agreed.  "Only  he's  chewing  your  best  hat 
to  pieces." 

Roy  was  on  his  feet  in  a  flash.  Two  more  seconds,  and  he 
was  in  the  billiard  room  where  Bullet  was  finding  a  cowboy  hat 
tough  to  digest.  One  sharp  Roy  Rogers  command,  and  Bullet 
dropped  what  was  left  of  the  {Continued  on  page  66) 


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A  i 


The  Rogers'  blue-green  living  room  is  sef  for  cozy  family  life  most  of  the 
time.  But  an  extra  couch  and  two  day  beds  are  moved  into  the  fireplace 
group  for  entertaining.  Roy,  planning  a  show  himself,  is  fascinated  by  TV. 


In  the  pine-panelled  billiard  room  Roy  has  collected  his  pet  outside 
Interests.  There  are  16  mm  movies,  recorded  music,  and  trophies  for 
hunting  and  horses.     Many  of  the  furnishings  ore  gifts  from  fans. 


A  !azy-susan  dining  table  Is  Dale's  solution  to  feeding  a  family  of  five 
hungry  Rogers  peacefully  and  speedily.  The  beautifully  mounted  pheasant 
Is  a  memento  of  one  of  Roy's  many  happy-hunting  trips  with  Dale. 


The  leather  upholstered  breakfast  nook  In  the  kitchen  of  their  low 
Spanish  ranch  house  Is  seldom  empty.  Dale  carried  over  the  ranch 
motif  in  her  chlnaware  from  the  Hanover  Fine  China  Company. 


Il  Roy' 

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Only  the  wallpaper  is  new  In 
and  beige  plaid  because  the 
Roy's  shirts.    They've  had  all 


the  master  bedroom.  Dale  chose  a  green 
colors  and  design  reminded  her  of  one  of 
the  furniture  since  their  marriage  In  1947. 


The  children's  wing,  with  private  bathroom  ond  separate  entrance, 
Is  off  the  kitchen.  Three  bedrooms  open  onto  this  large  playroom. 
Boby  Robin,  who  Is  frail,  lives  In  another  building  with  her  nurse. 

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roy's  ranch 


continued 


Here  chick,  chick!  Roy  is  teaching  Dusty  the  skills 
of  good  farming.  These  150  pullets  were  raised  by 
Roy;  will  go  from  the  freezer  to  the  family  table. 


hat  at  Roy's  feet  and  waited  patiently  for  a  pat  of 
praise.  There  was  no  praise.  Neither  was  their  punish- 
ment. Roy  knew  that  the  dog  was  unfamiliar  with 
his  surroundings. 

"Bullet's  gonna  have  to  learn  about  hats,"  he 
announced,  "if  he  wants  to  stay  here.  Come  on.  Dusty, 
let's  show  him  around." 

A  stroll  around  the  Roy  Rogers  estate,  five  acres  in 
the  Skn  Fernando  Valley,  is  a  tour  of  four  separate 
houses. 

The  main  building,  a  low-slung,  irregularly-shaped 
Spanish  ranch-house,  has  five  bedrooms,  an  ofl&ce,  a 
billiard  room  (shooting  pool  is  not  a  talent  exclusively 
reserved  to  city  slickers),  a  living  room,  a  dining  room, 
and  a  kitchen  in  perennial  use. 

Out  back,  five  running  steps  from  the  kitchen  door, 
is  the  baby's  quarters.  Robin  Rogers  was  born  10 
months  ago.  She  came  into  the  world  with  a  con- 
genitally  weak  heart  and  needs  rest  and  extreme  quiet 
so  that  she  can  grow  without  straining  it. 

The  doctors  suggested  that  Robin  be  kept  in  the 
hospital  or  in  a  special  nursing  home,  but  Roy  and 
Dale  wouldn't  hear  of  it.  They  wanted  their  baby 
at  home. 

Even  though  it  meant  added  expense,  another 
$10,000  to  be  exact,  they  constructed  a  private  clinic 
for  Robin  and  her  nurse  on  their  own  property. 

"I  just  had  to  have  her  near  me,"  Dale  says.  "I  knew 


Roy  and  Dusty  exchange  an  Eskimo  kiss  before  a 
riding  session.  Dusty,  Cheryl  and  Linda  Lou  all  get 
lessons  from  Roy  who  insists  they  learn  bareback  first. 


"•rtf-'V.^'* 


couldn't  have  her  in  the  main  house. 

^^  all,  we  have  three  other  children, 
d  it  wouldn't  have  been  fair  to  them — 
hushing  them  all  the  time.    So  we  built 
little   house   for   Robin.    While  she's 
leeping,  Roy  and  I  tiptoe  in  and  look 
t  her.   We  pray  that  in  the  years  to  come 
er  heart  will  grow  stronger,  so  that  she 
play  freely  with  the  others  and  even 
e  the  swimming  pool." 
Next  to  the  Rogers'  swimming  pool  are 
me  dressing  rooms,  a  large  outdoor  bar- 
cue,  and  a  food  locker  which  Roy  in- 
'ts,  "I  couldn't  live  without." 
Whenever  he  and  Dale  aren't  working  in 
ictures  or  making  personal  appearance 
"UTS,  they  like  to  hunt.  They  take  their 
ogs,  go  up  into  the  mountains,  and  come 
ck  with  a  load  of  rabbit,  pheasant,  wood 
ucks,  deer,  and  occasionally  even  a  bear 
two.    The  edible  game  is  preserved 
an  18-foot  Amana  freezer.  It's  an  up- 
"ght  job.  "That's  the  best  kind  of  freezer," 
ale  says.  "You  don't  have  to  break  your 
ck  bending  down  to  get  out  a  carton  of 
as." 

CTUALLY,  the  home  the  Roy  Rogers  fam- 
ily currently  occupies  isn't  the  house 
y  liJces  best.  "This  one  is  a  compromise," 
ale  explains.  "It's  as  rural  as  we  can  make 
and  stUl  act  in  motion  pictures.  If  Roy 
d  his  way,  we'd  live  on  a  real  working 
ch  and  fly  down  to  the  studio  every 
oming. 

■'As  a  matter  of  fact,  we  do  co-own  a 
eal  ranch  near  Marysville,  California.  Roy 
a  partner  and  they  raise  wonderful 
ttle,  white-faced  Herefords.  Whenever 
e  can  arrange  it,  we  try  to  spend  a  week- 
d  up  there.  But  between  weekends,  we 
y  down  here  in  the  Valley  where  Roy 
es  as  many  animals  as  the  zoning  laws 
rmit.  He  keeps  two  horses,  a  pony  for 
e  children,  150  chickens,  half-a-dozen 
ogs  and  cats,  a  possum,  and  four  squirrels, 
at's  as  of  right  now.  Tonight,  it  might 
different.  He's  liable  to  come  home  with 
o  or  three  rabbits. 

"Roy  was  born  in  Cincinnati,  you  know, 
ut  as  a  child  he  was  raised  on  a  farm 
Duck  Run,  Ohio,  and  he  can't  get  the 
imals  or  earth  out  of  his  blood." 
To  prove  her  point,  Dale  is  always  tak- 
g  friends  out  to  the  land  behind  the 
is  court  to  show  them  Roy's  "Farm.'' 
t  consists  of  a  back  lot  planted  with 
egetables  and  a  border  of  fruit  trees. 
Roy  and  Dale  have  a  system.  She  credits 
with  the  outdoor  beauty  of  their  home, 
d  he  credits  her  with  the  ioterior.  "She's 


fixed  OUT  place  up  real  swell,"  Roy  says, 
"and  without  spending  a  fortune." 

"When  we  moved  into  this  hoiase  six 
months  ago."  Dale  points  out,  "I  used  as 
much  of  our  old  furniture  as  possible.  No 
sense  in  letting  that  go  to  waste." 

For  her  blue-green  living  room.  Dale  did 
buy  a  new  swirl-pattem  carpet,  new 
draperies,  and  two  sectional  pieces.  She 
placed  the  chairs  by  the  fireplace,  a  fine 
seating  arrangement  for  the  family,  but 
when  friends  drop  in,  the  fireplace  group- 
ing is  expanded  to  include  a  sofa  and  two 
upholstered  day  beds  placed  end  to  end. 

The  remainder  of  the  furnishings  in  the 
room — the  spinet  piano,  the  hearth  rug,  the 
blond  coffee  table,  the  two  floor  lamps, 
and  the  painting  of  Roy  by  Evan  Soward 
are  all  part  of  their  former  hoiise. 

Roy  insists  that  Dale  knows  some  cute 
decorating  tricks.  The  lamps  on  the  spinet 
piano  are  samples  of  her  handiwork.  These 
had  ordinary  glass  shades  until  Dale  saw 
some  hand-painted  ones  in  an  antique 
store.  She  went  home,  cut  out  some  cow- 
boy figures  from  a  wall-pap>er  sample  cind 
pasted  them  on  her  old  lamp  shades.  The 
effect  is  the  same  as  the  the  hand-painted 
variety,  only  much  less  costly. 

As  in  the  other  rooms,  most  of  the  furni- 
ture in  the  Rogers'  master  bedroom 
comes  from  their  previous  home.  The  king- 
size  bed,  the  dressing  table,  the  chaise,  and 
the  desk  are  all  pieces  they've  owned  since 
their  marriage  in  1947.  Only  the  wall  paper 
is  new.  "I  couldn't  very  well  take  that  with 
me,"  Dale  says  jokingly.  "But  in  selecting 
the  new  bedroom  paper,  I  chose  a  green 
and  beige  plaid  because  the  color  combina- 
tion reminded  me  of  one  of  Roy's  shirts." 

A  bathroom  separates  it  from  the  bed- 
room, but  Roy's  office  is  almost  part  of  the 
master  suite.  Roy  works  here  stirrounded 
by  a  life-size  portrait  of  Trigger,  a  dozen 
plaques  naming  him  the  Western  star  of 
the  year,  and  his  own  Philco  television  set. 

Roy  makes  an  honest  effort  to  answer  all 
his  fan  mail.  He  sends  out  autographed 
photos  and  acknowledges  gifts  as  he  re- 
ceives them.  When  the  job  gets  too  much 
for  him,  he  presses  Dale  into  service.  She 
keeps  the  typewriter  she's  had  from  her 
secretarial  days  ready  and  open  on  her 
own  bedroom  desk,  and  whenever  Roy 
cries  for  help,  she  sprints  into  his  office, 
shorthand  book  in  hand. 

The  Rogers  have  one  standing  rule  in 
their  house.  Everyone  must  be  home  for 
six-thirty  dinner.  Guilty  persons  are  put 
in  the  doghouse.  A  miniature  doghouse 


stands  on  the  kitchen  wall.  It  contains  five 
tags  with  the  names  of  the  various  family 
members.  The  only  way  to  get  your  name 
out  of  the  doghouse  is  to  help  Emily  with 
the  dishes,  or  some  other  household  chore. 

Dale  and  Roy  both  feel  that  this  is  an  im- 
fMDrtant  rule  because  it  brings  the  whole 
family  together  at  least  once  a  day.  "It 
gives  the  children  a  feeling  of  family  soli- 
darity," Roy  says,  "which  is  pretty  neces- 
sary these  days  when  just  about  every 
other  solidarity  is  shaking." 

Every  Simday,  the  entire  Rogers  ho\ise- 
hold  attends  the  St.  Nicholas  Episcopal 
Church  in  Encino. 

Sunday  night  also  finds  them  eating 
around  the  circular  dining-room  table.  All 
other  meals,  however,  are  served  prac- 
tically continuously  in  the  kitchen -break- 
fast nook.  This  leather-upholstered  corner 
had  to  be  added  to  the  kitchen  to  satisfy 
the  lusty  appetites  of  Cheryl,  eleven,  Linda 
Leu,  nine,  and  Dusty,  five. 

"Those  kids  eat  all  the  time,"  Emily 
Warren,  the  cook,  says,  "but  I  like  that.  I 
also  like  them  to  bring  their  friends.  The 
nook  looks  small  but  it  can  really  seat 
eight  quite  comfortably." 

The  children's  section  of  the  Rogers 
house  is  next  to  the  kitchen.  Known  as  the 
children's  wing,  it  consists  of  three  separate 
bedrooms  which  open  onto  one  large  play- 
room. The  wing  has  its  own  bathroom  and 
a  separate  entrance,  and  the  little  guys  can 
raise  hallelujah  while  the  rest  of  the 
household  moves  at  a  quiet  pace. 

The  room  Roy  himself  Ukes  best  is  the 
billiard  room.  Pine-panelled,  tiled-in-red, 
it  boasts  a  friendly  fireplace,  a  three-way 
exposiare  to  the  valley,  a  billiard  table, 
twelve  shelves  of  books,  a  16  mm.  sound 
projector,  and  dozens  of  hunting  trophies. 
The  maps  and  ash  trays  are  gifts  from  ad- 
mirers; a  pair  of  Roy's  boots  which  stand 
by  the  door,  are  cast  in  bronze.  All  the 
furnishings  are  typically  masculine  and 
designed  to  please  the  master  of  the  hotise. 

At  night,  after  the  children  go  to  bed, 
Roy  and  Dale  usually  come  into  this  room 
to  discuss  family  problems,  the  day's  work 
or  just  to  chat  the  way  married  folks  us- 
ually do. 

Only  the  other  night.  Dale  was  recount- 
ing an  amusing  anecdote.  Coming  out  of 
the  studio,  she  heard  a  little  boy  say  to 
his  brother,  "There's  Dale  Evans."  "That 
isn't  Dale  Evans,"  the  brother  said. 

"Oh,  yes,  it  is,"  repeated  the  first  little 
shaver.  "I  recognized  her  at  once.  Her  hair 
is  the  exact  same  color  as  Trigger's.'' 
The  End 


e  truth  about  hollywood  wolves 


Continued  from  page  44)  a  lot  of  pictures 

.t  once  and  keeps  circulating  them  in  a 

undred  different  publications. 
As  for  chasing  girls,  these  fellows  are 
good  looking  and  sought  after  they  don't 

ave  to.  Whenever  they  want  a  date  all 
ey  have  to  do  is  take  out  the  little  black 
ok,  start  thumbing  through  it,  and  pick 

p  the  telephone. 

The  other  day  the  room-mate  of  a  pretty 
portant  star  snitched  his  friend's  tele- 
hone  book  and  dialed  a  number.  It  was 
e  number  of  a  girl.  But  who  was  she? 
e  turned  out  to  be  a  middle-aged  lady 
"ho  worked  for  one  of  the  important  fan 
gazines.  Was  the  kid  embarrassedl  And 
t's  another  thing  that  keeps  the  Holly- 
ood  wolf  from  howling  even  if  he  wants 
.  He's  afraid  of  publicity.    For  every- 
thing that  goes  on  in  Hollywood  is  pubUc 
property. 

You  ask  a  girl  who"s  been  out  with  him 
if  Scott  Brady  is  a  wolf,  and  she'll  say. 


"You  bet!"  What  is  she  doing?  Trying  to 
make  herself  seem  important  and  desira- 
ble, trjring  to  cash  in  on  his  fame.  Scott's 
no  wolf.  Ask  Ann  Blyth. 

Scott  and  Ann  appeared  at  the  press 
photographer's  ball  together.  Ann  weis 
dressed  as  Sadie  Thompson  and  Scott  was 
the  lamp  post  she  leaned  on.  "What's  hap- 
pened to  our  Ann?"  everybody  asked. 
They  should  have  been  asking  what  had 
happened  to  Scott. 

Scott's  favorite  forms  of  entertainment 
are  baseball  and  boxing.  So  everybody  was 
very  amazed  to  see  Scott  all  done  up  in 
a  dirmer  jacket  at  the  Ballet  Russe  with 
Ann.  When  someone  asked  him  how  he 
liked  it  he  said  fine,  and  added,  "Ann 
was  crazy  about  it.'  Which  is  certainly 
a  case  of  Little  Red  Riding  Hood  leading 
the  wolf  around  by  the  nose.  And,  this 
is  for  sure,  if  Scott  showed  any  wolfish 
traits  around  Ann  she  would  never  go  out 
with  him  again. 


Peter  Lawford  has  dated  so  many  girls 
over  a  period  of  years  that  there's  no 
space  to  list  them  all.  One  of  the  girls  com- 
plained about  him — but  not  the  way  you 
think.  Elizabeth  Taylor,  who  was  16  when 
Pete  took  her  out,  wailed,  "He  treated  me 
as  if  I  were  just  a  little  girl."  She  may 
have  been  16  but  she  was  still  the  most 
beautifiil  creature  in  town — and  a  wolf 
wouldn't  have  let  age  come  between  them. 
Pete  is  much  too  much  of  a  gentleman 
to  ever  let  himself  fall  into  the  wolf 
category. 

Incidentally,  a  little  known  fact  is  that 
one  of  the  big  loves  of  Pete's  life  was  a 
tall,  charming  society  girl  older  than  he. 
And  when  Gloria  McLean  married  the 
inveterate  bachelor,  Jimmy  Stewart,  Pete 
was  broken  hearted.  But  even  his  best 
friends  didn't  know,  and  he  went  right 
on  dating — a  different  girl  every  few  weeks. 
Not  because  he's  on  the  prowl;  he's  just 
looking  for  his  ideal. 

Bob   Stack   is   another   like  Pete — the , 
perfect  gentleman.  His  taste  is  so  perfect 
that  when  he  made  a  date  with  Barbara 
Stanwyck    shortly    after    her  separation 


from  Bob  Taylor,  he  invited  Barbara's 
friend,  Helen  Ferguson,  to  join  them.  He 
knew  it  was  wrong  for  a  woman  to  be 
seen  in  public  so  soon  after  a  separation. 

TVToT  all  of  Hollywood's  young  stars  are 
-L^  perfect  gentlemen.  One  of  them  owns 
a  little  bachelor  house  tucked  away  in  the 
hills  of  Hollywood,  and  it's  as  much  as  a 
girl's  reputation  is  worth  to  be  seen  there. 
The  parties  go  on  until  all  hours,  and  would 
shock  the  most  sophisticated  and  worldly. 
But  this  is  a  fellow  who  has  a  weakness 
for  tramps.  Tramps  are  easy  to  find  in 
any  state  of  the  imion.  And  the  kind  of 
men  who  like  them  don't  always  live  in 
Hollywood.  Nice  girls  have  been  warned 
about  this  guy  and  simply  steer  clear  of 
him. 

Actors  like  Rock  Hudson  don't  have  the 
money  to  spend  on  a  lot  of  girls.  Besides, 
Rock  is  so  much  in  love  with  Vera-Ellen 
he  wouldn't  look  at  anyone  else. 

So  check  them  off  the  wolf  list.  And 
make  another  check  for  a  certain  very  well 
known  star  who  was  dating  a  girl  not  so 
well  known.  He  liked  her  a  lot.  She  was 
crazy  about  him.  Undoubtedly  they  talked 
of  marriage.  But  because  she  was  a  most 
neurotic  girl,  the  actor  postponed  marriage. 
Then  he  met  another  girl,  fell  in  love  with 
her  and  married  her.  This  neurotic  friend 
started  telling  everybody  what  a  horror 
he  was  and  what  a  wolf.  She  told  her 
story  in  every  bar  on  Sunset  Strip  and 
undoubtedly  a  great  many  people  believed 
her.  But  a  guy  can  jUt  one  girl  for  another 
whether  he  lives  in  Hollywood,  East  St. 
Louis  or  Montgomery,  Alabama.  Unfor- 
tunately this  poor  neurotic  girl  killed  her- 
self. 

The  female  wolf  pack  in  Hollywood 
(and  elsewhere)  are  the  kind  who'll  do 
anything  for  a  job  or  publicity.  There  are 
a  certain  group  of  extra  girls — and  you 
can  spot  them  when  you  see  them  time 
and  again  on  the  screen — who  go  on  the 
make  for  men  in  the  casting  offices.  If  the 
studio  executives  knew  about  this,  the 
men  would  be  fired.  But  the  casting  men 
are  only  human.  And  very  few  are  im- 
mtme  to  the  charms  of  a  pretty  girl  when 
she  is  willing  to  give  them  away.  Actu- 


ally, these  girls  do  not  just  give  their 
charms  away.  They  jnake  a  trade,  and 
wind  up  getting  a  lot  of  bit  parts. 

Then  there  is  the  predatory  female 
who  latches  on  to  the  big  new  personali- 
ties. When  Jeff  Chandler  burst  upon  the 
Hollywood  scene  and  became  "the  hottest 
thing  in  Hollywood,"  he  was  married.  The 
lady  wolves  left  him  alone  because  they're 
not  poachers  as  a  rule.  But  now  Jeff  and 
Marge  have  separated,  and  the  gals  find 
him  fair  game.  When  it  is  known  that 
Jeff  has  accepted  an  invitation  to  a  party 
the  hostess'  telephone  rings  all  day  long. 
The  calls  are  from  the  girls — trying  to 
chisel  an  invitation. 

WHILE  there's  no  denying  that  some 
potential  actresses  have  been  literally 
chased  around  the  desk  by  casting 
directors  and  producers,  the  wolves  give 
up  easily  enough  when  they  know  they're 
chasing  the  wrong  girl.  And,  when  dealing 
with  a  very  young  girl  they  are  more 
protective  than  the  average  man.  It  is 
simply  not  true  that  in  order  to  get  a 
contract  a  girl  has  to  compromise  herself. 
The  Hollywood  producer  knows  that  sex 
is  a  salable  screen  commodity,  and  is 
therefore  highly  aware  of  sex.  But  he  also 
knows  that  sentiment  is  a  salable  screen 
commodity  and  is,  therefore,  extremely 
sentimental. 

Joan  Evans  was  14  when  she  played  the 
romantic  lead  in  Roseanna  McCoy.  People 
who  knew  nothing  about  Hollywood  asked 
her  parents,  "Aren't  you  terrified  of  the 
Hollywood  wolves?"  Joan  received  more 
protection  from  so-caUed  wolfish  producers 
than  she  would  have  from  any  other  group 
of  men.  One  studio  executive  said,  "If  any 
guy  so  much  as  makes  a  pass  at  Joan,  I'll 
knock  his  teeth  in."  The  studios  try  to  take 
good  care  of  their  young  stars.  After  all — 
they're  more  than  just  girls,  they're  money- 
making  properties! 

In  what  category  can  a  man  like  Cesar 
Romero  be  placed?  "Butch"  as  he  is  known 
to  his  friends,  has  dated  the  best  known 
glamor  girls — Joan  Crawford,  Marlene 
Dietrich,  Barbara  Stanwyck,  Ann  Sothern. 
But  Butch  is  no  wolf.  Despite  his  villainous 
looks  he  is  always  the  old  family  friend  and 


when  there's  trouble  in  the  house  it's 
Butch's  shoulder  that  the  girls  cry  on. 
When  Arm  Sothern's  marriage  went  on  the 
rocks,  Butch  listened  and  sympathized. 
And  even  if  there  is  no  trouble,  Butch  is 
the  perfect  escort.  Whenever  Jack  Benny 
is  out  of  town  Butch  takes  Mary  out  with 
Jack's  knowledge  and  consent. 

Very  often,  as  is  the  case  of  Butch 
Romero,  the  guy  who  looks  like  a  wolf 
isn't  at  all.  Often  the  fellow  to  watch  out 
for  is  the  quiet,  not  extremely  attractive 
type  with  the  halo  ringing  his  head. 

A  popular  yovmg  female  star  was  once 
dating  a  big  male  attraction,  when  she  had 
to  make  an  appearance  at  a  premiere  and 
he  had  to  be  out  of  town.  She  told  her 
beau,  "I'll  ask  anybody  you  tell  me  to 
ask."  Her  fellow  suggested  little  mUk-toast 
juvenile.  So  the  juvenile  took  her  to  the 
premiere,  and  now  he's  her  steady  beau. 
He  Wcis  the  real  wolf — he  handed  her  the 
big  line  and  now  her  first  beau  can't  imder- 
stand  it. 

Farley  Granger  is  the  big  swoon  boy  of 
1951.  When  he's  on  a  personal  appearance 
tour  fans  tear  him  apart.  Once  when  he  was 
leaving  a  theater,  the  kids  rushed  the  car 
that  was  taking  him  to  the  hotel  and 
literally  bashed  in  its  hard  top.  You'd 
think  that  this  kind  of  adulation  would 
make  him  so  conceited  he'd  say  to  him- 
self, "Why,  I  can  have  any  girl  I  want," 
and  start  howling.  It  has  the  opposite  effect. 
Female  devotion  reached  the  saturation 
point  with  Farley.  And  now,  he  either  dates 
Shelley  Winters,  or  spends  a  quiet  evening 
at  his  or  a  friend's  home. 

In  a  recent  survey  a  reporter,  inter- 
viewing 25  young  Hollywood  bachelors, 
asked  the  question,  "Do  you  want  to  get 
married?"  All  answered,  "Yes."  Various 
times  were  set — "when  I  can  afford  to,  " 
"when  I  find  the  right  girl,"  "if  my  next 
option  is  picked  up."  If  they  were  wolves, 
they  would  have  laughed  that  reporter 
out  into  the  street. 

So  the  truth  about  Hollywood  wolves 
turns  out  to  be  the  truth  about  wolves 
anywhere.  There  are  wolves  in  Hollywood, 
of  course.  But  there  are  even  more  sheep 
who  just  look  like  wolves  to  the  imdiscern- 
ing  eye.  The  End 


we  swam  our  way  to  Giro's 


(Continued  from  page  43) 
Craig  thought  I  had  an  excellent  idea. 
"See  you  around  two,"  he  said  and  headed 
his  truck  for  the  highway. 

Then  I  went  back  to  the  office  and  called 
Marilyn  Monroe.  Who  looks  as  good  in  a 
bathing  suit  as  Marilyn?  Mala  Powers.  I 
invited  both. 

Corinne  Calvet  and  John  Bromfield 
were  next  on  my  list.  "Johnee's  on  location, 
but  he  should  be  back  by  tomorrow  night," 
Coriime  said.    "We'll  meet  you  at  Giro's." 

W/ell,  the  day  came.  Herman  met  us  at 
"  the  door — the  way  he  does  at  Ciro's, 
and  in  no  time  at  all  we  were  ready  for  the 
water.  MarUyn  emerged  from  the  dressing 
room  in  a  real  creation  of  a  suit.  It  was  a 
glamorous  Rose  Marie  Reid  number — 24 
karat  gold,  imprinted  with  a  black  chantilly 
lace  pattern! 

Mala  was  an  eyeful  in  an  aquamarine 
suit  that  fitted  her  form — as  we  say  in 
Hollywood — deevinely. 

The  boys  dove  right  in.  Mala  and 
Marilyn  were  slightly  more  reluctant. 
"Cold,"  shivered  Marilyn,  testing  the  water 
•  with  her  toe. 

"You'll  get  used  to  it,"  said  Cfaig  as  he 
and   Nick  pulled   her  toward  the  pool. 


"Look  at  our  two  Tarzans,"  shouted 
Mala,  who  should  never  have  made  the 
statement.    She  was  dunked  next. 

Marilyn  proved  to  be  a  beautiful  swim- 
mer. "Lessons,"  she  explained.  "I  used 
to  be  scared  siUy.  Fell  into  a  pool  when  I 
was  little,  and  cdmost  drowned." 

Mala  had  taken  lessons,  too.  At  four- 
and-a-half,  she  was  the  world's  youngest 
diver.  She  used  to  scare  people  silly  by 
performing  tricks  from  the  board. 

"Yaah,"  Craig  yelled  at  her — "I'd  like 
to  see  you  dive  out  of  the  pool."  Mala  took 
him  up  on  that,  and  nobody  knows  quite 
how  she  did  it.  They'll  never  find  out, 
either,  because  our  photographer  got  so 
excited  he  almost  dropped  his  camera 
in  the  water.  When  he  asked  her  to  do 
it  agciin,  she  said,  "Nix!  I'm  saving  this 
stunt  for  when  I'm  old  and  grey  and 
have  no  other  way  to  make  a  Uving." 

The  high  point  of  the  day  was  an  excit- 
ing race  between  Craig  and  Nick.  We 
never  did  figiire  who  won,  because  Herman 
Hover  awarded  the  trophy — a  convenient 
flower  pot — to  Mala  and  Marilyn. 

In  mid-afternoon  Mr.  Hover  had  cokes 
and  sandwiches  served  to  us,  with  Nick 
adding  the  final  touch  by  picking  oranges 
off  a  nearby  tree. 

And  so  on  to  Ciro's.  "What  a  relief!" 
Nick  sighed.  He  had  an  idea  he  was  going 
to  see  another  -Western  movie.  That's  be- 
cause Mala's  making  one  called  Rose  of 


Civiarron,  for  20th  Century-Fox.  It's  her 
first  horse  opera,  and  she  won't  let  Nick 
forget  it.  "It's  got  to  the  point,"  he  says, 
"that  every  time  I  call  for  her  on  a  date, 
I  want  to  saddle  up  Old  Paint." 

Ciro's  was  the  perfect  cure  for  this 
fugitive  from  the  they-went-thattaways. 
Nick  refused  to  leave  the  dance  floor  once 
he  got  on  it.  Corinne  and  John  came  to 
meet  us  as  she'd  promised.  "It's  a  funny 
thing,"  Corinne  said,  "but  this  morning 
I  bent  over  to  pick  up  our  dog,  and  I 
couldn't  straighten  up  again.  I  thought  I 
had  a  broken  back.  But  I  came  to  Ciro's — 
and  zut!  Everything's  fine!"' 

Nobody  knows  how  Herman  Hover  seems 
to  do  it,  but  time  goes  faster  at  Ciro's  than 
at  almost  any  place  in  town;  that  is,  for 
everybody  but  the  men  when  their  girls 
take  off  for  the  powder  room.  When  we 
went  to  straighten  up  our  makeup  there 
were  many,  many  mirrors  where  we  couki 
check  every  detail  from  head  to  toe. 

Marilyn  had  to  leave  us  early  because  she 
had  a  script  to  read  the  next  day,  so  Craig 
ran  her  home  in  his  car. 

When  they  began  to  stack  up  the  chairs, 
Herman  Hover  came  by,  and  asked 
impishly,  "Having  fun?" 

It  was  a  superfluous  question.  "Having 
fim?"  I  chortled,  'Vhy,  nobody  will  be- 
lieve me  if  I  tell  them  I  swam  all  the  way." 

And  with  that  my  head  went  under  for 
the  third  time  in  my  ginger  ale!     The  End 


'-.•.■i*:&..i3t-T> 


why  tony  and  janet  had  to  elope 


(Continued  from  page  39)  folks  and  Janet's 
parents  were  all  for  it;  they  gave  their 
blessings.  But  a  few  of  the  big  shots  in 
Hollywood  felt' strongly  that  1951  was  no 
year  for  a  Curtis-Leigh  wedding,  and  they 
tried  to  postpone  it  indefinitely. 

First  they  approached  Jerry  Lewis,  the 
irrespressible  comedian  who  knows  Tony 
and  Janet  better  than  any  other  person 
does  in  Hollywood. 

"You're  interested  in  the  welfare  of  these 
kids,  aren't  you?"  Jerry  was  asked. 

Jerry  nodded. 

"Then,  why  don't  you  tell  them  that  they 
shouldn't  get  married  for  a  while?" 

Lewis  cocked  an  inquisitive  eyebrow. 
"I  don't  get  it,"  he  said. 

"Janet  and  Tony,"  he  was  told,  "are  a 
couple  of  kids  who  are  new  in  the  business. 
Tony  has  a  big  following  with  the  bobby- 
soxers.  Janet  has  a  big  following  among 
single  men.  If  these  two  get  married,  their 
box-office  value  will  go  down.  It'll  be  no 
good  for  business,  and  it'll  be  no  good  for 
their  careers." 

TpOR  a  fast  second,  Jerry  Lewis  thought 
it  was  all  a  gag.  When  he  realized  that 
the  words  were  spoken  in  dead  serious- 
ness, he  got  mad.  "You  out  of  yoiur  mind?" 
he  demanded.  "These  two  kids  are  in  love. 
Why  shovildn't  they  get  married?  I'm 
married.  Dean's  married  (Dean  Martin). 
We  don't  hurt  the  box  office." 

"It's  net  the  same  thing,"  Jerry  was  in- 
formed. "You  fellows  are  comedians. 
Janet  and  Tony  are  players;  they  act  at 
love. 

"The  girls  who  watch  Tony  on  the  screen 
like  to  feel  that  he's  single  and  unattached, 
that  he  belongs  to  them.  The  men  feel  the 
same  way  about  Janet." 

Jerry  was  firm.  "I  think  you're  nuts," 
he  insisted.  "This  is  a  free  country.  If 
Janet  and  Tony  want  to  get  married,  they 
should  get  married." 

"Don't  get  excited,"  Jerry  was  told.  "We 
don't  want  you  to  plead  our  case.  All  we 
want  is  to  use  you  as  a  messenger.  Just 
go  to  the  kids  and  tell  them  we  think  that 
maybe  the  marriage  should  be  postponed. 
Just  for  a  little  while,  maybe  until  Tony's 
picture  has  had  a  complete  release.  Be- 
lieve me,  we  ask  you  to  do  this,  because 
we  think  it's  best  for  Janet  and  'Tony." 

Jerry  Lewis  saw  Janet  and  Tony  that 
same  night.  "Look,"  he  began,  "I  com- 
pletely disagree  with  this,  but  I  promised 
to  transmit  the  following  message."  Where- 
upon he  repeated  what  had  been  told  him. 

Janet  and  Tony  were,  of  course,  en- 
raged. "We'll  get  married  whenever  we 
Wcmt,"  Janet  armovmced.  Tony  corrobo- 
rated her  sentiments  in  more  earthy 
phrases. 

When  word  of  their  decision  to  elope 
leaked  out,  one  of  the  studio  producers 
called  on  Janet  personally  and  tried  to 
dissuade  her. 

If  Janet  really  loved  Tony — the  argu- 
ment went — if  she  really,  deeply,  and  hon- 
estly loved  him,  she  wouldn't  marry  him — 
not  yet,  anyway. 

After  all,  Tony  was  scheduled  to  em- 
bark on  his  first  personal  appearance  tour 
with  Piper  Laurie.  He  had  just  finished 
his  first  starring  role  in  The  Prince.  Who 
wotdd  be  interested  in  Tony  and  Piper  if 
Tony  got  married  to  Janet  Leigh? 

"I  felt  so  angry,"  Janet  later  confided  to 
friends,  "that  I  wanted  to  scream." 

Later  that  night,  before  she  left  for  New 
York  and  Tony  left  for  Chicago,  they 
decided  that  they  would  get  married  some- 
where in  the  East.  They  would  get  mar- 
ried before  any  more  pressTure  was  brought 
to  bear  on  them. 

"I  realized,"  Tony  said,  "that  I  would 


have  to  find  out  once  and  for  all  whether 
people  would  like  me  as  an  actor.  I  knew 
I  couldn't  live  my  life  to  satisfy  the  whole 
world.    I  would  have  to  satisfy  myself." 

Late  in  May  when  Janet  Leigh  arrived 
in  New  York,  she  was  taken  in  tow  by 
two  publicity  experts,  John  Springer  of 
RKO  for  whom  Janet  had  made  Two 
Tickets  to  Broadway,  and  Dorothy  Day, 
who  represented  Janet's  home  studio, 
MGM. 

They  were  having  lunch  in  Danny's 
Hideaway,  a  restaurant  on  East  45th 
Street,  when  Jainet  happened  to  ask, 
"I  wonder  if  there's  any  place  around 
New  York  where  people  can  get  married 
in  a  hurry?" 

The  love-light  was  flashing  in  her  eyes, 
and  Springer  had  a  pretty  good  idea  of 
what  was  cooking  in  her  mind. 

"You  been  talking  to  Tony?"  he  asked. 

"Why,  yes,"  Janet  said.  "I  spoke  to 
him  on  the  phone  in  Chicago.  He's  coming 
in  next  week.  I  just  can't  wait  to  see  him. 
I  wonder  if  some  night,  maybe  after  we've 
seen  Dean  and  Jerry  (Martin  and  Lewis) 
at  the  Copa,  we  can't  just  drive  off  some- 
where and  get  married." 

"Tell  you  what,"  said  the  RKO  publicity 
man.  "I'll  look  into  the  situation  and  let 
you  know." 

C  PRiNGER  spoke  to  the  authorities  in 
Connecticut,  and  the  kind  people  there 
agreed  to  waive  the  5-day  residence  re- 
quirement, providing  Janet  and  Tony 
filled  out  all  the  necessary  papers,  took 
the  blood  tests,  and  so  forth. 

A  week  before  Tony  arrived  in  New 
York,  Janet  drove  up  to  Greenwich  and 
took  her  blood  test. 

The  woman  who  supervised  it — Janet 
couldn't  remember  whether  she  was  a 
doctor,  nurse,  or  lab  technician,  said, 
"I  recognize  you.  Yes,  I  do.  This  blank 
has  your  name  as  Jeanette  Reames,  but 
I  know  who  you  really  are." 

Janet  grinned. 

"You're  Vivian  Leigh,"  the  nurse  an- 
nounced. 

Once  back  in  her  suite  at  the  Waldorf 
Towers,  Janet  put  in  a  long-distance  call 
to  her  groom-to-be  at  the  Hotel  Ambas- 
sador in  Chicago. 

"Darling,"  she  said,  "the  nurse  told  me  I 
had  some  of  the  richest  blood  she's  ever 
seen." 

"As  soon  as  I  hit  that  crazy  city,"  Tony 
shouted,  "we're  getting  married.  Do  you 
hear?  I  don't  want  my  girl  alone  in  New 


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York  with  all  those  metropolitan  wolves." 

Tony  was  true  to  his  word.  The  morn- 
ing after  he  arrived  in  New  York,  RKO 
and  MGM  arranged  for  a  fleet  of  three 
Cadillacs  to  transport  the  bride  and  groom 
to  Greenwich.  The  manager  of  the  movie 
house  in  Greenwich,  Al  Pourtnoy,  hur- 
riedly arranged  for  the  ceremony  to  take 
place  at  the  Pickwick  Arms. 

At  9:30  A.M.,  the  wedding  party  arrived. 
It  consisted  of  Janet,  Tony,  Patti  Lewis, 
the  bridesmaid,  Paula  Stone,  Dorothy 
Day,  Joe  Abeles,  a  photographer- friend 
of  Tony's,  John  Springer,  Mac  David  and 
Jerry  Livingston,  the  song  writers,  and  one 
or  two  other  friends. 

Once  all  the  papers  were  in  order,  the 
party  waited  until  Jerry  Lewis,  the  best 
man,  appeared.  A  few  moments  later,  Janet 
had  promised  to  take  Bemie  for  her 
husband,  and  Bernie  had  agreed  to  call 
Janet  his  wife. 

There  was  much  kissing — Jerry  Lewis 
almost  broke  Janet's  back  in  one  of  the 
great  kissing  exhibitions  of  all  time — there 
was  much  frivolity,  and  much  uru-estrained 
joyousness. 

Then  the  wedding  party  re-entered  the 
three  CadUlac  limousines  cind  headed  for 
New  York. 

Tony  and  Janet  were  in  the  first  lim- 
ousine. When  they  hit  the  Bronx,  they 
stopped  kissing  long  enough  for  Tony  to 
recognize  that  they  were  traveling  on 
Bruckner  Boulevard. 

"Unless  I'm  mistaken,"  Tony  said,  "I 
have  an  aunt  who  lives  around  here.  Her 
nsune  is  Klein.  She  Uves  on  Bryant  Avenue. 
This  is  the  time  of  day  she  should  be  sit- 
ting out  in  front  of  the  apartment  house. 
Would  you  like  to  meet  her?" 

"I'd  love  to,"  said  Janet. 

In  a  matter  of  minutes,  three  limousines 
piilled  up  in  front  of  the  building.  Sure 
enough,  there  was  "Tony's  aunt  sitting  on 
the  steps.  Tony  ran  up  to  her  and  kissed 
her  soundly. 

The  poor  woman  was  amazed.  She  looked 
at  Tony,  then  at  the  three  Cadillacs. 

"Bernie,"  she  cried,  "you're  coming 
from  a  funeral?" 

Her  nephew  roared  and  introduced  his 
beautiful  bride.  There  were  many  "ahs" 
and  expressions  of  wonderment,  as  other 
tenants  of  the  apartment  building  looked 
out  from  their  windows.  Tony  and  Janet 
stayed  with  Mrs.  Klein  for  a  few  minutes, 
then  rode  back  to  their  bridal  suite  at 
the  Waldorf. 

T  ATER  that  night,  there  was  a  small 
wedding  party  at  Danny's  Hideaway 
just  for  friends  of  the  newlyweds.  Tony 
made  speeches.  Janet,  the  happiness  burst- 
ing out  all  over,  kissed  everyone.  Cham- 
pagne flowed  freely.  It  was  a  wedding 
dinner  not  soon  to  be  forgotten. 

Jerry  Lewis  and  Dean  Martin  were 
there,  of  course.  Towards  the  end  of  the 
party,  Jerry  jtimped  to  his  feet  and  called 
for  a  toast.  "Ladies  and  gentlemen,"  he 
said,  "I  should  like  to  propose  a  toast,  if 
I  may,  to  those  two  very  wonderful,  very 
charming" — and  he  looked  directly  at 
Tony  and  Janet — "to  those  two  very  happy 
young  people — Shelley  Winters  and  Scott 
Brady." 

After  the  party,  Janet  and  Tony  had 
a  one-week  honeymoon  in  New  York. 
It  wasn't  really  a  honeymoon.  They  spent 
most  of  their  days  working.  Then  Tony 
left  for  Boston  to  continue  his  personal 
appearance  tour,  and  Janet  retiu-ned  to 
California  to  find  them  a  hovise. 

When  Janet  was  asked  if  she  didn't 
regret  not  having  a  large  wedding  instead 
of  a  tumultuous  elopement,  she  grinned. 

"There's  only  one  thing  about  our  mar- 
riage," she  said,  "that  Tony  and  I  both 
regret.  It  shotdd've  happened  a  whole 
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(Continued  from  page  63)  squeaked  on, 
revealing  seats  covered  with  sporty  chintz, 
and  floors  of  flowered  carpeting.  Out 
stepped  a  pint-size  17-year-old  girl  with 
homemade  curls  piled  on  a  head  that 
seemed  a  little  too  big  for  her  body.  Her 
wide  open  eyes  wore  a  startled  look. 

Clutching  a  brown  paper  sack  of  lunch 
in  one  hand,  and  a  phonograph  record  in 
the  other,  she  stepped  right  into  the  front 
office  as  if  she  owned  the  joint.  And  to  tell 
the  truth,  since  that  memorable  day,  Deb- 
bie Reynolds  practically  does. 

Not  since  Mickey  Rooney  shook  that 
dignified  studio  loose  back  in  his  adolescent 
days,  has  MGM  seen  anything  like  Debbie. 
Like  the  wads  of  chewing  gum  she  plasters 
at  all  strategic  junctures,  Debbie's  irresist- 
ible personality  spreads,  sticks,  gathers 
friends,  and  influences  people.  Staid  stars 
copy  her,  quote  her,  ask  eagerly  every 
morning,  "What  goes  with  Debbie  today?" 
Debbie-isms  buzz  around  the  lot  like  flies. 

Did  you  hear  what  Debbie  said  when  she 
met  Jime  AUyson?  "My,"  she  asked,  "who's 
that  little  girl?"  Did  you  catch  Debbie's 
size-up  of  Pinza?  "He  may  send  the  old 
ladies,"  she  stated,  "but  he  doesn't  send 
me!"  Have  you  heard  what  Arthiu-  Loew 
got  when  he  called  Deb  for  a  date?  "I'm 
sorry,"  she  told  him,  "but  I'm  going  to 
Girl  Scouts  tonight."  Listen  to  Debbie's 
description  of  her  girl  friend,  Camille: 
"She's  beautiful,  she  has  big  walnut  eyes." 
Debbie's  nuts  about  doing  Singing  in  the 
Rain.  "It's  a  period  picture,"  she  says, 
"1928."  When  Debbie  lugged  her  limch  to 
the  set,  Jane  Powell  and  then  Gene  Kelly 
started  bringing  theirs,  too.  She  introduced 
stately  Louis  Calhern  to  dill  pickles  cind 
before  she  ditched  her  jalop,  Clark  Gable 
told  her  he'd  trade  her  his  Jaguar,  even. 
That's  the  way  the  Debbie  madness  goes. 
But,  it's  not  all  as  crazy  as  it  sounds, 
nor  Debbie  Rejmolds  either. 

"PiEBBiE  hasn't  come,  seen  and  conquered 
^  strictly  because  she's  cute.  What's 
really  making  Debbie  Reynolds'  stock  soar 
in  Hollywood  is  the  solid  conviction  that 
she's  a  natural  bimdle  of  relaxed  talent,  a 
girl  Bing  Crosby. 

Debbie  had  never  warbled  a  note  pro- 
fessionally imtil  Two  Weeks  With  Love. 
But  that  "Abba-Dabba  Honeymoon"  she 
did  with  Carleton  Carpenter  rocketed  right 
onto  the  Hit  Parade,  and  the  record  they 
cut  headed  for  the  million-sale  mark.  She 
hadn't  danced  either,  but  she  was  so 
smooth  with  Carleton  that  Gene  Kelly 
asked  for  her,  and  Arthur  Freed  cast  her 
without  a  test  for  Gene's  partner  in  Sing- 
ing in  the  Rain.  She  hasn't  had  a  dramatic 
lesson  worth  mentioning,  but  she's  set  to 
co-star  with  Carleton  in  Twenty-One  Days, 
play  a  lead  with  Spencer  Tracy  in  Years 
Ago,  and  make  Everybody  Swim  with  Es- 
ther Williams.  At  Metro,  producers  are 
lining  up  for  Debbie  Reynolds  like  stags  for 
a  Park  Avenue  debutante  at  the  Ritz. 

By  now  it's  taken  for  granted  aroimd 
MGM  that  Debbie  Reynolds  can  handle 
anything  you  can  throw  at  her.  Just  the 
other  day  producer  George  Wells,  getting 
Everybody  Swim  ready  to  roU,  with  Deb- 
bie cast  as  a  charmel  swimmer,  thought 
he'd  better  check.  He  called  Jack  Cum- 
mings  who  made  two  of  Debbie's  pictures. 
"By  the  way,  Jack,"  he  said,  "can  Debbie 
Reynolds  swim?" 

"Listen,"  he  got  back,  "Debbie  Reynolds 
can  swim,  float,  or  fly,  if  necessary.  I'd  bet 
on  that  gal  to  play  the  flugeUiorn,  walk  a 
tight  wire  or  bulldog  a  steer.  Debbie  can 
do  anything.  She's  sensational!" 

Like  a  lot  of  sensational  people,  Deb- 
bie's a  transplanted  Texan,  from  El  Paso, 
where  she  arrived  one  April  Fool's  day  in 


1932.  "She  came  along  about  dinner  time," 
her  mother  recalls,  "and  she's  been  hvmgry 
ever  since."  Debbie  still  snaps  off  five  to 
six  meals  a  day,  ranging  from  dUl  pickles 
and  crackers  to  a  triple  jumbo  strawberry 
malt.  In  Everybody  Swim  they  have  Deb 
eating  aU  through  the  picture.  "We  can 
probably  work  faster  if  we  just  write  her 
snacks  into  the  script,"  realistically  con- 
cluded the  producer.  But  where  all  the 
calories  go,  nobody  knows. 

Because,  after  19  years  of  growing,  Deb- 
bie tips  on  the  light  side  of  100,  rises 
only  five  feet  above  her  kicks,  shops  for 
her  jeans  in  the  kids'  department,  and 
mama  has  to  make  all  her  dresses  because 
she  can't  ever  find  a  thing  in  size  seven. 

As  a  moppet,  this  peewee  chassis  earned 
Debbie  nicknames  like  "Rimt,"  "Peanuts," 
"Shrimp,"  and  "Squirt,"  although  the  gen- 
teel tag  was  "Frannie,"  her  real  name  being 
Mary  Frances.  It  also  handed  her  an  un- 
repressed  urge  to  show  the  world  that  she 
was  rough,  tough,  and  hard  to  bluff.  "Deb 
was  just  as  ornery  as  a  baby  as  she  is  now," 
her  mom  sighs.  The  girlhood — or  tomboy- 
hood,  to  be  more  accurate — of  Mary 
Frances  Reynolds  is  studded  with  violent 
rebellions  against  the  ignominy  of  skirts. 

She  built  a  fire  under  her  house  when 
she  was  just  a  brat,  and  only  the  lucky 
arrival  of  the  neighbors  in  the  nick  of 
time  saved  the  place  from  cinders.  One 
boy  who  called  her  "sis"  got  knocked  out 
colder  than  a  cucumber  against  the  school- 
yard wall.  She  played  basketball,  baseball, 
yep,  football,  too.  She  was  all-sex  tether- 
ball  champ  at  an  early  age,  and  a  whiz  on 


Did  you  hear  the  one  about  the 
ham  who  was  called  into  the  di- 
rector's office  and  asked,  "Are  you 
now  or  were  you  ever  an  actor?" 

-Sidney  Skolsky  in 
The  Neiu  York  Post 


the  parallel  bars.  She  glowed  when  the 
kids  said,  "Gee,  she's  fim— just  like  a  guy!" 

Once  the  principal  hot-footed  it  out  to 
her  house  with  some  shocking  news.  "Mrs. 
Reynolds,"  he  begjin  solemnly,  "ate  you 
aware  that  Mary  Frances  swears?"  Mrs. 
Reynolds  nodded.  "What  happened,"  she 
asked,  "was  some  boy  pushing  her 
aroimd?"  That  was  the  case,  the  master 
admitted.  Mrs.  Reynolds  wanted  to  know 
something  else.  "Did  she  do  a  good  job?" 
The  principal  said  Frannie's  swearing  was 
inspired,  even  artistic.  "Her  xmcle  taught 
her  how,"  explained  her  mom;  and  the 
principal  retired  with  only  that  satisfaction. 

But  Debbie's  declared  admiration  for 
boys  turned  to  undeclared  war  at  a  certain 
point  in  her  development.  When  the  tender 
passion  stirred  others  along  about  ninth 
grade,  Deb  told  off  her  suitors  rudely.  With 
some  other  misanthropic  girl  chums  she 
founded  the  "NN  Club."  "NN"  stood  for 
"Non-Neckers,"  and  her  mother  made  little 
pottery  pins  with  the  initials  which  Debbie 
eind  her  colleagues  wore  proudly  on  their 
militant  bosoms.  "When  the  boys  asked  us 
to  go  out,"  she  remembers,  "we  just  an- 
swered, 'What  for?'  That  stopped  'em."  But 
fairly  soon  the  "NN"  had  to  add  an  initial. 
One  traitorous  girl  defected  and  fell  in 
love.  "After  that,"  sighs  Deb,  "we  changed 
the  name  to  "Nearly  Non-Neckers." 

Instead  of  mooning  and  making  eyes. 
Dauntless  Debbie  channeled  her  atomic 
energies  into  other  female  fields.  At  John 
Burroughs  High  in  Burbank,  she  became 
a  Big  Operaitor  and  Activity  Girl.  "If  there 
was  anything  around  I  wasn't  mixed  up 
in,"  she  says,  "I  don't  know  what  it  was." 
Debbie  was  either  president  or  some  high 
brass  of  the  Girls  Athletic  Association,  the 
Tri-Y,  Tennis  Club,  Job's  Daughters,  and 
an  all-out  Girl  Scout,  which  she  still  is. 
She  sang  baritone — that's  right — ^in  the 
Choral  Society  and  tooted  the  French  horn 


in  the  Youth  Symphony  and  the  BHS 
band.  "You  couldn't  see  me — just  the 
horn,"  admits  Debbie,  "but  you  could  sure 
hear  me."  She  was  also  a  demon  baton 
twirler,  and  leader  of  Dick  Layland's 
Batoneers,  a  precision  marching  group  of 
60  prancing  fillies,  who  paraded  all  over 
Southern  California  and  collected  trophies 
which  still  clutter  up  Debbie's  closet. 

WITH  that  background,  it  was  obvious 
that  nothing  could  be  staged  around 
Burbank  without  Frarmie  Reynolds,  and 
have  any  bovmce  at  all.  So  when  the  big 
"Burbank  on  Parade"  fiesta  loomed,  back 
in  1948,  her  girl  friends  talked  her  into 
the  "Queen  of  Burbank"  contest.  It  was 
about  the  first  thing  Debbie  had  ever  had 
to  be  talked  into,  but  the  way  she  figured, 
this  was  a  little  out  of  her  line. 

The  princesses  were  picked  for  Beauty, 
Talent,  and  Personality.  That  last  tag  was 
all  Debbie  figured  she  could  possibly  rate. 
No  one  had  ever  called  her  beautiful,  and 
oddly  enough,  the  one  activity  where  she 
definitely  dudded  was  school  dramatics. 
She  couldn't'  win  even  a  bit  part  and 
hustled  scenery  cheerfully,  convinced  that 
stage  glamor  wasn't  for  her.  "But  kid,"  the 
girls  told  her,  "every  girl  who  enters  this 
deal  gets  a  free  blouse.  Don't  be  stupid!" 
Debbie  could  always  use  a  new  blouse. 
There  wasn't  any  money  to  spare  and 
never  had  been  aroimd  the  Reynolds  house. 

She  signed  up  with  28  other  BHS  belles, 
just  for  the  blouse,  but  to  earn  it  Debbie 
dug  up  a  cutie  routine  that  always  wowed 
the  drop-in  trade  at  her  house  on  Sunday 
afternoons.  Deb  liked  to  twirl  a  record  of 
Betty  Hutton's  and  mimic  the  Huttontot's 
gynmastics  without  singing  a  word.  She 
could  be  Betty  all  over  the  place,  and  it 
was  always  good  for  a  laugh.  She  packed 
up  the  platter  of  "A  Square  in  a  Social 
Circle,"  curled  her  hair  for  once,  and  sub- 
mitted to  a  glamor  gown  her  mom  had 
whipped  up  for  Easter.  For  the  final  touch 
she  borrowed  Mrs.  Reynolds'  v/hite  high 
heeled  shoes,  the  first  wobblers  she'd  ever 
worn  in  her  life.  They  almost  threw  her. 
When  she  stepped  out  to  spin  her  Betty 
Hutton  disk  and  make  with  the  act,  she 
just  couldn't  move  around.  Debbie  stopped 
the  music  and,  in  her  easy  fashion  yelled, 
"Can  I  take  off  my  shoes?"  The  crowd 
roared,  "Sure."  So  she  shook  loose  her 
hair-do,  eased  the  glamor  gown  here  and 
there,  and  kicked  the  high  heels  out  into 
the  crowd.  Then  she  knocked  herself  out — 
and  they  liked  to  died  clapping  She 
gathered  that  she'd  earned  her  shirt — but 
that  was  all. 

"I  was  leaning  against  a  piano  in  back 
because  my  feet  hurt,  figuring  how  I  could 
sneak  out,  go  home  and  get  something  to 
eat,"  recalls  Debbie,  "when  I  heard  this 
man  call  off  the  winners.  'Princess  Beauty — 
Princess  Talent — ^Princess  Personality' — 
none  of  them  me,  of  course.  Then  what 
does  he  say  but  'And  Queen  of  all  Bur- 
bank— Miss  Mary  Frances  Reynolds!'  Well, 
that  was  the  end,  simply  the  end!  They 
shoved  me  out  on  the  stage  and — ^for  the 
first  time  in  my  life,  I  couldn't  say  a  thing. 
Imagine!" 

She  got  enough  voice  back  to  say,  "Yes," 
when  Solly  Biano,  a  Warner  Brothers'  tal- 
ent scout  and  a  contest  judge,  offered  all 
the  lucky  winners  screen  tests.  Debbie  had 
heard  "awful  things  about  the  movies"  but 
decided  to  take  a  chance,  since  Warners 
was  right  around  the  corner  in  Burbank, 
and  she  reasoned  she  couldn't  go  wrong 
that  close  to  home.  She  did  a  skit  from 
The  Bachelor  and  the  Bobby  Soxer — in 
other  words,  acted  herself — and  came  up 
with  a  stock  contract.  She  got  $65.00  a 
week,  which  after  court  deductions,  left 
her  with  S29.00  each  Saturday.  First  thing 
she  did  was  buy  a  second-hand  player 
pisino,  and  a  French  horn  of  her  very  own. 


I  have  a  dream  in  my  budget . . . 


I'm  not  very  good  at  budgeting.  But 
even  /  can  tell  that  my  precious  pennies 
aren't  buying  as  much  as  they  used  to. 

Though  I'm  willing  to  cut  comers  on 
most  things,  I  decided  I  wouldn't  give  an 
inch  on  my  one  big  dream  of  owning 
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At  Warners  she  also  collected  the  name 
"Debbie"  which  seemed  to  fit  (even  her 
mother  calls  her  that  today) ,  two  weeks  of 
dramatic  lessons,  and  finally  a  bit  part  as 
June  Haver's  sister  in  The  Daughter  of 
Rosie  O'Grady.  But  mostly  Debbie  just 
polished  off  her  junior  year  at  the  studio 
school,  and  poked  her  inqmsitive  nose  into 
every  corner  of  the  lot.  "I  knew  everyone 
around  the  place,"  she  says,  "even  the 
cats.  I  used  to  take  visitors  on  studio 
tours."  But  they  don't  pay  contract  sal- 
aries forever  for  that,  and  there  was  really 
nothing  on  the  lot  for  Debbie  to  do.  After 
a  year  she  learned  the  news — not  necessar- 
ily bad,  because  she  was  eager  then  to  get 
back  to  Burbank  High,  go  on  to  college, 
and  be  a  gym  teacher — that  she  was  out. 

BUT  when  Warners  dropped  Debbie  she 
didn't  have  time  to  bounce  back  to- 
ward Burbank  High.  MGM  caught  her  on 
the  fly  four  days  before  her  option  expired. 
SoUy  Biano  knew  about  MGM's  search  for 
a  tiny  cutie  to  impersonate  Helen  Kane,  the 
old  "Boop-boop-a-doop  Girl"  of  the  'thir- 
ties in  Three  Little  Words,  so  he  sent 
Debbie  over  to  Producer  Jack  Cummings 
with  her  Betty  Hutton  record.  Jack  had 
to  look  only  once.  He  used  Helen's  bonafide 
boops  and  Debbie's  gestures.  It  was  just  a 
spot — but  with  Debbie  Reynolds,  spots 
spread,  like  measles. 

All  this  popularity  and  progress  hasn't 
turned  Debbie  Reynolds'  head  one  notch, 
or  changed  her  private  life  very  much. 
Instead  of  a  star,  which  she  soon  will  be 
officially,  she  looks  like  somebody's  kid 
sister,  which  she  is,  too.  In  Washington 
on  her  tour,  she  was  mobbed  for  the  first 
time  and  one  girl  blurted,  "But  she  looks 
so  human!"  And  just  the  other  day,  mak- 
ing a  futile  stab  at  shopping  for  an  evening 
gown,  Deb  invaded  a  swank  Beverly  Hills 
shop,  picked  out  a  glamor  rag  she  kind  of 
liked.  "I'll  take — "  Deb  began,  but  before 
she  could  finish  the  sentence,  the  lady 
whisked  it  out  of  her  hands.  "It's  a  hun- 
dred dollars,  honey,"  she  explained.  "You 
couldn't  afford  that." 

Until  Deb  sold  it  to  get  her  "blue  bottom 
Pontiac,"  she  was  perfectly  content  with 
her  sensational  dolled-up  jalopy.  Debbie 
scared  up  the  decomposed  '32  Chewy,  as 
old  as  she  was,  for  $20.00.  Her  dad,  who 
can  fix  cinything,  made  the  motor  run.  Her 
Mom,  who  can  sew  anything,  upholstered 
the  tattered  seats  and  made  sofa  pillows. 
Debbie  added  the  carpets,  the  dragon 
radiator  cap,  and  truck  horn.  But  nobody 
could  do  much  about  the  brakes. 

Herding  it  into  Hollywood  one  night 
with  a  couple  of  girl  friends,  Debbie  weaved 
and  swerved  each  time  she  touched  the 
pedal  and  finally  a  cop  wailed  her  down. 
"What  you  been  drinking,  sister?"  he 
asked.  "A  malt,"  answered  Deb  honestly. 
He  flashed  the  light  in  the  girl  friends' 
faces.    "How  about  you?"  "Cokes." 

The  cop  wagged  his  head.  "You  kids 
get  home  before  I  call  the  truant  officer." 
Debbie  had  already  made  two  pictures. 

As  yet,  Debbie's  never  had  a  drink  (she 
doesn't  smoke  either)  partly  because  she 
needs  stimulants  like  a  hole  in  the  head, 
but  mainly  because  it's  against  her  religion. 
There's  not  a  drop  of  liquor  in  her  house, 
and  that  house,  along  with  the  people  who 
live  there,  is  still  the  center  of  her  world. 

The  little  FHA  cottage  her  dad  bvult 
on  Evergreen  Street  is  all  paid  for  by  now, 
which  was  project  Number  One  after  Deb- 
bie got  slightly  in  the  chips.  Project 
Number  Two  was  fixing  up  her  room  with 
a  new  sahnon-pink  rug,  ruffled  curtains, 
and  blond  furniture.  Next  comes  fencing 
the  back  yard  and  building  a  bsirbecue. 
Then,  "I'd  like  a  small  swimming  pool," 
dreams  Debbie,  "so  I  won't  have  so  dam 
much  grass  to  mow." 

Debbie's  chosen  chores  are  cleaning  up 
the  yard,  helping  her  dad  hammer  things 


into  shape  around  the  house,  and  taking 
care  of  Chip,  a  shaggy  dog,  and  Mike,  a 
crotchety  cat.  Inside  the  house,  though, 
Deb's  a  flop.  It's  rough  to  get  her  to  wash 
any  dishes,  cook  or  tidy  up.  She's  the  type 
who  steps  out  of  things  and  leaves  them 
where  they  lay.  Her  mother,  Maxene,  a 
cheery  youngish  woman,  long  ago  de- 
spaired of  endowing  Deb  with  many  dainty 
feminine  graces.  Perfume,  makeup,  jewelry, 
and  dressy  doo-dads  are  anathema  to  her, 
and  Deb  frankly  admits,  "I  hate  baths." 
"Sometimes,"  chuckles  Mrs.  Reynolds,  "I 
think  I  had  two  boys."  Lately,  a  ray  of 
girlish  hope  came  along  with  Debbie's 
collection  of  monkey  dolls  which  now 
festoon  the  house,  brought  about,  of  courss, 
by  that  "Abba-Dabba  Honeymoon"  craze. 
ITien  there's  the  baby  she's  exp>ecting. 

It's  really  her  sister-in-law's  (her 
name's  Joyce)  baby.  Joyce  lives  at  the 
Reynolds'  now  while  her  husband  BUl's 
at  camp.  The  blessed  event  is  expected 
in  the  fall.  But  when  Joyce  explained  that 
to  Debbie  she  answered,  "Well  you'll  just 
have  to  hurry  up.  I  can't  wait  that  long!" 
The  facts  of  life  are  slightly  confused  in 
Debbie's  mind.  Way  back  last  winter  when 
she  was  on  her  p.a.  tour,  she  was  inter- 
viewed on  the  "Welcome  Stranger"  pro- 
gram in  Chicago  and  they  asked  about  the 
most  exciting  event  in  her  life.  "Oh,"  re- 
plied Deb,  "I'm  going  to  be  an  aunt  al- 
most any  minute!" 

Hal  Goodman,  speakinc)  about  a 
no-talent  producer  said,  "That  guy 
is  nothing — and  he  originated  it!" 

Sidney  Skohky  in 
The  jVftf  York  Post 


But  there's  no  confusion   in  Debbie's 
mind  about  the  fierce  loyalty  she  main- 
tains for  her  family  and  friends.  Already 
"her"  baby  has  enough  blankets  and  woolly 
gear  stacked  up  to  keep  it  warm  in  Alaska. 
Last  Father's  Day  she  surprised  her  dad 
with  a  new  runabout.  And  when  the  pre- 
view of  Two  Weeks  With  Love  came  up 
last  year,  the  studio  ticket  machinery  al- 
most broke  down.  Deb  asked  if  she  could 
bring  someone  with  her,  and  got  a  yes.  The  i 
"someone"  turned  out  to  be  20  kids  rounded  i 
up  in  the  neighborhood.  Or,  as  a  harassed  | 
Metro  press  agent  moaned,  "All  Burbajik."  I 

'C'oR  Debbie's  heart  still  belongs  to  Bur-  ' 

bank,  not  Hollywood.  By  now  she's  a 
sort  of  civic  fixture.  Whatever's  cooking 
in  her  home  town,  whether  it's  decorating 
a  float  for  the  Tournament  of  Roses,  or 
plugging  the  Youth  Symphony,  Deb's 
right  in  on  the  act.  "There's  not  a  cop  in 
town  I  don't  know,"  Debbie  boasts. 

Debbie's  favorite  all-out  activity  is  still 
the  Girl  Scouts.  She  was  a  "Curved  Bar"  ; 
Scout  herself,  which  corresponds  to  an  ; 
Eagle  Scout,  and  today  she's  Co-Leader  of 
the  Burbank  troop.  Every  rare  studio  recess 
she's  off  with  the  outdoor  girls  to  their 
camp  at  Frazer  Park  in  the  mountains. 
Debbie  recently  contributed  $300  of  her 
movie   earnings   to   rig   up   an   outdoor  i 
theater.     At   Frazer   she   cooks,   scrubs,  I 
builds  fires,  and  washes  dishes  with  a  || 
fervor  that  would  make  her  mama  swoon 
with  surprise  at  home.  But  Debbie  thinks 
it's  a  salutary  hobby.  "Getting  down  to 
earth   with   those   teenagers,"   she  says, 
"keeps  me  from  going  off  the  track  with 
all  this  Hollywood  jazz." 

Right  now  there  doesn't  seem  to  be 
much  danger  of  Debbie  Reynolds  going 
off  her  trolley  about  any  kind  of  "Holly- 
wood jazz,"  particularly  the  variety  called 
"Hollywood  romance."  Hollywood  gossips 
find  it  rough  going  indeed  with  Deb,  and 
so  do  Hollywood  wolves. 

"Oh,  I  can  go  along  with  a  good-night 
kiss,"  she'll  tell  you,  "but  frankly,  it  doesn't 
do  anything  for  me."  This  is  her  way  of 


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saying  she's  not  in  love.  In  fact,  she  has 
10  five  dollar  bets  spread  around  MGM 
that  she  won't  get  married  until  she's  24. 

Debbie  has  dates,  but  she  scatters  them 
like  buckshot.  Most  are  young  fellows 
around  Burbank  and  Hollywood  who  don't 
pack  the  kind  of  money  to  take  her  whirling 
off  to  the  Mocambo  or  Giro's.  She'd  rather 
go  bowling  anyway,  to  a  movie,  or  the 
circus — "I  lose  my  mind  at  the  circus," 
Deb  sighs.  Most  nights,  though,  she  sits 
contentedly  at  home,  writing  letters  to  the 
60-cdd  GI's  in  Korea  who  are  her  pen 
pals,  reading  Western  two-gim  thrillers, 
or  entertaining  her  dates  with  records. 
Janet  Leigh's  ex-boy  friend,  Arthur  Loew, 
Jr.,  is  nearest  to  a  Hollywood  glamor 
sxiitor.  But  half  the  time — because  of 
Girl  Scouts  and  things — he  can't  get  a 
date  with  Debbie.  When  he  does  and 
arrives  decked  out  for  a  big  dine  and 
dance  evening,  he  winds  up  eating  en- 
chiladas with  the  folks. 

There  was  a  time,  in  fact,  when  Debbie 
Reynolds  was  firmly  set  on  being  a  spin- 
ster, but  she's  changed  her  plans  about 
that.  She  loves  kids,  and  by  now  she  knows 
you  can't  have  kids  by  yourself.  "I'd  like 
20,"  says  Debbie,  "but  I  guess  I'd  settle 
for  six.  -Imagine — six  kids,  most  of  them 
boys!    Wouldn't  that  be  the  very  end?" 

That's  just  Debbie  Reynolds'  manner  of 
speaking,  of  course.  Right  now,  it's  pretty 
hard  to  imagine  anything  actually  being 
the  epd  for  Debbie  Reynolds,  the  way 
she's  steaming  along.  Anyone  who  knows 
anything  about  Hollywood  or  Debbie  will 
tell  you  that  this  is  just  the  beginning. 
And  for  a  beginner,  Debbie  Reynolds,  to 
put  it  mildly,  is  doing  strictly  okay. 
The  End 


they  made  fun  of  love 


{Continued  from  page  41)  London  Louella 
Parsons  had  said,  "Who,  me — and  her?" 
he  might  well  have  been  stoned  by  the  true 
lovers  of  the  world. 

Someday  when  the  photographers  have 
left  and  the  newspaper  boys  are  home  in 
bed,  Shelley  may  look  at  Farley  and  see  the 
dashing  qualities  in  him  that  she  has 
looked  for  in  a  man  for  so  long.  And  he 
may  look  at  her  and  see  the  woman  he  has 
been  wanting  for  his  wife.  Then  they  both 
may  realize  that  life  is  short  and  they  may 
look  for  love  in  vain,  away  from  each  other. 
It  may  be  then  that  they  will  try  to  make 
it  a  real  love.  And  everything  wUl  turn  out 
all  right.  But  shortly  before  their  engage- 
ment announcement,  they  were  guests  on 
the  show  of  a  prominent  radio  reporter  and 
the  conversation  went  something  like  this: 

REPORTER:  "Well,  I  understand  you 
two  kids  are  in  love." 

SHELLEY:  "It  sort  of  looks  like  it, 
doesn't  it?" 

REPORTER:  "Is  that  an  engagement 
ring  you're  wearing,  Shelley?" 

SHELLEY:  "It  does  look  like  one.  Is  it 
Farley?" 

FARLEY:  "That  is  for  the  lady  to 
say.  .  .  ." 

REPORTER:  "Now  come  clean,  you  two, 
are  you  going  to  get  married?" 

SHELLEY:  "Everybody  keeps  asking  us 
that  ..." 

REPORTER:  "Well,  why  don't  you  an- 
swer them?" 

FARLEY:  "We  might  do  that  one  of 
these  days." 

REPORTER:  "Well,  will  you  deny  you 
are  engaged?" 

SHELLEY  &  FARLEY:  "That  wouldn't 
be  fair,  now,  would  it?" 

It  seemed  then  that  Shelley  and  Farley 
were  making  bm  of  love.  But  maybe  they 
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after  that,  Louella  Parsons  wrote  that  they 
were  planning  to  marry  in  Paris. 

It  is  true  that  the  romance  between  Far- 
ley and  Shelley  has  been  one  of  long 
standing.  It  began  more  than  three  yeEtrs 
ago,  shortly  after  Shelley  became  a  smash 
hit  at  Universal.  They  met,  and  almost 
instantly  became  fast  friends. 

When  their  names  were  linked  in  the 
colmims,  press  agents  decided  it  was  a 
natural.  Instead  of  planting  a  story  that 
the  two  had  had  a  pleasant  date,  they  be- 
gan feeding  the  columnists  lines  like: 
"Shelley  Winters  and  Farley  Grsuiger  held 
hands  aU  during  the  first  show  at  Mo- 
cambo."  And  a  romance  was  bom. 

A  year  or  so  ago,  when  Farley  returned 
from  a  tour  of  Europe,  the  coltunnists 
thought  he  was  staying  an  awfully  long 
time  in  New  York  for  a  fellow  with  a 
sweetheart  in  California  whom  he  hadn't 
seen  in  a  few  months.  They  said  so.  Soon 
the  word  was  out  that  Shelley  was  packing 
to  go  to  Farley's  arms.  A  bit  later,  she'd 
bought  the  tickets.  Then  she  was  on  her 
way  to  the  airport.  It  was  dramatic  £uid 
in  sequence,  except  for  one  thing,  Shelley 
was  making  no  such  moves.  She  was  living 
a  normal  routine  right  where  she  was. 

"When  are  you  going  to  see  Farley?" 
someone  asked  her. 

"When  is  he  coming  to  see  me?"  Shelley 
is  reported  to  have  replied.  "It's  the  same 
distance  both  ways,  isn't  it?" 

This  gave  the  cynics  plenty  of  material 
to  work  with — because,  after  all,  did  that 
sound  like  the  beginning  of  true  love? 

It  would  be  a  sad  thing,  indeed,  if  the 
romance  between  them  were  phony,  for 
despite  aU  you  hear  about  them,  Shelley 
and  Farley  are  the  loneliest  kids  in  Holly- 
wood. You  will  find  proof  of  this  buried  in 
the  scores  of  magazine  stories  written 
about  them  in  the  last  couple  of  years. 
Farley,  for  instcince,  told  a  magazine  writer 
not  many  months  ago  that  he  Wcis  going 
to  live  either  in  New  York  or  abroad,  and 
return  to  Hollywood  only  when  he  was 
needed  for  a  picture.  He  gave  as  his  reason 
that  he  had  never  foxmd  real  happiness  or 
contentment  there.  And  Shelley  Winters  has 
wept  publicly  on  the  lapels  of  writers  and 
others  because  the  man  of  her  dreams  has 
not  yet  come  along  to  claim  her. 

It  is  the  considered  opinion  of  those  who 
know  Shelley  best  that  she  is  not  only  in 
love  with  Farley  Granger,  but  downright 
predatory  in  her  search  for  a  legitimate 
romance.  She  wants  true  love  so  badly  that 
she  spends  a  good  deal  of  her  time  when 
not  being  photographed  with  Farley,  seek- 
ing it  out.  One  of  the  first  things  she  usu- 
ally says  upon  arriving  at  a  party  is: 
"Where  are  all  the  single  men?"  And  a 
standard  Winters  crack  at  lunch  in  the 
Universal  commissary  is:  "Who's  the  guy 
over  there  in  the  corner?  Is  he  a  bachelor?" 

Shelley  Winters'  genuine  crushes  have 
not  been  nearly  as  highly  publicized  as 
her  present  one,  mainly  because  they  have 
been  directed  at  men  who  have  not  been 
big  names.  There  have  been  a  number 
of  them  since  she  met  Farley,  the  most 
important  to  her  probably  being  Liam 
O'Brien,  Edmund's  brother,  and  one  of  the 
hEtndsomest  lads  in  Hollywood. 

Farley,  on  the  other  hand,  with  the  pos- 
sible exception  of  Shelley,  has  apparently 
not  been  severely  smitten  to  date.  Being 
one  of  the  most  dashing  of  the  young 
blades  around  Hollywood,  he  has  naturally 
had  lots  of  dates-,  but  he  has  yet  to  be  pole- 
axed  by  passion  for  a  doll. 

Shelley  and  Farley's  fans  run  into  the 
milUons.  Many  of  them  are  fanatically  in 
support  of  these  youngsters.  But  in  the 
main,  they  will  be  hturt  if  the  bubble  that 
is  being  blovm  up  now  bursts  and  proves 
that  the  whole  thing  was  a  sham. 

People  on  the  inside  can  tell  you  now  that 
the  situation  is  weciring  on  those  con- 


cerned. Farley  was  at  a  night  spot  recently 
with  Shelley,  and  he  sat  for  hours  glumly 
watching  the  dancers,  not  speaking.  Some- 
body asked  him  if  he  was  having  a  good 
time.  He  said  he  guessed  he  was.  Shelley, 
across  from  him,  seemed  anxious  to  be 
someplace  else.  Presently,  a  couple  of 
columnists  walked  in  and  sat  at  nearby 
tables.  It  might  have  been  coincidence,  but 
Farley  and  Shelley  leaped  to  the  dance 
floor — and  for  an  hour  or  so  seemed  to  be 
the  gayest,  most  carefree  couple  in  the 
place.  Maybe  they  were — and  again  maybe 
they  were  just  playing  the  game. 

The  majority  of  movie  fans  are  in  the 
impressionable  age  group,  yovmgsters  who 
believe  what  they  are  told  by  older  people. 
If  they  are  told  that  Farley  Granger  is  go- 
ing to  appear  in  a  certain  movie,  and  he 
doesn't  appear,  it  is  not  terribly  important, 
although  a  breach  of  truth.  If  they  are  told 
that  Shelley  Winters  has  12  mink  coats  in 
her  closet,  and  she  only  has  one,  that,  too, 
is  not  so  bad.  But  when  it  comes  to  love, 
there  is  a  sincerity  in  the  teen-ager  that 
mustn't  be  toyed  with.  If  these  fans  are 
told  that  their  idols  adore  one  another  and 
in  a  week  or  so  they  find 'the  idols  in  love 
with  others,  it  destroys  a  bit  of  faith  in  a 
very  precious  thing.  It  isn't  fair — and  it 
isn't  neccessary.  There  are  other  ways  to 
build  popularity. 

A  number  of  years  ago,  a  magazine  editor 
had  this  proved  to  him  the  hard  way.  Ro- 
mances were  scarce  in  Hollywood  at  the 

Shelley  Winters  on  the  status  of 
her  on-and-ofF  merger  plans  with 
Fariey  Granger:  "We'd  like  to  get 
married,  but  so  many  of  oar  good 
friends  who  got  married  got  di- 
vorced, that  we're  afraid  to.  May- 
be we'll  just  get  divorced." 

Walter  IVinchell  in 
The  New  York  Mirror 

time.  It  just  seemed  that  nobody  was 
falling  in  love.  The  editor  decided  to  grow 
one  of  his  romances,  figuring  it  would  have 
the  added  feature  of  being  exclusive  with 
his  magazine.  Working  through  the  right 
cormections,  he  arranged  to  have  Lana  Tur- 
ner, then  a  newcomer  to  pictures,  and 
Victor  Mature  pose  in  lovey-dovey  atti- 
tudes for  his  cameramen.  He  sent  ofE  the 
pictures  and,  after  it  was  too  late  for  the 
opposition  magazines  to  cut  in  on  his  ro- 
mance, he  had  stories  planted  in  the  papers 
about  the  big  Turner-Mature  romance. 

The  boy  and  girl  were  doing  as  they 
were  told,  for  they  were  not  stars  then.  They 
went  out  together,  called  each  other  pet 
names  in  public  and  so  on.  Things  were 
going  great,  it  seemed,  until  one  day,  just 
24  hours  before  the  editor's  magazine  ap- 
peared on  the  newsstands,  Lana  grew 
tired  of  the  whole  business,  and  took  off. 
She  flew  up  to  San  Francisco  to  see  the 
man  she  was  really  interested  in — and  the 
next  day  papers  all  over  the  nation  carried 
the  headUnes:  LANA  TURNER  TO  WED 
TONY  MARTIN. 

She  didn't  msirry  him,  it  turned  out,  but 
the  editor  didn't  sell  many  magazines  that 
month,  either.  And  if  you  were  to  ask 
Lana  today,  she  would  tell  you  it  was  prob- 
ably one  of  the  most  foolish  things  she  has 
ever  done.  She  may  have  gotten  her  name 
linked  in  print  with  a  good  many  men  in 
later  years,  but  you  can  bet  your  shirt  they 
were  all  genuine  pulse-racers. 

Farley  Granger  certainly  has  no  need 
for  phony  publicity  to  further  his  career. 
His  ability  as  an  actor  is  more  evident  in 
each  picture  he  makes.  He  hcis  the  respect 
of  the  kids  and  the  grovm  ups  because  of 
his  work  and  his  talent.  He  is,  in  private 
life,  young  America  personified,  handsome, 
virile,  and  chock  full  of  the  joy  of  living. 
If  he  were  none  of  these  things,  but  an 
untried,  ambitious  fledgling  then  it  might 
make  sense  to  try  any  device  just  to  popu- 


larize  his  name  and  possibilities  as  a  lover. 

Shelley  Winters  is  also  a  star,  established 
and  properly  renowned.  There  is  no  doubt 
that  she  is  one  of  the  best  actresses  in 
Hollywood.  Her  latest  picture,  A  Place  In 
The  Sun,  proves  that.  She  is  such  a  char- 
acter in  so  many  respects  that  all  she  has 
to  do  is  app>ear  someplace,  or  open  her 
mouth  and  say  something  and  it  gets  in  the 
columns.  A  combination  of  extreme  ability 
and  color  in  private  and  public  life  is 
enough  for  any  star.  Shelley  Winters 
doesn't  need  a  put-up  romance  to  further 
her  career  or  earn  her  new  fans. 

An  accurate  check  of  the  past  activities 
of  the  biggest  stars  today,  the  ones  who 
have  lasted  the  longest,  that  is,  discloses 
that  very  few  of  them  ever  went  for  the 
phony  romance  gag.  Those  who  were 
forced  to,  abandoned  it  for  better  things 
after  a  very  short  time.  That  goes  for  the 
old  steady  types  and  the  glamor  category. 

The  word  glamor  may  be  the  key  of  the 
whole  situation.  It  seems  to  be  accepted 
that,  to  have  glamor,  a  man  or  woman  must 
live  like  a  single  rooster  in  a  yard  full  of 
hens — or  vice-versa.  That  just  isn't  true. 


Glamor,  actually,  has  little  to  do  with  ro- 
mance, and  practically  nothing  to  do  with 
real  love. 

When  Farley  Granger  and  Shelley  Win- 
ters were  in  New  York  a  few  months  ago, 
just  after  their  engagement  party,  they 
appeared  together  in  public  quite  a  num- 
ber of  times.  But  they  were  by  no  means 
together  all  of  the  time.  Away  from  the 
gay  spots  where  the  press  gang  hang  out, 
they  found  old  cronies  of  their  very  own 
and  renewed  old  friendships. 

There  was  no  rush  to  buy  a  trousseau, 
or  to  set  a  wedding  date.  There  may  have 
been  many  legitimate  reasons  for  this  that 
have  nothing  to  do  with  a  phony  romance. 
Certainly,  Farley  and  Shelley  are  genuine- 
ly fond  of  one  another  and,  as  has  been 
said,  they  are  in  the  market  for  marriage. 

If  they  make  a  monkey  out  of  love,  they 
may  hurt  themselves  by  losing  the  faith 
of  the  fans  who  believe  in  them.  But  if 
they  do  marry,  the  unpleasant  charges  that 
they're  playing  up  the  romance  for  what 
it's  worth  in  publicity  will  die  an  immedi- 
ate and  just  death.  The  End 


hot  copy— coming  up! 


(Continued  from  page  36)  makes  certain 
players  more  exciting  to  read  about  than 
others. 

They  are  the  actors  who,  by  some  pro- 
jection of  their  personalities,  create  an 
almost  fictional-type  character  off-screen 
that  is  oft-times  as  interesting  as  the  heroes 
and  heroines  they  play  on  the  screen.  They 
have  the  ability  to  create  unusual  curi- 
osity about  everything  they  do  and  say. 

A    STANDOUT  among  these,  I  believe,  is 
Shelley  Winters. 
Oh,  she  isn't  always  tractable — or  even 
polite    to    the    press — this    erratic  Miss 
Winters. 

Frequently,  she  is  not  above  "lifting"  a 
witticism  or  a  bon  mot  from  Noel  Coward 
or  Shaw  and  revamping  it  in  her  own 
words  for  an  interview.  (That  she  is 
usually  caught  at  it  doesn't  stop  her!) 

She  breaks  appointments  now  and  then. 

She  is  frequently  bad  tempered  on  the 
set  and  moody  in  public. 

But  there  is  something  very  human  and 
warm  and  down  to  earth  about  Shelley 
that  makes  us  forgive  her,  and  wait  with 
interest  news  of  the  next  "jam"  she  gets 
herself  into. 

Completely  unpredictable,  she  is  con- 
stantly good  copy. 

Not  long  ago,  when  she  was  in  trouble 
with  her  studio  (trouble? — she  had  man- 
aged to  get  herself  suspended!)  she  long- 
distanced  me  from  New  York. 

"I'm  in  Dutch,"  she  said  with  that  innate 
honesty  that  is  so  much  a  part  of  her  make- 
up. "I  want  to  come  back  and  make  the 
picture  with  Frank  Sinatra  after  all.  Won't 
you  fix  it  for  me  with  my  boss.  Bill 
Goetz?" 

If  that  isn't  typical! 

First  I  took  a  minute  to  tell  her  off  about 
what  a  naughty  girl  I  thought  she  was  to 
get  herself  suspended  in  these  difficult 
times.  But,  my  reporter  instinct  came  to 
the  fore — and  I  couldn't  scold  her  too  much. 

By  being  the  first  to  know  that  Shelley 
wanted  to  make  up  with  her  studio,  I  was 
the  first  to  reach  Bill  Goetz  with  the  news 
and  to  get  myself  a  "first  exclusive"  for 
the  radio,  and  the  break  for  my  papers  that 
this  much  publicized  studio  battle  had 
been  called  off. 

Looking  at  it  less  selfishly — while  Shelley 
frequently  poses  as  the  dizziest  of  blondes, 
she  has  a  lovable  side  that  gets  under  oui 
skins. 


As  flippantly  as  she  may  wisecrack 
about  serious  things,  her  romance  with 
Farley  Granger  and  marriage  in  general, 
I  happen  to  know  that  she  doesn't  mean 
half  the  stuff  she  spouts.  I  think  that 
she  is  deeply  in  love  with  Farley  and  that 
she  has  a  real  respect  for  marriage. 

Behind  all  of  her  antics  as  a  zany,  con- 
tinually in  hot  water,  the  fans  sense  that 
there  is  a  great  deal  more  to  this  explosive 
girl.  When  you  see  her  deep,  emotionally 
stirring  and  honest  performance  in  A 
Place  In  The  Sun  you  will  be  sure  of  it. 

But  whether  Shelley  is  popping  off  like 
a  comedienne,  or  letting  us  in  on  her 
really  finer  side,  she  is  a  personality  who 
is  sure  to  hold  our  interest  as  she  zooms 
higher  and  higher  up  the  ladder  of  her 
career. 

If  Shelley  is  the  hottest  copy  among  the 
new  corps  of  girls,  to  my  way  of  thinking 
Tony  Curtis  holds  that  honor  among  the 
men. 

This  boy  is  far  more  than  a  romantic, 
soft- eyed  yotmg  screen  lover  who  has 
caught  the.  attention  of  the  bobby-soxers. 

He  has  enormous  personal  charm.  When 
he  talks  for  publication  there  is  nothing 
of  the  over-night-success  "ham"  about 
him.  Sirrprising  in  a  boy  so  yoixng,  when  he 
talks  he  has  something  to  say.  Tony  is 
delighted  with  the  way  he  has  zoomed  to 
the  top  in  a  short  time,  but  he  is  wise  to  the 
hazards  beyond  his  years. 

Frankly,  I  had  put  off  meeting  yotmg 
Curtis  and  deliberately  postponed  several 
interview  appointments  with  him.  I  had 
just  had  a  run  of  interviews  with  some  of 
the  new  screen  gents,  many  of  whom  I 
could  very  well  do  without. 

So,  he  had  a  strike  or  two  on  him  when 
he  came  to  my  house.  We  hadn't  talked 
more  than  a  few  minutes  before  I  readized 
how  mistaken  I  had  been,  considering  him 
just  another  good-looking  boy  for  the 
teen-agers  to  squeal  over. 

He  is  a  fascinating  conversationalist 
about  many  things,  and  what  I  particularly 
liked  about  him  is  that  he  isn't  bored — just 
the  opposite — when  the  subject  veers  from 
himself. 

Tony  is  intelligent  enough  to  know  that 
an  honest  and  cooperative  approach  to 
publicity  will  greatly  aid  his  career  and 
help  put  it  on  a  solid  basis  long  after  the 
squealers  may  switch  to  someone  else. 
This,  combined  with  his  natural  charm 
and  dignity,  will  keep  him  out  in  front  as 
good  copy  for  many  years. 

Net  for  a  minute  do  I  think  that  his 
recent  marriage  to  Janet  Leigh  will  di- 


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prevents  chafing  .  .  . 
absorbs  moisture.  Be 
delicately  feminine  for 
him— use  Mavis  always. 

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minish  his  popularity  one  whit.  There's 
more  to  this  lad  than  his  being  a  mere 
bobby-sox  idol.  Wait  and  see. 

■A  LSD  high  on  my  list  of  hot  honeys  to 
watch  is  irrepressible  Mitzi  Gaynor — 
a  publicity  "natural"  if  I  ever  saw  one. 
One  of  the  best  indications  that  she  is  hot 
copy  coming  up  is  that  one  has  only  to  see 
her  in  a  gathering  to  ask,  "Who  is  that 
girl?  Where's  she  been  hiding  all  that  pep?" 

The  first  off-screen  glimpse  I  had  of 
Mitzi  (she  had  played  a  brief  part  in 
My  Blue  Heaven  with  Betty  Grable)  was 
at  the  private  party  at  Romanoff's  follow- 
ing the  Academy  Awards. 

The  place  was  jumpin'  with  "greats,"  the 
most  vivid   personalities   of  the  screen. 

And,  yet,  as  Mitzi  danced  by  {and  how 
she  danced-— very  dreamy-eyed  and  yet 
electric  in  the  arms  of  an  assortment  of 
partners  using,  I  noticed,  the  same  tech- 
nique on  all)  everyone  was  asking,  "Who's 
that?" 

It  isn't  that  she  is  so  beautiful,  either. 
Many  people  think  she  looks  like  a  pretty 
Jane  Withers.  But  the  sparks  fly  when 
Missy  Gaynor  is  around,  whether  she  is 
acting  for  the  cameras  or  just  talking  to 
reporters. 

Not  long  ago  I  got  a  close-up  of  Mitzi 
in  action  again.  It  was  at  a  party  given  by 
the  Darryl  Zanucks  for  their  17-year-old 
daughter,  Susan.  Mitzi  was  asked  to  sing — 
an  invitation  she  accepted  with  such 
alacrity  and  electricity  that  not  only  were 
the  wolves  whistling  over  her — all  the 
young  kids  crowded  around  her.  Later, 
they  asked  me  question  after  question 
about  this  new  star  of  musical  comedy. 

I  told  Darryl,  "You've  got  a  new  star 
in  that  girl." 

The  boss  of  20th  Century-Fox  laughed. 
"You're  right,"  he  agreed,  "this  girl  has  got 
it."  And  IT  with  capital  letters  say  I. 

Cteve  Cochran  is  hot  copy  for  the  reason 
that  he  deliberately  makes  himself 
thatta  way.  Unlike  SheUey,  Tony,  and  Mitzi, 
he  is  good  to  interview  and  to  talk  about 
not  because  he  can't  help  it — but  because 
he  works  at  it. 

I  was  most  conscious  of  this  when  I 
interviewed  Steve  soon  after  he  started 
going  around  with  Ginger  Rogers.  He 
extracted  every  whit  of  publicity  that 
"romance"  could  stand,  and  some  that 
wasn't  in  the  cards.  He  knew  that  Ginger's 
interest  in  him  and  vice-versa  gave  him 
new  importance  to  the  press. 

Steve  had  been  knocking  around  Holly- 
wood quite  a  while  without  stirring  up 
much  dust  in  a  publicity  way.  He  gave  good 
performances,  but  so  do  many  other  actors. 
He  didn't  seem  to  have  that  "something" 
to  make  people  talk  about  him  and  wonder 
what  he  was  up  to  after  seeing  him  on  the 
screen. 

But  Steve  kept  his  eyes  and  his  ears  open. 
He  began  to  reaUze  that  the  spotUght  is 
most  frequently  turned  on  those  gentlemen 
who  seem  to  have  particular  allure  for 
lovely  ladies. 

I  don't  mean  to  insinuate  that  his  ro- 
mance with  Ginger  was  calculated  on  his 
part.  But  after  the  spark  ignited — Steve 
was  no  bashful  violet  about  his  feel- 
ings. He  talked  to  all  and  sundry,  with 
the  result  that  he  got  more  pubUcity  than 
has  ever  come  his  way  from  a  good  screen 
performance. 

There  are  some  loud  whispers  that 
Ginger  became  so  annoyed  by  his  ardent 
and  oral  admiration  that  she  nipped  what- 
ever romance  there  might  have  been 
between  them  in  the  bud.  But  even  this 
made  good  copy — as  the  columnists  guessed 
in  print  ahnost  daily  whether  Ginger  and 
Steve  were  "hot"  or  "cold." 

Yes,  I  think  Mr.  Cochran,  he  of  the 
virile  screen  roles  and  the  fatal  attraction 
to  the  femmes,  wiU  continue  very  much 


in  the  fore,  now  that  he  has  learned  that 
"good  copy"  pays  off  at  the  box  office  and 
in  his  career. 

Jeff  Chandler  feels  that  I  do  not  like  him. 
He  told  a  friend  I  don't  write  about  him 
in  the  "complimentary"  way  I  write  about 
other  actors. 

He  doesn't  know  how  mistaken  he  is! 
I  like  him  exceptionally  well  because  there 
is  much  more  to  say  about  him  in  print 
than  a  mere  colorless  "compliment"  or  two. 
I  think  that  Jeff  has  some  of  the  same 
gi-eat  potential  publicity  pimch  that  first 
helped  put  Clark  Gable  over  as  a  big  star. 

Right  now,  Jeff  is  going  through  an 
unhappy  phase  of  his  life.  His  home  is 
broken  up.  He  will  soon  be  divorced  from 
his  wife,  and  he  misses  his  children. 

Clark  Gable  weathered  this  same  kind 
of  unhappy  marital  publicity  just  as  he  was 
becoming  a  star.  I  mean  his  unfortunate 
marriages  to  both  Josephine  Dillon  and 
Rhea  Gable. 

But  if  there  is  anything  that  intrigues 
the  ladies  about  a  man  or  a  movie  idol — ^it 
is  the  hint  that  one  of  these  rugged- 
masculine  charmers  is  suffering  secret 
sorrows!  I  think  the  psychiatrists  call  it 
bringing  out  the  "maternal  instinct"  in 
feminine  hearts. 


Esther  Williams  was  going  out  the 
studio  gate  at  noon  and  an  auto- 
graph fan  stopped  her  sighing: 
"Oh,  Esther,  my  ambition  is  to 
swim  as  well  as  you  do." 
Esther  snapped,  "Then  why  aren't 
you  in  a  pool  working  at  it  instead 
of  wasting  time  getting  autographs 
here?" 


Jeff  should  realize  that  all  "good  copy" 
does  not  have  to  be  of  the  happy  hearts- 
and-flowers-goody-goody  variety  to  create 
interest. 

I  think  Jeff  will  live  to  realize  that  the 
Sunday  feature  I  wrote  on  his  broken 
marriage  rather  than  on  his  manly  charms 
will  do  him  more  good  than  hann.  In 
my  book,  Jeff  is  a  he-man  who  will  b.e 
worth  writing  about  for  many  years  to 
come. 

I  am  greatly  influenced  in  making  my 
selections  of  hot  copy  by  my  fan  mail. 
And  I  can  tell  you  that  Tony  (Valentino) 
Dexter  has  just  about  been  burning  up  my 
mail. 

Of  the  entire  brand  new  crop  of  stars, 
I  am  convinced  that  this  boy  is  poten- 
tially torrid  from  a  publicity  angle.  I  do  not 
for  a  moment  think  that  he  is  a  "one 
role"  star  as  so  many  have  hinted. 

True,  his  resemblance  to  the  late,  be- 
loved Valentino  is  startling.  It  is  the  main 
reason  that  this  young  man,  whose  real 
name  is  Walter  Craig,  was  selected  by 
Edward  Small  to  create  the  populcU-  idol. 

But — and  it's  a  big  but — to  a  whole 
world-wide  group  of  new  fans  who  do  not 
remember  the  original  Valentino,  Tony 
packs  a  waUop  completely  his  own.  To  the 
new  young  fans,  Tony  is  excitement  plus 
in  himself,  and  is  in  no  way  an  imitation 
of  an  actor  idolized  years  ago. 

Another  young  actor  with  strong  pos- 
sibiUties  to  rate  reams  of  copy  is  good 
looking  Dale  Robertson.  Out  of  the  blue,  as 
it  were,  my  attention  was  attracted  to  this 
six-foot  good-looking  character  because 
of  his  sexy  speaking  voice.  You  can  close 
your  eyes  and  believe  you  are  listening 
to  Clark  when  Dale  talks. 

I  have  noticed  that  a  sexy  speaking 
voice  (singing  voice,  too)  is  a  very  good 
indicator  of  a  gentleman  who  will  get  good 
publicity.  We  lady  reporters  can  be  just  as 
susceptible  to  a  voice  as  you  fans,  and  are 
prone  to  write  up  what  the  Voice  says  in 
our  best  hot  copy  style. 

Dale  has  made  a  number  of  films  for 


20th  and  before  that  he  was  at  Warners. 
After  you  fans  see  him  in  Take  Care  of  my 
Little  Girl,  I'm  sure  he  will  be  on  my  list 
to  interview  over  and  over.  He  is  just 
starting  his  popularity  elimb  with  the 
squealing  set,  but  once  they  pick  out  a  man 
as  their  own  there  is  no  satisfying  their 
insatiable  curiosity  about  him. 

One  of  the  candid  camera  photographers 
who  cover  the  night  clubs  was  the  first  to 
call  my  attention  to  Phyllis  Kirk  as  hot 
stuff. 

"Louella,  she's  the  only  one  of  the  new 
kids  with  something  really  different  about 
her.  Believe  me,  I  know.  I  photograph 
them  all." 

Not  long  after,  one  of  the  national  mag- 
azines that  specializes  in  Hollywood's  new 
hot  copy  gals  came  forth  with  an  enchant- 
ing picture  of  Phyllis  on  the  cover. 

That's  quite  a  break  for  any  newcomer, 
and  from  that  time  on  I  started  watching 
Phyllis. 

"LTer  career  started  in  1949.  That  year  she 
appeared  with  Ann  Harding  at  the 
Westport,  Connecticut,  summer  theater  in 
Yes,  My  Darling  Daughter. 

Then  came  a  series  of  pictures  at  MGM, 
not  with  star  roles,  but  with  parts  colorful 
enough  to  create  an  interest  in  the  Kirk 
cutie. 

She  may  not  exactly  be  hot  copy  now — 
but  take  my  word  for  it — she's  coming  up. 

Of  course,  some  players  do  not  develop 
into  the  hot  copy  you  first  expect  of  them. 
Corinne  Calvet  is  a  girl  who  started  out 
like  a  house-afire  as  far  as  copy  is  con- 
cerned, and  lately  seems  to  have  simmered 
down. 

When  she  first  came  to  Hollywood,  she 
furnished  one  human  interest  angle  after 
another.  She  behaved  like  a  playgirl  and 
for  not  taking  her  career  seriously.  Para- 
mount fired  her.  It  made  good  copy,  indeed, 
as  Corinne  wept  and  wept  over  her  lost 
opportunity,  and  promised  to  behave  her- 
self. 

The  second  stage  in  her  publicity  cam- 
paign was  when  she  did  a  serious 
right-about-face  and  applied  herself  so  dil- 
igently that  she  not  only  got  another 
chance,  but  is  now  a  star  for  Hal  Wallis  on 
the  same  lot  that  fired  her. 

That's  good  story  material.  Makes  for 
interest  in  a  gal. 

But  lately  it  seems  to  me  that  the  press 
does  not  give  her  quite  so  much  attention— 
not  because  she  is  happily  married  to 
John  Bromfield,  either.  Rather,  I  believe 
she  can  set  it  down  to  the  fact  that  she 
doesn't  particularly  exert  herself  to  be 
colorfiil  copy  these  days.  (You  can't  keep 
it  up,  Corinne,  by  merely  posing  in  some 
good-looking  bathing  suits  in  front  of  your 
beach  house.) 

Something  of  the  same  may  be  said 
about  John  Derek.  After  starting  out  as 
very  good  copy  from  a  writer's  stand- 
point, he  got  hooked  on  the  subject  of  how 
difficult  it  is  to  be  "too  handsome"  and 
harped  on  that  one  idea  through  almost 
every  interview  he  granted.  Somewhere 
along  the  line,  many  of  the  columnists 
decided  to  let  him  fight  out  that  problem  by 
himself. 

I  guess  if  you  were  to  ask  me  the  all 
time  high  for  hot  copy — the  prize  would 
have  to  go  to  Joan  Crawford  who  has 
been  the  darling  of  the  press  (some- 
times referred  to  as  its  meal  ticket)  for 
over  20  years.  And  Joan  has  never  lived  to 
regret  it! 

If  I  have  forgotten  or  overlooked  some 
shining  new  player  whom  you  believe 
deserves  a  place  on  my  "tops"  list  of  ex- 
citing new  people  to  write  about,  I  wish 
you  would  drop  me  a  hint. 

As  I  said  before — there's  nothing  I  love 
more  dearly  than  a  good  hot  personality  to 
write  about,  as  well  as  to  admire  for  pure 
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Milwaukee,  Wis. — Boston  Store 
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Rochester,  N.  Y. — Sibley,  Lindsay  Sr  Curr 
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Houston,  Texas — Sakowitz 

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(Downtown,  Wilshire,  Crenshaw) 
Milwaukee,  Wis. — Boston  Store 
Minneapolis,  Minn. — Harold's 
New  York,  N.  Y. — Bonwit-Teller 
New  Orleans,  La. — Maison  Blanche 
Portland,  Oregon — Meier  6r  Frank 
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sex  is  not  enough! 


(Continued  from  page  33)  realization  first 
started  to  dawn  on  me  that  sex  or  sex 
appeal  isn't  enough. 

The  casting  directors  wanted  to  know  if 
I  could  sirig,  if  I  could  dance;  what  sort  of 
dramatic  training  I'd  had;  what  pictures 
I'd  played  in.  Had  I  ever  been  in  summer 
stock? 

"Sure,  you  have  loads  of  sex  appeal," 
one  casting  man  agreed,  "but  so  have  a 
million  other  girls." 

Fortunately  for  me,  Mervyn  LeRoy  at 
that  point  in  his  life  and  mine,  needed  a 
yoimg  girl  for  one  scene  in  a  picture 
called  They  Won't  Forget. 

This  girl  was  to  be  a  high-school  girl 
dressed  in  a  tight  sweater.  She  was  to 
walk  down  the  steps  of  her  high  school, 
the  camera  panning  with  her,  revealing 
her  every  curve.  Later  on,  she  was  to  be 
ravaged  and  murdered. 

Mervyn  gave  me  the  part.  I  had  the 
physical  endowments  to  play  it. 

The  role  was  a  small  bit,  but  from  that 
point  on  I  became  typed.  Lana  Turner  be- 
came synonymous  with  sex. 

T  AM  neither  anti-Freudian  nor  a  de- 
bunker  of  sex.  But  I  should  like  to  go 
on  record  as  saying  that  sex  isn't  every- 
thing in  life,  and  that  a  girl  who  has  only 
sex  appeal  to  offer  won't  keep  a  man  very 
long. 

As.  a  matter  of  fact,  she  won't  keep  a 
screen  career  very  long,  either.  The  best 
quaUty  for  longevity  on  the  screen  is  tal- 
ent. 'There  is  no  other  substitute. 

I  found  that  out  during  the  making  of 
Love  Finds  Andy  Hardy,  Dancing  Co-ed, 
Ziegfeld  Girl,  Johnny  Eager,  Honky  Tonk, 
and  all  the  rest  of  the  pictures  that  went 
to  make  up  my  apprenticeship. 

I  have  also  learned  from  my  three  mar- 
riages that  there  is  infinitely  more  to  love 
than  physical  attraction;  love  is  basically 
a  state  of  mind. 

Every  day  I  receive  dozens  of  letters 
from  yoimg  girls  who  are  sick  at  heart 
because  they  lack  beauty  or  sex  appeal. 

I'm  not  going  to  get  into  trouble  by 
naming  names,  but  here  in  Hollywood 
there  are  many  actresses  who  have  neither 
beauty  nor  high  sex  quotients.  What  they 
have  most  of  all  is  personality. 

Beauty  without  personality,  sex  appeal 
without  substance,  are  tempting  come-ons 
that  upon  examination,  fade  into  nothing- 
ness. 

I  know,  because  in  my  time  I  have  dated 
some  of  the  most  handsome  men  this 
world  has  to  offer.  Sex  appeal  oozed  from 
them.  They  were  built  like  ApoUos,  but 
they  were  about  as  interesting  as  laundry 
lists. 

I  remember  one  young  actor  I  dated 
when  I  was  single,  largely  because  his 
studio  thought  the  publicity  might  do  him 
some  good.  We'd  go  dancing  at  a  night 
club,  and  he'd  keep  asking,  "How  do  I 
look?"  When  he  wasn't  worried  about  his 
looks,  he  was  either  running  a  comb 
through  his  hair  or  grimacing  to  attract 
the  attention  of  other  patrons.  He  suf- 
fered from  a  Narcissus  complex,  spoke 
only  about  himself,  and  while  occasionally, 
he  stumbled  over  the  truth  about  himself, 
he  always  recovered  and  rambled  on  as  if 
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Making  friends  isn't  half  as  hard  as  keeping  them 
-here's  how  to  do  both  easily. 


t^ouR  girls  from  Wierton,  West  Virginia — 
their  names  are  Bernadine,  Agnes, 
Carol  and  Caroline — asked  me  a  good  ques- 
tion: "We  were  wondering  if  you  could  tell 
us  about  a  real  friendship  and  what  makes 
it  stick."  I've  had  a  lot  of  letters,  too,  from 
girls  who  say,  "My  girl  friend  is  always 
making  cracks  at  me,  particularly  in  front 
of  boys,"  and  another  kid  complained, 
"Whenever  we  double  date,  my  girl  friend 
makes  a  big  play  for  the  boy  I'm  with." 

So  I  got  to  realize  that  the  whole  sub- 
ject of  what  makes  a  friendship  last  is 
very  important.  Girls  are  always  worried 
about  how  to  be  popular  with  boys,  and 
how  to  act  towards  them,  but  they  take 
the  girl  friends  for  granted.  And  it's  just  as 
vital  to  have  girl  friends  as  to  have  boy 
friends.  Believe  me,  I  know. 

When  I  first  came  to  California  to  work 
for  Mr.  Goldwyn,  I  was  just  14.  I  didn't  go 
to  a  regular  school  but  had  a  tutor  at  the 
studio.  I  was  the  only  one  in  my  class.  The 
Goldwyn  studio  is  small  and  Gigi  Perreau, 
then  age  seven,  and  I  were  the  only  girls 
under  contract.  So  I  had  no  chance  to 
meet  other  boys  my  age  and  I  was  terribly 
lonely  for  girl  companionship. 

When  I  began  coaching  with  Bob  Paris 
I  met  one  of  his  pupils — a  girl  named  Palma 
Shard.  She  is  a  wonderful  singer  and  has 
done  a  lot  of  work  on  television.  She  has 
also  played  a  couple  of  parts  in  pictures.  I 
knew  I  liked  her  right  away  and  I  hoped 
we  could  be  good  friends.  Well,  the  happy 
ending  is  that  she's  my  best  friend  now 
and  I  wouldn't  take  anything  for  that 
friendship.  But  one  of  the  reasons  it  has 
stuck  is  because  we  both  work  at  being 
friends.  We  are  considerate  of  each  other. 
We  make  a  point  of  seeing  each  other  at 
least  once  a  week  and  we  talk  on  the 
telephone  every  few  days.  She  is  as  in- 
terested in  what  I  am  doing  as  I  am  in 
her,  and  I  can  honestly  say  that  if  Palma 


gets  a  good  break  I'm  just  as  excited  as 
when  I  do.  There  just  couldn't  be  any 
professional  jealousy  between  us  any  more 
than  there  could  be  personal  jealousy.  We 
have  no  secrets  from  each  other,  and  I 
know  that  Palma  would  cut  her  throat 
before  she  would  try  to  take  a  boy  friend 
of  mine  away  from  me.  And  vice  versa. 

You  see,  I'm  able  to  appreciate  a  good 
friend.  Before  Palma,  I  met  a  girl  I  Uked 
a  lot,  but  pretty  soon  I  discovered  that  I 
was  always  on  the  giving  end.  I  was  the 
one  who  always  called  her.  I  was  the  one 
who  always  asked  her  to  my  house.  In 
other  words,  I  was  working  at  the  friend- 
ship and  she  wasn't — and  that's  no  good. 

f^o  the  way  to  make  a  friendship  stick 
is  to  work  at  it — not  to  sit  back  and 
always  expect  your  friend  to  seek  you  out. 
You  have  to  do  some  seeking  out  your- 
self. I'm  not  for  that  silly  business  of 
counting  calls  or  invitations,  and  saying, 
"Now  it's  her  turn  to  call  me,"  or,  "It's  her 
turn  to  have  me  over."  But  if  you  have 
been  to  several  parties  at  a  girl's  house — 
or  even  been  invited  to  them — ^>'ou  have 
to  return  the  favor. 

And  while  I'm  on  the  subject  of  parties 
I'm  going  to  stick  my  neck  out  (and  may- 
be get  scolded).  I  have  a  lot  of  letters 
from  kids  who  say  that  their  parents  never 
let  them  have  friends  over;  never  let  them 
give  a  party.  I  would  like  to  shake  those 
parents.  Honestly,  what  are  they  thinking 
about!  Don't  they  know  that  their  chil- 
dren can't  grow  up  into  well  adjusted 
human  beings  unless  they  learn  how  to  en- 
tertain in  their  own  home?  Don't  they 
know  they  are  driving  their  kids  away 
from  home  by  denying  them  a  home?  I 
think  kids  who  aren't  allowed  to  entertain 
at  home  should  rebel. 

Another  very  important  thing  that 
makes    a    friendship    stick    is  honesty. 


But  by  honesty  I  don't  mean  rudeness.  Just 
because  you  have  a  "best  friend"  you  are  not 
supposed  to  treat  her  like  an  old  shoe.  And 
you  should  not  be  too  frank.  If  she  asks  your 
advice  about  something  she's  done  and  you 
think  she's  done  wrong  there  are  so  many 
different  ways  of  saying  it.  You  can  hurt  her 
by  saying,  "Are  you  crazy?  Don't  you  know 
you  acted  like  a  fool?"  Or  you  can  be  tactful 
and  say,  "Well,  I  don't  know,  honey.  It  seems 
to  me  I  would  have  done  so  and  so,  but  then 
you  and  I  are  different  people." 

^L^ou  certainly  can't  make  a  friendship  stick 
if  you  go  around  hurting  your  friends'  feel- 
ings. Remember  you  don't  have  a  corner  on 
being  sensitive.  So  think  before  you  say  some- 
thing thoughtless  and  cruel.  You  can  apolo- 
gize later  and  even  be  forgiven,  but  something 
is  gone.  So  why  not  stop  the  cruel,  thoughtless 
word  before  it  is  said?  It's  so  much  better. 

Just  because  someone  is  close  to  you  is  no 
reason  why  she  should  have  less  considera- 
tion than  someone  you  don't  Uke  nearly  so 
well.  In  fact,  the  girl  close  to  you  should 
have  more  consideration  because  there  is  more 
affection  between  you.  I'd  like  to  tell  you 
something  very  cute  that  Palma  once  did.  She'd 
done  some  kind  of  publicity  stunt  for  a  tele- 
vision show  and  she  was  given,  among  other 
tffings,  a  dinner  for  two  at  a  charming  little 
restaurant.  Well,  she  asked  me  to  go  with  her. 
"But  look,  Joan,"  she  said,  "if  something  better 
comes  up  I  intend  to  break  this  date,  and  I 
trust  you  to  do  the  same."  Now  that's  what  I 
mean  by  honesty.  We  both  laughed  because 
we  both  knew  what  she  meant  by  "something 
better."  The  "something  better"  was  an  excit- 
ing bid  from  a  boy  friend. 

There's  one  more  thing  that  I  think  is  ter- 
ribly important  about  making  a  friendship 
stick.  You  should  never  hold  a  grievance 
against 'your  friend.  I  mean  you  should  never 
keep  it  bottled  up  inside.  If  she  does  some- 
thing that  hurts  you,  come  right  out  and  say  so. 
On  the  other  hand,  I  don't  believe  in  the  old 
saw,  "Never  apologize — your  friends  don't  need 
it  and  your  enemies  won't  believe  it."  There's 
no  such  thing  as  blind  understanding.  You 
might  say  something  that  is  perfectly  innocent 
and  yet  be  misunderstood  by  your  friend.  If 
you  explain  what  was  meant,  the  whole  thing 
can  be  cleared  up. 

Everybody  should  treasure  friendship.  Good 
friends  are  hard  to  come  by. 

If  ND  now  here  are  some  more  letters. 

"Dear  Joan:  Is  it  all  right  for  a  girl  to 
call  a  boy  first — that  is,  on  the  telephone? — 
E.  S.,  Bridgeport,  Conn." 

It's  all  right  for  a  girl  to  call  a  boy  when 
she  has  something  specific  to  say — like  asking 
him  to  a  party  or,  if  she  has  been  away  from 
school,  asking  him  something  about  the  home 
work  providing  she  can't  get  the  home  work 
from  a  girl.  But  it  is  wrong  to  pursue  a  boy 
on  the  telephone.  Your  call  should  be  legiti- 
mate or  he'll  think  you're  chasing  him. 
"Dear  Joan:  My  problem  is  jealousy.  I  know 
it  isn't  right,  but  I  just  can't  help  it.— Tex,  c/o 
Postmaster,  San  Francisco,  Calif." 

Wouldn't  it  help  if  you  would  tell  yourself 
how  silly  jealousy  is?  If  you're  going  with  a 
girl  you  can  tell  whether  she  likes  you  or  not. 


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And  if  she  likes  you  better  than  anybody  else 
there's  no  reason  to  be  jealous.  If  she  is  some 
other  fellow's  girl,  there's  no  reason  to  be 
jealous  either  because  she  is  the  other  fellow's 
girl.  You  know  what  jealousy  is?  It's  an  in- 
feriority complex.  It's  not  being  sure  of  your- 
self. Just  say  to  yourself,  "This  girl  likes  me 
or  she  wouldn't  be  going  out  with  me,"  and 
if  you  have  self-confidence  you  can't  be  jeal- 
ous. Some  girls  are  flattered  when  a  boy 
is  jealous.  Not  me.  I  think  it  just  shows  a 
lack  of  faith. 

"Dear  Joan:  A  boy  I  used  to  go  with  went 
into  service  a  few  months  ago.  As  yet  I  haven't 
heard  from  him,  and  I  was  wondering  if  I 
should  write  first. — J.  E.,  Lenexa,  Kansas." 

You  bet  you  should !  Remember  that  he  may 
have  written.  Letters  have  been  known  to  be 
lost  in  the  mails.  Or  he  may  have  been  too 
busy  to  write.  But  I  knovi'  he  would  like  to 
hear  from  you.  I  get  hundreds  of  letters  from 
servicemen.  Mail  is  one  of  the  most  im- 
portant things  in  their  lives.  And  while  I'm 
on  the  subject,  I  wish  the  girls  who  read  this 
column  would  make  a  big  effort  to  write  to  the 
boys  in  service.  It's  very  important.  So  do 
write  to  this  boy,  J.  E.  And  don't  count 
letters,  either.  Write  him  whenever  you  have 
something  interesting  and  newsy  to  say. 
"Dear  Joan:  I  used  to  be  very  sweet  and 
even  tempered  and  now  I  am  nasty  and  talk 
mean  to  everyone.  Is  this  a  part  of  growing 
up?— R.  C.  G.,  Trafford,  Pa." 

"V^ou  know  something.  Acting  mean  and 
^  being  nasty  is  not  a  part  of  growing  up. 
But  the  very  fact  that  you  know  you're  acting 
mean  and  want  to  control  your  nastiness  proves 
that  you  can.  That's  a  big  step.  That  sUly 
old  rule  of  counting  10  before  you  speak  if 
you're  angrj'  is  pretty  good.  Actually  all  it 
means  is  just,  "think  before  you  speak."  You 
know  perfectly  well  when  j'ou  feel  a  mean  re- 
mark coming  on.  So  just  bite  your  tongue, 
think  to  yourself  what  you  might  have  said, 
think  how  you  might  have  made  the  other 
person  feel,  and  either  say  something  else  in- 
stead or  don't  sa}"  anything. 
"Dear  Joan:  People  have  been  telling  me  things 
about  my  fiance  going  with  other  girls.  I 
found  a  picture  of  another  girl  in  his  bill 
fold.  We  have  quarrels  once  in  awhile  about 
these  girls.  What  should  I  do? — B.  W.,  Bar- 
berton,  Ohio." 

The  first  thing  is  to  remember  that  mar- 
riage never  reformed  a  man  yet.  Be  thankful 
that  you  know  about  this  now  before  you 
marry  him.  But  be  very  sure  that  he  isn't 
kidding  you  about  the  other  girls  and  getting 
a  kick  out  of  making  you  jealous.  You  should 
have  a  real,  honest  talk  with  him  and  not  a 
quarrel.  Quarrels  never  solve  anything.  Ask  him 
to  tell  you  why,  when  he  is  engaged  to  you, 
he  sees  other  girls.  If  you  are  convinced  that 
he  is  not  kidding  you,  that  he  really  does  see 
other  girls  then,  of  course,  there's  nothing  to 
do  but  to  break  the  engagement.  And,  by  the 
way,  why  were  you  looking  in  his  bill  fold? 
"Dear  Joan:  I  have  very  oily  hair  and  in 
order  to  keep  it  soft  and  shining  I  wash  it 
every  four  days.  Is  this  too  often? — J.  W., 
Tucson,  Arizona." 

I  think  so.  Most  beauty  experts  will  tell 
yoii  that  too  much  water  dries  out  the  hair. 


IT  HAPPENED  TO  ME 

One  afternoon 
on  an  ocean  liner 
en  route  for  Ha- 
waii, I  decided  to 
do  a  little  swim- 
ming in  the  ship's 
pool.  I  was  only 
seven  years  old  at 
the  time  and  didn't 
know  much  about 
it. 

After  1  got  into 
the  pool,  the  rocking  water  frightened 
me  and  I  was  trying  to  hold  onto  the 
rope  that  went  around  the  side  of  the 
pool.  A  few  minutes  later,  an  at- 
tractive girl  in  a  white  bathing  suit 
and  cap  noticed  my  struggle  to  keep 
my  head  above  water  and  she  came 
over  to  see  about  me. 

"Get  on  my  back  and  hold  on  tight," 
she  said. 

Then  she  swam  around  the  pool 
with  me  and  we  got  out  to  dry. 

I  was  informed  later  by  my  mother 
that  the  nice  lady  was  a  movie  star 
named  Joan  Fontaine. 

Carol  Gardt 
Kingsville,  Texas 


You  can  keep  the  oil  out  in  a  couple  of  w'ays. 
There  are  several  good  "drj'  shampoos"  on 
the  market.  They  are  not  really  drj',  as  you 
probably  know.  Actually  they  are  liquid 
cleansers.  If  5'ou  tie  a  piece  of  cheese  cloth 
around  your  brush  and  brush  your  hair  with 
that  you  can  get  a  lot  of  the  oil  out.  Try  it 
and  see.  I,  personally,  think  that  once  a  week 
is  often  enough  to  shampoo  hair  with  water. 
"Dear  Miss  Evans:  I  read  your  diet.  I  would 
like  to  know  if  you  can  have  vegetable  juice 
or  orange  juice  instead  of  grapefruit  juice.  Can 
you  have  a  green  or  yellow  vegetable  instead 
of  salad  occasionally?  Do  you  have  to  drink 
skimmed  milk  ? — S.  S.,  Orlando,  Florida." 

On  a  reducing  diet,  orange  juice  is  no  good. 
The  grapefruit  juice  is  actually  thinning. 
Occasionally,  you  can  vary  the  grapefruit  juice 
with  tomato  juice.  You  should  have  enough 
salad  but  occasionally  you  can  substitute  a 
green  or  yellow  vegetable,  provided  that  there 
is  little  butter  used.  Yes,  you  have  to  drink 
skimmed  milk.  Regular  milk  has  cream  in  it 
and  cream  is  fattening.  I  know  just  how  you 
feel,  but  you  must  have  perseverance. 
"Dear  Joan:  I  am  15.  I  want  to  be  a  model. 
Could  you  please  tell  me  if  I  need  a  high 
school  education  ? — C.  G.,  Fall  River,  Mass.'" 

I'm  sure  there  are  some  successful  models 
who  do  not  have  a  high  school  education,  but 
that  doesn't  matter.  You  should  have  one. 
Everybody  who  possibly  can  should  have  at 
least  a  high  school  education.  Not  just  for 
your  job,  either,  but  because  an  education  is 
important  to  you  as  a  human  being.  I  wish 
I  could  shake  those  kids  who  w^ant  to  quit 
school  while  they  are  in  high  school.  If  you 
do,  you  certainly  will  regret  it. 

And  that's  it  for  this  month,  kids.  Thanks 
for  writing.  And  thanks  for  all  the  nice  things 
you  say  about  this  column. 
DO  YOU  HAVE  A  TEEN-AGE  PROBLEM  ? 
WRITE  TO  JOAN  EVANS,  BOX  93, 
BEVERLY  HILLS,  CALIF. 


DrScholls 

FOR  ALL  COMMON  FOOT  TROUBLES 


sex  is  not  enough 


(Continued  from  page  81)  fades  with  the 
years.  But  personality,  warmth  and  gen- 
tility are  erihanced  by  time. 

These  are  the  traits  most  young  girls 
should  cultivate.  These  are  the  traits  I  try 
to  cultivate  in  Cheryl,  my  own  daughter. 

Cex  appeal  is  important,  sure.  But  as 
any  married  couple  will  testify,  it  takes 
more  than  sex  to  hold  a  marriage  together. 

It  takes  children,  mutuality  of  purpose, 
self-sacrifice,  understanding,  a  sense  of 
humor,  and  the  abiUty  to  put  up  with 
little  idiosyncrasies. 

I,  for  example,  have  more  than  my 
share.  For  some  strange  reason,  I  feel 
frightened  at  large  social  gatherings.  Put 
me  in  a  room  with  more  than  10  or  12 
people,  and  I'm  uneasy.  I  know  I  shouldn't 
be,  but  I  am.  Invariably,  the  last  thing  I 
say  to  my  husband  before  we  step  into  a 
crowded  room  is,  "Darling,  don't  leave 
me." 

Bob  imderstands  my  imeasiness  and  puts 
up  with  it.  By  the  same  token,  I  under- 
stand his  love  for  deep-sea  fishing.  As  a 
result,  I've  become  a  deep-sea  fisherwoman 
myself.  A  few  years  ago  down  in  the 
Bahamas,  I  pulled  in  a  tima  that  weighed 
more  than  300  pounds.  When  I  was  a  girl, 
you  couldn't  get  me  to  go  fishing  for  love 
or  money. 

I  believe  that  a  realization  of  the  rela- 
tive importance  of  sex  is  a  part  of  growing 
up.  When  a  girl  is  young,  sex  appeal  is 
probably  the  most  vital  thing  in  life  to 
her.  She  imagines  that  her  face  and 
figure  are  her  paramount  enticements. 
Boys,  she  will  tell  you,  are  not  interested 
in  her  scholarly  attainments,  her  athletic 
ability,  or  her  knowledge  of  languages. 

That,  at  least,  is  what  I  used  to  think.  I 


know  now  that  I  was  wrong.  I  know  now 
that  if  I'd  had  the  proper  dramatic  train- 
ing to  go  with  my  physical  endowments, 
my  motion  picture  career  would  have 
progressed  at  a  faster  rate  than  it  did. 

Boys  are  interested  in  anything  a  smart 
girl  wants  them  to  be  interested  in.  Girls 
with  brains  and  personality  marry  men  of 
stability  and  good  will.  Girls  who  offer 
nothing  but  beauty  and  sex  usually  wind 
up  in  the  divorce  courts. 

I  am  not  running  sex  down.  I  agree  that 
it  is  an  underlying  motive  in  all  hvunan 
conduct,  but  I  happen  to  feel  that  too 
much  emphasis  has  been  put  upon  it  not 
only  where  I,  personally,  have  been  con- 
cerned, but  in  our  day-to-day  living. 

Only  recently,  I  read  a  book  entitled, 
"The  Folklore  of  Sex,"  in  which  the 
author  said:  "The  American  public  will 
not  take  a  work  of  fiction  to  its  heart  if 
the  story  does  not  imply  that  imconven- 
tional  sex  behavior  is  the  nastiest  and 
tastiest  business  imaginable." 

Much  the  same  thing  has  been  said  about 
motion  pictures.  I  just  don't  believe  it. 

Sex  alone  will  sell  nothing. 

Sex  appeal  is  helpful  in  gaining  entry 
either  into  a  man's  consciousness  or  a 
man's  business,  but  sex  alone  will  never 
capture   any   man's   heart  permanently. 

Some  of  you  will  undoubtedly  say  that 
ever  since  Adam,  men  have  been  interested 
in  sex,  and  that  around  your  particular 
neighborhood  that  still  holds  true. 

Maybe  so,  but  it's  been  my  experience 
that  men  fall  hardest  and  quickest  for 
girls  who  are  pleasant,  cheerful,  witty, 
and  good-natured. 

You've  all  read  a  good  deal  about  Mar- 
lene  Dietrich,  how  even  though  she's  past 
50  she  still  has  men  pursuing  her  every 
Tuesday  and  Thursday.  The  reason  Mar- 
lene  is  so  attractive  to  men  is  because 
she's  good-natured.  She's  always  been 
good-natured  even  in  the  days  when  her 


legs  were  featured  more  than  her  wit. 

Myrna  Dell,  a  young  actress  who  was 
recently  married,  is  another  Hollywood 
girl  who  always  had  plenty  of  beaux.  And 
for  that  same  reason,  too.  She  knew  how 
to  swap  gags  with  the  boys  and  remain 
feminine  in  the  process. 

Janet  Leigh,  before  she  was  married  to 
Tony  Curtis,  was  popular  with  most  of  the 
young  Hollywood  eligibles,  because  she, 
too,  is  sweet,  perermially  cheerful,  and  the 
possessor  of  a  wonderful  sense  of  hiunor. 

Ann  Sheridan  and  Ava  Gardner  are  two 
more  cases  in  point.  Each  of  these  girls 
offers  charm,  personality,  and  good  humor 
before  sex  appeal. 

I've  seen  Ava  walking  around  Holly- 
wood in  glasses  and  blue  jeans,  looking 
as  simple  and  pladn  and  unrecognized  as 
the  girl  next  door.  Despite  her  sex  appeal 
— and  it's  considerable — men  go  for  Ava 
because  she  has  a  mind  like  lightning, 
quick  and  flashing. 

Even  in  Hollywood  where  sex  supposedly 
is  all-important,  it  has  always  taken  a 
backseat  to  talent. 

Give  any  casting  director  or  producer 
the  choice  between  an  intelligent,  not-so- 
pretty  girl  who  can  act,  and  a  pretty,  not- 
so-intelligent  girl  who  CEin't — and  the 
talent  will  always  win. 

Debbie  Reynolds,  Mitzi  Gaynor,  Pier 
Angeli,  Leslie  Caron — all  of  today's  new- 
comers are  young  girls  who  have  special- 
ized talent. 

It's  not  that  sex  has  gone  out  of  fashion, 
because  it  definitely  hasn't.  It's  just  that 
here  in  Hollywood,  we've  come  to  realize 
that  the  trouble  with  sex  appeal  is  it's 
only  skin-deep. 

For  lasting  happiness,  a  girl  needs  some- 
thing much  more  solid  and  enduring  than 
that.  The  End 

(LaTia  Turner  can  be  seen  in  MGM's  Mr. 
Lnperium. — Ed.) 


Section 


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who'd  marry  me? 


(Continued  from  page  48)  "You  shouldn't 
have  gone.  You  won't  know  how  to  conduct 
yourself.  He  will  never  bother  with  you 

again." 

THAT  voice  was  right.  I  not  only  tried  to 
act  like  an  older  girl  and  failed,  but 
I  was  too  far  affected  by  being  out  with 
him  to  even  act  my  own  age.  I  was  gawky. 
I  was  giggly.  I  was  stupid.  When  I  had 
been  sitting  too  long  in  the  car  without 
saying  anything  I  got  nervous.  Not  being 
able  to  think  of  an  idea  of  my  own,  I  read 
an  advertising  sign  we  passed,  read  it 
aloud  and  mispronounced  practically  every 
word!  When  he  made  a  driving  error  and 
I  should  have  kept  mum  till  the  incident 
was  forgotten,  I  laughed  and  earned  an 
annoyed  look.  When  we  pulled  up  in  the 
parking  lot  of  the  theater  and  he  was 
coming  around  to  open  the  door  on  my 
side,  I  not  only  opened  it  myself  first,  but 
closed  it  again  quickly  so  he  could  open 
it  after  all!  When  we  got  inside  my  feet 
went  rubbery  and  he  had  to  save  me  from 
stumbling  a  half  dozen  times.  And  all 
through  the  picture  I  was  in  a  daze. 

He  stiU  said  hello  after  that  night,  but  no 
more  smile,  no  invitations,  not  even  a 
pat  on  the  head!  I  cried  off  and  on  for 
weeks  and  that  was  the  first  time  I 
thought — "Who'd  ever  marry  me?" 

Maybe  my  worrying  about  it  that  much 
was  why  I  did  get  married  when  I  was 
only  16.  But  that  was  so  unwise  and  short- 
lived a  marriage  that  it  was  as  if  it  had 
never  happened.  So  the  old  thought  still 
comes  back  to  me  every  time  I  meet 
someone  I  like.  And  now  there  are  other 
reasons  that  keep  popping  up  in  my  head 
making  me  wonder.  When  I  was  14  it  was 
silly  to  worry  about  it;  maybe  it  stiU  is 
silly,  but  I  can't  help  it. 

Of  com-se,  all  girls  get  vague  fears  like 
this  at  times.  I  think  something  of  this 
nature  accounts  for  the  fact  that  I  had  two 
periods  in  my  life  when  I  stuttered  every 
time  I  tried  to  talk.  Naturally  shy  to  begin 
with,  this  affliction  made  me  withdraw 
into  myself  altogether.  I  would  start  to 
say  something  and  my  lips  would  get 
fixed  into  an  "O"  shape,  a  lost  feeling 
would  come  over  me,  and  I  would  stand 
there  frozen.  One  day  when  I  was  attend- 
ing Van  Nuys  High  School  in  the  San 
Fernando  Valley,  I  auditioned  for  a  school 
play.  I  had  memorized  my  lines  perfectly. 
The  other  kids  were  standing  around 
when  the  teacher  gave  me  the  cue.  I 
opened  my  mouth — and  nothing!  There  was 
a  long  silence  and  then  curtain! 

THE  fear  was  not  one  that  I  analyzed 
then  as  concern  over  being  "wanted," 
but  it  certainly  bore  a  close  relationship 
to  this.  I  worried  about  being  left  out  of 
things,  being  passed  up  by  the  "crowd"  as 
a  goof  and  all  that.  I  never  could  get  over 
how  glib  the  other  kids  could  be,  standing 
around  the  school  yard  and  rattling  away 
whole  streams  of  merry  talk.  Like  every- 
one else  with  a  handicap,  I  worked  hard 
to  get  the  best  of  mine  and  I  improved. 
But  not  sensationally  then.  And  the  other 
girls  were  fast  to  point  up  my  deficiency 
whenever  they  could. 

I'U  never  forget  the  little  items  in  the 
school  paper  on  this  subject.  Any  boy  who 
took  me  anywhere  was  reported  as  having 
"drug"  me  .  .  .  the  implication  being  that 
I  was  a  dead  weight,  of  course.  Well,  so 
I  didn't  talk  the  ear  off  a  boy  when  I  was 
with  him!  There  were  some,  I  foxmd,  who 
didn't  mind  silences  between  sentences. 
One  was  the  boy  who  always  played  the 
lead  in  school  plays.  We  could  just  stand 
or  sit  together,  and  have  just  as  good  a 
time  as  if  we  were  yakking  away. 


I  started  dating  by  drifting  into  it.  After 
that  one  bad  experience  with  my  "dream 
man"  who  lived  across  the  street,  I  classed 
myself  as  a  bad  prospect  for  any  boy.  But 
there  would  be  feUows  who  walked  me 
home  from  school  and  we  would  stand 
outside  the  house  and  talk  a  while.  Other 
kids  would  come  along,  and  before  long 
there  was  such  a  group  of  us  that  my  Aunt 
Anna  said  we  resembled  a  mob.  She  would 
invite  us  in  just  to  get  us  out  of  the  eyes 
of  the  neighbors.  And  sometimes  one  of 
the  boys  would  suggest  our  going  some- 
where, and  that  way  I  sort  of  slid  painlessly 
into  going  out. 

I  cured  my  stuttering,  which  was  reaUy 
an  inability  to  get  the  opening  word  out. 
And  after  that  I  slowly  learned  to  be  my- 
self and  not  act  like  a  stick  when  I  was 
out  with  someone.  But  there  were  other 
problems  to  lick.  I  remember  that  when 
I  left  school  and  got  work  as  a  model,  it 
was  terribly  difficult  for  me  to  work  in 
front  of  people.  It  was  bad  enough  profes- 
sionally, and  it  was  awful  for  me  socially. 
Suppose  there  was  someone  present  who 
might  be  interested  in  me  .  .  .  what  would 
his  reaction  be  to  a  girl  who  could  hardly 
hide  her  nervous  state? 

I  remember  modeling  once  at  Bullock's 
big  store.  My  job  was  to  pull  down  Uttle 
roller  signs.  Painted  on  them  were  illus- 
trations of  the  wardrobe  accessories  a  de- 
signer was  discussing  for  some  buyers. 

"Now  here  is  a  very  versatile  scarf  that 
can  be  made  to  do  for  almost  any  occasion," 
the  designer  would  say,  and  I  would  pull 
down  an  illustration  of  a  leather  belt! 


The  practice  of  putting  women  on  pedestals 
began  to  die  out  when  it  was  discovered 
that  they  could  give  orders  better  from 
that  position. — Betty  Grab/e  as  quoted  by 
Irving  Hoffman  in  Tfte  Hollywood  Reporter, 


I  started  going  to  cocktail  parties.  Next 
to  me  woiild  be  the  fellow  who  brought 
me,  and  aroimd  us  a  sea  of  strange  faces 
that  would  move  closer  and  closer,  and 
talk,  talk,  talk!  What  to  say?  What  to 
answer?  What  were  they  thinking  of  me 
for  my  nervous  laughter?  What  about  the 
fellow  who  brought  me?  If  he  had  had  ideas 
that  he  liked  me  .  .  .  weren't  they  gone 
forever?  That  little  voice  of  mine  us^  to 
give  me  the  answer.  "Better  learn  to  live 
alone  and  pretend  to  hke  it." 

I  didn't  want  that.  I  kept  going  to  cock- 
tail parties  and,  by  determining  to  conquer 
my  fears,  I  did  attain  some  ease  of  mind. 
A  cocktail  party  is  still  not  my  idea  of  the 
best  evening's  entertainment  in  the  world, 
but  neither  is  it  the  worst. 

Maybe  the  easiest  feature  of  a  cocktail 
party  (or  a  dance)  to  handle  is  the  stag 
line.  That's  probably  because  there  is  so 
little  originality  in  the  "approach."  One 
night  seven  men  talked  to  me  and  it  was  as 
if  all  seven  of  them  were  reading  from  the 
same  script.  Their  lines  (leaving  out  mine 
which  probably  were  no  brighter)  ran 
something  as  follows: 

"Well!  The  moment  I  saw  you  come  in 
the  door  I  knew  I  had  to  meet  you." 

"You  know,  you're  Uke  something  I've 
never  seen  before." 

"I'd  like  to  call  you  up  some  time.  If  I 
had  your  number." 

These  days,  now  that  I've  been  in  some 
pictures,  the  only  variation  is: 

"I  saw  you  in  The  Asphalt  Jungle.  I'd  call 
you  up  some  time,  if  I  had  your  munber." 

Or — 

"I  saw  you  in  All  About  Eve.  I'd  like 
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The  barriers  between  romance  and  my- 
self are  still  up.- If  I  were  a  fellow,  I  don't 
think  I'd  be  foolish  enough  to  get  serious 
about  a  girl  like  me.  If  it  isn't  one  dif- 
ficulty to  overcome  it's  another,  and  now 
it's  my  work — or  rather  that  I  am  just  at 
the  beginning  of  my  career  and  so  deeply 
set  on  making  good.  If  there  were  a  boy — 
where  would  we  find  the  time  to  learn  to 
know  each  other  well  enough  to  want  to 
marry?  And  how  could  I  be  sure  enough 
about  our  future  to  give  up  my  career  for 
it?  Because  .  .  .  for  the  sake  of  marriage 
alone,  I  know  I  wouldn't. 

/^ISTE  day  a  few  weeks  ago,  I  made  a  date 
"  for  dinner  and  a  show.  I  was  to  be 
ready  at  seven  in  the  evening.  On  the 
morning  of  the  date  I  was  due  in  the  studio 
at  8  A.M.  to  pose  for  publicity  stills.  Just 
before  Itmch  I  was  interviewed  in  a  session 
that  lasted  two  hours.  A  car  was  waiting 
then  to  take  me  to  my  apartment  for  some 
"home"  photographs  for  a  magazine.  At 
a  little  before  five  I  was  back  in  the  studio 
to  discuss  a  test  with  the  director  of  my 
next  picture.  When  we  got  all  set  on  it 
the  director  called  in  the  writer  to  suggest 
certain  changes.  He  thought  it  would  be 
a  good  idea  if  I  stayed  and  rehearsed  them 
right  then  and  there.  I  did. 

My  date  had  just  rung  my  bell  for  the 
twentieth  time  and  was  on  the  way  back 
to  his  car  when  I  drove  up.  He  took  one 
look  at  my  face  and  shook  his  head. 

"The  night  is  yoxmg,"  he  said,  "but  do 
you  care?" 

I  shook  my  head.  I  felt  as  I  looked — ^beat. 

Yet,  I  am  not  consistent.  Sometimes  I 
have  a  hard  day,  and  when  evening  comes 
I  want  to  go  out.  If  I  haven't  a  date  I  go 
out  anyway — alone.  And  I  like  it  this  way. 
Just  a  few  days  ago  when  I  left  the  studio 
I  thought  I  would  go  for  a  little  drive 
instead  of  heading  home.  When  I  saw  a 
drive-in  restaurant  I  stopped  and  had  a 
hot  dog  and  a  coke.  A  little  while  later 
I  was  passing  a  tiny  movie  house  in  Holly- 
wood which  shows  old  time  pictures,  cind 
went  in  to  see  an  early  Charlie  Chaplin 
comedy.  I  laughed  myself  sUly  and  went 
back  to  the  car  stiU  feeling  restless.  I  had 
no  idea  which  way  I  was  heading  when 
I  started  off,  but  found  myself  stopping  at 
Will  Wright's  in  Beverly  Hills  for  some  ice 
cream.  Inside  I  met  a  friend  who  told  me 
he  was  just  about  to  drop  in  on  a  fare- 
well party  for  a  couple  he  knew,  and 
asked  me  to  come  along.  That  was  the  last 
event  on  the  schedule  for  the  evening,  an 
evening  I  hadn't  planned,  and  a  very  satis- 
factory one  as  far  as  I  was  concerned. 

Even  if  I  were  married  I  think  I'd  have 
a  yen  every  once  in  a  while  to  spend  some 
time  like  this  by  myself.  What  boy  that 
I  married  would  permit  it?  What  would  he 
say  about  the  other  things  my  moods  some- 
times drive  me  to?  Sometimes  if  I  can't 
sleep,  I'll  get  up  and  play  records  in  the 
middle  of  the  night — or  take  a  walk,  or 
go  out  for  a  drive.  I  know  this  sounds  as 
if  I  am  spoiled,  but  all  my  life,  because  I 
was  orphaned  as  a  child,  perhaps,  I  have 
had  to  be  my  o^wn  best  friend. 

When  I  am  working  I  have  to  go  to 
bed  early.  But  when  I  have  no  picture  I 
revert  back  to  late  hours.  Sometimes  the 
two  different  bedtimes  are  as  much  as 
six  hours  apart.  It  wotald  be  a  habit  I  don't 
think  I  could  change  if  I  were  married. 
Who  would  put  up  with  it? 

Oh,  a  lot  of  friendships  begin  these  days 
but  they  never  get  anywhere.  Most  times 
when  I  go  to  a  party  there  is  someone 
who  indicates  he  wants  to  see  me  again.  If 
I  don't  encourage  him,  if  I  don't  give  him 
my  phone  number,  it's  not  always  because 
I  don't  like  him.  It's  more  likely  because 
I  can  see  far  ahead,  and  the  whole  thing 
seems  so  futile.  Men  think  I  am  playing 


exclusive.  I'm  really  saving  them  a  lot  of 
time,  and  maybe  trouble. 

If  I  were  married  I  would  often  be  up 
and  gone  before  my  husband  was  awake. 
I'd  be  home  ready  for  sleep  right  after  din- 
ner, while  he'd  be  ready  for  a  big  evening. 
Then,  suddenly,  the  whole  thing  woiild  go 
into  reverse.  I  woiild  get  up  late  and  want 
to  stay  up  after  he  got  sleepy. 

If  I  did  marrj',  I  don't  think  the  boy 
I'd  choose  would  be  an  actor.  That's  the 
way  it  seems  to  me  now.  And  that,  I  notice, 
often  spells  trouble  to  Hollywood  ro- 
mances. It's  hard  for  a  non-professional  to 
become  accustomed  to  the  ways  of  pic- 
ture people,  no  matter  how  many  times  you 
read  that  it  isn't.  It's  not  only  a  matter  of 
jealousy,  it's  the  feehng  that  you  really 
haven't  full  rights  to  the  time  and  in- 
terest of  your  wife  or  husband  if  she  or  he 
happens  to  be  in  the  public  eye. 

No,  right  now  I  have  a  one  track  mind — 
screen  work.  I  want  to  be  a  real  actress  and 
I  don't  want  to  be  causing  anyone  any 
pain  or  heartache  while  I  am  at  it.  Who 
would  want  to  take  a  chance  and  marry 
me?  Someone,  someday,  I  hope.  But  he 
seems  so  far  away  now.  The  End 


what  IMI  tell  my  sons 


(Continued  from  page  51)  And  if  they 
develop  into  the  kind  of  young  men  I 
hope  they  will,  they  will  be  able  to  sepa- 
rate the  sense  from  the  nonsense  in  what 
I  say,  and  apply  both  to  then-  ovm  lives. 
I  certainly  hope  so. 

As  the  saying  goes,  those  who  can,  do; 
those  who  can't,  teach.  Being  thus  quali- 
fied, I  plunge  into  a  subject  which  offers 
unlimited  opportunities  for  making  a  fool 
of  myself. 

Women.  I  started  my  life  surrounded 
by  women — six  of  them,  to  be  exact.  They 
were  my  sisters,  and  each  was  older  and 
infinitely  wiser  than  I.  Whenever  I  think 
of  my  sisters,  singly  or  collectively,  I  am 
pleased  to  remember  that  they  loved  me 
and  always  tried  to  help  me.  One  of  my 
sisters  taught  me  how  to  dsince.  Another 
one  taught  me  how  to  tie  a  bow  tie  without 
looking  in  the  mirror.  Still  another,  my 
sister  Bettj',  taught  me  how  to  fight.  Really, 
she  did.  All  of  my  sisters  were  wonderful. 

Offhand,  you'd  think  that  my  early  life 
should  have  given  me  a  head  start  over 
the  other  fellows  in  the  task  of  under- 
standing women.  Well,  it  didn't.  Actually, 
the  things  I  learned  from  my  sisters  only 
mixed  me  up,  and  it  wasn't  until  years 
later  that  I  realized  how  badly. 

Perhaps  the  most  virulent  piece  of  mis- 
information  circulated  aroimd  our  house 
was  the  notion  that  women  are  the  weaker 
of  the  two  sexes.  I  don't  know  who  gave 
birth  to  that  priceless  phrase,  but  I  am  ab- 
solutely convinced  that  that  myth  was 
started  by  a  very  clever  woman  who  was 
kidding  everyone  but  herself.  Superior 
women  have  been  selling  it  to  their  in- 
ferior mates  ever  since.  In  fact,  it  has 
been  the  greatest  tactical  weapon  since 
the  Trojan  Horse.  Personally,  I  don't  be- 
lieve I  Vvoll  ever  get  over  the  inferiority 
complex  which  started  when  my  sisters 
outran  me,  won  all  my  marbles,  and  beat 
up  the  neighborhood  buUies  I  didn't  have 
the  nerve  to  fight.  Honestly,  when  I  was 
about  five  I  watched  my  sister,  Bettj' 
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When  I  was  a  young  man,  a  great  deal 
was  said  around  the  house  about  woman's 
desperate  struggle  for  equality  in  the  mod- 
ern world.  I  went  away  to  college  with 
the  sincere  belief  that  I  should  never  be 
guilty  of  taking  an  imfair  advantage  of 
girls.  My  sisters  could  not  have  made  me 
more  of  a  sitting  duck  if  they'd  chopped 
off  both  my  arms.  My  first  college  debate, 
on  the  subject,  "Should  Women  Take  an 
Active  Part  in  Politics?"  proved  that  to 
me.  My  worthy  opponent  was  an  attractive 
girl  who  (although  I  had  carefully  avoided 
any  of  the  forceful,  old -line  arguments 
against  women  in  politics)  so  passionately 
accused  me  of  rank  masculine  prejudice 
that  even  I  was  convinced  that  I  had  been 
guilty  of  it.  Of  course,  she  won  the  de- 
bate. I  didn't  mind  that  so  much,  as  I 
was  still  inexperienced.  What  killed  me 
was  our  talk  afterwards,  when  I  asked 
her  why  she  had  concentrated  so  hard  on 
the  prejudiced  views  she  suspected  I  had, 
instead  of  squashing  the  obviously  weak 
poiats  I  had  limited  myself  to. 

"Oh,"  she  said  innocently,  batting  her 
beautiful  brown  eyes  at  me,  "I  was  so 
sure  you  would  use  the  old  argument 
about  women's  inferiority  that  I  didn't 
bother  to  prepare  for  anything  else.  But 
it  didn't  make  any  difference,  did  it?" 

Since  then,  I  have  lost  dozens  of  similar 
arguments — enough  to  convince  me,  for- 
ever, that  women  are  not  battling  for 
equality;  but  rather,  for  the  right  to  battle 
for  equality.  And  on  their  own  terms. 
Today,  I  think  that  if  more  men  realized 
this,  there  would  be  no  battle  at  all,  for 
they  would  have  enough  sense  to  stay  out 
of  the  fight  altogether.  As  long  as  they 
don't,  they  wiU  be  bom  victims. 

NOT  long  ago,  my  oldest  boy,  Michael, 
came  to  me  with  the  complaint  that, 
"Mommie  doesn't  imderstand  me."  His 
feelings  were  hurt  because  Diana,  for 
good  reason,  had  not  allowed  him  to  wan- 
der down  the  street  to  play  cowboys  with 
some  other  kids.  "Of  course,  she  does, 
Son,"  I  told  him,  reassuringly.  I  meant  to 
say  further  that  he  would  never  know 
how  well  she  understands  him.  But  Mikie 
is  still  too  young  to  be  pondering  about 
such  things.  Perhaps  he  will  come  to  me 
later  in  life  with  a  similar  complaint 
about  his  girlfriend,  and  then  I  can  teU 
him  the  whole  truth. 

"Son,"  I  will  say,  assioming  a  paternal 
scowl,  "men  wUl  always  worry  about 
women  not  understanding  them.  But  it 
is  not  true.  In  only  seems  so  because  men 
are  so  totally  incapable  of  understanding 
women.  But  don't  worry  about  it.  Son. 
You  never  wiU  know  the  way  a  woman's 
mind  works.  Just  give  up." 

I  honestly  believe  that  if  you  could  take 
a  picture  of  a  woman's  mind  it  would  re- 
veal a  pattern  of  tangled  thought  trails, 
with  pitfalls  lurking  at  every  tum.  By 
this,  I  do  not  mean  that  women  are  lack- 
ing logic  or  judgment.  Generally  speak- 
ing, a  woman's  judgment  is  much  sounder 
than  a  man's,  for  usually  he  is  caught  up 
in  his  dreams.  For  this  reason,  the  right 
woman  can  always  bring  tremendous  in- 
sight into  a  man's  life.  But  try  as  he  may, 
he  wUl  never  understand  her,  even  when 
she  is  pleading  for  him  to  do  so.  A  man 
can't  shift  that  fast. 

It  reminds  me  of  the  story  of  the  wife  who 
came  home  with  a  lamp  which  had  been 
reduced  from  $79.50  to  $54.00.  She  also  had 
a  new  bathing  suit  that  cost,  she  said,  only 
$29.50  on  sale,  too.  Her  reasoning  was 
that  since  she  had  saved  $25.50  on  the 
lamp,  the  suit  had  only  cost  her  $4.00,  and 
wasn't  she  the  thrifty  one?  It  took  her 
husband  some  time  to  figure  it  out,  but 
almost  at  once  he  knew  that  her  thrift  was 
sure  to  cost  him  dough. 
To  my  knowledge,  no  man  ever  won  an 


argument  with  a  woman.  Whenever  it 
seems  that  he  has,  he  should  merely  con- 
sider it  the  first  round.  He  has  been  con- 
ceded that  one  in  order  to  lose  less  pain- 
fully the  next,  more  important,  round. 
Thus,  I  fear,  it  wUl  be  to  the  grave.  And 
if  my  sons  or  anyone  else  reading  this 
detects  a  note  of  bitterness — well,  I  con- 
fess that  I  don't  know  another  way  to 
swallow  the  unpleasant  truth. 

There  was  a  scene  in  Champion  that 
will  illustrate  what  I  meain.  I  remember 
it  because  it  was  handled  so  subtly.  May- 
be you  will,  too.  Remember  the  scene 
where  the  blonde  girl  insists  that  the 
Champ  get  a  new  manager  or  else?  "No," 
he  says.  "No,"  he  repeats,  in  answer  to 
her  pleading.  "Absolutely  not,"  he  says, 
with  finality.  Then  the  scene  fades,  and 
the  next  shot  we  see  is  the  Champ,  sitting 
in  the  office  of  his  new  manager,  discussing 
terms. 

Why  did  he  give  in?  Some  people  would 
call  it  love.  You  know,  the  web  that  traps 
us  all. 


Groucho  Marx,  who  detests  auto- 
graphing, was  seized  on  the  arm 
by  a  gal  who  said: 
"I  want  to  send  you  a  present. 
Would  you  tell  me  your  birthday?" 
"Certainly,"  said  Groucho.  "Jan- 
uary fortieth." 

Earl  Wilson  in 
The  New  York  Post 

I  can  hardly  bear  looking  at  my  boys 
when  I  realize  that  it  won't  be  long  be- 
fore some  beautiful  little  girl  with  pig- 
tails will  be  the  cause  for  their  front 
teeth  being  knocked  out.  My  heart  falters 
when  I  think  of  them  standing  in  front 
of  a  mirror,  shaving  a  non-existent  beard, 
and  tying  and  retying  their  ties  in  order 
to  make  the  best  possible  impression  on 
their  girlfriend  of  the  moment.  And  I 
know  there  will  come  a  time  when  a 
particular  girl  will,  for  each  of  them,  be 
the  cause  of  real  heartache. 

Unfortimately,  there  is  not  much  con- 
crete advice  I  will  be  able  to  give  my 
boys  on  that  score.  But  I  cEUi  remind 
them  that  while  the  heart  is  the  center  of 
our  whole  existence,  it  fortvmately  has 
greater  recuperative  powers  than  any 
other  part  of  our  body. 

I  remember  how  I  foimd  that  out.  When 
I  was  in  the  second  grade,  I  fell  horribly 
in  love  with  a  little  girl  who  was  in  the 
third  grade.  She  was  the  most  beautiful 
girl  in  school,  a  dream  with  rosy  cheeks, 
blonde  hair,  and  the  bluest  eyes  I've  ever 
seen  to  this  day.  I  gave  her  a  ring  I'd 
made  out  of  a  nail,  and  she  promised  me 
faithfully  that  she  would  wait  for  me  untU 
we  both  grew  up.  She  didn't.  She  mar- 
ried some  character  before  she  even  fin- 
ished high  school,  and  it  nearly  killed  me. 
Until  I  met  another  girl,  that  summer, 
who  had  brown  eyes,  dimples,  and  the 
smoothest  black  hair  I've  ever  seen. 

When  your  heart  is  broken,  it  takes 
another  woman  to  pick  up  the  pieces  and 
put  them  back  together  again.  That  is 
why,  in  spite  of  all  the  confusion  they 
cause,  women  are  here  to  stay. 

And,  you  know,  it's  not  so  bad.  Women, 
in  addition  to  being  a  part  of  the  educa- 
tion of  every  man,  are  really  wonderful 
when  they  are  wonderful.  But  when 
they're  bad,  there's  nothing  worse. 

In  closing,  I  would  like  to  say  I  know 
that  when  my  boys  grow  up  and  read 
this  they  wiU  take  it  to  their  mother.  She 
will  undoubtedly  rip  it  to  bits  and  give 
them  the  real  truth.  And  I  know  one 
other  thing  for  sure.  I  won't  argue  witli 
her.  Te™  End 

{Kirk  Douglas  is  currenth'  starring  in 
Paramount' s  Ace  In  The  Hc'^- — ^<i-) 


marriage  and  joan 


{Continued  from  page  47)  would  kill  me 
if  I  told  how  old  she  was  when  she  and 
Dale  faced  the  minister.  I'll  just  tell  you 
she  wasn't  17  and  let  it  go  at  that.  Both  of 
them  were  old  enough  to  know  what  they 
wanted.  I've  seen  that  marriage  work.  I 
think  it's  the  most  wonderful  thing  in  the 
world.  And  I  just  couldn't  settle  for  less. 

"As  a  matter  of  fact,"  Joan  continued, 
"I  really  think  it  was  because  I  feel  so 
strongly  about  this  that  Chuck  Saxon,  the 
editor  of  Modern  Screen,  asked  me  to  do  a 
teen-age  column  for  this  magazine.  I'm 
trying  my  level  best  to  give  good  advice  to 
those  teen-agers.  And  where  would  I  be 
with  those  kids  who  say  they  believe  in  me 
if  I  did  anything  so  irresponsible  as  getting 
married  now?" 

"D  UT  what  will  happen  to  Joan  if  she  falls 
in  love? 

Joan  has  been  in  love.  And  it  is  this  very 
fact  that  makes  her  afraid  of  marriage.  If 
this  seems  ambiguous,  listen  to  the  story. 

The  first  time  Joan  thought  she  fell  in 
love  was  with  a  man  15  years  older  than 
she.  The  psychologists  will  tell  you  that  this 
is  right  on  the  nose  of  normal.  The  Freud- 
ian pattern,  in  a  nutshell,  is  that  the  young 
girl,  afraid  of  the  parry  and  thrust  of  boys 
her  own  age,  transfers  from  the  security 
her  father  has  given  her  to  what  she  thinks 
is  the  security  of  an  older  man. 

The  man  thought  she  was  a  bright  child 
— and  so  pretty  to  look  at.  He  flattered  her, 
and  teased  her,  and  Joan  mistook  this  for 
love. 

When  she  learned  that  he  loved  her  only 
as  a  person  loves  a  child,  she  was  emotion- 
ally shocked.  Joan,  like  all  good  actresses, 
is  intense.  She  felt  life  was  over  for  her. 


She  felt  her  youth  had  betrayed  her.  She 
was  convinced  that  she  would  never  smile 
again;  never  be  interested  in  anybody  else 
for  the  rest  of  her  life. 

Then  one  day  on  the  set  she  was  intro- 
duced to  a  boy  who  had  come  for  an  inter- 
view with  the  director.  He  was  tall  and 
young  and  very  charming.  He  liked  Joan 
immediately.  He  asked  her  for  a  date. 
Joan  found  herself  laughing  with  this  boy 
and  thinking  he  was — well — quite  cute.  For 
a  moment  she  drew  back  for  a  little  self 
analysis.  "I  must  be  pretty  superficial,"  she 
thought.  "Why,  I'm  having  fun.  I'm  laugh- 
ing. And  just  a  little  while  ago  I  was  in 
the  throes  of  an  impossible  love." 

So  she  had  a  couple  of  dates  with  this 
boy.  He  was  a  young  actor  and  they  had  a 
great  deal  in  common.  They  liked  the  same 
movies  or  they  didn't  like  the  same  movies. 
It  didn't  matter.  They  could  argue  about 
them  either  way.  The  older  man  was  for- 
gotten, and  Joan  found  herself  with  a  real 
crush  on  the  boy. 

But,  because  she  believes  that  a  girl  who 
ties  herself  to  one  boy  until  she  has  known 
several  and  has  some  basis  for  comparison 
is  foolish,  they  didn't  go  steady.  So,  time, 
youth,  and  nature  took  their  course.  Noth- 
ing climactic,  nor  dramatic  happened.  Just 
eventually  she  was  not  in  love  with  the 
boy  any  more,  although  she  managed  to 
keep  him  as  a  friend. 

It  was  then  that  Joan  began  to  think.  She 
was  simbathing  in  the  charming  patio  of  her 
parents'  home  when  she  told  me  about  it. 
"I  began  to  think,  then,  about  marriage  and 
me,"  she  said.  "And  I  thought  well,  for 
heaven's  sake,  if  I  can  fall  in  and  out  of  love 
so  fast,  I'd  better  wait  until  I'm  sure.  I  be- 
gan to  wonder  what  would  have  happened 
iiE  I  had  been  able  to  marry  someone  I  had 
a  crush  on — and  then  didn't  have  the  crush 
any  more.  Why,  I  would  be  married!  What 
if  I  fell  out  of  love  after  I  was  married! 


Then  where  would  I  find  all  my  plans  for 
making  my  marriage  stick?  And  that's 
when  I  knew  that  marriage  is  a  grown- 
up business  and  that  you  have  to  be  pretty 
adult  to  accept  all  the  responsibilities  that 
go  with  it." 

As  she  was  talking  I  had  forgotten  that 
Joan  had  her  17th  birthday  in  July.  For 
she  was  very  serious  and  making  very  good 
sense.  She  sat  up  straight  on  the  chaise. 
"There  are  exceptions,  of  course,"  she  said. 
"But  look  at  a  lot  of  Hollywood  teen-age 
marriages.  Well,  for  that  matter,  look  at  a 
lot  of  teen-age  marriages  anywhere.  How 
can  a  teen-ager  promise  her  adult  life  to  a 
boy  or  a  man  untU  she  is  adult?  Honestly, 
marriage  is  the  most  serious  thing  in  the 
world.  And,  believe  me,  I'm  not  going  into 
it,  even  if  my  parents  would  let  me,  until 
I'm  sure  it's  real  and  not  just  a  crush.  And 
when  you've  had  a  lot  of  crushes  how  can 
you  be  sure?" 

THERE  was,  of  course,  the  inevitable  ro- 
mantic gossip  about  Joan  and  Farley 
Granger.  Never  has  there  been  any  ro- 
mance between  them.  She  has  gone  out 
with  Farley  no  more  than  five  times.  When 
Joan  and  Farley  met  she  was  a  frightened, 
confused  kid.  Picture  the  scene.  She  was  14 
years  old,  wanting  desperately  to  play  the 
leading  role  in  Roseanna  McCoy.  Farley 
was  already  an  established  star.  He  wasn't 
worried  about  getting  his  part. 

While  Joan  was  making  a  test  for  Rose- 
anna, suddenly  Farley  kissed  her.  She  was 
the  most  surprised  girl  in  the  world.  It  was 
part  of  the  scene  they  were  playing,  but 
Joan  didn't  know  imtil  later  that  the  di- 
rector had  told  Farley  to  surprise  her. 

Well,  Farley  was  charming  to  Joan  all 
during  the  filming  of  Roseanna  McCoy.  Not 
only  did  they  have  a  good  basis  for  friend- 
ship, but  they  found  they  could  laugh  to- 
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But  they  have  never  for  a  moment  been 
in  love.  Don't  ask  Joan  why.  He  is  a  hand- 
some, exciting  young  man.  Joan  is  a  beau- 
tiftd  girl.  But  their  relationship  has  been 
one  of  friendship  only.  That's  how  it  is  and 
it  could  never  be  any  other  way. 

Same  way  with  Carleton  Carpenter — or 
Carp,  as  he  is  known  to  his  friends.  Joan 
said,  "I  know  it's  an  old  gag  to  say  a  boy  is 
'like  a  brother  to  me'  but  I  honestly  feel  as 
if  Carp  were  my  brother."  For  one  thing 
Carp  is  very  close  to  Joan's  famUy.  When 
they  first  met  at  a  square  dance  Joan  said, 
"You  have  to  meet  my  mother  and  father. 
You'll  love  them." 

He  met  Joan's  parents  and,  sure  enough, 
he  did.  He's  a  real  show  business  kid  and 
likes  to  gossip  about  Broadway.  Besides,  he 
plays  a  good  game  of  bridge.  One  of  Joan's 
complaints  is  that  whenever  she  brings  a 
new  beau  home  the  first  question  Kathe- 
rine  and  Dale  ask  is,  "Do  you  play  bridge?" 
If  the  beau  says,  "Yes,"  then  Joan  says, 
"There  goes  my  evening." 

Not  only  do  Carp  and  Joan  have  a  lot  of 
fun  together,  they  also  share  confidences. 
The  year  before  last  Carp  took  Joan  to  the 
Academy  Awards  presentation  and  they 
made  a  date  right  then  for  the  following 
year.  But  a  week  before  the  big  shindig, 
Carp  said  to  Joan,  "Look,  honey,  it's  been  a 
year  since  we  made  this  date.  If  you'd 
rather  go  with  somebody  else,  I'll  under- 
stand." 

Joan  said,  later,  "Well,  of  course,  I  would 
rather  have  gone  with  Carp  than  anybody. 
We  had  such  fun!  But  honestly  did  you  ever 


hear  of  anything  so  sweet — ^his  letting  me 
off  the  hook  if  I  wanted  to  get  off  it?  Now 
that  was  a  real  brotherly  thing  to  do." 

r\  NE  of  Joan's  favorite  phrases  is,  "I  just 
^  love  So-and-So."  But  she  knows  the 
difference  between  "loving"  and  "being  in 
love."  "Or  do  I?"  she  mused.  "Maybe  I've 
never  been  in  love.  I  don't  know." 

Whatever  it  is,  at  the  moment  the  Num- 
ber One  boy  is  Lee  Kirby.  She  met  Lee 
when  she  worked  with  her'dramatic  coach, 
Bob  Paris.  Lee,  although  an  advertising 
man,  is  very  much  interested  in  acting  and 
has  done  little  theater  work.  Joan  says, 
"he's  one  of  the  nicest  persons  I've  ever 
known."  Joan  and  Lee  have  many  things 
in  common.  They  like  to  ride  horseback 
and  they  both  crave  the  beach,  and  are 
excellent  swimmers. 

"But  when  people  ask  me  if  I'm  going  to 
marry  Lee  I  have  to  laugh.  Even  if  we 
wanted  to,  how  could  we?  Wouldn't  it  be 
foolish  if  we  did?  No  sir,  I'm  not  getting 
married  tmtil  I'm  sure. 

"And  here's  something  else  that  you  can 
count  on.  My  statement  about  marriage 
is  for  real.  I'm  not  going  to  get  married 
until  I  positively  know  how  I  feel  and — 
more  important  although  maybe  not  so 
romantic — ^until  I'm  sure  it's  practical." 

And  that's  Joan  Evans,  sticking  her  neck 
out  as  usual.  This  time,  as  always,  she's  on 
the  level.  The  Eitni 

(Joan  Evans  will  soon  be  seen  in  On 
The  Loose.— Ed.) 


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□  The  Inside  Story 

□  Louella  Parsons'  Good  News 

□  Christopher  Kane's  Movie  Reviews 

□  Anne  Baxter — Your  Hollywood 
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n  DufF's  Gone  Fishin'  (Howard  Duff) 

□  A  Love  Like  Nancy's  (Nancy  Sinatra) 

□  Sex  Is  Not  Enough!  by  Lana  Turner 

□  Hot  Copy  Coming  Up! 
by  Louella  Parsons 

□  Why  Tony  and  Janet  Had  to  Elope 
(Curtis-Leigh) 

n  They    Mode    Fun    of    Love  (Farley 
Granger-Shelley  Winters) 

□  We  Swam  Our  Way  To  Giro's 

□  The  Truth  About  Hollywood  Wolves 

□  Marriage  and  Joan  (Joan  Evans] 

□  Who'd  Marry  Me?  by  Marilyn  Monroe 
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Women  by  Kirk  Douglas 

□  It's  Reigning  Cats  and  Dogs 

□  Dana  Andrews:  Problem  Father 
n  Abba-Dabba-Debbie 

(Debbie  Reynolds) 

□  Roy's  Ranch  (Roy  Rogers) 

□  Hollywood  Fashions  for  Fall 

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d  matching  Fire  Engine  Red  lipstick; 
e  new  Duolin  Enzyme  all-purpose  face 
sam;    Playtex    girdles;    Lentheric  Red 
lac   cologne,   and   Luciene   of  Beverly 
Hills  cosmetic  preparations  and  lipsticks, 
of  these  gifts  were  wrapped  up  in 
lay  Company  hat-boxes. 
On  the  sidelines  were  some  of  Holly- 
ood's  most  noted  coliminists  and  stars 
ho  came  to  see  the  show  and  model  the 
ig  selections.    Leslie  Caron,  MGM's 
ew  French  star,  was   excitedly  telling 
~ane  Greer  of  her  interest  in  American 
shions.  And  Nancy  Davis,  PhyUis  Kirk 
d  Monica  Lewis  were  in  a  conference, 
wondering  which  dresses  they  would  be 
wearing. 

The  show  was  put  on  the  road — rather 
around   the   pool.    And    as   the  models 
"ppeared,  the  male  members  of  the  board 
coked   somewhat   perplexed.    "It's  hard 
decide  which  to  choose,"  Peter  smiled. 
"The    beautiful    girls    or    the  beautiful 
othes." 

"The  girls,  you  fool,"  McCarthy  piped  up. 

Charlie  wasn't  much  help.  A  model 
strolled  by  wearing  a  blue  and  white 
plaid  skirt,  white  sweater  and  plaid  stole 
combination.  "Ahhhh  .  .  ."  miirmiired 
Howard    Ehiff    in    obvious  appreciation. 

"Huh  .  .  ."  replied  Charlie.  "Take  a 
look  at  the  blonde  that's  coming  our  way." 

As  a  matter  of  fact,  Charlie  was  no  help 
at  all.  Lvmcheon  was  continuous  and  served 
between  sets  by  the  Brown  Derby  wait- 
resses in  their  stiffly  starched  dresses.  "Who 
can  concentrate  on  food?"  Mr.  McCarthy 
remarked.  "But  I  wUl  have  another  slug 
of  coke,  if  you  please,  Bergen." 

"Aren't  these  dresses  just  a  Uttle  expen- 
sive?" Peter  Lawford  asked  a  Modern 
Screen  editor. 

Said  editor  gave  him  a  proud  smile. 
"Frankly,  they  cost  very  little.  The  price 
range  is  in  a  low  bracket  that  all  yoimg 
girls  can  afford." 

"Amazing,"  said  Pete.  Then  he  nodded 
toward  a  black  net  evening  gown.  "That 
dress  looks  like  a  million  dollars." 

"So  do  the  rest,"  added  Howard.  "And 
Peter,  my  boy,  if  and  when  I  marry,  I 
aall  suggest  that  my  wife  take  a  look 
at  the  pages  of  M.S." 

'T'he  members  of  the  board  stayed  deep 
in  thought  and  their  page-size  ballots 
during  the  show.  No  one  told  anyone  else 
which  dress  he  or  she  was  voting  a  fav- 
orite. However,  occasionally  an  unguarded 
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The  ballots  were  tabulated  at  the  con- 
clusion of  the  show  and  everyone  anxiously 
waited  to  hear  the  results,  and  to  see 
the  winners  modeled  by  the  stars.  As  it 
turned  out,  after  the  winners  were  an- 
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derful she'd  looked  in  it.  When  it  was 
declared  a  winner,  Liz  promptly  asked  if 
she  might  try  it  on. 

"May  I  model  the  black  tafEeta?"  asked 
Diana. 

"I  liked  the  other  black  dress,"  Mona 
said. 

"Poof,"  said  Charlie.  "You  haven't  Uved 
tUL  you've  seen  my  new  outfit." 

"Just  a  minute,  Charlie,"  Bergen  told 
him.  "We'll  model  later.  Right  now  I've 
duties  to  perform  as  landlord  and  host." 

Charlie  and  Edgar  had  identical  dress 
suits,  but  no  one  noticed  that  until 
Edgar  toured  the  lawn  to  make  sure  the 
guests  were  having  a  fine  time. 

"Some  view  you  have  here,"  said  a 
columnist. 

Bergen  smiled,  and  pointed  out  into 
space,  where  you  could  ghmpse  John 
Barrymore's  former  estate,  "Chinatown 
Settlement."  "See  that  tree?"  he  asked. 
There  was  a  tree  all  right,  but  it  had  only 
a  few  branches. 

"John  was  a  great  hunter,"  replied 
Bergen,  "and  he  shot  off  the  branches  with 
his  deer  rifle." 

All  talk  of  far-away  scenery  was  for- 
gotten when  the  girls  came  out  in  the  win- 
ning dresses.  Nancy  Davis  wore  the  black 
net  formal.  Diana  Lynn  was  in  the  black 
taffeta.  Liz  Taylor  looked  Uke  at  least 
a  hxmdred  thousand  in  the  outfit  she'd 
chosen.  Jane  Greer  wore  a  red  corduroy 
dress  vnih.  matching  accessories.  Peter 
Lawford  was  admiring  PhyUis  Kirk  in  a 
smart  grey  suit.  And  on  into  the  afternoon 
.  .  .  Dresses  weren't  the  only  \vinners, 
though.  The  Modern  Screen  Hollywood 
Fashion  Board  gave  special  awards  to 
Cutex:  "For  fashion  in  color,  excellence  in 
quality  and  popular  price;"  Playtex:  "For 
the  most  revolutionary  girdles  in  a  decade 
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Willys  of  Hollywood:  "For  excellence  in 
the  design  of  hosiery.  First — Stockings  for 
t'ne  Stars — and  now  for  the  women  of 

"The  women  of  America  don't  have  to  go 
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(Ricardo  Montalhan  can  he  seen  in  Across 
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Thin  Knife,  and  Peter  Lawjord  in  Just 
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two-to-one  over  such  peculiar  choices  as 
hamsters  and  possums,  although  the  cats 
might  not  have  been  doing  so  well  if  it 
weren't  for  James  Mason's  much-publicized 
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But  dogs  are  king,  and  nowhere  are  they 
more  widely  and  dotingly  maintained  than 
here  in  Hollywood. 

In  other  parts  of  the  country  it  is  pos- 
sible to  keep  pets  without  being  suspected 
of  anything  more  than  normal  himiani- 
tarianism,  but  not  here.  Indeed,  a  Los 
Angeles  psychologist  solemnly  explained 
not  long  ago  that  with  stars,  keeping  pets 
Ls  a  compulsion,  for  their  egos  must  feed 
on  the  mute  devotion  of  animals. 

One  famous  actress  took  the  trouble  to 
refute  this  psychologist  pretty  thoroughly. 

"If  you  want  to  go  into  it  on  a  clinical 
basis,"  she  said,  "it  may  be  principally 
that  we're  lonely.  I  don't  really  want  to 
make  it  clinical.  I've  never  tried  to  analyze 
it.  If  I'd  been  asked  offhand,  I  just  would 
have  said  that  we  like  pets,  the  way  other 
people  do.  But  now  that  you've  brought  it 
up,  it  definitely  isn't  ego.  Our  egos  are 
saturated  as  it  is.  You  can  get  terribly  lone- 
ly in  the  midst  of  friends — if  they're 
friends — whose  motives  you're  never  quite 
sure  of.  You  know,  it's  the  same  as  a 
wealthy  person  living  behind  a  protective 
armor  of  distrust.  But  a  pet  j\ist  loves  you 
because  you're  you.  He  doesn't  want  any- 
thing except  to  eat  and  play  and  stay 
alive.  He  doesn't  know  you're  a  star  and 
he  doesn't  care,  and  he  wouldn't  know  a 
house  in  Beverly  HUls  from  a  shanty. 
If  you  were  washed  up  tomorrow,  your 
friends  wouldn't  know  your  name,  but  your 
pets — they'd  still  be  there." 

ALTHOUGH,  nationally,  cocker  spaniels 
seem  to  have  taken  over  the  No.  1 
spot  in  public  dog  fancy,  they  do  not  rate 
better  than  fifth  in  Hollywood.  Accord- 
ing to  a  loose  survey  conducted  recently, 
the  stars  prefer  in  order,  boxers,  French 
poodles,  collies,  police  dogs,  cockers,  and 
dachshunds. 

Among  the  more  ardent  boxer  de- 
votees are  the  Alan  Ladds,  who  keep  two 
in  their  West  Los  Angeles  home  and  seven 
(at  last  count)  at  their  ranch.  They  are 
enamored  in  particular  of  an  aging,  heroic 
female  named  Jezebel. 

Jezebel,  Ladd  sadly  calculates,  may  not 
be  long  for  this  earth  due  to  her  zeal  for 
biting  automobile  tires  while  the  tire  is 
doing  50  miles  an  hour.  But  so  long  as 
Jezebel  is  around,  she  gets  the  triple -A 
treatment  with  horsemeat  on  the  side. 

It  was  Jezebel,  who  saw  a  delivery  truck 
backing  in  the  Ladds'  drive  while  the 
Ladds'  little  daughter  Alana  stood  gravely 
in  its  path  looking  the  wrong  way. 

Jezebel  did  aU  that  she  could.  She 
bounded  into  the  child,  knocked  her  clear 
and  took  the  blow  herself.  By  the  time 
Ladd  got  her  to  the  vet's  she  was  as  close 
to  dead  as  a  live  dog  can  be,  and  she  will 
never  be  in  fighting  trim  again.  But  that 
has  not  stopped  her  where  tires  are  in- 
volved. She  can  bite  tires  standing  still  but 
she  prefers  them  on  the  wing,  and  if  one 
of  these  days  she  tackles  the  enemy  head- 
on  instead  of  from  the  flank,  Jezebel's 
chances  of  a  clean-cut  decision  will  be 
very  bad. 

Jezebel's  masters  served  interne  duty  at 


the  arrival  of  Macdonald  Carey's  water - 
spaniel.  Neither  mother  nor  pup  needed 
medical  assistance,  but  Carey  did. 

Word  of  the  pup's  arrival  reached  Carey 
at  the  Ladd  ranch.  And  inasmuch  as  he'd 
been  anticipating  the  event  for  some  time 
and  was  duly  joyous,  he  leaped  into  the 
air  and  continued  straight  on  up  until  he 
met  a  rafter,  at  which  point  he  naturally 
started  down.  He  came  down  for  a  long 
time  as  imconscious  as  anyone  ever  gets, 
and  had  to  be  given  scalp  first-aid  by  his 
hosts  before  being  rushed  to  a  hospitial 
for  minor  surgery.  The  spaniel  shortly  was 
named  Stitch. 

Stitch,  according  to  his  bemused  master, 
has  put  a  most  fearful  dent  in  the  theory 
that  Dogs  Always  Kjiow.  Stitch  likes 
burglars  and  does  not  care  a  hoot  for  many 
kindly,  upright,  and  dog-loving  visitors  who 
come  to  the  Careys'  bearing  him  bones.  (He 
doesn't  like  bones.  He  likes  Royal  Crown 
Cola  and  chocolate  eclairs.)  Stitch  adores 
the  furtive  type  of  gentlemen  interested 
in  selling  Carey  salted  gold  mines,  but 
he  has  an  antipathy  toward  powerful  exec- 
utives interested  in  furthering  Carey's 
career.  Stitch  doesn't  bite  but  there  is  still 
a  vague  suspicion  chez  Carey  that  the  hand 
that  feeds  him  had  better  be  quick. 

"The  only  time  Stitch  ever  got  real  en- 
thusiastic about  me,"  says  Carey,  "was 
when  I  was  playing  heavy  parts  and  came 
home  beaurded  and  skulking  like  the  dog 
of  a  rustler  I  was.  He  loved  me  then.  If  a 
prowler  ever  does  get  into  the  house, 
Stitch  is  going  to  give  him  coffee  and  sand- 
wiches, show  him  the  key  to  the  silverware 


Eve  Arden,  who  wears  a  short 
cropped  haircut  .  .  .  goes  to  the 
same  hairdresser  who  does  Joan 
Crawford's  French  poodle,  Ciiquot. 

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and  slip  him  the  name  of  a  good  fence. 
Whose  best  friend,  I  ask  you?" 

Carey's  problems  are  not  unlike  those 
of  Doris  Day,  the  proud  but  puzzled  pos- 
sessor of  two  black  poodles  named  Beanie 
and  Smudgy.  Beanie,  who  hasn't  the 
faintest  idea  he's  a  dog,  eats  oranges  when- 
ever he  can  get  into  striking  position  at 
his  owners'  modest  grove,  whereas  Smudgy 
has  developed  a  violent  anti-social  bent. 
Smudgy  Ukes  nothing  quite  so  much  as 
snubbing  Marty  Melcher,  Miss  Day's  hus- 
band who  adores  him;  jumping  happily  on 
the  laps  of  guests  who  break  out  into 
nervous  scrofula  at  any  proximity  to  a 
dog,  and  wrecking  the  silk- lined  antiques 
the  Melchers  lately  have  acquired.  He  is 
likewise  devoted  to  soaking  his  feet  in 
motor  oU  against  the  day  when  someone 
will  turn  up  in  a  white  flaimel  suit. 

Vet  some  feel  that  the  mantle  of  dog's 
-■■  most  tireless  martyr  belongs  rightfully 
to  Victor  Mature,  who  is  stubbornly  in- 
fatuated with  an  obese  German  shepherd 
named  Nicky. 

Nicky  has  never  yet  been  booked  for 
forgery,  embezzlement  or  assault  with  a 
blunt  weapon,  but  she  has  been  jugged  so 
often  that  the  local  pound  officials  are 
thinking  of  giving  her  a  monthly  rate.  The 
charge  generally  is  running  around  without 
a  muzzle,  but  not  long  ago  she  faced  the 
stiffest  rap  yet:  she  was  said  to  have  bitten 
the  postman.  The  postman  so  said.  There 
were  added  mutterings  that  Nicky  had 
long  taken  a  dim  view  toward  imif orms  and 
their  wearers,  notably  police,  postmen  and 
commissioned  officers. 

Mature  was  outraged.  He  invited  all  and 
sundry  to  behold  the  riot  of  Nicky  being 
systematically  pulled  apart  by  the  neigh- 
borhood children,  an  ordeal  to  which  she 
does  indeed  submit  with  boundless  toler- 
ance. And  for  a  while  the  day  was  saved. 


Among  the  more  harassed  owners  of 
small-fry  dogs  these  days  is  Ava  Gardner, 
whose  Welsh  Corgi  puppy,  Rags,  has  es- 
tablished squatter's  rights  to  a  pair  of 
silver  evening  slippers  Miss  Gardner  had 
always  figured  were  hers.  An  absurb  idea. 
The  thing  began  one  night  as  Miss  Gardner 
was  about  to  set  sail  for  an  opening  and 
couldn't  find  the  sandals  anywhere.  It 
wasn't  until  the  next  day  that  they  turned 
up  in  Rags'  bachelor  suite  in  the  backyard. 
Patiently  they  were  restored  to  a  closet 
and  just  as  patiently  Rags  preempted  them 
again.  There  is  nothing  furtive  about  the 
thefts.  Rags  simply  drags  the  shoes  one  at 
a  time  through  the  house,  caches  them  in 
his  own  joint  and  then  sits  on  them.  Won't 
go  near  any  other  article  of  the  boss's  ap- 
parel.   It's  silver  sUppers  or  nothing. 

John  Agar's  poodle,  Ragmop,  has  a  bit  of 
larceny  in  him,  too,  although  his  heart's  in 
the  right  place.  He's  forever  delivering  toys 
to  Agar,  whose  only  problem  after  that  is 
finding  out  which  of  the  neighbors'  chil- 
dren the  toys  belong  to  and  returning  them 
with  apologies. 

You  can  say  this  much  for  Ragmop, 
however:  his  besetting  vice  is  not  vanity, 
which  is  nice  going  for  a  poodle.  If  there's 
any  object  in  the  world  Ragmop  regards 
with  undisguised  fear  and  loathing,  it's  the 
four-legged  black  party  in  the  mirror.  The 
most  casual  glimpse  of  himself  is  enough 
to  scare  Ragmop  for  hours. 

Tn  Hollywood  as  elsewhere,  multiplica- 
-■-  tion  of  pets  is  not  the  sole  monopoly  of 
rabbits. 

Anne  Baxter's  poodle  Shoofly  once  popu- 
lated Anne's  tiny  apartment  beyond  all 
reason.  Anne  and  her  husband  John  Hodiak 
were  waiting  to  move  into  a  house  under 
construction,  but  there  was  plenty  of  room 
and  no  hurry. 

Then  all  of  a  sudden  it  wasn't  like  that 
at  all.  Shoofly  startled  everybody,  includ- 
ing herself,  by  becoming  the  proud  mother 
of  six. 

Compared  to  Gregory  Peck's  two  white 
police  dogs,  however,  Shoofly  was  simply 
indulging  in  light  exercise.  Greg's  dogs 
have  developed  the  cordial  habit  of  deliv- 
ering litters  of  12  and  13  at  a  time  at 
fairly  regular  intervals.  It  got  so  people 
couldn't  ask  Mr.  Peck  for  the  time  of  day 
without  being  offered  as  many  white  police 
dogs  as  they  could  carry. 

Although  in  Hollywood,  properly  cared 
for  pets  are  often  expensive  to  maintain, 
the  cruelest  single  economic  blow  of  the 
year  thus  far  probably  fell  to  Mitzi  Gaynor, 
who  acquired  for  $14.14  an  intriguing  ani- 
mal believed  to  be  half  beagle  and  half 
buffalo.  For  a  good  many  weeks  Miss  Gay- 
nor was  patrolling  the  lot  chortling  over 
the  bargain  and  decrying  the  foolishness  of 
laying  down  large  sums  of  money  for  pure- 
breds.  Then  one  dark  day  the  beagalo,  to 
dignify  it  with  a  kennel  name,  came  down 
with  distemper.  The  vet's  bill:  $120. 

Once  in  a  while  a  Hollywood  animal,  as 
in  the  case  of  Lassie,  Leo,  and  the  cat 
Rhubarb,  will  pay  a  modest  return  on  its 
investment,  but  the  stars  themselves  have 
had  very  little  luck  in  this  respect. 

Betty  Grable,  for  instance,  has  a  French 
poodle  named  Punkin'  whom  she  trained 
assiduously  not  to  bark  on  the  set,  inas- 
much as  poodles  that  do  bark  on  the  set 
are  not  looked  on  with  any  more  favor  than 
Bright's  disease.  But  then  came  a  mildly 
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a  French  poodle  named  Punkin'  (or  any- 
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bark?  Fat  chance.  P*imkin'  knew  only  one 
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Schnoopsi,  a  dachshund  with  a  great  fancy 
for  green  sweaters.  Schnoopsi,  however, 
is  not  much  of  a  hand  with  a  knitting 
needle  so  Miss  Darnell,  while  she  was  Mrs. 
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The  era  of  the  Russian  wolfhound  and 
the  leashed  leopard  is  dead  so  far  as 
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and  cats  are  like  everyone  else's — purebred 
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tience is  too  much  for  the  stars  to  make 
sure  their  adored  animals  are  healthy  and 
comfortable.  Special  doors  are  cut  within 
doors  to  allow  untrammeled  comings  and 
goings.  Bronze  plates  are  affixed  to  bcironial 
entranceways  for  scratching  purposes.  And 
there  is  a  thriving  turnover  in  dog  and  cat 
gadgets,  including  pillows,  special  ham- 
mocks and  fur-lined  catnip  bags. 

Let  a  cat  cry  or  a  dog  hiccup  and  you 
have  a  million  dollars'  worth  of  concen- 
trated glamor  throwing  the  mink  coat  on 
over  the  silk  pajamas,  and  steering  the 
Jaguar  straight  for  the  vet's.  The  vete- 
rinarians in  Hollywood  are  prosperous  fel- 
lows indeed. 

For  it  seems  that  Hollywood  is  in  love 
with  the  animal  kingdom — large,  small  or 
in-between.  And  happily  enough,  the  ani- 
mal kingdom  returns  the  compliment. 
The  End . 


dana  andrews:  problem  parent 


(Continued  from  page  61)  followed  by 
three  low  keys,  made  a  bow  and  walked 
into  the  wings. 

While  Dana  sat  flabbergasted,  a  small 
girl  with  a  violin  took  her  place  on  the 
stage.  No  sooner  had  she  drawn  her  bow 
over  the  strings  than  David  was  heard  to 
inquire  in  a  loud  voice,  "How  do  you  play 
that  thing?" 

In  much  haste  and  in  mild  confusion 
Dana  rushed  backstage  to  retrieve  his  son. 

Dana's  next  child  was  Kathy.  Dana  was 
delighted  to  have  a  daughter,  for  he  him- 
self had  been  overwhelmed  by  seven 
brothers.  He  prepared  himself  studiously 
for  a  personality  like  David's,  but  Kathy 
evolved  into  a  shy  and  self-conscious  girl. 

"Now  what  do  we  do  about  her?"  he 
wondered. 

Kathy  went  through  her  early  years  as 
though  the  weight  of  the  world  were  on 
her  shoulders.  She  studied  hard,  and  was 
often  on  the  honor  roll.  And  if  David 
weren't  David,  he  would  have  been 
shamed  by  her  report  cards. 

"Why  are  you  always  at  me  to  do  my 
homework?"  he  asked  Dana.  "You're  al- 
ways telling  Kathy  to  stop  studying.  I 
don't  get  it." 

"If  you  were  more  like  Kathy — "  Dana 
began,  but  he  gave  up. 

However,  now  that  she's  eight,  Kathy 
has  developed  a  delightful  sense  of  humor. 
When  Dana  went  to  England  to  make  a 
picture  he  took  his  entire  clan  along,  and 
Kathy  was  captivated  by  the  accent  of 
the  English  children.  Dana  took  her  to 
see  an  Edgar  Kennedy  comedy  one  night. 
In  this  epic,  Mr.  Kennedy  was  having  a 
hard  time  laying  linoleum  on  his  kitchen 
floor.  After  the  linoleum  had  rolled  back 
and  whipped  him  in  the  breeches,  Kathy 
leaned  toward  her  father. 

"My,"  she  said  in  clipped  British  tones, 
"isn't  he  a  mad  fellow?". 

C  TEVEN  was  mxmber  three  in  the  Andrews 
^  family.  He  came  along  11  years  after 
David,  and  much  to  Dana's  chagrin  is  a 
born  athlete.  Watching  a  football  game 
was  fine,  but  after  12  hours'  work  at  the 
studio  Dana  wasn't  ready  to  kick  a  pig- 
skin around  the  back  yard. 

"Why  not.  Daddy?"  Steven  wanted  to 
know.  "David  told  me  you  used  to  play 
with  him." 

"That  was  a  dozen  years  ago.  Son,"  Dana 
told  him.  "It's  something  you  wouldn't 
understand.  Now,  how  about  a  game  of 
croquet?" 

Steven  was  three  years  old  when  Susan 
was  born  and  he  didn't  take  kindly  to  the 


idea  of  a  new  baby  around  the  house.  His 
limelight  was  shattered,  and  to  focus  at- 
tention on  himself  he  reverted  to  baby  talk. 

"Why  can't  one  boy  be  Uke  the  other?" 
Dana  wanted  to  know. 

David  had  never  talked  baby  talk.  There 
was  the  time  when  he  was  not  quite  three 
and  a  strange  woman  had  approached  him 
on  the  street,  cooing  imintelligibly  at  him. 

"You'll  have  to  speak  more  distinctly," 
said  David.    "I  can't  imderstand  you." 

Now  here  was  Steven  at  three,  talking 
like  a  mere  infant. 

"He'll  get  over  it,"  Mary  said.  "Just  pay 
more  attention  to  him  and  less  to  the  baby." 

Dana  took  her  advice,  and  concentrated 
on  Steven  to  such  an  extent  that  he  didn't 
realize  there  was  a  hellion  in  the  house. 
This  was  Susan,  who  hasn't  a  shy  or  in- 
hibited bone  in  her  small  body.  David 
asks  for  things  and  accepts  the  answer  one 
way  or  another;  Kathy  coaxes  and 
weedles;  Steven  uses  logic;  but  Susan — 
she  just  stands  up  and  demands  things. 
Dana's  reasoning  goes  over  her  head  Uke  a 
flying  saucer,  and  in  aU  probability  she 
considers  him  the  man  who  never,  never 
says  yes. 

Even  Kathy,  who  has  taken  over  as  a 
lead  mare  with  the  two  younger  children 
and  repeats  Dana's  lectures  verbatim,  is 
vmable  to  convince  Susan  of  the  sanity  of 
being  deprived  of  something.  And  if 
Kathy  can't  do  it,  no  one  can,  for  in  the 
circle  of  her  own  family  her  self -con- 
sciousness disappears  and  she  bosses  the 
children  hke  a  construction  foreman. 

Their  respective  opinions  of  Dana  are 
different,  but  they  agree  in  one  instance. 
They  think  he's  too  stern.  Dana  says 
maybe  he  is,  but  his  own  father  was  a 
Baptist  minister  who  brooked  no  shenani- 
gans from  his  offspring.  Dana  feels  that 
discipline  never  hurt  a  child. 

/""an  I  go  out  with  the  fellows  tonight?" 
^  David  wants  to  know. 

"Where  are  you  going?"  asks  Dana. 

"Oh— arovmd." 

"No,  you  can't  go." 

"But  gee  whiz.  Dad,  why  not?" 

"Because  I  don't  want  you  floating 
around  a  city  where  you  can  get  into  all 
sorts  of  trouble.  I  want  to  know  where 
you  are." 

"But  Dad,  just  because  we  go  out  at 
night  doesn't  mean  we're  a  wolf  pack!" 

"Tell  me  where  you'll  be,  and  you  can 
go,"  says  Dana.  And  that  is  that. 

Dana  has  been  strict  in  the  matter  of 
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His  interest  rims  to  radios  and  recording 
machines,  anything  with  a  motor,  anything, 
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He  never  gets  it,  but  he  doesn't  give  up 
trying.  When  he  had  his  heart  set  on  a 
motor  scooter,  he  had  a  proposition  ready 
that  he  figured  would  melt  Dana. 

"I  want  the  scooter,"  he  said,  "so  if 
you'll  throw  in  a  little  something,  I'll  take 
a  paper  route  to  make  up  the  rest." 

"What  do  you  consider  a  'little  some- 
thing'?" asked  Dana. 

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the  other  $50  within  two  months." 

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right  ahead  with  your  paper  route,  and 
figure  you'll  have  the  scooter  in  six 
months." 

David's  latest  yen  is  a  pipe  organ.  Dana 
likes  to  encourage  his  love  of  music,  but 
he  feels  that  a  few  thoxisand  dollars  is  an 
intensely  imreasonable  request.  So  even 
though  David  can  play  an  organ,  and 
play  it  well,  he  is  confining  his  music  at 
home  to  the  piano. 

Music  is  one  thing  that  father  and  son 
have  in  common.  Both  like  symphonic 
music,  but  David  gets  carried  away  by 
be-bop,  too.   "I  don't  get  it,"  Dana  says. 

"You're  not  hep,  Dad.  You've  got  to 
have  wheels." 

"Wheels?"  asks  Dana,  confounded. 

And  when  David  tunes  in  his  short  wave 
set  and  gets  a  dreamy  sentimental  time, 
he  says,  "Boy,  listen  to  that  make-out 
music." 

"What,"  says  Dana,  "is  make-out 
music?" 

"For  make-out.  You  know — pitch  woo — 
I  guess  you  used  to  call  it  necking." 

There  is  something  about  children,  Dana 
feels,  that  makes  you  wonder  if  you're  old 
before  your  time.  There  was  the  night 
he  was  amusing  some  of  David's  school- 
mates by  tellmg  them  of  his  own  experi- 
ences at  school.  They  listened  apprecia- 
tively for  a  while  and  then  one  of  them 
piped  up,  "Gee,  Mr.  Andrews,  how  can  you 
remember  all  that?" 

David  has  been  on  the  receiving  end  of 
long  talks  about  the  feminine  half  of  the 
popiilace,  but  the  advice  didn't  sink  in  at 
first.  Once  he  brought  home  a  teen-ager 
about  whom  Dana  still  groans.  "A  real 
tomato,"  he  says  in  an  unfatherly  way. 
David  didn't  appreciate  his  father's  criti- 
cism until  this  particular  tomato  relieved 
him  of  two.  months'  allowance  in  one  short 
afternoon.  Now  he  agrees  that  Dana's 
advice  about  women  is  'pretty  good.' 
Nevertheless,  Dana  is  happy  that  his  son 
attends  a  boys'  school.  ""There  are  no  girls 
available  at  Webb,"  he  says  with  great 
glee.   And  David  throws  him  a  dark  look. 

Steven  and  Susan  are  too  busy  vying 
with  each  other  to  pay  any  attention  to 
the  opposite  sex,  but  Kathy's  interest  is 
blithely  fickle  and  frank.  Every  two  weeks 
she  comes  home  filled  with  admiration 
about  a  different  boy  at  school.  Her  raptur- 
ous descriptions  leave  her  two  brothers 
openly  disgusted. 

The  quartet  has  been  made  quite  aware 
of  proper  social  behavior — ^so  acutely 
aware  that  Dana  has  decided  not  to  show 
any  of  his  movies  at  home  any  more.  In 
the  last  movie  he  screened  for  the  family, 
he  made  a  rather  definite  pass  at  Susan 
Hayward.  There  was  a  sharp  intake  of 
breath  from  the  three  youngest,  and 
Steven  let  go  with  a  shocked,  "Oh — 
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too  young  to  realize  that  their  father  is  a 
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"What's  the  matter  with  levis?"  David 
demands.    "All  the  guys  wear  them." 

"Do  all  the  guys  wear  them  so  low  that 
they  look  as  though  they're  going  to  fall 
off?  And  what  about  your  hair?  There's 
a  year's  growth  there.  They  do  have  a 
barber  at  Webb,  don't  they?" 

When  David  sheds  his  levis,  he  usually 
makes  a  trip  to  Dana's  wardrobe  closet, 
with  the  result  that  Dana  never  can  find 
the  exact  slacks  or  tie  he  wants.  Most  of 
his  favorite  articles  are  in  David's  locker 
at  school. 

Steven's  problem  is  that  he  goes  at 
everything  like  a  house  afire,  and  then  he 
slows  down  to  an  almost  complete  stop. 
In  the  morning  he  takes  a  flying  leap  out 
of  bed,  races  to  the  shower,  and  then 
dawdles  until  he's  late  for  breakfast.  The 
other  morning  he  had  just  managed  to  get 
downstairs  when  the  horn  of  the  school 
bus  sounded  outside  the  house. 

"But  my  waffle!"  he  moaned.  "I  want 
my  waffle!" 

"That's  just  too  bad,"  said  his  father. 
"The  next  morning  we  have  waffles,  you'd 
better  get  dressed  faster." 

THhat  the  foursome  has  spirit  is  undis- 
puted.  Take  Dana  at  home  after  an 
average  day  at  the  studio.  David  wants 
to  talk  about  a  second-hand  power  boat 
he  saw  somewhere  for  a  mere  pittance,  and 
the  three  youngest  are  clamoring  at  Dana's 
feet  for  some  romping. 

"Not  now,  kids,"  Dana  says.  "I'm  too 
tired."  But  after  he's  taken  a  short  nap 
and  had  dinner,  they're  at  him  again. 

Kathy  goes  for  his  shoulders,  Susan 
latches  on  to  his  trouser  legs,  and  Steven 
runs  for  the  boxing  gloves.  Then  they  all 
start  pleading  for  a  camping  trip,  knowing 
that  if  they  can  once  get  him  to  promise, 
they'll  certainly  go,  for  Dana  never  breaks 
his  word  to  them. 

When  playtime  is  over,  Dana  points  to 
the  array  of  toys  on  the  floor.  "All  right. 
Now  everybody  clean  up  his  own  mess." 

Kathy  and  Steven  simultaneously  point 
to  small  Susan.  "She  did  it,"  they  chorus, 
and  Dana  delivers  another  lecture. 

Dinner  time  is  chaotic  at  the  Andrews' 
house.  The  only  distinguishable  conversa- 
tion consists  mostly  of  Dana's  voice  boom- 
ing out  over  the  babble.   "Quiet!  QUIET!" 

David  came  home  the  other  day  after 
six  weeks  at  school  and  put  in  iiis  first 
appearance  before  the  family  at  the  dinner 
table.  On  his  upper  lip  was  a  rim  of  soft 
brown  fuzz  which  was  losing  its  battle  to 
resemble  a  moustache.  Dana  took  one 
look  and  was  about  to  offer  a  suggestion 
about  razors,  but  the  three  youngsters 
saved  him  the  trouble.  They  greeted  their 
big  brother  with  hoots  of  derision.  David 
shaved  as  soon  as  he'd  finished  his  dessert. 

After  the  kids  were  in  bed,  Dana  put 
down  his  book  and  looked  at  Mary.  "You 
know,"  he  said,  "I  think  I'll  relax  from 
now  on.  It's  beginning  to  dawn  on  me  that 
they  can  all  train  each  other."     The  End 

(Dana  Andrews  will  soon  he  seen  in  20th 
Century-Fox's  The  Frog  Men. — Ed.) 


a  love  like  nancy's 


{Continued  from  page  31)  They  talked 
then  about  the  children,  the  house,  the 
financial  settlement — but  they  carefully 
avoided  the  subject  of  Ava  Gardner. 

"After  all,"  said  Nancy,  "I  felt  that  I  had 
no  right  to  ask  him  why  he  wanted  his 
freedom.  It  was  none  of  my  business.  My 
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the  lives  of  our  children." 

Ceveral  times  during  the  past  year,  espe- 
'-'cially  after  Ava  had  flown  to  New  York 
to  see  him,  Frank  had  phoned  Nancy  from 
the  Hampshire  House  or  The  Drake. 

"Want  to  talk  about  a  divorce,"  Frank 
would  say.  Ava,  sitting  across  the  room, 
would  wait  expectantly,  only  to  watch 
Frank  put  dovm  the  phone  receiver  in 
disappointment. 

Sensible  Nancy,  gallant  Nancy  just  would 
not  discuss  divorce  on  the  telephone.  He 
would  have  to  call  on  her  in  person. 

Until  this  May,  Frank  Sinatra  never 
did.  Thousands  of  fans  wrote  Hedda  Hop- 
per and  Louella  Parsons  demanding  to 
know  why  Nancy  wouldn't  give  Frank  a 
divorce. 

"Is  it  because  of  her  religion?"  they 
asked.  "Is  she  just  being  spiteful?  Is  it 
out  of  sheer  meanness?" 

These  were  the  uninformed,  the  mis- 
guided, the  Sinatra  fans,  the  Gardner 
hopefuls.  These  were  the  people  who 
thought  they  knew  all  there  was  to  know 
about  the  triangle — and  yet,  knew  nothing. 

Nancy  was  never  spiteful  or  mean.  May- 
be way  back  when  Frank  was  guilty  of 
his  first  indiscretions — maybe  then,  she  had 
felt  slighted,  cast  aside,  and  bitter.  But 
not  during  the  past  five  years. 

She  and  Frank  had  separated  previously. 
.She  knew  all  about  Frank's  infatuation 
for  Lana  Turner,  his  pursuit  of  Judy  Gar- 
land; but  she  knew,  too,  that  he  was  basi- 
cally a  kind  man,  that  his  talent  for  en- 
tertainment was  tremendous,  that  the 
children  loved  him  deeply.  And  she  ac- 
cepted him  as  he  was  with  all  his  obvious 
weaknesses  and  his  many  strengths. 

She  did  this  because  she  loved  him.  As 
any  honest  man  in  the  entertainment 
world  will  tell  you,  Frank's  greatest 
strength,  in  his  meteoric  rise  as  a  crooner, 
was  the  simple  and  honest  love  of  Nancy 
Sinatra.  In  all  his  moments  of  defeat,  and 
"espair — she  stood  by  to  give  him  cour- 
ge. 

She  felt  always  that  he  was  a  wandering 
little  boy,  and  that  like  most  truants  he 
would  eventually  straggle  home. 

■'When  he  is  all  through  playing  around," 
she  once  said,  "when  no  one  else  wants 
him,  I  will  take  him  back." 

Nancy  felt  that  time,  and  the  children, 
and  the  marital  memories,  mostly  the 
memories,  were  on  her  side,  and  would 
weigh  heavily  in  Frank's  mind.  She 
thought  that  try  as  he  might,  he  would 
never  forget  them,  and  they  would  always 
bring  him  back. 

After  all,  hadn't  she  and  Frank  grown 
up  together?  Wasn't  it  she  who  was  earn- 
ing $20  a  week  at  the  American  Type 
Founders  in  Elizabeth  when  Frank  was 
singing  at  the  Rustic  Cabin  outside  of 
Eiiglewood  for  $15  a  week? 

Wasn't  it  she  who  told  him  to  go  on  the 
road  with  Harry  James,  and  not  to  worry 
about  her  even  though  she  was  pregnant? 
Because  $65  a  week  was  better  than  $15. 

Wasn't  it  she  who  rented  the  cute  little 
apartment  in  Jersey  City  with  the  furni- 
ture they  paid  for  on  time?  And  that 
Christmas  when  there  wasn't  any  money 
in  the  house  and  Frank  was  deathly  ill  in 
Cleveland,  wasn't  it  she  who  sent  him  a 
pair  of  gloves  with  a  dollar  bill  stuffed  in 
each  finger? 

When  Frank  got  the  gift  he  cried  like 
a  baby.  And  years  later,  he  said,  "There 
1  was  600  miles  away  from  the  girl  I  loved, 


alone  and  sick  and  dying— and  then  this 
thoughtful  gift  came.  Somehow  I  knew 
I'd  just  have  to  get  well  and  work  for 
my  Nancy  and  make  her  proud  of  me. 
And  by  heaven,  I  did!  My  temperature 
began  to  fall,  and  in  the  morning  I  was 
my  old  self  once  more." 

A  VA  may  have  Frankie  now,  but  Nancy 
still  has  those  unforgettable  memories — 
of  Frank's  triumphs,  of  his  amazing  growth 
from  a  kid  who  collected  bottles  for  the 
deposit  money  to  a  singer  who  collects 
$10,000  a  week  and  up. 

Neither  Nancy  nor  Frank  can  ever  for- 
get that  year  when  he  was  all  of  25  and 
earnuag  $4,500  a  week  at  the  Nev/  York 
Paramoimt.  That  was  the  year  Frank 
bought  a  little  house  for  Nancy  and  his 
daughter  in  Hasbrouck  Heights,  New  Jer- 
sey. It  was  a  cute  little  Cape  Cod  cottage, 
located  at  220  Lawrence  Avenue,  and  it 
was  the  first  hoiise  they'd  ever  owned. 

That,  too,  was  the  year  Frank  bought 
Nancy  an  engagement  ring.  "I  was  too 
poor  to  buy  her  one  at  the  time  of  our 
engagement,"  Frank  explained,  "so  I  made 
it  up  to  her.  I  also  bought  her  a  fur  coat." 

Nancy  realized  almost  two  years  ago 
that  these  memories,  in  the  final  analysis, 
were  not  strong  enough  to  bring  Frank 
home.  At  that  time,  Frank  packed  a  ward- 
Betty   Hutton   can't  tolerate  the 
tick-tock  of  a  clock  anywhere  in 
her  bedroom.    On  the  other  hand 
she  is  vastiy  soothed  by  the  as- 
sorted   and    unpredictable  noises 
emanating  from  a  sound  box  on 
her  bedside  table,  which  amplifies 
every  pin-drop  in  her  little  daugh- 
ters' nursery. 

Dorothy  Kilgallen  in 
The  Journal-American 

robe  trunk,  moved  out  of  his  house  into 
his  office,  and  began  presenting  Ava  Gard- 
ner with  a  dazzling  assortment  of  gifts 
ranging  from  diamonds  to  a  spinet  piano. 

For  a  while,  Nancy  hoped  that  this  would 
prove  to  be  a  short-lived  infatuation.  It 
wasn't.  It  was  the  real  McCoy.  Ava  had 
made  sure  of  that. 

She  wasn't  walking  out  on  a  limb.  She 
wanted  Frank's  definite  assurance  that  he 
and  Nancy  were  contemplating  a  divorce 
or  a  legal  separation. 

Ava  Gardner  is  an  honorable  girl.  She 
made  it  unmistakably  clear  to  Frank  that 
she  would  never  come  between  a  man  and 
his  wife.  This  romance  had  to  be  for  keeps. 

Frank  assured  Ava  that  it  was.  He  had 
his  lawyers  draw  up  a  legal  separation 
dociunent.  Nancy  signed  it  at  once,  because 
that's  what  Frank  wanted. 

There  are  some  persons  who,  knowing 
Frank  well,  say  that  he  used  the  legal 
separation  as  a  device  to  test  his  love  for 
Ava  and  vice  versa;  to  see  if  their  feelings 
for  each  other  would  continue  the  same 
if  both  were  free. 

That  Frank  is  madly  in  love  with  Ava 
at  this  writing  there  can  be  no  doubt.  In 
his  diary,  1951  will  go  dovm  as  the  year 
of  trans-continental  commuting.  Every 
Saturday  night,  after  his  television  show 
in  New  York  was  over,  Frank  would  dash 
to  La  Guardia  Airport  and  catch  the 
American  Airlines  Mercury  to  Los  Angeles. 

"It  got  so,"  one  airline  stewardess  re- 
ported, "that  we  looked  on  him  as  a  homing 
pigeon." 

Once  in  California,  Frank  would  rush  to 
Ava's  house  or  they  would  meet  at  Palm 
Springs,  but  always  they  were  together. 

A  few  weeks  before  she  started  to  work 
with  Clark  Gable  on  Lone  Star,  Ava  flew 
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she'd  been  going  with  him  over  a  year. 

Ava  asked  Frank  how  good  the  chances 
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discuss  the  subject. 

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anyone  in  the  world,  and  that  he  would 
handle  the  problem  in  his  own  way.  Ava 
and  Frank  quarreled,  and  Ava  flew  back 
to  the  Coast. 

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in  love  with  Frank.  She  had  ignored 
the  counsel  of  her  best  friends.  If  Frank 
made  no  effort  to  marry  her,  she'd  seem 


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rule  her  head. 

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Ava  fly  back  in  a  huff.  Ava  will  be  30 
years  old  this  Christmas.  More  than  any- 
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is  willing  to  give  up  her  career  for  a  suc- 
cessful marriage.  She  feels  strongly  that 
she  and  Frank  can  love  each  other  happily 
ever  after.  Only  they'd  best  get  a  legal 
start  in  a  hurry. 

Back  in  Hollywood,  she  began  dating 
Howard  Duff  again,  a  titled  English  visitor, 
and  a  few  of  the  local  boys. 

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the  news  wafted  back  to  Frankie  Sinatra 
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Frank  taxied  out  to  La  Guardia  and  caught 
the  first  plane  to  HoUjrwood,  where  he 
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lunched  with  her  at  the  commissary. 

He  told  Ava  that  he  was  going  to  ask 
Nancy  for  a  divorce. 


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thing she  possibly  can,  "to  make  things 
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bitterness,"  she  repeats.  "Frank  has  had 
his  freedom  for  some  time  now,  and  what 
he  does  is  his  business  alone.  He  is  a 
wonderful  person,  and  while  I  don't  know 
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"With  all  my  heart,  I  wish  the  both  of 
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skin-faults  through  your  make-up? 

If  so,  you  need  Solitair. 


cake  make-up 


Lipstick,  too! — Goes  on  smoother, 
stays  on  lips  longer  with  a  glis- 
tening brilliance  that  resists  smearing 
and  transfer.  Six  inspired  shades  of  red — 1.00 


B  318858 


t  cu/douL  tt^     haifi  must  dune 
— so  5  shampoo  oHlfcD/tefie! 


RISING  STAR  OF  BROADWAY 


"I  MAKE  SURE  MY  HAIR'S  DAZZUNG 
eighf  shows  a  week — /  sfiompoo  wifh 
Drene!"  says  pretty  Betty  Gillett,  of  the 
Broadway  hit  South  Pacific.  "I  love  the 
sheen  I  get  with  Drene!  Being  a  blonde, 
I  shampoo  often — every  five  days — so 
Drene' s  gentleness  is  a  must  for  me. 

In  fact,"  Betty  says .  . . 

"I  COULD  SHAMPOO  EVERY  DAY 

because  Drene  never  dries  out  my 
hair!"  The  glowing,  natural  softness 
of  Betty's  hair  owes  much  to  Drene, 
with  its  Conditioning  Action.  "No 
other  shampoo  leaves  my  hair  so 
well  behaved,  so  shining,"  she  says. 
"Make  Drene  your  shampoo — 
and  you'll  shine,  too!" 


"MY  HAIR  SHINES  ITS  BRIGHTEST— 

and  Drene's  the  reason!"  says  lovely 
Betty.  That's  a  star-lit  cue  for  you! 
Drene  cleanses  in  a  speciol  way.  It 
never  dries  out  your  hair  —  always 
leaves  it  naturally  soft  and  shining! 


BETTY'S  SOFT,  WELl-BEHAVED  HAIR 

stars  on  stage,  wins  compliments  later 
ot  El  Morocco.  "No  wonder  I  like 
Drene!"  she  says.  Today,  see  how 
naturally  soft  and  shining  Drene  with 
its  Conditioning  Action  leaves  your  hair! 


READER'S  DIGEST*  Reported  The  Same 
Research  Which  Proves  That  Brushing  Teeth 
Right  After  Eating  with 

COLGATE  DENTAL  CREAM 
STOPS  TOOTH  DECAY  BEST 

Reader's  Digest  recently  reported  the 
same  research  which  proves  the  Colgate 
way  of  brushing  teeth  right  after  eating 
stops  tooth  decay  best!  The  most  thor- 
oughly proved  and  accepted  home  meth- 
od of  oral  hygiene  known  today! 

Yes,  and  2  years'  research  showed  the 
Colgate  way  stopped  more  decay  for  more 
people  than  ever  before  reported  in  denti- 
frice history!  No  other  dentifrice,  ammo- 
niatcd  or  not,offers  such  conclusive  proof! 


iELIEVE  ME,UblNb  COLbATES  PAYS 
FOR  I'm  A  LUCKY  D06  THESE  PAYS.' 


Uss  Colgate  Denial  Cream 
^  To  Clean  Your  Breath 
^  While  You  Clean  Your  Teeth 
V^nd  Help  Stop  Tooth  Detayl 


*YOU  SHOULD  KNOW!  While  not  mentioned  by  name, 
Colgate's  was  the  only  toothpaste  used  In  the  research 
on  tooth  decay  recently  reported  In  Reader's  Digest. 


OCTOBER,  1951 


modern  screen 


A  SPECIAL  REPORT  ON  HOLLYWOOD  HONEYMOONERS: 

MR.  AND  MRS.  TONY  CURTIS   62 

MR.  AND  MRS.  JOHN  AGAR   64 

MR.  AND  MRS.  AUDIE  MURPHY   64 

stories 

ENTER  MISS  HODIAK  (Anne  Baxter-John  Hodiak)  by  Jane  Wilkie  24 

REUNION  IN  LONDON  (Ingrid  Bergman)  by  Thor  Hansen  37 

HOTTEST  MAN  IN  TOWN  (Stewart  Granger)  by  Jim  Henaghan  38 

HANDLE  WITH  CARE  (Derek,  Roman,  Rogers,  Crawford, 

Wyman,  Gardner,  etc.)..  by  Anne  Fielding  40 

BOB'S  WIFE  (Lana  Turner)  by  Steve  Cronin  42 

LADDIE  DOES  THE  HULA  (Alan  Ladd)   44 

SO  NICE  TO  COME  HOME  TO  (Doris  Day)  by  Kirtley  Baskette  48 

TEN  GIRLS  I  DIDN'T  MARRY  by  Scott  Brady  50 

IN  THE  MOOD  FOR  LOVE  (June  Haver)  by  Arthur  L.  Charles  52 

SMALL-TOWN  GIRL  (Peggy  Dow)  by  Louise  McIIvain  54 

THEY'RE  TALKING  ABOUT  LANZA  (Mario  Lanza)  by  Jack  Wade  56 

A  PLACE  OF  THEIR  OWN  (Mark  Stevens'  house)  by  Marva  Peterson  58 

DOES  LIZ  KNOW  WHAT  LOVE  IS?  (Liz  Taylor)  by  Richard  Dexter  66 

DON'T  BARGAIN  FOR  FAITH  by  Dennis  O'Keefe  70 

features 

THE  INSIDE  STORY   4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS   6 

SWEET  AND  HOT  by  Leonard  Feather  34 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joari  Evans'  advice  to  teen-agers)   90 

departments 

MOVIE  REVIEWS  by  Christopher  Kane  16 

ALAN  LADD,  YOUR  HOLLYWOOD  SHOPPER   29 

FASHION    78 

ON  THE  COVER:  Color  Portrait  of  MGM's  Lana  Turner 
Other  Picture  Credits  on  page  23 


CHARLES 

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Q.  Has  Clark  Gable  been  dating  anyone 
since  his  divorce  from  Sylvia  Ashley? 

— G.  W.,  EvANSviLLE,' Indiana 

A.  Elaine  White,  a  secretary  in  the  legal 
department  at  MGM,  also  his  former 
girl  friend,  Virginia  Grey. 

<?.  Is  there  a  feud  between  Bette  Davis 
and  Celeste  Holm? 

— R.  T.,  Denver,  Col. 

A.  They  were  none  too  friendly  when 
they  both  starred  in  AU  About  Eve. 

Q.  Is  it  true  that  Scott  Brady  is  one  of 
the  wealthiest  young  actors  in  Holly- 
wood ?  — T.  Y.,  Pawtucket,  R.  I. 

A.  Brady  recently  declared  bankruptcy. 

Q.  I  understand  that  a  few  weeks  ago 
David  Wayne  and  a  party  of  friends 
were  arrested  at  the  bullfights  in  Tia 
Juana,  Mexico.  Is  this  true  or  a  publicitj' 
stunt?  — B.  S.,  Boston,  Mass. 

A.  Wayne  was  not  arrested.  A  Holly- 
wood agent  sitting  alongside  Wayne, 
tossed  a  pillow  into  the  ring  and  was 
apprehended  by  the  Mexican  police.  For 
$25  Wayne  secured  the  agent's  release. 

<?.  If  Judy  Garland  and  Sid  Luft  aren't 
man  and  wife,  how  come  they  traveled 
all  over  Europe  together  this  past  Sum- 
mer? — S.  O.,  Lewiston,  Idaho 

A.  Luft  went  along  as  Judy's  business 
manager.  When  Judy's  divorce  is  final, 
he  will  undoubtedly  progress  to  hus- 
band. 

Q.  How  come  Betty  Grable,  Lana  Tur- 
ner, and  Judy  Garland  add  so  much 
weight  when  they're  not  making  pic- 
tures? — ^V.  C,  Toronto,  Can. 

A.  They  love  to  eat. 

Q.  Does  Lana  Turner  plan  to  adopt  any 
more  children?   — A.  0.,  Chapel,  N.  C. 

A.  Lana  will  adopt  one  or  two  provid- 
ing Topping  gives  his  okay. 

Q.  Will  Larry  Parks  and  Betty  Garrett 
ever  again  make  motion  pictures? 

— K.  P.,  Ft.  Worth,  Tex. 

A.  No  one  knows  at  this  time. 

Q.  Wasn't  Mrs.  Alan  Ladd,  the  former 
Sue  Carol,  married  to  actor  Nick  Stuart  ? 


What  is  Stuart  doing  now? 

— M.  H.,  Laurel,  Miss. 

A.  Yes,  she  was.  Stuart  is  now  an  orch- 
estra leader. 

p.  Is  Audie  Murphy  an  orphan? 
Doesn't  he  have  a  father  somewhere? 

— V.  S.,  New  Orleans,  La. 

A.  Murphy's  mother  died  about  10 
years  ago.  His  father,  now  re-married,  is 
currently  employed  as  a  caretaker  at 
Echo  Lake  on  the  North-South  Express- 
way outside  of  Ft.  Worth. 

Q.  I  understand  that  Gary  Cooper's 
fondness  for  Pat  Neal  is  not  the  first 
of  his  little  escapades.  Wasn't  he  sweet 
on  Ingrid  Bergman  when  they  made 
For  Whom  the  Bell  Tolls? 

— B.  B.,  Butte,  Montana 

A.  So,  too,  was  writer  Ernest  Heming- 
way. Many  men  have  been  attracted  to 
Ingrid  Bergman. 

p.  Is  it  true  as  I  read  in  a  column  that 
Harry  James,  Betty  Grable's  husband,  is 
the  great  grandson  of  the  outlaw,  Jesse 
James?  — Y.  E.,  Oakland,  Calif. 

A.  It's  not  true. 

9.  Every  year,  for  the  past  three  years, 
Shelley  Winters  seems  to  be  getting 
younger.  In  1948,  I  read  that  she  w_as 
27.  Now,  I  read  that  she's  only  24.  Isn't 
she  pretty  close  to  30? 

— M.  R.,  Las  Vegas,  Nevada 

A.  Yes. 

Q.  Are  such  pictures  as  Valentino  and 
Caruso  true  stories?  Are  they  accurate 
biographies?  — D.  G.,  Tucson,  Ariz. 

A.  They  are  not  accurate  biographies,  al- 
though there  is  some  truth  in  them. 
They  are  made  primarily  to  entertain, 
not  inform. 

9.  Since  his  divorce,  what  has  Jefi 
Chandler  been  doing? 

— S.  A.,  Richfield,  Utah 

A.  He's  been  making  films,  dating  Ann 
Sheridan,  and  others. 

p.  Why  won't  Bing  Crosby  let  any  of 
his  boys  star  in  a  movie? 

— S.  I.,  Rome,  N.  Y. 

A.  He  will  when  they  finish  college.  Not 
before. 


THIS  IS  A  PICTURE  OF  A  60Y  MAKING 

(That's  what  he  thinksl) 


,H,S,SAPiaURE0,F,A^OUTAKIN0OVEW 


LOVE? 


lie  has  a  girl...  a  date  at  the 
altar... and  a  radio  program!  She's  got 
a  program  that's  older  than  Eve's  1 

1 

FRED  ^'/^  ELEANOR  ' 

Ma(MURRAY  •  PARKER 


A 

MILLIONAIRE 
FOR 


RICHARD  CARLSON  •  UNA  MERKEL  . 

CHRIS  PIN  /AARTIN  •  DOUGLAS  DUMBRILLE  •  KAY  BUCKLEY 
Produced  by  BERT  E.  FRIEDLOB  •  Directed  by  GEORGE  MARSHALL 
Screenplay  by  KEN  ENGLUND  •  Original  Story  by  ROBERT  HARARI 
Music  by  VICTOR  YOUNG  •  A  THOR  PRODUCTION 
Released  t>/ TWENTIETH  CENTURY- FOX 


CHRISTY'S 
MAN -DATES 


"Any  secretary 
with  ! I  and  ()  () 
can  get  any  guy 
in  a  9 

"How  can  a  girl 
send  $100  a  week 
home  on  a  $50-a- 
week  salary? 

"This  is  the  story 
of  Operation  Mink 
— and  how  to  get 
one!  (Never  mind 
the  gag  about  how 
the  minks  get 
them!)" 


Did  Nancy  Sinatra  have 
a  nervous  breakdown?  .  .  . 
Big  doings  at  Barbara 
Stanwycic's  surprise  party 
.  .  .  Johnny  Johnston 
and  Kathryn  Grayson  settle 
divorce  squabbles. 


THE  HUMOR  had  swept  Hollywood  that 
Nancy  Sinatra  had  suffered  a  complete 
nervous  breakdown.  They  said  that  Nancy  had 
gone  all  to  pieces  after  making  the  big  deci- 
sion to  give  Frank  his  freedom  via  the  divorce 
courts. 

I've  just  talked  with  Nancy — and  here  is  ex- 
actly what  she  told  me: 

"I've  had  severe  palpitations  of  the  heart. 
Naturally,  I  was  worried.  My  doctor  put  me  to 
bed  and  told  me  to  stay  there  until  necessary 
tests  could  be  made. 

"Louella,  it  was  a  happy  day  for  me  when 
the  report  came  back  that  there  is  nothing 
organically  wrong  with  my  heart.  My  trouble 
stems  from  nervous  indigestion.  All  I  need  is 
rest — and,  well,  just  not  to  be  nervous." 

Nancy  laughed,  "So  I'm  just  going  along 
trying  to  be  Little  Miss  Sunshine  taking  every- 
thing easy." 

I  think  it  is  a  wonderful  thing  that  any  bit- 
terness there  might  have  been  between  Nancy 
and  Frank  at  the  time  of  their  parting  is  now 
a  thing  of  the  past. 

Ever  since  Frankie  has  been  on  the  Coast 
making  Meet  Danny  Wilson  with  Shelley 
Winters,  he  frequently  stops  by  his  former 


home  to  visit  his  children  whom  he  adores. 

Sometimes  he  stays  on  for  dinner  with  the 
kids.  On  these  occasions,  Nancy  usually  dines 
with  Barbara  Stanwyck  or  Janet  Leigh  and 
Tony  Curtis. 

But  several  times,  she  has  cooked  the 
spaghetti  Frankie  Boy  loves  so  much  just 
the  way  he  used  to  like  it — before  leaving  the 
house. 

When  she  and  Sinatra  do  come  face  to  face 
— it  is  always  very  cordial  and  friendly  and 
they  chat  about  their  three  youngsters. 

Speaking  of  Nancy — she  got  out  of  a  sick- 
bed to  play  hostess  at  a  surprise  birthday 
party  honoring  her  best  gal-pal,  Barbara 
Stanwyck. 

The  first  gift  Barbara  opened  was  from 
Bob  Taylor  who  had  left  it  with  Nancy  be- 
fore he  left  for  London. 

It  was  a  diamond-heart  on  a  platinum  chain 
for  the  wrist  copied  after  a  larger  diamond 
pin  Bob  had  given  Barbara  several  years 
ago. 

The  loe  Cottens  gave  "Missy"  Stanwyck  a 
gold  lipstick  case. 

Mary  (Mrs.  Jack)  Benny  gifted  her  with  a 
diamond-topped  swizzle  stick — a  little  gadget 


Clark  Gable  steered  clear  of  heart  interests 
when  he  went  to  the  Shoiv  Boat  opening.  He 
arrived  with  close  friends,  the  Wayne  GrifRns. 


Newlyweds  Janet  Leigh  and  Tony  Curtis  joined 
Hollywood's  procession  to  the  Egyptian  Theater 
for  the  golo  premiere  of  MGM's  Show  Boat. 


to  stir  all  the  bubbles  out  of  champagne. 

The  most  amusing  gift  was  from  Loretta 
Young  and  Tom  Lewis  who  gave  an  Insomnia 
Kit  with  eye  and  ear  pads  and  lots  of  other 
things  to  help  Barbara,  a  famed  insomnia- 
sufferer,  get  her  needed  rest. 

Don't  be  discouraged  all  you  'teenagers 
who  have  fallen  for  Carlton  Carpenter, 
new  sub-deb  hero  of  MGM  movies.  He  has 
been  dating  Diana  Douglas,  Kirk's  ex-wife, 
pretty  steadily — but  I  doubt  if  it  is  anything 
serious. 

Of  course,  Diana  is  a  young  woman  and 
nobody  expects  her  to  sit  home  knitting.  But 
Carpenter  is  just  a  kid,  and  I'm  sure  she 
likes  him  more  for  the  laughs  and  fun  they 
have  together  than  anything  else. 

WITH  the  way  Kathryn  Grayson  and 
Johnny  Johnston  were  hurling  charges 
and  countercharges  at  each  other  as  the  one 
being  responsible  for  holding  up  their  di- 
vorce settlement — I  never  thought  that  I  would 
turn  out  to  be  the  peacemaker  ii  the  battle. 

Several  months  ago  when  I  said  that  Kath- 
ryn couldn't  get  her  freedom  because  Johnny 


\ 


S+ill  beoming  over  Show  Boat's  reception,  Louis  B.  Mgyer  stops  to 
chot  with  Esther  Williams  and  Ben  Gage  at  the  after-theater  party 
in    Romanoff's.     Esther's    new    MGM    movie    is    Texas  Carnival. 


.    /A 

Romanoff's  party-goers  made  a  bee-line  for  Kothryn  Grayson's  table 
to  congratulate  her  on  her  Shoiv  Boat  performonce.  .Here  she's  with 
Lisa  Ferriday,  who'll  dance  with  Astaire  in  MGM's  Belle  of  New  York. 


Ladieb-mc  j  ody   [he  writes  about  them  all  on  page  50] 

showed  up  j/;ocC  Boat  premiere  with  Ann  BIyth.    But  Dorothy 

Malone  was  on  his  arm  at  the  Bright  Victory  event  a  few  nights  before. 


The  Bright  Victory  premiere  at  the  Carthay  Circle  Theater  was  an- 
other night  for  celebrities.  Peggy  Dow — one  of  its  stars — arrived  with 
orchids    and    her   favorite    beau — Tulsa    oilman,    Walter  hielmerlch. 


was  making  impossible  demands  on  her 
financially,  he  called  me  up  from  New  York, 
fairly  sizzling. 

"All  I  want  from  her  is  my  car,"  he  said, 
"Honest — that's  the  truth.  Just  my  car  and  the 
right  to  see  my  baby,  Patty  Kate,  at  reason- 
able times." 

So-o-o,  when  I  printed  his  side,  friends  of 
Kathryn's  called  me  to  indignantly  deny  what 
Johnston  had  said  and  to  give  me  an  earful, 
to  wit:  Although  Johnny  is  doing  fine  on  the 
stage  on  Broadway,  a  big  hit  in  the  musical, 
A  Tree  Grows  In  Brooklyn,  he  was  refusing 
to  contribute  one  cent  to  Patty  Kate's  support. 

After  I  aired  that  as  gospel — came  an- 
other frantic  call  from  Johnny  denying  the 
denials! 

Frankly,  I  was  getting  pretty  groggy  over 
the  marital  troubles  of  K  and  J  when  word 
came  out  of  the  blue  that  because  I  had  so 
faithfully  reported  the  battle  between  these 
two  (who  haven't  been  speaking) — they  now 
both  realized  the  other's  side  and  peace  had 
been  declared! 

As  I  write  this — I'm  looking  at  a  wire  from 
New  York  stating  that  negotiations  are  in 
good  order;  Johnny  has  just  signed  his  part 


of  the  agreement  and  the  papers  are  on  the 
way  back  to  Hollywood  for  Kathryn's  signa- 
ture. 

"Phe  very  pretty  Negro  girl  who  cooks  for 
*  Errol  Flynn  and  Pat  Wymore  is  named 
Esther  Williams! 

When  Errol  was  away  doing  USO  shows 
with  Jack  Beimy  in  Korea,  Pat's  family  ar- 
rived from  the  mid-west  and  she  planned  a 
big  party  to  introduce  them  to  her  Hollywood 
friends. 

"But,  I  can't  cook  that  Saturday  night," 
Esther  Williams  wailed.  "I'm  getting  married 
Sunday!"  It  was  the  first  news  that  Mrs.  Flynn 
had  had  of  this  interesting  development — and 
she  was  really  beside  herself  what  with  the 
invitations  out  and  so  many  guests  having  ac- 
cepted. 

Several  hours  later,  Esther  came  to  Pat 
and  said,  "Don't  you  be  upset  now.  I  called 
my  fiance  and  he  said  its  okay  with  him  if 
we  postpone  our  wedding  for  a  week. 

"Besides,  ESTHER  WILLIAMS  is  such  a 
fine  name  and  is  shared  by  such  a  fine  movie 
actress,  I  don't  mind  hanging  on  to  it  for 
seven  days  more!" 


With  that  all  settled — Pat's  party  came  off 
in  fine  style.  Gary  Cooper  was  there  with 
his  new  heart,  Patricia  Neal — and  believe  it 
or  not,  big  Coop  did  a  wonderful  Hulu  with 
Gene  Nelson  and  his  wife! 

The  Andrew  Sisters  were  so  impressed  that 
they  started  singing  Island  melodies  and  the 
fun  went  on  until  the  wee  hours. 

P.  S.  Esther  Williams  got  an  extra  special 
wedding  gift.  The  Andrews  made  a  home 
recording  of  "Here  Comes  The  Bride"  for  her! 

EVERYONE  has  been  asking  Anne  Baxter  and 
John  Hodiak  how  they  happened  to  choose 
the  name  Katrina  for  their  baby  daughter. 

John  smiled  as  he  told  me,  "When  I  was  a 
little  boy  about  seven  years  old,  stm  living 
in  Pittsburgh,  I  went  skating  one  day  and  fell 
through  the  ice. 

"The  girl  who  rescued  me  and  is  entirely 
responsible  for  my  being  alive  today  was 
named — Katrina. 

"Of  course,  I  have  told  Anne  many  times 
about  my  misadventure  and  about  the  pretty 
girl  who  saved  my  life  and  I  have  always 
said,  'Next  to  Anne,  I  think  Katrina  is  just 
(Continued  on  page  JO) 


Young  Enough  To  lo 


^Jiily  tlie  triil>  >  oiuig  in  lu-arl ...  asking;  st> 
much  of  life... giving  so  niuch  of  love-ran 
know  the  full  thrill  of  this  experiein-e ' 


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Production  of 


IN  THE  SUN 


Only  these  three  brilliant  young  stars 
at  their  exciting  best  .  .  .  could  make 
these  lovers  come  so  powerfully  alive! 


with  KEEFE  BRASSELLE  *  Produced  and  Directed  by  GEORGE  STEVENS  •Screenplay 

by  Michael  Wilson  and  Harry  Brown  •  Based  on  the  novel,  AN  AMERICAxN  TRAGEDY, 

IHEODORE  DREISER  Patrick  KEARNEY  play  adapted  from  the  novel. 

A  PARAMOUNT  PICTURE 


yor  this  woman - 

David,  the 
Lion  of  Judah, 
conqueror  of 
Goliath,  broke 

God  s  own 
commandmentr 


with 

RAYMOND  MASSEY-KIERON  MOORE 

and  a   cast   of   many  thousands! 

Produced  by  Directed  by 

DARRYL  F.  ZANUCK  •  HENRY  KING 

Written  for  the  Screen  by  PHILIP  DUNNE 


COLOR  BROCHURE  WHICH  TELLS 
THE  FASCINATING  STORY  BEHIND 
DAVID  AND  BATHSHEBAI  WRITE 
TO  "OAVID  and  BATHSHEBA  ",  P.O.  Box 
J»2,  OEPT.FMl  CHURCH  ST.STA.,N.Y.C. 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  pod  news 

about  the  most  beautiful  name  in  the  world.' 

"Before  the  baby  was  born,  we  had  de- 
cided whether  it  was  a  boy  or  a  girl  we 
would  not  name  it  after  ourselves — or  after 
family  names  on  either  side. 

"Our  baby  was  just  a  few  hours  old 
when  Anne  said,  'Have  you  seen  little  Katrina 
Hodiak  yet?'  The  name  was  all  her  idea 
from  the  moment  they  told  her — 'It's  a  girl!' 

"Pretty  swell  of  my  wife,  isn't  it?"  You 
are  both  pretty  swell  people  in  my  book, 
John,  and  this  little  girl  who  has  been  born 
to  you  is  lucky  indeed. 

I DOUBT  if  the  President  (of  the  U.S.A. — not 
MGM)  could  get  Mario  Lanza  on  the  tele- 
phone! So  secret  is  his  number  that  even  his 
friends  and  studio-coworkers  first  have  to  call 
his  agent  and  then  wait  for  Lanza  to  call 
back — if  he  wants  to.  And  most  of  the  time, 
apparently,  he  doesn't. 

What  cooks  with  Mario?  His  newly  de- 
veloped temperament  seems  so  odd  in  a  boy 
who  was  such  a  regular  guy  during  his 
climb  to  the  top. 

Ever  since  his  record-breaking  hit  in  The 
Great  Caruso  it's  been  a  different  story. 
Rumors  are  that  he  is  giving  MGM  one  head- 
ache after  the  other  because  he  would  like 
to  be  free  of  his  contract. 

True,  he  could  make  a  fortune  touring  this 
country  and  Europe  on  the  concert  stage.  But 
doesn't  he  realize  that  his  value  as  a  star  is 
based  on  what  he  has  done  on  the  screen? 

Isn't  he  business  man  enough  to  realize 
that  the  company  which  has  poured  a  for- 
tune into  building  him  into  what  he  is  today 
is  entitled  to  realize  something  on  fheir  in- 
vestment, too? 

Reluctantly,  he  remained  in  town  to  star  in 
The  Big  Cast — but  it's  obvious  to  his  asso- 
ciates that  he  is  peeved.  He  does  little  to 
cooperate  in  the  matter  of  portrait  sittings 
or  interviews. 

And,  he  was  practically  the  only  top  figure 
on  the  MGM  lot  who  refused  to  attend  the 
premiere  of  Show  Boat — the  studio's  biggest 
night  in  Hollywood  in  years. 

■Phe  real  reason  behind  Rita  Hayworth's  at- 
^  tempt  to  sneak  into  Hollywood  before  any- 
one realized  she  was  here  is  because  she 


Joan  Crawford  attended  the  Show  Boat  pre- 
miere with  director  David  Miller.  Later,  was 
mobbed  by  autograph  hounds  outside  Mocombo. 


wanted  to  get  Rebecca  and  Yasmin,  her 
children,  settled  in  a  "secret"  home  before 
the  Princess  took  on  the  press. 

Rita  has  been  frightened  out  of  her  wits 
about  kidnappers  ever  since  that  scare  at 
Lake  Tahoe.  In  fact,  the  Reno  Chief  of  Police 
preceded  her  entourage  by  several  hours 
into  Los  Angeles  and  had  guards  posted  at 
the  Beverly  Hills  Hotel  bungalow  where  she 
was  trying  to  hide  out! 

Oh,  Rita,  Rita — can't  you  realize  that  every- 
thing you  do  is  NEWS  and  that  there's  about 
as  much  chance  of  you  doing  anything  secretly 
as  there  is  of  a  circus  tip-toeing  into  town. 

For  the  first  few  hours,  while  she  was  still 
pretending  she  wasn't  here,  the  press  was 
getting  pretty  hot  under  the  collar  about  the 
run-around. 

But,  her  boss,  Harry  Cohn  came  to  the 
rescue  (before  the  hot  and  weary  reporters 
could  get  out  their  mallets)  and  told  her  she 
would  have  to  see  the  press  unless  she 
wanted  to  run  into  a  lot  of  criticism. 

I  hope  Rita  continues  to  listen  to  Harry. 
She  made  her  greatest  success  under  his 
guidance.  Mr.  Cohn  of  Columbia  is  a  very 
smart  gent. 

Guess  who  has  it  bad  for  Joan  Evans — and 
is  afraid  '  to  tell  her?  Steve  Cochran! 
Cochran?  Timid?  That's  the  score  at  the 
present  writing. 

What's  even  funnier — he  hasn't  yet  met 
Joan.  When  he  came  back  from  Kentucky  On 
location,  he  happened  to  drop  by  the  theater 
where  Joan  was  starring  in  the  L.A.  stage 
version  of  Peg  O'  My  Heart. 

Just  like  any  other  fan — Steve  got  a  big 
crush  on  Joan  and  wants  to  date  her  but  he's 
scairt  to  ask.  How  about  that? 

Don't  let  anybody  kid  you  that  Farley 
Granger  hasn't  dined  quietly  a  couple  oi 
times  with  socialite  Janet  Thompson,  the  belle 
of  Southern  California  social  circles.  When 
Janet  was  recently  in  England,  she  was  pre- 
sented at  Court. 

That  should  have  been  pretty  exciting. 

But  it's  nothing  to  the  excitement  Janet  will 
experience  if  she  ever  comes  face  to  face  with 
Shelley  Winters! 

(Continued  on  page  i4) 


Milo  Frank  and  Solly  Forrest  (who  set  the  wee 
ding  date  for  August)  were  among  the  mon 
Hollywoodites  ot  the  Bright  Victory  openirt 


When  dining  out, 
would  a  smart  doll— 

I  I  Disregard  prices 
nj  VVipe  ftie  silver 
n  Swipe  fhe  silver 

All  wrong?  You're  right!  When  ordering, 
a  smart  doll  considers  her  guy's  wallet; 
doesn't  filch  tableware  "souvenirs."  And 
unless  she's  dining  at  the  Greasy  Spoon 
she  won't  wipe  ofT  the  silver;  there's  no 
need,  and  it's  bad  manners.  As  for  "cer- 
tain" needs,  it's  smart  to  have  just  the 
right  answer,  protection-wise  ...  so  try 
the  3  absorbencies  of  Kotex  (different  sizes, 
for  different  days).  See  how  very  right 
you'll  be  with  Regular,  Junior  or  Super! 


What  type  is  the 
best  dating  material? 

□  Fun-fo-falk-fo 
I  I  Big  lime  spender 
I  I  lover  boy 

Just  being  a  Good  Time  Charlie  or  a  cuddle 
cookie  doesn't  mean  he's  the  best  date 
mate.  Snag  a  squire  who's  fun  to  talk  to; 
has  the  same  interests.  Chatter  you  both 
enjoy  helps  avoid  smooching  sessions. 
Keeps  you  at  ease.  You'll  always  find 
"those"  days  easy  to  get  along  with  — once 
you  let  Kotex  help  you  stay  really  comfort- 
able. For  Kotex  is  made  to  stay  soft  while 
you  wear  it;  gives  downy  softness  that 
holds  its  shape. 


When  two  boys  ask  you  to  dance,  should  you  choose— 

□  The  befler  looker         □  The  lad  who  asked  firsf         □  Wo  fhe  coin-flipping  method 

Both  stags  ask  to  be  your  leading  man  — 
so  what  should  a  doe  do?  Choose  the  one 
who  spoke  up  first;  even  if  the  other  bid 


seems  more  alluHng.  You  can't  lose  by 
playing  fair  ^  and  ten  to  one  Dreamboy 
will  re-pop  the  question,  next  dance.  And 


next  time  your  calendar  says  "Don't  go",- 
on  date  night  — speak  up:  ask  for  Kotex. 
Because  those  flat  pressed  ends  prevent  re- 
vealing outlines,  you  needn't  know  a  self- 
conscious  moment.  Confidence  is  sure  to 
follow  — when  your  choice  is  Kotex! 


If  you're  a  high-brow, 
should  you  — 

0  Conceal  the  fact 

1  I  Spurn  jazz 

□  Languish  in  the  library 
Fooled  you!  We're  talking  about  fore- 
heads—not brains;  and  a  different  hair-do 
can  change  your  looks.  If  a  lofty  brow 
worries  you,  bring  it  down  with  a  hang- 
er with  a  concealing  half-bang  or  wave. 
And  why  not  down  those  problem  day 
worries?  With  Kotex  you  get  extra  pro- 
tection, because  this  napkin  has  a  special 
safety  center  — not  to  mention  soft  edges  that 
resist  moisture,  outlaw  chafing.  (Kotex  can 
be  worn  on  either  side,  safely!) 


How  to  prepare 
for 

"certain"  days? 

□  Circle  your  calendar 

□  Perk  up  your  wardrobe 

□  Buy  a  new  belt 

Before  "that"  time,  be  ready! 
All  3  answers  above  can  help. 
But  to  assure  extra  comfort,  buy 
a  new  Kotex  sanitary  belt.  Made 
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Stays  flat  even  after  many  wash- 
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till  the  last  minute:  buy  a  new 
Kotex  belt  now.  (Why  not  buy 
two— for  a  change?) 


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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 


Show  Boat's  premiere  marked  Ava  Gardner's      Joan    Bennett    presents    MODERN  SCREEN'S 


first  public  appearance  with  Frank  Sinatra 
His  wife  had  already  announced  divorce  plans 


(^Continued  from  page  JO) 
Sweet  Ann  Blyth's  heart  is  in  her  eyes 
when  she  gazes  at  Scott  Brady  these  moon- 
lit nights. 

Before  Scott  came  along — most  of  Ann's 
beaux  were  just  kids — Roddy  McDowall  and 
Vic  Damone. 

But  there  comes  a  time  in  every  girl's  life 
when  she  thinks  she's  in  love  with  an  "older" 
man  (he's  27),  and  I  guess  this  is  it  for 
Ann. 

Right  now,  Brady  is  being  very  sweet  to 
her  but  he  looks  on  her  as  just  a  lovely, 
lovable  kid. 

Who  knows?  Didn't  teenage  Jean  Simmons 
get  sophisticated  Stewart  Granger.  And  didn't 
the  girl  in  Daddy  Long-Legs  get  her  man? 

Dixie  Crosby  laughed  so  loudly  at  the 
sneak  preview  of  Here  Comes  The  Groom 
that  she  sounded  like  a  paid  press  agent. 
When  she  came  out,  she  said  she  thought 
this  comedy  with  Jane  Wyman  was  the 
funniest  picture  Bing  has  ever  made. 

This  should  please  der  Bingle.  He  has  al- 
ways said  that  Dixie  is  his  most  honest  critic. 

Another  happy  Crosby  is  Gary.  He's  just 
out  of  the  hospital  following  a  shoulder  opera- 
tion and  for  his  graduation  present  his  old 
man  gave  him  a  car — his  first. 


Y  nomination  for  the  next  sensational 
screen  team:  Marge  and  Gower  Cham- 
pion. 

Those  dancing  darlings  were  a  sheer  de- 
light in  Show  Boaf.  They  are  so  scrubbed- 
looking,  young,  fresh,  in  love  with  life  and 
in  love  with  each  other. 

Their  exhilaration  comes  straight  through 
the  screen  and  hits  you  square  in  the  heart. 

Yep — I  predict  that  soon  MGM  will  be  buy- 
ing star  stories  for  them  as  they  are  bought 
for  Fred  Astaire,  Gene  Kelly  and  Gene 
Nelson. 

There's  a  run  on  the  name,  Kelly,  for 
Hollywood  babies. 

The  Jimmy  Stewarts  named  one  of  the 
twin-girls.  Kelly-^nd  it's  also  the  name  of 
the  Brod  Crawford  bambino. 


television  award  to  Ken  Murray,  "Holiyyvood's 
Ambassador  to  New  York,"  on  Ken's  TV  shov/. 


Although  Brod  and  Kay  are  estranged  and 
there's  not  much  chance  of  their  getting  back 
together— it  was  Brod  who  drove  his  wife  to 
the  hospital  when  the  baby  was  born  and  they 
are  just  as  delighted  over  it  as  they  would 
be  if  divorce  weren't  staring  them  in  the  face. 

Something  sad  about  this,  isn't  there? 

The  baby  of  Janie  Powell  and  Geary  Steffen 
and  the  baby  of  the  Marshall  Thompsons  are 
going  to  have  exact  duplicates  of  the  silver 
rattle-spoon  "Bonnie"  Prince  Charlie  of 
England  eats  and  "rattles"  with. 

And  they  are  from  the  same  donor — "Aunty" 
Elizabeth  Taylor. 

Liz  ordered  this  spoon,  which  is  also  a 
toy,  from  one  of  the  world's  leading  silver- 
smiths, Phillip  Paval,  and  gave  it  to  Princess 
Elizabeth  soon  after  little  Charles  was  born. 
She  had  become  friends  with  the  Princess 
while  she  was  making  Conspirators  in  Lon- 
don. 

Now  Liz  has  ordered  exactly  the  same 
presents  for  the  babies  of  her  two  best 
Hollywood  girl  friends — and  once  again, 
Paval  has  been  commissioned  to  make  the 
spoons. 

The  Letter  Box:  For  years,  fans  have  written 
me  asking,  "How  does  Lana  Turner  *take  off 
all  the  weight  she  gains  between  pictures  so 
quickly  before  starting  a  new  movie?"  Truth- 
fully, I've  always  wanted  to  know  the  answer 
myself. 

So  we'll  devote  the  entire  letter  depart- 
ment this  month  to  Lana's  answer: 

"There  is  no  secret  about  it,  Louella,"  she 
told  me.  "I  don't  believe  in  pills  and  medicine 
or  in  taking  off  excess  weight  with  freak  diets. 

"Here  is  what  I  do:  I  eat  nothing  but  lean 
meats,  in  small  quantities;  all  I  want  of  green 
salads  made  of  lettuce  or  romaine,  tomatoes, 
hardboiled  eggs,  raw  carrots,  celery  and, 
yep,  green  onions  (if  we  aren't  having 
guests!}.  And  I  drink  lots  and  lots  of  un- 
sweetened fruit  juices." 

Lana  says  after  30  days  of  sticking  rigidly 
to  this  diet — the  weight  just  pours  off  her. 

That's  all  for  this  month.  See  you  next  issue! 


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MOVIE 
REVIEWS 


Poor  boy  Montgomery  Clift  gets  a  job  in  his 
wealthy  uncle's  factory,  is  attracted  to  co-worker 
Shelley  Winters,  and  becomes  involved  with  her. 


Cliff  falls  in  love  with  heiress  Elizabeth  Taylor 
whom  he  met  through  his  uncle.  He  wants  to 
marry  her,  succeeds  in  winning  over  her  family. 


Clift  had  planned  to  drown  Shelley,  but  lost  his  nerve.  However,  the  canoe 
they  were  in  accidentally  overturned  and  Shelley  drowned  anywiay.  The  pros- 
ecuting attorney  calls  it  murder,  and  Clift  must  wait  for  the  jury's  decision. 


Shelley  threatens  to  expose  Clift  if  he  doesn't 
marry  her  at  once,  hie  consents,  but  plans  to 
take  her  to  o  lonely  place  and  murder  her  instead. 


A  PLACE  IN  THE  SUN 

■  One  of  the  classics  of  American  literature,  Theodore  Dreiser's 
"An  American  Tragedy"  becomes  a  motion  picture  very  much 
worth  the  seeing,  if  you  don't  mind  being  mortally  depressed.  The 
story  of  a  poor  boy,  eager  for  the  "better  things,"  believing  in  the 
ancient  and  honored  American  myth  that  a  plumber's  son  can 
easily  marry  an  Astor's  daughter,  and  willing  to  commit  murder 
to  achieve  his  dream — a  dream  sired  by  greed,  out  of  sensa- 
tionalism in  the  Sunday  supplements.  Montgomery  Clift,  as  the 
weak  but  understandable  and  all-too-human  George  Eastman, 
Shelley  Winters  as  the  factory  hand  he  gets  into  trouble  and  then 
tries  to  ditch,  Elizabeth  Taylor  as  the  beautiful  daughter  of  the 
rich,  are  more  than  good,  and  so  is  the  fine,  fresh-sounding 
script.  But  the  chief  credit  has  to  go  to  Dreiser  for  his  merciless 
yet  compassionate  view  of  the  animal  called  man.  He  says  we 
aren't  nice,  but  he  says  it  with  love. 

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THUNDER  ON  THE  HILL 

Melodrammer,  courtesy  of  Universal-Inter- 
national, with  Ann  Blyth  the  convicted  mur- 
deress who  gets  detained  in  a  convent,  during 
a  flood  (she's  with  keepers,  of  course),  on 
her  way  to  be  hanged  by  the  neck.  She's  a 
real  fierce  murderess,  spits  bullets,  practi- 
cally, at  anxious-to-please  Sister  Mary  ( Clau- 
de tte  Colbert)  and  plays  the  piano  savagely, 
defiantly,  majestically,  do  you  hear?  The 
music  was  written  by  her  dead  brother,  whom 
she  did  not  murder,  no  matter  what  you  and 
the  rest  of  the  world,  including  her  own  dear- 
ly beloved  fiance,  thinks.  Well,  the  flood's 
really  a  blessing  in  disguise.  Gives  Claudette 
a  chance  to  uncover  the  real  murderer  (an 
oily  slob)  despite  warnings  from  her  Mother 
Superior  to  keep  out  of  it,  and  mind  her  busi- 
ness. The  vfllagers,  seeking  refuge  from  the 
flood  in  the  convent  and  its  hospital,  hate 
Claudette  for  sticking  by  a  murderer  at  first, 
and  applaud  her  for  freeing  an  irmocent  girl, 
at  last.  I  don't  see  why  she  spoke  to  the  whole 
nasty  lot  of  them. 

Cast:  Claudette  Colbert.  Ann  Blyth,  Robert 
Douglas. — Universal-International. 


HERE  COMES  THE  GROOM 

Jane  Wyman,  who's  been  stood  up  once  too 
often  by  newspaperman  Bing  Crosby,  gets 
herself  engaged  to  mUlionaire  Franchot  Tone, 
and  when  Crosby  returns  from  France,  having 
adopted  two  war  orphans,  he  finds  his  girl's 
not  his  girl  no  more.  In  fact,  she  hates  him. 
In  fact,  she  wants  to  force  him  to  croon  "Oh 
Promise  Me"  at  her  wedding.  "He  likes  to 
think  he  can  sing,"  she  explains  to  Franchot, 
airily.  Fortunately  for  Bing,  Franchot's  cousin, 
Alexis  Smith,  is  in  love  with  Franchot,  and 
Alexis  helps  Bing  bust  up  the  arrangements. 
This  is  a  honey  of  a  picture,  with  two  ador- 
able kids  (Jackie  Gencel  and  Beverly  Wash- 
burn) as  the  French  orphans;  Robert  Keith, 
James  Barton  and  Connie  Gilchrist  as  the  high 
and  low  comedy;  and  plenty  of  music.  From 
start  to  finish,  it's  a  pleasure. 

Casf:  Bing  Crosby,  Jane  Wyman,  Franchot 
Tone. — Paramount. 


IRON  MAN 

Here's  a  boy,  a  coal-miner,  in  love  with 
clerk  Evelyn  Keyes.  His  brother  runs  a  pool 
hall.  Boy  wants  to  get  married,  own  a  radio 
shop  some  day.  Brother  says  you  can  make 
big  money  prize  fighting.  No  sir,  boy  says. 
He  doesn't  like  to  fight,  because  he  starts 
murdering  people  when  he  gets  mad.  It's  a 
little  quirk.  He  can't  control  it.  Brother  says, 
ah,  but  that's  the  killer  instinct.  It'll  make  you 
a  champion.  So  boy  becomes  a  champion,  but 
the  crowds  hate  him.  Eventually  wife  and 
brother  hate  him.  The  newspapers  always 
hated  him  anyway,  and  his  opponents  from 
48  states  are  getting  their  wounds  sewed  up 
regularly.  He  finally  fights  a  clean  fight 
(against  a  kid  he  used  to  know  and  love) 
and  naturally,  loses  the  championship;  but 
he's  showered  with  affection  by  the  crowd, 
his  ex-wiie,  his  brother,  and  the  new  champ. 
It's  enough  to  make  you  believe  in  Santa 
Claus. 

Cast:  }eti  Chandler,  Evelyn  Keyes,  Stephen 
McNally. — Universal-International. 


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Sparks  your  hair  with 
brighter,  richer  color 


BLONDE  HAIR  GUAMS  WITH  BRIGHT  GOLD 

For  new  Shasta  Cream  Shampoo  contains 
an  amazing  sparkle-giving  cleanser  that 
"super"  cleans  your  hair,  so  the  natural 
color  shines  in  all  its  splendour. 


.    STRICTLY  DISHONORABLE 

An  ancient  Preston  Sturges  farce,  revamped 
to  suit  the  talents  of  Ezio  Pinza  and  Janet 
Leigh,  Stzictly  Dishonorable  tells  about  an 
opera  star  who  marries  a  young,  dopey-type 
admirer  of  his,  in  order  to  avoid  a  scandal 
(the  details  of  which  never  mind  now). 
Young  admirer  is  so  insistently  sweet-natured 
and  forgiving  old  roue  actually  falls  in  love 
with  her,  and  this  makes  for  trouble.  If  he 
doesn't  shed  the  new  wife,  there's  a  lady 
going  to  use  his  old  letters  in  a  heart-  balm 
suit,  and  ruin  him  good.  Besides  that,  his 
mother  doesn't  think  the  new  wife  is  fat 
enough  or  Italian  enough.  "There  are  lots  of 
people  in  America  not  Italian,"  Pinza  protests. 
"Yes?"  sneers  his  uncle,-  standing  by.  "Who 
needs  them?"  Strictly  Dishonorable  has 
charm,  though  Janet  and  Ezio  do  seem  a  bit 
on  the  May-December  side. 

Cast:  Janet  Leigb.  Ezio  Pinza,  Millard  Mitchell. 
— MGM. 


RED  HAIR  GLOWS  WITH  BURNISHED  GLORY 

New  Shasta  Cream  Shampoo  sparks  your 
hair  with  brighter,  richer  color.  Not  arti- 
ficial color.  But  your  o^vn  true  shade, 
glistening  through  "super"  clean  hair. 


LANOLIN- 
ENRICHED 


Not  g  tint!  Not  o  dye! 

Shasta  is  a  super  cleansing 
shampoo.  Contains  an  amazing 
sparkle-giving  cleanser  that 
gives  your  natural  hair  color 
a  dazzling  lift. 


BRUNETTE  HAIR  DANCES  WITH  DARK  FIRE 

Super  cleansing  Shasta  lathers  out  color- 
dulling  grime.  Leaves  hair  so  clean — ^your 
own  true  color  shines  like  sunsnine 
streaming  through  a  clean  ^^indow  pane. 


GRAY,  WHITE  HAIR  SHINES  WITH  SILVER 

The  secret  is  Shasta's  amazing  sparkle- 
giving  cleanser.  That's  why — after  sham- 
pooing ydth  New  Shasta  Cream  Shampoo, 
all  hair  color  looks  brighter,  richer. 


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MONEY  BACK  GUMAHIK  If  not  convinced 
thai  New  Lanolin-Enriched  Shasta  sparks  your  hair  tcith 
brighter,  richer  color,  return  the  jar  to  Procter  &  Gamble 
and  get  your  money  back  in  full. 


FOR  BRIGHTER,  RICHER,  NATURAL  COLOR 


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THE  LAW  AND  THE  LADY 

When  I  noticed  in  the  screen  credits  that 
The  Law  and  The  Lady  was  based  on  The 
Last  of  Mrs.  Cheney,  I  said  to  myself,  "that 
old  turkey,"  and  felt  sad.  But  "Mrs.  C."  has 
had  her  face  lifted.  This  is  a  nice  gay  picture. 
Greer  Garson,  housertiaid  turned  adventuress, 
and  Michael  Wilding,  penniless  British  noble- 
man, carouse  around  the  world  doing  things 
(and  people)  until  they're  positively  unwel- 
come on  the  continent,  and  in  China.  This 
forces  them  to  lay  siege  to  the  United  States. 
Marjorie  Main,  an  American  social  climber 
with  a  diamond  as  big  as  a  parking  lot, 
yearns  to  entertain  royalty,  the  alleged  roy- 
alty (Greer)  has  a  weakness  for  parking 
lots — or  maybe  it's  diamonds — so  the  stage  is 
set.  Fernando  Lamas,  one  of  MGM's  new 
glamor  boys,  has  more  and  whiter  teeth  than 
anybody,  I  ought  to  add. 

Cast:  Greer  Garson,  Michael  Wilding,  Mar- 
jorie Main,  Fernando  Lamas. — MGM. 


THE  SECRET  OF  CONVICT  LAKE 

Five  escaped  convicts  descend  on  a  little 
valley  settlement  in  California,  one  of  them 
looking  for  revenge,  and  the  others  looking 
for  $40,000  they  think  the  first  one's  got. 
(Glenn  Ford's  the  first  one;  he  was  sent  to 
jail  for  murdering  a  man  and  stealing  $40,- 
000.)  Glenn  hasn't  come  to  the  valley  to  dig 
up  any  buried  horde,  though;  he  simply  wants 
to  find  the  man  who  framed  him,  the  man  who 
really  pulled  off  the  murder-theft.  This  gent, 
and  all  the  other  gents  who  live  in  the  neigh- 
borhood, ore  off  prospecting,  however,  and 
their  women-folk  are  alone  in  the  settlement 
Ethel  Barrymore,  the  matriarch,  looks  on  while 
Gene  Tierney  and  Glenn  fall  in  love  (she's 
engaged  to  his  mortal  enemy,  too — him  that 
stole  and  murdered),  and  Ann  Dvorak  makes 
a  fool  of  herself  over  romantic  crook  Zachary 
Scott,  and  young  Barbara  Bates  is  nearly 
killed  in  the  embrace  of  maniacal  Richard 
Hylton.  It's  complete  bedlam  before  the  men- 
folk return,  and  the  picture's  over,  and  if  this 
doesn't  sound  confusing,  I'm  surprised. 
Casf:  Gienn  Ford,  Gene  Tierney,  Ethel  Barry- 
more,  Zachary  Scott. — 20th  Century-Fox. 


RICH,  YOUNG  AND  PRETTY 

Jane  Powell,  as  the  daughter  of  Wendell 
Corey,  accompanies  him  to  Paris  when  he 
goes  on  a  government  mission.  There  she 
meets  Vic  Damone,  French  but  lovable,  and 
also,  though  she  little  wots  it,  her  mother, 
Danielle  Darrieux.  Danielle,  who  married 
Wendell  during  the  first  war,  and  deserted 


him  and  their  baby  when  she  got  homesick, 
is  hungry  for  a  sight  of  her  fille  (French  for 
daughter)  and  manages  to  see  Jane  a  lot, 
without  Jane's  becoming  suspicious  of  her  real 
identity.  Danielle,  by  the\Way,  is  now  in  love 
with  fellow  singer  Fernando  Lamas  and,  ap- 
parently considering  herself  an  authority  on 
romance,  eggs  Jane  and  Vic  to  get  married, 
even  against  Wendell's  wishes.  (Wendell's 
had  enough  hands-across-the-sea.)  Anyhow, 
lots  of  the  picture  is  funny,  there's  plenty 
music  and  Technicolor.  The  only  thing  I'd 
quarrel  with  would  be  the  choice  of  Wendell 
Corey  to  play  the  kind  of  hickish  over-grown 
boy-father  he  plays  here.  He  seemed  embar- 
rassed throughout.  Fernando  Lamas  has  lots 
of  white  teeth,  but  I  think  I  mentioned  them  in 
some  other  review. 

Cast:  Jane  Powell,  Vic  Damone,  Wendell 
Corey,  Danielle  Darrieux. — MGM. 


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NO  HIGHWAY  IN  THE  SKY 

I  would  like  to  howl,  screech,  sob,  moan, 
and  even,  ii  necessary,  quietly  state  that  this 
is  a  sensational  picture,  sad,  and  funny,  and 
delightful,  and  surprising,  and  everything  else 
good  you  want  to  call  if.  From  that  vague 
title,  you'd  never  guess  the  treat  in  store 
for  you.  No  Highway  in  the  Sky  tells  about 
Mr.  Theodore  Honey  (Jimmy  Stewart),  a  re- 
search worker  at  a  British  aviation  center, 
and  his  experiment  intended  to  prove  that  a 
certain  type  of  airliner  will  lose  its  tail  after 
it's  flown  1400  hours.  This  may  not  sound  like 
much,  but  combine  it  with  Marlene  Dietrich, 
as  an  actress  traveling  in  one  of  the  planes 
about  to  lose  its  tail,  Glynis  Johns  as  the 
stewardess  on  same,  and  Jimmy's  valiant 
efforts  to  save  them,  himself  and  the  British 
Empire,  even  though  everybody  thinks  he's 
dotty.  You've  got  a  swell  show.  I  can't  begin 
to  do  justice  to  this  picture;  it's  even  fuU  of 
suspense.  Don't  miss  it. 

Cast:  James  Stewart,  Marlene  Dietrich,  Glynis 
Johns,  Jack  Hawkins. — 20th  Century-Fox. 


A  MILLIONAIRE  FOR  CHRISTY 

This  is  a  poor,  pitiful  attempt  at  comedy. 
Eleanor  Parker,  honest  working  girl  who's 
just  had  her  beaver  coat  repossessed  by  the 
finance  company,  is  sent  by  her  lawyer  boss 
to  tell  Fred  MacMurray  he's  inherited  two 
I  million  dollars.  Fred  is  a  loathesome  soul;  he 
I  sells  prune  juice  on  the  radio,  and  gives  out 
with  syrupy  philosophy  while  so  doing.  But 
I  Eleanor  hasn't  smelled  a  millionaire  in  a  long 
time,  and  she's  willing  to  take  him  on,  prunes 
I  and  all.  Fred's  about  to  marry  another  girl, 
[and  Eleanor  gums  up  the  works.  Richard. 
1  Carlson,  an  imbecilic  psychiatrist  who  loves 
[Fred's  fiancee,  is  delighted,  and  the  whole 
[bunch  of  them  become  embroiled  in  a  series 
[of  conflicts,  romantic  and  otherwise,  with  the 
'few  real  laughs  getting  lost  in  the  shuffle. 

Cas<:  EJeanor  Parker,  Fred  MacMuiray,  Una 
Merkel.—20ih  Century-Fox. 


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my  game 


"Jim  and  I'd  been  dating  since  his 
Cadet  days.  So  when  he  invited  me  back 
for  a  football  weekend,  I  thought, 
'Nancy,  this  is  your  chance' .  . .  We 
watched  the  game  in  a  freezing 
rain.  Even  without  gloves  I  didn't  mind. 
I  had  my  Jergens  Lotion  to  soften 
my  hands  for  the  dance  that  night. 


"When  we  went  walking,  the  wind  was 
icy.  But  I  knew  Jergens  Lotion  would 
smooth  my  chapped  skin  in  a  jiffy. 


Jergens  Lotion  doesn't  just  "At  the  dance  Jim  kissed  me  Try  Jergens  Lotion— and  see 

coat  skin  with  a  film  of  oil.  It  and  whispered,  you're  such  why  more  women  use  it  than 

penetrates  the  upper  layers  a  softie  —  could  you  stand  any  other  hand  care.  It's  still 

with  softening  moisture. . .  the  life  of  an  army  wife?'"  only  10<*  to  $1,  plus  tax. 


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THE  LUXURY  POLISH 
AT  A  BUDGET  PRICE! 

Highest  quality  isn't  always  a  matter  of  high- 
est price.  That's  why  truly  discriminating 
women  buy  low-priced  Cutex  for  lovely  nails. 
Only  Cutex  gives- 
longer  wear.  Made  with  Enamelon,  Cutex 
has  a  jewel-hardness  that's  a  wonder  for 
"non-chip"  wear! 

Perfect  manicures.  Exclusive  "Nail-Meas- 
ure" neck  controls  amount  of  polish  on  brush! 
Insures  flawless  manicures! 

Lovelier  colors.  Soft  pastels — lively  reds!  A 
variety  so  wide  it  rivals  a  rainbow !  All  with 
matching  lipstick! 


ORIGINAL  ' 


lovelier  nails. 


DECISION  BEFORE  DAWN 

It  seems  that  before  the  end  of  World  War 
II,  certain  German  prisoners  of  war  cooper- 
ated with  the  allies  to  help  end  things  more 
speedily.  These  spies,  sent  back  into  Ger- 
many to  procure  information,  were  carefully 
chosen,  and  did  remarkable  work.  Decision 
Before  Dawn  is  the  story  of  a  mission  involv- 
ing two  such  men,  and  an  American  officer. 
One  of  the  Germans  is  portrayed  as  an  ideal- 
ist, whose  allegiance  was  never  to  the  Nazis; 
the  other  as  a  cynic  who  will  fight  for  any 
side  which  is  winning.  There  are  sketches  of 
various  German  types.  A  lonely  woman 
(Hildegarde  Neff)  who  has  lost  her  self  re- 
spect, and  spends  her  nights  dancing  with 
soldiers  in  a  cafe,  a  mixed-up  12-year-old 
Hitler  Youth  member,  a  particularly  revolting 
Gestapo  agent,  etc.  The  plot  is  long  and  im- 
possible to  cover  here,  but  the  performances, 
particularly  of  Viennese  Oskar  Werner  and 
German  Hans  Christian  Blech,  are  very  fine. 

Cast:  Richard  Basehazt,  Gary  MeTiill,  Oskai 
Werner,  Hildegarde  Neff. — 20th  Centry-Fox. 


ON  MOONLIGHT  BAY 

The  work  of  Booth  Tarkington  inspired  On 
Mooniighf  Bay,  and  the  gentle  charm  and 
humor  of  that  master  shine  through.  Tomboy 
Doris  Day  moves  into  a  new  neighborhood, 
meets  and  falls  in  love  with  the  boy  next  door 
(Gordon  MacRae)  who's  every  inch  a  modem 
man.  Doesn't  believe  in  marriage  (the  year 
is  1917}  and  thinks  all  bankers  are  parasites. 
Since  Doris'  father  is  a  banker,  Gordon  mom- 
ages  to  make  himself  so  earnestly  loathed  by 
that  gentleman  that  he  scarcely  escapes  to 
college  with  his  life.  Minute  he's  gone,  papa 
sics  Jack  Smith  on  Doris.  Smith  plays  a  Rudy 
Vallee  type  named  Hubert,  slightly  stuffed,  be- 
spectacled, and  adenoidal-voiced.  To  add  to 
Doris'  troubles,  her  small  brother  Wesley,  in 
some  of  the  movies'  best  Penrod-like  scenes, 
has  been  regaling  his  teacher  with  stories  of 
his  father's  drunken  fits.  This  is  a  general 
idea.  More  plot  isn't  important.  On  Moonlight 
Bay  is  very  pleasant. 

Cast:  Doris  Day,  Gordon  MacRae,  Jack  Smith, 
Leon  Ames. — Warners. 


easy  money! 


So  money  can't  buy  happiness  .  .  .  we'll  go  along  with  that  all 
same,  we  think  some   of  you   Modern   Screen   readers  might 
absolutely  free.    All  you  hove  to  do  is  read  all  of  the  stories  ii 
and  fill  out  the  questionnaire  below — carefully.    Then  send  it  to 


right.  But  just  the 
like  to  hove  $1.00 
I  this  October  issue 
us  with  all  possible 


haste  and  we'll  send  100  one-dollar  bills  to  the  first  100  people  we  hear  from.  So 
why  not  get  started — right  now! 

QUESTIONNAIRE:  Which  stories  and  features  did  you  enjoy  most  in  our  October 
issue?  WRITE  THE  NUMBERS  I,  2,  and  3  AT  THE  LEFT  of  your  first,  second  and 
third  choices.    Then  let  us  know  what  stars  you'd  like  to  read  about  in  future  issues. 

ike  LEAST? 


□  The  Inside  Story 

□  Louella  Parsons'  Good  News 

□  Christopher  Kane's  Movie  Reviews 

□  Alan  Ladd — Your  Hollywood  Shopper 

□  Enter  Miss  Hodiak  (Anne  Baxter- 
John  Hodiak) 

□  Reunion  in  London  (Ingrid  Bergman) 

□  Hottest  Man  In  Town  (Stewart 
Granger) 

□  Hondle  With  Care  (Derek,  Roman, 
Rogers,  Crawford,  Wyman,  Gard- 
ner, etc.) 

□  Bob's  Wife  (Lana  Turner) 

□  Laddie  Does  The  Hula  (Alan  Ladd) 

□  So  Nice  To  Come  Home  To  (Doris 
Day) 

□  Ten  Girls  I  Didn't  Marry  by  Scott 
Brady 

□  In  The  Mood  For  Love  (June  Haver) 

□  Small-Town  Girl  (Peggy  Dow) 

□  They're  Talking  About  Lanza  (Mario 
Lanza) 

□  A  Place  of  Their  Own  (Mark 
Stevens) 

Hollywood  Honeymooners: 

□  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tony  Curtis  (Tony  Cur- 
tis-Janet Leigh) 

□  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Agar  (John  Agar) 

□  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Murphy  (Audie 
Murphy) 

□  Does  Liz  Know  What  Love  Is?  (Liz 
Taylor) 

□  Don't  Bargain  For  Faith  by  Dennis 
O'Keefe 

□  Modern  Screen  Fashions 

□  Tell  It  To  Joan  (Joan  Evans) 


Which  of  the  stories  did  you 


What  3  MALE  stars  would  you  like  to 
read  about  in  future  issues?  List  them 
I,  2,  3,  in  order  of  preference  


What  3  FEMALE  stars  would  you  like  to 
read  about  in  future  issues?  List  them 
I,  2,  3,  in  order  of  preference  


What  MALE  star  do  you  like  least? 


What  FEMALE  star  do  you  like  least? 


My  name  is. 
My  address 

City  

State  


Zone 


I 


...  .yrs.  old 

ADDRESS  TO:  POLL  DEPT.,  MODERN 
SCREEN.  BOX  125,  MURRAY  HILL 
STATION,    NEW    YORK   16,    N.  Y. 


SATURDAY'S  HERO 

This  is  a  story  of  a  high  school  football  hero 
(John  Derek)  from  a  mill  town,  who  accepts 
a  scholarship  to  a  small  southern  college — a 
college  all  lousy  with  traditions  of  culture — 
in  the  hope  that  he  may  turn  out  to  be  man 
of  distinction,  and  not  just  another  "football 
bum."  He  finds,  in  pretty  short  order,  that  the 
trustees  of  his  college  are  cynical;  that  he's 
being  used;  that  it's  still  the  wealthy  and 
well-bom  who  are  invited  into  the  fraternities; 
that  idealism  is  pretty  dated  stuff.  Eventually 
an  injury  to  his  shoulder  finishes  him  as  far 
as  football  is  concerned,  and  he  leaves  school. 
He's  grown  up;  he  doesn't  believe  in  his 
lovely  dreams  any  more — but  he's  still  deter- 
mined to  make  a  worthwhile  life  for  himself, 
back  among  the  people  he  knows  and  under- 
stands. I  like  Saturday's  Hero,  and  the  things 
it  had  to  say.  Performance-wise,  a  boy  named 
Aldo  DoRe  with  a  gravel-y  voice  and  a  wide 
grin  is  a  sensation.  (He  plays  one  of  Derek's 
team  mates.} 

Cgsfs  7ohn  Derek,  Donna  Reed,  Sidney  Black- 
mer,  Alexander  Knox. — Columbia. 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by 
page  the  photographs  which  appear  in 
this  issue. 

6t7-10 — Bruce  Bailey,  14 — Lt.  Wide  World,  Rt. 
CBS,  18 — Top  Universal-International,  Bot. 
Paramount,  19 — Top  Universal-International, 
Bot.  MGM,  20— MGM,  21 — 20th  Century -Fox, 

23 — Columbia,     24  Bert     Parry,     37 — Wide 

World,  38 — MGM,  39 — Globe  Photos,  40 — 
Top  Lt.  Columbia,  Top  Cen.  Warner  Bros.,  Top 
Rt.  Modern  Screen  Staff,  Cen.  Lt.  MGM,  Cen. 
20th  Century-Fox,  Cen.  Rt.  Bob  Beerman, 
Bot.   Lt.  Kas  Heppner,  Bot.  Rt.   Stork  Club, 

41 — Warner  Bros.,  42-43 — Bob  Beerman,  44  

Art  Carter,  45 — Top  Modem  Screen  Staff,  Top 
Cen.  Sc  Bot.  Cen.  Art  Carter,  Bot.  Billy  Howell, 
46 — Art  Carter,  47 — Lt.,  Top.  Cen.,  Bot.,  Rt. 
&  Top  Art  Carter,  Cen.  Rt.  Defense  Dept.,  Bot. 
Rt.  Modern  Screen  Staff,  48-49 — Parry-Beer- 
man,  50 — Far  Lt.  Universal-International,  Lt. 
MGM,  Cen.  Henry  Waxman,  Rt.  Universal- 
International,  Far  Rt.  MGM,  5 1 — Far  Lt.  Para- 
mount, Lt.  Universal-International,  Rt.  Studio, 
Far  Rt.  Bob  Beerman,  52 — 20th  Century-Fox, 

S3 — Modern  Screen   Staff,   54  Bob  Beerman, 

55 — Universal-International,  56 — Top  Lt.  Bob 
Beerman,  Top  Rt.  &  Bot.  MGM,  57 — MGM, 
58-60 — Parry-Beerman,  64 — Top  Bob  Beerman, 
65 — Bob  Beerman,  66 — Lt.  Top  Bob  Beerman, 
Cen.  Top  Modem  Screen  Staff,  Rt.  Top  Wide 
World,  Lt.  Bot.  Bert  Parry,  Cen.  Bot.  Bob  Beer- 
man, Rt.  Bot.  MGM,  67 — Top  Lt.  Penguin 
Photo,  Bot.  Lt.  Bob  Beerman,  Rt.  Walt  Davis, 
69 — Lt.  De  Wan  Studios,  Rt.  Bruce  Bailey,  70 
— Bob  Beerman,  79 — Lt.  Coburn  of  Columbia, 
Rt.  Bert  Parry,  80 — Lt.  Bert  Six,  Cen.  &  Rt. 
Bert  Parry,  Bot.  Bert  Six,  81-83 — Bert  Parry. 


The  ''tissue  test''  proved  to  Lucille... 


that  Woodbury  floats  out  hidden  dirt! 


Do  you  feel  that  all  cleansing  creams  are 
alike?  So  did  vivacious  Lucille  Ball  until 
she  convinced  herself  with  the  "Tissue 
Test"  that  there  really  is  a  difference  in 
cleansing  creams! 

We  asked  her  to  cleanse  her  face  with 
her  regular  cleansing  cream.  Then  to  try 
Woodbury  Cold  Cream  on  her  "immacu- 
lately clean"  face  and  handed  her  a  tissue. 

The  tissue  told  a  startling  story!  Wood- 
bury Cold  Cream  floated  out  hidden  dirt! 


Why  is  Woodbury  so  different?  Because 
it  has  Penaten,  a  new  miracle  ingredient 
that  actually  penetrates  deeper  into  your 
pore  openings  .  .  .  lets  Woodbury's  won- 
derful cleansing  oils  loosen  every  trace 
of  grime  and  make-up. 

It's  wonder-working  Penaten,  too,  that 
helps  Woodbury  to  smooth  your  skin  more 
effectively.  Tiny  dry-skin  lines,  little  rough 
flakes  just  melt  away. 

Buy  a  jar  today — 254  to  974,  plus  tax. 


Woodbury 

(^.i'^Z  ('nam 


Woodbury 
Cold  Cream 

floats  out  hidden  dirt. 


penetrates  deeper  because  it  contains  Penaten 


23 


modern  screen  in  the  news 


When  Anne  gave  birth  to  baby  Katrina  Baxter  Hodiak  on  July  9th,  proud  papa  John  handed  out  cigars  and  candy.  . 


enter  miss  hodiak 


What's  in  a  name? 
Little  Katrina  doesn't 
know  yet,  but 
hers  has  a  wonderful, 
special  significance 
for  her  mother  and  dad 

BY  JANE  WILKIE 


■  In  the  misty  gray  dawn  of  July  9th,  two  bored  Los  Angeles  cops  sat  on 
their  motorcycles  at  the  deserted  intersection  of  Sunset  Boulevard  and 
Fairfax  Avenue. 

The  pair  of  officers  will  never  know  the  temptation  they  presented  to  the 
owner  of  the  Cadillac  that  at  that  moment  slid  by  them  at  a  respectable 
speed.  Inside  the  car,  John  Hodiak  chuckled. 

"What's  funny?"  asked  Mrs.  Hodiak,  alias  Anne  Baxter. 

"I  was  just  thinking,"  he  said,  "that  this  is  my  chance  of  a  lifetime.  I 
could  do  80  miles  an  hour  down  Svmset  and  then  have  the  perfect  alibi  for 
those  cops.  "Officer,  please!  My  wife's  going  to  have  a  baby!"  John  grinned. 
"Maybe  we'd  even  get  an  escort,  siren  and  all." 

"Let's  not  get  carried  away  with  the  idea,"  said  Anne.  "We  have  plenty 
of  time.  I  think."  Then  she  added,  "It's  furmy — how  perfectly  calm  I  am." 

"Me,  too,"  said  John.  "Fxmny."  Cool,  calm  and  collected  they  were,  or  at 
least  that's  what  they  claimed. 

This  business  of  having  a  baby  had  been  planned  serenely  and  logically. 
Anne  and  John  are  not  impetuous  people.  They  have  never  dived  into  any- 
thing without  first  giving  the  matter  considerable  thought.  Although  they've 
always  wanted  a  baby,  they  weren't  the  ones  to  start  even  a  small  family  be- 
fore the  cement  was  really   dry  in  the  foundation  of  their  marriage. 


They  had  given  themselves  a  two-year 
courtship — to  make  sure — and  that  was 
followed  by  four  years  of  marriage  before 
time  for  a  baby  was  agreed  upon. 

Their  families  were  impatient.  Anne  is 
an  only  chUd  and  her  parents  felt  it  was 
high  time  for  a  grandchild — preferably  a 
girl.  John's  own  generation  had  produced 
only  two  boys  and  the  elder  Hodiaks  were 
pulling  for  another  addition  to  the  clan — 
preferably  a  girl. 

It  was  in  the  early  fall  of  1950  that  a 
baby  was  happily  expected.  Their  families 
were  informed,  but  the  news  was  kept 
from  the  press  for  five  long  months.  No 
one  guessed.  Amie  finished  her  work  in 
Follow  The  Sun  and  gave  no  indication  to 
anyone  that  she  was  pregnant.  They  flew 
to  New  York  in  January,  and  during  their 
three-week  stay  did  several  radio  shows. 

In  March  she  appeared  on  Hedda  Hop- 
per's radio  show,  but  even  the  eagle  eye 
of  Miss  Hopper,  which  can  detect  every- 
thing except  uranium,  noticed  nothing 
different.  Miss  Hopper  missed  a  scoop  that 
was  right  xmder  her  nose. 

The  news  had  to  come  out  when  Anne 
was  visiting  her  family  up  near  San  Fran- 
cisco, and  the  studio  phoned  her  there. 

"You'll  have  to  come  back  to  Holly- 
wood," they  said.  "We  want  you  to  star 
in  People  Will  Talk." 

"I  can't,"  Anne  said. 

"What  do  you  mean — you  can't?" 

"My  next  is  going  to  be  a  Hodiak  pro- 
duction," she  said,  and  within  five  min- 
utes the  news  had  covered  the  studio 
like  a  spring  shower  and  the  press  had 
been  informed. 

'C'vEN  then,  with  only  four  months  to  go, 
it  was  difficult  to  beUeve  that  Anne 
was  expecting  a  baby.  One  little  old  lady 
in  the  neighborhood  clucked  sympatheti- 
cally to  a  friend,  "That  nice  Mrs.  Hodiak 


thinks  she's  going  to  have  a  baby.  But 
she  isn't — ^poor  girl — anyone  could  teU 
that." 

Credit  for  Anne's  lissome  figure  goes  to 
her  doctor,  who  gave  her  a  balanced  diet 
to  keep  down  weight,  and  to  Anne  her- 
self, who  stuck  to  it  religiously.  It  paid 
off,  for  during  the  whole  period  she  gained 
only  14  pounds,  but  there  was  many  a  day 
when  Anne  would  sigh  softly  and  say, 
"I'd  give  my  eye  teeth  for  a  lobster,  drip- 
ping in  butter.  But  I  won't.  I  won't." 

Her  craving  for  seafood  was  about  the 
only  upset  suffered  by  Anne  during  the 
long  stretch.  She  felt  wonderful  and  looked 
wonderful.  At  an  important  party  given 
by  her  studio  a  month  before  the  birth  of 
her  baby — a  party  that  was  attended  by 
all  the  stars  on  the  lot — the  people  there 
unanimously  agreed  that  Anne  was  the 
prettiest  girl  present.  That  takes  some 
doing,  when  a  girl's  in  the  middle  of  a 
batch  of  movie  actresses,  and  pregnant. 

She  bought  a  veritable  library  of  books, 
and  eventually,  in  any  room  of  the  house 
a  visitor  could  find  a  book  on  child  care, 
on  expectant  motherhood,  on  child  psy- 
chology, etc.  Because  Anne  devoured 
these  books,  she  was  spared  the  anxieties 
brought  on  by  old  wives'  tales.  She  knew 
what  to  expect  and  what  to  do,  and  aU 
the  talk  went  in  one  ear  and  out  the 
other.  Once  in  a  while  she  thought,  per- 
haps because  she'd  so  often  heard  that 
expectant  mothers  are  grumpy,  that  she 
was  sometimes  short  witii  John,  and  often 
apologized  to  him  for  a  curtness  that  he 
hadn't  even  noticed. 

The  only  thing  that  bothered  her  other 
than  the  yen  for  seafood  was  the  lassitude 
that  overtook  her  in  the  evenings.  Anne 
is  a  girl  who  normally  can  get  along  well 
with  only  five  or  six  hours'  sleep,  and  the 
idea  of  nodding  in  an  armchair  before 
midnight  arrived  annoyed  her  no  end. 


THE  baby  shopping  was  done  by  Anne 
Eind  her  mother,  and  the  dinky  little 
things  picked  up  here  and  there  were 
stored  neatly  away  in  the  new  guest  room 
that  had  been  added  to  .  the  house  last 
year.  The  only  other  preparation  was  the 
purchase  of  the  necessary  baby  furniture, 
and  the  receipt  by  freight  of  the  lovely  old 
crib  that  first  served  as  a  bed  for  Anne's 
own  grandmother.  Since  that  time  it  has 
gone  the  rovmds  of  the  family,  each  new 
parent  sending  it  to  the  next  expectant 
member.  It  was  duly  sent,  this  time  from  a 
branch  of  the  family  in  St.  Louis,  and  along 
with  the  other  accoutrements  was  installed 
in  the  guest  room.  No  attempt  was  made  by 
Anne  or  John  to  redecorate  the  room  as 
a  ntursery.  The  walls  are  green,  and  plain 
and  simple.  They  both  felt  that  a  nursery 
splattered  with  kangaroos  and  teddy  beEirs 
must  be  confusing  to  an  infEint  only  learn- 
ing to  see,  and  planned  any  such  changes 
for  the  future. 

Anne  concentrated  hard  and  long  on  her 
maternity  clothes,  for  she  is  a  girl  who 
is  acutely  clothes  conscious.  They  arranged 
for  a  nurse,  only  after  locating  a  woman 
who  likes  to  travel.  For  travel  comes  high 
on  the  list  of  Hodiak  pleasures,  and  they 
are  determined  to  take  the  baby  with  them 
wherever  they  go,  whether  it  be  a  location 
trip  to  Kanab,  Utah,  or  a  trip  on  a 
freighter  destined  for  im-pronounceable 
ports. 

They  bought  a  book  titled  "What  Shall 
We  Name  The  Baby?"  and  spasmodically 
pored  over  it  and  the  subsequent  problem. 
The  only  definite  thing  that  came  out  of 
the  conferences  for  a  long  time  was  the 
fact  that,  if  the  baby  were  a  girl,  she 
would  not  be  named  Anne.  There  are 
already  enough  Anne  Hodiaks,  including 
John's  mother,  sister  and  wife,  to  create 
utter  confusion  within  the  family.  Months 
went   by   without   any   conclusion,  and 


9l^of ^iloE  md  Mne^ 

^  interviewed  at  San  Diego,  California,  said: 


mUUm  are  MILDER 

than  the  brand  I  had  been  smoking!" 

In  San  Diego,  California,  over  200  sailors  and  marines 
were  asked  to  compare  Cavalier  Cigarettes  with  the 
brands  they  had  been  smoking.  Their  answers  should 
be  of  interest  to  every  smoker! 


91  %  of  these  sailors  and 
marines— yes,  91%  of 
the  smokers  —  said 
Cavaliers  are  milder 
than  their  former  ciga- 
rettes! And  they'd  been 
smoking  all  the  leading 
brands! 

Cavalier  mildness  has 
been  proved  in  hundreds 
and  hundreds  of  tests  from 


coast  to  coast— among  col- 
lege students,  phone  opera- 
tors, nurses  and  many  other 
groups.  80%  or  more  of 
smokers  interviewed  said 
Cavahers  are  mUder  than 
the  cigarettes  they  had  been 
smoking ! 

Start  enjoying  Cavaliers. 
Priced  no  higher  than  other 
popular  cigarettes! 


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every  once  in  a  while  Anne  would  sud- 
denly remember  that  the  issue  was  riding 
along  Tonsettled. 

"But  then,"  she'd  say,  "how  can  you 
possibly  name  a  baby  until  you've  seen  it? 
Until  you  have  some  idea  of  its  person- 
ality?" 

Finally,  long  ones  and  short  ones,  strong 
ones  and  pretty  ones  were  selected  await- 
ing the  advent  of  the  baby,  and  the  book 
was  put  away. 

In  the  last  few  weeks,  the  Hodiaks  were 
social  as  an  ant  colony.  Rather  than  sit 
around  the  house  and  stew,  they  accepted 
one  invitation  after  einother,  feeling  con- 
fident that  the  busy  days  would  help  pass 
the  time.  They  had  only  one  qualm  on  this 
score — the  day  they  read  in  the  newspaper 
that  Spike  Jones'  wife  had  found  it  neces- 
sary to  hastily  excuse  herself  from  a  party 
at  the  Mocambo  and  rush  off  to  the  hos- 
pital. 

"That,"  said  John  worriedly,  "might 
happpen  to  you!" 

"I  wouldn't  care,"  said  Anne.  "Even  that 
would  be  better  than  sitting  home  playing 
solitaire  and  waiting,  waiting." 

nPHEEiE  was  a  wait,  too,  but  then  that  was 
their  own  fault.  The  doctor  had  given 
July  9th  as  the  date  of  arrival,  but  Anne 
and  John  disagreed  with  him.  No  sir,  they 
said,  that  was  much  too  late.  The  baby 
would  be  born  about  June  25th.  They 
persisted  so  definitely  in  this  idea,  giving 
that  date  to  anyone  who  inquired,  that 
they  almost  had  the  doctor  himself  con- 
vinced. But  June  came  and  went,  and 
nothing  happened. 

Their  fifth  wedding  armiversary  was 
celebrated  on  July  5th,  and  although 
columnists  said  the  Hodiaks  were  hoping 
the  baby  would  be  born  on  that  day,  such 
was  not  the  case.  Arme  and  John  were  sure 
their  child  wanted  to  have  its  own  birth- 
day, to  have  as  something  special,  and  not 
be  intruded  upon  by  a  wedding  armiver- 
sary. That  night  they  went  to  a  party, 
and  breathed  twin  sighs  of  relief  when 
midnight  had  come  and  gone.  Anne  gave 
John,  as  a  gift,  a  bolt  of  imported  cloth  for 
a  new  suit  and  John,  knowing  the  baby 
would  arrive,  gave  Arme  a  small  Chinese 
chest  filled  with  cymbidixun  orchids,  a 
flower  that  stays  in  bloom  for  weeks  and 
therefore  could  still  be  enjoyed  after 
Anne's  return  from  the  hospital. 

Promptly  at  2:30  on  the  morning  of 
July  9th,  Anne  knew  that  the  doctor  had 
been  right  all  along.  It  was  a  Monday 
Eind  Johri  was  due  to  go  to  work  that  day 
in  County  Line,  so  Anne  quietly  got  out 
of  bed  and,  tip-toeing  around  the  house, 
dressed  and  packed  her  bag.  She  phoned 
her  mother  up  in  Palo  Alto  and  shortly 
before  five  o'clock,  phoned  the  doctor  to 
make  sure.  It  was  only  then  that  she 
waked  John,  who  to  this  day  insists  he 
was  not  nervous.  At  the  hospital,  he  signed 
the  necessary  papers,  was  assured  that 
his  wife  was  in  capable  hands,  went  home 
to  shave  and  shower,  and  reported  at  the 
studio  on  time  for  work,  only  to  find  that 
the  shooting  schedule  could  be  so  arranged 
that  he  could  go  back  to  the  hospital  in  the 
afternoon. 

Shortly  after  noon,  he  saw  Anne  for  a 
few  minutes  and  then  was  shooed  into  that 
nerve -shattering  place,  the  fathers'  wait- 
ing room.  One  other  man  was  there,  and 
they  struck  up  the  usual  conversation 
after  introducing  themselves.  Is  this  your 
first  baby?  Do  you  want  a  boy  or  girl? 
How  long  have  you  been  married?  And 
there  the  discourse  ended  and  they 
smoked  in  sUence,  fUhng  the  room  with  a 
grey  pall.  To  help  pass  the  time,  John 
fell  to  phUosophiziag.  The  conversation 
with  the  other  man,  he  thought,  had  been 
inane.  What  do  I  have  in  common  with 
him,  he  asked  himself.  Nothing,  really, 


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except  that  we're  both  deeply  concerned  ' 
about  our  wives,  and  that  we're  going  to 
be  fathers.  It's  only  that,  and  although  I'll 
probably  never  see  the  guy  again,  there's 
a  great  bond  between  us,  and  I'll  never 
forget  him  as  long  as  I  live.  He  wondered 
idly,  flicking  the  ashes  from  the  end  of  his 
fourteenth  cigarette,  what  would  be  the 
reaction  if  hundreds  of  men  were  crowded 
into  the  same  room  and  all  told  that  their 
wives  were  having  babies.  They  wouldn't 
talk  much,  he  thought,  but  there'd  probablj- 
be  m^ore  faith  and  more  hope,  and  more 
silent  sjTnpathy  and  brotherhood  packed 
into  that  room  than  in  any  one  place  in 
historj-. 

It  was  six  o'clock  in  the  evening  when 
they  told  John  that  Anne  was  now  in  the 
delivery  room.  He  steeled  himself  for  an 
attack  of  nerves,  but  less  than  ten  minutes 
later  a  nurse  came  into  the  room  and 
smiled  at  him.  "You  have  a  baby  girl,"  she 
said.  He  wanted  to  throw  his  arms  around 
the  whole  hospital  for  waiting  until  the 
last  minute  to  tell  him.  about  the  dehvery 
room.  If  they'd  told  him  when  Anne  had 
really  gone  in,  at  the  beginning,  he  thought, 
he  might  have  gone  to  pieces. 

He  saw  the  baby  15  minutes  later.  She 
had  dark  hair  and  eyes  set  wide  apart,  ' 
Hke  Anne's,  but  shaped  like  his  own.  She 
was  howling  a  deep  throated  howl,  and  he 
thought  to  himself  that  one  of  the  strong 
names  would  fit  her  best.  Katrina,  maybe.  > 

Then  he  phoned  Arme's  mother,  who  had  i 
flown  down  to  Los  Angeles  and  was  wait- 
ing for  news  at  her  daughter's  home,  and 


.  .  .  Joe  Mankiewicz  uses  five  chairs 
on  the  set.  He  collects  chairs  as 
some  men  collect  pipes.  While  di- 
recting, Mankiewicz  moves  from 
one  to  another.  He  has  a  rocker, 
complete  to  a  footstool,  for  his 
more  weary  moments;  a  high  chair, 
so  that  he  can  see  over  people 
when  he's  directing  a  scene;  a 
chair  on  top  of  a  camera  crane;  a 
desk  chair  that  contains  his  books 
and  papers;  and  a  small  metal 
stool  that  he  can  fold  up  and  take 
with  him. 

Sidney  Skolskv  in 
The  Xeiv  York  Post 


finally  he  saw  Anne  herself.  There  wasn't 
much  to  say  in  those  few  minutes. 

As  far  as  Anne  was  concerned,  the  world 
was  a  great  s^virling  mist,  with  things  too 
close  and  things  too  far  away,  and  some 
things  upside  do%\Ti.  But  John's  face  was 
there,  and  she  knew  they  had  a  beautiful, 
healthy  daughter,  and  now  that  it  was  over 
there  was  nothing  to  do  but  sleep  the  best 
sleep  of  her  life. 

The  next  day  the  flowers  began  arriving, 
and  by  evening  the  room  looked  like  a 
California  flower  show.  Promptly  at  seven 
o'clock  a  breathless  John  appeared  in  the 
doorway,  having  devoted  his  day  to  Metro - 
Goldwyn-Mayer.  He  stood  there,  holding 
one  perfect  yellow  rose  in  his  hand. 

Anne  smiled.  "Come  in,  darling,  and 
give  me  the  flower.  It's  the  prettiest  I've 
ever  seen." 

"Maybe  Katrina  Baxter  Hodiak?"  said 
John. 

"Definitely,"  Anne  said.  "She  has  a  will 
of  her  own,  that  one." 

"I  bought  cigars,"  John  said.  "Maybe 
they  went  out  with  the  wagon  wheel,  but 
I  wanted  them.  And  candy  for  the  girls." 

"Speaking  of  buying  things,"  said  IMrs. 
Hodiak,  "I  can't  wait  to  get  out  of  here. 
I'm  going  to  buy  me  the  slinkiest  dress 
in  town." 

Mr.  Hodiak  put  the  yellow  rose  in  her 
hand  and  grinned.  "Now  I  know  you're 
back  to  normal,"  he  said.  The  End 


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Halo  glorifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  yova  hair  with 
even  finest  liquid  or  oily  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thus  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo — America's 
favorite  shampoo — at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  counter! 


Gives  fragrant 
'soft-water"  lather 
—needs  no 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable^ 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights! 


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Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair! 


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■  Christmas  is  nearer  than  you 
think,  and  now's  the  time  to  start 
shopping  for  it.  Just  sit  back  and 
select  your  gifts  from  among  the 
many  attractive  items  featured  on 
the  following  pages.  They  come  from 
smart  shops  all  over  the  countr>-. 
They  represent  the  best  you  can  get 
for  your  money — and  you  can  be 
sure  they're  style-\\ise. 

To  get  any  of  these  star-selected 
items,  just  write  to  the  shops  men- 
tioned below  each  picture,  enclosing 
a  check  or  money  order  (and  gift 
card,  if  you  like).  Your  selection 
will  be  rushed  to  any  address  you 
name.  Modern  Screex  guarantees 
deliver^-.  Prices  all  include  postage 
and  tax  where  necessan.-.  Money 
will  be  returned  on  any  items  that 
are  returned  within  10  days  after 
delivery-.  Only  personalized  mer- 
chandise cannot  be  returned. 


alan  ladd 
your  Hollywood  shopper 

for  October 


MY  TIES  HAVE  FlIES!  To  a  fisherman  this  tie 
is  irresistible  and  is  sure  to  be  an  excellent 
"catch"  for  your  favorite  fisherman.  It's  a 
hand  woven  Cape-Coddler  in  100%  virgin 
u'ool  decorated  with  authentic  fishing  flies, 
salmon  streamers.  They're  stitched  to  the 
tie  but  come  off  for  dry  cleaning.  Smart 
solid  shades  of  brown,  gray,  copper  and 
green  with  contrasting  colored  flies.  Buy 
several  now  for  Christmas.  $3.50.  Gaylords, 
47  West  Elm  St.,  Brockton,  Mass. 


FOR  PARKING  PARAPHERNALIA  OVERNIGHT.  This 
valetray  is  a  catch-all  for  those  odds  and 
ends  that  we  guys  empty  out  of  our  pockets 
each  evening.  No  more  messy  drawers,  it 
keeps  coins,  keys,  notebooks,  pens,  in  or- 
derly fashion.  Sturdy  plastic,  it's  easily 
installed  on  closet  doors,  or  set  it  on  dresser 
top.  We  suggest  it  as  a  Xmas  Gift  to  your 
special  guy.  Bronze,  maroon.  $3.95.  Max 
Schling  Seedsmen,  620  M  Madison  Ave., 
New   York  22. 


■  On  the  screen  I  play  a  tough  guy,  but 
my  family  knows  me  for  the  softie  I 
really  am,  especially  when  it  comes  to 
bu>-ing  gifts. 

When  Sue  and  I  were  first  married  I 
could  barely  keep  her  in  "bobbie  pins"  so 
now  I  get  a  kick  out  of  adding  to  her  "I 
love  you"  collection  of  spur-of-the- 
moment  gifts.  As  for  the  kids,  well,  with 
four  there's  always  one  that  rates  a 
present.  Guess  I'm  the  gift-givingest  guy 
around.  That's  probably  why  Modern" 
ScREEX  pulled  a  switch  and  gave  you  this 
Ladd  as  your  October  shopper. 

But  seriously,  shopping  by  mail  is  fun. 
For  instance  the  Mile-O-Meter  I  am 
holding  shows  the  motorist  how  to  reallj' 
save  on  his  gasoKne  bills.  Since  I  got  one 
from  the  Gale  Hall  Engineering  Com- 
pany, in  Boston,  I  have  been  con\'inced 
that  I  will  include  this  practical  gadget 
on  my  Christmas  gift  list. 

To  get  any  of  these  gifts  for  your 
home,  for  yourself,  or  to  put  away  for 
Christmas,  just  write  directly  to  the 
store  mentioned  for  any  item  you  like. 

Lots  of  luck  with  your  shopping,  and 
thanks  for  inspiring  me  to  do  mine  I 


REAL  FUEL  FOR  ECONOMY  FOR  MOTORISTS.  Out 

here  in  LA.  everythin^s  so  spread  out  that 
we  seem  to  spend  half  our  lives  in  the  car 
and  it  gets  mighty  expensive.  I  sure  was 
thrilled  to  find  this  Mile-O-Meter,  a  gadget 
to  measure  miles  per  gallon  and  motor 
tune-up  of  our  auto.  Also  checks  spark 
plugs,  carburetor  and  31  motor  adjust- 
ments. Approved  by  leading  auto  associa- 
tions and  makers,  it's  mounted  in  less  than 
5  minutes.  23/4"  dia.  $9.75.  Gale  Hall 
Engineering,  Boston  18,  Mass. 


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your 

Hollywood 
shopper 

for  October 

This  shopping  spree  was  a 
family  afFair — and 
almost  as  much  fun  as 
making  Red  Mountain, 


BEAUTIFUL  "BREAD  AND  BUTTER"  GIFT.  This 
shell-shaped  covered  butter  dish  of  fine 
silver  plate,  made  in  England,  has  its  own 
butter  knife  with  a  matching  shell  design. 
The  knife  fits  into  a  special  niche  inside  the 
dish.  Lower  part  is  entirely  glass-lined. 
We  use  ours  all  the  time  and  so  will  you 
because  it  lends  itself  to  most  all  table  set- 
tings. It's  a  distinctive  wedding  gift  for  any 
lucky  bride.  $5.00.  Lord  George,  Ltd.,  1210 
Broadway,  New  York  1. 


PENCIL  STICKS  TO  ITS  SUBJECT.  The  subject 
here  is  a  fine  memo-address  book  in  real 
top-grain  cowhide.  Gold-toned  mechanical 
pencil  is  magnetized  to  cling  to  the  gold- 
leaf  embossed  cover  or  to  a  phone.  Sue 
uses  the  memo  pad  to  keep  up  with  my 
hectic  studio  schedule.  Address  book  has 
tabs  from  A  to  Z.  Tan  leather,  plain  or 
with  antique  Floretine  finish.  $4.95.  Gold- 
plate  initials  add  15<t  ea.  Embassy  Enter- 
prise, Inc.,  450  7th  Ave.,  New  York  1. 


LIFE-LIKE  MAMA'S  BABY.  Here's  the  nearest 
thing  to  a  "younger  sister"  we've  found  yet 
to  give  to  Lonnie  for  her  birthday— a  2-foot 
tall  baby-doll  with  five  sounds  ranging 
from  cries  to  coos.  She  has  big  blue  eyes 
that  close  in  sleep,  real  mohair  blonde 
curls  and  movable  arms  and  legs  of  wash- 
able Vinyl,  soft  and  ditnpled  as  a  baby's 
skin.  She  comes  with  a  charming  6-piece 
wardrobe—all  pink.  $5.95.  Niresk,  Dept.  D- 
YHS,  1474  W.  Hubbard  St.,  Chicago  22,  III. 


HOLLYWOOD  BED  FOR  DOLLS  ALSO.  Lonnie 
couldn't  believe  her  eyes  ichen  she  first 
saw  this  miniature  "Holly-dolly"  bed  made 
just  like  ours.  It  has  a  colorful  plastic 
headboard,  Hollyivood  legs,  real  mattress 
ticking  for  the  mattress  cover  and  a  sep- 
arate pillow.  It  measures  12"  x  22",  so  it's 
plenty  roomy  for  even  her  biggest  doll.  I'm 
sure  any  little  girl  would  get  a  thrill  findi>ig 
it  in  her  Xmas  stocking.  $5.95.  B.  C.  Moses, 
3019  Prospect  Ave.,  Houston  4,  Texas. 


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LET  JAMAICA  COME  TO  YOU.  It's  out  of  bounds 
for  most  of  us,  but  within  easy  reach  ivith 
these  charming  imports.  A  quaint  washer- 
woman in  native  dress  is  a  handy  pin- 
cushion (and  grand  gift.)  The  wash  in  the 
tub  makes  the  cushion.  Small  figure  and 
tub  are  rubber.  $3.75.  Jaunty  junior  on  his 
Jackass  isn't  made  to  go  anywhere  or  do 
anything,  but  we  like  him  on  our  mantel. 
Ail  rubber,  41/2"  high.  $3.25.  Carib  Trading 
Co.,  1245  Lincoln  Rd.,  Miami  Beach,  Fla. 


DOORKNOBS  HAVE  TURNED  DECORATIVE.  Your 
monogram  is  hand-carved  inside  this  stun- 
ning clear  crystal-like  lucite  knob,  2y^" 
square,  with  black  plexiglass  backing  for 
contrast.  Script  or  block  lettering  to  blend 
with  your  furnishings.  No  polishing,  and 
fingermarks  wipe  right  off.  These  tri- 
dimensional door  knobs  lend  charm  to 
our  home.  One,  two  or  three  initials  in 
white  or  gold.  $4.50.  Merrill  Ann  Crea- 
tions, 100  Warren  St.,  New  York  7. 


MOSAIC  JEWELS  FROM  ITALY.  Fhis  striking 
Orsini  necklace  and  pair  of  matching  drop- 
earrings  in  a  non-tarnishing  gold  plate 
setting  come  straight  from  a  Florentine 
workshop.  Necklace  is  centered  with  three 
mosaic  floral  ovals  on  a  delicate  golden 
chain.  Earritigs  have  similar  posies  in  oval 
dangles.  Mosaics  in  black,  blue,  coral,  green 
or  white  backgrounds.  Necklace  $5.40. 
Earrings  $3.60.  Alpine  Imports,  101  Fifth 
Ave.,  New  York  3. 


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To  buy  any  of  the  items  on  these  pages,  write  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


WE  ALWAYS  HAVE  FRESH  FLOWERS.  Sue  discov- 
ered these  lovely  handmade  posies  that  are 
natural  enough  to  be  real.  Roses,  violets, 
lilies-of-the-valley,  arranged  just  the  way 
you'd  like  them  in  their  own  crystal  holder. 
No  fuss,  no  fixing  for  you.  The  delicate 
floral  colors  blend  beautifully  with  ?nost 
any  decorative  scheme  and  go  equally  well 
in  living,  dining  or  'bed  room.  $2.00  an 
arrangement.  First  American-Flowers,  Box 
85,  Dept.  7,  New  York  29. 


JUST  RIGHT  FOR  JEZEBEL.  Protects  children. 
Keeps  pets  clean.  Flea-No-Mat  rids  pets 
of  pests.  A  chemically  treated  mat  for  use 
on  your  pets'  regular  bed  or  separately.  It 
protects  the  kids  by  keeping  Jezebel  clean 
and  gets  rid  of  that  "doggy"  odor.  Flea-No- 
Mat  kills  fleas,  ticks,  nits  on  dogs  and  cats. 
Only  $2.95  for  15"  x  28"  mat,  $4.95  for  28" 
X  36"  mat  for  large  dogs.  You  can  get  it 
at  V.  F.  Garrett  Company,  P.  O.  Box 
1143-37,  Dallas,  Texas. 


NEW  COCKTAIL  RING  .  .  .  PRESTO,  IT'S  3  RINGS! 

This  triple  treat  is  the  most  versatile 
sparkler  around  town.  Closed  it's  a  smart, 
cocktail  ring,  detach  the  simple  clasp  and 
you  have  three  fine  bands  that  can  be  worn 
as  guard  rings  or  singly.  Center  band  has 
finely  cut  simulated  rubies,  sapphires,  dia- 
monds or  emeralds  mounted  in  sterling. 
The  two  guard  rings  set  with  simulated 
diamonds.  S3.95  (tax  included).  Sanlys, 
Dej}t.  MS-10,  545  Fifth  Ave.,  Neiv  York  17. 


THE  WORLD  ON  YOUR  SHOULDERS  in  this  hand- 
some pure  silk  dye  scarf,  showing  the  fabu- 
lous new  UN  Headquarters,  surrounded  by 
its  many  member  countries.  It's  given  me 
wonderlust,  since  I  can't  help  daydreaming 
about  all  the  exciting  places  pictured  so 
colorfully.  A  prime  accessory  for  your  fall 
suits  or  dresses  in  stunning  background 
shades  of  navy,  green,  brown  or  deep  rose. 
Hand  rolled.  $3.15.  Hazel  Jasper,  142  East 
45  St.,  New  York  17. 


THE  LOOK  I  LIKE  IN  GIRLS  goes  this  way.  Wash- 
able cotton  broadcloth  blouse,  stitched 
bosom,  bat-like  dolman  sleeves,  closing  with 
nine  pearly  buttons.  White,  pink,  green, 
rust,  toast,  gold,  iris.  32-38,  $3.06.  100% 
wool  skirt,  knife-pleated  all  'round,  in 
authentic  plaids  (Give  waist  size.)  $6.06. 
Heraldic  bag,  belt  set  with  solid  brass  crests. 
Red,  rust,  ginger  plastic  calf.  Pair,  complete 
$4.20.  Paris  Shops,  509  Main  St.,  Dept. 
MS-10,  Box  390,  New  Rochelle,  N.  Y. 


GET  HITCHED  TO  THIS  WAGON.  Come  on  girls, 
you'll  have  fun  with  this  cunning  donkey- 
cart  pin.  It's  the  kind  of  eye-catcher  that 
will  win  you  many  a  flattering  look.  The 
golden  cart  is  loaded  with  pearls  and  em- 
erald brilliants,  easily  mistaken  for  the  real 
McCoy,  and  is  toted  by  a  sleepy  critter. 
Wagon  wheels  spin  round  though  of  course 
it's  securely  pinned  to  your  suit  lapel, 
dress  or  blouse.  $1.23,  Lynne's,  1288  Lex- 
ington Ave.,  New  York  28. 


"DOLL-UP"  DOLLIE  FOR  YOUR  BOUDOIR.  It's  a 
dainty  ballerina  doll  for  you  to  clothe  in 
a  costume  that  any  gal  can  easily  put  to- 
gether with  some  bright  yarn  and  a  few 
stitches.  With  her  hand-painted  face, 
brown  tresses  and  all  done  up  in  a  fluffy 
accordion  skirt  and  blouse.  Sue  says  she'll 
be  adorable  on  your  vanity.  Sue  and  Lonnie 
are  making  one  together.  Kit  with  doll, 
materials,  instructions,  $1.00.  Nancy  Lee 
Studios,  930-63rd  St.,  Des  Moines,  loiva. 


MORE  THAN  MEETS  THE  EYE!  With  party  days 
ahead,  this  new  mask  will  do  wonders  for- 
headaches  and  eye  strain.  Worn  hot  or 
cold,  it's  made  of  plastic  and  buckles  round 
your  head.  It  has  tiny  slits  so  you  can  do 
your  chores  while  it  soothes  you.  To  heat, 
place  in  hot  water  for  five  minutes;  to  chill, 
place  in  refrigerator's  freezing  compart- 
ment or  in  ice  water.  Mask  holds  either  tem- 
perature for  at  least  a  half  hour.  $1.50.  Gift 
Sources,  2  Columbus  Circle,  New  York  19. 


UNTANGLES  YOUR  PRESSING  PROBLEMS.  Accord- 
ing to  Sue,  "Kordaway"  makes  you  forget 
you  even  have  a  cord  at  the  end  of  your 
iron,  by  keeping  it  encased  in  a  springy 
wire  coil  that  fits  all  irons,  clamps  any- 
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double-quick  time  without  having  the  cord 
twist,  fray,  burn  out  or  wrinkle  clothes. 
Made  by  industrial  Workshop  for  the  Bli}id 
in  L.A.  $1.95.  Homemaker's  Mart,  350 
W.  Washington  Blvd.,  Venice  99,  Calif. 


Merchandise  is  sold  on  a  money  back  guarantee  within  10  days  e.rcept  where  personalised. 


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OUT  OF  THIS  WORLD  Salt  and  Pepper  Shakers 
are  wonderful  miniatures  of  the  world 
globe.  Each  crystal-clear  globe  revolves  in 
a  highly  polished  metal  frame  on  a  clear 
base.  Fill  them  by  opening  at  the  "Equa- 
tor"; salt  and  pepper  pours  out  of  holes 
around  the  "North  Pole."  They  make  a 
grand  gift  too  for  showers,  bridge,  or  even 
for  prizes.  Only  $1.00  pr.  Mahoning  Gifts, 
Dept.  MS,  702  Wick  Bldg.,  Youngstown, 
Ohio. 


STAGE  COACH  FOR  SMALL  FRY.  A  colorful  new 
pull-toy  that's  grand  for  tots  or  busters  like 
our  David.  Coach  is  drawn  by  four  white 
horses  and  must  be  loaded  with  11  indi- 
vidual pieces  that  fit  special  spots,  before 
it's  ready  to  be  pulled.  It's  an  educational 
toy  with  vegetable  dye  colors,  that  has  tre- 
mendous toddler  appeal,  especially  under 
the  tree.  Horn's  attached  to  announce  the 
coach.  $3.50.  Randel  Assoc.,  1123  Broad- 
way, New  York  10. 


EASY  TO  BUY  A  SILVER  SPOON  from  these  three 
sterling  six-piece  place  settings  (teaspoon, 
salad  fork,  butter  spreader,  cream  soup 
spoon,  knife,  fork  in  non-tarnish  bags). 
One  lovely  set  has  a  fine  edge  of  flowers 
at  $24.50  a  setting.  Another  beautiful  set  is 
rose-tipped,  and  smart.  $24.75.  Either  one 
will  add  elegance  to  your  table.  Send  for 
full  catalogue  for  all  details.  Pay  only  $2.00 
monthly.  Nelmor,  90  Bergen  Ave.,  Jersey 
City,  N.  J. 


"BRANCH  OUT"  IN  YOUR  DECORATING  with  these 
charming  pressed-wood  wall  brackets  ma- 
hogany finished  syrocowood.  They're  like 
graceful  branches  of  a  tree,  leaves  and  all, 
with  two  shelves  on  different  levels  to  hold 
your  ornaments  and  brighten  up  dull  walls. 
Made  to  be  hung  in  pairs,  each  measures 
93/^"  X  11^2" •  Sue's  got  them  all  over  the 
house  to  show  off  her  figurines.  $8.50  pr., 
Henry  Rosenzweig,  723  Lexington  Ave., 
New  York  22. 


LIKE  YOUR  COFFEE  PIPING  HOT?  Then  you're 
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cup  and  awaits  your  pleasure.  When  you 
get  around  to  pouring  it  the  coffee  will  still 
be  steaming.  Called  a  "coffee  hottle,"  it 
will  keep  drinks  frosty  cold  as  well.  Heat 
resisti7ig  glass  with  yellow  and  red  insulat- 
ing collars  for  easy  handling.  Holds  two 
cups  of  liquid.  Pair  $2.95.  Sheridan  Style- 
craft,  Box  E,  Highland  Park,  III. 


GIVE  IT  A  MEXICAN  ACCENT!  The  belt  you 
have  been  looking  for  to  add  zip  to  your 
winter  sweaters  and  skirts.  Imported  from 
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to  liven  up  even  last  year's  tiredest  duds. 
Handsomely  carved  black  or  white  wooden 
plaques  are  hand-painted  with  colorful 
Mexican  family  scenes,  strung  together  with 
a  white  kid  lace.  Waist  size  is  adjustable. 
$1.98.  Mexican  Handcraft,  7532  Half  Moon 
Drive,  El  Paso,  Texas. 


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or  redwood  finished  basket.  It's  appropri- 
ately bound  and  laced  with  rawhide  and 
studded  with  brass  nail  heads.  Decorative 
for  dens  or  playrooms  and  makes  a  perfect 
gift.  Kids  go  wild  about  it,  Sil  square,  12" 
high.  $5.00.  The  Old  Corral,  Mesquite, 
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GET  THE  HANG  OF  IT  and  you'll  never  use  nails 
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there's  no  hammering  involved  (a  skill  I 
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metal.  A  life-saver  where  nails  make  plaster 
crumble.  $1.00  for  24.  Roberts  and  Co., 
5003  Irving  Park  Road,  Chicago,  III. 


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FROM  THE  MOVIES 

THE  GREAT  CARUSO— Tf//  Me  Y ou  Love  Me 
by  Vic  Damone*  (Mercury);  Sommy 
Kaye  (Columbia):  Clark  Dennis  (Capi- 
tol); Ink  Spots  (Dacca). 
One  of  the  great  operatic  melodies, 
I'rsti  La  Gitibba,  was  featured  in  the 
picture,  and  this  is  the  only  populor 
An^eiicon   version   of  the  song. 

IN  THE  GOOD  OLD  SUMMERTIME— Laj<  Niglll 
When  We  Jl'cre  i  oiiiig  by  Gordon 
MocRoe'  (Capitol). 

SEPTEMBER  AFFAIR— Set>tcmber  Soiig  by  Red 
Norvc'  (Discovery);  Dave  Brubeck* 
(Fantasy):  Harry  James  (Columbio); 
Ston  Kenton  (Capitol). 
It  s  good  to  hear  this  wonderful  melody 
brought  bock  in  onother  movie.  It's  a 
little  depressing,  though,  to  heor  what 
Stan  Kenton  and  his  mob  do  with  it. 
You'll  like  the  quieter,  prettier,  simpler 
opproach  of  Norvo's  vibes. 

TAHITI,  MY  ISLAND— title  song  by  Macklin 
Marrow  (MGM),  Tony  Martin'*  (Victor) 

POPULAR 

JOHNNY  DESMOND— Mr.  And  Mississippi* 
(MGM). 

BOB  EBERLV— ^J/o)!C  (Capitol). 

Funny  coincidence — the  two  singers  whc 
were  America's  favorites  when  they  both 
song  with  Jimmy  Dorsey's  band  years  ago, 
both  mode  a  comeback  recently  on 
Capitol.  Bob  Eberly  made  his  reentry 
with  Alone  and  /  Made  A  Promise; 
Helen  O'Connell  returns  with  I'tn  Get- 
ting Sentinie)ital  Over  You,  an  old 
Jimmy  Dorsey  theme  number. 

TONI  HARPER-HARRY  JAMES— Baby  Blue* 
( Columbia ) . 

Interesting  teaming  of  talent  on  this 
side,  and  great  singing  by  Toni.  But  are 
they  going  to  give  her  the  Shirley  Temple 
treatment  by  trying  to  make  her  a  per- 
petual child?  She's  outgrown  songs  like 
Baby  Bines  and  should  compete  with 
adults  on  equal  terms.  Though  Tonl  has 
less  to  do,  the  other  side.  Peculiar  Kind 
of  Feeling,  is  better  all  around. 
BETTY  H'JTrON— That's  The  Kind  Of  Guy  I 
Dream  Of  (Victor). 

Betty's  material  is  better  than  her  treat- 
ment of  it.  This  tune  has  the  subtitle  "You 
should  see  the  kind  that  I  get." 
METRONOME  ALL  STARS— Early  Spring* 
( Capitol ) . 

Recommended  for  jazz  fans  only.  The  poll 
winners  on  this  side  and  the  reverse. 
Local  802  Blues  includes  some  swell 
soloists — George  Shearing,  piano;  Terry 
Gibbs,  vibes:  Kai  Winding,  trombone; 
Stan  Getz,  tenor  sax. 
MEL  TORME— Me/  Tonne  Sings*  (MGM). 

A  fine  LP  representing  some  of  Mel's 
earlier  waxings  of  some  great  songs: 
one  is  The  Best  Things  In  Life  Are 
Free  from  the  movie  Good  Neivs  in 
which  Mel  had  a  small  port.  Another  Is 
his  own  composition.  County  Fair. 


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October  1951 


reunion 
in 

london 


By  THOR  HANSEN 


■  Special  to  Modern  Screen:  It  took  almost  three 
years  and  the  combined  judicial  systems  of  three 
countries,  but  Ingrid  Bergman  and  her  beautiful 
12-year-old  daughter,  Pia,  met  again  at  last. 

Their  reunion  in  London  was  touching  and  un- 
forgettable. 

As  they  ran  towards  each  other,  Ingrid's  eyes 
were  brimming  with  tears.  She  clasped  Pia  to  her  and 
rocked  her  in  her  arms. 

"Min  lUla  alskling,"  Ingrid  kept  saying,  "Min 
liUa  alskling."  And  even  though  Pia  can't 
understand  Swedish,  she  knew  that  the  words  meant, 
"my  Uttle  darling." 

Then  the  two  stepped  back  to  look  at  each 
other  and  Pia  said,  "Mama,  how  are  you?" 

"Fine,  Pia.  But  your  name  is  Jenny  now,  isn't  it?  1 
How  was  your  trip?" 

"The  trip  was  wonderful,  Mama,  It -was  the  - 
Queen  Mary." 

"Yes,  I  know  .  .  .  My,  you've  grown.  You're  lovely." 

Jenny  Ann  Lindstrom  closely  resembles  her 
mother.  She  has  the  same  blonde  hair 
shot  with  streaks  of  darkness  {Continued  on  page  97) 


hottest 
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in  town 


Fans  were  fhrilled  when  Granger's  romance  with  Jean  Simmons  ended  in  marriage.    They've  settled  in  Hollywood. 


Hollywood  has  its 

best  box  office  bet  in 

years — a  two-fisted 

guy  named  Stewart  Granger 

who's  making  the 

glamor  boys  look  pale. 

BY  JIM  HENAGHAN 


■  His  name  is  Stewart  Granger  and  it  is  fairly  accurate 
to  say  that  he  is  a  masculine  tornado;  a  virile  elephant  of  a 
fellow;  a  creature  of  vitality,  warmth  and  abUity — ^and  a 
chap  who  will  no  doubt  within  the  next  few  years  become  motion 
pictures'  first  star. 

We  met  him  on  a  sound  stage  at  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  Studio 
in  Culver  City.  It  was  no  drawing  room  set.  It  was  the 
noisiest  place  this  side  of  the  nearest  steel  foundry.  The  stage 
is  what  is  known  as  the  tank,  and  a  hugh  square  lake  takes  up 
most  of  the  room.    In  the  lake  was  a  birch  bark  canoe,  placed 
before  an  enormous  process  screen  on  which  flickered  the 
projected  images  of  rocky  shores  and  thick  forests.    Two  men 
held  on  to  the  canoe  and,  upon  occasion,  swung  wooden 
paddles  desperately  in  an  effort  to  keep  afloat,  for  the  lake  was  a 
cauldron  of  fierce,  whipping  water,  churned  to   a  frenzy 
by  a  dozen  gigantic  rotors. 

It  was  make-beUeve,  but  it  was  real,  too.  It  suited 
the  convenience  of  the  company  to  (Continued  on  page  84) 


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Every  star  has  a 
private  taboo  and  you'd 
better  not  mention  it  if 
you  want  to  keep  your  health 
.  .  .  with  some  it's  columnists, 
with  others  it's  their  age. 
Let's  explore  the  subjects 
that  make  the  stars  explode! 

BY  ANNE  FIELDING 


■  A  few  weeks  ago  Ava  Gardner  curled  up 

comfortably  in  a  big  arm  chair,  lighted  a  cigarette 

and  puffed  the  smoke  into  the  air, 

where  it  hung  above  her  head  hke  a  slightly  cockeyed 

halo.  She  was  enjoying  one  of  those  relaxed 

and  confidential  moods.  Her  big  eyes 

sparkled  and  her  slender,  long-fingered  hands  flitted 

back  and  forth  to  punctuate  her  conversation. 

Then,  suddenly  her  whole  mood  changed. 

She  stabbed  out  her  cigarette  with  one  vicious 

gesture,  and  jumped  to  her  feet. 

"Don"t  ever  mention  that  columnist's 
name  in  my  presence  again!"  she  snapped. 

Ava  was  not  indulging  in  a  sudden 
temperamental  whim,   and  her 
interviewer  knew  it.  He  had  merely 
tapped  a  taboo.  Hollywood's  loaded  with  them! 

Ava's  fling  with  fury  subsided  immediately. 
She  hurled  herself  back  into  the  chair. 
"Sorry,"  she  said.  "I  didn't  mean  to  snap  your  head 
off.  Maybe  I'd  better  explain  the  fireworks. 

"I  have  never  worked  so  hard  in  my 
life  as  I  did  on  Pandora  and  the  Flying  Dutchman. 
Al  Lewin.  our  producer-director,  is  a  very  dear 
friend  of  mine,  and  a  real  Simon  Legree! 
All  of  us  in  the  cast  and  crew  worked  under  that 
blazing  Spanish  sun  on  location  from  dawm  to  sundown, 
seven  days  a  week.  In  all  the  months 
we  were  in  Spain  we  had  only  one  Sunday  offl 

■'The  whole  time  I  was  there, 
literally  slaving,  this  columnist  devoted  mountains 
of  copy  to  making  me  sound  hke  the  playgirl 
of  all  Europe!  Why,  I  would  have 
had  to  have  been  triplets  to  live  up  to  everything 
chat  character  credited  me  with!" 

Ava's  interpretation  of  the  stories  was  kindly.  The 
writer  in  question  had  actually  woven  nasty 
innuendos  into  (Continued  on  page  101) 


HANDIE  WITH  CARE 

41 


she^s  just  Hollywood's  greatest  glamor 


girl   and  only  tops   as  Mrs.  Bob  Topping. 


■  "It  wasn't  easy  for  me  to  think  of  signing  a 
long  term  contract  again  that  would  tie  me  to 
Hollywood,"  the  lovely  blonde  said.  "Bob  and  I 
have  made  a  number  of  thrilling  plans  ...  a 
trip  to  Europe,  a  safari  to  British  East  Africa 
to  shoot  lions  and  elephants  .  .  .  things  so 
exciting  that  they  leave  me  breathless.  I 
wouldn't  want  my  career  to  interrupt  any  of 
them.  But  I've  spent  more  than  half  my  life 
in  motion  pictures,  and  I'd  be  miserable  if  I 
couldn't  continue  my  career.  Bob  has  always 
understood  that.  We  talked  the  situation  over 
very  thoroughly  before  I  signed  with  MGM 
again." 

Lana  Turner,  petite  and  cool  in  white  tennis 
shorts,  was  explaining  what  the  future  holds 
for  her  now  that  she  has  decided  to  resume  her 
old  place  in  the  Hollywood  gaiax\'  as  the 
glamor  queen  of  MGM. 

By  the  time  this  reaches  print,  Lana  will  be 
back  at  work  in  The  Merry  Widow,  her  first 
picture  in  more  than  a  year.  In  it,  she  will  play 
a  gay,  glamorous  siren — the  kind  of  girl  that 
people  have  always  automatically  associated 
with  the  name  Lana  Turner.  It  will  be  her 
first  really  important  picture  in  nearly  three 
years. 

As  we  sat  talking  that  sunny  summer's  morn- 
ing beside  the  pool  of  her  Brentwood  home,  I 
couldn't  remember  w^hen  Lana  had  looked 
trinomer,  healthier,  and  more  rested.  Like  a 
good  many  other  people,  I  was  eager  to  know 
what  Lana  had  been  doing  during  the  months 
that  she  and  Bob  had  almost  completely  dis- 
appeared from  the  headlines. 

"I'll  tell  you  what  she's  been  doing,"  inter- 
rupted a  pleasant  baritone  voice  from  behind 
us.  "She's  been  sleeping  every  day  until  noon." 

"Never  mind,"  Lana  laughed,  as  her  hus- 
band, joining  us  for  breakfast,  settled  himself 
into  a  beach  chair.      (Continued  on  page  98) 


Toothy  Cheryl  is  shooting  up  fast.  She  adores  her  motner — ohiy 
recently  discovered  that  Mommie  is  Lona  Turner,  an  actress. 
Mother's  back  at  work  now  in  MGM's  The  Merry  Widozv. 


43 


The  whole  Ladd 
family  was  wacky 
for  Waikiki,  and 
claim  that  the  apple 
in  Paradise  must  have 
been  pineapple! 


Laddie  does  the 


■  Luncheon  was  being  served  at  the  Ladds.  "Pineapple  again/' 
muttered  Alan,  as  he  reached  for  his  napkin.  Instead  of  the  napkin,  his 
hand  found  a  colorful  travel  folder.  "What's  this?"  he  asked.  Five 
pairs  of  eyes  observed  him  in  silence.  "Okay,"  he  said. 
"I  know  when  I'm  outnumbered.  You  win." 

"You"  meant  Alana,  David,  Carol  Lee,  Laddie,  and  Sue.  who 
immediately  exchanged  victorious  smiles  all  around.  Ever 
since  they'd  seen  Bird  of  Paradise  they'd  had  this 
yearning  for  Waikiki  Beach.  And  when  Sue  went  on  a  pineapple 
diet  Alan  knew  that  it  was  only  a  matter  of 
time  before  he'd  be  carrv'ing  all  of  them  off  to  Hawaii. 

"You  know,  this  trip's  going  to  surprise  a  lot  of  people,"  Alan  said. 

"Especially  us!"  laughed  his  wife. 

And  it  was  true.  Although  they'd  always  wanted  to  travel — to  Europe. 
South  America  or  Bermuda,  vacation-time  found  them  at  the 
ranch.  The  ranch  was  such  fun  that  it  always  seemed 
wiser  to  put  off  the  traveHng. 

It  was  now  or  never.  It  almost  turned  out  to  be  never  when,  four 
days  before  the  trip,  Alana  fell  from  a  horse  and  fractured  her  cheekbone. 
But  fortunately,  the  doctor  pronounced  her  well  enough  to  go, 
and  they  kept  their  reservations. 

Their  stateroom  on  the  Lurline  was  Med  to  overflowing  at  departure 
time.  Forty  friends  had  come  to  see  them  off,  and  suddenly  the  deck  was 
filled  with  autograph  hunters  and  photographers.  It  was 
exciting  and  gay,  but  it  seemed  as  if  the  Lurline  would  never 
leave  port.  When  it  finally  did,  Alan  turned  to  his 
family  and  sighed,  "Well,  we  ma'de  it!"  And  his  family  rephed,  "Aloha!" 

Being  aboard  ship  was  a  continuous  party  and  in  Hawaii,  it 
seemed  as  if  all  the  Islanders  were  (Continued  on  next  page) 


Ready  to  boord  the  Lurline  for  Hawaii,  Alan 
(who's  just  finished  Hal  Wallls'  Red  Mountain) 
and   Sue  anticipated  a   well-earned  vocation. 


Pineapple-loving  Sue  was  in  heaven  in  Hawaii; 
even  Alan  took  a  lilting  to  the  fruit.  Here 
Karon,  the   Royal   Hawaiian  chef,   serves  him. 


Chicle  Daniels  treats  Alan  to  a  little  ukulele 
playing  on  Waikiki.  (Below)  The  Lodds  learn  to 
eat  poi  at  Don  the  Beachcomber's  exotic  luau. 


laddie  does  the  hula  continued 


Hulas  and  pol  were  such  fun,  Alan  decided  to  go  in  for  all  things  Hawaiian. 


no  time  he  mastered  a  tricky  native  surf  canoe. 


there  to  greet  them  with  songs  and  leis.  No  sooner  had 
they  checked  in  at  the  Royal  Hawaiian  Hotel  than  a  bellboy 
appeared  with  a  pineapple. 

"Isn't  that  thoughtful!"  said  Sue.  "They  knew  we  loved 
pineapple!" 

On  the  second  day,  the  manager  phoned.  "Anything  I  can 
do  for  you?"  he  asked. 

"Why,  yes,"  said  Sue.  "They  seem  to  have  forgotten 
today's  pineapple." 

The  manager  chuckled,  "It'll  be  right  up."  Later  Sue 
learned  that  it  was  the  hotel's  custom  to  send  fruit  to 
guests  only  on  their  arrival.  For  the  Ladds,  though,  a  pine- 
apple arrived  each  afternoon  at  four.  And  the  whole  family 
was  on  hand  to  get  their  share. 

The  days  that  followed  were  long  and  lazy  and  beauti- 
ful (just  study  the  pictures  on  these  pages).  They  swam, 
they  sunned,  they  danced  in  the  moonlight — and  they  even 
went  on  .a  picnic.  The  hotel  arranged  it.  Its  guests  were 
transported  to  the  picnic  grounds  in  buses.  Each  bus  had  a 
guitar  player  and  two  singers  who  entertained.  But  the 
guests  were  to  entertain  each  other.   This  worried  Alan. 

"'What'll  I  do?"  he  asked  Sue. 

He  soon  found  out.  A  dancer  taught  him  how  to  do  the 


hula,  and  he  goodnaturedly  threw  himself  into  it  Before 
400  grirming  spectators. 

Another  exciting  event  was  the  luau  given  at  Don  the 
Beachcomber's.  Dressed  in  colorful  Hawaiian  costumes, 
the  Ladds  ate  poi  and  relaxed  to  the  strumming  of  guitars. 
Native  dancers  entertained  them  this  time,  but  Alan 
danced  some  more  the  next  night  with  his  daughter,  Alana. 
This  was  Alana's  first  dance  with  her  Dad  in  public,  and 
now  Sue  says  laughingly  she'll  be  wanting  him  to  take  her 
nightclubbing. 

A  sober  but  memorable  incident  of  their  stay  was  the 
Ladds'  visit  to  Tripler  Hospital  where  wounded  vets  from 
Korea  stop  enroute  home.  Lloyd  Pantages,  a  former  resi- 
dent of  Los  Angeles,  called  to  tell  them  about  the  hospital, 
and  the  Ladds  were  eager  to  visit  the  boys.  "Lloyd  is 
doing  a  wonderful  job  for  them,"  Alan  tells  all  his  friends 
en  route  to  Hawaii,  reminding  them  to  make  visits  to 
Tripler  when  they  can. 

As  with  all  wonderful  vacations,  this  one  was  much  too 
short,  and  soon  the  Ladds  were  sailing  home.  But  Hawaii 
had  done  its  job.  It  had  cast  its  spell  on  them,  and  even  as 
the  ship  pulled  out  they  knew  that  as  soon  as  they  could, 
they'd  be  back  again.  the  end 


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Sailing,  weaving,   dancing,   cheering    veterans — and    then    home    sweet  home. 


He'd  heard  a  lot  about  Waikiki  Beach,  but  hadn't  Being  rne  most  popular  movie  star  in  Hollywood  doesn  t  iceep 
thought  much  about  the  water  around  it.  Alan  Alan  from  having  a  "trade  on  the  side."  Dukie  taught  him  to 
discovered   its   beauty  aboard  the   Catamaran.      weave  cocoanut  hats.  Ladd's  on  his  way  to  becoming  an  expert. 


Alano  and  her  dad  have  had  many  a  walti  Alan  and  Sue  visited  Sgt.  Ivey  Mcrchont  and  his  brother.  Jesse, 
around  the  living  room,  but  gave  their  first  and  many  other  vets  at  Tripier  Hospital.  Lloyd  Pontages 
ballroom    exhibition    at    the    Royal    Hawaiian.      told  them  of  this  stop-over  hospital  for  men  wounded  in  Korea. 


Lodds  stand  on  the  steps  of  the  Royal  Hawaiian  Friends  took  Alan's  "Having  wonderful  time"  cards  seriously, 
Hotel  to  say  "aloha"  to  the  enchanting  island.       put  up  a  sign  three  times  the  legal  size  in  the  Ladd  front  yard. 


so  nice  to  come 


To  Doris  Day  and  Marty  Melcher 
their  home  is  their  castle  and  nothing, 
not  even  a  honeymoon,  could  keep  them 
away  from  it  for  very  long. 

BY  KIRTLEY  BASKETTE 


■  A  few  minutes  after  the  judge  had  made  them  man  and 
wife  at  the  Burbank  courthouse,  Marty  leaned  over  and  kissed 
his  bride. 

"Honey,"  he  said,  "how  does  it  feel  to  be  Mrs.  Melcher?" 
Doris  smiled  up  at  him.  "You  know  what?"  she  said.  "I'm 
hungr>-." 

"You  can't  be  hungry  at  a  time  like  this,"  moaned  Marty. 
"Well,  I  am,"  said  Doris,  impishly.  "Let's  drive  home  for 
some  bacon  and  eggs." 

They  went  home — and  they  spent  their  wedding  night  there. 


home  to 


It  was  only  under  pressure  that  they  left  the  next  morning. 

"Aren't  you  two  going  somewhere?"  ventured  Doris"  mother. 

"We  hadn't  thought  about  it,"  yawned  Marty.  "It's  nice  here." 

"When  Doris  nodded  agreement,  her  mother.  Alma,  went  into 
action. 

"Look,"  she  told  them,  "It's  not  proper  or  even  respectable 
not  to  have  a  honeymoon.  Now  I've  got  both  your  bags  packed 
and  you  two  just  get  on  out  of  here — fast!" 

So  the  Melchers  had  a  honeymoon  trip,  whether  they  liked 
it  or  not.  The  first  night,  having  no  plans  at  all,  they  wandered 


to  El  Centro  in  th»  Imperial  Valley  where  the  thermometer 
hovered  around  one  pundred  at  midnight  and  the  motel  bed  was 
so  short  Marty's  fee/  hung  out. 

"I  don't  know  w^y  we  eyer  left  home,"  complained  Doris. 

"What  did  I  t^l  you?"  sighed  Marty.  "But  we'll  have  to 
carr>-  on  now.  Let's  start  travehng." 

Well,  to  tuck  up  a  stor>-,  where  the  Melchers  finally  wound  up 
was  at  the  greatest  natural  wonder  of  the  world — the  Grand 
Canyon.  .\s  Don-,  stood  on  the  rim  what  caught  her  blue  eyes 
was  a  tiny  juniper  and  what  popped  out  {Continued  on  page  74) 


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Brady's  one  man  about  town  who  loves  'em  and  leaves  'em  alone.  And  here's  why  he  does  both. 


■  All  the  people  we  have  known  become  part  of  our  lives 
in  one  way  or  another.  Ver>'  often  the  people  a  fellow 
meets  are  girls.  That's  the  way  it  is  and  who  would  want 
it  any  different?  Not  me.  And,  I  hope,  not  the  girls. 

You  sit  and  think  about  them  sometimes.  Shelley  Win- 
ters, Ann  Blyth,  Piper  Laurie,  Dorothy  Malone  (I  mean 
these  are  the  ones  I  think  about),  Yvonne  de  Carlo,  maybe 
others,  and  back  to  Dorothy  again.  Then  I  recall  my  high 
school  dream-doll,  Marian  Neville.  I've  lost  the  only  photo 
I  had  of  her,  but  I  can  picture  her  right  down  to  the  last 
freckle  on  her  nose.  Of  course,  part  of  the  reminiscing  has 
to  do  with  marriage.  Would  any  of  them  have  accepted  if 
I'd  proposed  and  should  I  have  proposed?  There  it  is — 
should  I  have? 

What  would  Shelley  Winters  have  said?  Before  she  and 
Farley  Granger  found  out  that  time  meant  so  much  more 
to  them  when  they  spent  it  together,  we  used  to  go  out  and 
have  fun.  We  would  talk  about  the  picture  gang  and  about 
acting  problems  and  analyze  each  other's  approach  to  the 
screen.  Sometimes  we  would  have  our  little  squabbles. 

I  remember  one  night  when  we  were  driving  out  to  a 
lawn  party  in  the  valley  and  Shelley  asked  me  if  I  thought 
she  was  too  intense  about  her  work.  I  replied  that  she  was 
intense,  naturally  so,  because  she,  like  many  artists,  was 
completely  wrapped  up  in  her  work.  It  wasn't  the  answer 
she  wanted.  I  don't  think  she  was  pleased  with  me  that 
night.  But  I  didn't  worry,  because  intense  people  have 
wafm  hearts.  Shelley  and  I  were  able  to  get  over  our  dis- 
agreements. It  was  not  like  that,  however,  when  I  worked 
with  Yvonne  de  Carlo — although  what  happened  then  was 


my  fault.  I  don't  think  Yvonne  has  forgiven  me  and  maybe 
she  shouldn't. 

I  think  it  goes  back  two  years  ago  when  we  made  The 
Gal  Who  Took  the  West.  We  were  out  on  location  near 
Tucson  and  there  was  a  scene  coming  up  in  which  I  had  to 
drive  a  galloping  team  pulUng  an  open  flat  wagon,  with 
Yvonne  seated  behind  me.  I  knew  nothing  about  horses, 
only  that  I  wanted  to  make  good.  The  cowboys  in  charge 
told  me  to  crack  my  whip  and  yell  if  I  wanted  speed  and 
that's  what  I  did.  There  was  no  road.  We  went  banging  over 
the  sagebrush  for  the  roughest  ride  I  ever  had  in  my  life 
and  Yvonne  in  hers  ! 

"Great!"  cried  the  director.  "But  we'll  have  to  have  a 
retake." 

I  forget  why  the  retake  was  needed.  After  a  while  you 
never  even  ask.  There  are  a  thousand  reasons.  But  when  I 
was  ready  again  it  wasn't  Yvonne  who  sat  behind  me.  It 
was  a  cowboy  dressed  in  a  skirt  and  wig  to  act  as  her 
double.  If  I  hadn't  been  so  excited  and,  yes,  stupid,  I  would 
never  have  kidded  Yvonne  for  not  wanting  to  ride  with 
me  again.  But  I  did.  And  what  happened  proved  thai 
she  was  only  using  good  sense.  The  traces  gave  way  on  one 
side  of  the  harness,  the  wagon  hurtled  sideways  and  the 
cowboy  who  took  her  place  was  thrown  clear  altogether. 
Tough  and  experienced,  he  managed  to  land  without  injur>'. 
But'  what  would  have  happened  to  Yvonne  if  she  had  gone 
through  it  again?  I  think  of  her  quite  often.  If  it  hadn't 
been  for  this  occurrence  .  .  .  would  she  have  learned  to 
like  me  a  little? 

One  afternoon  I  looked  at  Ann  {Continued  on  page  108) 


JANE  NIGH 


PIPER  LAURIE 


CORINNE  CALVET 


ANN  BLYTH 


51 


i 


■  The  big  boy  sailed  his  glove  across  the  turf 
at  the  inning  change,  and  loped  in  from  center  field.  Six- 
feet-three,  in  his  cleats,  he  leaned  easily  over  the 
owner's  box  at  the  HoUv-^s-ood  Stars'  dugout, 
and  grinned  at  a  laughing  blonde  girl  who  stood  up  to 
greet  him.  He  was  Dino  ResteUi,  an  up-and-coming 
yotmg  Coast  League  baseball  star.  She  was  June 
Haver. 

Dino  grabbe'd  his  favorite  bat  and  tested  it.  "Ju°e," 
he  promised  cockily,  "this  one's  for  you."  On 
the  second  pitch  he  swatted  the  baU  out 
through  the  infield  for  a  two-bagger,  then  dusted 
himself  off  at  the  sack  and  waved  triumphantly 
to  the  box.  Jtme  waved  back  and  screamed  like 
a  Dodger  fan.  She  hadnt  felt  this  way  for  a 
a  long  time. 

"You  know,"  she  said  happily,  to  her  friends 
Gail  Patrick  and  husband.  Corny  Jackson,  "this  is  jun!" 

Gail  smiled  a  wise  smile  that  meant,  "What 
did  I  tell  you?" 

Only  an  hour  before,  Jtme  Haver 
had  sat  in  her  apartment  alone  after  a  busy  day, 
all  set  for  a  book  and  bed.  That's  when  the 
telephone  rang.   It  was  Gail,  Junes  long-time  friend. 

"WTiat  are  you  doing  tonight — how  about  a 
date?"  she  asked  right  off.  June  was  so  startled 
she  almost  dropped  the  receiver.    She  hadn't  heard  a 
quick  confident  invitation  like  that  for  quite  a  while, 
indeed.  It  made  her  feel  Hke  her  old  self  to 
bristle  just  a  little  bit. 

"It's  a  good  thing  you're  a  woman,"  she  told  Gail. 
"If  you  were  a  man  I'd  hang  up  right  in 
your  ear  I "'  {Continued  on  page  68) 


Don't  jump  to  any 
conclusions  about  wedding 
bells,  but  you  can  be 
sure  that  the  sad  days  are 
past  and  June  Haver's 
smiling  again  .  .  . 

BY  ARTHUR  L.  CHARGES 


June  tea^oasts  oilman  Glenn  McCarthy,  owner  of  the  fabu- 
lous Shamrock  Hotel  in  Houston,  Texas.  Glenn  introduced 
her  to  hjs  brother-in-law,  Howard  Lee,  now  a  steady  beau. 


She's  gone  to  Holly- 
wood's head,  but 
Hollywood  hasn't  gone 
to  hers — and  the 
movie  capital  says 
to  Peggy  Dow,  "Stay 
as  sweet  as  you  are." 

BY  LOUISE  MCILVAIN 

3ma.l  I  -  town 

■  Even  with  her  three  suitcases  (one  almpst  a  trunk)  unpacked 

in  her  new  Hollywood  apartment,  Peggy  Dow  was  still  a  little  afraid  of  the  step 

she'd  taken.  Would  there  come  a  time  when  some  boy  who  brought 

her  home  would  make  it  necessary  for  her  to  be  firm  instead  of  just  gracious  as 

she  said  good-night?  Could  she  always  make  it  clear  that  she  was  the 

same  girl  who'd  been  hving  at  the  Hollywood  Studio  Club,  a  place  designed 

to  give  ambitious  young  actresses  and  motion 

picture  craftswomen  a  properly  chaperoned  place  to  live? 

Really,  she'd  stayed  there  much  too  long,  considering  the  waiting 
list,  and  how  long  it  had  been  since  she'd  emerged  from 
\^nonymity  to  fame.  Polly  Falk,  with  whom  she  shared  a  room,  was' 
Soing  fine  as  a  super-secretary  at  General  Service  Studios  and  Television  Station 
RNBH.  The  two  of  them  had  discussed  moving  into  an 
apartment  together  for  months.  But  Peggy's  mother  wrote  worried 
letters  about  the  idea  of  her  living  without  a  chaperone. 

]So  it  was  quite  a  step.  Up  until  then  Peggy  had  been  about  as 
chVperoned  as  one  could  possibly  be.  She  was  a  small-town  girl. 
Really  small-town!  One  where  the  whole  town  becomes  a  chaperone! 

'-Back  in  Covington,  everybody  knows  everybody,"  Peggy 
tellis  of  the  town  where  she  grew  up.  "Everyone  represents  certain  standards 
to  w\hich  he  usually  lives  up  because  the  whole  town  will  know  and  talk  if  he 
doe^'t.  I  know  that  seems  intolerable  to  most  city  people.  But  I've  never 
fourtd  it  so.  It  provides  a  freedom  you  find  nowhere  else.  You  can  go 
safely  anywhere.  You  can  walk  home  late  at  night  from  the  movies  without 
fear.  Vou  don't  have  to  have  bus  fare  or  a  car  because  you  can  walk  wherever  you 
want  to  go.  You  get  a  real  concept  of  how  democracy  can  work  because 
you  know  your  government  officials  personally.  They  know  you, 
too.  Of  course,  I  was  lucky  to  be  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Vamadow's  Jo'." 

Covington  is  the  seat  of  St.  Tammany's  Parish,  as  counties 
are  cah'ed  in  Louisiana.  Then  it  had  a  population  of  less  than  5,000. 
On  the  banks  of  the  Bogue  Falaya  {Continued  on  page  104) 

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theyVe  talking 
a.bout  La.n 


Mario  met  his  wife,  Bef+y,  throbv^h  her  brother  who  Mama  and  Papa  Antonio  Cocozza  ond  Mario  are  dressed  for  their  scene 
was   his   buddy   in  the   Air   Fotlce   show,    Winged      together  In  The  Great  Caruso.  They  moved  to  Hollywood  from  Pennsylvania  when 


Victory.  They    married    in  Philadelphia 


Mario  bought  them  a  house.  Mario  adopted  his  mother's-  name  for  stage  use. 


Gold  record  morks  1,000,000  copies  of  "Be  Kily  Love. 


Temperamental!  No  tact!  Great  conceit!  These  are 

■  They're  beginning  to  throw  knives  at  Mario  Lanza.  By 
this  time  you've  probably  noticed  them  in  the  form  of  gossip 
items  Uke:  "Success  has  swelled  Mario  Lanza  way  out  of  his 
normal  hat  size."  Or,  "Mario  Lanza  is  the  toughest  star  Metro 
has  had  to  handle  in  years."  Or,  "Look  for  a  breakup  in  the 
Lanza  household.  That  tenor's  getting  awfully  big  for  his 
britches." 

When  you  read  those  items  and  hear  other  reports  like  his 
indignantly  demanding  a  dressing-room  of  his  own  at  MGM,  and  1 
his  swearing  like  a  trouper  when  he  fluffs  a  Une,  you're  tempted  j 
to  believe  that  he's  one  singing  canary  who  can't  handle  success.  | 
After  all,  he  worked  his  way  up  from  less  than  nothing  a 


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the  charges  hurled  at  Lanza.  Here's  one  side  of  the  story — read  Louella  Persons'  Good  News  for  the  other. 


eek  to  an  income  (this  year)  of  $600,000,  and  he  worked 
pretty  fast.  It  seems  only  natural  that  success  should  spoil 
him — at  least,  that's  what  the  knife-throwers  would  have  you 
believe. 

It  isn't  the  truth. 

Mario  Lanza  is  not  stepping  out  on  his  wife.  He  is  not. 
pulling  the  snob  act  on  his  old  friends.  He  is  not  being 
diflScult  at  the  studio. 

He  is  simply  being  Alfred  Arnold  Cocozza.  the  same  earthy, 
honest  guy  he  was  before  he  left  Philadelphia,  his  hometown, 
and  before  he  starred  in  The  Great  Caruso.  {The  Great  Caruso, 
incidentally,  may  yet  gross  15  million  dollars,  which  would 


make  it  the  second  niost  popular  movie  in  motion  picture 
histor>-..  The  first  is  Gone  With  The  Wind.) 

Then  how  come,  you  may  ask,  the  gossip  columnists  spread 
such  stories  about  Laiiza  if  they  aren't  true? 

The  answer  is  sirrifple:  The  price  of  fame  is  gossip.  And 
sudden  success  alway4  generates  a  certain  amount  of  envy. 

A  few  weeks  agcp,  a  Hollywood  crooner  w-hose  voice  is 
nothing  without  a  'microphone,  went  to  see  Mario  in  The 
Great  Caruso.  Coming  out  of  the  theater,  he  turned  to  his 
date  and  said  smugly,  "The  boy  has  power  but  no  tone." 
This,  mind  you,  aloout  a  voice  which  has  been  hailed  by 
really  fine  judges  (j)f  music  as  one  (  Continued  on  page  72) 


Behind  the  Stevens'  white  Southern  Colonial  home  is  a  cutting  garden   tliat    provides    Annelle    yeor-round    flowers    for   the  house 


The  dining  room  table  seats  only  six.  Mark 
says  there'll  be  no  banquets  in  his  family.  ■ 
White  trim  makes  the  small  room  spacious. 


Tjjhis  French  Provincial  desk,  choir  and  shelf 
ur^it  was  Nelle's  buy,  set  the  mood  for  the 
hc^use.  Mark  chose  the  Shakespeare  plates. 

? 

/ 


Businessman  Stevens  hangs  out  in  his  hide- 
away at  one  end  of  the  garage.  He  owns 
stores  in  the  west,  also  mining  properties. 


Married  seven  years  and  never  bought  a  saucepan — ^that's  how  the 
Stevens  lived,  until  Mark  traded  his  rent  receipts  for  three  bedrooms  and  a  new  lease  on  life. 


■  One  afternoon,  three  years  ago,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Mark 
Stevens  strode  into  the  swanky  Beverly  Hills  ofifice  of  Nat 
Goldstone,  Mark's  agent. 

"Nat,"  Stevens  announced,  "Anneile  and  I  want  to  buy 
a  house." 

A  man  long  accustomed  to  the  psychological  outbursts  of 
Hollywood  stars,  Goldstone  sadly  shook  his  head.  "Look, 
Mark,"  he  explained,  "you're  not  the  type  to  own  a  house. 
You're  a  rolling  stone." 

"Maybe  so,"  Mark  agreed.  "Only  I'm  a  little  tired  of  roll- 
ing. Besides,  my  boy  needs  a  neighborhood  gang  to  grow 
up  with." 

Goldstone,  who  knows  all  there  is  to  know  about  Mark 
Stevens — how  he  left  Montreal  to  work  successively  as  a 
lumberjack,  floor-walker,  window-trimmer,  hockey  player, 
and,  finally,  actor — ran  his  hand  across  his  face. 

"Let's  be  sensible  about  it,"  he  said  patiently.  "You've 
been  married  seven  years,  Mark.  You've  never  owned  a 
house.  You  don't  even  own  one  stick  of  furniture.  You've 
lived  in  apartments  and  rented  places  all  your  married  life, 
and  you've  been  very  happy.  Why  don't  you  let  well  enough 
alone?" 

Stevens  grinned  agreement.  "You're  absolutely  right,  Nat. 


We  certainly  have  been  happy.  Only  we've  figured  out  a  way 
to  be  happier."  He  leaned  over  Goldstone's  desk,  eyes 
shining.  "We've  got  the  house  all  picked  out.  It's  25  years  old, 
and  we  want  it  so  bad  that  we're  wilHng  to  pay  cash  for  it." 

Nat  Goldstone  knew  better  than  to  argue  with  his  single- 
minded  client.  He  simply  grabbed  the  phone,  conferred  with 
his  brother  Charles,  who  happens  to  be  Mark's  business 
manager,  and,  together,  they  set  the  wheels  in  motion  which 
resulted  in  Stevens  owning  a  home. 

The  house  Anneile  and  Mark  selected  can  best  be 
described  as  the  kind  you  see  in  automobile  ads  when  the 
manufacturer  wants  to  provide  a  background  of  tradition 
and  taste  for  his  latest  model.  It's  a  big,  square,  white  house 
of  modified  Southern  Colonial  design,  and  it's  set  well  back 
on  a  lushly  landscaped  lot  in  Beverly  Hills.  It's  a  perfect 
setting  for  automobile  ads  or  a  young  and  growing  family. 

When  it  came  to  Mark's  other  stipulation  of  buying  the 
house  outright,  business  manager  CharUe  Goldstone  just 
shook  his  head.  "Mark,  my  boy,"  he  said  sadly,  "you  can't 
afford  it.  Unless,  of  course,  you're  prepared  to  give  up  a  few 
of  your  millionaire  hobbies." 

"We're  giving  up  polo,"  Mark  said.  "I'll  gladly  exchange 
my  three-goal  (Continued  on  next  page) 


Hondbloclced  print  drapes  and  couch,  Mark's  striped  chair  carry  all  four  colors  used  in  the  house.  The  portrait  was  Nelle's  gift  to  Mark. 


place  of  their  own  continued 


The  Sfevens  felt  Mark  Richard,  an  only  child,  needed  a 
neighborhood  gang  to  grow  up  with.  When  a  boy-  gets 
to  the  bike  age,  it's  herd  for  Pop  to  keep  up  on  ^oot. 


rating  for  this  house  and  lot  and  all  that  goes  with  it." 

So  Mark  sold  his  string  of  eight  polo  ponies,  the  tack 
room  full  of  riding  gear  and  dispensed  with  the  services  of 
a  full-time  groom.  And  that's  how  he  acquired  the  house  on 
North  Canon  Drive. 

The  Stevens  set  about  decorating  and  furnishing  their 
three-bedroom  house  with  the  same  fervor  and  intelligence 
they  apply  to  ever>'  new  project.  They  soon  realized,  how- 
ever, that  the  technique  of  providing  a  background  for 
living  can  be  as  absorbing  and  difficult  as  acting.  Rather- 
than  bungle  along  on  their  own,  they  sought  the  help  of  a 
trained  decorator. 

"We  definitely  didn't  want  our  new  home  done  by  a 
chi-chi  decorator,"  explains  Mark,  "but  at  the  same  time 
we  knew  that  we  needed  the  advice  of  someone  who  under- 
stood good  furniture  construction  and  who  could  guide  us 
in  choosing  colors  and  merchandise.  In  fact,  Annelle  and  I 
needed  a  whole  education  in  the  field  of  home  furnishing. 
We  got  it,  too. 

"We  hired  Fanny  Rantz.  The  fact  that  she  was  an  old, 
old  acquaintance,  and  sister  to  Nat  and  CharUe  Goldstone 
only  made  the  thing  easier." 

The  first  thing  Mrs.  Rantz  did  after  looking  over  the 
empty  Stevens  house  was  to  suggest  to  the  young  couple 
that  they  paper,  paint,  and  carpet  the  whole  place  and  then 
move  in.  "AVhile  you're  living  in  the  house,"  she  pointed 
out,  "you  can  start  buying  units  of  furniture  to  satisfy 
your  particular  needs. 

"It  will  take  longer  that  way,  but  in  the  end  you'll  have 
a  home  that  reflects  your  taste,  not  mine.  And  I  promise 
you,  it  will  be  something  you'll  be  proud  of  for  a  long,  long 
time.  It  will  be  a  fine  atmosphere  in  which  to  raise 
your  son." 

For  a  year  and  a  half,  therefore,  the  Stevens  lived  with  a 
bed,  a  borrowed  card  table,  four  chairs  and  such  necessary 
kitchen  appliances  as  a  stove,  a  refrigerator  and  a  deep 
freeze. 

Evening  after  evening  they  shifted  the  card  table  around 
in  their  dark  green  and  white  living  room.  First,  it  repre- 
sented a  desk,  then  a  piano,  then  a  coffee  table,  until  they 
had  a  pretty  clear  idea  of  the  number  of  pieces  they 
needed  in  the  room.  Before  they  did  any  actual  buying,  Mrs. 
Rantz  gave  them  a  few  books  to  read  on  the  subject  of 
furniture  making  and  design.  To  Mark,  an  omnivorous 
reader,  this  approach  set  well.  In  no  time  at  all  he'd 
devoured  several  theoretical  books  on  decoration  and  furni- 
ture design;  and  had  committed  pages  of  an  encyclopedia 
of  antiques  to  memory. 

So  Mark  was  well  supplied  with  book-learning  to  back  up 
his  layman's  knowledge  of  furniture-making  when  Annelle 
and  he  selected  their  first  "unit"  of  three  pieces — a  French 
Provincial  desk,  a  chair,  and  some  hanging  shelves.  "We 
started  with  these  three  pieces,"  recalls  Annelle,  "because 
Mark  badly  needed  a  big  flat  desk  and  he  had  his  heart.set 
on  bookshelves  more  than  anything  else.  Our  first  inclina- 
tion had  been  to  fill  the  house  with  a  cruder  type  of  early 
American  antique,  but  our  reading  and  six  months  of  Uvlng 
in  the  house  convinced  us  that  we  (Continued  on  page  100) 


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MR.  AND  MRS.  TONY  CURTIS:  How  rough  could  it 


■  When  asked  about  her  honeyn^on,  Janet  Leigh  said,  "Some 
honeymoon!  Thriee  days  in  New  'J^ork.  Four  days  down  at 
Howard  Duff's  beach  house.  One  day\here.  One  day  there.  It 
was  really  no  one's  fault,  but  after  a  wnile,  it  seemed  as  if  there 
was  a  vast  conspiracy  against  Tony  and\  me. 

"We  were  married  in  Connecticut,  >^ou  know.  We  had  three 
heavenly  days  together  in  New  York — ^at  the  Waldorf  Astoria. 
The  Towers,  no  less.  It  was  divine.  An^l  the  studio  paid  for  it! 
Tony  was  in  New  York  at  the  time,  rr^aking  personal  appear- 
ances for  The  Prince  Who  Was  a  Thief-  ■ 

"It  was  very  economical  for  us,  and  liicky,  too,  because  when 
we  got  back  to  the  Coast  and  started  loolcing  for  an  apartment, 
prices  were  sky-high.  \ 

"We  don't  own  any  furniture  so  we  h.^d  to  get  a  furnished 
place.  We  needed  an  apartment  desperately^  and  had  to  take  the 
first  thing  that  came  along.  \ 

"In  New  York,  Tony  and  I  sat  dow-n  and  discussed  a 
budget.  We'd  decided  that  $100  a  month  lor  maybe  $125  was 
the  tops  we'd  go  for  an  apartment.  But  whe<h  we  started  looking 
in  Los  Angeles  and  Beverly  Hills — well,  we  couldn't  find  any- 
thing in  our  price  range.  i. 


"If  we'd  had  more  time  to  look  it  might  have  been  different, 
but  gosh  !  We  were  supposed  to  be  on  a  honeymoon.  We  had  all 
of  two  days  together,  and  who  wants  to  spend  two  days  search- 
ing all  over  the  county  of  Los  Angeles  for  a  bargain?  Not  us, 
for  sure. 

"Anjrway,  we  took  this  apartment  on  Wilshire  Boulevard.  It 
costs  $225  a  month,  but  what  could  we  do?  Liz  Taylor  has  the 
apartment  above  us. 

"We  had  a  weekend  together  and  then  I  reported  for  work  in 
Just  This  Once  and  Tony  went  out  on  tour.  I  don't  have  to  tell 
you  how  I  missed  him. 

"And  then  I  got  that  awful  phone  call.  Tony's  Dad  had 
suffered  a  bad  heart  attack  and  they'd  rushed  him  to  the  hos- 
pital. They  wanted  me  to  phone  Tony — he  was  in  Milwaukee 
at  the  time — and  tell  him  to  fly  home. 

"They  didn't  know  how  serious  it  was,  and  whether  or  not 
my  father-in-law  would  live,  and  I  was  scared  silly.  I  didn't 
know  how  to  break  the  news  to  Tony,  but  I  knew  I  had  to.  So 
I  phoned  him  at  the  hotel  in  Milwaukee,  and  I  said,  'Darhng, 
your  Dad's  not  feeling  so  well.  I  think  you'd  better  fly  back 
here.' 


) 


get?  So  crazy  in  love  and  hardly  any  time  together 


"Tony,  of  course,  was  wonderful.  He  caught  the  first  plane  in. 
The  studio  was  extremely  cooperative.  They  let  him  give  up 
the  tour  without  a  word. 

"I  met  him  at  the  airport,  and  it  was  wonderful  having  his 
arms  around  me  once  more.  But  instead  of  being  happy  and 
ecstatic  the  way  most  newlyweds  are,  we  were  both  so  miserable 
because  of  Tony's  Dad." 

Insofar  as  Teny  is  concerned,  Janet  proved  her  mettle  as  a 
wife  almost  at  once. 

"She's  a  dream,"  Tony  says.  "Not  one  word  of  complaint 
about  the  honeymoon.  Most  brides  would  raise  a  fuss  if  they 
had  to  work  on*  their  honeymoon,  but  not  my  baby.  Always 
smiling,  even  when  the  going  was.  tough. 

"And  the  going  was  plenty  tough,  too.  First,  we  had  no  time 
together.  Second,  we  had  no  place  to  live.  Third,  I  went  on  tour. 
Fourth,  she  reported  back  to  work.  Fifth,  my  Dad  got  ill  with 
heart  trouble.  Now  that  I'm  back  we  spend  all  of  our  spare  time 
at  the  hospital. 

"Our  routine  goes  something  like  this :  Janet  gets  up  at  seven 
in  the  morning.  She  makes  breakfast  for  me.  Then,  she  tiptoes 
out  of  the  apartment  and  races  down  to  {Continued  on  page  96) 


Their  newjbudget  cracked  down  the  middle  when  Tony  and 
Janet  hac^  to  settle  for  a  $225-o-month  furnished  apart- 
ment in  lihis  building.     Lii  Taylor  lives  just  above  them. 


63. 


MR. AND  MRS. AGAR:  Grimover 


■  A  few  months  ago  when  John  Agar  and  Loretta  Combs 
eloped  to  Las  Vegas,  one  Hollywood  wit  wrote  in  his  gossip 
column,  "Wouldn't  it  be  a  riot  if  John  Agar  spent  his  honey- 
moon in  jail?" 

Some  people  have  a  perverted  sense  of  humor,  and  what 
this  particular  columnist  had  reference  to  was  the  fact  that 
two  charges  of  drunken  driving  were  hanging  over  Agar's  head 
at  the  time  he  and  Loretta  decided  to  marry. 

"Those  charges,"  the  new  Mrs.  Agar  says,  "were  always 
floating  around  in  the  back  of  our  minds.  OriginaUy,  it  had 
been  planned  that  Jack  would  stand  trial  before  our  marriage. 
We  both  knew  he  was  innocent.  And  as  a  matter  of  fact  the 
trial  did  come  oH  before  we  flew  to  Las  Vegas.  Only  Jack's 
attorney  collapsed  in  court  last  March,  and  the  Judge  declared 
a  mistrial. 

"Well,  you  know  how  crowded  court  dockets  can  get.  They 
accuse  you  of  a  misdemeanor  in  1951,  and  by  the  time  the 
case  is  resolved  it's  1955.  Anyway,  when  we  decided  to  get 
married,  we  saw  no  sense  in  letting  the  trial  detain  us. 

"We  went  ahead  with  it,  but  we  always  knew  that  we  had 
the  trial  to  face.  Under  such  circumstances,  you  don't  have 
a  perfect  honeymoon. 

"As  it  turned  out,  we  spent  most  of  our  honeymoon  in  Pitts- 


MR.  AND  MRS.  MURPHY:  It  was 


■  When  a  girl  marries  a  movie  star  she  learns  very  early  that 
Hollywood  has  the  first  claim  on  her  husband. 

Take  Pamela  Archer,  the  beautiful  brunette  who  became 
Mrs.  Audie  Murphy  a  few  months  ago. 

"Our  honeymoon  in  Texas,"  Pam  says,  "lasted  all  of  five 
days.  We  spent  most  of  them  going  around  and  saying  good- 
bye to  old  friends.  What  happened  was  that  Audie  received  a 
telegram  telling  him  to  report  to  Holl)rwood.  The  studio  was 
ready  to  go  with  The  Cimarron  Kid,  so  honeymoon  or  not,  we 
packed  our  bags  and  flew  West." 

"I  wasn't  going  to  leave  my  bride  in  Hollywood,"  Audie 
says,  "no  sir,  not  after  one  week  of  marriage.  I  said  to  her, 
'Pam,  you're  going  on  location  with  me.'  And  that's  exactly 
what  she  did.  We  went  up  to  Sonora,  California,  where  the 
picture  was  shot.  While  I  was  on  location,  Pam  stayed  in 
town.  Then  when  I  was  done  for  the  day  I  joined  her." 

Pam  insists  she  was  thrilled  by  her  unusual  honeyiiioon. 
"I'd  never  been  around  motion  picture  people  before,"  she 
explains.  "I'd  met  several  prominent  people.  Every  airline 
hostess  does,  but  the  movie  crowd  was  a  new  one  to  me. 

"The  last  day  on  location,  I  caught  poison  ivy.  Can  you 
imagine  that,  a  lil  ole  country  girl  like  me  being  allergic  to 
poison  ivy !  My  skin  sure  peeled  off.  That  was  a  funny  way 


HOLLYWOOD  HONEYMOONERS 

continued 


tones  haunted  their  honeymoon,  now  they  find  strength  together. 


burgh.  Jack  had  been  booked  into  the  Copa  as  a  singer — he 
sings  very  well — so  I  flew  with  him,  and  we  checked  into  the 
William  Perm. 

"We  had  eight  days  in  Pittsburgh.  Jack  worked  during  the 
nights,  and  while  I  wouldn't  call  it  the  greatest  honeymoon  in 
the  world,  at  least  we  were  together. 

"While  we  were  in  Pittsburgh,  we  thought  of  spending  some 
of  our  honeymoon  in  New  York  and  other  cities  around  there, 
but  Jack  had  to  return  to  the  Coast.  He'd  signed  to  appear 
opposite  Joan  Evans  in  the  stage  play,  Peg  0'  My  Heart. 

"The  trouble  with  marr>'ing  an  actor  is  that  you  have  to  do 
everything  between  his  jobs,  and  if  he  happens  to  be  working 
steadily  or  traveUng  from  one  job  to  another,  it's  hard. 

"Take  our  apartment  hunting.;  Ever  since  our  marriage 
we've  been  living  with  Jack's  mother.  I  happen  to  love  my 
mother-in-law.  But  still,  Jack  and  I  feel  that  every  couple 
should  have  a  place  of  their  own.  Jack's  mother  feels  the 
same  way. 

"We  wanted  to  rent  a  house,  but  furnished  houses  out  here 
are  pretty  rare  and  very  expensive.  So  I  guess  we'll  have  to 
find  an  apartment. 

"As  you  probably  know.  Jack's  obtained  his  release  from 
David  Selznick  which  means  that  he's  a  free  agent.  He  can 


accept  jobs  anywhere.  He's  had  quite  a  few  offers  from 
different  clubs  and  theaters  throughout  the  country,  so  we'll 
probably  be  on  the  go  for  the  next  few  months. 

"I  don't  mind  too  much,  but  I  just  can't  wait  until  the  day 
we  really  settle  down.  I  love  to  cook,  and  Jack  loves  to  eat. 
He  isn't  finicky,  either,  loves  steaks,  salads,  vegetables, 
everything.  He  was  brought  up  well." 

The  truth  about  John  Agar  is  that  he's  been  Hollywood's 
most  maligned  actor  ever  since  he  and  his  ex-wife  Shirley 
Temple  made  Ft.  Apache  together. 

The  truth  also  is  that  he's  a  nice,  insecure  boy,  who  was  ill- 
equipped  to  marry  an  international  institution  like  Shirley 
Temple,  Now  he  realizes-  his  shortcomings  and  is  making 
every  possible  effort  to  establish  himself  securely  as  a  talented 
entertainer. 

"Acting  is  a  serious  business  to  me,"  he  says..  "I'm  not  play- 
ing around  with  it.  I'm  making  it  my  life's  work.  I  may  not  be 
very  good  now,  but  I'm  studying  all  the  time.  I  think  I'm 
improving.  ■  The  same  way  with  my  singing.  I'm  no  Crosby  or 
Perry  Como,  but  I'm  coming  along. 

"Motion  pictures,  unless  you're  under  contract,  are  pretty 
unreliable.  That's  why  I'm  going  in  for  these  night  club  and 
theater  bookings.  That's  why  I  took  {Continued  on  page  97) 


swell  of  Pam  to  wait  till  the  end  of  the  honeymoon  to  get  poison  ivy. 


to  end  a  honeymoon,  winding  up  with  poison  iv>'." 

Once  the  location  trip  was  over,  Pam  and  Audie  returned 
to  Hollywood  and  the  little  apartment  which  Audie  rents,  for 
$160  a  month. 

Pam  loves  it,  but  she  says,  "It'll  be  much  better  for  both 
of  us  when  we  own  a  house  of  our  own  with  a  little  land  and 
a  backyard.  This  place  we  have  now  is  very  cute,  but  there's 
no  place  where  we  can  take  a  stroll.  Audie  and  I  both  like  the 
wide  open  spaces." 

There  is  no  more  un-Hollywood-like  actor  than  Audie 
Murphy.  Quiet,  soft-spoken  and  well-mannered,  he  never 
frequents  the  plushy  restaurants,  never  catches  the  latest 
night  club  routines. 

Pamela  is  much  the  same  way.  She's  not  interested  in 
sophisticated  cocktail  parties,  elegant  fashion  shows,  or  after- 
noon teas. 

Her  sole  interest  in  life  thus  far  is  Audie.  She  cooks  for 
him,  cleans  for  him,  takes  his  phone  messages,  washes  his 
clothes.  She  subordinates  all  her  plans  to  his. 

This  is  quite  a  change  for  Pam  who  was  a  successful  career 
girl  for  many  years.  Whenever  Braniff  Airlines  initiated  a  new 
flight,  say  to  Peru  or  Buenos  Aires,  Pamela  Archer  was 
always  the  chief  hostess.  {Continued  on  page  93) 


The  Murphys  rent  section  of  this  smell  building.  They  hope 
for  o  place  of  th  eir  own,  with  more  "wide  open  spaces. 


65 


19-YEAR-OLD  LIZ  HAS  LOVED  EIGHT  MEN  IN  TWO  YEARS 


.  A  RECORD  EVEN  FOR  THE  MOST  BEAUTIFUL  GIRL  IN  THE  WORLD. 


Peter  Lawford  was  the  first  to 
capture  beautiful  Liz'  fancy.   She  was 
15  and  he  was  her  first  crush. 


Vic  .Dannone  squired  Liz  in  early 
1950,  and  there  were  strong  reports  of 
nnutual  interest  between  them. 


Glenn  Davis  was  the  world's  choice 
for  Liz  in  1949.   She  was  engaged  to 
the  football  hero  for  several  months. 


In  June,  1950,  Liz  became  Bride  of 
the  Year,  wed  multi-millionaire  Nicky 
Hilton,  planned  to  live  in  Hollywood. 


After  Davis  "broke  her  heart", 

Liz  found  eager  solace  with  wealthy  Bill 

Pawley,  and  wore  his  ring. 


In  January.  1951,  Liz  became 
Divorcee  of  the  Year.   But  by  early 
February  she  was  Stanley  Donen's  girl 


Are  her  fans  weary  of  Liz's  escapades?  Modern  Screen's  candid  reporter  examines  the  evidence. 


■  There  are  still  people  working  at  MGM  who  can  remember 
when  she  first  walk'sd  on  the  lot.  It  was  in  1942.  The  studio's 
biggest  star  at  that  uime  was  a  silky  collie  named  Lassie,  and 
a  good  portion  of  ths  company's  production  staff  was  work- 
ing on  preparations  ofV  picture  for  her.  Some  of  them  were 
standing  in  the  doorway  Vf  the  Administration  Building  talk- 
ing after  lunch  when  the  i^d  came  walking  down  the  hall. 
She  was  10  years  old.  She\iad  coal  black  hair  and  a  con- 
trasting complexion  of  creaiAand  old  rose.  Her  eyes  were 
bluer  than  new  com  flowers,  ^d  as  large  as  silver  dollars. 
Each  feature  was  separately  cmiseled  to  perfection;  nose, 
mouth,  chin,  even  the  black  eyeSsows  that  lent  an  oddly 
oriental  cast  to  her  face.  She  was  ^dressed  Uke  almost  any 
other  10-year-old,  but  she  carried  S|£rself  with  a  special 
dignity.  She  passed  the  group  without  aVook. 

"Holy  cow!"  someone  said.  "Who  wa^  that?" 

They  were  all  to  find  out.  Even  at  1*0>  EUzabeth  Taylor 
was  an  outstanding  beauty.  She  was  the^  kind  of  child  who 


was  surely  destined  for  idolatry,  and  she  was  on  her  own 
ground  on  that  first  day,  even  though  nobody  on  the  lot  had 
ever  heard  of  her  before. 

The  second  week  Elizabeth  Taylor  worked  in  that  Lassie 
picture,  there  were  more  newspaper  people  on  the  set  than 
had  ever  been  on  a  sound  stage  at  MGM  in  a  like  period 
before.  By  the  time  the  film  was  finished,  she  was  one  of 
the  most  important  people  on  the  lot.  And  by  the  time  the 
picture  was  released,  she  was  one  of  the  most  important 
actresses  in  Hollywood,  for  she  captured  the  heart  of  any- 
one who  saw  her  on  film.  Her  stunning  beauty  was,  of  course, 
one  of  the  reasons,  but  there  was,  too,  an  acting  ability  rare 
in  one  so  young  and  an  adolescent  sincerity  and  wholesome- 
ness  that  was  irresistible. 

You  remember  what  happened  after  that.  A  couple  of  fast 
pictures  and,  when  Elizabeth  was  12,  National  Velvet.  Few 
kids  in  the  movies  have  ever  received  the  fan  mail  and 
other  forms  of  adulation  that  Liz  {Continued  on  page  86) 


BY  RICHARD  DEXTER 

does  liz 

know  wha.'t 
love  is? 


Christmas  of  the  same  year  (1949) 
found  Liz,  then  17,  smiling  sweetly  on 
baseball  star  Ralph  Kiner. 


In  the  mood  for  love 


(Continued  from  page  53)  "Well,  if  you'd 
stay  home  more  in  the  day  and  less  at 
night,  I'd  appreciate  it,"  Gail  chided  her. 
"I've  called  and  called  all  day — " 

"You  know  how  I  feel  about  blind 
dates — "  Jime  began. 

"I  know  how  you  feel  about  most  dates," 
confirmed  Mrs.  Jackson.  "But  look  here: 
Dino  ResteUi's  the  only  bachelor  on  our 
squad  (Gail's  part  owner  of  the  Hollywood 
Baseball  Club) .  He's  young,  good-looking — 
and  he's  djdng  to  meet  Jime  Haver.  What's 
more,  he  refuses  to  believe  I  actually  know 
wonderful  you.  I  won't  tell  him  you're 
coming.  It'll  be  a  surprise  party.  So,  how 
about  it?  Do  we  give  Dino  a  thrill  tonight, 
or  don't  we?" 

"Why  not?"  laughed  June. 

A  iew  short  months  ago,  June  Haver 
probably  couldn't  have  brought  herself 
to  say  those  words.  Moreover,  it  would 
have  upset  her  to  have  a  man  make  any 
kind  of  a  gallcint  pledge — even  a  two-base 
hit — for  her  alone,  or  to  have  him  say  (as 
Dino  did)  "I  saw  you  walking  down  the 
street  seven  years  ago  and  I've  never  for- 
gotten how  beautiful  you  looked."  But 
now  it  was  fun  to  have  these  things  hap- 
pen. June  felt  young  and  gay  again. 

June  isn't  in  love  with  Dino  Restelli,  al- 
though the  good-looking  slugger  may  well 
be  suffering  from  that  affliction  of  the 
heart.  But  when  he  asked  her  to  go  out  a 
few  nights  later  she  didn't  say  no.  And 
strollers  along  the  Ocean  Park  fun  pier 
watched  a  chattering  couple  spend  the  eve- 
ning munching  spun  taffy  and  throwing 
baseball?.  When  the  team  left  on  tour  and 
June  drove  Dino  out  to  the  airport,  there 
was  nothing  of  front  page  significance  in 
the  event.  Dino  Restelli  isn't  the  man  in 
June's  life.  Right  now  nobody  is.  But  he's 
one  man,  and  not  the  only  one  either. 

ONLY  a  few  weeks  ago  another  attractive 
gentleman  named  Howard  Lee  flew 
from  Houston,  Texas,  to  Hollywood  just  to 
see  June  Haver.  He  saw  her  all  right- — 
every  day  for  a  week. 

June  met  Howard  Lee  in  Houston  last 
February  when  she  flew  there  with  her 
mother  to  be  queen  of  the  Mardi  Gras.  She 
stayed  at  the  fabulous  Shamrock  Hotel, 
owned  by  the  equally  fabulous  oil  tycoon, 
Glenn  McCarthy.  ,  There  and  everywhere 
else  she  went  during  the  three  day  festival, 
Howard  Lee  managed  to  be  aroimd.  Fin- 
ally he  was  iritroduced;  he  was  Glenn 
McCarthy's  brother-in-law,  and  a  multi- 
millionaire. 

Houston  is  supposedly^full  of  millionaires, 
but  even  in  that  big  barL'''roll  league  How- 
ard Lee  is  rated  a  very  j'ich  man.  He  sat 
With  Jime's  mother  at  the  c^^wning  festivi- 
ties in  the  Colosseum  and  V^tched  June, 
gorgeous  in  a  white  tulle  dre^S  ^d  a  long, 
royal-blue  velvet  train,  reign  aii^the  Mardi 
Gras.  She  wore  a  crown  of  g(?»M  in  her 
hair,  and  she  was  a  vision  Howard  Lee 
couldn't  forget. 

A  man  with  a  finger  in  every  Hbuston 
pie,  Lee  talked  mostly  about  his  boe^ing 
city  while  they  took  in  the  round  of  M?rdi 
Gras  parties  together.  But  when  he  drc 
June  to  the  airport,  he  talked  about  somS 
thing  else.  "I'll  be  out  to  see  you  soon," 
promised,  "and  we'll  do  yornr  town." 

"I'd  love  that,"  June  found  herself  say 
ing. 

It  took  Howard  Lee  four  months  to  make 
good  his  promise,  but  during  that  stretch 
from  February  to  July,  he  called  her  fre- 
quently and  nearly  always  at  night  around 
3:30.  Finally  June  just  kept  the  telephone 
beside  her  bed  and  when  it  jingled  her 
awake,  she  automatically  mumbled,  "Hello, 
Howard."    He  never  could  figure  out  the 


differences  in  time. 

But  he  kept  calling  just  the  same,  June 
was  faced  with  5.30  A.M.  turnouts  for 
Love  Nest,  so  she  lifted  the  receiver  with 
mixed  feelings. 

"When  Howard  finally  called  to  say  he 
was  in  town,"  June  admitted,  "I  didn't 
know  whether  I  wanted  to  hit  him  on  the 
head  or  to  tell  him  to  come  on  oyer!"  But 
she  told  him  to  come  on  over. 

What  followed  was  the  busiest,  dizziest 
week  June  Haver  has  had  since  she  was  a 
teen-age  star  dating  a  different  beau  each 
night.  Along  with  Howard  Lee,  her  dad, 
Fred  Stovenour,  whom  she  hadn't  seen  for 
13  years,  blew  in  from  Memphis,  and  How- 
ard found  himself  involved  in  a  family 
affair.  They  took  in  Hawaiian  Night  at  the 
Cocoanut  Grove,  danced  with  tropical  leis 
aroimd  their  necks  and  ate  Island  food 
flown  over  that  day.  They  went  to  the 
Turnabout  Theater,  and  sipped  zombies  at 
the  Beachcomber's.  Jime  got  dressed  to 
the  eyelashes  as  she  used  to  for  late  whirls 
at  Mocambo  and  Giro's,  and  John,  Giro's 
maitre  d',  almost  swooned  when  he  saw 
her.  It  had  been  over  two  years  since 
June  walked  in  the  door  of  that  showcase 
of  the  stars. 

Daytimes,  Howard  and  June,  with  her 
father,  her  sister,  Evvie,  and  other  mem- 
bers of  the  Haver  clan  did  the  rest  of 
Hollywood.  They  went  to  the  Hollywood 
Park  races,  the  Farmer's  Market — they 
hopped  over  to  Catalina  Island  like  all  the 
rest  of  the  tourists. 

By  the  time  Howard  Lee  said  goodbye, 
the  rumors  flew  around  Hollywood  that 
Jime  was  in  love  with  him.  Some  gos- 
sips promptly  had  her  engaged.  Obvi- 
ously, Howard  Lee  thinks  June  Haver  is 
pretty  cute  and  he  likes  her  company;  men 
don't  tear  themselves  away  from  big  busi- 
ness and  travel  a  thousand  miles  just  to 
keep  a  polite  promise.  He  may  even  be 
head  over  heels  in  love;  that  wouldn't  be 
too  surprising.  And  although  June  will 
give  you  the  old  refrain,  "just  friends," 
when  you  mention  her  'Texas  beau,  it's 
obvious  that  she  liked  Howard  a  lot. 

But  she's  not  seriously  in  love — although 
Lee  still  calls  her  (jtnd  in  the  day;  she 
talked  him  out  of  the  insomnia  treatment) . 
She's  not  thinking  of  marrying  that  mil- 
lionaire or  anybody  else. 

It.  will  be  just  two  years  ago  this  Octo- 
ber that  June  Haver's  fiance,  John  Duzik, 


died  at  St.  John's  Hospital  in  Seinta  Mon- 
ica. At  that  tragic  time  June  was  only  23, 
but  already  the  nightmare  of  her  marriage 
to  Jimmy  Zito  had  bruised  a  heart  that 
had  been  wide  open  to  romance.  When 
the  man  who'd  stepped  up  adoringly  to 
piece  her  world  back,  together  again  passed 
away  on  the  eve  of  their  marriage,  there 
was  no  place  left  in  June's  heart  for  a 
new  love  to  take  hold. 

Grief  is  a  solitary  ordeal.  If  not  even 
June's  family  or  friends  could  really  help 
in  her  sorrow,  certainly  no  man  could. 
There  was  only  June  Haver  herself  to  face 
and  build  a  new  life  with  the  aid  of  her 
strong  religious  faith.  The  distractions  she 
seized  on  to  balance  her  spiritual  gropings 
for  solace  were  not  frivolity,  romance  or 
fun.  Being  June,  she  knew  that  that  kind 
of  escape  would  never  work  for  her.  Being 
a  true  Christian,  she  knew  too  that  the 
only  way  she  could  bring  peace  and  happi- 
ness back  into  her  own  Ufe  was  to  bring 
it  to  others. 

So  June  lost  herself  in  good  works.  For 
a  year  after  John  Duzik's  death,  her  Holly- 
wood friends  could  seldom  catch  her  at 
home.  She  was  out  of  their  world.  She 
was  playing  benefits  to  raise  money  for 
Catholic  girls'  schools,  orphanages,  hos- 
pitals, and  churches.  She  was  visiting  vet- 
erans' hospitals,  asking  for  the  toughest 
wards  to  work  in — the  paraplegic,  arthritic 
and  heart  sections.  She  sought  out  afflicted 
children  who  needed  cheer  and  help.  At 
her  own  church  she  attended  mass  every 
morning  and  went  into  religious  retreat 
at  a  convent.  All  the  while,  June  kept 
her  thoughts  resolutely  away  from  herself. 

TP  HE  only  relaxation  June  found  during 
this  dedicated  time  was  even  more 
work.  She  decorated  an  apartmyit  house 
for  George  Froley,  the  contractor  who 
built  the  apartment  house  she'd  planned  to 
live  in  with  John  Duzik  and  where  June 
lives  today.  She  has  decorated  another  for 
Froley  since,  and  one  of  her  own.  But  as 
for  gaiety,  good  times  and  romance — well, 
until  recently  there  just  hasn't  been  any. 
This  has  worried  June's  friends  and  caused 
everyone  who  knows  her  (and  some  who 
don't)  to  wishfully  imagine  a  new  love 
interest  with  every  man  she  looked  at 
twice. 

A  year  ago,  for  instance,  Sy  Bartlett,  a 
writer  at  20th  Century-Fox,  was  attentive 


THESE   ARE  THE   MEN    IN   JUNE   HAVER'S   LIFE.   BUT  THOUGH   EACH  ONE 


Julne  met  millionaire  Howard  Lee  in  Texas.  Later  he  flew  to  Hollywood  just  to  see  her.  Gossips 
hajJ  them  engaged,  but  although  it's  obvious  they  like  each  other  no  announcement  has  been  made. 


to  June  arovind  the  studio  and  took  her  out 
a  few  times  for  lunch  and  dinner.  He  was 
particularly  helpful  and  considerate  when 
June  went  to  the  hospital,  and  he  flew  her 
to  Las  Vegas  when  June's  grandmother 
was  ill  there.  With  only  this  to  go  on,  Sy 
was  hailed  as  June's  "new  romance."  It 
was  said  he  was  seeing  her  constantly,  had 
given  her  jewels  and  entertained  lavishly 
in  her  honor.  Actually,  Sy,  a  nice  chap, 
well  liked  by  everyone,  including  Jime, 
was  never  halfway  close  to  her  heart,  and 
incidentally  never  gave  her  any  token  of 
his  love.  No  jewels.  No  party.  June  hasn't 
seen  Sy  Bartlett  now  for  well  over  a  year. 

The  only  man,  in  fact,  who  has  figured 
in  June  Haver's  life  since  her  tragic  love 
is  Joe  Campbell.  He's  an  old  friend  of  the 
Haver  famUy,  and  runs  the  Campbell 
stores  in  Santa  Monica.  Twenty-nine,  nice 
looking  and  pleasant,  Joe  Campbell  was 
her  first  date  after  John's  death  and  is 
Jvme's  willing  escort  to  premieres,  benefits 
and  the  steady  round  of  Hollywood  career 
affairs.  A  "frog  man"  diver  in  the  Navy 
during  the  war,  he's  a  terrific  swimmer 
and  whenever  June  will  let  him  he  takes 
her  down  to  his  swimming  club  or  coaxes 
her  out  on  a  golf  course  where  he  knows 
she  plays  a  good  game.  Joe  also  sp>onsors 
a  "Little  League"  baseball  club  for  kids 
called  the  "Campbell  Cardinals"  where 
Donnie  Kinsinger,  June's  young  cousin,  is 
a  star  second-sacker.  It's  no  secret  that 
Joe  adores  Jxme,  but  vmfortimately,  that 
old  cliche  applies  accurately  to  June's 
feelings  for  Joe — she  really  loves  him  like 
a  brother. 

The  people  who  know  Jime  best  agree 
that  what  started  her  on  the  road  back  to 
health  and  a  revived  interest  in  fun  was 
the  trip  abroad  she  made  last  October.  Al- 
though Jime  set  off  on  a  Holy  Year  pil- 
grimage to  Rome  and  Palestine,  she  found 
time  for  side  trips  to  London  and  Paris, 
bought  some  exciting  new  clothes  and, 
what  was  more  important,  changed  the 
scene  which  so  badly  needed  changing 
for  her. 

The  June  who  came  back  to  Hollywood 
looked  alrtiost  like  the  old  Junie  again, 
with  laugh  vinrinkles  arotmd  her  eyes  and 
some  restored  curves  to  fill  out  the  new 
clothes.  Right  away  she  jumped  at  the 
chance  for  an  even  more  gala  air  totu-  of 
South  America  on  the  International  Film 
Festival  junket.  With  Pat  Neal,  Liz  Scott, 


Evelyn  Keyes,  John  Derek,  Wendell  Corey 
and  a  crew  of  other  holiday-minded  stars, 
June  spent  five  weeks  in  Rio,  Buenoj. 
Aires,  Montevideo,  Cuzco,  Lima  and  other 
romantic  spots.  She  learned  to  dance  the 
tango  and  maraba  and  never  let  herself 
have  too  serious  a  thought  all  the  time  she 
was  gone.  But  back  in  Hollywood  at  last, 
she  told  reporters,  "I  like  American  men 
best."  June  couldn't  tell  them  what  Amer- 
ican men,  but  even  that  statement  showed 
what  was  stirring  in  her  pretty  head.  And 
high  time,  too. 

JUNE  leads  a  charitable,  religious  life 
and  she  probably  always  will.  She 
still  attends  mass  every  morning  at  St. 
Paul's  in  Westwood,  and  gives  her  talents 
for  many  worthy  benefits.  Recently  she 
"adopted"  a  paralyzed  veteran  who  had  to 
lie  constantly  on  his  stomach,  but  who 
wanted  a  house  of  his  own.  When  he  got 
one  Jime  attended  the  housewarming.  Her 
favorite  project  is  stiU  raising  money  for 
the  children's  ward  at  St.  John's  and  when 
she  was  in  that  hospital  herself  she  got  a 
letter  from  a  little  girl. 

"Dear  June,"  it  read,  "I  hear  you  may 
have  to  have  an  operation  and  I  hope  you 
don't.  But  if  you  do,  don't  be  afraid.  Oper- 
ations don't  hurt.  I  know,  I've  had 
thirty-two." 

Back  home  June  looked  up  the  sender, 
little  Nancy  Hamilton,  a  child  born  without 
feet  and  with  tumors  on  both  legs  that 
seem  impossible  to  cure.  Now  she's  her 
godchild  and  Nancy  calls  June  "Mom."  On 
Nancy's  birthday  Jime  gathered  up  Nancy, 
her  sister  Ewie's  boy,  Brian,  and  sister 
Dorothy's  two  girls,  Cathy  and  Trudy,  and 
carted  them  all  off  for  the  day  at  "Hoppy- 
land,"  Hopalong  Cassidy's  kid  carnival. 

Little  by  little  time  has  thinned  the 
armor  which  June  wore  so  long  around 
her  heart.  'Little  by  little,  events  have 
combined  to  show  that,  instead  of  heading 
for  a  convent  as  has  been  persistently  and 
frequently  rumored,  June  Haver  is  head- 
ing back  toward  the  full  and  happy  life 
normal  to  a  beautiful  and  unattached 
young  lady  of  25. 

Even  June's  last  picture.  Love  Nest, 
helped.  Instead  of  the  typical  June  Haver 
musical,  which  for  all  its  sparkle  always 
brings  a  stab  of  sadness,  she  played  a  gay 
comedy  role  with  BiU  Lundigan.  It's 
about  a  couple  who  do  over  an  old  Man- 


hattan brownstone  house — right  up  the 
alley  of  Jime's  decorating  hobby. 

On  the  Love  Nest  set  it  was  like  old 
times  again.  A  publicity  man,  for  instance, 
who  had  been  skipping  June  for  things 
he  thought  she'd  shrink  from,  approached 
her  one  noon.  "I've  got  280  Marines  out- 
side who  Wcint  to  take  you  to  lunch,"  he 
told  her.    "Think  you  can  handle  'em?" 

"That's  a  lot  of  Marines,"  June  grinned, 
"but  111  try."  She  didn't  have  to  try  very 
hard. 

On  that  same  set  the  big  stage  doors 
swung  wide  open  one  day  and  a  snappy 
new  blue  Pontiac  Catalina  rolled  right  up 
to  June's  dressing  room.  She'd  seen  it  in 
the  show  window  that  morning  on  the 
way  to  work,  obeyed  the  impulse  and 
bought  it.  ■  But  she  couldn't  wait  even 
xmtil  she  went  home  to  try  it  out. 

To  June  that  car  was  a  pretty  important 
thrill.  It  was  the  first  shiny  new  job  she 
had  ever  owned.  Before,  she'd  always 
bought  used  ones. 

'C'vERYWHERE  there  are  other  subtle  signs 
-Li  that  June  Haver  is  letting  herself  loose, 
inch  by  inch,  from  the  strings  that  tied 
her  to  her  unhappy  days.  She's  breaking 
in  the  new  blue  car  fast  getting  out  of  the 
apartment  and  off  on  her  favorite  seaside 
drives  to  Lagima,  Santa  Barbara  and  Del 
Mar,  sometimes  with  Joe  Campbell  and 
sometimes  just  with  her  gal  pals,  Pat  Neal, 
Betty  Lyrm,  or  her  stand-in,  Shirley  Clark. 
She's  planning  a  trip  to  Alaska  and  one  to 
Jackson  Hole,  Wyoming — a  place  she  shied 
away  from  for  a  long  time  because  that 
was  where  she'd  hoped  to  honeymoon  with 
John.  She's  taking  singing  lessons  with 
Robert  Keith  and  dancing  lessons  with 
Buddy  Ebson,  who  taught  June  her  steps 
for  Look  For  the  Silver  Lining.  Both  are 
with  an  eye  to  a  fling  at  London's  Palla- 
dium after  she  finishes  her  next  picture. 

Right  now  there  are  still  good  reasons 
"why  marriage  seems  far  away  for  June, 
even  if  she  should  meet  the  right  man. 
Her  audience  with  Pope  Pius  last  fall  was 
not,  as  Hollywood  prophets  predicted,  an 
attempt  to  win  annulment  of  her  marriage 
to  Jimmy  Zito.  June  saw  His  Holiness 
along  with  a  crowd  of  other  pilgrims  and 
her  personal  problems  were  not  discussed. 
It  will  take  time,  if  she  is  successful,  for 
her  annulment  to  be  granted  through 
Church  channels.  Until  it  is,  remarriage 
in  her  faith  is  out  of  the  question  for  June. 

But  then  June  Haver  is  not  the  hasty 
heart  type  anyway.  Both  her  romances 
with  Zito  and  Duzik  took  time  before  they 
took  over  June's  love.  It  could  be,  whether 
she  realizes  it  or  not,  that  something  is 
starting  deep  in  her  heart  right  now. 
Maybe  it  involves  athletic  Dino  Restelli, 
wealthy  Howard  Lee  or  steady  Joe  Camp- 
bell— and  maybe  not.  Maybe  someone 
else  she's  met  and  thinks  she's  forgotten 
has  entered  there,  or  perhaps  someone 
she'll  meet  soon  will  have  the  key.  That's 
what  makes  June  Haver's  life  such  a 
promising  suspenseful  story  today. 

A  friend  who  knows  June  weU  and  loves 
her  puts  it  this  way,  "Right  now  June  is 
like  a  girl  gingerly  testing  the  edge  of  a 
lake  that  winter  has  frozen  over  and 
spring  has  just  thawed.  After  what  she's 
been  through  she's  too  cautiousi  to  take  a 
plunge  into  romance.  But  the  time  will 
come — it  has  to.  June's  too  full  of  life 
not  to  want  what  life  must  offer  a  warm- 
hearted beautiful  girl." 

If  you  ask  June  Haver  about  such  inti- 
mate matters,  she  will  only  shake  her 
head  and  smile — ^but  not  sadly.  "Right  now 
I'm  happier  than  I've  been  for  a  long,  long 
time,"  shell  tell  you. 

But  she  could  be  happier,  with  love  and 
romance  in  her  life.  And  someday  not 
too  far  away,  unless  all  signs  are  wrong, 
June  Haver  will  be.  The  End 


Old  friend  Joe  Campbell  wears  his  hear+  on  his  Baseball  player  Dino  Restelli  was  introduced  to 
sleeve  for  June  who  loves  him  "like  a  brother."      June  by  Gail  Patriclc,  Hollywood  ball  club  owner. 


7 

No.  f  in  a  series: 


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HOW  THE  STARS  FOUND  FAITH 


FAITH  WAS  GIVEN  ME  AS  A  CHILD;  I  LOST  IT  AS  A  YOUTH;  AND  HAD  TO  EARN  IT  FOR  MYSELF  AND  MY  FAMILY  AS  A  MAN. 


to 


hum 


■  I  was  bom  the  child  of  a  Catholic 
father  and  a  Protestant  mother.  Neither  pressed  me 
to  follow  his  or  her  religion,  and,  perhaps, 
.because  I  loved  them  both  equally,  I  grew  up  outside  the 
church  officially.  Yet,  as  I  always  thought,  in  the 
way  of  the  church.  But  when  I  reached  young  manhood  I  had 
gotten  away  from  all  such  influence.  Other  thoughts 
occupied  me  by  the  time  I  was  in  my  early  twenties. 

Flushed  with  success  in  the  movies,  with  two  pictures 
for  the  biggest  studio  in  town  under  my  belt,  my 
whole  future  looked  like  a  golden  staircase  up  which  I  was 
racing  with  sure  feet.  I  didn't  need  anything  .  .  .  not  even  God. 

That  was  more  than  10  years  ago.  I  can  still  remember 
one  night,  driving  home  through  the  sleeping  San  Fernando 
valley  after  a  late  party,  and  how  I  laughed  aloud 
at  the  world  which  I  was  sure  was  my  very  own 
little  egg.  I  laughed  .  .  .  and  after  a  while  I  must  have 
gotten  sleepy.  It  was  almost  dawn.  I  don't  even 
remember  seeing  the  big  milk  truck. 

"There's  no  hurry  .  .  .  this  guy's  dead." 

These  were  the  first  words  I  heard  after  the  crash. 
Only,  afterward  I  knew  that  they  were  spoken  by  a  pohceman 
to  an  ambulance  interne  who  had  just  arrived  on 
the  scene.  I  only  knew  afterward  that  the  rear  of  the 
truck  had  ripped  and  smashed  the  upper  part  of  my 
car  into  something  that  looked  like  a  tattered 
Venetian  blind.   I  only  knew  afterward  that  I  was  a 
twisted,  crumpled  hulk  myself,  only  vaguely 
resembling  anything  human.  All  that  I  was 
conscious  of  just  then  was  that  I  must  tell  the 
pohceman  that  he  was  wrong.  That  I  was  ahve.   But  I 
couldn't  ihake  a  sound.  I  wasn't  that  alive. 

If  you  jump  on  a  canary  cage  you  will  have  an  idea  of 
what  my  ribs  looked  hke  when  they  took  X-ray 
pictures  at  the  hospital.  My  shoulder  was  broken. 
A  leg  was  broken,  and  the  knee  shattered.   The  whole 
front  of  my  face  was  smashed  and  disfigured.  And 
somewhere  behind  all  this,  alone  in  the  pain  and 
agony  that  was  {Continued  on  page  94) 


70 


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Here's  the  Kraft  Kitchen  secret  for 
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sugar  into  it.  Add  the  melted 
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vanilla,  salt  and  chopped 
pecans  and  mix  until  well 
blended.  Press  into  a  well- 
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Cut  into  squares.  (For  a  slightly  softer 
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shredded  coconut  instead  of  the  choco- 
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for  chocolate  fudge  except  use  2}^  cups 
sugar,  add  teaspoon  almond  flavoring 
instead  of  the  chocolate  and  vanilla,  and 
use  J4  cup  chopped  almonds. 

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they're  talking  about  lanza 


(Continued  from,  page  57)  of  the  great,  if 
not  the  greatest,  voices  since  Enrico 
Caruso. 

"That's  nothing,"  said  the  crooner's  es- 
cort. "I  hear  he's  been  making  a  pass  at 
every  girl  on  the  lot." 

A  MONTH  or  so  ago,  Mario  was  seen  strid- 
ing  out  of  the  Thalberg  Building,  an 
imposing  structure  where  the  men  who 
really  nm  MGM  have  their  offices. 

An  acquaintance  ran  into  him.  "What 
are  you  doing  here?"  he  asked. 

Lanza  flashed  him  a  grin.  "They  just 
told  me  to  be  a  gentleman  and  I'd  go  right 
to  the  top." 

The  next  day,  columnists  carried  the 
item,  "Mario  Lanza  has  been  severely 
chastised  by  his  studio  for  too  many  out- 
bursts of  temperament." 

Actually,  Lanza  had  stepped  inside  the 
building  for  a  drink  from  the  water  cooler. 

What  then  is  Mario  Lanza  really  like? 
The  chances  are  you've  heard  him  sing. 
Listen  to  him  talk. 

"I'm  an  emotional  Italian  from  south 
Philadelphia,"  he  says.  "And  I'm  proud 
of  it.  'Be  more  diplomatic,'  they  tell  me. 
'Be  more  tactful.'  What  am  I?  A  diplo- 
mat or  a  singer?  I'm  a  singer,  an  Ameri- 
can singer.  If  I  like  something,  I  like  it. 
If  I  don't  like  it,  I  say  sc. 

"The  studio  sends  me  a  script.  I  read  it. 
For  a  minute  I  think  they're  kidding.  Then 
I  find  they're  serious.  A  guy  calls  me  up. 
'Lanza,'  he  says,  'what  do  you  think  of  it?' 
'It  stinks,'  I  say.  'Sweetie,'  he  answers, 
'stop  kidding.  Don't  you  think  it's  a 
knockout?  It's  going  to  be  bigger  than 
Caruso.' 

"I  repeat,  'It's  terrible.'  Next  thing  I 
know,  they're  calling  me  temperamental. 
Who's  temperamental?  Not  me.  When  a 
script's  no  good,  I  got  a  perfect  right  to 
say  so.  My  whole  life  I've  spoken  my 
mind,  been  honest  and  told  the  truth.  I 
was  brought  up  that  way.  My  folks  taught 
me  that  what  you  had  in  your  soul  was 
more  important  than  what  you  had  in  your 
pocket. 

"I  remember  when  I  first  sang  for  Kous- 
sevitzky  at  the  Berkshire  Music  Festival. 
He  wanted  to  change  my  name.  Said  that 
Cocozza  was  impossible  to  pronounce.  My 
old  man  almost  blew  his  top.  He  said  we'd 
make  the  name  so  famous  that  people 
wouldn't  dare  to  mispronounce  it.  I  finally 
settled  it  by  taking  my  mother's  maiden 
name,  Maria  Lanza,  and  changing  the 
Maria  to  Mario. 

"A  man  should  stand  up  for  what  he 
believes  is  right,  even  in  Hollywood.  No 
one  will  ever  say  that  Mario  Lanza  is  a 
mouse.  They  may  call  me  something  that 
sounds  like  mouse.  But  that  won't  be  the 
word." 

A  ND  here  is  Mario  in  action:  A  few 
weeks  ago  after  three  rough  hours  of 
recording,  the  six-foot  tenor  walked  out  of 
a  recording  studio  only  to  run  up  against 
a  small  army  of  teen-agers. 

"Please,  sing  a  song  for  us,  Mr.  Lanza," 
pleaded  a  little  blonde  girl. 

Mario  marched  the  whole  army  of  Lsinza 
fans  back  into  the  studio  and,  with  Ray 
Sinatra  at  the  piano,  sang  to  them  for 
another  hour. 

He  does  that  sort  of  thing  all  the  time. 
Recently,  his  office  received  this  letter: 
"Dear  Mr.  Lanza,  during  my  last  semester 
at  college,  while  I  was  majoring  in  social 
work,  I  took  several  field  trips.  One  of 
these  trips  was  to  the  Madonna  House  in 
south  Philadelphia.  One  of  the  children 
there  led  me  to  the  television  set  and  said, 
'This  set  was  given  to  us  by  Mario  Lanza.' 


Other  children  then  swarmed  around  and 
spoke  of  you  in  terms  of  gratitude  and 
reverence.  I  thought  you  might  like  to 
know  that.  I  think  you  are  a  very  thought- 
ful and  good  man." 

When  Lanza  was  first  signed  to  a  con- 
tract at  MGM — Ida  Koverman,  L.  B. 
Mayer's  secretary,  had  heard  him  sing  in 
the  Hollywood  Bowl  and  had  raved  about 
him — the  fan  magazine  photographers 
wouldn't  give  him  a  break.  They  didn't 
know  whether  he'd  turn  out  to  be  a  flash- 
in-the-pan  or  the  real  McCoy.  But  one 
photographer  named  Joe  Shere  shot  some 
pictures  of  Mario  and  his  wife,  Betty. 
Shere  made  a  few  extra  prints  and  sent 
them  to  Lanza.  Mario  never  forgot  his 
thoughtfulness.  Last  Spring  when  Lanza 
was  singing  in  Baltimore,  the  photogra- 
pher's sister  tried  to  buy  tickets  for  the 
concert.  No  luck.  The  concert  was  a  sell- 
out. Tickets  were  being  hawked  about 
for  $50  a  pair.  The  girl  couldn't  afford  that 
price  and  wrote  to  her  brother,  who  in 
turn  phoned  Mario. 

Lanza  immediately  contacted  his  man- 
ager, Sam  Weiler,  and  told  him,  "Insofar 
as  I'm  concerned  the  most  important  thing 
in  that  Baltimore  concert  is  to  see  that 
little  Joe  Shere's  sister  gets  two  tickets." 
Little  Joe's  sister  got  them  all  right. 

When  the  Lanza  tour  arrived  in  Phila- 
delphia, Mario  learned  that  a  shut-in,  an 
80-year-old  fan  of  his  from  Grermantown, 
Pa.,  had  also  been  unable  to  buy  a  ticket 
for  his  appearance. 

Promptly,  he  took  a  ticket  away  from 
Manny  Sachs,  vice  president  in  charge  of 
recording  for  NBC.  He  then  drove  out  to 
Germantown,  put  the  delighted  lady  in 
his  car  and  drove  her  to  the  concert. 

A FEW  months  ago,  just  before  Lanza 
went  on  the  air  for  the  Coca-Cola 
Company,  there  was  a  big  hassel  about  the 
musical  director  on  the  program.  "I  like 
Ray  Sinatra,"  Mario  told  the  big  boys.  "We 
get  along  well.  He  knows  his  business, 
and  I'm  sure  we'll  turn  out  a  fine  program 
for  you." 

The  Coca-Cola  men  were  certain  of 
Sinatra's  abiUty,  only  they  leaned  towards 
Percy  Faith.  "Mr.  Faith,"  they  pointed 
out,  "is  a  musical  conductor  of  great  repu- 


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tation  and  very  extensive  background." 

Lanza  said,  "Of  course,  he  is.  He's  one 
of  the  best,  only  I'd  Uke  Ray  Sinatra.  If  I 
don't  get  Ray,  I'd  just  as  soon  not  have  the 
radio  show." 

Sinatra  went  to  Lanza  and  told  him  not 
to  be  silly;  not  to  jeopardize  his  own 
position. 

Lsinza  refused  to  budge.  And  today  Ray 
Sinatra  is  the  musical  conductor  on  the 
Mario  Lanza  airshow  for  Coca-Cola. 

Last  December,  Mario  became  the  proud 
father  for  the  second  time  of  a  baby 
daughter,  a  cute,  dark-haired  girl  they 
christened  Elissa.  One  of  the  nurses  at 
the  Cedars  of  Lebanon  Hospital  in  Holly- 
wood where  the  child  was  bom,  said,  "I've 
seen  a  lot  of  actors  call  on  their  wives. 
But  I've  never  seen  a  man  more  in  love 
with  his  wife  than  Mario  Lanza.  He  wanted 
us  to  do  every  possible  thing  to  make  her 
comfortable.  'We're  doing  everything  we 
can  now,'  I  told  him.  'That's  nothing,'  he 
said.    'Try  and  out-do  yourselves.' " 

Lanza,  his  wife,  and  their  two  children 
live  in  a  rented  house  on  the  fringe  of 
Beverly  Hills.  When  MGM  gave  Lanza  a 
$25,000  bonus  so  that  he  could  buy  a  house 
and  feel  more  secure,  Lanza  took  that 
money  and  bought  a  home  in  California 
for  his  parents.  His  father,  an  Italian  im- 
migrant, fought  for  America  in  World  War 
I  and  was  the  first  American  soldier  to  take 
a  German  prisoner.  He  was  gassed  dur- 
ing the  conflict  and  totally  disabled.  But 
he  managed  to  raise  Mario  and  take  care  of 
his  wife  on  a  government  pension. 

Lanza  didn't  forget  his  parents  when  he 
hit  the  big  time.  Neither  did  he  forget 
Nicky  Brodzky,  the  talented  Hungarian 
composer  who  wrote  "Be  My  Love"  for 
The  Toast  of  New  Orleans.  After  he  fin- 
ished the  score  of  that  film  Brodsky  was 
given  his  walking  papers. 

Before  "Be  My  Love"  began  to  catch  on 
with  the  public,  Brodzky  was  broke  and 
out  of  a  job.  Lanza  borrowed  $1,250  which 
he  promptly  handed  to  Nicky. 

When  "Be  My  Love"  started  to  sell  like 
the  proverbial  pile  of  hotcakes,  Brodzky 
was  hired  back  by  Metro,  but  it  was  Lanza 
who  took  care  of  him  during  the  dark 
flays. 

That's  the  true  Lanza.    Anything  to  the 
contrary  is  bad  propaganda. 
Is  he  feuding  with  his  studio?  MGM 
gave  Mario  $75,000  in  bonuses  last  year. 
Does  that  sound  like  feuding? 

Is  he  stepping  out  on  his  wife?  "Why 
should  I  step  out  on  her?"  Mario  asks. 
"She's  everything  I  want." 

Is  he  temperamental?  "I  just  lilce  to  be 
treated  with  a  little  consideration!" 

Does  he  weigh  in  at  250  pounds — too 
much  for  a  movie?  "The  most  I've  ever 
weighed  is  224.  Right  now  I'm  down  to 
200.   My  best  weight  is  197." 

Is  he  losing  his  voice?  "I've  never  sung 
better  in  my  life." 

Here  is  the  true  fact  sheet  on  Mario 
Lanza.  He  was  born  in  New  York  City 
30  years  ago,  and  was  raised  in  south 
Philadelphia. 

He  didn't  try  to  sing  until  he  was  20 
years  old.  It  was  his  father  who  discov- 
ered him  and  urged  him  to  study.  Mario 
went  to  see  a  voice  coach  who  brought 
him  to  the  attention  of  William  Huff  of 
the  Philadelphia  Academy  of  Music. 

Nothing  came  of  it  so  Mario  took  a  job 
as  a  furniture  mover  in  his  grandfather's 
trucking  company. 

One  day  he  was  moving  a  picino  into  the 
music  auditorium  when  Mr.  Huff  caught 
sight  of  him.  "What  are  you  doing  in  that 
tmiform?"  he  said. 
"Moving  pianos,"  said  Lanza, 
"Come  with  me,"  ordered  Huff.  He 
pushed  Lanza  into  a  dressing  room  oppo- 
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(Continued  from  page  72)  by  Serge  Kotis- 
sevitzky,  longtime  director  of  the  Boston 
Philharmonic.  "Start  singing,"  he  com- 
manded. 

.Mario  sang  "Vesti  La  Giubba." 

Koussevitzky  rushed  out  of  his  dressing 
room,  saw  Mario,  ran  to  him  and  began 
kissing  hun  in  continental  style  on  both 
cheeks.  "You  must  sing  at  the  Berkshire 
Festival  in  Tanglewood,"  he  told  the  sur- 
prised young  man. 

Lanza  was  so  great  at  the  Festival  that 
half  a  dozen  recording  companies  and 
concert  managers  tried  to  sign  him. 

Uncle  Sam  beat  all  of  them.  He  signed 
Lanza  to  a  four-year  stint  with  the  Air 
Forces  during  which  time  Mario  served  as 
an  M.P.,  a  private,  and  a  singer  in  the 
official  Air  Force  show,  Winged  Victory. 

When  Mario  left  the  Army  in  1945,  he 
and  his  wife  of  a  few  months,  Betty  Hicks 
— ^her  brother  had  been  with  Mario  in 
Winged  Victory — came  to  New  York. 
Mario  began  taking  voice  lessons  with 
Enrico  Rosati,  the  76-year-old  teacher  of 
Benj  amino  Gigli. 

The  Lanzas  had  very  little  money.  Mario 
and  Betty  lived  in  a  cold  water  fiat  on  the 


West  Side.  Despite  his  financial  embar- 
rassment, he  consistently  turned  down 
offers  to  appear  on  radio  programs  or  in 
concert  halls.  "I  just  felt,"  he  says,  "that 
I  wasn't  ready." 

Fortunately  for  Lanza,  a  patron  came 
along  when  he  and  Betty  were  fiat  broke. 
Sam  Weiler,  a  partner  in  the  New  York 
real  estate  firm  of  Swig  &  Weiler,  him- 
self a  frustrated  opera  singer,  insisted 
upon  giving  Mario  all  the  money  he  needed 
untU  such  time  as  Lanza  felt  his  voice 
would  be  acceptable  to  the  public. 

Today,  Sam  Weiler  is  Lanza's  manager 
and  at  Lanza's  insistence  receives  20% 
of  his  gross  earnings.  Actually,  Weiler  re- 
ceives only  10%,  since  he  is  paying  10% 
to  the  Music  Corporation  of  America  to 
act  as  Lanza's  agent. 

Tn  1947,  Frank  Sinatra,  who  had  heard 
Mario  sing  in  Winged  Victory,  asked  the 
tenor  to  visit  him  in  Hollywood.  The 
Lanzas  stayed  with  Frank  for  three  weeks. 
During  that  time  Mario  sang  at  several 
parties,  and  Walter  Pidgeon,  a  frustrated 
opera  singer,  called  him  "the  great  tenor 
of  the  century." 


After  appearing  in  the  Holl3rwood  Bowl 
where  he  brought  the  house  down,  Lanza 
was  invited  to  MGM  by  L.  B.  Mayer.  Mr. 
Mayer,  then  in  charge  of  the  studio,  or- 
dered 55  of  his  top  executives  to  gather  on 
one  soimd  stage,  and  asked  Lanza  to  sing 
for  them. 

MGM  gave  him  $10,000  for  signing  a 
contract  which  calls  for  Lanza  to  work  at 
the  studio  only  six  months  a  year.  His 
salary  at  MGM  is  currently  $1,500  a  week. 

Most  of  his  income,  however,  is  derived 
from,  recordings  and  concert  appearances. 
This  year  he  will  make  $300,000  on  re- 
cordings, another  $200,000  on  personal 
Concert  appearances,  another  $100,000  on 
radio  and  allied  activities. 

His  ambition  is  to  sing  in  the  Metropoli- 
tan Opera  House  in  New  York.  The  Met 
has  been  offering  him  a  contract  every 
year  since  1946,  but  he's  refused  each  of 
them  because,  he  says,  "I'm  not  ready 
yet." 

Actually  his  is  the  most  stirring,  beau- 
tiful, and  powerful  voice  ever  placed  on  a 
Hollywood  soimd  track.  And  he  has  a 
personality  to  match. 

So  critics,  please  note.  The  End 


SO  nice  to  come  home  to 


(Continued  from  page  49)  of  her  mouth 
was,  "Say  Marty,  I've  got  an  idea — ^that 
back  porch  we're  screening  in — diet's  paint 
it  a  soft  gray-green  inside  like  that  tree, 
and  the  redwood  table,  too.  Make  it  so 
nice  and  cool  looking." 

And  Marty  turned  his  brown  eyes  from 
the  most  awesome  sight  Nature  ever 
carved  to  scan  his  wife's  features.  "You 
know,"  he  observed,  "you're  getting  al- 
most as  many  freckles  in  this  sim  as 
Terry  has.  Say,"  he  added,  "why  didn't 
we  bring  him  along?  I  miss  that  little  guy. 
Let's  go  back  to  the  hotel  and  call  him  up." 
So  that's  how  they  spent  the  evening,  with 
the  wine-like  air  of  the  Arizona  night  out- 
side, shut  up  in  their  hotel  room  at  El 
Tovar,  talking  long  distance  to  tiieir  boy, 
Terry.  The  next  morning  they  roUed  down 
from  Arizona  into  California,  and  home, 
cutting  a  planned  two  weeks  to  a  few  short 
days.  And  they  haven't  been  away  for  even 
overnight  since. 

lyToWj  if  you  can't  get  away  from  your 
-'- '  own  back  yard  except  via  an  ultima- 
tum even  for  a  honeymoon,  something's 
awfully  wrong — or  awfxilly  right.  If  you 
can't  keep  your  mind  off  a  house  long 
enough  to  put  that  mind  to  marriage  mat- 
ters, it's  plainly  some  very  special  kind  of 
house,  quite  as  strong  a  magnet  in  its  way 
as  the  kind  they  pick  up  steel  girders  with. 
But  that's  just  what  their"  big  white 
house  is  to  Doris  and  Marty  Melcher. 
It's  more  than  any  honeymoon  cottage 
could  possibly  be.  Long  before  "Mister 
Melcher  moved  in,"  as  Doris  says,  the 
street  she  lived  on  was  already  a  part  of 
their  romance  and  long,  relaxed  courtship. 
"Marty  wooed  me  with  a  hammer  in  one 
hand  Eind  a  paint  brush  in  the  other," 
sighs  Doris.  "Sometfines,  I  think  he  got  the 
idea  of  marrying  me  out  of  a  Sears-Roe- 
buck catalogue." 

She's  kidding,  of  course,  but  it's  true 
that  much  labor  of  love  and  many '  man 
hours  of  Marty's  toU — although  he'll  never 
call  it  that — have  gone  into  the  house  they 
live  in  today.  When  Doris  bought  the 
house  from  Martha  Raye,  almost  two  years 
ago,  her  relationship  with  Marty  Melcher 
was  strictly  a  business  one.  But  by  the 
time  she  had  sold  off  all  the  fumitiu-e  that 
came  with  it,  ripped  all  of  Martha's  mirrors 
of?  the  walls  and  started  making  it  into  her 


idea  of  home,  the  "strictly  btisiness"  rela- 
tion with  Marty  had  ripened  into  some- 
thing far  deeper. 

For  a  year  and  a  half,  while  they  were 
coiirting,  it  seemed  natural  and  fun 
to  chase  aroimd  to  auctions  together 
and  poke  through  the  musty  bric-a-brac 
of  antique  shops  to  carry  home  prizes — - 
creaky  chests  to  be  glued  together  again 
and  rubbed  down  to  the  fine  old  finish, 
copper  and  brass  to  be  polished  bright, 
old  milk  glass  and  chairs  with  graceful 
lines  imder  tatters  to  be  rebuilt  and  re- 
covered. Marty  was  on  hand  to  scrape 
with  painters  and  get  just  the  rich  Wil- 
liamsburg green  Doris  wanted  on  the  liv- 
ing room  walls,  to  rub  his  fingers  raw  lay- 
ing bricks  in  the  patio,  and  hammer  his 
thimibs  putting  up  trellises  around  the 
pool. 

Today,  when  you  walk  in,  you  see  the 
results — a  homey,  inviting  house,  always 
as  neat  as  a  pack  of  pins  like  Doris 
herself.  ("If  I'd  stayed  in  Cincinnati," 
she  admits,  "I'd  be  out  scrubbing  the 
front  steps.")  At  the  same  time  it's  the 
kind  of  house  where  you'd  expect  dogs 
to  dig  out  across  the  carpet  and  kids  to 
bang  through  whooping  like  wild  Indians, 
rocking  vases  perilously.  Which  is  ex- 
actly what  goes  on,  and  exactly  what 
Doris  and  Marty  Melcher  want  to  go  on. 

nPo  UNDERSTAND  why,  it's  pretty  important 
to  know  a  few  backgroimd  facts  about 
the  Melchers,  mom  and  pop.  If  you  won- 
der why  they  baffle  all  of  Hollywood  right 
now  by  making  like  a  couple  of  nine 
o'clock  burghers  instead  of  what  you  might 
reasonably  expect  from  a  hep-to-the- 
minute  song-and-dance  movie  queen  and 
a  smart  agent  constantly  on  top  of  show 
business  news  and  nifties,  you  can  find 
one  good  reason  in  those  last  two  lines: 
Make  believe  is  their  business  and  home 
is  where  they  leave  it  behind.  But  there 
are  other  special  reasons,  too. 

From  the  time  Doris'  first  unfortunate 
marriage  came  to  an  end,  she  had  longed 
most  of  aU  for  just  one  thing:  "That  Terry 
could  have  a  home  and  a  dad,  as  every  kid 
ought  to  have." 

As  for  Marty,  he  was  a  North  Adams, 
Massachusetts  boy  raised  in  a  strict  family 
where  life  was  real  and  life  was  earnest. 
Marty  went  to  work  early  in  his  life  and  it 
led  him  into  the  fast  shuffling,  cut-throat 
competition  of  show  business.  Most  of  his 
adult  life  he's  lived  in  hotels  or  apartments 
and  out  of  a  trunk.  All  of  his  life,  carving 


a  career  out  of  tinsel,  Marty  felt  something 
was  missing  in  his  life — something  Kke  a 
real  home  and  what  went  with  it,  a  family 
of  his  own. 

That  two  anchorless  people  have  found — 
in  the  most  imstable  commimity  in  the 
world,  Hollywood — the  satisf jdng  homelife 
they  longed  for,  may  sound  a  little  crazy. 
But  it's  really  as  simple  as  that.  And  so 
are  their  excuses  for  giving  the  merry-go- 
round  of  movietown  delights  the  back  of 
their  hands. 

"Look,"  says  Marty  Melcher,  "I  can  close 
my  eyes  and  teU  you  what  goes  on  in  any 
night  club  in  the  world.  There  isn't  a 
stage  yet  built  to  beat  our  own  back  yard. 
I'd  rather  look  at  Doris  in  bluejeans  than 
any  showgirl  in  sequins,  and  no  entertainer 
I've  ever  caught  can  top  Terry  for  my 
doxigh."  Every  day  too,  he  proves  he 
means  what  he  says. 

In  fact,  sometimes  when  Doris  wants  to 
tease  her  old  man,  she  tells  him,  "You 
didn't  marry  me  because  you  loved  me — 
you  were  just  after  Mom  and  Terry!" 

Behind  the  kidding,  it's  certainly  true 
that  a  fnistrated  father  and  a  boy  who 
never  knew  his  own  dad  have  found  what 
both  needed  in  a  warm,  man-to-man  pal- 
ship  since  the  minute  they  met.  Terry  is 
nine,  now,  a  penny-pussed,  gap-toolJied 
edition  of  Doris.  The  other  day  Marty 
caught  him  out  on  the  sidewalk  with  a 
crowd  of  girls  aroimd  and  couldn't  resist 
a  rib.  "AU  girls  here  in  love  with  Terry," 
he  gagged,  "hold  up  their  hands."  All 
hcinds  shot  up. 

"That's  terrific!"  marveled  Marty.  "TeU 
me,  what's  this  guy  got  anyway?  What's 
his  fatal  charm?" 

"He's  so  handsome,"  piped  one  pigtailed 
miss. 

"No  he's  not  handsome,"  objected  an- 
other. "He's  not  even  cute.  It's,  it's" — 
she  cocked  her  head  thoughtfully  and  shot 
him  an  arch  look — "it's  that  something 
else!" 

WHATEVER  it  is  Terry  has  makes  him  aces 
with  his  new  dad  and  vice  versa  and 
that's  pretty  imjwrtant  to  Doris,  too.  Terry, 
you  know,  was  the  persistent  cupid  who 
urged  about  every  time  Marty  came  out 
to  see  his  girl,  "When  are  you  two  going 
to  get  married,  anyway?"  The  day  after 
they  were,  Terry  scratched  out  "Jordan" 
on  his  school  papers  and  put  down 
"Melcher."  And  he  caUed  Marty  "Dad." 
Long  before  Marty  Melcher  assumed  his 
(Continued  on  page  76) 


BANISH 


MORE  REST-PER-MINUTE  THAN 
ANY  OTHER  CHAIR 

In  a  CONTOUR  CHAIR-LOUNGE 

every  inch  of  you,  from  head  to 
foot,  is  perfectly  supported.  Mus- 
cular strains  and  tensions  caused 
by  other  chairs  (of  which  you 
may  be  unaware  until  you  try 
a  CONTOUR)  simply  vanish. 
Your 


PEOPLE  STIU  SIT 

LIKE  THIS!  Your  body 

seems  without  weight.  You  might 
almost  be  floating. .  .you  are  cons- 
cious of  nothing  but  comfort.  A 
new,  relaxed,  total  comfort  such 
as  even  your  bed  doesn't  equal. 
Banish  fatigue  in  7  minutes? 

Yes  indeed. 


WRONG 


X  =  M  noPEi  sippon 


CONTOUR  SUPPORT 
ERASES  TENSION 


ORDINARY  CHAIRS 
CAUSE  STRAIN 

Rest  is  Nature's  way  of  restoring 

energy.  The  more  completely  you 

relax,  the  quicker  and  more 

eflfective  the  pick-up.  This  is  the 

miracle  of  the  CONTOUR 

CHAIR -LOUNGE. 


Try  it  for  7  minutes 
...and  you'll  have  a 
CONTOUR  CHAIR- 
LOUNGE  for  the 
rest  of  your  life. 

Ad/usfab/e  >o 
ony  posfrion. 


A  mUSMl  Of  SPECIAL 
mHPORTANCt  TO  YOUR  HEALTH 

by  DAVID  H.  FINK.  M.D. 
(Noted  author  cf  ^'Release  frMn  Nervous 
Tensisn."  "Be  Yeur  Real  Self,"  etc) 

"As  erery  doctor  knows,  rest  is  of  firBt  Im- 
portanoe  in  tho  treatment  as  well  as  In  the 
DrereDtlon  of  man;  forms  of  Illness.  I  use 
and  recommend  the  Contour  dialr-lounge 
t>ecause  Its  design  provides  maximum  rest." 


.v>rl> 


ARTHRITIS 
VICTIM 
SAYS: 

"My  wife,  who 
has  arthritis  of 
the  spine,  got  so 
much  relief  rest  - 
ing  in  her  Contour  (^air,  I 
bought  one  for  myself  ..." 

C.  B.S. 

KIDNEY 
AILMENT 

RELIEVED: 

"I  have  a  kid- 
ney condition, 
and  get  eiU-lre 
relief  pain 
wMle  sitting  In  my  Contour 
diair. . .  recommend  it  to  all 
who  suffer  as  I  did. . Mrs. 

D.  E.B. 

ASTHMA 
SUFFERER 
SAYS: 

"The  las.  tew 
years  I  have 
spent  3  months 
of  each  year  sit- 
ting up  all  nlfltt,  hilt  no 
more ...  I  spend  2  hours  in 
my  Contour  chair  before  re- 
tiring, sleep  wonderful  all 
night.  .  .  "  Mrs.  V.B. 


HEART 
CONDITION 
.HELPED: 

"My  heart  con- 
dition... needed 
rest  at  intervals 
I  during  the  day 
.  . .  My  doctor  approved  the 
Contour  chair  heartily  .  .  . 
My  heart  is  rapidly  imiHW- 
Ing  . . ."  B«v.  C.H.J. 

SCIATICA 
PATIENT 
RELAXED: 

"It  was  Impos- 
sible to  get  any 
rest  or  relief 
from  pain  In 
bed  or  in  any  regular  diair 
.  .  .  Since  getting  Contour 
chair,  I  relai  thoroughly,  get 
real  relief  from  pain  .  .  ." 
E.H.G. 

!  ABLE  TO 
WORK 
DESPITE 
BAD  HEART: 

"Before  each 
meal,  I  relax  15 
I  or  20  minutes 
In  my  Contour  chair.  . .  am 
BO  completely  rested  tliat  I 
can  carry  on  ray  regular  daily 
work . . .  Honestly  believe  if 
I  had  had  the  chair  5  years 
ago,  would  not  have  had 
heart  attack  .  .  J.A.T. 


MODERN 


(Copies  of  original  letters  fumiahed  on  request) 

DON'T  BE  MISLED 

There  is  only  ONE  CONTOUR  CHAIR-IOUNGE 
in  the  world  —  it  bears  the 
Trade-Mark  shown 
Modem  interior             below:  18tS  Century 

liy  Paul  Lasdo...  aad  Early 

Provincial  interior  by  Madsen         i    ' — ="•■  interiors  by  Mtnan 


WHY  EVERYONE  NEEDS 
A  CONTOUR  CHAIR-LOUNGE 

MEN  who  come  home  tired,  nerv- 
ous, irritable,  find  that  a  few  min- 
utes' rest  in  a  CONTOUR  Chair- 
Lounge  before  dinner  erases 
tiredness,  makes  them  ready 

for  fun  with  family  or  friends. 
SMART  WOMEN  know  that 
housework  is  easier — and  easier 
on  them  —  if  they  relax  in  a 
CONTOUR  Chair-Lounge  for  a 
few  moments  at  intervals  during 
the  day.  Day's  end  finds  them 
looking  fresher,  feeling  better. 
TROUBLE  SLEEPING?  Relax  in  a 
CONTOUR 

Chair- Lounge  before  bedtime— 
and  sleep  like  a  baby! 
LEADING  COSMETOLOGISTS 

say:  "For  greater  beauty 
and  better  complexion,  elevate 
your  feet  and  legs 
to  improve  the 
circulation."  You 
can  achieve  this 
"angle  of  beauty" 
perfectly  ...  in 
your  CONTOUR 
Chair-Lounge. 


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(Continued  from  page  74)  ofRcial  paternal 
status  he  was  in  perfect  practice  playing 
the  role  of  parent  to  Doris'  boy.  Marty 
taught  Terry  to  play  ball,  swim,  hammer 
a  nail  and  ride  a  bike.  He  encouraged  him 
to  branch  out  in  business.  Terry  shines  the 
family  shoes  at  a  profit  and  earns  a  dollar 
a  week  tidying  up  the  back  yard  and  put- 
ing  the  chairs  and  pool  gear  back  in  place. 

Long  ago  Terry  learned  the  thrifty  trick 
of  asking,  "Hey,  Marty,  can  you  let  me 
have  a  quarter?  I  don't  want  to  break  a 
dollar  bill."  Last  Fourth  of  July  Marty 
lugged  home  some  fireworks  and  after  they 
had  aU  fizzed  gloriously  up  and  out,  Terry 
asked  Marty  how  much  the  works  cost. 

"Seven  dollars." 

Terry  shook  his  head.  "We  can't  go  for 
that  again,"  he  concluded.  "It's  not  prac- 
tical.  They  burn  up  too  fast." 

On  most  other  matters  Terry  has  de- 
lighted Marty  by  revealing  a  canny  head 
and  a  quick  uptake.  His  best  girl  friend, 
Kathy,  is  a  junior  miss  who  looks  almost 
exactly  like  Terry,  even  to  the  freckles. 
Marty  and  Doris  cornered  him  one  day  for 
the  inside  dope.  "Come  on,"  they  urged, 
"'fess  up — isn't  Kathy  your  girl  friend?" 

Terry  pondered  that  one.  "Well,"  he 
came  back  cagily,  "She's  a  girl — and  she's 
a  friend,"  Marty  thinks  Terry  would  do 
all  right  at  anything  where  tact  and  ag- 
gressiveness cotmt. 

Marty  and  Doris  are  the  first  to  admit 
that  their  home  life  revolves  somewhat 
arovmd  Terry  and  his  pals.  The  other  day, 
noting  how  die  kitchen  was  getting  tracked 
up  by  thirsty  kids,  Marty  had  plumbers 
instaU  a  drinking  foxmtain  beside  the 
volley  ball  court.  With  Terry's  first  look 
he  cheered,  "A  drinking  foxmtain — super! 
Now  this  place  looks  just  like  a  public 
playgroimd!" 

"A  public  playground — our  back  yard! 
How  do  you  like  that?"  exclaimed  Doris, 
but  Marty  checked  her  fast. 

"I  like  it,"  he  said,  "and  so  do  you.  And 
if  you  ask  me,  it's  the  best  compliment  we 
could  collect."    Which,  of  course,  it  was. 

By  now,  every  kid  in  the  neighborhood 
makes  tracks  for  the  Melchers  at  practi- 
cally any  time  of  the  day,  and  they're  al- 
ways welcome.  They  keep  their  fioats 
and  fins  in  the  new  bathhouse  Doris  and 
Marty  recently  had  built  by  the  pool,  and 
their  towels  fly  constantly  from  the  dry- 
ing line  like  pennants  at  a  yacht  club.  On 
one  side  a  big  cement  badminton  and 
volleyball  court  keeps  jumping  with  a 
never  ending  game  of  "Four-square,"  a 
kind  of  volley  ball  "work-up,"  and  behind 
that  a  basketball  hoop  and  backboard 
drums  steadily.  If  Brad,  Dave  and  Jeff 
aren't  there  with  Terry,  liien  Thor,  Rusty 
and  Johnny  are.  And  if  it's  a  weekend 
or  late  afternoon,  Marty's  there  officiating, 
breaking  up  scraps,  and  Doris  is  hustling 
cokes  and  hot  dogs. 

SOMETIMES  Ross  and  Jane  across  the 
street  stroll  over,  or  Ronnie  and  War- 
ren Cowan  in  the  neighborhood.  Gene  and 
Miriam  Nelson,  or  Doris'  brother,  Paul, 
and  his  wife,  Shirley,  who've  moved  out 
from  Cincinnati.  The  guest  names  aren't 
picked  from  Hollywood's  Blue  Book  or 
from  any  other  Blue  Book,  because  the 
Melchers  aren't  social.  In  fact,  they've 
taken  in  just  one  movie  colony  party  since 
they  were  wed,  and  they  left  it  early. 
"When  you  don't  drink,  know  any  gos- 
sip or  care  about  hearing  any,  what's 
there  to  do  at  a  party?"  asks  Doris. 

"I'll  tell  you,"  Marty  answers.  "You 
waste  a  lot  of  time,  hear  nothing  worth 
listening  to,  lose  sleep  and  feel  lousy  the 
next  morning!" 


By  now  Doris  seldom  even,  takes  in 
her  own  previews  if  it  means  missing 
her  bed  hour.  Health's  the  watchword. 
Instead  of  highballs  the  family  drinks 
fruit  juices  and  slaps  yogurt  on  about 
everything  edible.  They  sun  themselves 
like  seals,  hit  the  pool,  take  showers 
almost  on  the  hour,  and  fill  up  with  vita- 
mins from  Alma's  wonderful  cooking,  be- 
cause with  all  her  home-happiness.  Day's 
no  pot-and-pan  girl.  "Why  should  I  com- 
pete in  the  kitchen  when  Mom  lives  with 
us  and  knows  all  the  answers?"  she  asks. 
At  Doris'  pleadings,  her  mother,  Mrs. 
Kappelhoff,  moved  out  from  Cincinnati 
over  a  year  ago,  and  if  you  ask  Doris 
today,  she  thinks  that's  another  good 
reason  why  Marty  married  her,  which 
sometimes  he  isn't  even  gallant  enough 
to  deny.  In  any  event,  "Nana"  (as  Terry 
named  her)  is  a  solid  member  of  the  family. 

Nana  raised  Terry  while  Doris  battled 
for  a  break  on  the  road  with  dance  bands 
— and  now  it  looks  as  if  she's  got  another 
boy  on  her  hands — ^Marty.  They're  crazy 
about  each  other,  and  when  Doris  told  Mart 
frankly  he  was  the  world's  worst  dancer  he 
started  practicing  with  her  mom.  A  few 
weeks  ago,  Nana's  birthday  rolled  around. 
Terry  begged  a  permit  to  disappear  off  the 
block,  and  blew  his  savings  on  a  stick  of 
Tweed  Icicle  cologne,  and  Marty  sneaked 
Doris  off  the  set  of  Starlift,  drove  her  over 
to  Bullocks-Pasadena,  the  favorite  family 


Shelley  Winters  discussing  the 
Modern.  Independent,  Intelligent 
Woman,  said,  "That's  someone 
who  can't  get  a  feller." 

Leonard  Lyons  in 
The  New  York  Post 


store,  where  along  with  some  pretty 
dresses,  and  doo-dads,  he  bought  a  pair  of 
men's  flowered  Hawaiian  swim  shorts. 

Doris  thought  he  was  just  fixing  himself 
up  while  he  was  there,  but  at  home  she 
found  out  differently.  When  Nana  im- 
wrapped  her  presents,  there  were  the  fancy 
shorts  and  a  note:  "Dear,  Sweet  Nana: "  it 
read,  "This  is  just  to  say  'thank  you'  for 
all  the  things  you  do  and  all  the  things  you 
are.  Marty.  P.S.:  I  think  you'll  like  these 
because  you're  always  borrowing  mine. 
Now,  PUT  'EM  ON!"  Which  Nana  prompt- 
ly did  and  splashed  everyone  happily  with 
a  robust  plimge  into  the  pool. 

TVTo  one  knows  more  than  Doris  and 
-'- '  Marty  Melcher  that  the  cozy  family 
pattern  of  their  private  lives  is  not  de- 
signed to  stop  the  presses,  but  to  tell  the 
truth,  they  aren't  interested  in  stopping 
any,  except  in  a  purely  professional  way. 
This  doesn't  mean  that  there's  never  any 
activity  going  on.  "He's  always  trying  to  fix 
something,"  she  sighs,  "and  half  the  time 
wrecking  it.  He  drives  too  fast.  He  can't 
dance  worth  a  nickel.  Sometimes  he 
spoils  Terry.  And  he  never  tells  me  what 
he's  goiag  to  do — until  he's  done  it!" 

And  Marty  comes  back:  "She's  always 
expecting  Terry  to  be  a  genius,  which,  of 
course,  he  is.  I  gave  her  three  new  foxm- 
tain pens  but  she  still  hooks  mine  and 
drains  all  the  ink,  signing  fan-club  stills. 
She  won't  eat  in  a  restaurant  until  she 
looks  in  the  kitchen.  She  spends  all  our 
money  on  table  mats — we  must  have  a 
hundred  sets.  She  drags  me  out  shopping 
clear  to  Pasadena  when  you  can  get  the 
same  things  in  Hollywood.  She's  always 
switching  the  furniture  cind  drapes  around 
and  fretting.  'This  house  will  never  be  fin- 
ished,' when  anybody  can  see  it  is!" 

But  those  are  only  the  normal  growing 
pains  of  domesticity,  after  all,  and  the 
plain  truth  is  that  Doris  and  Marty  Melcher 
are  simply  a  relaxed  and  normal  married 
pair  who  knew  each  other  and  knew  what 
they  wanted.  Now  that  they've  got  it  they 


aren't  figuring  on  letting  it  go. 

A  few  weeks  ago  Doris  traded  in  her 
two-year-old  convertible  for  a  fanuly-size 
fovu:-door  sedan  because  there  wasn't 
enough  room  in  the  old  one  for  Nana, 
Terry,  and  the  poodles,  Beanie  and 
Smudge.  When  the  salesman  took  a  look 
at  the  speedometer  he  whistled  "Only 
4,000  miles,  say — "  he  mused  incredulously, 
"you  haven't  been  fooling  with  this  thing, 
have  you?"  Doris  said  she  sure  hadn't — 
but  that  she'd  used  it  mostly  for  driving 
to  and  from  the  studio — a  matter  of  five 
short  blocks.  "You  see,"  she  said,  knowing 
he  wouldn't  believe  her,  "we  just  don't  go 
anywhere."    And  that's  the  awful  truth. 

Sometimes  this  brings  some  complaints, 
like  the  other  day  when  Doris  sandwiched 
in  a  quick  hour  with  an  interview  at  War- 
ners Studio.  At  that  point,  she  was  hop- 
ping back  and  forth  between  the  last  scene 
of  Starlift  and  the  first  ones  of  I'll  See  You 
In  My  Dreams.  That  week,  too,  she  had 
cut  a  quartet  of  new  records,  flown  to  San 
Francisco  and  back  to  hospital  benefits 
among  other  things.  But  after  the  poor, 
frustrated  reporter  dug  and  dug  she  finally 
blurted,  "The  trouble  with  you,  Doris,  is 
— you  jxist  don't  do  anything!" 

After  such  complaints,  Doris  is  inclined 
to  worry  just  a  little  bit.  In  fact,  the  Sim- 
day  after  that  she  got  up  all  bright  and 
full  of  beans  as  usual.  "Marty,"  said  Dodo, 
"We  don't  ever  do  anything.  Let's  get  in 
the  car  and  go  somewhere." 

"Sit  down,  honey,"  soothed  Marty.  "It's 
nice  here,  isn't  it?  Well  now  if  we  get  in 
the  car — "  and  he  went  on  to  paint  a  dis- 
mal scene.  If  they  bucked  the  Sunday  traf- 
fic they'd  go  bumper -to-bumper  all  the 
way  there  and  all  the  way  back.  Wherever 
they  went  they'd  6nd  a  crowd  and  Doris 
would  spend  her  day  signing  autographs. 
They'd  drag  horiie,  hot,  dirty  and  worn  out 
to  start  the  always -tough  work  week.  It 
was  a  very  discouraging  picture. 

While  tiiey  were  talking  Alma  called 
them  in  for  some  golden  pancakes  and 
sausage  and  Terry  bounded  down.  "What's 
on  the  production  sheet?"  he  asked. 

"I  was  thinking,"  Doris  began  weakly, 
"that  maybe  we'd  get  in  the  car  and  drive 
somewhere." 

"Naw,"  Terry  vetoed.  "The  gang'll  be 
over  pretty  soon." 

And  pretty  soon  the  gang  was — ^Rusty, 
Johnny,  Dave,  Brad,  and  Thor,  and  Kathy, 
too,  just  to  make  showing-off  worth  while. 

BEFORE  she  knew  it,  Doris  was  in  on  a  red 
hot  game  of  four-square  and  then  Paul 
and  Shirley  dropped  in,  more  friends 
drifted  over,  and  everybody  got  wet  and 
happy  in  the  pool.  When  the  shadows  crept 
out  from  the  bathhouse  Marty  tied  on 
the  apron  he  cherishes,  marked  "Genius," 
and  started  some  steaks  sizzling  over  the 
charcoal  he'd  lighted  hours  before.  And 
by  nine  o'clock,  as  usual,  Marty  and  Doris 
were  upstairs  in  their  room,  the  block 
was  quiet,  with  only  a  squeaky,  scraping 
soimd  which,  they  knew,  was  Teiry  send- 
ing Johnny,  Jr.,  next  door,  via  the  clothes- 
line pully  he'd  rigged,  a  note  written  in 
blood  and  reading  very  probably,  "Be- 
wair — the  fantom  of  the  San  Fernando 
seaks  vengance!" 

Marty  turned  out  the  light.  The  scent  of 
giant  Burmese  honeysuckle  drifted  in  the 
window. 

"I'll  let  you  in  on  a  secret,"  he  said. 

"I  know  all  your  secrets." 

"You  know  this  one,  too,"  grinned  Marty 
Melcher  in  the  dark,  "but  HI  tell  you  jvist 
the  same — there's  no  place  like  home." 

Doris  didn't  say  anything.  There  are 
times  when  you  don't.  But  mentally  she 
thought  this  manager  guy  who  was  now 
managing  her  life  was  always  so  right,  dam 
it.  And  that,  she  supposed,  was  why  she 
usually  agreed  with  him.  The  End 


I  wasn't  bom  with  a  silver  spoon  in  my  mouth . . . 


I've  worked  hard  for  everything  I  have. 
But  I  don't  regret  it.  Working  for  a  liv- 
ing has  taught  me  the  value  of  things. 

Like  the  exquisite  International  Ster- 
ling I'm  collecting,  for  instance.  If  I'd 
been  horn  with  a  silver  spoon  in  my  mouth 
I  probably  would  have  taken  International 
Sterling  for  granted  — along  with  every- 
thing else. 

Instead,  almost  every  night  I  take  out 


my  three  precious  place  settings  and  just 
look  . . .  I'm  so  proud  to  own  International 
and  realize  I  earned  every  piece  myself. 

But  how  I  shopped  around  before  de- 
ciding! That's  how  I  know  International 
is  the  best  buy— from  every  angle ! 

It's  the  finest  solid  silver  made  .  .  .  the 
patterns  are  beautiful  — mine  especially, 
of  course !  It  was  no  surprise  to  me  when 
International  Sterling  got  the  Fashion 


Academy  Award  again  this  year! 

And  I  know  I'll  have  it  all  my  life.  For 
International  Sterling  is  truly  solid  silver 
with  beauty  tiiat  lives  forever.  I  just  love 
collecting  it  — and  so  will  you! 


ALL  PATTERNS  MADE  BY  THE  INTERNATIONAL  SILVER  CO.,  IN  U.S.  A.    Copyright  195 1 ,  The  Intomational  Silver  Co..  Meriden,  Conn. 


and 

SHORT  OF  IT. . . 

is  the  sleeve  treatment.  Wear  'em  long  .  .  . 
you're  smartly  dressed  anywhere;  slip  ofiF 
the  ruffled  sleevelets  .  .  .  you've  the  clever- 
est of  casual  costumes!  The  raglan-shoulder 
blouse  features  ruffled.  Gay  '90  sleeves;  the 
full  skin  boasts  inverted  pleats  front  and 
back  and  soft  shirring  under  the  flattering 
V-yoke.  Both  come  in  fine,  sanforized* 
broadcloth  you'll  want  'til  the  snow  flies  — 
and  again  next  spring.  Navy,  Carib  green, 
gold,  purple,  rust.  Sizes  10  to  18. 

Blouse  about  $5 

Skirt  about  $6 

at  these  and  other  fine  stores  in  your  vicinity: 
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BEST  MODE  SPORTSWEAR 

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•  Reg.  U.S.  Pat.  Off. 


Board  members  (left  to  right]  Celeste  Holm,  Don  Taylor,  Yvonne  de  Carlo,  Howarc 
Duff,  Phyllis  Taylor  judge  blouses.     Not  shown  are  Pat  Starling,  Marta  Toren. 


What  is  the  Fashion  Board?  Last  month 

Modern  Screen  held  its  first  fashion  show  before  a  Hollywood 
board  of  judges.  These  judges  selected  award-winning  clothes 
that  suited  their  fancy — and  your  pocketbo(A.  The  response  to  last 
month's  show  was  so  gratifying  that  the  event  was  held  again,  this 
time  on  the  patio  of  the  popular  Beverly  Club  in  Beverly  Hills. 
Fashion-wise  Celeste  Holm  was  eager  to  join  the  board  and  later 
reported  that  her  only  problem  was  to  pick  a  winner.  Don  Taylor 
and  his  wife  Phylhs  represented  the  young  married  set's  point  of 
view.  "Don  and  I'll  probably  amount  to  one  big  vote,"  said  PhyUis. 
Howard  Duff  arrived  with  the  discerning  eye  of  a  bachelor  and 
settled  down  to  enjoy  the  show.  Pretty  soon  he  was  joined  by  Yvonne 
de  Carlo  and  her  friend,  starlet  Pat  Starling.  "I  asked  Pat  along," 
said  Yvonne,  "because  this  was  too  good  to  keep  to  myself."  We 
think  the  award-winning  fashions  are  too  good  to  keep  to 
ourselves — so  here  they  are,  for  you ! 


Marta  Toren  looks  over 

winning  shoes  Board  member  Marta  Toren,  star 
of  Columbia's  Sirocco,  wears  the  always-popular  hooded  coat  as  she 
admires  these  Award  Winning  Rockette  shoes  on  the  opposite  page. 
From  top  to  bottom  they  are:  The  Pinette,  $7.95,  comes  in  black 
kid  suede — ^black  leather  trim;  claret  wine  leather;  camel  leather. 
The  Millette,  $7.95,  comes  in  black  kid  suede — black  or  red  leather 
trim ;  blue  kid  suede  with  red  leather  trim.  The  Conlon,  $6.95, 
comes  in  black  kid  suede — ^patent  trim ;  brown  kid  suede — ^brown 
leather  trim.  The  Nonette,  $6.95,  comes  in  black,  wine,  grey  kid 
suede.  The  Butte,  $6.95,  comes  in  black,  wine,  grey,  green  kid 
suede.  The  Lila,  $7.95,  comes  in  black  kid  suede — ^black 
aihgator  trim ;  wine  kid  suede — ^wine  alUgator  trim.  In  all  sizes. 


THE  HOLL'SrWODD  APPROVED  FASHIONS  ON  THE  OPPOSITE  AND 
FOLLOWING  PAGES  MAY  BE  PURCHASED  IN  PERSON  OR  BY  MAIL 
FROM  THE  STORES  LISTED  ON  PAGE  88. 


rave 


Virginia  Gibson  (above)  in  Warners' 
Starlift,  wears  one  of  Jonathan  Logan's 
Award  Winning  frocks.  Crease 
resistant  rayon  plaid.  Notice  the  full  flaring 
skirt — the  exciting  belt.  Colors:  Red 
and  black  or  green  and  navy  plaid. 
Sizes  9-15.  About  $15. 
Above,  right,  Award  Winning  Honey  debs 
ankle-strap  sandal  "Joey"  of  nylon 
gabardine  (Zelan-treated  for  water  repellence) 
with  smooth  leather  trim  and  perky  vamp 
bow — worn  by  Virginia  Gibson.  Black, 
brown  or  navy.  $4.99. 

Lovely  Virginia  Mayo  (on 
the  right)  who  stars  in  Warners' 
Starlift,  poses  in  the  second  Award 
Winning  Jonathan  Logan  frock  of  100% 
sheer  worsted  wool  with  contrast 
piping.  Colors:  Navy  with  red,  black 
with  red,  purple  with  navy  or  red 
with  navy.  Sizes  9-15.  About  $20. 
Above,  far  right,  Honeydebs 
(by  the  makers  of  Honeybugs)  Award 
Winning  sling  pump — "Vera" — of  nylon 
gabardine  (Zelan-treated  for  water  repel- 
lence) with  matching  reptile  trim  and 
bow — ^wom  by  Virginia  Mayo.  Black, 
brown  or  navy.  $4.99. 


I 


hollywood  approved  fashions 


REVIEWS  FOR  JUNIOR  DRESSES 


Suzanne  Dalbert,  soon  to  appear 
in  Paramount's  My  Favorite  Spy, 
a,nd  Jane  Liddell  in  Wald- 
Krasna's  The  Blue  Veil,  model 
Award  Winning  Kaytron  dark 
woven  plaid  cotton  frocks. 
Foreground,  Suzanne's  smart 
frock  has  a  shirred  bodice 
front,  four-gore  bias  skirt — stand- 
up  collar  and  cuff-bands  of 
white  pique. 

Standing,  Jane's  fashionable  plaid 
frock  boasts  a  pin-tucked  white 
pique  vest,  full  gathered  skirt  and 
inverted  front  pleat. 
Both  dresses  come  in  red, 
green  or  navy  background  plaid — 
both  are  sanforized,  fast  color 
and  washable.  Both  in  sizes 
9-1 S — about  $6  each. 


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Nylon  hosiery  by  Holeproof. 


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Top  rating  was  awarded 
to  Loungee's  cotton  quilted 
coat  robe  with  contrast 
scalloped  trim  and  large 
carry-all  pocket.  Fast 
color,  washable.  Aqua, 
coral,  yellow.  Sizes:  10-18. 
About  $11.  This  robe  also 
comes  in  little  girl  sizes : 
7-14.  About  $6. 
The  slipper  held  by  Marion 
Marshall,  appearing  in 
Hal  Wallis'  Thal^s  My  Boy,  is 
Honeybug's  Indian  Maid 
with  bunny  fur  collar,  made 
of  capeskin.  Comes  in  red, 
royal,  black,  light  blue,  pink, 
light  green  and  white.  Sizes 
4-9.  (No  half  sizes.)  $3.99. 
Honeybug's  other  Award 
Winning  slippers  (from 
back  to  front  on  the  floor) : 
Capeskin  scuff.  Black,  red, 
royal,  green,  light  blue 
and  pink.  Sizes  AA  5J^-10; 
B  4-10.  $3.49. 
Scallop  vamp  scuff,  all-over 
quilted  nylon  satin.  Black, 
royal,  light  blue,  red, 
pink  and  navy.  Sizes  AA 
5K-10;  B  4-10.  $2.99. 
Scalloped  vamp  scuff, 
all-over  lame.  Black  or 
white.  Sizes  AA  5J^-10; 
B  4-10.  $3.99. 
Velvet  ballet  slipper. 
Black,  red  and  royal.  Sizes 
4-9.  (No  half  sizes.) 
$3.99. 

Zebra  scuff.  Sizes  AA  5J^- 
10;  B  4-10.  $2.99. 

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highlights 

FOR  YOUR  WARDROBE 


Lovely  Jane  Liddell,  currently 
in  Wald-Krasna's  picture  The 
Blue  Veil,  poses  in  Jane  Holly's 
Award  Winning  guaranteed, 
washable  rayon  tissue  faille 
blouse  with  hand-fagoting  trim. 
Pink,  grey,  blue,  kelly,  black, 
coffee, -purple,  magnolia  or. 
white.  Sizes:  32-38. 
About  $6. 


Phyllis  Taylor,  in  United  Artists' 
Queen  For  A  Day,  wears  Stardust's 
Award  Winning  washable  rayon 
plus  nylon  blouse.  Convertible 
collar,  pearl  buttons,  and  .  .  . 
box-pleated  back!  Guaranteed 
one  full  year.  Pastel  pink, 
blue,  maize  or  snow  white. 
Sizes:  32-38.  Smartly  priced 
-at  $1.98. 


Joyce  MacKenzie,  featured 
in   20th  Century-Fox's 
People  Will  Talk,  models  the 
Peggy  Martin's  Award  Winning 
dress-up  washable  rayon  tissue 
faille  blouse  with  bridal  sleeves, 
Venise  lace  inserts  and  mirror 
buttons.  White,  black,  navy, 
pink,  lilac,  magnolia  or  char- 
treuse. Sizes:  32-38.  About  $10. 


hottest  man  in  town 


{Continued  from  page  38)  have  the  boat 
on  a  sound  stage,  but  no  rapid  river  was 
ever  so  turbulent,  nor  any  journey  more 
hazardous  than  the  one  the  men  in  the 
boat  were  experiencing.  The  air  was  filled 
with  the  din  of  the  gasoline  motors  and 
the  threshing  of  the  water.  Talk,  if  it  had 
been  possible,  would  have  had  to  be 
spoken  in  roars.  It  was  really  a  terrifying 
experience,  watching  the  men  in  the  boat, 
particularly  the  front  man,  the  one  who 
was  taking  the  beating  from  the  pounding 
waves.  Stewart  Granger. 

Later,  Granger  strode  into  his  portable 
dressing  room,  a  bath  towel  wrapped  about 
his  middle  and  another  flung  around  his 
neck,  looking  as  though  he'd  just  had  a 
warm  shower  rather  than  an  icy  whipping. 

He  stuck  out  a  hand  the  size  of  a  lamb 
shank  and  wrenched  an  hello.  He  was  very 
tall  and  massive.  Muscles  rippled  all  over 
him.  He  bummed  a  cigarette  and  fell  on 
to  a  couch  that  was  much  too  small.  And, 
without  waiting  for  inconsequential  pre- 
liminaries, he  began  to  tell  about  himself. 

STEWART  Granger  wasn't  always  an  actor. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  during  his  forma- 
-tive  years,  he'd  have  punched  you  on  the 
nose  if  you  had  called  him  one.  Bom  of 
an  apparently  urban  and  moneyed  English 
family  in  London,  he  endured  the  formal 
education  inflicted  on  all  young  men  of  his 
class.  It  was,  and  no  doubt  still  is,  the 
practice  of  British  parents  to  cram  their 
sons'  heads  with  Greek,  Latin  and  Euclid 
to  a  proper  age — and  then  sit  back  and 
casually  observe  the  outcome.  They  hope 
the  lad  will  show  enterprise  in  a  gainful 
or  artistic  pursuit.  Beyond  that  there 
appears  to  be  little  parental  interference. 

At  the  age  of  19  Stewart  Granger,  then 
Jimmy  Stewart,  found  himself  in  very 
much  that  situation.  He  had  been  to  col- 
lege and  was  welcome  to  go  on  to  what 
the  English  call  University,  a  scholastic 
institution  designed  to  prepare  a  man  for 
a  profession.  In  Stewart's  case  it  was  a 
serious  decision.  He  had  always  been  in- 
terested in  medicine,  and  had  fully  in- 
tended to  become  a  doctor.  But  faced  with 
the  decision,  and  weighing  his  potenti- 
alities, he  wasn't  sure.  He  didrf't  want  to 
become  a  second-rater — and  he  didn't 
want  to  waste  half  a  dozen  years  dis- 
covering it — so  he  passed.  He  went  to 
his  father  and  told  him  he'd  like  to  take 
a  job  and  think  it  over. 

Stewart  Granger,  in  the  field  of  com- 
merce, was  a  misfit  and  he  admits  it. 
He  fovmd  employment  with  a  concern  in 
London  called  the  Bell  Punch  Company, 
a  company  remotely  associated  with  the 
film  business.  They  made  ticket  machines 
that  spewed  the  proper  number  of  ad- 
missions at  you  after  you  paid  the  girl 
in  the  box  office.  Stewart  was  a  minor 
employee  of  little  consequence  in  the 
operation  of  the  plant.  As  well  as  being 
a  hulking  lad,  he  was  quite  belligerent 
and  had  aspirations  for  the  prize  ring.  This 
combination  added  nothing  to  his  ge- 
niality and  when,  after  being  with  the 
Bell  people  for  some  months,  a  fellow 
employee  of  greater  importance  offended 
him,  Stewart  belted  the  dickens  out  of 
him  and  retired  from  the  firm. 

At  this  early  point  in  his  business 
career  Stewart  asked  his  father  for  a 
heart-to-heart  talk.  During  this  confer- 
ence he  confessed  to  his  dad  that  he  was 
confused,  and  that  unless  he  was  given 
time  to  think  things  over,  he  might  well 
go  on  to  bring  eternal  disgrace  to  the 
family  name. 

"Then  what  would  you  like  to  do?"  his 
father  asked. 


"I  would  like,"  said  yoimg  Stewart  man- 
fully, "to  bum  about  for  a  year." 

This  was  hardly  what  the  elder  Stewart 
had  had  in  mind,  but,  with  a  harrumph  or 
two,  he  agreed  and  placed  at  his  son's 
disposal  a  sufficient  sum  to  keep  him  from 
starving.  Then  he  more  or  less  washed 
his  hands  of  the  piatter. 

The  reason  for  this  early  biography,  and 
the  noting  of  the  odd  pact  between  father 
and  son,  is  to  explode  a  myth  that  from 
cradle  time  all  actors  are  satiu-ated  with 
a  desire  to  perform.  For  until  his  twentieth 
year,  Stewart  Granger  was  destined  for 
nothing  more  than  brawling  and  loafing. 
Today  he  is  reckoned  the  best  bet  that 
MGM  has  had  in  15  years,  and  it  is  by 
pure  accident  that  this  came  to  pass. 

"Mind  you,"  said  Stewart  Granger,  ad- 
justing his  sliding  towel  and  wagging  a 
stem  forefinger,  "I  don't  feel  this  way 
about  actors  now.  But  when  I  was  a  kid  I 
thought  most  of  them  were  women  in  dis- 
guise. Too  pretty;  too  elegant. 

"I  first  became  interested  in  theatricals 
through  a  chap  I  met  by  the  name  of 
Michael  Wilding,  now  one  of  England's 
top  stars.  He  was  bumming  about,  too,  and 
he  told  me  of  a  wonderful  place  to  meet 


HOW  TIME  FLIES! 

■  Betty  Grable's  a  softie.  Way  down 
deep.  It  kind  of  gets  her  when  George 
Brent  trots  up  the  front  steps,  arms  full 
of  little  homely  things  like  Kleenex  and 
hand  lotion.  She  wouldn't  exchange  them 
for  a  million  orchids. — September,  1942 
— Modern  Screen. 


girls.  It  seems  that  the  film  studios  wanted 
extras  who  looked  well  in  dinner  jackets. 
They  paid  20  shillings  a  day  and,  accord- 
ing to  Wilding,  'the  places  are  just  crawl- 
ing with  the  loveliest  fluff  in  London.' 
I  went  with  him,  got  a  job,  and  settled  into 
a  lovely  life  of  semi-idleness  and  meeting 
beautiful  women." 

Young  Stewart,  convinced  now  of  his 
lack  of  any  sort  of  calling,  spent  what  he 
thought  was  the  happiest  year  of  his  life 
as  a  film  extra.  He  wanted  no  advance- 
ment. It  was  the  custom  at  that  time  for 
English  makeup  men  to  paint  male  artists 
with  the  same  technique  used  on  women. 
Consequently,  when  young  Granger  would 
see  a  leading  man  walk  by  with  a  cupid's 
bow  mouth  and  arched  brows,  he  would 
thank  heaven  he  was  just  an  extra. 

STEWART  Granger's  advance  to  the  sp>eak- 
ing  of  lines  was  another  accident,  and 
certainly  no  ambitious  design.  Suffering 
from  a  cold  he  went  to  his  doctor  for 
treatment  and  in  the  waiting  room  met 
the  medic's  wife.  She  eyed  him  for  a  mo- 
ment, then  asked  if  he  was  an  actor.  Gran- 
ger snorted  an  indignant  denial.  The 
doctor's  wife  told  him  he  should  be,  a 
further  insult.  She  pointed  out  that  one  of 
Stewart's  grandfathers  had  been  an  actor 
of  some  talent,  and  that  it  was  entirely 
possible  it  might  have  been  inherited. 
Stewart  doubted  this,  but  after  consider- 


able prodding  agreed  to  attend  a  reading  at 
the  Douglas- Weber  School  of  Dramatic 
Arts. 

"I  had  no  wish  to  attend,"  Granger  said, 
"and  I  can  tell  you  that  my  reading  of 
some  Shakespeare  was  the  most  atrocious 
sin  ever  committed  against  the  man's  work, 
but  it  seems  the  school  needed  males  for 
its  plays,  so  I  was  given  a  scholarship. 
Good  heavens,  it  was  unbelievable!" 

Sometime  during  his  schooling  at 
Douglas- Weber  the  acting  bug  bit  Stewart 
Granger.  Just  when  he  doesn't  remember. 
He  suspects  it  was  a  slow,  creeping  thing 
that  he  fought  before  going  to  sleep  at 
night.  He  studied  hard  and  well,  for  he 
had  high  mentality,  and  in  the  summer  of 
1934,  he  struck  out  to  join  the  ranks  of 
actors  who  toured  in  repertory  companies 
throughout  the  Island.  He  is  remembered 
at  Douglas-Weber  for  two  things:  he's 
one  of  the  most  successful  pupils  ever 
graduated;  he's  the  fellow  responsible  for 
the  now  iron-clad  rule  that  lady  students 
are  under  no  circumstances  allowed  to  sit 
on  gentlemen  students'  laps. 

The  next  five  years  of  Stewart  Granger's 
life  are  without  important  incident,  except 
that  during  his  touring  of  the  ^provinces 
and  his  engagements  on  the  boards  of 
London  and  Liverpool,  he  learned  to 
swashbuckle,  swing  a  sword,  drink  a  cup 
of  tea,  hit  a  man  without  killing  him,  read 
a  funny  line  funny  and  a  sad  one  sad.  He 
learned  to  act.  He  got  the  background  for 
his  work  today.  Films  held  no  interest  for 
him,  for  he  still  remembered  the  pretty 
'men  in  makeup  from  his  extra  days. 

But  along  came  a  script.  So  This  Is 
London. 

Stewart  couldn't  resist  it.  He  took  the 
part  and  the  film  became  a  smash  hit,  not 
only  in  England,  but  in  this  country.  It 
was  also  nearly  the  end  of  his  movie 
career,  too,  because  he  took  one  look  at 
his  pretty  face  as  it  was  flashed  on  the 
screen  and  ran  howling  out  of  the  theater. 
He,  too,  had  a  cupid's  bow. 

The  war  grabbed  Stewart  shortly  after 
that  and  he  went  off  with  the  famous 
Black  Watch  regiment. 

If  he  is  a  movie  star  today,  Stewart 
Granger  attributes  it  modestly  to  the  fact 
that  he  was  invalided  out  of  the  service 
before  the  war  ended.  There  was  a  dearth 
of  leading  men  at  that  time,  and  he  was 
practically  shanghied  into  the  studios.  But, 
being  an  earnest  actor,  he  worked  at  the 
Old  Vic — and  being  a  patriotic  lad,  he 
toured  England  and  the  continent  with 
Deborah  Kerr  playing  to  troops.  He  acted 
in  many  movies,  and  despite  his  reluctance, 
became  a  genuine  matinee  idol — and  then 
it  was  too  late-  to  turn  back. 

He  tried,  though.  Three  years  ago  he 
decided  his  performing  days  were  nvim- 
bered  and  he  set  about  getting  himself  into 
production.  He  was  under  contract  to  a 
couple  of  English  film  makers  and  they 
didn't  take  kindly  to  this  attitude.  But 
Stewart  was  fed  up  with  drawing  rooms 
and  wanted  some  more  active  passion  than 
hand- kissing. 

THE  opportunity  came  through  Deborah 
Kerr,  his  one-time  stage  mate.  MGM 
was  getting  ready  to  shoot  King  Solomon's 
Mines  and  they  needed  a  mgged  fellow 
who  could  act  and  withstand  the  rigors  of 
an  African  safari.  Deborah  suggested 
Granger,  and  when  he  was  told  of  the 
hazards  involved,  he  jumped  at  the  chance. 

The  result  is  well-known.  AmericEin 
audiences,  which  have  seldom  taken  to 
English  men,  went  wild  for  him.  The  pic- 
ture became  the  biggest  grosser  of  the 
year.  At  about  the  same  time.  Granger 
captured  the  American  female  with  just 
about  as  hectic  a  romance  as  they  had 
read  about — and  they  loved  him  for  it.  He 
had  been  married  once  before,  but  it 
hadn't  turned  out  well.  When  he  fell  in 


love  with  beautiful  Jean  Simmons,  and 
she  with  him,  the  obstacles  became  cheer- 
ing points  where  American  girls  stood  and 
hurrahed  Stewart  on  to  matrimony. 

It  all  fitted  the  pattern  that  makes  an 
American  movie  star  and  MGM  knew  it. 
They  tied  Stewart  up  to  a  fabulous  con- 
tract and  it  is  the  studio's  intention  to 
build  him,  with  virile  roles,  into  the  big- 
gest box  office  attraction  it  has  ever  had. 

All  manner  of  audiences  are  going  to 
like  Stewart  Granger.  Kids  love  him.  He 
represents  adventure  to  them — and  they 
sense,  in  meeting  him,  that  he  likes  them 
Some  months  ago,  during  the  location 
shooting  on  The  North  Country,  a  10- 
year-old  wide-eyed  prairie  boy  stalked 
through  the  guards  at  the  Metro  camp  and 
walked  to  Stewart's  side. 

"Hi,"  he  said. 

"Hi,"    said  Granger. 

For  the  next  couple  of  weeks  the  boy 
showed  up  every  day  and  the  only  other 
words  that  were  spoken  was  once  when 
the  boy  said: 

"What  do  you  do  here?" 

"I'm  an  actor,"  Sedd  Stewart. 

That  was  aU,  but  a  rapport  developed 
and  these  two  fellows  knew  each  other 
quietly  and  well.  When  it  came  time  to  re- 
turn to  Hollywood,  Stewart  walked  down 
the  road  to  a  curio  shop  and  bought  his 
friend  a  going  away  present — the  fanciest 
silver  and  topaz  belt  a  north  country  boy 
had  ever  owned,  and  the  most  expensive 
he'd  probably  ever  see.  It  cost  $50.00. 
■  Stewart  Granger  is  a  man  of  intense 
loyalties  who  speaks  almost  reverently  of 
his  pals.  When  he  married  Jean  Simmons, 
his  pal,  Michael  Wilding  was  in  New  York 
on  his  way  back  from  England.  Stewart 
got  him  on  the  phone,  told  him  he  wouldn't 
do  it  without  him,  and  had  Wilding  fly 
all  the  way  to  Hollywood  just  to  be  best 
man  at  his  wedding.  Wilding,  who  hates 
airplanes,  flew  in  the  interest  of  true  love. 

It  is  a  fascinating  thing  to  watch  Stewart 
Granger  on  a  movie  set.  As  in  all  com- 
manding men  there  is  a  certain  arrogance 
in  his  manner  that  allows  no  interference. 
He  refuses  to  read  a  line  that  sounds  silly 
or  isn't  pertinent  to  the  story.  On  the  other 
hand,  he  has  been  known  to  take  some 
of  his  choice  speeches  in  a  script  and  give 
them  to  another  actor,  because  he  believes 
they  fit  the  situation  better  when  spoken 
by  someone  else.  To  him,  it's  the  play  that 
counts. 

'T'he  MGM  publicity  department  had  a 
note  in  a  biographical  sketch  that 
stated  his  intimates  caU  him  Jimmy,  his 
real  name.  If  that  is  true,  Stewart  Granger 
has  more  intimates  than  anyone  on  the 
lot.  At  least  30  people  call  him  that  when 
he  comes  on  the  set,  and  he  answers  with 
a  first  name  every  time.  He  considers  the 
prop  men  the  best  movie  craftsmen  in  the 
world.  Not  the  actors — the  prop  men. 

If  there  is  ever  a  question  about  Stewart 
Granger  doing  his  own  hazardous  scenes, 
one  has  only  to  look  at  his  personal  life  to 
refute  it. 

Getting  off  the  subject  of  movies,  he  told 
of  his  last  safari  in  Africa. 

He  feels  certain,  by  the  way,  that  he  is 
destined  to  die  in  Africa,  at  the  hands, 
fangs  or  horns  of  some  wild  beast. 

"I  wanted  to  go  back  to  Africa  after 
King  Solomon's  Mines,  he  said.  "And  as 
soon  as  I  was  free  I  did.  I  went  out  with 
a  couple  of  white  hunters  after  buffalo.  It 
was  rugged  going,  but  it  was  wonderful. 

"Buffalo  make  their  way  through  the 
dense  brush  by  following  long  tunnels 
called  Rides.  The  hxmter  stalks  them  along 
these  Rides,  but  never  walks  in  orle  him- 
self, because  the  animal  can  move  like 
lightning  in  these  chutes  and  when  he 
sees  a  human,  he  charges — and  there  is 
no  way  out.   (Continued  on  next  page) 


wherever  you  live  . 
whatever  you  do  .  . 
these  two  dresses 


ivill  get 


admiring 
glances! 


Each  about 


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HARVEST  MOON 
Rich  as  October  Ale,  this 
Cynara  rayon  crepe  dress, 
with  its  sicoop  of  matching 

buttons,  will  be  your  pride 
and  joy  for  seasons  to  come. 
The  deeply-pleated  panel 
adds  grace  and  style  to  the 
slim-lined  skirt.  Black, 
purple,  brown  and  red  in 
sizes  J6%  to  24%. 


TOWNER 
Simply  perfect  and  perfectly 
simple  is  this  suit-effect 

dress  in  rayon  Checkerberry. 
The  bracelet-length  sleeves 
are  velveteen  cuffed.  The  skirt 
is  4-gored  and  flared. 
The  tiny  checked  pattern 

has  black,  brown,  green 
or  wine  predominating. 
Sizes  14%  to  22%. 


If  you  can't  buy  them  in  your  favorite  shop,  write  us  .  .  .  we'//  tell  you  where. 
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"I  got  into  one  of  these  Rides  one  day 
after  a  beast  we  had  wounded  and  wanted 
to  destroy.  It  is  not  good  to  leave  angry, 
wounded  biiffalo  loose  in  Africa.  Suddenly, 
I  looked  up  and  saw  him  coming  for  me. 
I  was  trapped.  One  of  the  hunters  stepped 
to  my  side  and  we  both  began  pumping 
heavy  bullets  into  the  animal.  But  he  still 
came  on.  There  was  no  way  out  for  us, 
so  we  took  the  charge.  I  was  caught  in  the 
ribs  and  knocked  silly.  The  hunter  took 
a  goring  in  the  head,  then  swung  around 
and  dropped  the  buffalo  before  he  could 
turn  about  and  make  a  second  pass  at 
us.  Yes,  I  suppose  I'll  die  one  day  in 
Africa." 

"What?"  he  was  asked,  "did  you  think 
of  when  you  saw  that  buffalo  charging  and 


knew  he  wasn't  going  to  be  stopped?" 

Stewart  Granger  grinned  slyly. 

"I  stood  there  for  a  moment,  petrified," 
he  said.  "Then  I  thought  'tiiis  can't  be 
true.  Here  I  am  a  movie  star — ^under  con- 
tract to  MGM  thousands  of  miles  away  in 
Culver  City,  California.  This  just  can't 
be  happening  to  me!'  " 

He  got  up,  pulled  the  towel  about  him 
and  shook  hands.  A  man  came  and  called 
him  back  to  work — back  to  the  canoe  in 
the  raging  torrent  in  the  MGM  Tank 
Set.  And  as  he  walked  away,  it  was  ob- 
vious that  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer  had 
a  big  star  indeed.  A  star  who,  if  he  keeps 
away  from  danger — and  Africa — ^may  one 
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does  liz  know  what  love  is? 


(Continued  from  page  66)  got  from  Na- 
UoTial  Velvet.  It  was  a  landslide  of  affec- 
I  tion  for  the  little  girl  who  really  loved  a 
'  horse  and  who  was  so  intense  about  her 
adolescent  virtues.  She  was  everybody's 
little  girl — a  warm,  sweet  child  who  crept 
into  your  heart  easily  and  demanded  love. 
It  was  then  that  the  movie-going  audiences 
of  the  world  truly  fell  for  Elizabeth  Taylor 
and  vowed  tmdying  fidelity,  because  she 
had  everything — and  the  world  was  siure 
she  would  never  change. 

Skip  a  few  years,  eight  to  be  exact. 
Elizabeth  Taylor  arrived  in  New  York  on 
her  way  to  Eiigland  to  co-star  with  Robert 
Taylor  in  Ivanhoe.  The  newsmen  snapped 
her  pictures  at  the  airport.  She  stood  cool 
and  aloof,  talking  to  Montgomery  Clift, 
entirely  unaware  of  the  cameras  or  crowd; 
a  suave,  sophisticate,  a  big  movie  star,  still 
a  stunning  beauty — but  without  a  trace  of 
the  kid  of  National  Velvet  anywhere  about 
her. 

A  T  the  age  of  18,  Elizabeth  Taylor  was 
a  woman;  married  and  divorced,  she'd 
been  engaged  to  two  important  and  fasci- 
nating men'  and,  if  we  are  to  believe  the 
gossip,  is  in  love  with  another  man  she 
plans  to  marry  when  his  divorce  from  his 
present  wife  becomes  final.  The  child  was 
gone.  A  coldly  beautiful  woman  had  taken 
her  place.  You  just  couldn't  like  it  too  much. 

If  Elizabeth  Taylor  had  not  been  such 
a  warm,  simple  child  this  story  would 
never  be  written,  and  the  speedy  progress 
of  events  in  her  still  very  yoimg  life 
would  not  be  nearly  so  shocking.  It  is 
just  that  it  went  too  fast.  Too  fast  for 
Elizabeth,  and  much  too  fast  for  the  folks 
who  expected  more  of  a  fairy  tale  type  of 
story  of  her  career. 

This  writer  had  occasion  to  interview 
Elizabeth  Taylor  just  a  few  days  before 
she  met  her  ex-husband,  Nicky  Hilton.  It 
was  in  a  studio  commissary.  At  the  time 
she  was  still  going  to  high  school  at  the 
studio  school  and  the  limcheon  was  de- 
layed because  she  was  a  bit  behind  in  her 
studies  for  the  day.  When  she  showed  up, 
she  moved  toward  the  table  with  the 
awkward  shamble  of  a  bobby-soxer.  The 
rest  of  her  was  regal,  but  the  kid  was  still 
pretty  much  dominant  in  her.  A  short 
time  before,  she  had  broken  off  her  en- 
gagement to  young  Bill  Pawley,  a  fellow 
who  at  that  time  still  professed  his  love 
for  her — and  indicated  that  there  was  a 
bit  of  cruelty  in  the  way  he  had  been  dis- 
carded. 

The  object  of  the  interview  was  to  find 
out  if  there  was  a  callous  streak  in  the 
growing  girl,  or  to  see  if  she  was  just  a 
victim  of  her  own  beauty,  unable  to  con- 
trol the  emotions  she  inspired  in  men.  As 
she  walked  toward  the  table  we  were  will- 


ing, without  a  word  being  spoken,  to  say 
that  she  was  entirely  blameless  in  the 
broken  engagement,  for  she  seemed  as 
fresh  and  tinspoiled  as  a  spring  daisy. 

She  sat  down  and  shyly  acknowledged 
greetings  and  we  began  the  conversation. 
In  a  few  minutes  we  reluctantly  changed 
our  mind. 

"What  about  this  thing  with  young 
Pawley?"  we  asked. 

LLz  lowered  her  eyes  and  appeared  sad. 
She  wasn't  very  good  at  it. 

"He  broke  my  heart,"  she  said. 

We  doubted  it.  "What  about  Glenn 
Davis?"  we  sisked. 

Liz  didn't  change,  the  sorrowful  expres- 
sion.   "So  did  he,"  she  said. 

It  took  a  minute  or  so  for  that  to  sink  in. 
Two  broken  hearts  at  a  little  better  than 
16.  That  was  moving  fast.  And  suddenly 
we  began  to  suspect  something — that  EUiz- 
abeth  Taylor  was  fully  aware  of  her  tre- 
mendous beauty  and  was  going  to  use  it, 
maybe  for  happiness,  maybe  for  more 
selfish  purposes.  Like  holding  strings  with 
the  best  men  in  the  world  dangling  on  the 
other  ends  of  them.  It  got  pretty  chilly 
there  in  that  commissary. 

"Do  you  realize,"  we  said,  feeling  for  Ein 
opening,  "that  you  are  quite  likely  the 
most  beautiful  woman  who  has  ever  been 
in  the  movies?" 

Her  eyes  grew  large  and  startled  and 
said,  "Who  me?"  but  it  was  easy  to  see 
that  she  was  beginning  to  get  that  im- 
pression. 

"Do  you  know,"  we  said,  "that,  if  you 
want  it,  men  are  going  to  throw  them- 
selves at  your  feet  like  dogs — and  maybe 
some  of  them  will  throw  themselves  off 
cliffs  because  you  are  so  beautiful?" 

She  didn't  laugh,  she  just  seemed  in- 
terested. The  conversation  went  along 
those  lines  for  an  hour,  and  when  it  was 
over  we  shook  hands  and  went  out  into 
the  warm  simshine  wishing  we  hadn't  said 
those  things,  or  come  away  with  the  sus- 
picion that  Elizabeth  Taylor  was  no  longer 
a  kid  at  16. 

IT  wasn't  long  after  that  interview  that  we 
first  heard  about  Nicky  Hilton.  It  began 
with  just  a  rumor  that  Elizabeth  had  found 
a  lad  she  liked  very  much.  Then  the  talk 
of  their  fondness  filled  the  papers — and 
after  that,  quickly,  came  the  stories  of  their 
preparations  for  marriage  and  the  sweet 
tales  of  the  plans  that  the  yoimgsters  had 
made  for  a  brief  honeymoon  and  a  long 
life  together  with  a  nice  home  and  lots  and 
lots  of  babies. 

What  followed  is  common  knowledge. 
There  was  a  wedding  that  was  beautiful. 
The  bride  and  her  man  went  off  on  a. 
honeymoon,  with  the  tender  wishes  of  mil- 
lions. In  a  month  word  drifted  back  that 
all  was  not  well.  There  were  a  number  of 
highly-publicized  escapades,  some  admitted 
and  some  denied — and  then  one  day  Liz 
annovmced  that  the  marriage  was  ended. 


Nobody  blamed  her  much, .  because  young 
Hilton  had  gathered  a  bit  of  a  reputation 
on  his  own  by  that  time  as  a  chap  with  a 
penchant  for  fireworks.  People  were  sorry, 
but  nobody  felt  anything  but  real  imhap- 
piness  for  Liz. 

But,  a  few  weeks  after  her  separation, 
when  Elizabeth  Taylor  api>eared  at  a  Hol- 
lywood night  club,  radisint  and  glowing  on 
the  arm  of  Stanley  Donen,  a  man  separated 
from  his  wife,  but  stUl  married,  there  were 
many  raised  eyebrows.  And  when  it  hap- 
pened again  a  night  or  so  later,  and  the 
columnists  began  printing  tales  of  public 
kissing  and  late  hours  being  kept  by  the 
pair,  there  was  a  feeling  of  shock. 

And,  as  the  months  have  gone  by,  little 
has  changed.  Liz  and  Donen  are  still 
apparently  very  much  a  twosome,  in  the 
real,  grown-up  sense  of  the  word.  In  the 
meantime,  she  moved  into  an  apartment 
of  her  own.  She  drifted  completely  away 
from  parental  influence.  It  was  said  she 
had  been  talked  to  at  length  by  her 
studio — and  still  went  along  in  a  head- 
strong way,  determined,  it  seemed,  to  live 
up  every  minute  despite  anything  and 
everybody.  At  18,  Elizabeth  Taylor  seemed 
to  have  become  a  femme  fatale. 


"Tke  magnificence  of  the  propor- 
tions of  actresses  of  today  are 
better;  never  before  hove  there 
been  snch  bnsts  in  movies" — Bos- 
ley  Crewther  qnoted  by  Walter 
Wincbell  in  the  Daily  Mirror. 


That  is  how  it  seems,  and  it  is  unfair 
to  Elizabeth  Taylor,  if  she  is  the  grown- 
up version  of  the  Elizabeth  Taylor  of  a 
few  years  ago,  to  let  it  go  at  that  It 
requires  for  her  own  sake,  and  in  the  in- 
terest of  the  fans  who  have  given  her  much 
love  and  trust,  that  her  situation  be  ex- 
plored and  defined. 

Elizabeth  Taylor  was  bom  an  actress, 
actually.  Although  from  a  non-theatrical 
heritage,  she  thrived  on  make-believe 
from  her  babyhood.  If  she  had  just  been  a 
normally  attractive  yotmgster  she  would 
no  doubt  still  have  been  an  entertainer  of 
some  sort  But  she  was  not  normally  at- 
tractive— and  the  combination  of  talent  and 
beauty  was  a  cinch  to  head  her  toward  the 
movies.  In  the  early  days,  her  loveUness  was 
an  asset,  for  it  was  tempered  with  an  ex- 
trCTie  innocence.  She  was  a  child  filled  with 
tenderness,  for  people — and  for  all  animal 
things.  Like  the  heroine  of  National  Velvet, 
her  dearest  companion  was  a  horse.  In 
her  early  teens  she  wrote  "Nibbles  And 
Me,"  a  "book  about  a  chipmunk.  She  found 
this  pet  in  the  woods,  and  took  him  home. 

EUzabeth  Taylor  was  raised,  in  the  most 
formative  years,  abroad,  where  her  father 
was  an  art  collector.  In  the  comparatively 
strict  English  homes  in  which  her  family 
lived,  she  learned  parental  respect  and  the 
niceties  of  behavior.  This  was  a  predomi- 
nant trait  of  her  personality  during  the 
early  days  at  MGM — one,  no  doubt,  that 
had  a  good  deal  to  do  with  the  studio's  j 
decision  to  go  the  whole  way  in  making 
her  a  star. 

Studio  life  is  a  difficult  one  for  kids.  Al- 
though every  precaution  is  taken  to  keep 
movie  youngsters  sweet  and  imspoUed, 
working  all  day,  every  duy,  with  adults  in 
an  artistic  medivmi  is  a  drain  on  the 
stavmchest  pversonaUties.  In  the  mills 
where  movies  are  turned  out  there  is 
much  adulation,  much  complimenting  from 
the  producers,  directors  and  other  actors. 
Then  there  is  the  publicity.  It  is  very 
difficult  to  keep  the  knowledge  of  their 
super-assets  away  from  movie  kids — and 
Liz  naturally  learned  about  hers. 

Puppy  love  came  to  Elizabeth  Taylor 
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girl.  In  her  first  almost  grown-up  role 
she  played  opposite  Peter  Lawford  and 
there  is  no  denying  that  she  was  mad  about 
him.  It  was  a  beautiful  kid  adoration  for 
a  handsome,  older  feUow.  Then  there  was 
her  initial  approved  crush^ — the  one  she 
had  on  Glenn  Davis. 

When  the  pictures  of  Liz  and  Glenn  ap- 
peared in  the  papers  it  was  heart-warming 
to  the  folks  who  by  now  had  grown  to  love 
her.  He  was  a  stalwart  football  star,  a 
clean-cut  young  fellow  who,  himself,  had 
been  the  idol  of  a  lot  of  people.  And  the 
"engagement"  was  a  beautiful  thing.  It  may 
have  been  that  Glenn  broke  Liz'  heart  when 
it  was  over.  It  may  have  been  that  he  was 
gone  too  long,  Liz  felt  the  need  of  a 
nearer  love. 

Bill  Pawley,  though,  came  as  a  bit  of 
a  surprise  to  Elizabeth's  fans.  It  almost 
looked  as  though  she  had  dumped  Glenn. 
And  when  another  engagement  was  an- 
nounced, many  of  her  fans  felt  that  she 
should  have  been  less  eager  to  marry,  for, 
after  all,  an  engagement  is  expected  to  lead 
to  marriage. 

The  first  sign  of  her  discontent  came 
while  she  was  in  Florida  visiting  her 
fiance.  An  MGM  producer,  making  a  pic- 
ture in  that  state,  asked  her  to  come  Emd 
lunch  with  some  friends  out  of  town. 
Pawley,  it  is  said,  objected  violently,  but 
Liz  went  anyway.  At  this  time  it  was 
common  knowledge  that  Bill  had  asked 
her  to  give  up  the  screen  and  settle  down 


Give  a  pig  and  a  boy  everything  they  want. 
You'll  get  a  good  pig,  and  a  bad  boy. — 
Clark  Gable  as  quoted  by  Irving  Hoffman 
in  The  Hollywood  Reporter. 


with  him  in  his  home  state.  For  the  press 
Liz  is  supposed  to  have  agreed,  but,  as 
the  luncheon  incident  indicates,  her  hesirt 
wasn't  in  it. 

In  fairness  to  Elizabeth,  it  must  be  said 
that  her  studio,  now  with  a  considerable 
investment  in  her,  didn't  care  too  much 
for  the  idea  of  her  retiring.  Metro  did 
nothing  about  it,  of  course,  but  it  is  doubt- 
ful if  there  was  a  blessing  on  the  plan. 
Her  parents,  always  more  concerned  with 
her  happiness  thcin  her  career,  were,  on 
the  other  hand,  quite  agreeable.  It  was 
the  issue  of  her  career,  insiders  say,  that 
broke  the  engagement.  And  young  Paw- 
ley's  morose  attitude  afterwards  some- 
what denies  the  statement  that  he  broke 
her  heart. 

Nicky  Hilton  seemed  like  just  the  man 
when  he  came  along.  His  dad  was  a 
multi-millionaire  man  of  the  world.  They 
lived  in  Hollywood  and  an  actress  in  the 
family  wouldn't  have  made  a  bit  of  differ- 
ence. There  is  no  question  about  Liz's  be- 
ing in  love.  She  was  too  filled  with  it  not  to 
be.  But,  as  later  events  proved,  she  may 
not  have  been  particularly  in  love  with 
Nicky  Hilton.  Just  with  love — and  freedom. 

"Tk  isiLLUSiONMENT  is  a  serious  thing  to  a 
•■-^  young  lady  with  no  more  years  behind 
her  than  Liz  "Taylor,  and  anyone  who  saw 
or  knew  her  at  the  time  will  tell  you  she 
was  terribly  disillusioned  with  Nicky  three 
months  after  marriage.  His  escapades, 
which  a  good  many  laid  to  youthful  exub- 
erance and  the  joy  of  living,  would  have 
driven  a  much  older  person  almost  to  dis- 
traction. It  did  Elizabeth.  If  they  had 
not  been  in  the  public  eye,  and  Liz  had  no 
one  else  to  turn  to,  it  still  might  have 
worked  out,  for  Hilton  seems  to  have 
simmered  down  considerably  since  the 
divorce.  But  she  had  her  work — and  she 
went  back  to  it,  a  little  too  eagerly  some 
thought. 

There  were  stories  in  the  papers  that 


she  was  melancholy  about  the  whole  thing, 
but  she  didn't  show  it  much  at  the  studio. 
She  plunged  into  new  films  with  a  zest, 
and  seemed  to  enjoy  every  minute  she  was 
at  work.  For  a  short  time,  she  didn't 
appear  in  public,  but  only  for  a  short  time. 
"Dien  came  the  sequence  with  director 
Stanley  Dor  en. 

A  LOT  of  understanding  people,  and  some 
narrow  ones,  will  go  along  with  a  16- 
year-old  girl  falling  in  and  out  of  love  with 
a  handsome  football  player — despite  the 
sudden  ending  of  ardor.  Thej-  will  also  go 
along  with  another  engagement,  at  17,  to 
as  handsome  a  catch  as  Bill  Pawley.  If 
the  circumstances  are  right,  the  same  folks 
will  understand  a  fast  marriage  and  a 
qmck  divorce,  at  18. 

But  there  are  few  Elizabeth  Taylor  fans 
who  will  buy  the  picture  of  an  18-year-old 
divorcee  touring  the  night  spots  several 
evenings  a  week  with  a  married  man,  and 
necking  in  public  places  with  him.  Aban- 
doning, apparently,  all  restrictions  as  to 
conduct.  They  might  buy  it  if  someone  else 
were  involved — but  not  Elizabeth  Taylor, 
the  little  girl  who  such  a  short  time  ago 
^v^ote  a  beautiful,  childish  story  about  a 
chipmimk  she  loved. 

Men  and  women  of  the  Holljn.vood  press 
corps  who  have  inter\'iewed  Liz  during 
the  past  year  say  she  is  now  a  cool,  rather 
arrogant  woman.  Her  attitude  is  one  of 
"like  it  or  lump  it."  We  have  not  found 
it  entirely  that  way,  but  almost.  And  it 
shows  up  in  her  work  and  in  the  reception 
she  gets  in  theaters. 

Up  to  this  writing,  Liz'  last  two  pictures 
have  been  the  biggest  hits  MGM  has  had 
in  years.  Father  Of  The  Bride  made  a 
fortune — and  put  Liz  in  a  pretty  secure 
position  as  far  as  a  box  office  star  is  con- 
cerned. And  Father's  Little  Dividend  is 
on  its  way  to  making  even  more  money 
than  the  first  picture.  But  we  sat  in  a 
darkened  theater  in  Westwood  when 
Father's  Little  Dividend  was  previewed 
and  we  were  shocked  at  the  reception  the 
name  of  Elizabeth  Taylor  received  when 
it  was  flashed  on  the  screen. 

The  Westwood  theater  is  in  a  college 
town  and,  although  there  is  always  a  sohd 
mass  of  adults  at  the  showings,  the  kids 
from  the  school,  former  rabid  Taylor  fans, 
are  always  out  in  full  force.  The  credits 
appeared  and  Spencer  Tracy  got  an 
ovation.  Joan  Bennett  got  thunderous 
applause.  But  when  Elizabeth  Taylor 
appeared  there  was  a  very  frightening  si- 
lence. It  seemed  she  had  no  boosters.  Even 
the  kids  didn't  care — or  maybe  they  were 
confused. 

Tt's    something   worth    thinking  about. 

One  of  our  most  talented  and  beautiful 
stars  might  be  fading  because  she  has  hved 
too  fast  and  threatens  to  be  a  non-con- 
formist. Of  course  wherever  she  appears 
she  is  stared  at  and  admired  for  her 
breathtaking  radiance.  Even  today  at 
Metro  they  still  follow  her  around  to  watch 
her  move  and  sparkle.  But  it  takes  more 
than  that  to  retain  stardom.  It  takes  a 
certain  warmth  that  at  present  Liz  Taylor 
seems  to  be  losing. 

But  it  is  not  too  late.  Liz  has  taken  a 
lot  of  chances  for  her  career  and  she 
might  make  a  few  sacrifices.  She  can't 
be  censured  too  severely  for  the  things 
that  have  happened  to  her.  because  she 
has  not  been  completely  at  fault.  But  she 
can  be  taken  to  task  for  her  attitude 
today,  now,  when  she  is  on  her  own,  away 
from  the  restrictions  of  family  and  studio 
bosses. 

Love  and  romances  are  private  affairs 
and  good  taste  is  something  a  girl  must 
develop  herself.  Look  to  the  future,  Liz. 
You've  got  a  long  way  to  go. 

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TWT  ELL,  summer's  over  and  most  of  you 
*'  are  back  in  school.  You've  prob- 
ably grown  a  little.  At  anj'  rate  you've 
changed — vacations  always  do  that  to  you. 
But  it's  time  to  settle  down  now  to  the  old, 
or  new,  routine,  to  pick  up  old  friendships 
and  make  new  ones.  You're  probably  biting 
your  nails  about  that  exciting  new  boy  you 
met  this  summer  who  has  gone  back  to  his 
hometown.  Will  he  write  or  won't  he? 
Did  he  mean  all  the  things  he  said  or  was 
it  just  sweet  talk?  And  does  his  real  steady 
live  next  door  to  him  and  is  he  going  back 
to  her?  But  whatever  happens  don't  go 
mooning  around  thinking  life  is  over.  You've 
got  a  big  adjustment  to  make.  You're  go- 
ing back  to  school. 

I  got  a  letter  this  month  from  a  girl  in 
Oregon  who  dumped  the  problem  right  in 
my  lap.  I  hope  I  can  help.  She  writes: 
"I'm  starting  high  school  this  year  and  I 
want  to  start  out  right.  How  can  you  be 
popular  with  girls  and  boys  while  in  school  ? 
Do  you  have  to  have  a  crowd  before  you 
can  invite  them  in  for  cokes?  How  can  you 
make  these  friends?  I  am  just  average 
looking  and  I'm  new  in  this  town." 

Let  me  tell  you  first  what  not  to  do.  I 
know  about  this  because  I  was  wrong 
when  I  first  started  to  high  school.  I'm  a 
naturally  bossy  character,  or  I  was.  I  hope 
I've  conquered  a  lot  of  that  by  now.  But 
four  years  ago  I  thought  I  knew  just  a 
little  more  than  most  of  the  boys  and  girls 
in  my  new  class  in  a  new  high  school,  and 
I  was  very  willing  to  offer  my  opinion 
about  the  way  everything  should  be  done. 
Oh,  very  willing.  And  you  know  what?  I 
couldn't  understand  why  the  other  kids 
didn't  like  it.  I  was  only  trying  to  help 
them,  I  thought,  and  I  couldn't  understand 
why  they  weren't  hanging  on  to  my  words 
of  wisdom.  Naturally,  I  soon  found  out  they 
weren't.  They  gave  me  the  old  absent 
treatment  and  /  found  out  I  had  a  little 


group  of  my  own,  all  right.  Just  me.  Oh, 
it  was  very  exclusive.  But  kind  of  lonesome. 

So  don't  be  like  that.  When  you're  in 
school  you've  got  to  be  like  the  other  kids 
and  interested  in  what  they're  interested  in. 
Take  it  easy  at  first,  and  find  out  what  the 
girls  you  want  for  your  friends  are  like. 
Remember  they're  individuals,  too,  and 
they've  got  a  perfect  right  to  their  own 
tastes  and  opinions  and  even  friends  who 
might  not  appeal  to  you.  Don't  try  to 
change  them  and  you'll  find  yourself  a  lot 
more  popular. 

TTou'd  be  surprised  how  unimportant  a 
^  pretty  face  is.  One  of  the  most  sought 
after  girls  in  my  freshman  class  was  one 
of  the  plainest.  But  I  never  thought  of 
that  after  I  got  to  know  her.  She  was  fun 
and  full  of  beans.  She  never  tried  to  take 
any  girl's  boy  friend  away  from  her,  and 
she  always  looked  scrubbed  and  kept  her 
hair  shining. 

Which  brings  me  to  clothes.  Honestly,  I 
think  you've  got  to  conform  to  everything 
the  other  kids  do— unless,  of  course,  it'f 
disgraceful — except  in  the  matter  of  clothes 
Just  because  there  are  some  sUly  fad-like 
sloppy  Joe  sweaters  or  skirts  that  are  too 
long  or  socks  that  are  rolled  down  over 
your  shoes — is  no  reason  why  you  should 
be  a  party  to  it.  Wear  a  neat  sweater 
and  a  skirt  with  the  hem  where  it  belongs. 
(The  pictures  in  the  fashion  section  of 
Modern  Screen  will  tell  you  where  that 
is.)  A  jumper  dress  is  good,  too.  You  can 
make  it  look  different  every  day  with  a 
clean  and  freshly-ironed  blouse.  And  if 
your  ankles  are  inclined  to  be  even  just 
a  bit  too  thick  please  don't  wear  loafers. 
That's  sheer  murder. 

A  girl  frorn  Dallas  asked  me  what  to  do 
about  cliques  that  try  to  crowd  you  out 
of  their  activities.  She  wrote:  "I  mean  a 
certain  group  of  real  popular  girls  that 


think  they're  the  only  girls  who  count  for 
anything." 

Well,  that's  always  a  problem.  The  only 
answer  I  can  give  is  to  make  yourself  so  at- 
tractive and  popular  with  both  boys  and  girls 
that  the  clique  can't  get  along  without  you. 
Or  else  stop  being  jealous  and  worrying  and 
form  a  crowd  of  your  own.  And  then  try 
not  to  make  the  mistake  of  excluding  other 
girls  like  yourself.  Remember  how  it  felt  when 
you  were  an  outsider. 

A  lot  of  girls  think  the  only  important 
thing  is  to  be  popular  with  boys.  But  I  don't 
agree  with  that.  If  you're  popular  wLth  boys 
it  doesn't  necessarily  follow  that  you're  popu- 
lar with  girls,  too.  But  practically  every  girl 
that  girls  like  finds  the  boys  are  interested  as 
well.  Girls  won't  like  you  if  they  think  you're 
not  to  be  trusted,  and  if  they  think  all  you're 
out  for  is  the  opposite  sex.  It's  swell  to  have 
a  lot  of  beaus,  but  let's  face  it.  You're  prob- 
ably not  going  to  marry  any  of  them,  and  it's 
even  better  to  have  real  friends.  Besides,  what 
good  is  it  to  have  a  boy  friend  unless  you've 
got  a  girl  friend  to  discuss  him  with? 

Practically  every  girl  has  a  catty  friend  in 
her  life.  There's  always  one  in  every  class. 
But  for  heaven's  sake  don't  let  the  cat  get 
your  goat.  Remember  when  you  were  a  kid 
and  your  grown-up  uncle  used  to  tease  you? 
Remember  how  fast  he  stopped  when  you 
-  didn't  get  mad?  It's  the  same  way  with  a  cat. 
If  she  finds  she  can't  upset  you  or  make  you 
unhappy  she'll  pull  those  claws  right  in. 

rri  here's  one  surefire  way  to  get  along  with 
*  teachers  and  that  is  to  study  and  make 
good  grades.  It's  the  exceptional  teacher  that 
doesn't  like  kids.  If  they  didn't  they  wouldn't 
take  such  a  hard  job.  But  they  are  at  school 
primarily  to  teach,  and  when  you  don't  co- 
operate and  don't  pay  attention  they  lose 
patience  with  you. 

I  don't  approve  of  homework.  Me  and 
George  Bernard  Shaw  and  quite  a  lot  of  other 
people.  When  I  was  a  freshman  I  read  what 
Shaw  had  to  say  against  it  and  I  stuck  the 
clipping  on  the  bulletin  board  at  school.  It 
didn't  do  any  good,  and  chances  are  you're 
doing  plenty  of  homework.  But  you  need  a  set 
time  and  place  where  you  won't  be  interrupted. 
I  think  if  you  put  this  up  to  your  parents  in 
a  nice  way  they'll  understand,  and  if  you 
haven't  a  room  of  your  own,  work  in  the  din- 
ing room  or  kitchen  where  there's  no  radio  or 
TV  to  bother  you. 

For  the  next  nine  months  your  home  life 
and  your  school  life  are  going  to  be  all  mixed 
up  together.  You're  an  important  part  of  the 
family  and  your  parents  should  realize  it. 
They  have  their  friends  in  for  the  evening, 
you  should  too.  But  you  should  be  consider- 
ate enough  to  ask  your  mother  if  it's  all  right 
with  her  to  have  a  bunch  in  for  cokes  and 
sandwiches  on  a  certain  night. 

Before  you  know  it  you'U  have  a  crowd  of 
your  own  if  you  don't  rush  it  too  fast  and 
make  the  kids  think  you're  pushing.  Just 
think  of  the  kind  of  girl  you  like  best  and 
be  that  kind  of  girl. 

"KT  ow  here  are  some  other  letters. 

"Dear  Joan:  My  steady  is  in  first  year 
college  and  I  am  a  senior  in  high  school.  He 


WASHES  EVERYTHING 
BETTER! 

There's  only  one  "proof  of  the  pudding"  when 
you  buy  washing  products.  That's  to  try  them 
...  at  home  .  .  .  with  your  own  wash. 
Compare  .  .  .  feel  your  FELSO-clean  clothes. 

Try  FELSO.  You'll  see  that  gentle  just-right  suds 
give  you  the  freshest,  most  fragrant,  sweetest- 
smelling  wash.  Did  you  ever  see  whiter  sheets 
and  shirts  .  .  .  brighter,  more  colorful  prints? 
Did  you  ever  feel  softer,  fluffier  laundry 
...  or  any  so  easy  to  iron?  And  how  soft 
and  smooth  your  hands  are 
after  you  use  FELSO. 


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doesn't  think  I  should  date  while  he  is  away, 
not  even  for  school  affairs.  What  shall  I  do? 

— G.  K.,  Morgan  City,  La." 
I'm  sure  if  this  boy  really  loves  you  he 
cannot  be  so  selfish  as  to  demand  that  you 
miss  the  social  life  of  your  last  year  in  high 
school.  Not  going  to  school  affairs  with  your 
classmates  would  set  you  apart  and  make  you 
very  unhappy.  You  should  explain  to  your 
steady  that  he  must  have  faith  in  you.  If  he 
hasn't  that  much  faith  in  you,  what  kind  of 
a  future  will  you  have  with  him? 

"Dear  Joan:  My  best  girl  friend  steals  and 
lies.  The  other  day  she  stole  two  cartons  of 
cigarettes.  My  parents  have  forbidden  me 
to  see  her,  but  she  is  trying  to  lead  a  good 
life  now.  What  she  needs  is  a  good  friend. 

— E.  F.,  Haddonfield,  N.  J." 
If  only  the  other  day  this  girl  stole  some 
cigarettes,  she  has  not  been  trying  to  lead  a 
good  life  long  enough  to  prove  to  me  that 
she  deserves  your  friendship.  This  is  one  of 
the  problems  that  faces  persons  of  aU  ages, 

I  SAW  IT  HAPPEN 

One  day  when  I 
was  vacationing 
up  at  Banff  Springs 
Hotel  I  was  horse- 
hack  riding  along 
the  golf  course 
and  saw  a  man  in 
golf  clothes  try- 
ing to  shoot  his 
way  out  of  a  sand- 
trap.  He  made  an 
excellent  shot  so 

I  called  to  him,  "Pretty  good  shot!" 

He  turned,  waved  and  then  hollered, 
"Thanks." 

When  I  got  hack  to  the  cluh  house, 
I  saw  this  man  and  his  wife  and 
realized  that  the  golfer  was  Randolph 
Scott,  who  was  on  location  there  for 
a  picture. 

Jane  Therese  Ebert 
Everett,  Washington 

but  teen-agers  especially  are  judged  by  the 
company  they  keep.  It  is  not  your  job  to  try 
to  straighten  her  out;  this  is  a  problem  for 
her  parents  and  teachers  to  tackle.  You  can 
only  be  hurt  if  you  continue  to  go  around 
with  her.  Let  this  girl  prove  herself  worthy 
of  your  friendship  before  you  become  her 
friend  again.  This  may  seem  cruel,  but  I 
think  it  is  the  best  thing  for  her.  When  she 
discovers  that  her  behavior  is  losing  friends  for 
her  she  might  do  an  about  face. 

"T^EAR  Joan:   I  have  been  afraid  of  horses 
since  I  was  bucked  off  of  one  two  years 
ago.  What  shall  I  do  to  get  over  this  fear? 

— B.  W.,  HmcKLEY,  Utah." 
Personally  I  have  never  had  any  fear  of 
horses  and  love  to  ride.  But  I  think  I  may 
be  able  to  help  you  by  telling  the  experience 
of  my  best  friend,  Palma  Shard.  When  a  bunch 
of  us  decided  to  ride  horseback  every  Satur- 
day morning  Palma  would  invent  aU  sorts  of 
excuses  not  to  go.  Then  we  discovered  she 
was  just  scared.  We  finally  coaxed  her  out  to 
the  stables  and  asked  for  the  gentlest  horse 
there.  For  the  first  three  or  four  times  she 
didn't  have  a  bit  of  fun,  but  now  she  loves 
it.   However,  let  me  give  you  one  word  of 


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warning:  don't  let  the  kids  talk  you  into 
riding  a  spirited  horse  at  first.  You  should 
have  a  healthy  respect  for  a  horse.  So  start 
out  on  something  ready  for  the  glue  factory 
until  you  get  your  nerve  back.  And  believe 
me,  it  will  come  back. 

"Dear  Joan:  Since  my  father  died  and  I  am 
an  onlj'  child,  my  mother  and  I  have  shared 
a  room.  We  have  a  perfectly  adorable  extra 
room  but  Mother  says  it  would  be  foolish  for 
me  to  use  it  and  that  she  would  be  lonesome. 
What  do  you  think  ? — M.  L.,  Killeex,  Texas." 

XT' VERY  girl  who  possibly  can  should  have  a 
room  of  her  own  and  mothers  should  cer- 
tainly think  back  to  the  time  when  they  were 
girls  and  wanted  one.  It  doesn't  mean  you 
love  your  mother  any  the  less,  and  your  want- 
ing it  should  not  hurt  her  feelngs.  But  ev^ery 
girl  should  have  a  place  where  she  can  ex- 
press her  ow-n  indi\iduality  and  personality, 
and  there  is  nothing  so  much  fun  as  fixing  up 
a  room  of  your  own.  Also  everj'body  should 
have  some  place  where  he  can  have  privacy — 
and  this  doesn't  mean  secrets.  Since  there  is 
already  a  spare  room  in  your  house  I  cer- 
tainly think  it  should  be  j'ours. 
■'Dear  Joan:  Can  you  give  me  a  plan  so 
that  when  I  come  off  a  diet  I  won't  gain 
back  what  I  have  taken  off? 

— S.  W.,  Ox.«GA,  III." 

Just  be  sensible  and  don't  go  crazy  when 
you  finish  your  diet.  Don't  eat  desserts  except 
on  some  special  occasion.  Don't  eat  between 
meals.  Lay  off  bread  and  butter  and  all 
sweets  like  jeUies  and  jams  and  malteds  and 
ice  cream  sodas.  Don't  take  second  helpings. 
Eat  a  light  lunch.  In  other  words,  just  use 
your  head,  girl  and  you'll  keep  that  svelte 
figure. 

"Dear  Joan:  The  boy  I've  been  going  with 


has  been  getting  moody.  Even  when  you  talk 
about  things  that  interest  him  he  only  answers 
'Yes,'  and  'No.'  He  is  losing  all  his  friends. 
Please  give  me  some  advice  on  how  to  help 
him."  — C.  P.,  Altooxa,  Pa." 

T  used  to  have  dates  with  a  boy  who  was 
*  as  moody  as  your  friend  seems  to  be.  For  a 
long  while  I  thought  it  was  up  to  me  to  try  to 
get  him  out  of  his  moods,  and  I'd  come 
back  from  what  should  have  been  a  pleasant 
date  completely  exhausted.  I  finally  decided 
life  was  too  short  and  there  were  too  many 
boys  who  like  to  have  fun  and  like  me  to  have 
fun.  Of  course,  I  don't  beUeve  that  everj'- 
body  has  to  be  gay  aU  the  time;  that  gets  to 
be  a  bore  too.  And  if  somebody  comes  to  you 
with  a  real  problem  and  asks  your  help,  then 
you  should  give  it  gladly.  But  if  this  boy 
W'On't  teU  you  what  the  trouble  is,  what  can 
you  do  to  help? 

"  Dear  Joan:  I  have  a  hard  time  talking  to 
boys  on  dates  or  anywhere.  I  am  going  steady 
with  a  boy  but  don't  feel  at  ease.  Can  you 
help  me?  — B.  L.,  W.adexa,  Mrs"x." 

The  fact  that  this  boy  likes  you  well 
enough  to  go  steady  should  make  you  feel 
comfortable  with  him.  And  feeling  comfort- 
able means  that  you  are  at  ease.  I'U  bet  you 
talk  a  rrule  a  minute  to  your  girl  friends. 
Talk  to  the  boys  about  the  same  things- 
local  activities,  the  movies  you've  seen,  sports 
you  like,  people  you  know.  Now  I'm  going 
to  let  you  in  on  a  secret:  boys  like  gossipn — 
good,  wholesome,  friendly  gossip,  that  is — 
just  as  well  as  girls  do.  Shyness  is  an  indica- 
tion that  you  are  thinking  more  of  yourself 
than  the  other  person.  Just  be  natural,  and 
try  to  please. 

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(Continued  from  page  65)  She's  so  pretty, 
so  naturally  pleasant  that  she  could  have 
a  screen  career  herself.  A  Hollywood 
director  who  saw  her  at  a  preview,  leaned 
over  and  said  to  a  friend  of  his,  '"That  girl 
is  prettier  than  three-fourths  of  the  stars. 
Has  a  lot  of  character  in  her  face." 

But  Pam  insists  that  her  only  career 
right  now  is  to  keep  Audie  happy.  "Once 
in  a  while  I  get  the  urge  to  travel,"  she 
says,  "but  then  Audie  comes  home  and  all 
the  wanderlust  goes  out  of  me." 

Keeping  Audie  Murphy  happy  isn't  the 
simplest  job  in  the  world,  and  not  because 
Audie  is  moody  or  mystical  or  at  all  the 
way  he's  been  ridictilously  described. 

Audie  has  career  and  money  problems. 

To  date,  he's  been  the  star  in  six  films: 
Bad  Boy,  Kid  from  Texas,  Sierra,  Kansas 
Raiders,  The  Cimmaron  Kid,  and  The  Red 
Badge  of  Courage. 

"That's  not  enough,"  he  says.  "I  want 
more  pictures.  I  like  to  work.  I've  got 
things  to  straighten  out." 

Audie  has  reference  to  his  financial 
problems,  problems  which  he  and  Pam  are 
in  the  process  of  working  out  together. 

These  problems  have  their  roots  in 
Audie's  past.  Five  years  ago  when  he  first 
hit  Hollywood  as  the  hero  of  World  War 
n,  he  was  the  most  innocent,  trusting  boy 
anyone  had  ever  seen. 


Terry  Hiint,  one  of  Audie's  best  friends, 
says,  "When  Audie  arrived  in  this  town  you 
could've  sold  him  5,000  shares  of  Atlantic 
Ocean  Preferred.  He'd  sign  anjrthing.  Not 
that  he  wasn't  bright.  He's  very  bright. 
It's  only  that  he  was  very  trusting.  There 
are  a  lot  of  sharp  operators  in  this  city. 
Audie  thought  they  were  all  men  of  good 
wiU. 

"One  morning  he  woke  up  and  much  to 
his  surprise,  he  found  out  differently.  He 
owed  one  studio  two  picttrre  commitments, 
another  producer  three,  and  so  on  down  the 
line.  Everyone  had  a  cut  of  the  kid  except 
himself." 

Audie  has  worked  hard  these  past  few 
years,  but  aside  from  an  OldsmobUe,  he 
doesn't  have  much  to  show  for  it.  He's 
used  his  salary  to  pay  off  the  money  which 
other  independent  producers  had  insisted 
upon  advancing  to  him. 

By  the  end  of  this  year  with  a  Uttle 
luck,  Audie  should  be  able  to  leave  his 
financial  woes  behind  him.  He's  extremely 
popular  with  the  younger  set,  and  several 
studios  have  been  flirting  with  the  idea  of 
making  him  into  a  yotmg  Gene  Autry. 
This  might  work  well. 

Audie  comes  from  Texas,  rides  a  horse 
expertly,  and  knows  everything  about  fire- 
arms. There's  no  doubt  that  he  can  be 
developed  into  a  Western  star  of  the  first 
rank. 

John  Huston  who  directed  him  in  The 
Red  Badge  of  Courage,  says,  "He's  got  the 
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ternal spirit  in  men.  Not  many  actors  can 
do  that." 

Fortunately  for  Audie,  he  has  a  wife 
who  is  perfectly  satisfied  to  live  in  a  house 
without  a  swimming  pool.  She  can  also  do 
without  jewels,  flashy  cars,  or  mink  stoles. 

"If  money  were  the  key  to  a  happy  mar- 
riage," Pam  says,  "the  rich  would  be  the 
happiest  people  in  the  world.  Usually, 
they're  just  the  opposite.  TTie  thing  that 
counts  most  in  a  marriage  is  unity,  having 
faith  and  respect  for  each  other. 

Pamela  is  wise  enough  to  realize  that  a 
marriage  without  problems  isn't  a  mar- 
riage at  all.  By  facing  a  problem  and  sur- 
moTxnting  it,  a  couple  grows  closer  in 
understanding  and  devotion. 

A  relatively  new  groom,  Audie  isn't 
ready  to  discuss  children.  "I'm  crazy  about 
children,"  he  says,  "and  I  know  we're 
going  to  have  some,  but  first  things  come 
first.  In  our  book,  a  house  has  the  number- 
one  priority.  Once  we  get  a  house  that  be- 
longs to  us,  we'll  start  thinking  of  a  family. 

"I'm  not  one  of  those  guys  who  thinks 
everything  has  to  be  set  before  a  child 
Ccin  come  into  the  world.  If  everyone  waited 
xmtil  they  were  financially  secvure  before 
they  had  children,  the  population  in  this 
coimtry  wouldn't  be  very  large. 

"Right  now,  Pam  keeps  busy  by  cleaning 
the  house  and  cooking  and  doing  aU  the, 
laimdry.  As  soon  as  a  speck  of  dust  gets 
on  things,  she  starts  working." 

"I'm  just  content  to  be  a  home-body," 
Pam  insists.  "Back  in  Dallas  I  lived  with 
four  and  five  hostesses  in  one  house.  Now 
there's  only  Audie  and  me — and  it's  grand." 

When  Audie  was  married  to  Wanda 
Hendrix,  there  was  no  such  agreement  on 
marital  philosophy.  Wanda  was  a  small- 
town girl,  too,  but  she  was  an  ambitious 
actress,  and  she  could  never  understand 
why  Audie  balked  at  going  to  parties  and 
making  so-called  valuable  contacts. 

She  just  didn't  understand  her  husband. 

Pamela  does,  and  Audie  understands  her. 

Although  she  and  Audie  have  been 
married  only  a  very  few  months,  they  give 
the  impression  of  having  been  man  and 
wife  for  years.  They  have  adjusted  sc 
harmoniously  to  each  other  that  no  one 
ever  takes  them  for  newlyweds.  They  like 
it  that  way.  The  End 


don't  bargain  for  faith 


{Continued  from  page  70)  around  him  like 
a  tight  wrapping,  was  the  boy  on  the 
golden  staircase.  I  was  so  far  gone  he  was 
like  a  stranger  to  me.  I  kept  wondering 
about  him.  "What  now?  .  .  .  What  now? 
.  .  .  What  now?" 

Today  I  am  a  man  of  faith,  not  neces- 
sarily in  any  one  particular  religion,  or 
in  any  one  specific  manner  of  worshipping 
God,  but  in  His  order  of  things.  I  pray 
every  day.  I  have  seen  faith  come  to  my 
wife,  who  had  forsaken  it,  and  I  see  faith 
in  the  eyes  of  my  little  boy  because  he 
was  born  with  it  and  in  it. 

For  I  came  to  faith  in  that  hospital 
bed,  but  not  in  a  spirit  of  thankfulness 
over  my  recovery  and  return  to  my  ca- 
reer. I  shall  always  be  glad  I  came  to  faith 
before  I  knew  that  I  was  to  be  restored 
to  the  life  I  wanted  .  .  .  and  for  its  own 
sake.  Otherwise  it  would  be  a  bargain 
and  faith  is  not  to  be  bargained  for. 

Before  the  doctors  said  I  was  out  of 
danger;  before  a  friend  appeared  and 
named  a  plastic  surgeon  who  had  agreed  to 
help  me  though  he  knew  he  would  have 
to  wait  long  for  his  fee;  before  I  had  any 
assurance  I  could  get  back  into  pictures 
...  I  talked  to  God  and  told  Him  that  if 


He  accepted  me  I  would  be  happy  in  that 
alone. 

The  doctor,  in  a  series  of  operations,  did 
a  good  job.  Sometimes  I  think  that  the  face 
he  recreated  is  better  than  the  original 
job.  But  even  if  he  hadn't,  even  if  disfig- 
urement had  been  my  lot,  I  am  convinced 
today  that  I  would  have  had  the  spiritual 
strength  to  make  what  was  left  of  life, 
no  matter  what  its  station,  a  good  one, 
a  contented  one.  At  least  this  is  the 
kind  of  faith  I  hope  I  have.  This  is  the 
kind  I  think  we  all  need. 

Faith  is  more  than  fuel  for  hope,  it  is 
a  feeling  of  serenity  no  matter  what  hap- 
pens. It  acts  in  all  sorts  of  ways  to  give 
one  peace  of  mind.  For  instance,  I  used 
to  stew  over  lost  roles,  lost  opportvmities. 
No  more.  Emotionally,  you  might  say,  I 
live  a  non-toxic  existence  .  .  .  and  I  do 
think  that  envy,  jealousy  and  worry  are 
poisons. 

I  remember,  not  long  after  I  got  started 
acting  again,  making  what  seemed  like  a 
terribly  bad  decision.  I  was  offered  a  sub- 
stantial interest  in  an  important  movie 
venture.  Not  only  an  investment  gain, 
but  additional  professional  opportunities 
for  me  woiild  be  opened  up  if  I  agreed  to 
go  along.  But  there  was  one  aspect  of  it 
that  I  didn't  like — the  man  who  had  orig- 
inally conceived  the  idea  was  to  be  frozen 
out  of  the  imdertaking.  There  was  nothing 
illegal  involved  in  banning  him,  yet  I  felt 
that  morally  this  should  not  be.  I  refused 
to  join. 

"Dennis,  you're  acting  like  a  baby,"  I 
was  told.  "This  is  the  way  things  are  done 
in  business  and  you  can't  change  it." 

But  it  made  no  difference  to  me.  I  re- 
fused because  I  knew  I  couldn't  take  my 
faith  along  with  me,  and  without  that  I 
was  an  empty  Dennis  O'Keefe. 

No  bolt  from  the  blue  has  struck  the 
fellows  who  started  this  company.  They 
have  done  fine.  I  would  have  profited 
nicely,  apparently.  But  my  feeling  is  that 
I  have  profited  even  more  staying  out;  in 
the  happy  marriage  I  made  soon  after- 
wards; in  the  health  of  my  child;  in  my 
self-respect.  Somehow,  I  feel  things  work 
out  this  way. 

ONCE  I  told  Steffi,  my  wife,  how  I  had 
acted  in  this  decision. 
"I  would  have  been  rich  by  the  time  I 
met  you,   instead  of  just  handsome,"  I 
kidded. 

She  shook  her  head.  "We  might  «*ver 
have  met,"  she  replied.  "Or,  having  met, 
you  would  not  have  been  the  fellow  you 
were.  You  would  not  have  been  at  peace 
with  yourself  and  therefore  not  acted  at 
ease  with  me.  One  way  or  another  it 
would  have  made  a  difference  and  we 
would  never  have  felt  what  we  could  mean 
to  each  other." 

I  am  certain  that  she  is  right. 

I  said  that  my  little  boy,  Jimmy,  who 
is  now  seven,  prays.  He  was  born  with 
prayer.  He  was  a  premature  baby,  de- 
livered actually  at  the  end  of  the  sixth 
month,  and  after  the  birth  all  I  could  do 
was  pray,  "Please  give  the  litle  guy  a 
chance.  Let  him  make  it.  Let  him  make  it." 

I  remember  in  those  apprehensive  days, 
when  his  life  was  so  close  to  the  border- 
line, how  my  heart  swelled  with  relief 
that  I  had  lived  within  my  faith,  that  I  had 
not  strayed  from  it.  Therefore  I  felt  I  had 
a  right  to  ask  for  his  life.  It  was  as  if  I 
stood  in  a  good  place  to  plead  his  case. 

And  now  Jimmy  is  seven  and  he  prays 
too.  He  prays  very  fast.  So  fast  (because 
he  learned  it  that  way)  that  I  can  under- 
stand hardly  a  word  and  sometimes  tell 
him  that  maybe  God  will  not  be  able  to 
imder stand  him. 

He  looks  at  me  pityingly  and  says,  "Don't 
worry.  Pop,  He'll  understand  all  right. 
He'll  understand." 


I  don't  think  we  adults  can  ever  approach 
the  faith  of  a  child,  a  faith  like  Jimmy's. 
It  is  completely  trusting  and  wonderfully 
intimate.  I  am  not  truly  a  church-goer, 
but  I  do  accompany  Jimmy  and  Juliana,  the 
latter  the  young  daughter  of  my  wife  by 
her  first  marriage.  I  have  been  with  Jimmy 
when  we  have  been  kneeling  for  an  ex- 
tended time  and  have  heard  him  work 
into  his  prayer  to  God  the  information 
that  his  knees  were  beginning  to  hurt. 
It  is  something  he  is  quite  sure  that  God, 
whom  he  regards  as  his  best  friend,  would 
like  to  know. 

T  WAS  about  10  years  old  when  my  father 
•■■  gave  me  my  first  lesson  in  faith  at  work. 
The  two  of  us  were  in  Chicago  where 
Dad  was  playing  a  vaudeville  date.  We 
were  walking  by  the  Marshall  Field  store 
in  the  Loop  when  a  cab  backed  into  an 
areaway,  almost  pinning  an  old  beggar  to 
the  wall.  If  my  father  hadn't  yelled  sharply 
at  the  driver  there  might  have  been  a  bad 
accident. 

By  the  time  the  driver  had  leaped  from 
his  seat  to  see  what  was  wrong,  the  old 
man  had  scuttled  away  into  the  crowd. 
It  looked  as  if  my  father  had  just  been 
angrily  denouncing  what  he  thought  was 
bad  driving.  The  cabbie  was  hotheaded 
and  took  a  swing  at  Dad.  He  missed,  and 
this  made  him  so  angry  he  waded  right 
in  with  both  fists. 

I  got  excited,  but  not  scared.  I  knew  my 
father  had  won  several  competitions  in 
boxing  around  St.  Louis  where  he  was 
raised,  and  I  was  sure  he  could  beat  the 
other  fellow.  But,  to  my  dismay,  he  didn't 
even  try!  Not  once,  though  the  cabbie 
rushed  and  swung  repeatedly,  did  Dad 
try  to  strike  a  blow.  He  just  ducked  or 
defended  himself,  and  didn't  vary  this 
even  though  he  was  hit  several  times.  A 
policeman  ran  up,  the  fight  was  stopped, 
but  Dad  refused  to  press  charges. 

We  walked  to  our  hotel  in  silence,  my 
heart  heavy  with  what  I  felt  was  Dad's 
disgrace.  When  he  was  treating  a  bruise 
on  his  cheek  I  couldn't  stand  it  any  longer 
and  btirst  out  crying. 

"Why  were  you  afraid.  Dad?  Why  didn't 
you  hit  back?"  I  demanded. 

He  looked  at  me  in  surprise  and  then 
pulled  me  to  him.  "I  wasn't  afraid,  son," 
he  said,  gently.  "Not  a  bit  afraid.  If  with 
all  his  swinging  he  only  hit  me  a  glancing 
blow  or  two,  doesn't  it  make  sense  to  you 
that  I  could  have  hurt  him  pretty  badly  if 
I  wanted  to?" 

"Then  why  didn't  you?"  I  burst  out. 

"Because  I  knew  I  could,"  he  told  me. 
"I  was  certain  about  it.  Absolutely  certain." 

He  didn't  say  any  more  and  we  just 
looked  at  each  other.  Then  I  guess  I  began 
to  think. 

"You  mean  ..."  I  began.  "You  mean  it 
wouldn't  be  fair  then?"  I  asked. 

Dad  smiled  and  nodded.  "Not  a  bit  fair," 
he  said.  "And  not  a  bit  nice.  I  knew  why 
he  was  angry.  It  was  because  I  had  scared 
him  with  my  yell.  He  was  frightened  that 
he  might  have  hurt  somebody  with  his 
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miration for  him  when  I  finally  imder- 
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again  with  pride,  as  I  recall  the  incident. 

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longed to  no  specific  church  I  miist  be 
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her  whole  family  had  suffered  undeserv- 
edly at  the  hands  of  fate  in  war-torn 
Europe.  To  her,  life  loomed  as  a  savage 
existence  softened  by  no  spiritual  rewards, 
Steffi  herself,  after  she  came  to  this  coun- 
try, had  her  dancing  career  interrupted 
by  a  painful  hip  condition  which  neither 
medicine  nor  surgery  helped. 

But  by  this  time  we  were  together  and 
I  would  not  give  up  hope.  For  several  years 
she  suffered.  She  was  in  agony  80  per  cent 
of  the  time,  in  pain  10  per  cent,  and  for 
the  remaining  10  per  cent  she  plain  hiu:t. 
When  there  was  no  doctor  to  encourage 
us  I  had  only  one  weapon  left  .  .  .  and  that 
was  prayer.  Steffi  was  appreciative,  but 
was  herself  bitterly  reconciled  to  living 
the  rest  of  her  days  almost  as  an  invalid. 
Yet  she  was  brave.  She  wsinted  as  much 
out  of  life  as  she  could  get,  and  though 
doctors  warned  her  against  motherhood 
she  paid  no  heed. 

Months  after  little  Jimmy's  birth,  when 
he  had  caught  up  to  normal  weight  and 
development,  I  had  had  no  intimation  from 
Steffi  that  she  had  changed  her  mind  about 
religion.  Then,  one  evening  at  bedtime,  I 
spoke  to  her  and  she  just  said,  "Sh-h-h." 
A  moment  later  she  announced  simply, 
"Tm  sorry.  I  was  praying." 

It  developed  then  that  I  had  not  been 
alone  in  praying  that  Jimmy  would  make  it. 


"And  once  I  prayed  I  felt  I  must  live  up  to 
it,"  Steffi  told  me.  "I  have  kept  it  up  ever 
since." 

I  told  her  she  might  as  well  include  her- 
self in  her  prayers.  She  smiled  and  nodded. 
For  more  than  a  year  we  had  not  consulted 
any  doctor  about  her.  More  months  passed 
and  then,  one  day,  we  got  a  telephone  call 
from  the  orthopedic  surgeon  who  had  last 
examined  her.  He  asked  us  to  drop  in  to 
see  him.  I  was  excited  but  Steffi  permitted 
herself  no  hope  when  we  went. 

Seated  before  him  we  heard  the  astound- 
ing news  that  a  new  surgical  technique 
had  been  developed  which  might  be  used 
on  Steffi.  It  was  a  combination  of  three 
new  operations  and  she  was  only  the 
24th  patient  in  medical  history  to  be  so 
treated.  Today  she  has  an  almost  normal 
use  of  her  hip,  the  pain  is  negligible  com- 
pared to  its  former  intensity,  and  Steffi  is 
happier  than  she  has  been  in  years. 

Faith  is  a  very  simple  necessity  to  both 
of  us  now.  We  realize  that  it  must  be 
part  of  our  lives  because  it  was  with  us 
from  the  day  we  first  met  .  .  .  even  though 
we  did  not  know  it.  There  is  only  one 
choice  we  think;  either  one  Uves  a  life  of 
faith  or  a  life  of  doubt.  Who  could  fail  to 
turn  to  faith?  The  End 

{Dennis  O'Keefe  can  he  seen  in  20th, 
Century-Fox's  Follow  The  Sun — Ed.) 


mr.  and  mrs.  tony  curtis 


(Continued  from  page  63)  the  studio.  I 
get  up  at  eight  and  go  over  to  my  studio. 
Then  I  drive  over  to  Ma's  house,  pick  her 
up,  and  drive  down  to  the  hospital  to  see 
Dad. 

"I  drive  Ma  home,  go  back  to  the  studio, 
pick  Janet  up  at  the  apartment.  Then, 
Janet  and  I  go  back  to  the  hospital  and 
spend  the  whole  evening  with  Dad. 

"After  that  we  grab  a  bite,  go  home  and 
hit  the  hay. 

"That's  a  pretty  rough  way  to  spend  a 
honeymoon.  None  of  this  Honolulu  or 
Bermuda  routine.  But  Tm  not  complain- 
ing, because  I  have  the  best  wife  in  the 
whole  world. 

"You  don't  know  this  girl.  She's  perfect. 
Honestly!  If  I  were  to  say  tomorrow, 
'Janet,  I  want  you  to  give  up  your  career,' 
she'd  do  it.  More  than  anything  else  in 
life,  she  wants  to  please  me.  And  more 
than  anything,  I  want  to  please  her.  How 
can  we  go  wrong  with  that  kind  of  atti- 
tude? 

"WhUe  I'm  talking,  I  must  say  that  peo- 
ple have  been  pretty  wonderful  to  us.  You 
know,  when  we  got  married  there  was  a 
lot  of  talk  about  how  my  fans  would  for- 
sake me. 

"Nothing  like  that  happened  at  all.  We 
got  wonderful  letters  of  congrattdations 
from  perfect  strangers. 

"Tm  trying  to  send  all  of  them  thank- 
you  notes,  but  that  takes  time.  It  wotdd 
help  if  you'd  say  thank-you  for  Janet  and 
me  in  Modern  Screen,  and  tell  everyone 
we'll  answer  their  letters  just  as  fast  as 
we  can. 

We'd  also  like  to  do  something  real 
swell  for  Howard  Duff.  He  tmrned 
his  house  in  Malibu  over  to  us.  Just  like 
that.  Nobody  asked  him.  After  Janet  fin- 
ished her  picture,  the  weather  was  murder 
in  Los  Angeles,  hitting  ninety  all  the  time. 

"Duff  ran  into  me  in  the  street.  'Why 
don't  you  and  Janet  spend  a  few  days  down 
at  the  beach?'  he  asked.  'You  can  have  my 
house.' 

"Well,  Janet  had  four  days  off  between 
JurSt  This  Once  and  Scaramouche,  and  I 
had  a  few  days  off  before  starting  the  Son 


of  All  Baba,  and  Dad  was  improving  that 
week,  so  I  accepted  Howie's  offer.  Janet 
and  I  drove  down  to  his  Malibu  cottage. 

"Those  four  days  at  Malibu  were  the 
greatest  bit  of  our  delayed  honeymoon. 
We  slept  late,  romped  on  the  beach,  went 
swimming. 

"Janet  and  I  had  both  lost  weight  so  we 
fattened  up  a  little.  For  the  first  time  in 
a  long  while  we  felt  relaxed." 

Honeymooning  at  Malibti,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Tony  Curtis  discussed  the  problem  of 
children.  Janet  is  an  only  child  and  is 
against  families  with  one  child  on  princi- 
ple. Tony  has  a  brother  and  Ukes  large 
families. 

"We're  going  to  have  some  children," 
Tony  says,  "as  soon  as  we  get  settled.  I 
don't  think  children  wiU  interfere  with 
Janet's  career,  and  I  don't  see  any  reeison 
why  she  shouldn't  have  one — a  career,  I 
mean.  Lots  of  people  keep  saying  that  two 
acting  careers  in  one  family  don't  mix. 

"I  don't  know  about  that.  Janet's  a  much 
bigger  star  than  I  am,  and  she  earns  more 
money — but  in  this  family,  I'm  the  bread- 
winner. Other  actresses  have  had  children, 
and  it  hasn't  ruined  their  careers. 

"On  the  other  hand,  maybe  when  the 
children  start  coming,  Janet  wiU  retire 
for  a  year  or  two.  We  don't  know  yet. 

"Right  now  we're  in  the  process  of  get- 
ting our  bearings.  I  want  to  work  hard. 
I  want  to  make  as  many  good  pictures  as 
possible.  Janet  keeps  working  all  the  time. 
She  goes  from  one  picture  to  another.  I 
thinks  she's  made  three  or  four  already. 

"If  I  cotdd  make  three  or  four  or  even 
10  pictures  a  year,  I'd  jump  with  joy.  I 
love  movies.  I  also  love  having  a  home  and 
having  Janet  there  to  come  home  to. 

"I  never  realized  marriage  could  be  so 
swell.  A  lot  of  my  friends  tell  me  that  I'm 
flying  on  cloud  29.  'When  are  you  kids 
coming  down  to  earth?'  they  ask. 

"We've  got  our  feet  on  the.grotmd.  We 
know  the  score.  I've  got  a  business  man- 
ager and  he's  saving  money  for  me,  money 
for  the  children-to-come  and  the  emer- 
gencies like  my  Dad's  getting  sick. 

"I  imderstand  that  once  the  honeymoon 
is  over,  the  glow  wears  off  the  marriage. 
Well,  I  have  a  big  scoop  for  you.  As  far  as 
Janet  and  I  are  concerned,  this  marriage 
is  one  perpetual  honeymoon.  Goodbye, 
now — the  wife's  calling."  The  End 


mr.  and  mrs.  john  agar 


(Continued  from  page  65)  a  part  in  a 
stage  play.  I  want  to  learn  all  the  facets 
of  the  business. 

"I've  got  a  wife  and  a  child  to  support, 
and  Loretta  and  I  expect  to  have  several 
other  children  just  as  soon  as  we  get 
settled." 

Loretta  Agar  comes  from  a  family  that 
had  six  girls  and  one  boy.  She  says,  "Jack 
and  I  love  children,  and  we  want  some,  of 
course.  Certainly  more  than  one.  Who  can 
tell  about  such  things?  Right  now,  the 
thing  to  do  is  to  get  Jack  straightened  out 
on  these  traffic  charges." 

As  we  aU  know  now,  John  Agar  took 
the  witness  stand  in  Los  Angeles  Municipal 
Court  several  months  ago  and  denied 
stoutly  that  he  was  intoxicated  when  he 
was  arrested  in  Westwood  on  a  drunk 
driving  charge. 

John  insisted  that  on  the  day  of  his 
arrest  he  had  taken  only  four  drinks, 
scotch  and  water.  Three  before  limch, 
and  one  after  18  holes  of  golf. 

He  was  apprehended  while  taking  Loret- 
ta out  to  dinner.  The  arresting  officers 
testified  that  his  eyes  were  bloodshot  and 
that  he  had  failed  to  pass  his  sobriety  test. 

In  court,  John  admitted  that  his  auto 
had  swerved  over  the  white  line,  "but  that 
was  only  because,"  he  testified,  "I  wanted 
to  make  a  turn  without  jostling  my  pass- 
enger. As  for  my  eyes  being  bloodshot, 
they're  bloodshot  lots  of  times  due  to 
strain,  sunlight,  and  dust." 

John  said  that  he  walked  a  straight  line 
for  officers  in  a  normal  stride  but  that  he 
coiildn't  walk  a  straight  line  in  the  specific 
heel-to-toe  manner  they  demanded. 

His  wife  was  then  called  to  the  stand. 
Loretta  denied  a  motorcycle  officer's  tes- 
timony that  she  was  surprised  at  Jack's 
inability  to  walk  a  straight  line. 

Officer  Byron  Schwab  had  previously 
testified  that  Mrs.  Agar  had  said,  "Gee!  I 
didn't  know  he  was  as  bad  as  that  until 
I  saw  him  walking  the  line." 

"I  wouldn't  have  let  him  drive  if  he'd 
been  drunk,"  Loretta  told  the  jury,  "be- 


cause it  was  I  who  had  borrowed  the  car." 

Larry  Springer,  Agar's  golf  partner  on 
the  day  of  his  arrest,  also  testified  that 
Jack  had  taken  only  one  drink  after  their 
golf  game. 

The  trial  lasted  for  three  days,  and 
Agar's  two  attorneys,  Everett  Leighton 
and  Llewelyn  Moses  both  made  eloquent 
pleas  to  the  jury. 

While  his  attorneys  spoke.  Jack  and  his 
wife  played  nervously  with  their  fingers, 
wondering  if  Jack  would  be  acquitted  or 
found  guUty  and  sentenced  to  30  days  in 
the  county  jail. 

The  jury  of  nine  women  and  three  men 
deUberated  for  more  than  four  hours.  "It 
seemed  like  an  eternity,"  Agar  said  later. 

While  that  jury  deliberated,  another  jury 
was  being  selected  to  try  John  on  still 
another  charge  of  drunk  driving. 

The  jury  left  the  courtroom  at  2:30  in 
the  afternoon.  At  7:00  it  filed  back  in.  The 
foreman  handed  the  verdict  to  the  clerk, 
who  in  txirn,  passed  it  up  to  the  Judge. 
"The  Jxu^,"  announced  the  Judge,  "finds 
the  defendant  guilty  as  charged." 

Agar  winced.  His  wife  took  his  hand  and 
clasped  it  firmly.  Then  the  Judge  an- 
nounced that  he  would  pass  sentence  on 
Agar  at  a  later  date  somewhere  between 
August  27th  and  August  30th. 

Loretta  ran  out  into  the  corridor  where, 
for  the  first  time,  she  lost  her  composure 
completely.  She  burst  into  tears  and  be- 
gan crying,  "Oh  no,"  she  sobbed,  "no,  no." 
John  followed  her  out,  and  put  his  arms 
around  his  wife's  shoulders.  "It  will  be 
O.K.  Darling,"  he  said  reassuringly — but 
he  stiU  didn't  know  whether  he  would  have 
to  spend  one  month  or  six  months  in  jaU, 
pay  a  fine  of  $500,  or  possibly  win  some 
sort  of  leniency  from  the  Court  and  be 
placed  upon  probation. 

"Jack  is  a  man  and  wUl  accept  any  pun- 
ishment the  Court  hands  out,"  Loretta 
said.  "But  I  don't  think  he  deserves  any. 
This  cloud's  been  hanging  over  our  mar- 
riage long  enough.  We  want  to  get  it  done 
with  and  start  out  with  a  clean  slate." 

By  the  time  this  story  appears  in  print 
the  final  verdict  will  be  known.  But  so 
far,  for  the  Agars,  marriage  has  not  been 
an  altogether  blissful  affair.        The  End 


reunion  in  london 


(Continued  from  page  37)  the  perfect 
complexion  of  alabaster  white,  the  trim 
figure,  blue-grey  eyes,  and  the  perfectly 
curved  mouth. 

To  Pia,  seeing  her  mother  again  was  the 
most  exciting  event  in  her  whole  yotmg 
life.  For  three  years,  the  little  girl  had 
been  hearing  and  reading  the  most  amaz- 
ing collection  of  half-truths  concerning 
Ingrid.  Dr.  Lindstrom,  of  course,  had  told 
her  the  truth  simply  and  delicately  with 
great  tact. 

Her  mother,  he'd  explained,  had  fallen 
in  love  with  another  man,  had  secured  a 
divorce  and  had  then  been  married  to  the 
other  man.  Presently,  she'd  given  birth 
to  a  baby-boy,  who  was  Pia's  half-brother. 

Just  how  much  Pia  picked  up  by  her- 
self through  the  newspapers  and  radio,  no 
one  really  knows.  At  any  rate,  whether 
she  is  acquainted  with  the  true  sequence 
of  events  is  unimportant.  She  is  much  too 
young  to  pass  moral  judgment  on  her 
mother  whom  -she  loves  very  much. 

To  Pia,  only  one  thing  coimts:  she  has 
seen  her  mother  again.  Better  still,  she 
knows  that  she  will  see  her  mother  at  least 
once  every  year,  and  probably  in  Europe, 
too. 

As  she  grows  older,  she  will  meet  Ros- 
sellini,  for  such  a  meeting — no  matter  what 


Dr.  Lindstrom  may  think — is  inevitable. 
And  she  will  meet  and  play  with  her  half- 
brother,  Robertino. 

When  Dr.  Lindstrom  and  Pia  (whom  he 
now  calls  Jenny)  left  Los  Angeles  for 
Europe,  he  would  issue  no  statement.  How- 
ever, a  statement  came  from  Judge  Isaac 
Pacht,  Lindstrom's  attorney,  who  ex- 
plained that  the  doctor  and  his  daughter 
would  board  the  Queen  Mary  in  New  York 
for  England  and  Sweden  where  Ingrid  and 
Jenny  "would  enjoy  an  extended  visit." 

The  Judge  pointed  out  that  Lindstrom 
and  Ingrid  had  agreed  on  Sweden  for  the 
reimion  because  both  of  them,  as  weU  as 
Pia,  had  been  born  there.  Meeting  in 
Sweden  woidd  also  avoid  contact  with 
Rossellini  whom  Lindstrom  justifiably 
can't  abide. 

"This,"  the  Judge  announced,  "wiU  carry 
out  an  imderstanding  that  the  child's  visit 
with  her  mother  should  take  place  under 
conditions  where  Pia  would  not  be  involved 
in  any  contact  with  Mr.  Rossellini  .  .  . 
I'm  issuing  this  statement  because  we  want 
to  set  at  rest  the  unfounded  rimiors  which 
have  emanated  from  Rome  over  the  past 
eight  or  nine  months." 

These  rumors  implied  that  Ingrid  and 
Pia  would  meet  in  Paris,  Rome,  the  Riviera, 
and  several  other  cities. 

Whenever  these  rumors  were  printed, 
Dr.  Lindstrom  refused  to  dignify  them  with 
a  denial.  He  knew  that  Ingrid  had  been 
contacted  in  Rome  and  had  agreed  in  sub- 


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stance  to  the  following  plan:  She  would 
leave  Rome  by  train  during  the  last  week 
in  July,  and  would  pretend  to  proceed 
directly  to  Sweden,  but  would  come  to 
London  instead. 

The  doctor  and  Pia  would  arrive  in 
England  on  July  20th.  They  would  then 
check  into  the  Washington  Hotel  in  Lon- 
don, and  would  spend  a  week  sight- 
seeing and  shopping.  After  that,  they  would 
meet  Ingrid. 

If  by  chance  Ingrid  was  delayed  or 
lanable  to  make  it,  she  was  to  notify  them 
at  the  Washington  Hotel.  Otherwise,  In- 
grid and  Pia  were  to  spend  approximately 
two  weeks  together.  ITien  Pia  would  re- 
turn to  the  United  States  with  her  father. 

This  ocean  voyage  to  meet  her  mother 
was  Pia's  first  trans-Atlantic  trip  she'd 
been  capable  of  enjoying.  And  how  she 
loved  it! 

She  gaily  explored  the  Queen  Mary,  and 
when  the  boat  docked  at  Southampton 
and  the  British  newspapermen  came  aboard 
to  question  her  and  her  father,  she  viewed 
them  serenely. 

"Matter  of  fact,"  wrote  one  English  re- 
porter, "Dr.  Lindstrom  was  more  put  out 
by  the  inquiries  than  his  daughter.  Just  as 
soon  as  we'd  ask  the  little  girl  a  question, 
the  doctor  would  refuse  to  let  her  answer." 

Lindstrom'  was  his  usual  uncommu- 
nicative self. 

"What  brings  you  to  England?"  a  re- 
porter asked  thumb-in-cheek. 

"Well,"  explained  the  doctor,  "about  a 
year  ago  I  decided  to  visit  England  and 
Sweden." 

"With  or  without  your  daughter?" 

The  doctor  ignored  that  question. 

"How  long  do  you  plan  to  stay  here?" 

Lindstrom  fingered  the  red  carnation  in 
the  lapel  of  his  gray  worsted  suit.  "Just  a 
few  days.  After  that,  we're  leaving  for 
Sweden." 

"By  plane  or  boat?"  a  reporter  asked. 

"I  haven't  made  up  my  mind  yet." 

Another  reporter  edged  forward.  "Have 
you  heard  anything  from  Miss  Bergman 
lately?" 

The  doctor's  face  stiffened.  "You're 
wasting  my  time  and  your  time,"  he  said 
flatly,  "by  asking  such  personal  ques- 
tions." 

"Very  well,  then,"  agreed  the  reporter. 


"What  plans  have  been  made  for  meeting 
Miss  Bergman  in  Sweden?  Will  the  child 
have  any  time  to  spend  with  her  mother?" 

The  doctor  shook  his  head  resignedly. 
"We  intend  to  go  to  Stockholm,"  he  said, 
"and  other  places  in  Sweden.  Miss  Berg- 
man will  have  many  opportunities  to  visit 
with  her  daughter."  Lindstrom  failed  to 
drop  the  slightest  hint  about  Ingrid's  ar- 
riving in  London. 

Pia  stood  next  to  her  father.  She  wore 
the  same  blue  and  white  checkered  dress 
that  she  was  to  wear  later  when  she  met 
Ingrid.  In  her  wedgies  and  bobby  socks, 
a  red  bag  over  her  shoulder,  and  a  portable 
radio  in  her  right  hand,  she  looked  ador- 
able. 

"Tell  me.  Miss  Lindstrom,"  a  reporter 
asked,  "did  you  enjoy  your  trip?" 

Dr.  Lindstrom  intervened.  "She  is  only 
12,"  he  said.  "I  wiU  not  allow  any  of* you 
to  question  her." 

He  clasped  Pia's  free  hand  in  his  and 
descended  the  gangplank.  A  reporter  raced 
down  after  them.  In  Swedish  he  asked 
Pia  if  she  knew  how  to  talk  in  her 
mother's  native  tongue. 

Pia  looked  up  at  him  and  laughed. 

"Nej,"  she  answered.  "Nej,"  which 
means  no. 

After  being  cleared  by  customs,  the 
Lindstroms  boarded  a  train  for  London. 

Approximately  ten  days  later  Pia  had  her 
reimion  with  Ingrid  at  the  Washington 
Hotel.  It  lasted  five  hours. 

What  Ingrid  and  her  daughter  talked 
about,  Pia  cannot  say,  since  her  father 
will  not  permit  her  to  be  interviewed. 
However,  Pia  did  say,  "I  saw  mother  and 
spent  several  hours  with  her.  It  was  won- 
derful." That  plans  were  made  for  future 
meetings — the  next  one  will  probably  be  at 
Christmas  with  Ingrid  coming  to  this  coun- 
try—there is  little  doubt.  The  one  factor 
which  has  caused  Ingrid  the  greatest  heart- 
ache in  her  affair  with  Rossellini  has  been 
her  separation  from  Pia. 

In  loving  RosselUni,  Ingrid  was  willing 
to  risk  her  reputation,  even  her  career — 
but  not  her  daughter.  'The  fact  that  she  has 
been  able  to  see  and  talk  to  Pia  once 
again  is  of  tremendous  importcince  to  her. 
Because  of  this  reunion  she  views  her 
future  with  hope  and  happiness. 
The  End 


bob's  wife 


(Continued  from  page  43)  "Lately,"  she 
continued,  "it's  seemed  as  though  every 
day  has  been  taken  up  with  contract  ne- 
gotiations, script  conferences,  and  talks 
with  the  director.  All  summer  we've 
wanted  to  go  back  down  to  Balboa  but 
something  has  always  come  up  at  the  last 
minute  to  prevent  it.  But  now  that  the 
picture  is  definitely  set,  I'm  so  excited  I 
can  hardly  wait  for  it  to  start.  I've  been 
off  the  screen  a  long  time,  you  know." 

It  has  been  no  secret  that  during  the 
past  three  and  one-half  years,  Lana  has 
given  her  career  a  back  seat.  In  fact,  for 
a  star  of  her  magnitude,  her  appearances 
on  the  screen  have  been  so  infrequent 
that  they  might  almost  be  called  non- 
existent. There  was  No  Life  of  Her  Own. 
And  last  year  she  made  Mr.  Iraperium. 
So  when  Lana's  old  contract  with  MGM 
expired  this  spring,  it  was  only  natural 
that  she  would  start  thinking  seriously 
about  her  career  again.  Lana  and  Bob 
spent  many  hours  discussing  her  career, 
and  together,  made  the  decision  that  she 
should  return  to  MGM. 

Earlier  in  the  summer,  I'd  had  a  brief 
glimpse  of  Lana  and  Bob  one  day  down 
at  Balboa  Bay  when  their  sleek  speed 


boat  had  flashed  past  the  chugging  fishing 
boat  I  was  riding  out  to  sea.  On  sudden 
impulse,  I  had  yeUed,  "Hi  Lana!"  I'm 
sure  she  couldn't  recognize  me  in  my 
battered  fishing  clothes,  but  she  stood  up 
in  the  stern  of  their  speeding  craft  and 
shouted  an  enthusiastic  hello  right  back. 
She  looked  like  a  bronzed,  blonde  Diana. 

When  I  reminded  Lana  of  this  chance 
meeting,  she  smiled  and  said,  "That's  what 
we  loved  about  Balboa.  Down  there, 
everyone  says  hello  as  a  matter  of  course. 
Our  apartment  was  right  on  the  bay,  and 
we  got  to  know  everyone  who  sailed 
past." 

Lana  and  Bob  moved  down  there  shortly 
after  she  lost  her  second  baby  last  winter. 
At  the  time.  Bob  owned  an  interest  in  a 
boat-building  firm  near  the  harbor  and 
they  spent  nearly  four  wonderful  months 
in  the  comfortable  Lido  Isle  apartment 
which  they  leased  for  the  spring  season. 

They  rarely  went  out  for  dinner,  and 
when  they  invited  friends  in,  Bob  did 
the  cooking  himself  on  their  barbecue  pit 
— usually  charcoal- broiled  steaks,  deeply 
marinated  in  the  special  keriaki  soy  sauce 
he  discovered  during  his  last  trip  to 
Honolulu.  They  joined  the  Bay  Club,  and 
on  Sundays,  they  would  run  their  fast 
express  cruiser  out  past  the  jetty  to  watch 
the  sailboats  race  around  the  buoys. 
"Lana  wouldn't  tell  vou."  Bob  confided 


over  his  breakfast  coffee,  "but  she  nearly 
won  the  doubles  tournament  at  the  Bay 
Club  with  Van  Zerbe,  a  friend  of  ours. 
Unfortunately,  their  opponents  in  the 
semi-finals  were  just  one  game  stronger." 

Every  day  at  Balboa  was  like  a  holiday. 
But  the  best  one  of  all  was  Lana's  birth- 
day, which  she  considers  to  be  the  most 
exciting  birthday  of  her  entire  lifetime. 

"It  was  so  wonderful  because  it  was  a 
complete  surprise.  All  morning,  I  had 
been  gloomy  because  I  thought  Bob  had 
forgotten  my  birthday,  and  by  the  time 
we  went  over  to  the  Bay  Club  for  limch, 
I  was  completely  in  the  dumps.  We  sat 
with  some  friends  near  the  window  which 
overlooks  the  harbor,  and  I  merely  picked 
at  my  food.  At  one  time  during  lunch, 
everyone  at  the  table  began  chattering 
and  I  thought  they'd  all  gone  crazy.  Later 
that  afternoon,  I  found  out  the  reason  why. 
Bob  had  chartered  The  Malihu,  a  big 
pleasure  yacht,  for  my  birthday  and  while 
we  were  having  lunch,  it  sailed  past  the 
Bay  Club  on  the  way  to  the  dock.  Every- 
one tried  to  keep  me  distracted  so  I 
wouldn't  turn  around  and  see  her.  Then, 
after  lunch.  Bob  said,  'Come  on,  let's  take 
a  walk.'  'I  don't  want  to  take  a  walk,' 
I  repUed,  abruptly.  But  finally,  I  agreed 
to  walk  down  to  the  docks  with  Bob  and 
there  was  The  Malihu  waiting  for  us.  That 
night,  we  had  a  wonderful  party  and  in 
the  dawn,  we  slipped  out  of  the  harbor  for 
a  six-day  voyage  around  Catalina  Island. 
It  was  like  a  dream." 

A  few  weeks  later,  Lana  and  Bob  drove 
to  Ensenada  with  some  friends  to  help 
celebrate  the  arrival  of  the  boats  in  the 
annual  Newport-to-Ensenada  yacht  race. 
"We  wanted  to  sail  down  on  one  of  the 
fastest  boats,  in  order  to  be  in  at  the 
finish,"  Lana  said,  "but  I'm  afraid  that 
I'm  not  sailor  enough  yet  to  tackle  the 
open  sea  on  a  trip  like  that." 

They  had  a  delightful  time  at  the  vic- 
tory celebration,  however,  and  driving 
back  to  Balboa  in  Bob's  open  sports  car, 
Lana  got  her  nose  sunburned  berry-red. 
It  was  still  looking  pretty  unglamorous 
when  Lana  had  to  return  to  Holly-wood  for 
the  first  conferences  about  her  new  pic- 
ture. The  Merry  Widow. 

When  Cheryl's  school  was  let  out  for 
the  summer,  Lana  and  Bob  gave  up  their 
plans  for  returning  to  the  beach  and  set- 
tled down  at  their  Brentwood  home, 
which  is  a  miniature  Shangri-la  itself. 
Most  of  their  entertaining  this  summer 
has  been  centered  around  the  pool  house, 
and  the  barbeque  pit.  Bob  has  always  dis- 
tinguished himself  at  the  spit,  with  but 
one  exception.  That  occurred  several 
weeks  ago,  when  in  a  moment  of  ex- 
uberance, he  attempted  to  barbecue  a 
whole  pig. 

"Ever  cook  a  pig?"  Bob  laughingly  in- 
quired of  me.  "Well,  don't,  unless  you 
have  all  day.  I  put  ours  on  at  8:00  p.m., 
thinking  that  it  would  be  nicely  browned 
by  10:30  when  we  plaimed  to  eat.  But 
by  11  o'clock,  the  meat  was  still  blood 
red  and  our  guests  were  all  sitting  around 
starving  to  death.  In  desperation,  we 
finally  had  to  call  up  a  little  restaurant 
in  the  neighborhood  and  have  them  send 
up  12  steaks.  We  didn't  eat  iintil  after 
midnight,  and  the  pig  wasn't  even  done 
then.  I  was  so  mad  that  I  could  hardly 
eat  my  steak." 

Except  for  special  occasions  like  their 
third  anniversary,  on  which  Bob  presented 
Lana  with  a  shiny  new  Jaguar  sports 
roadster,  the  Toppings  have  not  spent 
many  evenings  out  on  the  town.  Two  or 
three  nights  a  week,  they  play  gin  rummy 
with  their  friends.  Cubby  and  Nedra 
Broccoli,  the  girls  teaming  up  against 
the  boys.  When  the  girls  win,  they  insist 
on  being  paid;  when  they  lose,  they 
change  the  subject  quickly. 


"It  was  even  worse  than  that  on  our 
honeymoon,"  Bob  said,  morosely.  "Lana 
took  half  of  everything  I  won,  and  half 
of  everything  I  lost.  It's  the  best  method 
I  can  think  of  for  breaking  a  man  of  the 
gambling  habit." 

They  also  have  taken  up  bowling  once 
a  week.  Lana  used  to  go  bowling  when 
she  was  a  starlet,  but  she  lost  interest  in 
the  game  until  recently  when  the  Broccolis 
persuaded  her  to  try  it  again.  Lana 
amazed  everyone,  including  herself,  by 
bowling  a  score  near  200. 

Much  to  her  own  amazement,  too,  Lana 
has  been  shopping  for  clothes  only  twice 
this  simamer,  and  then  to  buy  pedal  push- 
ers, blouses,  and  shorts  to  wear  around 
home  and  at  the  beach.  She  still  has  a 
number  of  glamorous  dresses  from  the 
trousseau  which  Don  Loper  made  for  her 
that  she  has  never  worn,  and  in  recent 
weeks,  she  has  been  getting  them  re- 
styled  and  brought  up  to  date. 

"We  left  on  our  honeymoon  in  such  a 
hurry,"  Lana  said,  "that  a  lot  of  my 
clothes  were  only  basted  together.  All 
over  Europe,  I  had  to  be  careful  that  I 
wouldn't  suddenly  pop  open  at  the  seams." 

Right  at  the  moment,  Lana  and  Bob 
are  perplexed  about  Cheryl's  birthday 
party.  Year  before  last,  they  gave  her  a 
big  western  party.  Last  year,  it  had  a 
luau  theme,  replete  with  grass  skirts  and 
Hawaiian  music.  They've  thought  up  and 
rejected  a  dozen  ideas,  and  still  haven't 
made  up  their  minds. 

Cheryl  is  growing  fast.  This  fall,  she 
will  be  in  the  third  grade  at  St.  Paul's 
Apostles  in  Brentwood.  The  main  interest 
in  her  life  is  horseback  riding.  All  dur- 
ing the  last  school  term,  Cheryl  rode 
twice  a  week  and  this  summer,  she  has 
coaxed  Lana  every  day  to  go  riding  with 
her  to  see  the  tricks  she's  learned. 

"The  first  time  I  saw  her  jump  her  horse 
over  a  barrier,  my  heart  went  up  into  my 
throat,  and  I  guess  my  fears  were  writ- 
ten all  over  my  face,  for  Cheryl  rode  up 
and  calmly  asked,  'Don't  you  want  me  to 
jimip,  Mommie?'  'Of  course,'  I  managed 
to  say,  somehow.  I  don't  want  her  ever 
to  be  afraid.  But  now  she  wants  us  to 
buy  her  the  horse  she  rides  regularly. 
When  I  asked  where  we  would  keep  it, 
she  said,  'Oh,  you  can  buy  me  a  ranch.'  " 

Except  for  an  occasional  wild  burst  of 
fancy  like  this,  Cheryl's  desires  are  nor- 
mal and  unextravagant,  and  although 
Lana  and  Bob  can  give  her  almost  any- 
thing she  wants,  they  are  careful  not  to 
spoil  her. 

"A  few  weeks  ago,  Cheryl  saw  a  little 
girl  at  school  wearing  a  strand  of  pearls 
and  wanted  some  like  them,"  Lana  said. 
"But  when  Cheryl  was  a  baby  I  started 
an  Add-A-Pearl  necklace  for  her  and  that, 
I  told  her,  was  enough  finery  for  a  little 
girl.  She  took  it  very  well." 

Of  course,  like  all  little  girls,  Cheryl 
likes  to  put  on  her  mother's  clothes  and 
lipstick  and  play  grown-up.  Every  time 
she  sees  Lana  in  a  new  evening  gown, 
she  wants  it.  She  can  hardly  wait  until  she 
is  big  enough  to  wear  one  without  drag- 
ging it  on  the  ground. 

"The  other  day,  I  came  home  and  found 
her  putting  on  my  nail  polish,"  Lana 
chuckled.  "She  had  it  all  over  her  fin- 
gers. But  I  think  I've  broken  her  of  that." 

During  her  last  school  term,  Cheryl 
became  conscious  for  the  first  time  that 
her  mother  was  Lana  Turner  as  well  as 
"Mommie."  Lana  was  hard  pressed  to  ex- 
plain that  she  was  known  by  that  name  as 
an  actress,  and  that  there  was  really  noth- 
ing mysterious  about  Lana  Turner  at  all. 

After  my  very  pleasant  interview  with 
Lana  and  Bob  at  their  home,  I  was  in- 
clined to  agree  with  her.  And  I,  for  one, 
will  be  happy  to  see  her  back  on  the 
screen  again.  The  End 


Wouldn't  you  be  elated  to  find  yourself, 
on  certain  days  of  the  month,  completely 
^^^^  free  from  a  lot  of  the  worries  that 
EEEBSS  are  usual  at  that  time?  Well,  you 
UlttM  must  try  the  Tampax  method  of 
sanitary  protection.  This  remark- 
^^^^  able,  doctor-invented  Tampax 
discards  the  irksome  harness  of  belts, 
pins  and  external  pads.  It  is  worn  inter- 
nally. It  cannot  be  seen  or  felt  when  in  use. 

How  Tampax  does  help  a  woman 
maintain  her  poise  and  self-confidence 
at  such  times!  It  has  no  outside  bulk  to 
twist,  bulge  or  show  "edges"  under 
clothing.  No  chafing  is  possible.  No 
odor  can  form.  May  be  worn  in  tub  or 
shower.  (No  need  to  change  bathing 
habits  when  you  use  Tampax.) 

Tampax  is  made  of  highly  absorbent 
surgical  cotton  compressed  into  dainty 
applicators.  The  hands  need  never  touch 
the  Tampax.  Easy  to  use.  Quick  to 
change.  Disposal  no  trouble — Sold  at 
drug  and  notion  counters  in  3  absor- 
bencies— Regular,  Super,  Junior.  Anaver- 
age  month's  supply  slips  into  purse.  Or 
get  the  economy  box  holding  4  times 
this   quantity.   Tampax  Incorporated, 


Accepted  for  Adrertising 
by  the  Journal  of  the  American  Medical  Association 


Love  brought 

shame  to  one  woman  — 
destruction  to  another 


in  these  2  thrillii 


FREE  WOMAN 

by  Katharine  Brush 


REMEMBERING 
LAUGHTER 

(Prize- winning  novelette) 

by  Wallace  Stegner 


Harriet  Lansing  knew  what  she 
wanted  and  rode  roughshod 
over  those  who  stood  in  her 
way.  She  charted  her  Hfe  to 
one  all-important  purpose:  suc- 
cess. At  the  height  of  her  suc- 
cess disaster  struck,  and  she  was 
ruined.  Behind  the  facade  of  a 
brilliant  career,  Harriet  was 
finally  broken  —  by  the  only 
man  who  could  call  her  bluff 
and  live  to  see  her  destroyed. 

sm  ssss^  msi  >sm  ^  ws^  m 


Here  is  the  story  of  two  sisters 
and  the  shameful  secret  that 
made  their  lives  a  living  hell. 
It  is  a  story  of  Margaret,  proud, 
aristocratic,  coolly  devoted  to 
her  husband,  and  Elspeth,  who 
was  everything  her  sister  was 
not.  Young  beautiful  Elspeth 
was  ripe  for  the  love  of  a  man, 
and  that  man  was  the  one  per- 
son denied  her,  the  husband  of 
her  own  sister. 

mik        mm  'im  w»  mi  mt 


Here  are  other  outstanding  DELL  10^  BOOK  titles  you  can  buy: 

THE  NAME  IS  MARY  by  Fannie  Hurst 

A  millionaire's  life  is  influenced  by  three  women  and  he  destroys  the 
one  he  needs  most. 

THE  BEACHCOMBER  by  W.  Somerset  Maugham 

The  story  of  a  woman  who  wanted  to  save  a  man  from  the  things  he 
loved  best — native  women  and  wine. 

ALIBI  FOR  ISABEL  by  Mary  Roberts  Rinehart 

Sally  Fielding's  past  was  spotless  except  for  one  tragic  mistake.  In 
the  end  she  paid  for  the  mistake  dearly. 

Next  time  you  want  the  best  stories  at  the  loivest  possible  price 
get  handy  (pocket  size) 

at  your  newsstand 


a  place  of  their  own 

(Continued  from  page  60)  needed  the  re- 
finement of  18th  century  designs.  We  also 
decided  that  we  wanted  only  genuine  an- 
tiques or  good  custom-built  pieces.  And 
that's  what  we  have. 

After  they'd  taken  the  initial  step  in 
furnishing  the  living  room,  the  rest  of  the 
Stevens'  choices  fell  naturally  into  place. 
A  large,  down- cushioned  couch  beside  the 
fireplace  was  covered  in  the  same  hand- 
blocked  French  print  as  the  draperies.  Twin 
easy  chairs,  upholstered  in  a  material  al- 
most the  same  color  as  the  black-green 
walls,  were  placed  opposite  the  couch.  A 
baby  grand  piano  was  perfectly  nestled 
into  one  corner  of  the  room,  where  Mark 
likes  to  play,  for  his  own  amusement.  And 
a  permanent  card  table  and  chairs  were 
ordered  to  replace  the  original  borrowed 
set. 

Mark  is  an  intense  card  player  who  en- 
joys a  close  game  for  high  stakes.  His  two 
favorites  are  gin  rummy,  and  Klabaisch, 
an  old  Hungarian  card  game.  When  Mrs. 
Rantz  realized  how  much  he  looked  for- 
ward to  his  evening  game  of  cards,  she 
and  Nelle  arranged  the  floor  plan  so  that 
a  table  and  chairs  could  always  stand  in 
the  comer  opposite  the  piano.  Antique 
game  tables  being  rather  hard  to  find,  she 
introduced  a  contemporary  note  into  the 
decorating.  The  card  table  is  very  modem 
in  design  and  painted  the  same  dark 
green  of  the  walls  so  that  it  doesn't  stand 
out  like  a  sore  thumb.  Then  she  had  the 
chairs  upholstered  so  that  they  are  more 
comfortable  than  ordinary  bridge  chairs. 
The  idea  behind  this  was  to  have  the  chairs 
made  ready  and  fitting  for  any  conversa- 
tional grouping  aroxmd  the  fireplace. 

Having  brought  in  one  modern  touch, 
Mrs.  Rantz  complemented  it  by  adding  a 
second  contemporary  piece.  The  simple 
coffee  table,  covered  in  black  leather,  is  a 
masterpiece  of  present-day  workmanship. 
Mark,  who  now  has  a  great  appreciation  for 
such  things,  loves  to  point  out  the  table's 
finer  features. 

At  only  two  points  during  the  job  did 
the  Stevenses  and  their  gentle  guide  have 
a  difference  of  opinion.  One  was  over  a  red 
velvet  chair.  Neither  Nelle  nor  Mark  could 
see  the  reason  for  departing  from  the  green 
and  white  motif  of  the  room.  "No,"  said 
Mark,  "no  red  velvet,  thank  you." 

"The  room  needs  one  dramatic  high- 
light," explained  Mrs.  Rantz.  "Let  me  try 
it  and  if  you  still  can't  bear  the  sight  of 
red  velvet,  out  it  goes." 

The  day  the  chair  was  delivered,  Mark 
had  to  work  late.  He  came  home  from  the 
studio  tired  and  irritable.  He  found  the 
bright  red  chair  standing  in  the  curve  of 
the  grand  piano.  He  took  one  long  look 
and  reached  for  the  telephone.  "Fanny, 
darlijig,"  he  apologized,  "you  were  so 
right  The  chair  belongs.  Until  now  the 
room  had  the  air  of  a  conservatively 
dressed  woman — class,  but  no  style.  To- 
night it  has  both.  You're  wonderful  and 
I  love  you." 

Mrs.  Rantz  laughed  with  relief.  "I  knew 
you'd   appreciate   its   dramatic  quality." 

IY/Tark  was  equally  determined  not  to 
-I-"  have  his  chair  and  ottoman  covered  in 
a  pink  and  green  striped  fabric  shot  with 
gold.  He  argued  that  the  whole  point  of 
this  one  furniture  tmit,  consisting  of  chair, 
script  cabinet  and  reading  lamp  was  to 
permit  the  man  of  the  house  to  have  a 
corner  of  his  own  without  having  to  re- 
tire into  his  office  in  the  garage.  And  he 
didn't  want  it  done  up  in  pink  and  green 
stripes. 

The  man  had  a  point  but  he  was  defend- 
ing it  against  two  women.  Their  reason  for 
using  this  handwoven  material  was  be- 
cause it  incorporated  all  the  colors  of  the 


geranium  wallpaper  in  the  hall.  Thus 
this  chair  would  serve  as  a  color  link 
between  the  living  room  and  the  rest  of 
the  house.  "When  the  decorating  is  com- 
pleted the  color  will  flow  from  one  room  to 
another.  The  house  will  then  seem  like  one 
complete  whole  and  not  a  series  of  different 
rooms,"  explained  Nelle,  who  had  had  it 
explained  to  her. 

The  nice  thing  about  Mark  Stevens  is 
that  he  knows  when  to  retreat  gracefully. 
He  gave  in  and  he's  glad  he  did. 

The  den,  or  sun  room,  as  the  Stevens 
family  tends  to  call  the  wide,  infoi'mal 
room  that  opens  onto  a  porte  cochere  and 
overlooks  the  garden,  sees  a  lot  of  traffic. 
Yoimg  Mark  and  his  gang — the  Hai-po 
Marx  kids,  and  Will  Hays,  Jr.'s  two  chil- 
dren— cut  through  this  room  on  their  way 
to  the  kitchen.  Annelle  uses  the  desk  by 
the  door  for  her  household  accounts;  and 
the  whole  family  gathers  here  to  read  or 
watch  television. 

Despite  the  constant  use,  the  den  wears 
well.  It's  painted  the  same  green  and  white 
as  the  living  room  and  carpeted  in  the 
same  light  green  rug,  but  the  furniture  is 
early  American.  The  coffee  table,  desk, 
magazine  rack,  and  Mark  Richard's  two 
little  TV  chairs  are  all  roughly  hewn 
antiques  that  you  can  really  knock  around 
without  a  thought  to  the  finish. 

The  dining  room  in  Mark  Stevens'  house 
is  a  perfect  example  of  decorating  to  the 
owners'  individual  tastes.  When  Mrs.  Rantz 
fu'st  saw  the  room  she  shook  her  head 
regretfully.  "It's  rather  small  compared 
to  the  size  of  the  house,"  she  commented. 
"But  if  you're  going  to  do  a  lot  of  enter- 
taining, we  can  think  of  some  stunt  to  in- 
crease its  seating  capacity." 

"No  entertaining,"  said  Mark  flatly.  "We 
bought  this  house  for  our  own  enjoyment 
and  not  to  give  a  lot  of  meaningless 
parties." 

Mark's  ready  answer  made  furnishing  the 
room  a  lot  easier.  His  wife  ordered  a 
French  Provincial  table  for  six,  and  had 
a  small  serving  buffet  built  to  fit  between 
two  windows.  Except  for  the  built-in 
china  cabinets,  that's  all  the  furniture  the 
room  needed.  Mrs.  Rantz,  however,  did 
use  a  few  devices  to  make  the  room  seem 
more  spacious  than  it  really  is.  She  had 
the  woodwork  painted  white,  which  always 
makes  a  room  seem  larger,  and  she 
eliminated  draperies.  At  the  windows  and 
doors  she  used  shutters  to  give  the  room 
privacy  without  making  it  appear  boarded 
up.  (This  is  true  all  over  the  house.) 

Although  Mark  is  the  kind  of  man  who'd 


rather  leave  a  party  than  give  one,  he 
does  enjoy  having  a  couple  of  close  friends 
for  dinner  occasionally.  He  and  Annelle 
like  to  invite  Cyd  and  Tony  Martin,  Cesar 
Romero  and  the  Goldstone  family  on  a 
strictly  informal  basis. 

A  LL  told,  the  furnishing  of  the  Stevens 
home  took  three  years.  Of  course, 
Mark  and  Annelle  aren't  completely 
through  yet.  You  never  are  when  you 
have  a  home  you  love.  But  when  the  bulk 
of  the  buying  was  over,  Mrs.  Rantz  an- 
nounced that  she  was  stepping  aside  to 
let  the  two  of  them  shop  around  for  their 
own  accessories.  "You  must  find  your  own 
ashtrays,  candy  dishes,  candle  holders, 
and  paintings,"  she  told  them.  "These 
finishing  touches  are  like  a  woman's 
jewelry.  They  complete  the  effect,  give 
the  house  its  character  and  they  must  be 
your  own." 

A  lot  more  sure  of  themselves  than  they 
were  in  the  beginning,  Mark  and  Nelle 
found  such  wonderful  accessories  as  the 
brass  shaving  rack  that  stands  in  the  hall, 
the  French  muffin  stand  that  they  use 
for  candies,  a  darling  antique  sewing  table, 
and  all  the  ironstone  pieces  that  they  have 
in  the  den. 

When  it  came  time  to  select  some  paint- 
ings, they  were  even  more  independent. 
Mark  once  worked  as  a  commercial  artist 
for  the  Federal  Engraving  Company  in 
Montreal  and  he's  an  amateur  painter  of 
some  stature.  He  knew  what  he  liked  in 
art.  Mrs.  Rantz,  however,  did  introduce 
him  to  a  young  artist  named  Victor  Amadio. 
Mark  bought  several  of  his  watercolors,  and 
then,  last  fall,  Annelle  commissioned  him 
to  paint  the  portrait  of  her  and  Mark 
Richard  that  hangs  over  the  fireplace.  She 
gave  it  to  her  husband  for  Christmas  and 
it's  the  delight  of  his  life. 

Mark  Stevens  is  now  a  man  of  property, 
and  he's  up  for  election  to  the  Beverly 
Hills  Board  of  Councilmen.  He  may  have 
forsaken  his  footloose  habits  but  not  his 
love  of  travel.  Having  just  completed 
Target  Unknown,  Katydid,  and  Little  Egypt 
for  Universal-International,  he's  starting 
on  a  four-month  personal  appearance 
tour  that  will  take  him  to  San  Francisco, 
Las  Vegas,  Houston,  Philadelphia,  Boston 
and  New  York. 

"Don't  let  this  house  and  fireside  routine 
fool  you,"  he  says  cheerfully.  "I'm  still 
a  rolling  stone.  I've  just  gathered  a  little 
moss,  that's  all." 

And  pretty  nice  moss  it  is,  too. 
The  End 


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(Continued  from  page  41)  the  fabric  of 
Ava's  "torrid  romance"  with  the  Spanish 
bullfighter,  and  had  left  no  doubt  in  any- 
one's mind  that  when  the  actress  went  to 
Europe,  she  left  her  morals  at  home. 

Adding  insult  to  exaggeration,  the 
columnist  did  a  sudden  overnight  switch 
when  Pandora  was  shown  to  a  select  few 
at  a  special  preview  and  Ava  emerged  as 
a  real,  breathless  beauty  with  obvious 
talent  and  appeal.  That  night  a  star  was 
born.  When  a  birth  of  this  magnitude 
occurs  in  Hollywood,  everyone — including 
hostile  columnists — ^try  to  hop  onto  the 
bandwagon.  This  person  was  no  exception. 

Today  it  may  appear  that  Ava  has  suc- 
cumbed to  the  heady  wine  of  this  person's 
praise  and  flattery.  She  has  reportedly 
dined  with  the  columnist  a  couple  of  times 
recently.  But  Ava  has  a  healthy  respect  for 
anyone  who  says  what  he  thinks,  and 
looks  with  contempt  on  anyone  guilty  of 
hvDocrisv.  So  don't  let  the  apparent  ameni- 


ties fool  you;  Ava's  armed  truce  was  forced 
on  her  by  studio  policy.  She  has  neither 
forgotten  nor  forgiven.  With  Ava  that 
certain  tattler  is  still  taboo! 

To  forestall  any  such  infringement  on  a 
personal  taboo,  Frank  Sinatra  made  it  a 
part  of  the  deal  he  recently  signed  with 
Universal-International.  Hereafter  no  stu- 
dio press  release  can  refer  to  his  "romance" 
with  Ava,  and  no  interviewer  may  query 
him  about  it.  Frank,  a  man  of  many  scru- 
ples, feels  that  \mtil  his  divorce  becomes 
final,  it  is  in  distinct  bad  taste  to  discuss  a 
possible  future  Mrs.  Sinatra. 

Tt  is  to  be  expected  that  the  public  is 
eternally  interested  in  every  tuiwed 
star's  marital  possibilities;  the  romantic 
side  of  any  public  figure  is  always  in- 
triguing. But  there  is  one  person  in  Holly- 
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her  public  and,  imless  you  are  left  abso- 
lutely enraptured  by  cold  phraseology,  you 
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is  currently  escorting  the  star  to  the  glitter 
spots)  is  definitely  taboo  with  that  lady. 
There  are  those  who  acknowledge  Ginger's 
right  to  keep  her  plans  to  herself,  but  they 
also  feel  that,  as  a  celebrity,  she  has  a 
certain  duty  to  her  fans  above  and  beyond 
her  chillingly-delivered,  crisp  phrase,  "No 
comment." 

Marital  advice  is  a  big  taboo  with 
Tony  Curtis,  as  his  studio  found  out  not 
too  long  ago.  Concerned  about  the  out- 
come of  his  romance  with  Janet  Leigh, 
studio  bigwigs  lu-ged  Tony  to  slip  the  wed- 
ding ring  into  a  safe  deposit  box  instead 
of  on  Janet's  finger.  They  didn't  object  to 
the  young  actress,  herself,  but  they  were 
worried  about  Tony's  career.  Marriage,  they 
felt,  might  extinguish  some  of  the  ardour 
his  fans  felt  for  him.  They  knew,  too,  that 
Tony  helped  to  support  his  family,  and  they 
reasoned  that  the  added  obligations  of  a 
wife  and  a  home  might  prove  too  burden- 
some. Wait,  they  urged,  don't  be  hasty; 
just  wait.  The  folly  of  this  plea  was  proved 
not  a  fortnight  later,  when  Tony  and  Janet 
eloped  to  New  England.  Studio  fathers,  of 
course,  were  quick  to  smile  benignly  and 
wish  the  young  couple  luck. 

The  new  Mrs.  Curtis,  incidentally,  pam- 
pers her  taboo  by  feigning  deafness  when- 
ever anyone  mentions  her  first,  very 
early  marriage  and  annulment. 

The  mention  of  marriage  necessarily 
brings  to  mind  Bette  Davis.  Regardless  of 
the  failure  of  her  three  previoiis  tries  at 
connubial  bliss,  it  is  acknowledged  that 
Bette  has  always  respected  her  husband's 
position  in  the  family.  To  her,  each  has 
been  "lord  of  the  manor."  Questions  con- 
cerning her  spouse's  reaction  to  her  fame 
have  always  taxed  the  Davis  temperament. 
"My  career  has  nothing  to  do  with  it," 
she  has  snapped  on  occasion.  "My  husband 
is  the  head  of  the  house!" 

Being  a  three-time  marital  loser,  Bette's 
fourth  try  is  naturally  very  important  to 
her.  And  it  is  nice  to  know  that  her  friends 
feel  this  venture  has  a  very  good  chance 
of  survival.  Even  before  he  married  the 
volatile  star,  Gary  Merrill  was  established 
in  his  own  right,  pulling  in  a  handsome 
four-figure  salary.  His  is  no  shadow- 
character;  he  is  a  very  forceful,  very  in- 
dividual person.  Bette  wants  to  keep  him 
individual;  a  complete  entity  not  in  any 
way  sublimated  to  her. 

To  prove  the  taboo  of  patronizing  her 
husband,  let  us  go  back  some  months  to 
the  arrival  in  England  of  Bette  and  Gary 
Merrill.  The  British  press  was  received  by 
them,  en  masse,  at  a  reception  which  went 
ofE  very  well,  with  mutual  admiration  and 
respect  the  order  of  the  day.  However, 
when  one  of  the  reporters  referred  to 
Merrill  as  "Mr.  Davis  number  four,"  in  his 
morning  colimin,  the  actress  was  livid. 
She  is  credited  with  raging,  "I  wouldn't 
do  that  to  any  man!"  And  she  promptly 
severed  all  relations  with  the  journalistic 
contingent  of  the  tight  little  island. 

JOHN  Agar  possesses  one  of  Hollywood's 
most  rigid  taboos.  He  has,  at  any  rate, 
the  most  understandable  and  the  most 
gentlemanly  taboo  in  town.  He  absolutely 
refuses  to  alibi  himself  concerning  the 
failure  of  his  marriage  to  Shirley  Temple  or 
his  unfortunate  bouts  with  the  bottle. 
Being  objective  about  Agar  is  simple.  He 
is  a  straight-forward  type  of  guy.  He  has 
maintsdned  himself  throughout  all  his 
trials  and  tribulations  as  a  perfect  gentle- 
man. When  Shirley  Temple  took  the  wit- 
ness stand  in  her  own  behalf  during  her 
divorce  trisd,  reporters  clamored  for  re- 
buttal from  John.  But  never  once — ^neither 
at  the  time  of  the  trial  nor  since — ^has  he 
ever  tried  to  hone  off  the  brutal  edge  of 
his  ex-wife's  testimony. 

To  inject  a  refreshing  note,  it  must  be 
added  that  the  whole  town  is  pulling  for 
John — and  his  new  wife,  Loretta.  John  is 


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Wonderful  things  happen  when  you  like 
something  and  show  it  by  your  applause. 
Unknowns  become  stars... plays  become 
smash  hits. ..and  "two  on  the  aisle"  be- 
come almost  as  valuable  as  Crown  Jewels. 

Yes,  your  approval  is  most  desirable 
to  a  great  many  people.  And  not  only 
in  the  theatre,  either. 

Every  day,  thousands  of  manufacturers 
compete  fiercely  for  your  good  Will  and 
your  shopping  dollars.  Once  you've  se- 
lected your  favorite  brands,  this  same 
competition  keeps  manufacturers  striving 
to  make  whatever  you  bought  better  and 
better.  They  know  it's  the  only  way  they 
can  keep  you  applauding... and  buying. 

It's  a  wise  habit  to  remember  the 
brands  you  like  . . .  you  get  exactly  what 
you  want  that  way.  Notice  the  brands 
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seeking  medical  attention  to  ferret  out 
the  reason  for  his  past  weakneses,  and  any 
one  who  tries  to  help  himself,  finds  Holly- 
wood eager  to  extend  its  helping  hand,  too. 

Which  leads  us  to  Shelley  Winters.  Unless 
you're  in  the  market  for  a  good,  old- 
fashioned  tantrum,  don't  mention  Shelley's 
taboo  to  Shelley.  The  subject?  Her  temper- 
amental nip-ups  on  the  set.  "How  can  I 
ever  live  those  things  down,"  she  has  been 
knovm  to  wail,  "when  everybody  keeps 
mentioning  them  over  and  over  again?" 
Hollywood  is  thinking  that  if  Shelley  would 
stop  repeating  the  mistakes  of  the  past, 
the  past  would  be  quickly  forgotten. 

The  town  has  never  and  probably  will 
never  imderstand  why  it  is  like  waving  a 
red  flag  in  front  of  Joan  Crawford  when 
you  mention  age — her  age,  that  is. 

If  she  were  crow-footed  and  loose- jowled 
one  might  be  able  to  understand  her  ex- 
treme sensitivity.  But  she  is  a  magnificent- 
looking,  intelligent  and  vital  woman — 
the  epitome  of  the  label  "movie  star." 
She  is  beautiful,  glamorous,  famous, 
wealthy.  Her  figure  is  the  envy  of  girls 
still  in  their  teens. 

Many  women  are  shy  of  revealing  their 
age,  that  is  true.  But  this  is  an  enlight- 
ened era.  Most  people  realize  that  age  is 
relative;  it's  what  you've  done  with  your 
years  that  count,  what  you've  accomplished. 
All  celebrated  women  are  not  as  secretive 
as  Joan.  Stars  like  Marlene  Dietrich,  Bar- 
bara Stanwyck,  Claudette  Colbert  and 
Bette  Davis  have  never  attempted  to  ob- 
scure the  figures  of  their  date  of  birth.  But 
Joan  has  long  persisted  in  shying  away 
from  the  age  subject  as  though  it  were  a 
draught  of  Borgia  brew.  In  the  24  years 
she  has  been  in  Hollywood  (and  that's 
official!)  she  has  protested  violently-. every 
time  her  age  has  been  printed.  "It  has 
seldom  been  accurate,"  she  says.  But  it  is 
primarily  Joan's  own  fault  that  there  has 
been  so  much  speculation  about  her  age. 
Her  very  evasiveness  has  only  served  to 
pique  local  curiosity. 

"To  put  a  stop  to  the  guessing  game  once 
and  for  all,  Joan  very  recently  decided  to 
issue  her  birthdate  officially:  March  23, 
1908.  However,  not  long  before  the  an- 
no\mcement  was  made,  an  eastern  writer 
on  assignment  from  a  national  magazine 
came  west  to  do  a  piece  on  the  actress. 
Aware  of  her  taboo,  he  made  a  real  effort 
to  keep  the  record  straight  and,  inciden- 
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(3)  Is  it  true  that  your  husband  tried 
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Yes,  there  are  more  taboos  in  Hollywood 
than  a  witch  doctor  could  dream  up  in  a 
lifetime.  For  instance,  you'll  be  ushered  to 
the  deep  freeze  by  Jane  Wyman  if  you 
ask  about  her  personal  life — or  about  Lew 
Ayres.  "If  you  don't  mind,"  she'll  say, 
icily,  "I  think  Lew  Ayres  has  had  enough 
free  publicity  already.  Let's  talk  about 
something  else." 

TlJoLLYWooD  first  became  aware  of  the 
1-1  Wyman-Ayres  twosome  shortly  after 
they'd  finished  making  Johnny  Belinda. 
Jane,  always  elusive  about  her  private  af- 
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Lew  was  going  to  art  school  at  the  time, 
and  managed  to  arouse  Jane's  interest  in 
paints  and  palettes  to  such  an  extent  that 
she  had  her  playroom  converted  into  a 
studio  where  they  could  daub  the  canvas 
together.  By  this  time  Jane  was  admitting 
that  they  were  "friends,"  but  before  the 
night  club  photogs  could  fully  record  their 
friendshiptfor  posterity,  Jane  had  switched 
loyalties. 

Lew  Ayres  presumably  hied  himself  back 
to  his  secluded  hilltop  home.  The  reason 
for  the  split  was  never  discovered.  Ayres 
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dropped  from  his  Sam  Spade  air  show  .  .  . 
even  today  Barbara  Stanwyck  can't  hear 
the  name  of  Frank  Fay  without  looking 
lethal,  and  don't  mention  Ava  Gardner, 
either  .  .  .  you'll  receive  a  polite  but  firm, 
"I  never  allow  it!"  if  you  ask  to  photo- 
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smile  if  you  quiz  Celeste  Holm  about  her 
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rapidly  growing  children  .  .  .  until  very 
recently  Lizabeth  Scott  froze  whenever 
anyone  mentioned  her  family.  She  said 
they  belonged  only  in  her  private  life  .  .  . 
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(who  has  been  ill  for  two  years)  with 
anyone  but  intimates  .  .  .  the  stories  of 
Franchot  Tone's  "weeilth"  make  him  furi- 
ous; he  says  they're  highly  exaggerated. 

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anonymous,  who  brought  her  own  delicate 
porcelain  cup  and  saucer  to  the  studio 
commissary  because  the  thick  coffee  mugs 
used  in  that  restaiurant  were  "too  crude" 
for  her  to  handle.  It's  true  that  imtil  she 
was  16  she  helped  her  mother  sling  hash 
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small  town  girl 


(Continued  from  page  54)  River  with  its 
inland  bayous  thick  with  2,000-year-old 
oaks,  shrouded  with  Spanish  moss,  and 
redolent  with  cape  jasmine  bushes,  form- 
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parents  and  waiting  to  see  if  they  approve. 
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reputation  at  least.  Just  as  folks  knew 
Peggy  as  the  older  daughter  of  the  pros- 
perous owner  of  a  chain  of  grocery  stores, 
one  of  which  was  located  right  across  the 
street  from  the  courthouse.  Her  mother 
belonged  to  local  clubs.  When  some  enter- 
taiimient  seemed  in  order,  like  as  not 
someone  would  say,  "Let's  get  Mrs.  Vama- 
dow's  Uttle  Jo'  to  recite  for  us." 

"IVf  OTHER  was  the  disciplinarian,  making 
■L'-l  my  yoxmger  sister  Arm  and  me  study 
piano  and  recitations  and  doing  the  spank- 
ing when  she  felt  it  was  in  order.  Dad, 
on  the  other  hand,  felt  we  could  do  no 
wrong  and  should  just  have  fun.  He'd 
say,  'Don't  be  so  harsh  with  them.  They're 
oiily  children.'  But  mother  went  right 
ahead.  She  was  always  looking  for  new, 
amusing  pieces  for  me  to  learn.  How  I 
hated  reciting!  I  didn't  realize  then  that 
one  of  the  advantages  of  living  in  a  small 
town  is  the  greater  opportunity  to  use  some 
small  talent  so  it  will  have  a  chance  to 
grow. 

"Then  came  the  time  I  had  to  recite 
'The  Night  Before  Christmas'  for  our 
school's  Christmas  program.  I  felt  it  was 
such  a  baby  piece  for  a  seventh  grader 


who'd  be  going  to  high  school  the  next 
year.  I  stood  up  there  on  the  stage,  done 
up  in  my  best  dress,  and  started  off  in  a 
monotone. 

"The  first-graders  were  in  the  front 
rows,  seconds  back  of  them  and  so  on  to 
the  parents  and  relatives  who  filled  the 
back  rows,  where  I  directed  my  attention. 
Then  I  happened  to  look  down  at  the  little 
ones.  Badly  as  I  was  reciting,  they  were 
sitting  there  wide-eyed  at  this  tale  of  Santa 
Claus.  Suddenly  I  realized  what  it  meant 
to  them.  Believe  me,  I  gave  it  my  all  thtn. 
I'm  sure  Santa  himself  couldn't  hsve 
shouted  better  than  I  did,  'Now,  Dasher! 
now,  Dancer!  now,  Prancer  and  Vixen!' " 

Peggy  went  through  the  pKjem  again 
there  in  her  living  room  with  gestures 
and  all.  It  was  quite  a  feat  for  her  to  turn 
her  beautiful  face  and  slim  figure  into,  "the 
broad  face  and  a  little  round  belly  that 
shook,  when  he  laughed,  like  a  bowlful 
of  jelly."  But  she  conveyed  the  illusion  all 
right. 

"It  was  wonderful,"  Peggy  said  con- 
cluding the  tale,  "to  see  the  enthusiasm 
creep  into  the  second-graders,  then  the 
third-graders  and  so  on,  row  by  row 
through  the  audience.  I've  never  forgotten 
the  thrill  of  discovering  that  I  could  do 
that  to  an  audience. 

"I  wasn't  any  more  thrilled,  really,  when 
I  did  my  first  big  screaming  scene  as  the 
other  woman  in  Wom^n  In  Hiding,  my 
first  picture.  When  producers  and  other 
executives  started  dropping  down  on  the 
set  that  day  to  watch  me,  I  thought  again 
of  the   interest   growing  row  by  row." 

In  between  the  seventh  grade  and  that 
first  picture  for  Universal-International, 
Peggy  lived  the  happy,  secure,  leisurely 
life  of  a  daughter  of  respected  citizens  in 
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Charlie  Smith,  whose  groaning  over  the 
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Other  times,  Mr.  Vamadow,  who'd  rather 
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take  her  along  with  him.  Sometimes  she'd 
bait  a  hook  to  try  her  luck,  but  usually 
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which  actually  is  a  combined  high  school 
and  jimior  college  in  Gulfport,  Mississippi, 
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so  that  Peggy  would  have  to  stand  on  her 
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girl"  wouldn't  mean  a  thing  there. 

There  was  an  exciting  prelude  during 
which  Mrs.  Varnadow,  gifted  in  creating 
those  bouffant  gowns  with  fine  French 
details  for  her  daughters,  assembled  a 
formal  wardrobe  for  Peggy  since  the  school 
had  a  party  once  a  week.  Shopping  in 
"the  city"'  (New  Orleans,  of  course)  they 
bought  the  rest  of  her  wardrobe,  including 
many  pairs  of  stockings  where  one  pair 
had  sufficed  before.  Gulf  Park's  young 
ladies  wear  stockings  to  dinner  every  night. 
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she  thought  was  grand  style. 

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tears  she  telephoned  her  mother  to  come 
right  away  to  go  to  New  Orleans  for  proper 
clothes! 

"The  first  few  days  were  fine.  Girls 
of  all  ages  everywhere  wore  their  hair 
in  pig-tails,  dressed  in  sweaters,  skirts 
and  sciiffed  saddle-oxfords.  My  formal  for 
the  partj'  was  as  perfect  as  anyone  else's. 
But  on  Sunday  morning,  dressed  in  my 
new  Junior  Miss  suit  with  its  Peter  Pan 
collar,  my  feet  in  one  inch-heeled,  V- 
throated  black  patent  leather  pumps,  my 
hair  in  pigtails,  I  joined  the  other  girls  to 
go  to  church.  The  girls  had  turned  into 
women  overnight!  Sophisticated  suits  and 
hats.  High  heels.  Hair  smartly  coiffed.  I 
hadn't  even  dreamed  of  dressing  like 
that  yet!  That's  one  of  the  effects  of  small 
town  life.  You  remain  a  sub-deb  so  much 
longer." 

Mrs.  Varnadow  complied  with  Peggy's 
demand.  She  took  her  to  Kreegers  in  New 
Orleans  where  they  avoided  the  Junior 
Miss  department  like  poison.  Three  smart 
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HEN  Peggy  returned  home  from  Gulf- 
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social  life  is  very  important  but  don't  let 
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except  for  the  higher  scholastic  rating. 
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men  is  on  vacation  so  I'm  going  over  to 
help  out." 

"Well,  we  can  go  fishing  there  can't  we?" 
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be  on  vacation.  She  was  quite  unprepared 
when  he  said,  "Well,  the  butcher's  on 
vacation.  So  I'm  going  to  slice  up  liver." 

Taking  a  deep  breath,  the  girl-deter- 
mined-to-prove-she-hadn't-changed  said, 
"If  you  can,  I  can,  too,  and  I'll  do  it!" 
So  day  after  day  she  sliced  liver  before 
going  fishing  with  her  father. 

"It  was  good  for  me,"  Peggy  says.  "Be- 
sides getting  a  good  check  for  the  work, 
I  came  down  to  earth  enough  to  find  time 
to  go  fishing  with  Dad  again.  Fortunately, 
too,  because  I  was  at  a  point  where  no 
one  had  ever  really  challenged  me  or  my 
way  of  life,  but  I  needed  to  be  prepared 
for  the  day  that  came." 

From  Gulf  Park,  where  she  won  an 
Associate  of  Arts  Degree,  she  went  to 
Louisiana  State  University  for  awhile.  She 
was  chosen  to  represent  her  state  at  the 
Lions  International  Convention  in  Lou- 
isiana. She  placed  fourth  in  the  "Maid  of 
Cotton"  contest  in  Memphis,  Tennessee. 
And  she  went,  finally,  up  north  to  study 
in  Evanston,  Illinois,  at  Northwestern 
University,  where  she  acquired  a  Bachelor 
of  Science  degree. 

"Northwestern  really  scared  me  at  first. 
My  Louisiana  clothes  weren't  up  to  the 
high-styles  the  girls  wore.  And  my  deep 
Southern  accent,  combined  with  my  blonde 
hair,  had  some  people  lifting  their  eye- 
brows and  saying  such  things  as,  'Ah!  The 
Southern  Belle!  Real?'  in  that  tone  of 
voice  which  says  you're  a  phoney. 

"But  through  my  first  fright  came  Dad's 
common-sense  words,  'The  only  thing 
which  makes  you  different  from  other 
people  is  you,  yourself.  And  you're  all  that 
went  to  make  up  your  character.  If  you 
ever  get  anywhere,  it'll  be  because  people 
like  you  as  you  are.' 

"That  braced  me.  Gradually  I  began  to 
see  that  those  people  who  make  fun  of 
others  are  the  insecure  ones,  the  ones  to 
pity,  because  they're  trying  to  fit  into  a 
mold  nothing  in  their  own  experience 
has  shaped  them  for.  Of  course,  I  changed 
some.  Exposed  to  other  accents,  I  gradually 
lost  my  definitely  southern  drawl." 

After  graduation,  Carlyn  Jones,  a  friend 
at  Northwestern,  invited  Peggy  to  visit  her 
in  Hollywood.  When  she  was  ready  to  go, 
Mr.  Varnadow  gave  her  a  letter  of  intro- 
duction to  a  man  he'd  never  met,  but 
through  a  mutual  friend  they  had  started 
and  carried  on  a  fishing  correspondence. 

When  the  time  to  return  home  ap- 
proached, Peggy  used  the  letter  simply  to 
please  her  father.  The  man  was  more  aware 
than  Peggy  of  what  might  happen  through 
their  chance  meeting. 

"Let's  see  how  you  look  on  film.  Miss 
Varnadow,"  he  said.  She  learned  about 
Hollywood  agents  when  he  took  her  out  to 
Hal  Roach  Studios,  where  she  got  a  role  on 
a  television  picture.  But  studios  otherwise 
weren't  having  new  people. 

She  discussed  the  turn  of  events  with 
writer  John  Klorer,  a  native  of  New 
Orleans,  and  a  personal  friend  of  her  father. 
He  shook  his  head  over  her  prospects 
saying,  "You're  really  here  at  a  bad  time. 
Never  in  my  20  years  here  have  I  seen  such 
a  slump." 

Before  long  the  agent  was  talking  the 
same  way.  Finally,  in  the  presence  of  his 
friend  Maury  Tanner,  he  advised  Peggy 
to  go  home.  Tanner  spoke  up,  "If  you've 
really  given  up,  let  me  try." 

Through  luck  he  discovered  Universal- 
International  -was  seriously  testing  two 
personaUties  in  a  three- character  scene 
from   a   picture   which   was    only  half- 


written.  He  arranged  for  her  to  be  the 
other  person. 

"If  they  don't  like  you,"  Tanner  warned 
her,  "we  won't  have  gained  a  thing.  Not 
even  a  test  to  take  off  the  lot  to  show  other 
studios  because  they  won't  let  that  off  the 
lot  until  the  picture's  released.  And  that 
won't  be  for  a  year  or  two!" 

They  hked  her.  They  told  her  to  go 
home  for  Christmas  but  to  hurry  back. 
She  went  to  Athens,  Tennessee,  where  her 
family  had  moved.  When  she  came  back, 
she  found  herself  playing  the  "other 
woman"  in  Woman  In  Hiding,  the  very 
role  in  which  she'd  tested. 

"Talk  about  fisherman's  luck!"  she  laughs. 

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wood, Joan  Craw- 
ford slipped  un- 
recognized into  a 
chair  in  the  dark- 
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order  to  get  first- 
hand contact  with 
audience  reaction. 

She  was  accompanied  by  her  ever- 
present  knitting  bag  and  being  nerv- 
ous, soon  began  to  knit  faster  and 
faster,  completely  oblivious  to  the  fact 
that  she  was  wearing  a  bracelet  with 
bells  attached.  The  bells  were  jingling. 

Finally  an  old  man  sitting  in  front 
of  her  turned  around  and  said, 

"Look,  lady  .  .  .  why  don't  you  cut 
it  out  and  give  this  girl's  picture  a 
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"I  thought  how  much  like  a  small  town 
Hollywood  was,  at  first,"  Peggy  says.  "All 
the  little  houses  with  gardens.  People 
finding  their  entertainment  at  home  or 
at  the  homes  of  friends  rather  than  in 
night-clubs.  Trees  along  the  streets.  No 
skyscrapers.  But,  of  course,  it  isn't.  It's 
the  most  talked  about  place  in  the  world, 
I  guess.  And  if  gossip  centers  around  you, 
there's  no  way  to  counteract  it  because 
you  don't  have  the  protection  of  having  all 
the    listeners    knowing    you  personally." 

Peggy's  change  of  opinion  grew  as  she 
•t  made  one  picture  after  another.  In 
two  and  a  half  years,  she  has  appeared  in 
eight  pictures  at  Universal-International. 
Besides  the  current  Bright  Victory  in  which 
she  co-stars  with  Arthur  Kennedy,  there 
are  One  Never  Knows  with  Dick  Powell, 
and  Reunion  In  Reno  with  Mark  Stevens. 

Sam  Goldwyn  is  so  impressed  he's  bor- 
rowed her  to  share  star  billing  with  Dana 
Andrews,  Dorothy  McGuire,  and  Farley 
Granger  in  I  Want  You  which  he  is  cur- 
rently producing.  It  is  a  story  of  the 
impact  of  the  Korean  war  on  a  small 
American  town  of  30,000  people. 

"A  small  town?"  Peggy  smiles.  "To  me 
that's  a  city!" 

Settled  with  Polly  Falk  in  their  new 
spacious  apartment  with  its  two-story 
living  room,  Peggy's  still  wondering  if  she's 
made  a  wise  move. 

"I  hope  we  can  pay  the  rent  all  right,'" 
Peggy  shakes  her  head.  "But  it  was  all 
we  could  find  in  this  neighborhood.  We 
wanted  to  be  here  because  PoUy's  mother 
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my  own  someday." 

A  cottage  for  two?  She's  gone  out  with 
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a  moment  to  recall  any.  Then  she  says,  "Oh, 
yes,  Dick  Long.  He  brought  me  a  beauti- 
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'Oh,  these  make  me  so  homesick!  Mother 
has  huge  bushes  of  cape  jasmine  along  the 
driveway.' 

"Of  course,  I've  thought  about  marriage," 
she  says.  "Seriously,  too.  I've  always  felt 
it's  right  for  a  woman  to  sacrifice  a  career 
to  her  marriage.  But  I  don't  believe  it 
woiild  be  fair  to  my  husband  or  to  me  to 
get  married  this  year  or  next.  My  career 
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right  now,  I  might  find  myself  regretting 
not  having  found  out  what  could  have  hap- 
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these  are  the  changing  times  with  which 
I  should  change.  Perhaps  I'm  climbing 
the  steps  to  confidence  where  I  can  suc- 
cessfully combine  a  career  with  a  happy 
marriage.  I  just  can't  give  an  honest  cin- 
swer  about  it  yet." 

t)  uMOR  has  it  that  Walt  Helmerick,  a 
J-*-  young  Oklahoman  in  the  oil  equip- 
ment businesss,  is  causing  Peggy  to  ponder 
the  question  pretty  deeply  right  now. 
Their  romance  pre-dates  her  Hollywood 
days.  Their  families  have  been  friends  for 
many  j'ears.  How  impressed  the  Varnadows 
are  by  Peggy's  screen  career  is  illustrated 
by  an  incident  which  occurred  when  Ann, 
Peggj^'s  sister,  visited  her  while  on  loca- 
tion for  Bright  Victory  in  Pennsylvania. 

"Believing  she'd  be  thrilled,  our  director 
said,  'Wouldn't  you  like  to  play  a  bit  so 
you  can  say  to  your  friends,  "Look,  there  I 
am."  '  She  nearly  bowled  him  over  by  say- 
ing with  a  sweet  smile,  'No,  thank  you,'  " 
Peggy  rejwrts;  then  explains,  "You  see,  she 
was  really  just  being  herself.  She's  about 
ready  to  gp  to  college.  She's  a  fine  pianist. 
She's  just  not  interested  in  acting. 

"Like  my  folks,  she's  pleased  by  what's 
happening  to  me.  Not  from  the  possible 
fame  or  financial  reward  standpoint,  but 
because  they  know  I  love  acting.  It's  my 
personal  satisfaction  which  counts  with 
them.  Just  as  Dad  got  quite  a  kick  out  of 
my  pleasure  in  being  able  to  buy  a  car." 

It's  obvious  Peggy's  background  has 
created  in  her  a  strong  sense  of  remaining 
herself.  Up  until  Hollywood,  she  was  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Varnadow's  older  daughter, 
Peggy  Josephine  whom  everyone  called 
Jo',  pretty,  loved,  and  looked  after. 

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climbing  a  ladder  to  that  spot  where  mil- 
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thought  to  myself,  "Someday  a  fellow  will 
come  along  who  will  match  her  wonder- 
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will  have  to  be  a  man  of  dignity,  sincerity, 
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and  thought  that  girls  could  hardly  come 
any  sweeter  or  more  intelligent.  If  Piper 
were  just  a  year  or  two  older,  and  I  were 
a  year  or  so  younger — but  should  that 
make  any  difference?  And  Jane  Nigh 
comes  to  my  mind;  so  bright,  such  a  great 
sense  of  humor.  Jane  showing  me  up  be- 
cause she  can  whistle  through  her  teeth 
and  as  if  aware  that  since  boyhood  this 
has  been  a  secret  sorrow  of  mine.  Of  all 
the  things  I  can  do — I  can't  do  that.  Jane 
not  liking  my  haircut  and  saying,  "Next 
time  you  get  one  I'm  going  to  be  with 
you."  I  liked  the  idea  of  her  taking  such 
an  interest.  I  liked  it  very  much.  .  .  . 

There  is  a  laugh  that  must  come  to  Ann 
Blyth,  as  it  does  to  me,  when  we  happen 
to  think  of  a  silly  ending  to  one  of  our 
dates.  It  was  the  night  we  attended  a 
dinner  for  the  Aged  Jewish  People  fund  in 
downtown  Los  Angeles.  I  was  to  take 
Ann,  but  my  car  was  acting  up  so  I  phoned 
and  asked  if  we  could  use  hers  instead. 
She  consented,  of  course,  and  a  friend 
dropped  me  off  at  her  house. 

It  was  an  inspiring  evening  which  we 
enjoyed  very  much  and  talked  about 
all  the  way  back  to  her  house.  I  put  the 
car  into  the  garage,  gave  Ann  the  keys  and 
said  goodbye  to  her  at  the  door.  Not  till 
she  was  inside  did  it  strike  me  that  I  had 
no  way  of  getting  back  to  my  place!  I 
thought  of  calling  her  out  but  dismissed 
the  idea  immediately.  She  was  tired,  I 
knew,  and  I  couldn't  ask  her  to  drive  me 
home.  Neither  could  I  take  the  car  be- 
cause she  would  have  to  use  it  herself 
first  thing  in  the  morning.  I  decided  to 
walk  with  the  idea  of  finding  a  cab,  and 
started  cut  looking  like  a  gentleman  bur- 
glar in  my  tuxedo.  That,  at  least,  was  the 
opinion  of  a  policeman  who  stopped  me 
and  wanted  to  know  what  I  was  doing 
wandering  around  Toluca  Lake  after  mid- 
night looking  like  a  lost  Raffles. 

I  finally  was  able  to  phone  for  a  cab 
from  a  filling  station.  The  next  morning 
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Piper  didn't  defend  him — she  did  better 
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thought  of  war  and  bloodshed  can  some- 
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that  they  have  no  sense  of  judgment  at 
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bothered  her  very  much  and  eventually 
she  suffered  nosebleed.  The  studio  people 
were  for  quitting  work  immediately  so 
they  could  get  her  down  the  mountain  side 
but  Piper  wasn't  having  any.  "What's 
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Kleenex  and  we  finished  cur  pictures. 

When  she  was  17,  I  took  Piper  to  the 
studio  Christmas  party,  but  I  didn't  take 
her  home.  Her  parents  came  for  her  and 
I  learned  later  that  it  was  something  she 
had  arranged  all  by  herself.  She  knew 
she  would  have  to  leave  early  and  didn't 
think  it  fair  to  break  up  my  fun.  I  argued 
about  it  and  wanted  to  drive  her  anyway 
but  she  talked  me  out  of  it. 

"Next  year,  when  I'm  18,  you  can  take 
me  home  if  you  like,  providing  you  even 
want  to  take  me  out  at  all  on  Christmas 
Eve,"  she  said. 

"It's  a  date,"  I  told  her. 

Tt  was — one  of  the  best  dates  I  have  ever 
had  with  one  of  the  sweetest  gals  I  know. 

The  first  girl  who  ever  captured  my 
interest  was  not  of  the  movies.  This  was 
back  when  the  Roosevelt  High  School 
football  team  in  New  York  City  had  a  left 
end  (me)  who  was  untrue  to  the  team. 
Whom  did  he  fall  for  but  the  cheerleader 
of  our  deadly  rival,  Gorton  High  School, 
and  who  should  she  be  but  the  girl  I 
am  talking  about — Marian  Neville?  It 
started  when  I  heard  someone  razzing  me 
when  we  played  Gorton  and  I  turned 
around  to  make  a  sharp  retort.  The  retort 
died  and  my  heart  leaped  when  I  saw  the 
critic.  At  half-time  I  asked  for  her  name. 
At  the  end  of  the  game  I  asked  for  a  date. 

Our  lack  of  school  spirit  in  falling  for 
each  other  was  the  town  scandal  in  high 
school  circles  but  we  didn't  seem  to  care. 
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ond class  in  the  U.  S.  Navy  and  when  I 
was  assigned  to  a  seaplane  tender  in  the 
Pacific,  Marian's  picture  was  right  there 
by  my  bunk.  The  war  ended,  I  got  my  dis- 
charge papers  and  went  to  Hollywood. 
For  a  long  time  nothing  happened  and  then 
I  got  to  make  a  couple  of  pictures.  For 
the  second  one  of  these  I  was  taken  to  New 
York  and  what  was  more  natural  than 
that  I  should  telephone  my  old  heckler. 

I  suppose  it's  true  that  men  are  con- 
ceited. I  thought  she  would  scream  with 
delight  at  hearing  my  voice.  She  didn't. 
Very  calmly  she  informed  me  that  it  was 
nice  hearing  from  an  old  friend,  that  she 
happened  to  be  married  and  when  was  I 
going  back  to  Hollywood?  Yet  it  wasn't 
this  so  much  that  made  me  sore.  It  was 
the  type  of  man  she  married.  What  do  you 
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certain  street  one  afternoon  a  few  years 
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She  looked  at  them  admiringly  and  I 
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job;  I  didn't  know  anyone  in  the  drive-in 
business.  But  I  would  certainly  try  if  she 
wanted  me  to.  At  this  she  began  to  look 
a  little  uncomfortable. 

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"I'm  a  little  late.  Goodbye." 

She  turned  to  go  but  suddenly  a  friend 
of  hers  appeared  and  said,  "Why,  Dorothy 
Malone!    What  are  you  doing  here?" 

Dorothy  Malone!  In  that  instant  my 
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didn't  even  know  her  in  the  flesh!  It  was 
time  for  quick  action. 

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Dotty  looked  at  me  suspiciously.  "What 


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you,  do  you?"  I  asked.  "Why  I've  seen 
every  one  of  your  pictures.  I  saw  One 
Sunday  Afternoon,  I  saw  ...  er  ...  I 
saw  .  .  ." 

"Yes,  go  on,"  she  urged. 

"Why,  you  know,"  I  stiombled  on.  "The 
picture  you  made  with  Bogart  and  with 
McCrea  and  .  .  .  and  .  .  ." 

"Go  on,"  she  repeated.  "Were  you 
watching  them  or  me?" 

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NOVElvlBER,  1951  AMERICA'S  GREATEST  MOVIE  MAGAZINE 

modern  screen 


stories 

IT'S  NOW  OR  NEVER  (Shelley  Winters-Farley  Granger)  By  Richard  Dexter  14 

NOTHING  BUT  BLUE  SKIES  (Judy  Garland)  by  Radie  Harris  37 

WHAT  NOW,  PRINCESS?  (Rita  Hayworth)  by  Arthxir  L.  Charles  38 

TEN  FANTASTIC  YEARS  by  Hedda  Hopper  40 

WHO'LL  CATCH  DAN  DAILEY?  (Dan  Dailey)  by  Vickie  Blodgett  42 

SHE'S  THE  MARRYING  KIND  (Vera-Ellen)  by  Jane  WUkie  44 

THE  GIRL  WHO  WON  GABLE  BACK  (Clark  Gable)  by  Linda  Griffin  46 

SLOW  BOAT  TO  CATALINA  (Marsh  Thompson,  Ric  Montalban.  etc.) 

by  Beverly  Ott  48 

LOVE  CRAZY  (Betty  Hutton)  by  Jim  Burton  50 

MEET  MAYOR  CROSBY  (Bing  Crosby)  by  Jim  Henaghan  52 

THIS  TIME  IT'S  REAL  (Pete  Lawford)  by  Marsha  Saunders  56 

DEARLY  BELOVED  (June  Allyson-Dick  Powell)  by  Anne  Fielding  58 

HOW  DOPEY  CAN  HE  GET?  (Gordon  MacRae)  by  Caroline  Brooks  60 

WHAT  MEN  HAVE  DONE  TO  ME  by  Joan  Crawford  62 

HIS  LIFE'S  NO  OPEN  BOOK  (Howard  Keel)  by  Frances  Clark  64 


features 

THE  INSIDE  STORY   4 

LOUELLA  PARSONS'  GOOD  NEWS  '.   6 

HOLLYWOOD  AIR-CONDITIONED   34 

SWEET  AND  HOT   35 

NIGHT  GAME    68 

TELL  IT  TO  JOAN  (Joan  Evans'  guest  editor,  Carleton  Carpenter)   86 


departments 

MOVIE  REVIEWS    by  Christopher  Kane  20 

JANE  POWELL.  YOUR  HOLLYWOOD  SHOPPER   28 

MODERN  SCREEN  FASHIONS   74 

ON  THE  COVER:   Color  picture  of  MGM's  June  Allyson  and  Baby  Ricky,  by  Nickolas 
Muray.  Other  picture  credits  on  page  94. 


DURBIN  L.  HORNER,  managing  editor 
FLORENCE  EPSTEIN,  story  editor 
SUZANNE  EPPES,  associate  editor 
FERNANDO  TEXIDOR,  art  director 
BILL  WEINBERGER,  art  editor 
CHRISTOPHER  KANE,  movie  reviewer 


CHARLES  D.  SAXON,  editor 

CARL  SCHROEDER,  western  manager 
BEVERLY  OTT,  western  editor 
BOB  BEERMAN,  stafi  photographer 
BERT  PARRY,  staff  photographer 
LIZ  SMITH,  assistcmt  editor 
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He  led  200  WOMEN  ON  AN  ADVENTURE 
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WOMEN , .  .finding  a  future! 

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9.  What  happened  to  the  Kirk  Doug- 
las-Irene Wrightsman  love  affair?  I 
thought  this  was  supposed  to  be  the 
real  thing.  Why  did  it  break  up  ? 

— T.  T.,  D..\LL.AS,  Tex. 

A.  Miss  Wrightsman  wanted  to  get 
married.  Mr.  Douglas  did  not. 

9.  Are  the  Robert  Mitchums  expect- 
ing twins?  — C.  R.,  MiAsn,  Fla. 

A.  It's  too  early  to  tell  at  this  point. 
There  are  three  sets  of  twins  in  Dorothy 
Mitchum's  family.  Twins  were  ex- 
pected with  each  of  the  Mitch  um  boys. 
This  time  they  may  arrive. 

9.  Is  it  true  that  Liz  Taylor  stole 
Michael  Wilding  away  from  Marlene 
Dietrich  when  she  was  in  London? 

—V  T.,  New  York,  N.  Y. 

A.  Despite  the  fact  that  she's  a  grand- 
mother, there  are  few  women  in  the 
world  today  who  can  steal  any  man 
from  Marlene  Dietrich.  The  Wilding- 
Taylor  friendship  was  nothing  serious. 
Wilding  is  much  too  old,  mature,  and 
sophisticated  for  Liz  who,  after  all,  has 
been  out  of  high  school  only  one  year. 

9-  Isn't  Mitzi  Gaynor  already  married 
to  her  sweetheart  Richard  Coyle? 

— O.  P.,  Butte,  Montana 

A.  Mitzi  denies  it. 

9-  Who  are  the  best-liked  actresses  on 
the  MGM  lot?    — S.  T.,  Chicago,  III. 

A.  Workers  on  the  lot  think  most  highly 
of  Ava  Gardner,  Janet  Leigh,  and  Jane 
Powell. 

9-  Is  the  Gary  Cooper-Pat  Neal  love 
affair  serious? 

— T.  O.,  Des  Moines,  Iowa 

A.  Definitely! 

9-  I  understand  that  Bing  Crosby's 
son,  Gary,  has  already  signed  a  contract 
with  Paramount  Pictures.  True? 

— C.  R.,  Birmingham,  Ala. 

A.  No.  The  only  contract  Gary  has  is 
with  Decca  Records. 

9-  Why  does  Burt  Lancaster  refuse  to 
pose  for  pictures  with  his  family?  By 


the  way,  did  he  ever  sell  ladies'  lingerie? 

— S.  W.,  Detroit,  Mich. 

A.  Lancaster  has  never  been  particularly 
cooperative  when  it  comes  to  publicity. 
He  prefers  to  keep  his  family  out  and 
away  from  his  film  career.  As  a  young 
man,  he  sold  lingerie  in  Chicago's  Mar- 
shall Field  Department  Store. 

9-  Can  .\va  Gardner  really  sing  as  she 
did  in  Show  Boat  or  is  someone  else's 
voice  dubbed  in  on  the  sound  track? 

— E.  R.,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

A.  Ava  sings  very  well  herself.  She's 
taken  lessons  from  Phil  Moore  who 
once  coached  Lena  Home. 

9-  What  is  the  lowdown  on  Carleton 
Carpenter  and  Joan  Evans?  Is  it  love? 

— R.  E.,  Moline,  III. 

A.  No.  It's  friendship. 

9-  Is  Rita  Hay  worth  now  flat  broke? 

— T.  S.,  Baltimore,  Md. 

A.  As  of  August  1951,  she  was  down  to 
her  last  $75,000. 

9-  Hasn't  Betty  Grable  been  in  pic- 
tures more  than  20  years? 

— C.  T.,  Elko,  Nev. 

A.  Twenty-two,  to  be  exact. 

9-  Is  it  true  that  some  stars  have  the 
right  to  choose  leading  ladies  and  lead- 
ing men?  — M.  C,  Orange,  N.  J. 

A.  Yes.  Clark  Gable  is  a  case  in  point. 
He  asked  for  Ava  Gardner  and  Brad 
Crawford  in  Lone  Star. 

9.  Do  the  movie  stars  take  care  of  their 
children,  or  do  they  have  nurses  who 
do  everything?  — S.  A.,  Blloxi,  Miss. 

A.  Most  movie  stars  have  nurses  for 
their  children.  An  actress  like  Joan 
Crawford,  for  example,  could  not  have 
a  career  and  take  care  of  four  children, 
too. 

9-  Why  don't  we  see  any  more  of  Guy 
Madison?  — ^T.  K.,  Louisvtlle,  Ky. 

A.  Guy  has  now  become  a  Western  star 
on  television  in  a  series  entitled  "Wild 
Bill  Hick  ok." 


FDetectfve  Story 


From  The  Smash 
Broadway  Play.  *  .Of 
A  Love  With  No 
Punches  Pulled ! 


"What  did  you  want, 
a  saint?  Or  someone  with 
flesh  and  blood?" 


OOUGLAS 


Detedive  Story 

..-.Cathy  ODoNNEii^^,- ' 

Directed  by  WILLIAM  WYLER  •  Screenplay  by  PHILIP  YORDAN  and  ROBERT  WYLER 
Based  on  tbe  play  by  SIDNEY  KINGSLEY  *  ^  P^^'"*'^*  | 


COULD  IT  BE  THAT  JANET  AND  TONY  HAVE  A  SECRET?  .   .   .     WIDE-EYED  RUSSELL  NYPE  TAKES 


LOUELLA 


A  LOUELLA  PARSONS'  SPECIAL 

■  By  the  time  you  read  this,  Lana  Turner,  I  feel  sure,  will  have 
admitted  that  it's  useless  to  try  to  achieve  happiness  in  her 
married  life  with  Bob  Topping.  Lana  tried  so  hard  to  make  a 
go  of  her  marriage.  She  was  eager  to  have  her  life  with 
Topping  conventional,  happy,  and  to  have  a  house  full  of 
children.  Twice  she  lost  her  expected  babies.  Topping — 
spoiled,  rich,  and  used  to  his  own  way — was  surly  with  Lana 
in  public. 

I  talked  with  Lana  when  they  were  having  their  difficulties. 
She  said,  "I  don't  know,  Louella,  what's  going  to  happen,  and 
I'm  going  to  work.  I'm  grateful  for  my  work  which  keeps  me 
occupied.  I  tried  very,  very  hard  to  keep  our  marriage  to- 
gether, but  it  seems  as  if  I  failed."  I  do  not  feel  that  Lana  is 
to  blame  for  having  failed  in  her  fourth  marriage,  because, 
beUeve  me,  she  really  did  everything  to  keep  everything 
from  going  to  pieces.  I  know,  because  although  Lana  was 
loathe  to  discuss  her  troubles,  she  did  tell  me  how  difficult  it 
was  to  please  Bob.  He  prefers  New  York  and  I  suspect  now 
he  will  move  there.  Poor,  unfortunate  Lana,  with  all  her 
beauty  and  her  charm,  she  never  really  found  happiness. 

Be  sure  to  read  next  month's  Modern  Screen  for  the  start- 
hng  story  of  Lana  Turner's  break-up  with  Bob  Topping. — Ed. 

6 


"P  HIS  month's  excitement  is  Russell  Nype, 
^  Broadway  musical  star,  who  had  been  in 
Hollywood  a  short  seven  days  before  he  had 
dated  Joan  Crawford  three  times  and  was 
Princess  Rita  Hayworth  Khan's  dirmer  partner 
at  her  first  social  event  since  her  return  to 
movietown. 

Nice  going  for  the  young  star  who  is  out 
here  to  make  his  first  picture,  Voung  Man  In  A 
Huiiy — and  MGM  isn't  foolin'  on  that  title. 

Ever  since  he  clicked  with  his  crew  haircut 
and  shellrim  glasses,  singing  with  Ethel  Mer- 
man in  Call  Me  Madam — this  young  man 
has  been  hurrying  toward  the  top.  For  a 
while,  he  rated  lots  of  publicity  as  the  favor- 
ite dancing  partner  of  the  Duchess  of  Windsor! 

I  can  assure  you — Russell  is  going  to  rate 
even  more  publicity  as  the  favorite  escort  of 
our  Hollywood  glamor  girls. 

Considering  the  compKiny  he  travels  in — 
you're  going  to  find  it  hard  to  believe  when 
I  tell  you  he  is  one  of  the  most  naive  young 
men  I've  ever  met — or  else  he  gives  the  best 
imitation  of  being  just  popeyed  with  excite- 
ment about  EVERYTffiNG. 

He  is  just  26  years  old  which  may  account 
for  much  of  his  "Oh,  gee,  gosh"  approach  to 


Rev.  Kermit  Castellanos  gave  young  Richard 
Keith  Powell  his  name;  and  Roz  Russell  gave 
his  mother  the  giggles  at  his  christening  party. 


Loretto  Young  and  Von  Johnson  attended  the 
gay  party  June  and  Dick  gave  after  the  formal 
Episcopal  ceremony  at  the  Beverly  Hills  church. 


THE  TOWN   BY  STORM 


WILL  GABLE   FILE   FOR  DIVORCE? 


EVERYBODY  SHINES  AT  A  PLACE  IN  THE  SUN  . 


Hollywood.  Very  formally,  he  says:  "I  love 
the  theater.  I  loved  singing  in  a  nightclub. 
I'm  sure  picture  making  will  be  the  greatest 
challenge  of  all." 

From  that — don't  get  the  idea  that  Russell 
is  stuffy.  He's  just  bewildered  by  Hollywood. 

Believe  me — our  girls  find  him  quite  as 
charming  as  did  the  Duchess.  This  little  story 
about  him  gives  you  an  idea  of  what  I  mean: 

He  had  invited  Joan  Crawford  to  dine  with 
him  at  Mocambo  on  their  first  date.  Over  the 
telephone,  Joan  gave  him  directions  about 
finding  her  home. 

Just  to  make  SURE  he  wouldn't  be  late  and 
keep  Joan  waiting,  Russell  made  a  leheaisal 
drive  to  her  house  in  daylight,  spotted  the 
right  landmarks,  and  drove  there  straight  as 
an  arrow  at  the  appointed  time! 

P.S.  Several  nights  later,  he  met  Rita  Hay- 
worth  at  a  party  and  sat  next  to  her  at  din- 
ner.   But,  Rita  arrived  and  left — alone. 

I'  HE  first  social  invitation  Rita  accepted  was 
*  to  Dolly  Walker's  charming  dinner  for 
Anthony  Eden.  Many  beautiful  women  were 
present,  but  no  mistaking  that  our  actresses 
were  as  eager  to  get  another  look  at  "Prin- 


cess" Hayworth  as  any  fan  could  have  been. 

The  famous  beauty  was  something  to  look 
at.  Her  off-the-shoulder  ice-blue  satin  gown 
glimmered  like  a  diamond.  She  still  wears  her 
auburn  hair  (yes,  it's  back  to  red  following 
a  brief  fling  as  a  brunette  at  Aly's  request)  in 
the  long  bob  she  helped  make  famous.  She  is 
as  slender  as  a  reed  and  very,  very  beautiful. 

If  Rita  is  unhappy  about  her  separation 
from  the  Prince — she  is  not  wearing  her  heart 
on  her  sleeve.  To  the  contrary,  at  Dolly's  party 
she  wag  gay  and  animated  and  was  one  of 
the  last  to  leave. 

Greer  Garson,  another  lovely  redhead, 
looked  ravishing  in  white  chiffon  with  which 
she  wore  an  emerald  necklace  and  bracelet. 

Anthony  Eden,  that  dashing  Englishman  in 
whose  honor  the  party  was  given,  came  with 
his  Hollywood  hosts,  the  Douglas  Fair- 
banks, Jr. 

Among  the  beauties  he  danced  with  were 
Ethel  Barrymore,  queen  of  the  royal  family  of 
the  theater — and  Mrs.  Lorena  Mayer. 

CLARK  Gable  is  in  Nevada  as  I  write  this — 
but  I  doubt  if  he  will  follow  Frankie 
Sinatra's  example  and  file  for  a  quickie  di- 


vorce although  Clark  is  just  as  eager  for  his 
freedom  as  is  Frank.  The  minute  word  got 
around  that  Gable  was  playing  golf  in  Glen- 
brook,  Nevada,  reporters  beat  a  hot  trail  to 
the  little  town  above  Lake  Tahoe. 

"What  are  you  doing  here?"  they  breathed 
down  his  neck. 

"Playing  golf,"  grinned  Gable.  "Join  me?" 

They  had  heard  about  his  reservations  at 
Lake  Mead  so  they  pressed  that  with,  "What 
are  you  going  to  do  at  Mead?" 

"Fish,"  replied  Clark. 

"Well — why  are  you  going  to  Seattle?"  the 
newshounds  inquired. 

"Just  to — see  Attle,"  he  cracked. 

MAYBE  his  psychiatrist  advised  Dan  Dailey 
not  to  become  involved  in  a  romantic 
entanglement  in  the  near  future.  But  what's 
a  good-looking  eligible  guy  to  do? 

His  most  recent  date  is  Irene  Wrightsman 
who  went  with  Kirk  Douglas  so  long.  He 
also  dates  Ann  Miller,  who  calls  him  "Dan'l 
Boone — to  Annie,"  and  Barbara  Whiting  is 
still  a  popular  number  in  his  book.  (For  more 
about  Dan's  lomantic  lite,  see  page  42. — Ed.) 
(Confinued  no  page  JO) 


Jerry  and  Po+ti  Lewis  had  a  wonderful  time  at 
A  Place  In  The  Sun  premiere.  Jerry  showed 
no    sign    of    his    breakdown    from  overwork. 


Premiere  -  goers  Jean  Simmons  and  Stewart 
Granger  are  selling  their  house  but  laugh  at 
rumors    of    their    spring    marriage  splitting. 


From  critics  and  friends  alike  Shelley  Winters  has  been  rating  raves  for  her  work  in  A  Place  In 
The  Sun.  At  the  premiere  of  the  picture,  best  beau  Farley  Granger  gave  her  a  huge  GOOD 
LUCK  wreath  of  flowers  and  kiss.    The  fans  went  wild,  and  Shelley  cried,  "That's  my  fella!" 


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THE  LUXURY  POLISH 
AT  A  BUDGET  PRICE! 

Highest  quality  isn't  always  a  matter  of  high- 
est price.  That's  why  truly  discriminating 
women  buy  low-priced  Cutex  for  lovely  nails. 
Only  Cutex  gives- 
Longer  wear.  Made  with  Enamelon,  Cutex 
has  a  jewel-hardness  that's  a  wonder  for 
"non-chip"  wear! 

Perfect  manicures.  Exclusive  "Nail-Meas- 
ure" neck  controls  amount  of  polish  on  brush! 
Insures  flawless  manicures! 

Lovelier  colors.  Soft  pastels — lively  reds !  A 
variety  so  wide  it  rivals  a  rainbow!  All  with 
matching  lipstick! 


LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 


"Let  'em  eat  cake!"  say  the  bride  and  groom. 
Sally  Forrest  and  MIlo  Frank  had  350  pounds 
of  it  at  their  Hollywood  wedding  in  August. 


STARS  all  over  the  place  at  the  Hollywood 
premiere  of  A  Place  In  The  Sun — the  pic- 
ture that  puts  Elizabeth  Taylor  and  Shelley 
Winters  in  the  category  of  fine  actresses,  and 
proves  anew  how  good  Monty  Cliit  is. 

Everybody  wanted  to  see  this  picture  (sure 
to  be  up  for  an  Oscar). 

For  the  first  time  at  one  of  these  plush 
affairs — an  actress  was  mistress  of  cere- 
monies— Dorothy  Lamour — and  she  did  fine. 

The  biggest  whoopla  was  when  Shelley 
Winters  and  Farley  Granger  arrived — Farley 
carrying  a  horse-shoe  shaped  floral  piece 
with  a  streamer  reading,  "Good  Luck."  As 
soon  as  he  set  it  down  in  the  foyer,  he  and 
Shelley  used  the  wreath  as  a  background 
for  some  snappy  kissing  pictures. 

Shelley  kept  pointing  to  the  horseshoe  yip- 
ping,  "My  fella  bought  it  for  me!  He  loves 
me!"  Do  you  wonder  that  Winters  gal  walks 
off  with  reams  of  publicity? 

One  of  the  most  chic  women  was  Jan  Ster- 
ling (with  hubby  Paul  Douglas,  of  course) 
in  a  slick,  tightfitting  black  gown  and  small 
black  theater  hat.  Jan  is  rapidly  becoming 
one  of  our  best  dressed  actresses. 

The  squealing  department  went  into  high 
gear  again  when  Janet  Leigh  and  Tony  Curtis 
arrived,  holding  hands  and  managing  to  sign 
autographs  at  the  same  time. 

Jeanne'  Grain  was  a  honey  in  a  bouffant 
pink  chiffon.  She  and  Paul  Brinkman  are  still 
in  the  hand-holding  category. 

Marie  Wilson  was  in  decollete  white — but 
so  very  thin  since  her  illness  not  many  fans 
recognized  her. 

Just  before  the  house  lights  dimmed,  Jane 
Russell  dashed  to  her  seat  with  her  manager, 
Louis  Shurr.  Her  lord  and  master.  Bob  Water- 
field,  was  practicing  with  the  Rams. 

As  the  picture  progressed,  Margaret  O'Brien 
could  be  heard  sobbing  and  sobbing.  It's 
hard  to  believe  that  Little  Maggie  is  sufficiently 
grown  up  to  attend  a  mature  picture  such  as 
A  Place  In  The  Sun. 

If  T  LAST — Mario  Lanza  and  MGM  have 
*^  buried  the  hatchet  and  from  here  on,  we 
hope  it  will  be  clear  sailing  for  the  singer 
who  zoomed  to  stardom  in  The  Great  Caruso 
— and  then  developed  an  inflated  hatband. 

I'm  sure  I  don't  have  to  repeat  all  the 
temperamental  antics  charged  against  Mario. 

But  the  feud  between  the  singer  and  the 
studio  did  not  come  out  in  the  open  until  he 
was  given  four  separate  starting  dates  on 
Because  You're  Mine — and  failed  to  show  up 
four  separate  times!  'Twas  said  he  didn't  like 


John  ond  Loretto  Agar  faced  a  long  seporo- 
tion  in  August.  Convicted  for  drunken  driving, 
he  wos  to  serve  five  months  in  the  county  jail. 


the  script.  'Twas  also  said  he  was  in  no  mood 
to  work  following  a  magazine  blast  at  him. 

During  the  time  he  had  been  pouting  with 
his  bosses,  Mario  put  on  a  lot  of  weight — 
about  25  extra  pounds.  When  he  and  the 
studio  executives  FINALLY  smoked  the  peace 
pipe,  Mario  was  too  fat  to  start  a  picture. 

Upshot  is — he  has  been  given  eight  weeks 
off  to  go  into  training  and  lose  the  excess 
poundage. 

After  that,  he's  promised  to  come  back 
and  make  his  movie  like  a  nice,  obedient  boy. 
(Continued  on  page  12') 


POOR  Robert  Walker.  His  death 
was  one  of  the  saddest  events 
of  this  year.  He  tried  so  hard  to 
get  over  the  emotional  upsets  in 
his  life.  I  had  a  letter  from  him  at 
the  time  of  my  beloved  husband's 
death  ...  a  note  of  sympathy  and 
a  thank  you  for  all  my  kindnesses 
to  him. 

In  the  old  days  Bob  felt  many 
things  were  written  about  him  that 
were  upsetting  and  he  wrote  me 
several  -  caustic  notes.  He  said  he 
felt  his  personal  life  was  his  own 
but  all  of  us  tried  to  help  him  after 
he  left  the  Menninger  sanitarium 
and  started  a  new  life.  He  seemed 
completely  changed.  Bob  never  got 
over  his  love  for  Jennifer  Jones  and 
even  though  they  were  separated, 
Jermifer  tried  to  help  him  in  every 
way  possible  and  also  did  David 
Selznick  to  whom  she  is  now  mar- 
ried. Jennifer  let  bim  have  the 
boys,  their  two  sons,  for  months  at 
a  time  believing  their  presence 
would  help  him.  Poor  Bob — such 
talent  and  so  much  really  to  live 
for.  He  was  one  of  the  most  popu- 
lar actors  and  was  much  in  de- 
mand at  all  the  studios  after  he 
changed  his  way  of  living.  I  had 
many  fan  letters  after  Bob  ap- 
peared in  Strangers  on  a  Train. 
He  had  the  sympathy  of  the  whole 
world  in  his  fight. 

LOUELLA  PARSONS 


DIRECTED  BY 


LUCILLE  NORMAN -SZSAKALL- DAVID  BUTLER- wiluam"jacobs 

Screen  Play  by  Harry  Clork,  Roland  Kibbee  and  Peter  Milne 


Musical  Direction  by  Ray  Meindorf  •  Musical 
Numbers  Staged  and  Directed  by  LeRoy  Pfiru 


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LOUELLA  PARSONS'  good  news 


You'll  love  that  lotion ! 
Creamy-rich,  pastel-blue,  exquisite- 
ly scented  ...  at  a  huge  saving!  Use 
Solitair  Lotion  head  to  toe  (not  just 
hands)  ...  to  smooth  and  scent  you 
all  over.  So  dainty,  so  sweet,  so 
softening!  Use  it  with  heavenly 
abandon — it  costs  so  little! 


Giant  8-ounce  size  73i 


JANET  Leigh  and  Tony  Curtis  cancelled  their 
Honolulu  vacation  with  the  Jerry  Lewises 
at  the  last  minute.  This,  on  top  of  those  fre- 
quent fainting  spells  Janet  has  been  having, 
adds  timber  to  the  talk  that  Janet  and  Tony 
are  expecting  the  stork.  She  denies  it. 

One  of  her  girl  friends,  however,  says, 
"Even  if  the  baby  talk  is  true,  Janet  won't  say 
anything  about  it  until  after  she  finishes 
Scaramouche." 

PERSONAL  Opinions:  Joan  Evans  is  the  most 
mature  minded  teenager  I  have  ever  met 
— or  expect  to  meet.  .  .  .  Frank  Sinatra  is  all 
wrong  in  that  "persecution  complex"  he's  de- 
veloping that  "everybody  is  against  him  and 
Ava."  Isn't  true,  Frankie.  You  should  read 
some  of  my  fan  mail.  .  .  .  Ricardo  Montalban 
has  exquisite  manners,  the  old-fashioned  kind 
— bending  low  over  a  lady's  hand,  etc. — which 
certainly  seems  to  go  well  with  even  the 
modern  belles  of  Hollywood.  .  .  .  Tony  Martin 
is  a  complete  sock  hit  in  Two  Tickets  To 
Broadway,  far  and  away  his  best  screen 
work.  .  .  .  No  one  is  going  to  make  me 
believe  that  Liz  Taylor  and  Bob  Taylor  are 
getting  dreamy  about  each  other  in  London. 
I'd  have  to  see  this  "dreaming"  with  my  own 
eyes.  .  .  .  Debbie  Reynolds  is  growing  out  of 
the  tomboy  mood.  She's  told  MGM  she  will  do 
some  cheesecake  pictures— if  they  want  her 
to.  .  .  .  Doris  Day's  mail  from  GIs  has  passed 
Betty  arable's  high  for  World  War  II.  .  .  . 
Speaking  of  Doris,  she  and  Gordon  MacRae 
are  the  best  of  friends — but  they've  both 
asked  for  different  partners  in  their  next  musi- 
cals because  they  are  afraid  the  fans  will  tire 


of  them  together.  True,  or  false?  ...  By  Oc- 
tober, Van  Johnson  will  have  started  his  fifth 
picture  in  a  single  year.  Has  any  other  actor 
topped  this  record  for  consecutive  jobs? 

MY  MAIL  this  month  has  been  so  interest- 
ing, I'm  giving  it  more  space  in  this  de- 
partment : 

Birgitta  Svenson,  of  Stockholm,  writes  Qyes, 
in  English):  "Why  do  American  fans  turn 
against  actors  just  because  a  star  fails  to 
comply  with  requests  for  photos  or  auto- 
graphs? I  have  written  Danny  Kaye  57  times 
— never  received  a  reply — and  I  still  think 
he's  THE  GREATEST!" 

Guess  you're  okay,  Kaye. 

Gene  Gilbert,  Eugene,  Oregon,  says:  "I 
wish  Ingrid  Bergman  could  know  that  we 
American  fans  still  love  her  and  want  her 
back  in  American  pictures." 

Richard  Widmark  gets  a  terrific  plug  from 
I.D.,  from  Ireland.  "By  far  the  most  talented 
actor  on  the  screen — let's  see  him  in  only  the 
best  pictures."  Twentieth  Century-Fox  is  striv- 
ing to  oblige,  I.D. 

Laura  H,  of  Brunswick,  Georgia,  doesn't 
believe  I  really  read  my  fan  mail.  She  will 
believe  it  only  if  I  print  that  "Scott  Brady  is 
the  idol  of  Southern  womanhood."  There, 
Laura,  are  you  convinced? 

Cynthia,  of  San  Francisco,  accuses  me  of 
picking  on  Mario  Lanza.  No  such  thing.  I 
agree  his  voice  is  magnificent — but  news  is 
news — and  when  Mario  gets  temperamental 
and  won't  work,  I  have  to  print  the  facts. 
Relax,  Cynthia — your  idol  and  MGM  have 
kissed  and  made  up! 


a  modern  screen  quiz 

Bud  Collyer,  MC  of  radio's  Break  The 
Bank  quiz  show  (ABC-mornings 
Monday  through  Friday) 
says  that  November  is  the  month  for 
Thanksgiving  and  that  hohday  being  a 
family  affair,  he  has  thought  up  a  few 
questions  relating  to  families  in  the 
movies.    You'll   find   the   answers  on 
page  70. 

1.  Name  four  famous  motion  picture 
families. 

2.  What  movie  sisters  have  each  won  an 
Academy  Award  and  for  what  pictures? 

3.  These  well-known  screen  characters 
were  the  head  of  the  family  in  what 
movies? 

a.  Grandpa  Vanderhoff  played  by 

Liofiel  Barryniore. 

b.  Judge  Harry  Wilkins  played  by 

Edward  Arnold. 

c.  Stanley  Banks  played  by  Spencer 

Tracy. 

4.  Who  was  the  "Royal  Family"  of  the 
movies? 

5.  Can  you  name  some  father  and  son 
combinations  in  the  movies?  (For 

instance,  John  Barrymore,  Sr.  and  Jr.) 


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■  By  the  time  you  read  this  story,  one  of  the  most  puzzling  and  publicized  romances  in 
Hollywood  will  have  reached  a  grand  climax  that  will  end  in  marriage  or  in  tears,  in  pledges 
of  eternal  fidelity,  or  in  a  fiery  farewell.  This  is  the  romance  of  Shelley  Winters  and  Farley 
Granger.  It's  been  going  on  for  two  long  years  and  now's  the  time  for  a  showdown.  Why? 
Because  Farley  is  in  Europe  on  a  vacation,  and  Shelley  expects  to  join  him  there.  And  their 
friends,  who've  been  studying  the  affair,  have  reached  this  decision:  "If  Winters  can't  get  him 
to  propose  while  they're  together  in  romantic  Paris,  she'd  better  drop  the  kid  and  take  up 
with  Tommy  ManvUle — or  a  reasonable  facsimile." 

So  it's  now  or  never  for  Shelley — unless  she  doesn't  get  to  Europe,  or  unless  the  whole 
thing  was  a  hoax  from  the  beginning. 

Just  mention  the  word  ''hoax"  to  Shelley,  though,  and  she'll  come  out  swinging. 

"Are  you  kidding?"  she'll  demand.  "I  don't  need  Farley  for  publicity,  and  he  doesn't  need 
me.  How  long  do  you  think  a  gag  like  that  could  last  ?  If  we  weren't  on  the  level  we  might 
have  gone  along  with  it  for  a  couple  of  months.  But  two  years! 

"Listen.  I'm  crazy  about  Farley  and  I  don't  care  who  knows  it.  If  I  wanted  to  go  with 
someone  for  publicity,  I'd  go  with  Francis,  the  mule. 

"Just  because  we  didn't  get  married  in  June  doesn't  mean  we're  (Continued  on  page  16) 


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nd  so  it  came 
to  pass  that 
David,  the  Lion 
of  Judah, 
looked  upon 
Bathsheba ... 
and  for  her, 

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(Continued  from  page  14)  not  in  love. 
Farley  had  to  do  a  picture  for  Goldwyn. 
We'll  get  married  when  we  can,  and  not 
when  a  lot  of  busy-bodies  think  we  should. 
Marriage  is  tough  enough  for  anyone.  But 
when  you've  got  two  acting  careers  to  deal 
with,  you  have  to  plan  things  carefully." 

Two  days  after  she  made  this  state- 
ment, Shelley  Winters  was  sitting  in 
Chasen's  restaurant  with  her  dream -boy. 
They  were  talking.  To  be  precise,  Shelley 
was  talking  and  Farley  was  listening. 

Suddenly,  Farley  got  to  his  feet.  "I've 
just  about  had  enough!"  he  exploded,  and 
stormed  out  of  the  door.  Shelley  burst 
into  tears,  then  she,  too,  got  up  and  ran 
over  to  Marlon  Brando's  table. 

"I  don't  care,"  she  blurted  out.  "I'm 
sitting  with  you  people."  And  she  moved 
into  the  booth  occupied  by  Brando,  his 
agent,  and  a  publicity  representative. 

"What  happened,  Shelley?"  someone 
asked. 

"We  had  a  fight,"  Shelley  moaned.  "I'm 
so  unhappy.  We  had  this  free  trip  to 
Europe  all  worked  out,  and  now  we  won't 
be  able  to  go  together.  That's  not  all, 
either.  The  studio's  just  loaned  me  out. 
But  I'll  take  a  suspension.  Let  them  sus- 
pend me.  I  don't  care.  I  want  to  go  to 
Europe  with  Farley." 

Ever  the  gentleman,  Marlon  Brando 
tossed  Shelley  a  napkin.  "Wipe  your  eyes," 
he  said. 

Shelley  wiped  her  eyes.  "Oh,  let  him  go 
without  me.  Who  wants  to  see  Europe, 
anyway?" 

A  FEW  weeks  later,  after  SheUey  had  be- 
come  anywhere  from  28  to  31  years 
old,  and  Farley  had  given  her  a  birthday 
present  and  they  had  made  up  for  the 
millionth  time — Shelley  ^was  hard  at  work 
on  Phone  Call  from  a  Stranger,  the  Fox 
picture  for  which  she'd  been  borrowed. 

"They  promised  me,"  Shelley  explained, 
"that  I'd  be  all  done  by  September  8th. 
They're  shooting  me  first.  If  Farley  leaves 
for  Europe  without  me,  and  he  probably 
will,  I'll  meet  him  in  Paris  and  we'll  have 
three  months  in  Europe  together.  Just 
think  of  it.  Paris  in  October." 

But  will  he  propose? 

Farley  loves  Shelley.  But  he  also  loves 
freedom.  He  loves  freedom  so  much  that 
once  he  threatened  to  walk  out  on  his 
career. 

A  year  ago,  Farley  told  Sam  Goldwyn 
that  he  was  fed  up  with  parts  in  which  he 
had  to  play  neurotics  and  psychopaths. 
He  felt  sure  that  his  fans  were  fed  up 
with  it,  too.  He  wanted  healthier  parts,  an 
increase  in  salary,  and  a  vacation. 

Sam  Goldwyn  has  been  in  Hollywood  a 
long  time  and  no  one  tells  him  what  to 
do.  If  you  don't  play  ball  according  to 
Goldwyn's  rules,  you  don't  play  at  all,  at 
least  not  for  him. 

When  Farley  told  Goldwyn  what  he  had 
in  mind,  he  was  promptly  placed  on  sus- 
pension. Farley's  salary  of  $800  a  week 
was  reduced  by  $800,  and  Farley,  piqued 
by  it  all,  took  off  for  Europe. 

Farley  is  an  impressionable  boy,  and  as 
he  toured  Europe  he  came  to  realize  that 
there  was  infinitely  more  to  the  world  th£in 
Hollywood. 

"TTiere's  so  much  to  see,"  he  explained 
when  he  returned,  "so  much  to  learn. 
From  now  on  whenever  I  get  any  time 
off:,  I'm  going  to  travel.  The  wonderful  ex- 
perience of  seeing  new  places,  meeting 
new  people,  exchanging  new  ideas — that's 
really  living." 

"Did  you  miss  Shelley  Winters  in  your 
travels?"  someone  asked  Farley. 

"I  sure  did,"  he  admitted.  "Shelley's 
the  kind  of  per.=on  who  should  travel,  too. 


She's  darn  intelligent,  you  know.  She 
could  absorb  plenty.  She's  really  a  very 
fine  and  sensitive  actress.  Most  people 
don't  seem  to  understand  that." 

Apparently,  Farley  understood  that 
when  he  first  started  taking  Shelley  out 
two  years  ago.  Frankly,  the  entire  ^air 
began  as  a  publicity  stunt.  They  were  both 
in  love  with  acting,  not  with  each  other. 
They  are  two  professionals  who  insist 
upon  learning  all  there  is  to  know  about 
their  craft. 

Whatever  charges  may  be  leveled  against 
Shelley — charges  of  temperament,  selfish- 
ness, bad  manners — no  one  can  say  that 
she  doesn't  give  her  best  to  every  role. 

During  the  making  of  Behave  Yourself, 
she  fought  with  everyone — George  Beck 
the  director,  Stanley  Rubin  the  producer, 
Jimmy  Wong  Howe  the  cameraman.  At 
one  point,  Rubin  was  so  furious  with  her 
that  he  called  her  every  name  in  the  book. 
"Whattaya  tryin'  to  do,  Stanley,"  SheUey 
asked  ui  Brooklynese,  "make  me  cry?" 

Despite  her  constant  quibbling,  Shelley 
managed  to  turn  in  an  excellent  perform- 
ance. It  doesn't  approach  her  sensitive 
characterization  in  A  Place  i7i  the  Sun, 
but  it  was  a  very  competent  performance. 

Similarly,  Farley  is  a  professional  actor. 
You  cannot  find  a  director  in  Hollywood 
today  who  wiU  not  sing  Farley's  praises. 
The  boy  Ukes  to  work.  He'll  do  a  scene  as 


IT  HAPPENED  TO  ME 

Dean  Martin  and  Jerry  Lewis  were 
doing  a  stage  show  in  Buffalo  and  I 
was  snapping  pictures  of  them  during 
their  act  when  an  v^her  came  down 
the  aisle  and  took  my  camera  away. 
Dean  Martin  stopped  the  show  and 
said,  "Don't  take  that  camera  from  that 
girl  .  .  .  she's  just  one  of  the  many 
swell  kids  who  have  put  its  up  here 
and  that  gives  her  the  right  to  take  our 
picture."  Then  Jerry  Lewis  jumped 
off  the  stage  and  came  over  hollering, 
"Now  let  me  take  your  picture."  He 
snapped  me  with  my  own  camera  and 
the  show  continued. 

Renee  Ronan 
Buffalo,  New  York 


many  times  as  a  director  will  order  him. 
He's  always  courteous  and  cooperative. 

How  he  stands  Shelley's  erratic  be- 
havior no  one  has  been  able  to  figure  out. 
The  answer,  of  course,  is  that  he  loves  her. 

A  girl  who  attended  Thomas  Jefferson 
High  School  in  Brooklyn  with  Shelley, 
says,  "After  a  while,  Shelley  gets  to  grow 
on  you.  People  say  she's  too  ambitious, 
too  ruthless.  Maybe  that  comes  from  hav- 
ing been  too  poor.  But  she's  fun.  You  put 
up  with  her  crazy  ways  because  in  the 
final  analysis,  she  never  hurts  anyone, 
only  herself.  Actually,  she  has  a  very 
wonderful  heart.  And  she's  had  her  tough 
breaks,  too,  like  that  first  marriage." 

Not  many  people  know  it,  but  on  New 
Year's  Day  of  1942  Shelley  Winters  be- 
came the  bride  of  Lieutenant  Mack  Mayer, 
an  Air  Force  navigator  whom  she'd 
known  for  three  weeks.  The  marriage 
lasted  five  years,  but  Shelley  and  her  hus- 
band spent  only  a  few  weeks  together  be- 
fore he  was  shipped  overseas. 

By  the  time  he  returned  to  the  states, 
the  marriage  was  nothing  but  a  mem- 
ory, and  Shelley  was  in  Hollywood  going 
around  from  one  studio  to  another  look- 
ing for  a  job.  Shelley  and  Mack  were 
divorced  in  1947,  and  two  years  later,  she 
met  Farley  Granger  at  a  lecture  where 
Charles  Laughton  was  discussing  the 
finer  points  of  Shakespeare. 

Farley  recognized  that  Shelley's  ex- 
hibitionistic  tendencies  and  her  outbursts 
were  the  result  of  her  being  afraid  and 
insecure.  (Continued  on  page  18) 


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Shelley  herself  says,  "When  I'm  working 
I'm  scared  and  nervous.  If  something  an- 
noys me  I  get  it  off  my  chest." 

At  first,  it  was  merely  convenient  and 
good  publicity  to  have  a  steady  date  for 
gossip  items,  parties,  and  previews.  But 
then  it  became  a  need,  when  either  was 
lonely  or  depressed  or  puzzled,  to  see 
the  other.  They  became  almost  constant 
companions,  and  they  fell  in  love. 

Some  skeptics  still  don't  believe  it.  Early 
last  spring,  Jerry  Wald,  a  producer  who 
specializes  in  publicity,  tried  to  hire  Far- 
ley Granger  for  the  lead  in  Behave  Your- 
self. Farley  said  he  would  star  in  Mr. 
Wald's  picture  if  (a)  Mr.  Goldwyn  would 
loan  him  out;  (b)  he  liked  the  script;  and 
(c)  Shelley  Winters  played  opposite  him. 

Wald  immediately  went  to  work  and 
saw  to  it  that  all  three  conditions  were 
complied  with.  After  the  film  was  finished, 
there  was  a  party  on  the  sound  stage,  and 
Farley  slipped  a  "friendship  ring"  on 
Shelley's  finger. 

At  once,  most  of  Hollywood  agreed  that 
this  was  a  Jerry  Wald  publicity  gimmick, 
pure  and  simple.  It  was  further  suggested 
that  if  Shelley  and  Farley  maintained  their 
lovey-dovey  attitude  in  public,  Wald 
might  even  prevail  upon  RKO  to  pay  the 
expenses  of  their  trip  to  Europe,  such 
expenses  to  be  charged  off  for  publicity 
purposes. 

The  story  was  soon  broadcast  that  Shel- 


ley and  Farley  were  destined  to  wed,  only 
some  versions  insisted  upon  painting 
Shelley  as  a  prospective  June  bride. 

Shelley  denied  this  for  one  very  simple 
reason.  Farley  hadn't  proposed. 

"I  give  you  my  word,"  a  publicity  man 
who  knows  Shelley  well,  said  the  other 
day,  "as  soon  as  Farley  opens  his  mouth 
and  says,  'Shelley,  will  you—'  I  give  you 
my  word,  she'll  say  yes  before  he  finishes 
the  question." 

This  is  entirely  likely.  Shelley  and  Far- 
ley may  marry  at  any  time  during  their 
European  tour.  But  Farley  will  have  to 
pop  the  question.  Shelley  may  be  bold 
and  outspoken,  but  she  cannot  bring  her- 
self to  the  point  of  seriously  saying  to 
Farley,  "Why  don't  you  marry  me?" 

And  Farley,  who  is  only  26,  may  feel 
strongly  that  there's  still  time  for  mar- 
riage and  responsibility.  When  he  left 
Hollywood  at  the  end  of  August  he  found 
himself  in  the  best  position  of  his  life. 

He  had  two  good  pictures  behind  him, 
money  in  the  bank,  a  new  long-term  con- 
tract with  Sam  Goldwyn,  an  exciting 
itinerary  in  Europe,  and  a  beautiful  blond 
named  Shelley  desperately  anxious  to  join 
him. 

Maybe  he  thinks  this  is  enough  for  a 
while,  but  if  he  wants  Shelley  he'd  better 
ask  her  now,  because  the  odds  are  she 
isn't  going  to  cool  her  heels  waiting  much 
longer.  The  End 


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O  The  Inside  Story 
n  Louella  Parsons'  Good  News 
(n  Christopher  Kane's  Movie  Reviews 
Q  Jane  Powell — Your  Hollywood 
Shopper 

□  It's  Now  or  Never  (Farley  Granger- 
Shelley  Winters) 

□  Nothing  But  Blue  Skies 
(Judy  Garland) 

□  What  Now,  Princess? 
(Rita  Hayworth) 

□  Ten  Fantastic  Years 
by  Hedda  Hopper 

□  Who'll  Catch   Dailey?    (Dan  Dailey) 

□  She's  The  Marrying  Kind  (Vera-Ellen) 

□  The  Girl  Who  Won  Gable  Back 
(Clark  Gable) 

□  Slow  Boat  To  Catolina  (Marsh 
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□  Love  Crazy  (Betty  Hutton) 

□  Meet  Mayor  Crosby  (Bing  Crosby) 

□  This  Time  It's  Real  (Pete  Lawford) 

□  Dearly  Beloved  (June  Allyson- 
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□  How"  Dopey  Can  He  Get? 
(Gordon  MacRae) 

□  What  Men  Have  Done  To  Me 
by  Joan  Crawford 

□  His  Life's  No  Open  Book 
(Howard  Keel) 

□  Modern  Screen  Fashions 

□  Tell  It  To  Joan   (Joan  Evans'  guest 
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in  the  very  romontic,  and  inspirational  city  of  Paris. 


Wealthy  Nina  Foch  likes  to  help  struggling  artists 
— especially  handsome  ones.  She  sets  Gene  up  in  a 
studio   of   his   own,    and   wonts   only   love    in  return. 


Love  blooms  when  Gene  flirts  with  Leslie  Coron  in 
a  sidewalk  cafe.'  First  she  rebuffs  him,  then  she 
falls  for  his  chcrms — but  she's  engaged  to  another. 


MOVIETIME.  U.S.A. 

It's  Golden  Jubilee  time!  During  October 
and  November  all  Hollywood  is  celebratifig 
the  50th  anniversary  of  motion  pictures, 
and  the  best  films  made  this  year  are  being 
simidtaneously  released.  Go  to  the  movies 
now — for  top  entertainment ! 


AN  AMERICAN  IN  PARIS 

■  There  are  very  rewarding  features  in  "A.A.I.P." — namely. 
Gene  Kelly's  easy  grace,  a  young  French  dancer  (Leslie  Caron) 
who's  as  cute  as  a  kitten  to  look  at,  and  a  charmingly  un- 
afiected  actress,  and  George  Gershwin's  terrific  music,  especially 
as  played  by  Oscar — who  else? — Levant.  That  the  story — of  a 
G.I.-painter  in  Paris,  loving  one  girl,  and  involved  with  another 
— doesn't  seem  really  to  hang  together  like  a  story;  that  there 
may  be  a  little  too  much  dancing  for  non-dance  devotees  (toward 
the  end  there's  a  whole  elaborately  complex  ballet)  are  minor 
points.  Because  who  cares  when  it  has  nice  people,  beautiful 
Technicolor,  and  that  wonderful  Parisian  flavor?  It  may  be  a 
little  light-headed  in  spots,  but  it  will  make  you  feel  light- 
hearted. 

Who  could  ask  for  anything  more? 
Casf;   Gene  Kelly,  Nina  Foch,   Leslie   Caron,   Oscai  Levant, 
Georges  Guetary.    MGM.  (More  reviews  on  page  22.') 


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DAVID  AND  BATHSHEBA 

David  and  Bathsheba  is  a  love  story  right 
out  of  the  Bible,  and  it's  good.  Gregory  Peck 
makes  an  absolutely  splendid  king;  his  adul- 
terous affair  with  the  red-headed  wife  of  one 
of  his  lieutenants  makes  absorbing  movie  ma- 
terial. Only  trouble  is,  I  find  it  hard  to  dislike 
Gregory  even  when  he  dispatches  his  girl 
friend's  hubby  off  to  get  killed.  God,  feeling 
otherwise,  sends  David  and  Bathsheba  guite 
some  trouble  for  their  sin,  before  the  air  clears 
up.  The  Technicolor's  meltingly  lovely;  Peck  is 
strong,  sensitive;  Susan  Hay  ward  is  hand- 
some. I  didn't  especially  care  for  English  im- 
port Kieron  Moore  (Susan's  husband),  but  I 
liked  English  import  James  Roberson  Justice 
(Peck's  equerry)  a  lot.  Then  we  have  Ray- 
mond Massey  as  the  prophet  Nathan  wander- 
ing around  in  rags  brandishing  a  stick  and 
sounding  ominous  at  all  times,  and  Jayne 
Meadows  as  Gregory's  first  wife.  There  are 
some  beautiful  words  from  the  Bible,  and  a 
scene  of  a  lady  being  stoned  to  death  thrown 
in  for  the  price  of  admission.  One  thing  that 
annoyed  me  was  the  small  Absalom  (David's 
son)  played  by  Gilbert  Barnett.  20th  Century- 
Fox,  having  read  right  along  in  its  Bible,  and 
realizing  that  Absalom  grows  up  to  turn  on 
his  father,  felt  impelled  to  give  the  audience 
a  hint  of  what  was  coming.  Therefore  every 
time  you  see  the  nasty  tyke,  he's  fingering  a 
dagger  and  leering  at  his  old  man  in  ridicu- 
lous fashion.  Mostly,  though,  David  and  Bath- 
sheba is  wonderful  to  look  at,  and  even 
moving. 

Cast:  Gregory  Peck.  Susan  Hayward,  Ray- 
mond Massey.  20th  Century-Fox. 

PAINTING  THE  CLOUDS  WITH 
SUNSHINE 

A  Technicolored  musical  in  which  you're 
always  49  steps  ahead  of  the  script  at  know- 
ing what's  going  to  happen  next.  A  trio  of  girl 
singers  (Virginia  Mayo,  Lucille  Norman  and 
Virginia  Gibson)  are  mixed  up  with  Dennis 
Morgan  and  Gene  Nelson.  Both  these  men 
are  in  love  with  Miss  Norman,  who  loves  Den- 
nis, only  he  gambles,  so  she  throws  him  over. 
Nelson  is  a  millionaire,  but  he  cannot  make 
her  forget  her  true  love  (he  eventually  settles 
for  Miss  Gibson,  when  Dennis  and  Miss  Nor- 
man reconcile)  and  Miss  Mayo,  who's  a  gold- 
digger  gets  a  rich  man  too.  A  dirty  old 
sourdough — whatever  that  is — threatens  to  kill 
S.  Z.  Sakall  all  through  the  picture,  but  I  didn't 
give  a  darn.  I  think  Miss  Norman  is  new. 
She's  a  soprano. 

Casf:  Dennis  Morgan,  Virginia  Mayo,  Gene 
Nelson.  Warners. 


as  you've  never  seen  him- 
as  you'll  love  him  most- 
in  Nevll  Shute's  unusual 
suspense-filled  story  of 
drama  and  romance 
28,000  feet  above 
the  sea! 


! 


GLYNIS  JOHNS  •  JACK  HAWKINS  •  JANEHE  SCOTT 

'"'X  LOUIS  D.  LIGHTON  ""X  HENRY  KOSTER 

R.  C.  SHERRIFF,  OSCAR  MILLARD-ALEC  COPPEL 

Based  on  the  Novel  by  NEVIL  SHUTE  ' 


2." 


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You'll  adore  the  natural  loveliness  of  this  softer 
sheerer  foundation !  Before  powder,  veil  on  just  a 
touch  of  delicate  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream.  The 
fluffy-white,  greaseless  Cream  disappears  evenly 
on  your  skin.  No  streaking  or  discoloring.  The 
smoothest  possible,  invisible  film  remains  to  shield 
your  complexion — hold  your  make-up !  Pond's 
Vanishing  Cream  flatters  every  skin-tone — gives 
every  complexion  a  flawless,  lasting  finish! 


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'^  f        Look  specially  lovely  for  special  occasions!  Fluff  a 
lavish  1-Minute  Mask  of  Pond's  Vanishing  Cream 
over  your  face,  all  except  eyes.  Its  "keratolytic" 
action  loosens  and  dissolves  off'  the  dirt  and  dead  skin- 
flakes  that  shadow  end-of-day  complexions.  After  one 
minute,  tissue  off  the  snowy  Mask.  Your  skin  seems 
newly  fresii,  radiant — so  beautifully  ready  for  make-up ! 


"A  1-Minute  Mask  of  Pond's 
Vanishing  Cream  is  the  most  delightful  way  to  smooth  and  brighten  my  skin." 


THE  RAGING  TIDE 

In  this  picture,  evil-doers  reform  so  fast  the 
police  can  hardly  keep  up  with  them.  Rack- 
eteer Richard  Conte,  wanted  for  murder,  hides 
out  on  a  fishing  boat,  offers  to  work  for  his 
keep.  Swedish  fisherman  Charles  Bickford 
and  his  son  Carl  (Alex  Nicol)  can  use  his 
help,  set  out  to  sea.  Conte  doesn't  like  the 
way  Carl  treats  his  father  (some  murderers 
have  real  soft  hearts)  and  beats  him  up  for 
it.  Carl  starts  treating  his  father  better,  and 
also,  though  he's  done  a  little  car-stealing  in 
his  time,  determines  to  go  straight  after  he 
meets  Shelley  Winters.  Shelley,  supposedly 
Conte's  girl  friend,  is  loyal  to  him  for  a  while, 
but  eventually  falls  for  Carl.  She  tells  the 
police  Conte's  planning  to  frame  Carl  for  the 
murder  he  himself  did.  (Telling  the  police  any- 
thing is  a  form  of  reform  for  Shelley.  She  don't 
trust  cops.)  Then  Conte,  reforming  even  more 
and  further  and  better  than  anybody,  drowns, 
while  saving  Carl's  life.  Who  could  ask  for 
anything  more? 

Cast:  Richard  Conte,  Shelley  Winters,  Stephen 
McNally.  Universal-International. 

PEOPLE  WILL  TALK 

I  remarked  to  somebody  that  I  didn't  think 
anyone  in  People  Will  Talk  talked.  They  were 
so  busy  being  clever  they  didn't  sound  even 
faintly  human.  So  my  companion  sneered  at 
me,  "What's  so  swell  about  sounding  human?" 
And  I  could  only  reflect  sadly  that  I  was  the 
one  person  in  the  world  who  dfdn't  go  crazy 
over  All  About  Eve,  so  maybe  it's  just  some- 
thing between  me  and  director  Mankewiecz. 
People  Will  Talk  tells  of  a  doctor  who  marries 
a  girl  pregnant  by  another  man,  partly  be- 
cause he  loves  her,  partly  to  keep  her  from 
killing  herself.  There's  a  mystery  about  the 
doctor's  background,  and  about  an  attendant 
he  has — an  old  duffer  called  "The  Bat" 
(played  by  Finlay  Currie).  It's  certainly 
engrossing,  and  often  very  funny.  But  I  don't 
think  any  medical  school  trots  a  corpse  with  a 
madeup  face  and  long  black  hair  into  a  class 
room  (if  they  do,  I'm  against  it),  and  that's 
a  sample  of  my  complaints.  It  may  be  shock- 
ing, but  does  that  make  it  good?  Which  isn't 
to  say  that  People  Will  Talk  isn't  entertaining, 
or  that  Cory  Grant  was  ever  lovelier.  It's  just 
that  you  have  to  apply  stricter  standards  to 
a  picture  tnat's  been  ballyhooed  as  a  master- 
piece. 

Cast:  Cary  Giant,  Jeanne  Grain,  Finlay 
Currie. — ■20th  Century-Fox. 

MEET  ME  AFTER  THE  SHOW 

Every  tired  piece  of  plot  in  musical  history 
was  glued  together  to  make  Meef  Me  Atter 
The  Show,  but  it's  got  Grable,  and  Grable's 
legs,  and  for  some  fans,  that's  enough.  I'm 


Ist  warning  you,  so  you  can  suit  yourself. 
Sere's  Betty  married  to  a  producer  (Carey) 
vho  made  her  a  lady.  (She  was  a  kind  of 
^onky-tonk  type  before.)  The  backer  for 
irey's  and  Betty's  new  show  is  a  sexy  girl. 
|etty  doesn't  like  this.  She  divorces  Carey, 
retends  amnesia,  leaves  town.  He  follows, 
jtc,  etc.  Eddie  Albert  and  Rory  Calhoun  play 
wo  of  Betty's  admirers.  But  the  only  things 
f'orth  watching  are  a  couple  of  her  musical 
imbers  which  are  rather  nicely  humorous, 
6e  dancing  having  been  staged  by  Jack  Cole, 
last:  Betty  Gzable,  Macdonald  Carey,  Rory 
EaiJioun.    20th  Century-Fox. 

THE  PEOPLE  AGAINST  O'HARA 

A  boy  is  framed  for  a  murder-and-theft,  and 
|his  parents  get  their  old  friend  Spencer  Tracy 
take  the  case.  Tracy's  an  ex-alcoholic,  has 
retired  from  criminal  law  because  the  tension 
Qf  being  responsible  for  a  man's  life  is  dan- 
serous  to  his  welfare.  But  he  can't  turn  these 
people  down,  goes  to  work  for  their  son.  It's 
in  exciting,  suspenseful  picture  with  fine  per- 
lormances  from  Tracy  and  Pat  O'Brien,  and  a 
goy  named  William  Campbell  (the  farmer), 
id  some  colorful  crooks.  (It's  the  first  time 
i^e  seen  Eduardo  Cianelli  play  a  crook  in 
jes.)  There's  a  love  story  between  Tracy's 
laughter,  Diana  Lynn  and  Richard  Anderson; 
and  John  Hodiak  as  an  assistant  district  at- 
torney. The  moral  ending  was  inevitable,  I 
suppose — they  were  bound  to  kill  off  Spencer 
because  he'd  bribed  a  witness — but  aside 
(from  that,  I  liked  The  People  Against  O'Hara. 
Zast:  Spencei  Tracy,  Pat  O'Brien,  Diana  Lynn. 
HGM, 

FORCE  OF  ARMS 

An  out-and-out  love  story,  which  smells 
Islighlly  like  A  Farewell  to  Arms,  but  which 
lias  its  affecting  moments  nonetheless,  force 
of  Arms  tells  about  a  sergeant  (Bill  Holden) 
3nd  a  WAC  Lieutenant  (Nancy  Olson)  who 
net  in  Italy,  and  fall  in  love.  Nancy  doesn't 
vant  to  care  for  anybody  in  a  hurry,  so  to 
peak;  she's  sick  to  death  of  "live  today,  for 
^morrow  we  may  you-know-what,"  and  of 
be  sight  of  young  girls  going  off  with  soldiers 
return  for  chocolate  and  chewing  gum.  She 
rants  a  home,  and  a  man,  and  children,  and 
return  to  a  sense  of  values.  Bill  doesn't  be- 
lieve in  that  stuff,  he  feels  he  can't  make 
plans  the  way  things  are.  Plot  plays  itself  out 
against  a  background  of  war-ravaged  Italy, 
and  Warners  has  succeeded  in  getting  actual 
iocumentry  battle  shots  which  add  authen- 
Bcity  of  an  awe-inspiring  kind. 
Zast:  William  Holden,  Nancy  Olson,  Frank 
Lovejoy.  Warners 


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IT'S  ONLY  MONEY 

A  delightful  comedy  which  takes  absolutely 
nothing  seriously,  and  brings  back  Groucho 
Marx  at  his  best.  Need  I  say  more?  Well,  I 
will  anyway.  Frank  Sinatra  and  Jane  Russell, 
who  clerk  in  a  bank  together,  are  engaged. 
She's  bigger  than  he  is,  but  outside  oi  that, 
they  make  a  cute  couple.  Groucho,  the  waiter 
at  a  restaurant  near  the  bank,  is  always 
urging  Frank  to  a  life  of  crime.  "Live  danger- 
ously," he  cries.  Frank  and  Jane  want  to  get 
married,  but  Frank  is  timid,  scared  of  life. 
After  a  grateful  bookie  forces  some  $40,000 
upon  him,  however  (not  that  Frank  ever  bets, 
just  that  he  helped  the  bookie  when  two  thugs 
attacked  him)  all  heck  breaks  loose.  About 
the  very  time  Frank  shows  up  at  the  bank 
with  his  new  wealth,  a  shortage  of  funds  is 
discovered  in  the  establishment.  You  see?  It's 
a  riot. 

Casi:  Frank  Sinatra,  lane  Russell,  Groucho 
Marx. — RKO 


MR.  BELVEDERE  RINGS  THE  BELL 

Lynn  Belvedere  is  back,  and  the  Old  Folks' 
Home  has  him.  In  a  movie  loosely  based  on 
the  Broadway  play,  TJie  Silver  Whistle,  Clifton 
Webb,  once  again  the  authority  on  everything 
in  the  world,  brings  meaning  to  the  lives  of  a 
group  of  elderly  men  and  women  who've  been 
sitting  around  waiting  to  die.  It's  a  gentle 
kind  of  picture,  with  particularly  outstanding 
acting  by  Doro  Merande  as  a  sarcastic  old 
lady,  and  Bill  Lynn  as  a  giddy  old  man. 
Joanne  Dru  and  Hugh  Marlowe  (the  minister 
and  nurse  in  charge  of  the  Home)  furnish 
the  rather  dull  love  interest.  Even  for  a  min- 
ister, Marlowe's  awfully  juice-less.  Fat  Zero 
Mostel  is  Webb's  helper-in-rehabilitation. 
Casf:  Clihon  Webb.  Joanne  Dru,  Hugh  Mar- 
lowe.— 20th  Century-Fox. 

RHUBARB 

Rhubarb  is  the  story  of  a  bad-tempered  cat 
who's  left  30  million  dollars  and  a  baseball 
team  by  a  whimsical  millionaire.  The  million- 
aire's daughter  thinks  she's  got  more  right  to 
the  money,  and  tries  to  kill  Rhubarb,  while 
the  baseball  team  thinks  working  for  a  cat  is 
humiliating,  and  pretends  to  be  sick.  ("I 
strained  a  ling-a-ment,"  one  of  the  players 
keeps  saying.)  But  Rhubarb  is  a  most  unusual 
monster.  Before  he's  finished,  the  team  has 
won  a  pennant;  he's  escaped  the  clutches  of 
kidnappers — or  cat-nappers,  as  Paramount  put 
it;  he's  foiled  the  millionaire's  wretched 
daughter;  and  he's  smiled  benevolently  as  his 
guardian,  Ray  Milland,  finds  true  love  with 
Jan  Sterling.  Not  thrilling,  but  cute  enough. 
Cast:  Ray  Milland,  Jan  Sterling,  Gene  Lock- 
hart, — Paramount. 


ON  THE  LOOSE 

Melvyn  Douglas  and  Lynn  Bari  as  neglectful 
parents  who  learn  their  lesson  almost  too  late 
(their  teen-age  daughter  tries  to  drown  her- 
self) and  Joan  Evans  as  the  teen-age  daugh- 
ter, turn  in  good  jobs  though  their  vehicle  is 
slightly  corny.  Or  maybe  what  I  mean  is  un- 
subtle.  Joan  loses  her  reputation  in  such  a 
rousingly  thorough  way,  and  Lynn  is  forced 
to  be  so  one-dimensional  a  character  that  her 
sudden  abrupt  change — a  change  which  helps 
bring  about  the  final  happy  ending — is  a  little 
unbelievable.  Still,  there  are  many  really 
touching  things  about  the  picture.  A  scene 
where  Joan  and  her  father  go  dancing  to- 
gether, and  discover  one  another.  A  scene 
where  Lynn — abrupt  change  or  no — makes  a 
plea  to  her  neighbors  for  Joan's  happiness. 
I  guess  On  The  Loose  will  make  parents 
wonder  where  their  children  are,  and  I  guess 
that's  good. 

Cast:  Joan  Evans,  Melvyn  Douglas,  Lynn  Baii, 
Robert  Arthui. — RKO 

THE  RED  BADGE  OF  COURAGE 

Stephen  Crane's  novel  of  the  Civil  War  be- 
comes a  quiet,  hour-long  (or  hour-short)  film 
which  tells  a  simple  story,  if  any  story  of  war 
can  be  called  simple.  It  casts  Audie  Murphy 
as  the  boy  who  goes  into  battle  a  frightened 
kid;  who  runs  away;  who  comes  back,  and 
stands,  and  fights,  and  emerges  a  man.  Bill 
Mauldin  plays  another  kid-soldier,  Audie's 
friend.  The  scenes  of  battle,  and  of  injured 
men  staggering  av/ay  from  battle,  are  as 
terrible  to  watch  as  any  of  the  more  jet-pro- 
pelled warfare  the  movies  have  recently 
brought  us.  The  photography  is  something  it's 
a  privilege  to  see.  The  whole  job,  directed  by 
John  Huston,  is  close  to  perfection. 
Cast:  Audie  Muzphy,  Bill  Mauldin,  John 
Dieikes. — MGM 

DARLING,  HOW  COULD  YOU? 

Based  on  J.  M.  Barrie's  Aiice-Sif-By-The-fire, 
Dariing,  How  Couid  You?  has  John  Lund  and 
Joan  Fontaine  as  the  couple  who  return  to 
New  York  from  several  years  in  Panama,  and 
find  themselves  strangers  to  their  three  chil- 
dren. The  baby  isn't  much  of  a  problem, 
but  the  little  boy,  Cosmo  (David  Stollery)  hates 
his  first  name,  and  has  taken  the  liberty  of 
changing  it  to  Charles,  and  he  doesn't  like 
to  be  kissed,  either.  The  young  daughter, 
Mona  Freeman,  has  seen  a  play  on  the  stage, 
and  keeps  making  knowing  remarks  about 
"The  seamy  side  of  life."  It's  very  funny.  The 
boy,  for  instance,  upon  greeting  his  long-lost 
father,  blurts  out  desperately,  "Hello  dad,  uh, 
father,  uh,  pop — how's  your  wife?"  As  for 
Mono,  she  comes  to  the  conclusion  that  her 
mother  is  embarked  upon  an  Olicit  love  affair, 
and  attempts  to  save  her  by  offering  herself 
to  the  libertine  ("the  liberty,"  Cosmo  calls 
him)  with  hilarious  results. 
Cast:  Joan  Fonfaine,  John  Lund,  Mona  Free- 
man.— Paramount. 


How  to  prove  Pen  at  en 
in  AVbodbury  Cold  Cream 


cleanses 

deeper 


Virginia  Mayo  proves  Woodbury's  exclusive 
new  miracle  ingredient,  Penaten,  actually 
penetrates  much  deeper  into  pore  openings, 
lets  Woodbury's  wonderful  cleansing  oils 
loosen  every  trace  of  grime  and  make-up. 


softens 

better 


Lovely  co-star  of  Warner  Bros.'  "Painting 
the  Clouds  with  Sunshine"  (Color  by 
Technicolor) ,  shows  how  Woodbury  Cold 
Cream  loosens  hidden  dirt  so  it's  easy  to 
wipe  away.  And  Penaten  takes  the  rich 
oils  so  deep  your  skin  feels  velvet-soft.  ' 


You'll 


want 


to 


read 
this 
ad 


again! 


leaves  you 
lovelier 


A  touch  tells  how  Penaten  smooths !  Prove 
to  yourself  how  radiant  the  extra -deep 
cleansing  of  Woodbury  Cold  Cream  leaves 
your  skin  — how  adorably  soft  it  makes  it 
feel!  Only  254  to  97^,  plus  tax. 


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Soaping  dulls  hair. 
Halo  glorifies  it ! 


Not  a  soap, 
not  a  cream^ 
Halo  cannot  leave 
dulling,  dirt-catching 
soap  film! 


Removes 
embarrassing 
dandruff  from  both 
hair  and  scalp! 


Yes,  "soaping"  your  hair  with 
even  finest  Uquid  or  oUy  cream 
shampoos  leaves  dulling, 
dirt-catching  film.  Halo,  made 
with  a  new  patented  ingredient, 
contains  no  soap,  no  sticky  oils. 
Thus  Halo  glorifies  your  hair 
the  very  first  time  you  use  it. 

Ask  for  Halo — America's 
favorite  shampoo — at  any  drug 
or  cosmetic  counter! 


Gives  fragrant 
'soft-water"  lather 
—needs  no 
special  rinse! 


Halo  leaves  hair 
soft,  manageable- 
shining  with  colorful 
natural  highlights 


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Halo  reveals  the  hidden  beauty  of  your  hair! 


a 


Hollywood 
goes 
shopping 
for  you! 


■  Around  this  time  of  year  most 
people  are  so  busy  they  thank  their 
lucky  stars  for  someone  to  help 
them.  Well,  that's  just  what  you  can 
do.  You  can  thank  the  stars  who, 
full  of  vim  and  vigor,  comb  the 
stores  and  bring  home  prize  buys  for 
themselves.  And  you  can  count 
yourself  lucky  that  their  choices  are 
just  right  for  you,  too,  in  price  and 
taste. 

To  get  any  of  these  star-selected 
items,  just  write  to  the  shops  men- 
tioned below  each  picture,  enclosing 
a  check  or  money  order  (and  gift 
card  if  you  like).  Your  selection  will 
be  rushed  to  any  address  you  name. 
Modern  Screen  guarantees  de- 
livery. Prices  all  include  postage  and 
tax  where  necessary.  Money  will  be 
refunded  on  any  items  that  are  re- 
turned within  10  days  after  delivery. 
Only  personahzed  merchandise  can- 
not be  returned. 


jane  powell 
your  hollywood  shopper 

for  november 


Since.  July  22,  when  the  boby  was  born,  Jane's  been  o  busy  girl  caring  for  Gearys,  Jr.  and  Sr. 


LEARN  TO  "GLORIFY  YOURSELF"  for  holiday 
parties.  Eleanore  King,  famous  Hollywood 
coach,  shows  top  stars'  beauty  secrets. 
Easy-to-follow,  it  revamps  you  for  glamor 
through  exercise,  diet,  make-up,  and  fash- 
ion tips.  Sketches  and  photos  of  stars  like 
Lana  Turner,  Virginia  Mayo,  Gene  Tier- 
ney,  Betty  Grahle.  Eleanore's  book  helped 
me  iL'in  the  "battle  of  the  bulge"  after  the 
baby.  "Glorify  Yourself",  $3.95.  Prentice- 
Hall,  70  5th  Ave.,  N.  Y.  11. 


"PERSON  TO  PERSON"  VANITY  SET.  It's  a  gift 
with  a  real  personal  touch  that  will  thrill 
my  friends  at  Xmas.  Print  plainly  name 
to  be  engraved  on  the  polished  gold  metal 
compact  and  matching  lipstick  case.  The 
lipstick  is  that  wonderful  new  indelible 
French-type  in  latest  shades— Light,  Med., 
Dark.  Geary  says  it's  the  perfect  gift  (or 
his  best  gal.  Lucky  me!  Only  $3.50,  tax 
incl.  Nancy  Shayne,  Dept.  G,  1216  S. 
Michigan  Ave.,  Chicago  5. 


■  As  a  song  and  dance  gal  recently  I've 

been  on  the  shelf,  but  as  a  shopper  I'm 
hep  on  the  latest  scoops. 

For  months  before  our  new  baby, 
Geary,  Jr.,  arrived  I  was  free  as  air,  for 
almost  the  first  time  since  I  was  15.  I 
had  a  heavenly  holiday  unearthing  all 
sorts  of  rip-roaring  bargains  for  our  new 
Brentwood  home.  Geary  was  so  im- 
pressed with  my  shopping  prowess  that 
he's  handed  me  our  entire  budget. 

Now  Modern  Screen  has  given  me  a 
chance  to  prove  my  boast  by  sending  me 
scooting  all  over  creation  for  the  whop- 
pingest  buys  ever.  I  copped  top  prizes 
from  the  best  stores  in  America. 

Since  Christmas  will  be  along  sooner 
than  you  think  (and  never  comes  too 
soon  for  me)  I've  had  me  a  time  rustling 
up  wonderful  gifts  for  everyone,  big  and 
little.  Of  course,  I  used  Geary  and  Junior 
as  "sample"  father  and  son. 

To  get  anything  that  catches  your  eye 
write  to  the  store  under  the  picture. 

I've  tried  to  out-Santa  Santa  in  my 
selections,  so  check  off  your  Christmas 
gift  list  really  early  this  year ! 


SILHOUETTE  STATIONERY;  LETTER  PERFECT.  This 
is  for  me!  Here  is  the  nexcest,  cutest  trick 
in  personalized  notepaper,  so  of  course,  I 
have  ordered  loads  as  Xmas  gifts.  Your 
first  name  actually  makes  the  skirt  on  the 
Colonial  Maid.  Any  name  printed  in  rich 
blue  on  the  24  informal-sized  Hammermill 
sheets.  12  envelopes  to  match.  Please 
print  name  clearly.  Package  only  35(1:.  3 
pkgs.  $1.  7  for  $2.  Western  Stationery  Co., 
Dept.  IIIM,  Topeka,  Kans. 


WALIET  WITH  lOTS  OF  EXTRAS  designed  to 
hold  the  contents  of  your  purse  inside  its 
lambskin  case.  Beside  a  bill  holder  and 
card  compartment,  it  has  a  "snap-in"  key 
case,  detachable  8-photo  picture  album 
and  outside  change  purse.  I  slip  the  wal- 
let through  my  belt  for  easy  toting.  Nylon- 
stitched  edges.  Twoitoned,  with  black, 
green,  navy,  brown,  tan,  wine  outside; 
solid  red  or  tan  inside.  $4.20  complete. 
G.  R.  Godfrey  Co.,  Gardner,  Massachusetts. 


Amazing  NEW  IDEA  IN  A 

WATCH  BAND! 


ZIP! 


ZIP! 


and  it's  closed! 


No  buckles,  no  holes!  Closes  with  a  zip- 
per on  the  inside.  Just  slip  your  hand 
through  the  bracelet-like  band  and  pull 
strap  till  it  fits  your  wrist.  No  buckles  that 
tarnish  ...  no  holes  that  wear  away. 
When  washing,  push  strap  up  on  your  arm 
out  of  danger. 

Pigskin,  Calf  or  Morocain  at  $2.50  each. 
Lizard,  $4.  Alligafor,  $5. 

.ill  postpaid.  Xo  C.O.D.'s  please. 

ABBOTT  GIFTS.  22  W.  22nd  St. 
Dept.  M.  New  York  10.  N.  Y. 


BEFORE. 

Vmter 


*  big  toe 

Is  showing. .. 

because  your  feet  slide  forward  —  sliding  also 
causes  heels  to  slip,  insteps  to  cut,  ankle  straps 
to  gap  and  toes  to  hit  and  hurt  in  closed  shoes. 
JANIES,  the  simple  cush- 
ioned 'Inside  Platform', 
helps  control  gravity  &  cor- 
rect these  unsightly,  uncom- 
fortable conditions.  Send  $1 
plus  25c  handling  for  I  pr. 
or  $2  for  2  pr.  State  shoe 
size  &  color. 

Money  Back  Guarantee 


beforA 

^  AFTER 


MNIES  •  1865  (M)  University  Ave.,  N.Y.  53 


7  (o  10  YARD  LENGTHS 
'A"  »o  3"  Widths 

Direct  c'ose-our  purchase  from  famous  ribbon  mill  enoble 
us  ro  offer  this  $10  value  ol  $1.98!  Exquiiile  osiorlmeni 
of  Moires,  Solinj,  Plaids.  Velvets,  Groigroins,  etc.  Mok 
bows,  glomortie  children's  clolhes.  dresses,  lingerie,  hoi; 
Aopfons  etc.  FREE  with  every  order  -  8  10 

I  Molched  Bulton  Cords!  .  .  .  SEND  NO  MONEY!  Poy  postmen  S).98  plus  posl- 
i    oge,  or  DO  send  paymeni  ond  let  ws  poy  postoge.  Money  Bocl<  Guorontee 

\) GUILD,  DEPT.  R-26,  120  E.  BROADWAY,  NEW  YORK  2,N.Y. 


SEND   fOR   fREE   64-PAGe   F  AMILY  CATALOG 


MAKE  IT  AN  INDIAN  SUMMER  trilh  soft,  wash- 
able cowhide  moccasins.  Fringed,  hand- 
beaded  and  hiced,  they  add  zip  to  an\  out- 
fit. Airfoam  inner  soles  make  them  so 
comfy  you  -won't  take  them  off.  Wendell 
Corey  fell  for  mine  on  the  set  of  Rich, 
Young  &  Piettx.  so  I  got  him  the  men's 
version— no  beads  or  fringe.  Green,  white, 
red,  black  (Palomino  gold  for  gals  only). 
All  sizes.  S5.95.  Miller's  Curio  Co.,  Dept. 
MS,  256  E.  Congress  St.,   Tucson,  Ariz. 


RING  HIM  NOW  FOR  CHRISTMAS  ivith  this  ster- 
ling silver  friendship  ring  and  he'll  re- 
ciprocate with  its  stunning  initialed  twin 
.  .  .  or  surprise  him  and  buy  both.  I  or- 
dered the  wide  one  marked  G.  S.  arid 
Geary  got  the  narrower  one  for  me,  each 
chased  for  a  link  effect.  Wee  price  include-, 
3  initials,  tax.' His  ring  $3.50.  Mine  $2.W. 
Send  ring  sizes,  initials.  Hyde's,  Inc.,  D-'pt. 
MS-11,  135-37  Northern  Blvd.,  Flushing, 
N.  Y.  Send  for  free  Christmas  Catalogue. 


jane  powell 

your 

Hollywood 
shopper 

for  november 

I'm  so  thrilled. with  my 
shopping  finds,  I  feel 
like  singing  in  the 
streets.   Hope  they  make 
you  want  to  join  me. 


IMAGINATIVE    INDOOR    GARDEN    FOR  KIDDIES. 

Give  them  weeks  of  fun  planting  the  magic 
grass  seed,  tending  and  watering  it,  as 
they  'watch  it  grow  into  a  green  gardeti. 
They'll  spend  Iwurs  arranging  the  many 
wonderful  accessories— boy  and  girl,  2  rab- 
bits, goose,  lake,  umbrella,  "Keep  Off  The 
Grass"  sign,  aluminum  lined  planter.  We 
got  it  for  a  friend's  child.  S1.95.  Ma.x 
Schling  Seedsmen,  620  M  Madison  Ave., 
New  York  22. 


JEWEL  BOX  OF  RARE  CHEESES.  "Connoisseurs" 
on  your  gift  list  will  love  this  rare  assort- 
ment of  twenty  cheese  wedges,  each  gold- 
foil  wrapped.  Liicite  box  holds  2  each  of 
10  haunting  varieties  .  .  .  Brandy-Bleu, 
Aged  Brick,  Tomato-Swiss,  Mild  Edam, 
Kummel-and-Swiss,  Aged  Gruyere,  Muen- 
ster,  and  sharp,  smoked  or  wine  Cheddar. 
Container's  a  useful  jewel  or  cigarette  box. 
$2.95.  Old  World  Cheese  House,  72-89 
Evans  Turn,  Hillside,  New  jersey. 


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To  buy  any  of  the  item.':  on  these  pojes,  'write  direct  to  shops  mentioned,  enclosing  check  or  money  order. 


COULDN'T  RESIST  BUYING  this  handy  DeLuxe 
Belt-Purse-'N'-Pen  set  to  perk  up  my  jail 
wardrobe.  It's  grand  for  marketing;  leaves 
my  hands  pee.  Purse  has  2  separate  pock- 
ets, 1  for  change,  another  for  bills.  Pen  is 
always  there  u'hen  I  want  it.  For  dress-uf}, 
unsnap  purse  and  wear  belt  alone.  Simu- 
lated lizard  in  green,  red,  blue.  Give  waist 
size.  Smartly  gift-boxed  for  Xinas  and  year- 
round  giving.  S2.98.  Sheldon's.  187-30 
Linden  Blvd.,  St.  Albans  12,  N.  Y. 


THESE  ROSES  NEED  NO  WATER.  The\  are  so 
lifelike  that  you  have  to  touch  them  to 
realize  they're  hand-made.  And  my  how 
delicately  they  lend  themselves  to  charm- 
ing arrangements  for  any  room,  office  or 
studio  and  never,  never  wilt!  Arriving  as 
a  gift  they'll  make  a  long  lasting  impression 
in  their  cellophane-packed  box.  Choose 
natural-looking  Roses,  Daffodils,  or  Daisies 
(why  not  order  all  three).  Send  $1.00  for 
each  dozen.  Postage  free.  First  American- 
Flowers,  Dept.  7,  Box  85,  New  York  29. 


YOUR  OWN  PERSONALITY  "TIE-IN".  Here's  a 
j)ure  silk  scarf  with  your  first  7iame  or 
nickname  hand-painted  in  large  script  let- 
ters. Large  square,  36"  x  36",  folds  lots 
of  ways,  always  introducing  you  to  your 
public.  Worn  on  your  head,  round  your 
neck  or  as  a  belt,  it's  a  stunning  accessory 
lor  your  holiday  clothes.  White,  red,  kel- 
ly,  sky  blue,  mist  or  grey.  Please  print 
name.  $3.00.  Hel  Mar  Co.,  728  S.  Hill 
St.,  Los  Angeles  14,  Calif. 


ELEANORE  KING,  Beauty  Adviser  to  83,000  Women, 
invites  you  to  accept  this 


-Trial  invitation  and  FREE  GIFT*<>^=^, 
TO  HELP  YOU 


GLORIFY  YOURSELF 


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"Please  accept,  with  my  compliments,  the  'Rule  of  14' 
Dress  Chart,  showing  you  at  a  glance  how  you  can  be 
dressed  exactly  right — whatever  the  occasion.  It  is  yours 
obso/u/e/y  free  when  you  send  the  coupon  below  for 
your  free-trial   copy   of   'Glorify  Yourselfl' 


Can  You  Pass  This  Test? 

Your  Shoutd 


Answer: 

Do  you  receive  a  compliment  i— i 
every  day?  j  

Be: 

m 

^re  you  afraid  to  meet  new 
people? 

□ 

m 

Does    your    date    ever  take 
you  for  granted? 

□ 

m 

Are  you  self-conscious  when 
passing  a  crowd? 

□ 

m 

Are   you    at   ease   in  open- 
ing   a   conversation    Wfth  a 
stranger? 

□ 

m 

Do  you  find  it  difficult  to  be 
the  gracious  hostess? 

□ 

IS 

Do   you    make   a   good  first 
impression? 

□ 

m 

Are   you    frequently  invited 
out  to  dinner? 

□ 

m 

Do  you  get  a  peck  instead 
of  a  kiss? 

□ 

m 

Do  you   feel   your  true  self 
really  gets  across  to  others? 

□ 

m 

If  your  score  Is  not  what  it  should  be — 
then  Eleanore  King:  can  g-uide  you  to 
Sreater  personal  happiness.  She  can 
show  you  how  to  emphasize  your  indi- 
vidual appeal,  how  to  obtain  a  lovelier 
complexion,  how  to  maintain  a  slim, 
youthful  figTire.  how  to  cultivate  your 
voice  and  conversation,  and  dozens  of 
other  pointers  that  can  change  your 
whole  outlook  on  living.  Send  coupon 
below  for  your  free-trial  copy  of  "Glorify 
Yourself. ' '  today. 


Now,  Without  spending  long  hours  in  tedious  exercises, 
you  can  acquire  a  glowing  complexion,  lovely  curves, 
a  slimmer  figure,  more  radiant  hair,  attractive  legs 
and  ankles— pZus  a  personal  charm  and  self-confidence 
that  will  cariT  you  through  every  social  situation. 

Tested  Short-Cuts  to  a  More  Appealing  YOU! 

Eleanore  King  makes  no  extravagant  claims  of  chang- 
ing you  into  a  goddess  overnight.  Instead  she  gives  you 
scores  of  the  concrete,  practical  techniques  she  has 
used  so  successfully  in  her  own  classes,  to  teach  over 
83,000  women  of  all  ages  the  secrets  of  attractiveness. 
The  wonderful  methods  you  get  in  GLORIFT  YOUR- 
SELF are  so  easy  to  master!  While  doing  housework, 
shopping,  or  chatting  with  friends — or  while  in  the 
office  on  the  job— you'll  find  yourself  absorbing  these 
marvelous  short-cuts  to  a  more  appealing  YOU.  They 
will  become  a  living  part  of  your  personality  almost 
before  you  realize  it. 

Just  a  Few  of  the  Benefits  You  Gain: 


Your  Face 

How  to  have  a  clear  silky  com- 
plexion. 

What  to  do  for  crow's  feet  and 

wrinkles. 
How    to    get    rid    of  unsightly 

blotches  and  pimples. 
How   to   prevent   and  eliminate 

larjre  pores. 
What    to    do    when    your  face 

breaks  out. 


Your  Figure 


How  to  slim  down  unattractive 

bulgres. 

How  to  give  yourself  a  youthful 
and  buoyant  bust  line. 

How  to  gain  weight  and  fill  out 
your  figure. 

How  to  slenderize  your  bust, 
waist,  hips,  thighs. 

Your  Walk 

How  to  get  a  graceful  rhythm  In 

your  walk. 
How  not  to  wiggle. 


Your  Legs 


How  to  slenderize  your  legs. 
What  to  do  for  thin  legs. 
What  to  do  for  bow  legs. 
How  CO  eliminate  unsightly  mus- 
cle bulge. 


Your  Posture 

How    to    achieve    an  appealing" 

"youth  line.** 
How   to    streamline   your  figure 

through  posture. 
How  to  get  upper  body  control. 
How  to  get  lower  body  control. 
What  to  do  with  your  hands  and 

feet. 

Your  Hair 

Finding  the  hair  style  that  flat- 
ters your  ti-pe. 

How  to  get  a  soft  sheen  In  your 
hair. 

Your  Clothes 

What  to  wear  to  look  taller  or 
shorter. 

How  to  disguise  large  hips. 

What  colors  make  you  more  en- 
ticing. 

Practical  tips  on  planning  your 

wardrobe. 
How  to  avoid  overdressing. 

Your  Conversation 

How  to  overcome  sh>-ness. 
How  to  be  a  gracious  hostess. 
How   to   fit    into    any  gathering 

with  ease. 
Things  to  avoid  In  conversation. 
How    to    make    pleasant  small 

talk. 


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NAME    

STREET  and  NO   _      

CITY  and  STATE...     MSC  11-51 


Presenting  selected  tidbits 
from  Modern  Screen's 
"Hollywood  Editor"  program. 

■  When  Betty  Grable  married  Harry  James 
in  Las  Vegas.  Nevada,  the  story  goes  that 
she  said  to  Harry,  "Never  gamble,  I'll  show 
you  what  happens."  So  saying,  she  put  a  sil- 
ver dollar  in  a  slot  machine,  there  was  a 
grinding  of  wheels,  and  then  a  sound  like 
manhole  covers  falling.  Betty  and  Harry 
took  that  as  a-lesson — they've  been  betting 
on  horses  ever  since. 

■  Monty  Woolley  doesn't  like  to  be  kissed 
by  young  actresses.  He  claims  lipstick  leaves 
a  stain  on  his  impeccable  beard.  "Besides," 
he  says,  "if  these  young  darlings  will  kiss  me 
on  the  forehead,  it'll  make  their  profiles 
look  better." 

■  Your  Hollywood  Editor  asked  some  male 
movie  stars  what  they  prefer  in  their 
women.  The  results:  Gary  Grant,  for  in- 
stance, had  this  to  say:  "The  girl  who, 
when  she  kisses  you.  touches  your  face 
with  her  hands — that  always  sets  me  down 
for  the  count."  George  Sanders  has  a  more 
ethereal  outlook:  "I  love  it,"  he  declares, 
"when  a  woman  wears  an  elusive  perfume. 
I'm  not  quite  sure  where  it  comes  from,  or 
what  it  is,  but  I  want  to  follow  it."  Errol 
Flynn  said:  "I  go  for  the  woman  who  tells 
you  what  she'd  like  to  do,  and  then  makes 
a  brave  show  of  doing  it  your  way.  You 
give  in  to  her,  are  just  a  plain  sucker — and 
you  love  it." 

■  Alan  Ladd  detests  the  conceited  sort  of 
actor  like  a  particularly  obnoxiotts  star  who 
was  telling  how  much  he  hated  reporters, 
how  great  he  was,  etc.  Alan  listened,  then 
walked  out.  "Where  are  you  going?"  the 
fellow  star  asked.  Alan  replied,  "I  gotta 
see  a  man.  I'm  worried.  I  haven't  had  my 
name  in  the  paper  for  24  hours." 


sweet  aild  hot 


by  leonard  feather 


Highly 

Recommended 
Recommended 
No  Stars: 
Average 


FROM  THE  MOVIES 

ALICE  IN  WONDERLAND— Rose  ma  ry  Clooney- 
Percy  Faith  album*  (Columbia). 

MR.  IMPERIUM—  Ezio  Pinza-Fran  Warren  al- 
bum* (Victor);  Vou  Belong  To  My 
Heart  by  Bob  Eberly  (Capitol). 
This  is  the  first  Red  Seal,  or  semi-classical, 
appearance  by  Fran  Warren.  It's  only  a 
couple  of  years  or  so  since  she  was  just 
a  band  vocalist  with  Charlie  Barnet  and 
Claude  Thornhill,  and  she  makes  out  sur- 
prisingly well  in  the  new  role.  Incidentally 
Trudy  Erwin,  not  Fran,  did  the  voice  dou- 
bling for  Lano  Turner  in  the  movie. 

ON  THE  RIVIERA--i?o//jV  The  Jack  by  Joe 
"Fingers"  Carr  (Capitol). 

SHOW  BOAT— original  cast  album**  (MGM). 
The  wonderful  music  and  lyrics  of  Jerome 
Kern  and  Oscar  hHammerstein  II,  com- 
bined with  the  vocal  contributions  of  the 
all  star  movie  cast  plus  Adolph  Deutsch 
and  the  MGM  Studio  Orchestra,  make 
this  one  of  MGM's  best  original-cast  sets 
to  date.  Of  course,  it's  recorded  direct 
from  the  sound  track,' and  everything  is 
there  but  the  Technicolor. 
Kathryn  Grayson  and  Howard  Keel  com- 
bine for  Make  Believe,  You  Are  Love 
and  Why  Do  I  Love  You.  Avo  Gard- 
ner, who  is  Julie  in  the  picture,  sings  Bill 
and  Can't  Help  Lovin'  That  Man.  Marge 
and  Gower  Champion,  new  to  hlolly- 
wood,  do  a  cute  job  with  Life  Upon  The 
Wicked  Stage  and  /  Might  Fall  Back 
On  You.  Finally,  the  important  job  of 
handling  01'  Man  River  is  ossigned  to 
William  Warfield. 

This  set's  available  on  all  three  speeds. 

SLAUGHTER  TRAIL—/  Wish  I  Wus  by  Roy 
Rogers  (Victor). 

RICH.  YOUNG  AND  PRETTY— /?ar^  Is  The 
Night  by  Herb  Jeffries*  (Coral),  Toni 
Arden  (Columbia),  Mary  Mayo  (Capi- 
tol). Hozv  D'Ya  Like  Your  Eggs  In  The 
Morning  by  Dean  Martin  and  Helen 
O'Connell*  (Capitol.  /  Can  See  You 
by  Woody  Herman*  (MGM);  Mary 
Mayo  (Capitol).  L' Amour  Toujours  by 
Bob  Crosby*  (Capitol),  Jane  Powell 
(MGM);  We  Never  Talk  Much 
by  Jane  Powell  (MGM);  Dean  Martin 
and  Helen  O'Connell*  (Capitol).  Won- 
der Why  by  Toni  Arden*  (Columbia); 
Billy  Eckstine  (MGM);  Herb  Jeffries 
(Coral);  Helen  O'Connell  (Capitol). 

YOU  CAN  CHANGE  THE  WORLD— finr/j)  Ameri- 
can by  Nat  Cole*  (Capitol). 

BUDDY  DE  FRANCO— Body  And  Soul*  (MGM). 

STAN  GETZ— Swedish  All  Stars  LP*  (Roost). 

Recorded  during  tenor  sax  man  Stan 
Getz's  trip  to  Sweden,  this  shows  you  that 
the  Swedes  really  know  how  to  swing;  his 
accompaniment  is  first-class. 

OSCAR  PETTIFORD— 5«  Mir  Bist  Du  Schoen* 
(Mercer) . 

A  song  hit  of  the  I930's  interestingly  re- 
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DEBORAH    KERR,  CO-STARRlNG  IN  METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER'S  "QUO  VAD I S" -Color  by  Technicolor 


DEBORAH  KERR . . .  Lustre-Creme  presents  one  of  the  'Top-Twelve, "  selected  by  "Modern  Screen"  and  a  jury  of  famed  hair 
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Shampoo.  Beautiful  hair  plays  a  vital  part 
in  the  glamour-career  of  every  movie 
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they  use  Lustre-Creme,  it  is  the  highest 
possible  tribute  to  this  unique  shampoo. 

In  a  recent  issue  of  the  magazine,  "Modern 
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to  curl.  Hair  dulled  by  soap  abuse  .  .  . 
dusty  with  dandruff,  now  is  fragrantly 
clean.  Rebel  hair  is  tamed  to  respond 
to  the  lightest  brush  touch.  Hair  robbed 
of  natural  sheen  now  glows  with  renewed 
highlights.  All  this,  even  in  hardest  water, 
with  no  need  for  a  special  after-rinse. 

No  other  cream  shampoo  in  all  the 

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modern  screen  /  november  1951 


Judy's  no  melancholy 
baby  now — she's 
learned  how  to  be  herself 
and  that's  good  enough 
for  the  fans 
w^ho  adore  her. 


BY  RADIE  HARRIS 


■  On  the  night  of  April  9th,  Judy  Garland 
came  on  the  stage  of  the  world-famous 
Palladium  Theater  in  London,  and  faced  a 
jam-packed  audience  standing  three  rows 
deep.  It  was  the  first  time  she  had  played  to  a 
live  audience  except  for  charity  shows  since 
she  had  appeared  as  Uttle  Frances  Gumm  with  her 
two  sisters,  in  an  act  realistically  and 
unromantically  billed,  '"The  Gumm  Sisters." 

If  Judy's  heart  missed  a  few  beats  as 
Woolf  PhiUips'  "Skyrockets"  orchestra  began 
the  vamp  of  her  first  song,  '"At  Long  Last, 
I'm  Here,"  it  was  because  more  than  at  any 
time  in  her  career  she  wanted  to  make  good. 
Tonight,  there  was  a  whole  new  world  to  conquer, 
a  world  that  would  give  her. back  the- confidence 
she  had  lost  in  her  growing  years  in  Holl>'wobd. 
The  facade  of  security  that  had  supported  her  for 
1 5  years  at  the  same  studio  was  no  longer  behind 
her.  Out  front  was  a  sea  of  unfamiliar 
faces — strangers.  (Continued  on  page  102) 


what  now, 


You  can  close 
your  doors  to  Aly,  but 
not  to  your  friends. 
They're  wondering  about 
your  strange  homecoming 
to  Hollywood. 

BY  ARTHUR  L.  CHARLES 


Queried  about  the  religious  education  of 
baby  Yasmin,  Rita  told  reporters  Yasmin 
could    make    her    own    decision    ot  21. 


■  It  was  a  three-ring  circus  when  Rita 
Hayworth  and  her  babies  canfie  back  to  Hollywood. 
And  it  was  pitiful — pitiful  and  fascinating  the 
way  a  side-show  is. 

Princess  Rita  was  the  main  attraction,  and  the  two 
little  bewildered  half-sisters,  Rebecca  arid  Yasmin, 
were  the  come-ons. 

After  eight  weeks  in  Nevada,  where  she  estab- 
lished a  legal  residence,  Rita  packed  her 
two  girls  into  a  car.  Without  a  word  to  anyone,  not 
even  to  her  Reno  attorney,  she  turned  towards 
Hollywood. 

It  was  a  long  drive,  more  than  10  hours,  but 
Yasmin,  who  isn't  even  two  years  old,  didn't  cry  at  all. 

Rita  reached  town  at  3:00  a.m.  and  checked 
into  the  Beverly  Hills  Hotel.  "Under  no  circumstances," 
she  told  the  desk  clerk,  "is  anyone  to  know  that 
I'm  staying  here.  Is  that  understood?" 

"Of  course.  Miss  Hayworth." 

Rita  registered  linder  a  phony  name,  and  her  en- 
tourage, including  a  nurse  for  the  children,  was 
hustled  off  to  bungalow  number  one,  the  hotel's 
swankiest  suite. 

Later  that  day  an  attractive  young  girl  knocked 
on  the  bungalow  door. 

"Ah,"  said  the  French  nurse,  "you  have  come 
to  help  with  the  children,  n'est-ce-pas?" 

The  young  girl  smiled,  and  took  Rebecca  and  Yas- 
min for  a  walk  around  the  hotel  grounds  while  their 
famous  mama  slept.  She  spoke  fo  the  little  girls, 
played  with  them,  and  then  took  them  back  to  the 
bungalow. 

By  this  time,  mama  was  almost  wide  awake. 

Presently,  she  got  up,  brushed  her  lovely  hair  and 
made  her  way  to  the  Uving  room.  When  she  saw  this 
strange  young  woman  sitting  with  her  two 
children,  her  eyes  flashed. 

"Who  are  you?"  Rita  Hayworth  demanded. 

"I'd  like  to  ask  you  a  {Continued  on  page  99) 


38 


Photos  by  Bob  Landry 


HOLLYWOOD:  WHERE  STARS  RISE  AND  FALL  OVERNIGHT.  HERE'S  A  HOPPER'S -EYE- VIEW  OF  WHAT  TEN  YEARS  CAN  DO. 


■  On  a  bleak  night  in  February,  1941,  two  young  people, 
very  much  in  love,  got  out  the  old  adhesive  tape  again.  A 
wind  right  off  the  Arctic  was  whipping  through  every  crack 
and  cranny  of  their  modest  West  Hollywood  home. 

■  Modest  isn't  the  word.  It  was  a  rehabilitated  chicken  coop. 

I  When  Bob  and  Dorothy  Mitchum  arrived  in  CaUfornia 

by  bus  a  few  months  earlier  they  had  exactly  $26  be- 
tween them. 

"Mother  will  take  us  in  until  I  get  a  job,"  Bob  assured 
his  bride.  But  mother,  he  discovered,  had  even  less  money. 
However,  she  did  have  an  empty  chicken  coop  in  the 
back  yard.  The  Mitchums  shopped  around  for  a  broom, 
tar  paper  and  adhesive  tape,  and  moved  right  in. 

The  only  "hot"  thing  in  their  home  was  a  ballad  Bob 
was  writing.  He'd  sold  a  few  to  small-time  nightclub  en- 
tertainers, not  many,  but  enough  to  pay  hospital  expenses 
for  the  baby  that  would  be  bom  in  two  months. 

"Well,  this  is  the  end,"  said  Bob.  "I'm  not  going  to 
have  my  son  and  heir  brought  up  in  a  chicken  coop.  To- 
morrow I  look  for  a  job  in  the  movies.  Hey,  don't  use  up 
all  that  tape,  I  need  it  for  my  suit." 

A  few  days  later  Bob  was  riding  off  into  the  sunset  on 
a  nag  that  threw  him  at  every  opportunity  in  a  Hopalong 
Cassidy  movie.  William  Boyd  took  a  fancy  to  the  Gower 
Gulch  cowboy.  And  the  rest  is  {Continued  on  page  70) 


Ten  years  ago  o  little  girl  named 
Suzanne  Burse  came  to  Hollywood 
from  Oregon  on  a  vacation.  She 
stayed  on  to  become  Jane  Powell. 


Betty  Grable,  who'd  hardly  heard 
of  Mr.  James,  became  the  Gl's 
Pin  Up  Queen.  Betty  Hutton  wos 
called  America's  No.  I  Jitterbug. 


"A  nice  guy,  but  he'll  never  get 
anywhere,"  said  an  editor  who'd 
met  young  Alan  Ladd.  That  was 
just  before  This  Gun  For  Hire. 


4(1 


Broadway's  Panama  Hattie  had  a  pony  chorus  full  of  thorough- 
breds. The  little  blonde,  fifth  from  the  left,  was  an  under- 
study, and  nrioved  into  the  limelight  as  America's  most  popular 


star,  June  Allyson.  Third  from  the  left  is  a  versatile  dancer  who 
now  stars  in  musicals,  she's  Vera-Ellen.  Also  in  the  line  are 
famous-to-be    Betsy   Blair,    Lucille    Bremer   and   Janis  Carter. 


Jane   Withers    retired   from   the  Liz  Taylor  was  a  pert  schoolgirl  No  one  would  hove  predicted  un- 

screen.  But  before  she  left  Holly-  of  nine,   attended   class  on  the  happiness  for  these  two  kids  on  a 

wood  for  Texas,  she  dated  an  un-  MGM  lot.  Now  the  School  of  Ex-  spree.    But  trouble  came  to  Judy 

known  boy  named  Farley  Granger.  perience  has  given  her  a  diploma.  Garland    and     MicKey  Rooney. 


I 


WHO'LL 
CATCH 
DAI  LEY 


NO  MATTER  HOW  FAST  HE  RUNS,  SOONER  OR  LATER  SOME  FASCINATIN'  FEMALE  WILL  HANG  A  WEDDING  BELL  ON  DAN  DAILEY 


■  The  easiest  man  in  the  world  to  marry  is  the  man  who's 
been  married  before.  An>-way,  that's  the  theory  in  Hollywood 
where  single  girls  outnumber  single  men,  six  to  one — and 
Dan  Dailey  is  currently  considered  the  prize  catch. 

One  young  actress  who's  been  seeing  a  good  deal  of  Dan 
lately  says,  "Dan's  been  married  twice  before.  That  means  he's 
house-broken.  He's  used  to  having  a  woman  around  his  home. 
I  d  much  rather  take  my  chances  with  a  man  like  him 
than  a  confirmed  bachelor  like  Howard  Duff  or  Montgomery 
CHft.  Trying  to  get  those  two  interested  in  marriage 
is  like  ramming  your  head  against  a  brick  w-all." 

This  particular  young  actress  is  unique.  She  happens  to  be 
honest  and  outspoken.  She  admits  that  Dailey  would 
make  a  fine  husband,  and  she'd  like  to  land  him. 

Dailey's  other  dates  are  infinitely  more  diplomatic. 

"We're  just  pals,"  explains  20-year-old  Barbara  WTiiting. 
"There's  no  romance  between  Dan  and  myself,  not  one 
httle  bit.  After  ail,  he's  about  35,  and  I'm  only  20.  I'm 
easily  four  or  five  years  away  from  any  marriage. 

"Of  course,  we've  gone  out,  but  to  say 
that  we're  in  love  is  just  a  big  joke. 

"We've  played  tennis  several  times — Dan's  just 
taken  it  up — and  people  may  have  seen  us  on 
the  public  courts  together,  but  what  does  that  mean? 
Dan  has  known  my  family  for  years,  ever  since 
I  was  a  little  girl,  and  it's  always  a  pleasure 
to  have  him  around  the  house. 

"Anyway,  he"s  just  been  divorced,  and  I  don't  think 
he  wants  to  get  married  now.  Besides,  he's  been 
working  so  hard  on  the  Dizzy  Dean  storv'.  He's  a  marvelous 
actor,  you  know.  We  were  together  in  I  Can  Get  It  for  You 
Wholesale,  and  I  can  tell  you  honestly,  Dan  Dailey  doesn't  have 
to  worry  about  just  being  a  hoofer.  He's  much  more 
than  that.  He's  a  sensitive,  versatile,  talented  acior.  He's 
got  it.  Really,  he's  got  just  about  everything." 

It's  usual  for  young  girls  to  wax  over-enthusiastic  about 
tall,  honev -haired  actors.  (Continued  on  page  89) 


Most  rnenrioned  contender  for  Dan's  heart  is  Ann  Miller, 
who  says  he's  really  ooley  .  koo — a  dredmboot."  Like 
Don,  she  claims  she's  not  interested  in  marriage  nc//. 


■«enty-year-old  Barbara  "Whiting  is  another  of  Don's 
enthusiastic  admirers.  "He's  got  just  about  everything," 
Barbord    sovs.    but    also    scoffs    at    romance  rumors. 


Once  burned,  twice  shy 
is  Vera-Ellen.  But 
how  long  can  she 
hold  out?  Rock  Hudson 
won't  stop  asking  and  she 
can't  say  "No"  forever. 

BY  JANE  WILKIE 


she^s  the 
marry ing;  kind 


■  They  are  or  they  aren't,  they  will  or 
they  won't — that's  been  the  report  of  the 
gbssip  columnists  about  Vera-Ellen  and 
Rock  Hudson  during  the  past  two  years.  It's 
been  printed  that  they're  engaged,  and  it's 
been  printed  that  they've  had  a  rift  and 
cooled  off.  Actually,  they've  never  been  engaged, 
never  had  a  serious  argument,  but  they  date 
each  other  consistently  and  it  is  highly 
possible  that  one  day  they  will  be  married. 

Hollywood  doesn't  understand  a 
romance  like  this.  Hollywood  is  used  to 
whirlwind  courtships  and  quick  trips 
to  the  altar,  or  well-publicized  battles  that 
put  love  affairs  in  the  deep  freeze. 

Vera-EUen's  friends  will  tell  you  that  she 
is  fun  and  w«ll-liked,  a  conscientious  worker,, 
and  marriage-wise,  just  about  the  best 
wife  material  around  town.  She  really  likes 
to  keep  house  and  would  regard  the  job  of 
marriage  as  seriously  as  she  does  her  career.  Yet 
where  men  are  concerned,  Vera's  a  puzzle. 

"Nobody — but  nobody,"  people  say,  "just 
goes  with  a  guy  for  almost  three  years 
and  doesn't  say  anything  about 
getting  married.  What's  happening  here?" 

What's  happening  is  the  only  possible 
relationship  that  could  spring  from  the 
personalities,  backgrounds  and 
careers  of  both  Rock  and  Vera. 

Vera-Ellen's  first  marriage  occurred 
when  she  was  16.  It  was  a  love  affair 
that  gave  her  stars  in  her  eyes  and  butterflies 
in  her  stomach.  (Continued  on  page  93) 


They  had  their  first  dance  together  ot  Giro's, 
ainnost  three  years  ago.  Since  then,  Vera-Ellen 
and    Rock   hove   been   puzzling  the  columnists. 


44 


Two  years  ago  Modern  Screen 

called  Virginia  Grey  the  girl 
Clark  Gable  always  came  back  to —  ' 

now  it  looks  as  if  he's  back  to  stay. 

BY  LINDA  GRIFFIN 


I-  46 


who  won  g^sible  bsiok 


■  The  night  she  heard  of  Ciark  Gable's  marriage  to  Sylvia 
Ashley,  she  cried  her  heart  out. 

Later,  her  sister  came  by,  took  one  look  at  her  and  asked. 
■'Do  you  love  him  that  much?" 

"I've  been  in  love  with  him  for  six  years,"'  Virginia  Grey 
said.  And  the  tears  came  again. 

Virginia  had  nbt  expected  Clark  Gable  to  marry  Sylvia 
Ashley.  She'd  hoped  that  if  he  ever  married  again,  he'd  make 
her  his  bride.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  no  one  expected  Gable  to 


marry  Sylvia — not  even  Gable  himself.  He  proposed  in  a 
moment  of  self-delusion,  and  a  year  later  realized  his 
mistake. 

But  what  about  Virginia  Grey,  this  34-year-old  actress  with 
the  sky-blue  eyes,  the  soft  auburn  hair?  Why  did  Gable  turn 
to  her  after  his  fourth  wife  filed  for  divorce? 

Will  Virginia  ever  become  the  fifth  Mrs.  Gable? 

A  friend  of  Clark's  who  once  owned  an  automobile  agency 
— strangely  enough.  Gable  has  very  (Continued  oti  page  91) 


SLOW 

BOAT 

TO 

C  ATA  LIN  A 

■  One  day  I  stopped  by  the  Thistle  Inn  for  lunch 
with  Barbara  and  Marshall  Thompson. 

The  Thistle  Inn's  a  hangout  for  yachting  en- 
thusiasts like  Barbara  and  Marsh,  Georgianna  and  Ricardo 
Montalban,  Suzanne  Dalbert,  Barbara  Hale  and  Bill  Williams. 
They  were  all  together  when  I  came  in,  and  they  seemed  to 
be  gazing  fondly  at  a  photograph.  "New  picture  of  the  kids?"  I  asked  Ric. 

He  handed  it  to  me.  "Oh,"  I  said.  "It's  only  a  boat." 

"Only!"  Bill  Williams  cried.  "It'll  do  until  the  Queen  Mary 
weighs  anchor  around  here." 

The  boat  in  the  picture  belonged  to  Al  and  Betty  Rempp 
who  own  the  Thistle  Inn.  "Don't  you  like  to  sail?"  Al  wanted  to  know. 

"Love  to,"  I  replied,  and,  that's  how  I  got  invited  on  a  trip 
to  Catalina  the  following  Sunday. 

"Must  be  wonderful  to  know  so  much  about  boats,"  said  Barbara 
Hale.  "I've  never  been  on  one." 

"Nothing  to  it,"  I  said.  After  all,  it  was  entirely  too  late 
for  honesty  to  be  my  best  policy. 

Sunday  was  fair  and  clear.  I  was  haggard  and  shaken, 
also  sea-sick  even  before  I  got  near  the  water.  But  two  by  two 
our  party  arrived  at  the  dock  in  Wilmington,  one  of  Cali- 
fornia's finest  yachting  centers.  One  by  one  we  boarded  the 
Rempp  boat. 

Turning,  I  noted  that  Barbara  Thompson  was  still  standing  on 
dry  land.  "Aren't  you  coming?"  I  called. 
"Not  this  trip,"  she  answered. 

"Sailing  isn't  so  good  for  expectant  mothers,"  Marsh 
reminded  me. 

I  glanced  at  Georgianna,  pleadingly.  "Better  hurry,"  I  suggested. 

"I'm  staying  with  Barbara,"  she  replied.  "We  just  came 
down  to  see  you  off." 

"Georgie  doesn't  take  to  boats,"  Ric  explained  with  a 
grin.  "I'm  the  family  sailor." 

"I  think  I'll  stay  with  Georgie  and  Barbara,"  I  told  the  crowd, 
but  we  were  already  heading  out  to  sea. 

.  "You  handle  the  jib  sail,"  Al  was  saying  to  Ricardo.  "And  Marsh 
and  Bill  can  take  the  mainsail." 

"I'll  help,"  I  volunteered.  But  then  I  discovered  that  the 
mainsail  is  the  one  that  weighs  about  a  thousand  pounds. 

The  sails  up,  we  waited  for  wind.  While  we  were  waiting,  Ricardo 
brought  out  a  ukulele.  If  you've  never  heard  "Anchors  Aweigh" 
on  a  ukulele,  you've  never  Hved.  {^Continued  on  page  90) 


tory  by  Beverly  Ott;  photos  by  Bert  Parry  and  Bob  Beerman 


First,  she's  mad  about 
a  guy,  then  she's 
just  mad  at  him — 
Betty  Hutton's  heart 
never  knows  whether 
love  is  coming  or  going! 

BY  JIM  BURTON 


"THIS  IS  ITI"  SAID  BETTY  ABOUT  EACH  OF  THE  TRIO  BELOW 


rriage  to  Ted  Briskin  (far  left)  in  1945  was  a  series  of  battles  and 
es;  their  divorce  will  be  final  in  January.  After  Ted,  music  arranger  Pete 
jolo  (center]  was  the  next  big  crush.  Then  came  a  hectic  engagement 
producer  Norman  Krasna  (right).    Recently  she's  dated  Pete  again. 


■  There  is  a  tradition  in  the  theater  that 
the  saddest  man  in  the  company  is  the  clown. 
They  say  that  the  comedian  who  tells  the 
funniest  jokes  and  rolls  them  in  the  aisles 
with  his  crazy  antics  is  generally,  in 
private  life,  a  sad,  sober,  morose  fellow  who 
weeps  while  others  laugh.  It  might  be 
true — because  the  description  fits, 
almost  to  a  T,  Betty  Hutton. 

Facing  the  movie  cameras  or  still  photogs, 
Betty  Hutton  is  always  good  for  a  yak, 
because  she  can  always  be  depended  on  to  break 
into  a  big  grin  or  contort  her  face  into  a  comic 
mask  before  the  shutters  click.  But  in  private, 
when  no  one  is  around,  she  seldom  smiles, 
seldom  laughs.  She's  seldom  really  happy. 

In  the  main,  it  has  to  do  with  love. 
For  only  a  short  time  in  her  life 
has  Betty  Hutton  been  happy  in  love. 

You  don't  need  a  very  long  memor>'  to 
think  back  to  the  days  the  papers  were 
filled  with  the  stories  of  Betty  Hutton  and 
Norman  Krasna.  The  tales  were  of  a 
bombastic  nature.  They  were  astonishing  even 
to  Betty's  old  friends  who  knew  that  she  was 
a  very  unpredictable  girl  and  likely  to  do 
anything  at  any  time.  The  columnists  had  a 
field  day.  Betty  was  pictured  as  being  the 
most  "in  love"  girl  that  ever  lived.  She 
was  quoted  as  saying  that  it  was  a  miracle 
that  such  an  intelligent  man  could  be  in 
love  with  her.  She  used  the  standard  expression, 
"This  is  it !"  and  she  freely,  and  with  much 
gusto,  told  of  the  plans  for  a  wedding  as  soon 
as  her  divorce  from  Ted  Briskin  was  final. 

The  fervor  of  Betty's  madness  for 
Norman  caught  on  until  even  the  studio- 
publicity  people  were  filled  with  it.  They 
worked  overtime  getting  out  special  features 
on  the  pair — and  played  to  the  hilt  the 
stories  about  the  fabulous  engagement  ring 
and  the  new  custom  of  a  piece  of  jewelry 
a  day  for  his  girl  that  Krasna  had  announced. 
The  excitement  even  took  hold  of  the 
staid  city  editors  and  almost  every 
day  a  newspaper  picture  appeared  on  Betty  and 
Norman  at  some  club  or  social  event. 

Then,  as  suddenly  as  a 
spring  rain  stops,  it  was  all  over. 

There  was  no  announcement.  A  gossip 
columnist  printed  a  hint.  The  others 
took  it  up.  They  called  Hutton.  They  called 
Krasna.  Neither  would  come  to  the  phone. 
They  called  the  studio.  And,  after  a 
while,  a  somewhat  embarrassed  spokesman 
announced  it  was  true.  The  engagement  was  off. 
Beyond  that  there  would  be  no  comment 
from  either  party.  And  then  the 
newsmen  began  adding,  and  they  discovered 
an  amazing  thing.  (Continued  on  page  105) 


TO  THE  PEOPLE  OF  ELKO,  NEVADA,  BING'S  A  GOOD  NEIGHBOR  WHO  OWNS  MOST  OF  THE  COUNTY,  3,500  HEAD  OF  CATTLE,  AND  SINGS  A 


■  A  little  more  than  a  year  ago,  almost 
every  newspaper  in  America  devoted  page 
one  space  to  a  story  out  of  Paris,  France, 
that  recounted  the  simple  adventure  of  a 
man  named  Bing  Crosby  and  a  pair  of 
Parisian  policemen.  Mr.  Crosby,  it  seems, 
had  decided  to  lie  dowii  on  a  cool  patch 
of  grass  and  do  a  little  solitary  con- 
templating, and  the  coppaires  wanted  to 
lock  him  up  for  it.  Everything  was  re- 
solved to  everyone's  satisfaction  in  a  very 
few  minutes,  but  the  simple  incident 
made  headlines,  because  the  man  was  Bing 
Crosby,  not  just  a  Galhc  man  on  the  street. 


Just  a  few  months  ago,  the  same  Mr. 
Crosby,  and  his  radio  producer.  Bill  Mor- 
row, shambled  out  of  the  Canadian  woods 
after  a  fishing  expedition  and  tried  to  buy 
a  couple  of  rooms  in  a  Vancouver  hotel. 
The  clerk  didn't  hke  their  looks,  so  he 
wouldn't  sell.  But  a  bell  boy  recognized 
Bing  and  again  the  front  pages  recorded 
another  simple  incident  in  the  life  of  Bing 
Crosby. 

The  purpose  in  reviving  these  anecdotes 
is  to  point  out  that  there  is  no  place  in  the 
world  where  Bing  Crosby  can  go  and  be- 
come involved  in  even  the  most  minor  inci- 


dent without  having  it  become  a  news  item 
of  major  interest.  No  place,  that  is,  except 
a  town  of  5,400  population  called  Elko, 
Nevada. 

In  the  town  of  Elko,  Bing  Crosby  is  the 
man  in  the  street ;  a  rancher  from  the  North 
Fork  country;  one  of  the  boys — and  his 
only  real  distinction  is  that  he  is  honorary 
Mayor  in  a  town  where  the  folks  call  the 
real  Mayor  by  his  first  name. 

The  people  of  Elko  know,  of  course,  that 
the  man  sings  and  is  in  the  movies.  They 
are,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  rather  proud  that  a 
local  lad  is  so  famous  in  other  parts  of  the 


Photo  by  Bud  Fraher 


I  LITTLE  ON  THE  SIDE.       BY  JIM  HENAGHAN 


countr\'.  but  it  doesn't  make  much  of  a 
difference. 

In  the  cowtown  of  Elko,  Bing  Crosby 
can  walk  down  the  street  and  get  no  more 
attention  than  the  usual  "Hi."  He  can  stop 
and  look  into  a  store  window  and  nobody 
else  will  stop  unless  there  is  something 
in  the  window  besides  Bing's  reflection  that 
they  are  interested  in.  He  can  sit  down  on 
the  curb,  lean  up  against  a  building,  play 
hop-skotch  -R-ith  the  kids,  put  his  foot  on 
a  brass  rail,  or  do  anything  else  in  Elko  that 
any  other  man  does  and  he'll  attract  no 
more  attention  than  any  of  his  neighbors. 

{Continued  on  next  page  ► 


meet  moyor  crosby  continued 


BLUE  SERGE  DAY  meant  denim  tuxedos  for  mayors  Crosby  and  Dotta. 
(above)  The  fancy  duds  celebrated  the  opening  of  a  three-day  party  for 
the  western  premiere  of  Here  Comes  The  Groom.  Over  9,0D0  guests  came. 


THE  THREE  B's— THAT'S  BASEBALL, 


Elko  is  Bing  Crosby's  haven.  It's  the 
solution  to  all  his  problems.  And  it's  the 
answer  to  the  biggest  question  he  ever  had 
to  ask  himself. 

That  question  came  up  just  about  10 
years  ago.  The  war  had  just  started.  The 
whole  world  was  in  a  turmoil.  Personal 
problems  took  on  a  magnified  stature,  be- 
cause the  time  was  perilous.  Bing  Crosby 
had  been  a  movie  star  for  years,  and  the 
top  recording  artist  almost  from  the  start 
of  the  big  time  record  business.  He  is,  by 
nature,  a  retiring  man,  willing  to  go  along 
with  the  extrovert  activities  demanded  by 
the  press  agents  to  a  degree,  but  never 
whole-heartedly.   Facing   the  catastrophic 


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BIG  LEAGUE  BASEBALL  better  watch  out  when  the  Crosbys  get  going. 
(Left)  Phih'p,  Dennis,  Lindsay  and  the  Old  Man  choose  sides.  Bing's 
acting  won   more   praise  than  his  pitching   form    (center)    from  the 


representatives  of  72  newspapers  who  attended  the  premiere  and  the 
game.  Dorothy  Lamour  (right)  calls  a  close  one.  But  the  boys  simmer 
down  when  the  Voice  of  Experience  warns,  "Never  argue  with  an  umpire!" 


BACKYARD  BAR-B-CUE  had  celebrated  guests  hard  at  work.  Alexis  Smith, 
Dottie  Lamour  and  Cass  Dailey  (left)  catch  a  porker  with  Linny  giving 
a  hand.  While  Chef  Lamour  bends  over  a   hot  pit    (center)  Chef 


Crosby  gives  out  a  little  dinner  music  with  the  Cass  County  Boys 
[right).  The  two-theater  benefit  premiere  followed  the  barbecue.  Over 
$10,000  was  raised  as  a  start  for  a  much  needed  $1,000,000  hospital. 


BARBECUE,  AND  BING— TAKE  OVER  THE  TOWN  OF  ELKO,  NEVADA,  FOR  A  RIP-ROARIN',  HIGH-RIDIN'  BINGE. 


days  that  appeared  certain  ahead,  and 
taking  stock  of  his  own  family  situation, 
Bing  knew  that  he  didn't  want  to  go  on 
living  in  the  gold  fish  bowl  he'd  been  in 
for  so  long.  And  he  definitely  didn't  want 
his  sons  raised  in  Hollywood  surroundings. 
He  has  said  many  times  that  he  does  not 
dislike  Hollywood,  but  just  doesn't  think 
it  a  proper  place  to  raise  four  boisterous, 
hep  kids. 

He  went  on  a  tour  of  the  country  and, 
although  he  didn't  realize  it  at  the  time, 
he  was  looking  for  a  home. 

According  to  Gene  Evans,  city  editor  of 
the  Elko  Daily  Free  Press,  the  customary 
expression  made  by  men  looking  across  the 


wide  Nevada  plains  to  the  fertile  foothills, 
is:  "Man,  what  a  great  country  for  cattle." 
But  not  Bing.  He  rode  out  with  a  friend  to 
a  high  plateau  and  spread  before  him  was 
a  flat,  beautiful  grazing  land.  A  river  cut 
through  in  a  twisting  hne  and  off  in  the 
distance  white-topped  mountains  were  a 
magnificent  backdrop.  Bing  sat  for  a  mo- 
ment in  the  immense  silence  and  said: 

"Sure  looks  like  a  good  country  to  raise 
kids  in." 

Shortly  after  that  first  look  at  God's 
Countr>',  Bing,  trailed  by  eight-year-old 
Gar>',  PhiUp  and  Dennis,  aged  six.  and 
Lindsay,  four,  drove  out  to  see  a  man  by 
the  name  of  Ed  Ellison  and  in  a  matter  of 


hours  was  the  owner  of  a  beautiful,  sprawl- 
ing cattle  spread. 

The  early  days  of  Bing  Crosby,  rancher, 
were  probably  the  most  satisfving  of  his 
hfe.  Summer  time  was  the  time  for  play — 
or  work — for  the  Crosby  family.  Bing 
would  go  to  HolK-wood  to  make  his  mo^^es 
in  the  winter,  and  would  get  into  San  Fran- 
cisco and  other  coast  cities  for  his  radio 
programs.  He  was  making  more  money 
than  ever  before,  but  as  he  made  film  love 
to  his  various  leading  ladies  and  crooned 
city  songs  into  the  microphones,  his  mind 
and  his  heart  were  in  Nevada.  And.  with  the 
first  days  of  summer,  the  clan  would  trot  off 
to  the  ranch  for  (Continued  en  page  81) 


THIS  Tl 
IT'S  REAL 


WHO  DOES  PETE  LOVE?  His  highly-publicized  friendship  with  Rocky 
Cooper  [above)  turns  out  to  be  just  that — while  his  relationship 
with  leggy,  clean-cut  Jean  MacDonald  {below)  grows  more  serious. 


LAWFORD'S  GOT  IT  BAD  —  AND  WHO  GOT 


■  According  to  some  Hollywood  women  of 
the  world,  the  most  dangerous  man  one  can 
encounter  is  the  housefriend.  The  house- 
friend  is  generally  attractive,  and  more  im- 
portant, always  a  bachelor — until  that  time, 
at  least,  when  he  acquires  the  house  of  his 
friend. 

The  housefriend  operates  by  taking  a 
great  fancy  to  a  married  couple.  He  dines 
with  them,  sends  them  gifts,  acts  as  the 
extra  man  at  their  parties.  When  the  hus- 
band is  ill  or  busy,  and  the  wife  is  restless. 


HIM  THAT  WAY?  NOT  A  DANGEROUS  HOLLYWOOD  SIREN,  BUT  A  GIRL  NAMED  JEAN  MACDONALD  WHO  STEPPED  RIGHT  INTO  HIS  DREAMS. 


it's  the  housefriend  who  reserv-es  a  table  for 
two — and  occupies  one  of  the  chairs.  Sooner 
or  later,  the  wife  develops  an  antipathy 
toward  her  husband  and  after  an  honorable 
amount  of  time  she  becomes  a  bride  again, 
and  the  housefriend  becomes,  quite  natural- 
ly, her  groom. 

A  few  years  ago  it  was  predicted  in 
smart  circles  that  this  was  the  fate  that 
would  befall  Peter  Lawford  who  was  verv* 
fond  of  the  Garv-  Coopers.  When  the 
Coopers  separated.  Rock>'  Cooper  and  Peter 


became  a  steady  item  in  the  gossip  columns. 
And  even  today,  despite  the  fact  that  Rocky 
is  15  years  older  than  Peter,  there  are  those 
who  will  tell  you  that  these  two  are  madl\- 
and  divinely  in  love. 

Peter  Lawford  is  in  love.  But  not  with 
Rocky  Cooper.  '"I've  knowm  Rocky  since 
I  was  11,"  Peter  says.  "And  she's  a  won- 
derful friend.  But  the  gossip  about  us  is 
ridiculous.  I've  been  going  out  with  one 
girl,  and  pretty  steadily,  for  the  past  ten 
months.  Her  name  is  Jean  MacDonald." 


Jean  MacDonald  is  all  the  things  Peter 
has  ever  wanted  in  a  woman.  She's  gay,  in- 
telligent, young,  well-bred,  social,  athletic, 
and  of  course,  beautiful. 

She  comes  from  Honolulu,  and  on  Sep- 
tember 17th,  she  was  21.  Peter  is  28. 
Whether  Pete  will  propose  to  Jean  on  his 
return  from  England  he  isn't  sa>ing.  But  be- 
fore he  left  Hollywood,  he  admitted  for  the 
first  time  that  "Jean  is  my  steady.  We  have 
a  sort  of  un-ofi&cial  imderstanding.  After 
all,  I  wouldn't  {Ccmtiimed  on  page  101) 


DEARLY 
BELOVED 


Today,  after 

seven  years  together, 

June  and  Dick  fulfill 

the  hope  that  shines 

in  every  bride's 

eyes  on  her  wedding  day. 

BY  ANNE  FIELDING 


Family   conference,    Powell  style. 
Junior  member  Ricky  has  the  floor; 
Junie  and  Pom  join  him  on  it. 


■  In  the  early  days  of  their  marriage,  J  une's  gaiety  was 
high-pitched  and  slightly  unnatural,  and  Dick  sometimes  had 
the  look  of  a  man  who  wasn't  quite  certain  about  his  future. 

It's  different  now.  There's  a  new  air  about  the  Powells. 
You  can't  put  your  finger  on  the  change.  But  all  you  have 
to  do  is  walk  through  their  front  door  and 
you  get  such  a  f eehng  of  warmth  and  expansiveness  that 
you  know  without  asking,  and  without  a  doubt, 
that  there's  love  in  this  house,  and  serenity,  j 

Six  years  of  marriage  have  settled  the  Powells,  have  made 
their  home  into  a  haven  of  comfort.  It  isn't  only  the 
years  that  have  done  this.  It's  the  fact  that  now 
there's  a  family,  where  before  there  was  only  a  marriage. 

When  Pamela  arrived  June  almost  visibly  began  to  softep, 
relax  and  mature.  Ricky  has  added  the  final  quieting  touch, 
and  today  June  has  a  new  assurance  and  composure. 

Watching  June  mellow,  Dick  has  been  delighted.  The 
only  complaint  he'd  ever  had  about  her  was  her  fear 
of  accepting  responsibility.  At  the  time  they  were  married, 
the  management  of  a  household  was  new  and  bewildering 
to  June,  and  only  gradually  has  she  learned  efficiency 
in  this  respect.  With  the  arrival  of  the  children, 
she  gladly  tackled  the  one  job  she  always  wanted — that  of 
motherhood.  With  its  work  and  responsibility, 
she  has  learned  that  nothing  is  really 
frightening  once  you've  mastered  it.  Now  she  voluntarily 
takes  on  other  chores  around  the  house. 

Dick  had  always  thought  that  having  a  baby  was  an 
ordeal  for  a  woman,  and  knowing  this,  June 
purposely  restrained  herself  from  any  complaints. 
She  showed  him  having  a  baby  can  be  fun; 
and  in  the  process  of  being  cheerful  about  nausea  and 
heartburn,  June  shed  every  last  sign  of  the 
hypochondria  that  threatened  to  engulf  her  during  the  early 
years  of  their  marriage.  Finding  it  was  fun  to  be  healthy, 
she  determined  that  once  (Continued  on  page  84) 


HERE  ARE  THE  FIRST  PICTURES  TAKEN  OF  RICKY  POWELL— THE  BAB  Y  HOLLYWOOD  WAITED  SEVEN  AND  ONE  HALF  MONTHS  TO  SEE. 


how  dopey 

osin  he  g^et? 


Gordon  loses  suits 
of  clothes,  music  scores, 
and  even  cars.  As 
a  man  on  his  own, 
he's  a  panic — ^which  is 
why  he  always  likes 
to  have  Sheila  along. 

BY  CAROLINE  BROOKS 


When  Gordon  went  shopping  without  Sheila  he  impetuously 
bought  a  one-bathroom  home.  Now  they  have  a  new  place 
with    room    to    spare    for    Meredith,    Sar,    and  Heather, 


■  It  was  very  late  at  night  when 
Gordon  MacRae  signed  the  last  of  500 
autographs  backstage  at  the  San  Francisco 
Opera  House.  He  had  a  warm,  happy  feehng  of 
success,  for  his  audience  of  5,000  had  loved 
him.   In  fact,  their  applause  had  been  so 
overwhelming  that  Pierre  Monteux,  San  Fran- 
cisco's fine  conductor,  had  urged  him  to 
give  them  one  more  number.  Gordon  had  no 
additional  music  for  even  a  piano  accom- 
paniment, but  went  back  on  stage  and 
sang  "Old  Man  River"  without  any  instrumental 
support.  The  applause  for  that  had  seemed 
gratifying,  too. 

But  as  he  walked  out  of  his  dressing  room 
Gordon  realized  that  it  was  mighty  cold 
and  dark  back-stage.   Lonely,  too.  Where 
were  the  people  who'd  made  such  a  fuss 
over  him  upon  his  arrival?  Wined  and  dined 
him  before  he'd  stepped  on  stage  to  sing 
for  their  Tombola  Festival,  a  distinguished  annual 
music  event  in  the  city?  Where  were  Con- 
ductor and  Mrs.  Pierre  Monteux  at  whose  personal 
request  he  had  appeared?  And  where 
was  his  escort  to  the  home  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Phil  Boone,  prominent  young  San  Fran- 
cisco socialites?  He  was  to  be  one  of  the 
guests  of  honor  at  their  party  that  night. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  where  was  anybody? 

"All  of  a  sudden,  I  felt  just  like  Kirk  Douglas 
in  Champion,  his  footsteps  echoing,  as 
alone  and  unwanted  he  leaves  the  scene  of  his  defeat." 
Gordon  recalls.  "I  felt  I'd  been  a  flop. 
A  janitor  came  along,  saying,  'I've  saved 
a  cold  coke  for  you.'  Then  an 
electrician  and  a  chef  came  along.   We  sat  there 
and  talked  awhile,  and  I  wound  up  at  the 
ball  park  with  the  manager  {Continued  on  page  82) 


61 


WHAT 


This  is  a  man's 
world,  and  a  girl 
has  to  fight  for 
everything  she  wants. 
Men  taught  me 
how  to  fight;  they 


taught  me  how  to  live. 


HAVE 
DONE 
TO 


■  The  other  evening  I  was  going  over  a  collection  of  movie  magazines. 
Naturally,  my  eyes  were  diverted  to  stories  dealing  with  Joan  Crawford. 

After  reading  three  of  them,  I  said  to  myself,  "Is  it  you,  actually  you  they're 
writing  about?" 

I  couldn't  believe  it.  Honestly!  One  writer  quoted  me  as  saying,  "I've  made 
three  mistakes  in  my  life — my  three  marriages,  and  I'm  not  proud  of  any 
of  them." 

Another  reporter  described  me  as  "love-starved,  man-crazy,  husband-hungry, 
and  altogether  unhappy." 

A  third  suggested  that  I  was  a  domineering  hermit  who  lived  only  for 
her  career. 

Bunk!  Pure  bunk! 

I  know  the  truth,  about  myself,  and  I'm  not  afraid  of  it. 

The  basic  truth  about  me  is  that  I'm  so  normal  it  hurts,  and  that  my  character  and 
personality  are  largely  the  result  of  the  men  in  my  life. 
We  all  become  a  part  of  what  we  live  with. 

I  have  lived  with  three  men,  three  fine  men  of  character,  integrity,  kindness,  and 
purpose.  Some  of  it  has  worn  off  on  me. 

Douglas  Fairbanks,  Jr.,  my  first  husband,  had  been  reared  in  style.  I 
hadn't.  I  came  from  a  poor  family.  I  came  up  the  hard  way. 

It  was  Doug  who  taught  me  graciousness,  and  introduced  me  to  a  way  of  hfe  I  had 
never  known  before,  with  servants  and  cars  and  secretaries.  I  brought  to  that  Ufe 
a  great  beUef  in  equality — the  feehng  that  our  laundress  was  as  good  as  we  were, 
that  wealth  and  position  were  not  inahenable  rights,  that  at  best,  they  were 
the  outgrowth  of  a  lucky  break  or  two. 

I  had  never  had  people  work  for  me  before.  To  get  along  with  them  takes 
tolerance,  perseverance,  and  understanding.  I  learned  all  those  things. 

■  I  have  the  president  of  the  Joan  Crawford  Fan  Club  {^Continued  on  page  97) 


63 


IT 

— IK_    _JH_oward  Keel  entered  the  studio 
commissary  with  an  intriguing  creature  just  as  high  as  his  heart. 
Snow  white  hair  crowned  her  merry,  unwrinkled  face. 
Her  step  was  as  spry,  her  smile  as  infectious  as  a  childis.  She 
looked  adoringly  at  Howard  as,  arm  around  her,  he 
led  her  into  the  room. 

Every  head  in  the  place  turned  and  there  was  a  buzz.  "Who's 
that  wonderful  looking  woman  with  Howard  Keel?" 

One  savvy  reporter  said,  "I  don't  know,  and  I'm  not  likely  to 
find  out  if  she  really  means  anything  to  Keel.  That  guy  wouldn't 
tell  you  the  time  of  day  if  it  had  anything  to  do  with  his 
private  life."  He  continued  with  the  bitterness  of  a  guy  who's  been 
gypped  out  of  his  daily  bread.  "Personally,  I  think  all  his. 
clamming  up  about  'personal  business'  is  just  a  pose.  He's 
going  after  glamor  the  way  Garbo  did." 

An  interesting  theory  if  true.  But  the  newsman  was  dead 
wrong.  The  truth  is  that  Howard  Keel  just  doesn't  like 
anyone  prying  into  his  private  life. 

The  newsman  was  wTong  twice.  He  should  have  asked  Howard 
about  the  little  lady  on  his  arm.  She  was  the  star  attraction 
of  the  MGM  lot  that  day,  and  usually  silent  Howard 
just  couldn't  say  enough  about  her. 

"That's  my  grandmother,  Matilda  Osterkamp.  Isn't  she  something? 
Eighty-six  years  old  and  just  made  her  first  airplane  trip 
to  visit  me.  She's  taken  to  Hollywood  like  a  real  old-timer." 

He  went  on  to  teU  of  her  conquest  of  Hollywood. 
How  she'd  gone  into  business,  crocheting  and  embroidering  things 
and  what's  more,  finding  customers  for  what  she  makes. 
-  Howard  says,  "It  makes  no  difference  that  I'm  here, 
and  more  than  able  to  provide  for  her  needs.  She's  not  dependent 
on  me  to  get  around,  either.  She  just  hops  on  a  bus 
and  off  she  goes." 

Grandma  Osterkamp  gave  a  hint  of  Howard  Keel's  attitude 
toward  personal  pubHcity  when  she  told  his  mother, 
"Howard's  important  now,  so  we've  got  to  be  mighty  careful 
what  we  say  even  on  the  telephone.  Maybe  folks  would  misunder- 
stand and  reflect  it  unfavorably  on  him."  And  Howard's  endless, 
joyous  stories  about  his  grandmother  tell  more  about  his 
past  than  perhaps  even  he  intends.  For  out  of  them  one  can 
patch  together  the  story  of  his  personal  history.  And  can  even 
peep  behind  the  wall  of  secrecy  he's  built  around  his 
home  in  Brentwood. 

"Grandma  gave  us  one  of  those  wonderful  old  kerosene 
lamps  that  hang  by  chains  from  the  ceiling,"  he  tells.  "Grandpa 
gave  it  to  her  33  years  ago.  {Continued  on  next  page) 


Modern  Screen's 
reporter  ferrets  out  the 
story  of  Hollywood's  most 
phenomenal  mystery 
man — the  star-rocket- 
ing Howard  Keel. 

BY  FRANCES  CLARK 


KEEL'S  INCREDIBLE  RISE  TO  STARDOM 

in  two  short  years  has  included  roles  in  Annie  Get 
Your  Gim  wi+h  Be+fy  Huf+on,   (top)  and 
Show  Boat  with  Avo  Gardner — 
two  of  the  most  lavish  musical  productions 
Hollywood  has  ever  known.  ^ 

'i 

I 

[. 


his  life's  no  open  book  continued 


TWO  IMPORTANT  WOMEN  in  Howard's  life  ore  his  grandmother,  Matilda  Osterkomp,  and  his  mother,  Grace  Keel. 
Usually  reticent.  Keel,  is  happy  to  show  off  Grandma.  He's  silent  about  the  rest  of  his  private  life;  shares  Grandma's 
sentiment:    "We-e-ll,    Howard,    I'm    not    sure    it's    good    for    anyone    to    have    all    that    fuss    made    over  him." 


It  cost  $2.50  then  and  we  paid  exactly  ten  times  that 
just  to  have  it  restored.  We  didn't  have  it  rewired, 
though.  We're  using  it  just  the  way  they  did.  That  way 
it'll  fit  in  with  the  rustic  ranch  house  we  hope  to  build 
some  day." 

Asked  when  he  expects  to  build,  he  said  he  didn't 
know.  Asked  if  he  expected  to  have  stables,  too,  he 
said,  "No.  They're  too  expensive  to  keep  up."  The 
Keels  seem  to  be  going  slow  about  cashing  in  on  his 
financial  success,  from  what  one  can  infer  from  his 
further  remarks  about  his  home. 

"We're  living  in  a  rented  house.  The  carpets  and 
drapes  were  in  it.  We  didn't  want  to  go  out  and  buy 
just  anything.  We  want  every  piece  to  be  right.  So  we 
found  a  man  who  designs  and  builds  furniture  to  order. 
Whenever  we're  ready  to  buy  another  piece,  we  con- 
tact him.  He  makes  up  several  designs  just  for  us,  then 
we  select  the  one  we  want.  We  just  got  our  coffee  table. 
Made  of  alder  wood.  That's  a  httle  darker  than  maple. 
Six  feet  long  and  35  inches  wide.  It  sort  of  crowds  the 
living  room  now,  I  guess."  His  eyes  lit  up  as  he  con- 


tinued, "Even  if  it  does,  I  hope  before  long  to  get  that 
big  chair  I've  promised  myself." 

Many  believe  that  Keel's  attitude  toward  his  home 
and  the  public's  interest  in  him  stems  from  earlier 
hurts  of  poverty,  and  his  ineffectual,  trouble-making 
rebeUions  against  being  pushed  around.  They  think 
he  wants  to  eventually  spit  in  everyone's  eye  with 
a  dazzling  show  of  success.  It's  a  childish  reaction, 
maybe,  but  maybe  he's  got  cause.  Look  at  the  record 
of  his  childhood. 

He  talks  freely  about  his  hfe  until  he  was  11  years 
old.  Then  the  Keels  were  a  happy  family  back  in 
Gillespie,  Illinois.  His  father,  like  most  men  in  that 
town  of  5,000,  was  a  coal  miner.  His  earnings  couldn't 
provide  luxuries  but  that  didn't  matter.  He  gave 
Howard  and  his  older  brother  the  priceless  gift  of  being 
a  pal,  of  guiding  them  wisely  with  a  firm  and  gentle 
hand. 

Howard's  mother,  Grace  Keel,  provided  wonder- 
fully for  her  men  with  that  talent  some  women  have 
of  making  a  great  deal  out  (Continued  on  page  95) 


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And  baseball — on  that  night,  at  least — went  to  the  dogs. 


Gary  Cooper's  team  included  Shelley  Winters  and  Gordon  MacRoe. 
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(Continued  from  page  40)  history. 

Back  in  1941,  another  unknown  with  a 
pleasant  smile  did  his  first  stint  before  a 
Paramoiint  camera.  He'd  been  hanging 
around  Hollywood  for  a  long  time,  getting 
bits  in  pictures,  little  theaters  and  radio. 
He'd  worked  as  a  grip,  and  he'd  run  a 
hamburger  stand  in  the  Valley.  He  ate, 
but  he  wasn't  signing  any  movie  contracts. 
Then  he  met  a  girl,  a  former  movie  star 
turned  agent.  Her  name  was  Sue  Carol. 
She  became  Mrs.  Alan  Ladd  in  March 
1942,  but  tJiat  day  on  the  Paramoiuit  set 
Alan's  whole  dazzling  future  was  just  a 
wish  on  both  their  parts.  When  Alan  fin- 
ished his  first  big  time  scene  he  walked 
straight  to  her. 

"I  knew  you  could  do  it,"  she  said,  and 
folks  on  the  set  witnessed  the  best  clinch 
they'd  seen  in  years  on  or  off  the  screen. 

The  picture  was  This  Gun  For  Hire  and 
the  stars  were  Veronica  Lake,  of  the  one- 
eyed  hairdo,  and  muscle-man  Brian  Dqn- 
levy.  At  the  preview  in  Pasadena,  Sue  and 
Alan  sat  with  their  fingers  crossed  and 
their  hands  clasped.  There  it  was  on  the 
screen  following  all  the  other  high  ^  and 
mighty  credits,  just  a  line  saying,  "And 
introducing  Alan  Ladd." 

I  remember  when  Carl  Schroeder,  now 
an  editor  of  Modern  Screen,  said  to  me  at 
a  party  soon  after,  "Hedda,  have  you  seen 
that  guy  Sue  Carol's  peddling?  She 
brought  him  into  my  office  today.  A  real 
nice  guy.  But  he'U  never  get  any  place. 
Just  hasn't  got  it." 

Is  your  face  red,  Carl? 

TEN  years  ago — ^1941 — ^how  can  I  fbrget 
it?  Or  the  10  fantastic  years  that  came 
after  when  stars  were  born  and  stars 
faded  out  like  used-up  electric  bulbs. 
Picture-wise,  1941  was  a  big  fat  year,  but 
Europe  was  at  war,  and  movie  producers 
were  mourning  their  loss  of  the  European 
markets.  They  should  have  saved  their 
aspirins  for  1951  and  television!  Then  came 
Pearl  Harbor,  and  men  from  everywhere 
including  Hollywood,  went  off  to  fight.  But 
they  came  home  on  leave  and  there  were 
two  girls  who  always  managed  to  get 
handsome  escorts.  They  went  everywhere, 
that  Carole  Landis  and  Lupe  Velez — 
dancing,  laughing,  romancing.  Most  loved 
and  courted  of  the  Glamor  Girls,  a  few 
years  later  they  both  committed  suicide — 
for  love! 

Very  few  people  had  heard  of  June 
Allyson  in  1941.  Not  even,  I  suspect,  Dick 
Powell.  Today  Jime  with  her  friendliness, 
sincerity,  Eind  boimdless  energy,  has  won 
the  hearts  of  millions.  Just  like  Alan  Ladd, 
she  is  a  part  of  the  American  scene.  But 
in  1941,  June,  very  short  of  cash,  was  just 
one  of  the  hundreds  of  ambitious  kids  try- 
ing to  get  a  break  in  the  New  York 
theater.  Jime,  following  a  serious  accident, 
had  been  told  by  doctors  that  she  would 
never  walk  again.  But  by  dint  of  pure 
grit  she  took  up  swimming  and  dancing. 
In  1941  she  was  understudying  the  in- 
destructible Betty  Hutton  in  Panama  Hat- 
tie  and  her  chances  of  becoming  a  Holly- 
wood movie  star  were  about  as  slim  as 
Frankie  Sinatra's  hips.  And  then  it  hap- 
pened, right'  out  of  the  blue. 

"June — June  Allyson,"  called  the  stage 
manager  frEintically  at  the  door  of  the 
big  room  where  all  the  chorines  were 
dressing.  "You  gotta  go  on,  kid.  In  a  few 
minutes.  Betty  Hutton's  broken  her  leg." 

In  the  audience  that  night  was  Producer 
George  Abbott.  He  starred  her  and  Nancy 
Walker  in  Best  Foot  Forward,  and  when 
Metro  bought  the  show  they  bought  June 
and  Nancy  too. 

Ten  years  can  certainly  make  a  differ- 

70 


ence  in  the  life  of  a  movie  star.  It  can 
make  a  difference  in  your  Ufe,  and  in 
mine.  What  were  you  doing  10  years 
ago?  I  remember  what  I  was  doing. 

The  past  10  years  have  brought  about 
a  complete  switch  in  my  life.  I  started 
writing  a  colimin  in  1938  for  only  13  news- 
papers. By  1941  I  had  twice  that  many 
papers.  But  to  embellish  my  income,  I 
was  working  in  as  many  pictures  as  I 
could  get,  and  doing  many  guest  shots  on 
radio.  I  had  an  airshow  for  Sunkist 
oranges  three  times  weekly.  When  that 
went  off  the  air  I  did  a  show  called  "Hol- 
lywood Showcase"  in  which  I  introduced 
new  talent.  One  night  I  introduced  a  love- 
ly little  girl  named  Suzanne  Burse,  with 
a  much  better  than  average  singing  voice. 

"Suzanne,"  I  asked,  "tell  me  about 
yourself.  Where  do  you  come  from,  and 
what  are  you  doing  in  Holljrwood?" 

"Miss  Hopper,"  she  said,  "I've  been 
singing  on  radio  station  KOIN  in  Portland, 
Oregon.  I'm  in  Hollywood  on  vacation 
with  my  parents.  I  want  to  see  movie 
stars  and  get  as  many  autographs  as  pos- 
sible. May  I  have  yours?" 

Shortly  afterwards  that  pretty  child  was 
signed  by  Metro.  Now  she's  known 
throughout  the  world  as  Jane  Powell.  To- 
day she  doesn't  get  autographs,  she  gives 
them.  But  she's  as  sweet  and  unspoUed 
as  she  was  that  night  on  my  program. 

Today  my  column  is  syndicated  by  the 
Chicago  Tribune-New  York  Daily  News, 


answers  to  bud  collyer's  quiz  on  page  12 

1.  The  Bumsteads,  Judge  Hardy's,  The 
Days  {Life  With  Father),  and  Ma  and 
Pa  Kettle 

2.  Olivia  de  Havilland  in  To  Each  His  Own 
(1945-46) 

Joan  Fontaine  in  Suspicion  (1940-41) 

3.  You  Can't  Take  It  With  You 
Dear  Ruth 

Father  of  the  Bride 

4.  The  Barr\'mores;  Lionel.  Ethel,  and  John 

5.  Keenan  and  Ed  Wynn 
Tim  and  Jack  Holt 

Lon  Chaney,  Jr.,  and  Sr. 
Bing  and  Gary  Crosby 
Doug  Fairbanks,  Jr..  and  Sr. 


with  some  30,000,000  readers.  I've  moved 
from  a  tiny  bungalow— where  I  lived  hap- 
pily on  the  wrong  side  of  the  tracks — to  a 
house  in  Beverly  HiUs,  with  the  conven- 
tional swimming  pool.  I  work  even  harder 
today  than  I  did  10  years  ago. 

I  have  not  been  unhappy  these  past  10 
years.  My  life  has  been  filled  to  the  brim, 
and  sometimes  it  overflows  a  little.  One 
of  these  times  was  when  my  granddaughter 
Joan  was  born.  I  believe  it's  more  impor- 
tant to  have  your  older  years  filled  with 
excitement  than  your  younger  ones.  I've 
said  many  times,  "Youth  is  so  wonderful. 
It's  too  bad  to  waste  it  on  youth." 

Still  in  my  nostalgic  mood  I  ran  into 
one  of  my  favorite  actors,  Dana  Andrews, 
at  the  Gcldwyn  studios  recently. 

"Dana,"  I  asked  curiously,  "what  were 
you  doing  10  years  ago?  I  bet  your  big 
worry  at  that  time  was  not  the  upkeep  on 
your  $350,000  yacht!" 

"I'U  sell  it  to  you  for  $40,000*"  said  Dana 
with  a  grin.  "The  upkeep  is  killing  me. 
Mary's  my  memory."  He  turned  to  his 
attractive  wife.  "Honey,  what  were  we 
up  to  in  1941?"  - 

"You  weren't  making  enough  to  keep  a 
rowboat  afloat  in  those  days,"  Mary 
obliged.  "Hedda,  we  were  Uving  in  a 
small  frame  stucco  house  in  Van  Nuys, 


for  which  we  were  paying  $45  a  month 
rent.  Indeed  I  do  remember  1941.  Dana 
was  working  in  Swamp  Water.  The  pic- 
ture was  on  location,  bad  weather  had 
held  up  production,  and  the  comjjany  had 
to  work  on  Sunday.  Dana  got  overtime.  The 
first  time  he  had  to  'work  overtime. 
The  first  time  he  had  ever  gotten  overtime. 
It  was  just  enough  for  me  to  go  out  and 
buy  a  refrigerator,  which  we  had  been 
needing  very  badly. 

"And  I  have  another  reason  for  remem- 
bering 1941,"  Mary  added.  "After  Dana 
finished  Ball  of  Fire  in  which  he  had  a  fast 
three  days  work,  we  went  on  a  leisurely 
visit  to  Texas.  Nine  months  later  our 
first  child  was  bom." 

TTow  times  have  changed.  Back  in  1941 
Betty  Grable,  in  her  second  year  on 
her  Fox  contract,  made  four  films,  Moon 
Over  Miami,  Yank  in  the  RAF,  Hotspot, 
Song  of  the  Island,  and  started  a  fifth. 
That  has  not  happened  since.  Betty  today 
only  WEints  to  make  one  picture  a  year, 
and  right  now^she  isn't  sure  she  wants  to 
make  that.  After  12  years  of  uninterrupted 
harmony,  Betty  and  her  studio  had  a  spat. 
It  was  no  lovers'  quarrel.  The  studio 
took  her  off  salary  and  suspended  her — 
the  most  drastic  thing  that's  happened 
in  Hollywood.  The  studio  said  she  was 
being  temperamental.  Betty  said  she  was 
being  practical.  It's  the  most  bitter  con- 
tract hassle  we've  had  since  Olivia  de 
Havilland  sued  Warner  Brothers — and  how 
it  will  end,  I  don't  know.  Betty's  friends 
say  she's  had  it,  and  wants  to  quit.  But 
this  I  doubt.  Betty's  hobby  is  breeding 
race  horses.  And  when  the  bills  for  hay 
roll  in,  the  money  rolls  out. 

Well,  the  studio  may  suspend  Betty,  but 
no  one  can  suspend  that  girl's  popularity. 
She  hit  the  top  10  of  the  exhibitors'  poll 
in  1942,  and  has  been  on  it  ever  since. 
Not  bad  for  a  girl  who  has  been  in  pictures 
24  years. 

No  one  ever  heard  of  Janet  Leigh  in 
1941.  Certainly  Tony  Curtis  never  had. 
Tony  Cvutis  wasn't  even  Tony  Curtis.  He 
was  Bemie  SchwEirtz,  and  he  was  busy 
snitching  apples  and  candies  from  the  gro- 
cery stores  in  the  Bronx,  with  no  thought 
of  Hollywood.  Jeanette  Morrison  was  an 
unhappy  little  school  girl  of  13.  Her 
grandfather  died  that  year,  and  her  parents 
moved  from  Stockton,  Cahfomia,  where 
she  had  lots  of  friends,  to  Merced  to  live 
with  the  bereaved  grandmother.  Janet 
didn't  know  a  soul  in  Merced.  And  it  was 
no  fun  breaking  in  with  a  new  gang. 

But  another  little  girl  was  well  on  her 
way  to  movie  fame  in  1941.  Ten-year-old 
Elizabeth  Taylor  had  come  from  England 
at  the  outbreak  of  the  war,  and  her  father 
had  opened  up  the  Francis  Taylor  art  gal- 
lery in  the  Beverly  Hills  Hotel.  Her 
mother  was  ambitious  for  a  movie  career 
for  Elizabeth,  and  she  brought  her  to  my 
house  that  year  to  sing  for  me.  Elizabeth's 
beauty  was  more  startling  than  her  voice. 
But  I  obligingly  took  her  to  Metro  and  had 
her  sing  for  Louis  B.  Mayer.  But  nothing 
happened. 

In  December,  following  Pearl  Harbor, 
Mr.  Taylor  became  an  air  raid  warden. 
Covering  their  "beat"  one  night,  Mr.  Tay- 
lor and  producer  Sam  Marx  started  dis- 
cussing their  troubles. 

"You  think  you  have  troubles,"  said 
Mr.  Marx.  "I've  really  got  troubles.  I've 
got  to  find  a  little  English  girl  to  team 
with  Roddy  McDowell  in  my  next  Lassie 
picture.  I've  tested  every  little  girl  in 
town,  it  seems.    What  phony  accents." 

Mr.  Taylor  said  he  had  a  Uttle  girl,  and 
he  could  certainly  guarantee  that  she  was 
English.  Elizabetii's  screen  test  for  Lassie 
Came  Home  won  her  a  contract  at  Metro. 

One  of  the  tip-top  stars  of  1941,  as  she  is 
of  1951,  is  my  good  {Continued  on  page  72) 


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(Contirmed  from  page  70)  friend  Bette 
Davis.  In  January  of  that  year  I  remember 
Bette  was  busy  denying  all  sorts  of  lurid 
rumors:  such  as  a  feud  with 'Ida  Lupino 
who  was  said  to  have  imitated  her  in  her 
last  picture  (shades  of  TtdluIahBankhead), 
a  battle  with  Warner  Brothers,  and  a  ro- 
mance with  Bob  Taplinger,  publicity  direc- 
tor. In  April,  after  a  serious  romance 
with  George  Brent,  she  quite  vmexpectedly 
married  a  non-professional  New  Englander 
named  Arthur  Famsworth.  Arthur  died 
in  1943  of  a  cerebral  hemorrhage.  In  the 
years  between  1941  and  1951  Bette  hit 
new  lows  in  unhappiness.  In  1949  she 
broke  with  Warner  Brothers  where  she 
had  been  under  contract  since  1931.  After 
seeing  her  last  picture  there.  Beyond  the 
Forest,  I  wrote  in  my  colunm,  "If  Bette 
had  deliberately  set  out  to  wreck  her 
career  she  couldn't  have  picked  a  more 
appropriate  vehicle."  Bette's  married  life 
to  William  Grant  Sherry,  a  former  prize 
fighter  with  a  penchant  for  smashing  fur- 
niture, had  gone  sour  too.  You  couldn't 
find  a  more  miserable  girl  than  Bette. 
Bette  was  down,  and  Hollywood  was  on 
the  verge  of  counting  her  out,  when  along 
came  All  About  Eve.  A  new  career— *and 
a  new  husband,  a  dream  of  a  guy  named 
Gary  Merrill.  And  I  had  the  pleasure  of 
writing  in  my  column,  "Hollywood's  most 
thriUing  comeback  was  made  by  its  finest 
actress,  Bette  Davis." 

A  NOTHER  of  1941's  tip  top  stars,  as  he  is 
today,  is  Gary  Cooper.  Though  his 
life  hasn't  been  so  flamboyant  and  dra- 
matic as  Bette's  during  the  past  10  years, 
Coop  has  had  his  share  of  excitement. 
Gciry  was  high  up  on  the  exhibitors'  poll 
in  1941.  And  that  was  the  year  he  made 
Sergeant  York  for  which  he  was  to  receive 
an  Academy  Award.  I  recall  interview- 
ing him  just  about  that  time.  After  he 
married  socialite  Veronica  Balfe  of  the 
Long  Island  set,  no  one  ever  mentioned 
Gary's  wild  flings  of  some  20  or  so  years 
ago  with  Clara  Bow  and  Lupe  Velez.  But 
I  always  rush  in. 

"Don't  you  miss  those  exciting  days?"  I 
asked  Coop.  "Your  life  was  certainly 
more  hectic  then,  but  it  must  have  been 
more  fun  too." 

Gary  looked  across  the  lawn  at  Rocky 
(Mrs.  Cooper)  playing  tennis  with  the 
Right  People,  and  little  four-year-old 
Maria  and  her  very  proper  governess. 

"I  guess  I  fit  coinfortably  into  this  life," 
he  said  lazily.  "So  why  make  a  fuss  about 
it?" 

When  I  interviewed  him  in  1951  he 
wasn't  so  comfortable.  The  marriage  had 
been  on  the  rocks  for  some  years,  but  it 
wasn't  until  this  year  that  Rocky  finally 
broke  down  and  admitted  it.  Now  that 
it's  out  in  the  open,  Gary  is  out  in  the 
open  with  Pat  Neal,  with  whom  he  fell  in 
love  two  years  ago  when  they  were  mak- 
ing The  Fountainhead.  Rocky  says  she 
will  not  give  Gary  a  divorce.  But  Nancy 
Sinatra  said  that  about  Frankie,  too. 

A  big  social  event  of  1941  was  19-year- 
old  Dearma  Durbin's  marriage  to  pink- 
cheeked,  yovmg  Vaughn  Paul.  Since  then 
Deanna  has  had  two  husbands,  and  some 
pretty  terrible  pictures.  Deanna,  who 
once  pulled  Universal  out  of  the  red,  and 
who  averaged  9,000  fan  letters  a  day,  foxind 
herself  washed  up  as  a  movie  star  at  26. 
She  had  become  too  fat,  the  studio  said, 
and  lost  her  girlish  appeal.  A  few  months 
ago  Deanna,  now  in  France,  thimibed  her 
nose  at  them  with  an  interview  in  a  French 
paper.  "In  HoUsrwood  they  want  every- 
body to  look  not  only  slim  but  downright 
meager.  I  refuse  to  go  on  a  strenuous 
diet  I  visited  the  Louvre  and  saw  some 
of  the  most  beautiful  statues  in  the  world, 
and  all  those  women  were  fatter  than  I 
am."   That's  true,  Deanna,  but  they  don't 


have  to  bring  themselves  before  a  camera- 
In  1941  the  fans  were  taking  it  very 
hard  because  their  little  Judy  Garland 
wanted  to  grow  up.  They  liked  to  think 
of  her  as  the  little  girl  who  had  the  crush 
on  Mickey  Rooney,  and  the  child  danc- 
ig  with  the  scarecrow  in  The  Wizard  of 
Oz.  David  Rose,  Martha  Raye's  ex,  who 
married  Judy  during  that  year,  petulantly 
announced  that  he  was  sick  of  The  Wizard 
oj  Oz,  and  being  called  old  enough  to  be 
Judy's  father.  Even  though  she  looked  16, 
sometimes  13,  Judy  was  19,  certainly  a 
marriageable  age. 

Judy  made  the  Big  Ten  in  the  exhibitors' 
jpoU  for  the  first  time  in  1941,  and  stayed 
on  it  for  years  afterward.  She  would 
still  be  there  if  she  hadn't  allowed  herself 
to  get  so  plimip,  and  temperamental. 
Though  there  had  been  much  back  fence 
gossip  about  Judy  and  her  hassles  with 
Metro,  they  didn't  become  front  page  news 
until  Judy  was  hastily  dropped  from  the 
starring  role  in  Annie  Get  Your  Gun  and 
replaced  by  Betty  Hutton.  Judy  was  given 
time  off  to  calm  her  frazzled  nerves.  Then 
came  the  horrifying  headlines  of  June  20, 
1950,  "Judy  Garland  Cuts  Throat."  Last 
Sepember,  Judy  was  given  her  release 
from  the  studio  where  she  had  worked 
since  she  was  13.  And  she  was  also  re- 
leased from  a  salary  that's  twice  as  much 
as  the  President  of  the  United  States  gets. 
But  when  the  parting  of  the  ways  came,  it 
was  rumored  ttiat  Judy  was  broke.  If  so, 
she  certainly  remedied  that  little  matter 
in  England  where  she  earned  as  much  as 
$20,000  a  week  in  British  vaudeville.  Only 
29,  Judy  can  easily  start  a  1951  picture 
career — if  she  will  buckle  down,  slim  down, 
and  work  hard.    But  will  she? 

Tn  the  summer  preceding  Pearl  Harbor, 
Colimibia  Studios  called  in  a  young  Life 
photographer,  name  of  Bob  Landry,*  to  do 
a  glamor  sitting  of  a  young  star  who  had 
just  made  her  first  hit  in  You'll  Never  Get 
Rich.  Among  the  pictures  he  shot  of 
Rita  Hayworth  that  day  was  the  one  of 
her  on  the  bed  looking  most  provocative 
in  a  satin  and  lace  nightie.  This  became 
the  most  popialar  pin-up  picture  of  all 
times.  It  has  even  eclipsed  in  popularity 
the  gorgeous  one  made  of  Betty  Grable 
in  1943. 

Rita  in  those  days  was  married  to  Eddie 
Judson.  "I  had  to  be  sold  to  the  public 
just  like  a  breakfast  cereal  or  a  real 
estate  development  or  something  new  in 
ladies'  wear,"  Rita  told  an  interviewer  at 
that  time.  "Eddie  gets  full  credit  for  sell- 
ing me.  He  made  me  spend  every  dime 
we  could  scrape  up  on  beautiful  clothes 
to  wear  to  night  clubs  where  producers 
would  see  me." 

I  remember  seeing  her  at  a  premiere 
that  year,  and  I  have  never  seen  any  star 
more  patient  with  the  lens  boys.  If  they 
had  asked  her  to  stand  on  her  hands  and 
sing  a  song,  I  am  sure  she  wovdd  have 
gladly  done  so. 

"Any  time  photographers  gang  up  on 
me  I  love  it,  Hedda,"  she  told  me  in  the 
forecoiul;  of  the  Chinese  Theater.  "And 
why  shouldn't  I?  It's  part  of  my  career, 
isn't  it?" 

Princess  Rita,  now  one  of  the  most 
famous  women  in  the  world,  is  not  so  fond 
of  the  press  cind  photographers  today,  I 
regret  to  say.  When  she  returned  to 
Hollywood  and  a  photographer  asked  her 
for  a  full  face  "shot"  she  snapped  at  him, 
"What's  wrong  with  my  profile?"  The 
1941  Rita,  shy,  timid  and  uncertain, 
wouldn't  have  snapi>ed  at  any  one.  Much 
less  a  photographer.  But  that  was  10 
years  ago,  and  Rita  isn't  the  only  one 
who's  changed.  The  End 

{*See  page  38  for  Bob  Landry's  latest 
■pictures  of  Rita. — Ed.) 


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My  husknd  is  tearing  our 
place  apart ! " 


"There  isn't  a  more  considerate 
husband  in  the  world  than  Dick 
Powell,"  June  AUyson  boasted.  "But 
I'm  afraid  he'll  leave  me  'homeless'! 
When  he  isn't  breaking  through 
walls  of  the  house,  he's  out  chopping 
trees.  I  like  to  help,  but  days 
like  this  are  murder  for  my  hands. 


"Sometimes  he  takes  the  furniture  apart 
to  refinish  it.  I  help  and  afterwards  my 
hands  beg  for  soothing  Jergens  Lotion. 


"I  learned  at  the  studio 
Jergens  doesn't  just  coat  skin, 
it  softens  because  it  pene- 
trates and  furnishes  moisture. 


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"So  no  matter  how  I  abuse 
my  hands,  Jergens  Lotion 
keeps  them  lovely  for  studio 
closeups  — and  for  Dick." 


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it's  a  man ' 
viewpoint 

These  wonderful  guys — Ken  Tobe.\ 
Keefe  Brasselle,  Scott  Brady,  Carle 
ton  Carpenter,  Fernando  Lamas  (na 
shown  in  photo  above),  and  Michael 
Woulfe  (RKO  fashion  designer) — all 
members  of  Modern  Screen's  Holly- 
wood Fashion  and  Beauty  Board — 
huddle  together  at  the  Beverly  Hills 
Club  to  choose  clothes  ?»e?jlike  women 
to  wear.  Sheer  stockings  (Glen  Raven) 
and — flattering  shoes  (Delmanette) 
were  first  on  the  Award  ballots ! 


LIZ  SCOTT  KNOWS  its 

a  very,  very  smart  idea  for  a  woman  to 
wear  clothes  that  men  like !  Liz,  in  Hal 
Wallis'  Red  Mountain  (Paramount), 
poses  in  these  Award  Winning  fash- 
ions chosen  by  the  all-male  panel. 
Duchess  Royal — suit.  About  $35 
Sally  V — hat.  About  $10 
Hansen  Gloves.  About  $3 
Abon  Glove  Ring.  From  $1  to  $2.50 
(Clipped  to  the  handbag  handle  hold- 
ing gloves.) 

Julius  Resnick-—ha7ulbag.  About  $3 

(plus  taxes) 
Delmanette — shoes.  About  $17 
Glen  Raven— hosiery.  About  $1.35 
The    Modern    Screen  Hollywood 
Fashion  and  Beauty  Board  voted  a 
special  award  to  Max  Factor  for 
"the  creation  of  cosmetics  that  have 
enhanced  the  beauty  of  the  women  of 
America!" 

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Lovely  Mala  Powers,  seen 
in  the  United  Artist's  hit 
production  Cyrano  de  Bergerac, 
models  the  honey  of  a  glamor 
date  dress  our  wonderful 
guys  selected  as  the  Award 
Winner  from  Teentimer. 
Of  course,  it  has  the  very 
popular  full  skirt  made 
to  wear  over  your  exciting  new 
petticoats  for  the  "bouffant 
look."  Colors:  Peacock  blue, 
red,  gold  or  purple — checked 
with  black.  Junior  Sizes : 
9-15.  About  $9.  By  Teentimer. 
Mala's  nylon  hosiery — the 
new  light  shade  "Harmony 
Blush"  by  Glen  Raven. 
About  $1.35. 


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BRADY:  "Shorter  skirts 
mean    slicker  chicks." 


TOBEY:  "Sheer  hose, 
straight  seams  for  Tne." 


See  our  all-male  panel  of  wonderful  guys  in 
some  wonderful  pictures.    Scott  Brady — 20th 
Century-Fox's  The  Marriage  Broker;  Ken  Tobey — 
RKO's  The  Left  Hand  of  God;  Michael  Woulfe 
designed  Janet  Leigh's  wardrobes  for  RKO's 
Jet  Pilot  and  Tzvo  Tickets  to  Broadway.  He 
also  designed  gowns  for  Jane  Russell  in 
RKO's  Macao;  Carleton  Carpenter — MGM's  21  Days: 
Keefe  Brasselle — MGM's  Bannerline;  Fernando  Lamas 
— MGM's  The  Merry  Widow. 


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Glamor — ^you  bet  men  like  it ! 
And  women  should  make  the  most 
of  this  tip.  Our  wonderful 
guys  chose  all  our  glamor  Award 
Winning  fashions  from  a 
collection  of  clothes  and  accessories 
gathered  together  by  your 
fashion  editor  and  gorgeous 
Denise  Darcel.  A  Parisienne 
in  America,  Denise  thinks 
French  women  dress  to  please 
men  and  that  American  women 
should  do  likewise.  {Far  right), 
Denise  (see  her  in  MGM's 
Westward  The  Women)  poses 
in  the  Award  Winning  Kay- 
Selig  evening  gown  of  opalescent 
taffeta  with  a  velvet  bodice 
encrusted  with  pearl 
drops  and  rhinestones — the 
matching  stole  is  caught  on  one 
arm  by  a  novel  bracelet 
of  velvet.  Colors:  Turquoise, 
red  garnet,  opal  green  or 
amethyst  taffeta  with  black 
velvet  bodice.  Sizes  10-16.  Junior 
Sizes  9-15.  About  $40. 


Denise  chooses  a  group  of  evening 
gowns.  The  all-male  panel  chose 
the    one    she    guessed    as  winner. 


Our  all-nnale  panel  approved  the  en- 
tire collection  of  gowns — but  favored 
the    gown    Denise    models  [right]. 


tWOULFE:  "A  girl  can't  miss  CARPENTER:  "I'll  take  'em  BRASSELLE:  "I'm  a  guy  who  LAMAS:  "Those  strapless  eve- 
wit  h  the  feminine  look."        sweet  and  simple,  please."        can't  get  enough  of  red."       ning gowns — bravo !  Encore!" 


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Desiijner  Michael  Woulfe  gets  a  tip  on  the 
Abon  Glove  Ring.  [See  close-uf>  page  75] 


■  You'll  find  glamor  and  the  trim  look  in  these  Award  Winning  daytime 
clothes.  (Far  left)  Rebel  Randall,  in  the  Lippert  production  Roaring  City,  poses 
in  a  McKettrick  suit  of  menswear  check  trimmed  with  velveteen.  Colors;  Brown, 
green  or  red  checked  with  black — black  velveteen  trim.  Sizes  10-20.  About  $18. 
(Left),  Jan  Sterling,  in  Paramount's  Rhubarb,  models  a  shirtwaist  dress  of 
flannel-type  wool-blend  plaid.  Wing  collar  and  cuffs,  dolman  sleeves,  a  bias  skirt 
with  inverted  front  pleat  and  hip  pockets  distinguish  this  McKettrick  Classic. 
Colors:  Gray-green  with  yellow,  or  gray  with  red.  Sizes  10-18.  About  $20.  Jan's 
pumps  of  suede  with  patent  trim,  called  "Twister,"  are  by  Delmanette.  About  $18. 
(Above),  Nancy  Davis,  in  MGM's  It's  a  Big  Country,  very  chic  in  a  Diamond 
Debs  coat  of  Anglo's  oxford  gray  worsted  with  soft  trim  of  velvet.  Sizes  7-15.  About 
$70.  Again,  Delmanette  "Twister"  pumps.  (Above  right),  Marie  Windsor,  in 
King  Vidor's  East  is  East,  is  trim  in  a  Diamond  Debs  suit  of  worsted  pin-point 
tweed  combined  with  a  suede  leather  jacket  with  tweed  trim.  Colors:  Greige, 
rust,  red,  dark  brown,  tan  or  gold.  Sizes  7-15.  Around  $55.  Marie  wears 
Delmanette  shoes.  Hansen  gloves.  Harry  Levine  handbag.  About  $3  (plus  taxes). 

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DUCHESS  ROYAL— Pg.  75 

Chicago,  III. — Carson,  Pirie  Scott  &  Co. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio — Jenny  Company 
EvctnstOH  6-  Chicago,  III. — Maurice  Roths- 
child 

Indianapolis,  Indiana — H'm.  H.  Block 
Kansas  City,  Mo. — Macy's 
Minneapolis,  Minn. — Young  Quinlan 
New  York,  N.  ¥. — Saks  Fifth  Avenue 
Trenton,  N.  J. — Voorhees 
Westivood,  Calif. — Frances  Druehl 

McKETTRICK— Pg.  78 

Boston,  Mass. — Filene's 

Brooklyn,  N.   Y. — Martin's 

Cincinnati,  Ohio — H.  &  S.  Pogtie 

Cincinnati,  Ohio — Rollmanj 

Des  Moines,  loiva — Younker  Bros, 

Indianapolis,  Ind. — L.  S.  Ayres 

Ne-ju  York,  N.  Y.—Russeks 

Philadelphia,  Pa. —  Gimbel  Bros. 

Reading,  Pa. — Pomeroy' s 

Rochester,  N.  Y. — Sibley,  Lindsay  &  Cnrr 

Salt  Lake  City,  Utah — Keith-O'Brien 

Sacramento,  Calif. — Weinstock  Lubin 

San  Antonio,  Texas — Carl's 

Seattle,  Wash. — Bon  Marche 

Tacoma,  IVash. — Fisher's 

Wheeling,  W.  Va. — Stone  Thomas 

TEENTIMERS— Pg.  76 

Charleston,  S.  Carolina — Efrids  Department 
Store 

Dayton,  Ohio — The  Leonard  Company 
Fort  Worth,  Texas — W.  C.  Stripling 
New  York,  N.  Y. — .Macy's 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. — Gimbel  Bros. 
Washington,  D.  C. — The  Hecht  Company 

DIAMOND  DEBS— Pg.  79 

Coal  and  Suit 

Chicago,  III. — John  T.  Shayne 
Cleveland.  Ohio — Wm.  Taylor  &  Sons  Co. 
Detroit,  Mich. — Kline's,  Inc. 
New  York,  N.  Y.— Gimbel  Bros. 
Philadelphia,  Pa. — John  Wanatnaker 
Pittsburgh,  Pa. — Gimbel  Bros. 
Coat  Only- 
Boston,  Mass. — Jordan  Marsh  Co. 

KAY-SELIG— Pg.  77 

Baltimore,  Md. — Hutsler  Bros. 
Chicago,  III. — Corson,  Pirie  Scott  &  Co. 
Cincinnati,  Ohio — John  Shillito 
Cleveland,  Ohio — Halle  Bros. 
Columbus,  Ohio — F.  &  R.  Lazarus 
Detroit,  Mich. — J.  L.  Hudson 
Indianapolis,  Indiana — L.  S.  Ayres 
Los  Angeles,  Calif. — L.  Ma-qnin 
Ne-cv  York,  N.  Y.—Lord  &  Taylor 
Richmond,  Va. — Thalhimcr's 
San  Francisco,  Calif. — /.  Magnin 


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stores  and  specialty  shops  throughout  the 
country. 

HANSEN  GLOVES— Pgs.  75,  78,  79 

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stores  and  specialty  shops  throughout  the 
country. 

JULIUS  RESNICK  HANDBAGS— Pg.  75 

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stores  and  specialty  shops  throughout  the 
country. 

HARRY  LEVINE  HANDBAGS— Pg.  79 

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stores  and  specialty  shops  throughout  the 
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A60N  GLOVE  RING— Pgs.  75.  79 

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(Continued  from  page  55)  branding,  hay- 
ing, home  musical  evenings,  country  sewing 
parties  and  the  many  bucolic  practices  of 
western  people. 

Prettj'  soon  the  place  got  too  small.  A 
sizable  place  by  other  standards,  the 
Ellison  spread  was  not  quite  the  biggest 
ranch  in  the  state,  and  as  the  boys  grew 
older,  Bing  decided  they  could  be  kept 
busier  and  healthier  on  larger  acreage.  Ac- 
tually, at  that  time,  this  was  his  only  con- 
sideration. 

Cattle  men  are  known  as  pretty  fair 
traders.  UnUke  city  deals,  which  are  gen- 
erally made  around  the  long  table  of  a 
corporation  board  room,  ranch  deals  in 
Nevada  are  more  than  likely  consurmnated 
atop  the  upper  rail  of  a  nearby  fence,  or 
in  a  hotel  lobby.  One  day,  Bing  button- 
holed a  fellow  who  owned  the  Circle  S 
Ranch,  a  very  sizable  piece  of  property, 
traded  off  the  old  place,  and  by  nightfall 
was  a  much  bigger  cattle  man  than  he'd 
been  that  morning. 

To  make  a  long  story  short,  by  careful 
trading,  hard  work  and  hewing  to  the 
western  tradition  that  a  man's  word  is  his 
bond,  Bing  Crosby  has  become  one  of  the 
biggest  cattle  men  in  the  west.  It  is  his 
life,  his  home  away  from  Hollywood,  and  it 
will  be  the  home  of  his  kids  for  many 
years. 

An  inventory  of  the  Crosby  family  hold- 
ings in  Elko  County  will  surprise  many 
easterners,  because  the  impression  has 
been  given  in  print  that  Bing's  "ranch"  in 
Nevada  is  a  rest  farm  and  a  place  for  the 
kids  to  get  a  little  exercise.  Actually,  the 
ranch  is  tremendous  in  size,  being  made 
up  of  five  properties  of  good  size  bundled 
into  one.  A  conservative  estimate  of  the 
value  of  the  place  has  been  set  by  an 
Elkoite  at  around  $2,000,000.  It  is  also 
estimated  that  Bing's  herd  nins  to  a 
minimum  of  3,500  head — and  that  an  an- 
nual profit  in  "meat"  years  is  close  to  a 
quarter  of  a  million  dollars. 

If  you  are  a  man  who  patronizes  the 
beef  markets,  you  have  no  doubt  seen  his 
brands.  They  are  the  "Y"  Bench,  the  PX 
Straight  Away,  the  Cross  B,  the  Quarter 
Circle  X,  and  the  Quarter  Circle  N.  The 
cattle  bearing  these  brands  are  eating 
their  heads  off  during  the  winter  months, 
dining  on  hay  grown,  cut  and  stacked  by 
the  Crosby  kids.  And  in  the  summer,  they 
are  roving  thousands  of  acres  of  grazing 
land  ovmed  or  committed  to  the  Crosby 
stock. 

The  deeded  land  in  the  Crosby  holding 
amounts  to  25,000  acres,  big  even  for  the 
west.  In  active  use  at  aU  times  are  150 
horses,  75  of  them  saddle  animals.  It 
takes  60  days  to  hay  for  the  winter 
months,  and  35  full-time  men  and  the  four 
boys  do  the  work.  The  usual  crop  is  4i500 
tons.  Fourteen  tractors  work  the  prop- 
erty as  well  as  countless  smaller  pieces  of 
equipment  and  trucks.  The  Crosbys 
operate  their  own  hydro -electric  plant  that 
supplies  light  and  power — and  they  are  at 
present  putting  in  an  air  strip  on  the 
land  that  will  be  3,700  feet  long  and  will 
accommodate  a  good  sized,  twin-engined 
airplane.  Bing  doesn't  care  for  flying  him- 
self, but  his  friends  do.  There  is  only  one 
drawback.  Privacy  on  the  telephone  is 
unknown,  for  there  are  22  other  phones 
on  the  party  line. 

Xj^  VZN  though  the  Bing  Crosby  ranch  in 
Nevada  is  a  big  and  prosperous  busi- 
ness enterprise  today,  it  remains  primarily 
just  what  Pop  intended  it  to  be  in  the 
first  place.  It's  a  range  on  which  to  rear 
kids,  or,  as  Bing  once  said,  "A  place  where 
I  can  raise  husky  ones.  .  .  ."  Life  is  hard. 


Gary,  the  oldest  of  the  lads,  at  18  is  as 
strong  as  a  bull,  and  gets  a  chance  every 
day  to  prove  it.  He  is  a  stocky  kid  with 
a  good  deal  of  the  casual  grace  of  his 
father,  but  much  more  muscular.  He  rises 
with  the  chickens,  and  until  sundovm  he 
has  his  hands  full  with  chores  regularly 
assigned  to  him.  There  is  no  work  con- 
sidered too  hard  for  him. 

The  twins,  Philip  and  Dennis,  are  not 
quite  as  developed  as  their  older  brother, 
but  at  16  they  show  every  promise  of  catch- 
ing up  with  him  very  soon.  They  do 
lighter  work,  but  when  it  comes  to  spend- 
ing the  hours  in  the  hay  fields,  they  ask 
no  quarter  from  Gary  or  even  the  tough- 
est hay  hand  in  the  gang.  They  are  as  at 
home  with  a  beef  or  a  horse  as  any  cow- 
boy kid  in  the  locality.  When  Philip  works 
on  a  steer  he  does  it  as  well  as  a  rodeo 
hand,  complete  master  of  the  situation  and 
fearless  in  all  emergencies. 

The  youngster  of  the  mob  is  Lindsay, 
who  is  a  not  too  tender  12.  He  is  a  superb 
horseman  and  a  fine  worker,  but  it  is  the 
opinion  of  all  who  know  him  that  he  is 
the  business  man  of  the  family,  and  will 
one  day  wind  up  owning  the  entire  state. 
It  is  possible  that  Lindsay  is  closer  to  his 
dad  than  his  brothers,  although  Bing 
wouldn't  like  it  if  he  thought  that  were 
so.  Nevertheless,  Lindsay  and  Bing  are 
like  a  couple  of  buddies.  Lindsay  calls 
Bing  "Meyer,"  and  is  as  quick  with  a  witty 
remark  as  his  Pop's  old  sparring  partner. 
Bob  Hope.  And  those  who  know  him  well 
will  also  tell  you  that  Lindsay  Crosby  is  a 
singer  of  such  quality  that  he  might  one 
day  carry  right  along  where  Bing  leaves 
off. 

In  the  matter  of  money,  the  four  Cros- 
by boys  might  just  as  well  be  the  sons  of 
a  man  without  a  steady  job.  Bing  is  de- 
termined they  wiU  not  be  spoUed  by  his 
wealth,  and  every  penny  they  get  they 
earn — preferably  by  hard  labor.  In  the 
case  of  Gary,  who  is  something  of  a  sensa- 
tion in  the  recording  business  himself  at 
the  moment,  any  money  he  earns  by  singing 
is  put  aside  untU  he  is  old  enough  to  know 
what  to  do  with  it  wdthout  advice.  All  of 
the  boys,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  have  been 
groomed  to  step  into  a  theatrical  career 
if  they  choose.  Bing  has  no  silly  notiojis 
about  keeping  his  sons  out  of  a  line  of 
work  that  has  made  him  millions.  It  was 
planned  a  year  ago  that  the  boys  would 
make  their  way  to  Hollywood  and  appear 
in  Bing's  pictiu-e  with  Hopalong  Cassidy, 
but  the  film  was  abandoned  and  the  boys 
stuck  to  their  farming. 

Life  in  Elko  for  Bing  Crosby  is  in  a 
way  entirely  different  from  life  in  Holly- 
wood, but  there  are  certain  root  similari- 
ties. For  instance,  Bing's  close  friends 
spend  a  good  deal  of  time  in  the  North 
Fork  country,  either  working  on  radio 
or  movie  projects,  or  just  lying  around.  Bill 
Morrow,  his  closest  friend  and  radio  asso- 
ciate, is  in  Elko  almost  all  of  the  time  Bing 
is  there.  And  Jimmy  Van  Heusen,  who 
with  Johnny  Biirke,  wrote  so  many  of 
Crosby's  hit  songs,  is  also  a  constant  visi- 
tor. But  it  is  amusing  to  see  in  which 
direction  the  influence  flows.  Instead  of 
bringing  a  bit  of  Hollywood  atmosphere 
to  the  covmtry  folk,  the  HoUywoodites 
quickly  absorb  western  ways. 

These  urban  fellows  soon  fall  into  the 
slack  talk  of  the  range  country,  wear  boots 
and  big  hats,  and  find  themselves  interested 
in  local  problems,  very  foreign  to  the  ones 
at  home.  In  HoUj^vood  a  good  bed-time 
for  these  transplanted  cowpokes  might 
be  two  A.M.  In  Nevada,  they  hit  the  pad 
maybe  about  nine-thirty.  A  big  evening 
is  to  drive  into  town  and  have  a  beer  or 
two  and  toss  dice  for  an  hour  or  so.  The 
fact  that  town  is  a  good  60  miles  away, 
soon  becomes  a  minor  item. 

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western  town,  but  it  doesn't  mess  around 
with  foolish  intolerances.  There  are  three 
fine  hotels,  two  of  them  owned  by  Bing's 
friend,  Newt  Cnmily,  and  they  all  have 
good  sized  bars  and  gambling  layouts. 
Tourists  and  localites  alike  like  to  lovmge 
over  a  gaming  table  and  pass  the  time  of 
day  while  they  either  make  or  lose  a  few 
dollars.  In  the  Stockmen's  Hotel  the  gamb- 
ling, although  quiet,  nms  into  big  money. 
There  is  never  a  time  of  day  that  a  man 
can't  break  a  $1,000  bill  without  walking 
five  feet.  Elko  is  a  big  money  town,  and 
millionaires  are  a  dime  a  dozen. 

Tf  the  outdoors  is  the  place  to  raise  a 

boy,  as  Bing  thinks,  and  active  exercise 
in  search  of  fim  builds  men,  the  Crosby 
kids  will  be  prime  samples  of  a  successful 
theory.  Northeastern  Nevada  offers  just 
about  anything  in  that  line  you  could  ask 
for.  The  boys  have  untold  millions  of 
miles  of  open  range,  foothills  and  rugged 
mountains  to  ride  over  and  explore.  There 
are  plenty  of  trails,  but  if  tiiey  have  a 
mind  to,  the  boys  can  take  off  EUid  ride 
for  days  without  ever  seeing  a  sign  of 
himian  habitation. 

Hunting  is  heaven  in  that  country,  too. 
The  area  abovmds  in  deer,  grouse,  sage 
hens,  eagles,  beaver  and  many  other  forms 
of  wild  life.  The  streams,  particularly 
one  named  Rabbit  Creek,  are  leaping  with 
fighting  trout.  And  camping  places,  the 
like  of  which  a  movie  location  director 
only  dreams,  are  near  to  all  of  the  best 
fishing  holes  and  himting  grounds. 

The  esteem  with  which  Bing  Crosby's 
neighbors  hold  their  honorary  mayor  is 
evident  from  the  reception  they  gave  him 
on  his  one  and  only  local  theatrical  appear- 
ance. It  was  for  the  premiere  of  Para- 
moimt's  Here  Comes  The  Groom. 

It  is  doubtful  if  many  of  them  had 
ever  seen  him  act,  or  had  ever  concen- 
trated on  his  •  crooning,  but  because  he 
has  proven  himself  a  good  neighbor  and 
a  civic-minded  citizen,  they  turned  out  in 
droves  to  pack  Elko's  two  theaters  for  the 
event.  Because  Bing  was  expecting  guests 
(100  newspapermen  from  all  over  the 
country),  50  or  60  of  the  town's  working 
men  knocked  off  for  a  few  days  to  help 
him  entertain.  They  drove  the  visitors 
around,  had  them  to  dinner,  stayed  up  all 
night  with  them,  and  opened  every  door 
in  the  state  and  threw  the  key  away. 

The  press  thought  it  was  a  great  party 
thrown  by  that  movie  actor,  Bing  Crosby, 
no  doubt.  But  it  wasn't.  It  was  a  tribute 
to  a  neighbor,  a  helping  hand  on  the  part 
of  Bing  Crosby's  home  town  folks  when 
company  showed  up. 


During  the  next  few  years,  Bing  and 
Dixie  Crosby  will  have  many  decisions  to 
make.  They  may  be  domestic;  they  may 
be  on  matters  having  to  do  with  film 
making,  or  radio,  or  television,  or  record- 
ing. But  there  is  one  decision  that  has  ; 
been  made  and  is  irrevocable:  The  Cros- 
bys' home  is  Nevada — and  the  Crosby  boys 
are  going  to  be  Nevada  men,  not  Holly- 
wood men. 

They  will  get  their  formal  education  in 
schools  of  different  character  in  various 
parts  of  the  nation,  but  their  major  school- 
ing, as  per  Pop  Crosby's  decision,  will  be 
gathered  in  the  wild  country  of  the  state 
that  has  adopted  Bing.  The  Crosby  boys 
will  enter  manhood  as  coxmtry  boys.  Even 
today  the  twang  of  the  west  is  in  their 
speech — and  the  honesty  of  the  western 
man  in  their  eyes.  When  you  see  them 
standing  side  by  side  in  their  work 
clothes,  or,  for  that  matter,  their  dress 
clothes — which  are  just  freshly  washed 
working  outfits — you  see  four  stalwarts 
who  can  outwork,  outfight  or  outtalk  the 
average  boy.  They  laugh  more  than  other 
kids — and  they'll  weep  quicker,  for  they 
are  sensitive  to  the  cruelties  of  the  big 
city. 

Some  time  ago  Bing  finished  a  very  hard 
picture.  He  walked  across  the  studio  lot 
at  Paramount  to  his  dressing  room  and  he 
was  dragging.  His  eyes  were  tired  and 
his  shoulders  sagged.  He  sat  down  at  his 
fancy  dressing-room  table  and  began  tak- 
ing off  the  makeup.  Then  he  picked  up  the 
phone  and  called  his  hovise.  Gary  answered. 

"Picture's  finished,"  Bing  said,  "and  the 
old  man's  tired.  What  do  you  say  we  fel- 
lows get  into  the  car  and  go  on  up  to 
the  ranch  and  see  mother?" 

The  kids  had  been  waiting.  They  were 
on. 

That  night,  five  Crosbys,  Bing,  Gary, 
Dennis,  Philip  and  Lindsay,  sprawled  all 
over  a  big  Cadillac  as  it  sped  across  the 
California  desert,  not  talking  much,  sing- 
ing a  little,  but  mostly  just  watching  the 
miles  drift  by.  The  next  afternoon,  after 
a  long,  hard  drive,  they  pulled  into  the 
ranch  gate. 

Members  of  the  staff  and  a  few  neigh- 
bors ran  to  greet  them.  The  car  doors 
opened  and  five  tired  guys  got  out.  Then 
they  straightened  up,  and  they  breathed 
deep  of  the  pure  air.  And  all  weariness 
left  them — they  laughed  together,  horse- 
play started,  and  nobody  was  tired,  just 
himgry. 

They  raced  to  the  house  as  though  they'd 
slept  for  a  week.    It  was  a  great  big 
wonderful  world.  The  Crosbys  were  home. 
The  End 


how  dopey  can  he  get? 


(Continued  from  page  61)  of  the  San 
Francisco  Seals. 

"When  we  finally  separated,  long  past 
midnight,  all  I  wanted  to  do  was  to  get 
home,  since  I  felt  I'd  failed  in  San  Fran- 
cisco. I  foimd  tiiere  wasn't  a  train  for 
several  hours,  but  by  hm-rying  I  could 
catch  a  plane.  When  I  arrived  in  Los 
Angeles,  Sheila  met  me,  asking,  'What 
happened  to  yoiur  car?'  My  mouth  fell 
open  and  stayed  that  way  for  a  long  mo- 
ment before  I  could  groan,  'In  the  St. 
Francis'  garage!    I  forgot  I  drove  up!' 

"That's  typical  of  me  on  my  own," 
Gordon  shakes  his  head.  "Forget  a  car! 
And  worse  was- yet  to  come.  Sheila  didn't 
believe  for  one  minute  I'd  failed.  It  turned 
out  she  was  right.  There'd  been  a  mix-up 
about  who  was  to  wait  to  take  me  to  the 
Boones'.  But  my  not  showing  up  at  all 


made  a  lot  of  those  people  believe  I'd 
snubbed  them!" 

That  was  the  begiiming  of  Modern 
Screen's  quest  to  find  out  what  Gordon 
MacRae  is  like  without  Sheila,  the  wife  to 
whom  his  devotion  is  the  talk  of  the  town. 
A  man  simply  must  be  on  his  own  some- 
times! 

"Well,"  Gordon  says,  "the  first  time  I 
ever  went  out  on  my  own  was  back  when 
I  was  seven  or  so.  I  got  a  job  peddling 
milk  for  the  Netherlands  Dairy  in  Syra- 
cuse, New  York,  where  we  lived.  That  first 
morning,  I  got  up  at  four,  walked  to  the 
dairy  where  a  horse  and  buggy  loaded 
with  milk  were  ready  for  me.  My  work 
done,  I  arrived  home  at  seven-thirty  to 
find  my  father  up.  He  didn't  know  what 
had  happened  to  me  and  was  really  in  an 
uproar.  I'd  simply  forgotten  to  tell  anyone 
about  my  job. 

"THhen  there's  the  time  while  I  went  to 
J-  Syracuse's  Nottingham  High  School 


I 


when  I  had  a,  part  in  the  school  play.  My 
I     entrcince  came  late  enough  in  the  play  so 

I that  on  opening  night  instead  of  getting 
1  made  up  and  dressed  right  away,  I  stood 
.  in  the  wings.  I  got  so  interested,  I  wasn't 
paying  any  attention  to  time  imtU  sud- 
denly it  dawned  on  me  that  my  cue  was 
coming  up!  No  one  ever,  made  up  and 
dressed  in  such  a  hurry.  But  I  was  play- 
ing a  black-face  butler!  I  was  two  minutes 
late  getting  on  stage." 

Later  when  Gordon  became  a  student  at 
Deerfield  Academy  in  Massachusetts,  he 
came  under  the  guidance  of  Dr.  Frank 
L.  Boyden,  the  headmaster.  Dr.  Boyden, 
says  Gordon,  influenced  him  more  tiran 
anyone  outside  his  immediate  family. 

"When  I  visited  him  last  fall,"  Gordon 
tells,  "he  asked,   'Are  you  doing  well, 
Gordon?'  I  told  him  something  of  what 
I've  been  doing,  which,  after  all,  is  seeing 
i    a  lot  of  dreams  come  true.  He  said,  'Fine, 
[f    fine.  Now  keep  your  feet  on  the  ground!' 
I       "It's  a  warning  I  suppose  he  gives  all  of 
;    his  former  boys.  But  I  suddenly  remem- 
1    bered  the  time  I  distinguished  myself  at 
V    the  Academy  for  not  keeping  my  feet  on 
5    the  ground.  We'd  just  acquired  a  new 
music  room  where  we  could  listen  to  re- 
l    cordings  of  fine  music  whenever  we  had 
t!    the  time.  Very  late  one  afternoon,  I  was 
)    sitting   there   deeply   engrossed   in  the 
.[    haimting  Dvorak  'New  World'  Symphony 
J  "  when   a   boy   shook   me,   saying,  'Hey! 

We've  been  looking  all  over  for  you!  Come 
e    on.  Dr.  Boyden  says  he'll  drive  you  down 
himself.'  Then  I  wakened  to  the  fact  I 
s.,  was  supposed  to  be  singing  a  solo  in  Hart- 
ford, Connecticut,  where  our  Glee  Club 
was  appearing  that  night! 
"The  rest  of  the  fellows  had  already  left 
i    in  the  bus,  so  the  Doctor  had  to  drive  me 
there  all  right.  My  solo  was  appropriate — 
'Standing  in  the  Need  of  Prayer.' 

"Another  time  I  stood  in  the  need  of 
prayer  was  while  I  was  singing  at  El 
Rancho  Vegas  in  Las  Vegas,  Nevada,  last 
winter.  Gene  Nelson  and  Frank  Flannagan, 
1    who  were  there  at  the  time,  are  as  enthu- 
:  ■  siastic  about  fishing  as  I  am.  One  morn- 
ing the  three  of  us  decided  to  fish  below 
Boulder  Dam.  Our  boat  was  about  25 
yards  from  a  400  foot  stretch  of  rapids 
when   we   decided   to   leave.    I  started 
;    the  motor,   believing  I'd  pulled  up  the 
anchor.  The  propellers  cut  the  anchor  rope 
and  the  motor  conked  out.  There  we  were 
without  anchor  or  power.  The  boat  drifted 
toward  the  rocks  and  we  had  to  jump  out 
1    into  the  coldest  water  I  ever  want  to  feel. 
Finally  after  a  lot  of  discussion,  we  de- 
cided all  we  could  do  was  to  brave  the 
rapids,  praying  we'd  get  through  all  right. 
We  were  certainly  lucky  to  get  out  alive." 

.  ENE  Nelson's  version  of  the  anchor  epi- 
^  sode  differs.  He  says,  "He  didn't  tell 
you  all  of  it.  Frankly,  I  didn't  know  about 
the  anchor  business.  If  he  says  it,  though, 
it's  so.  Everything  went  so  fast,  I  don't 
really  know  all  that  happened.  But  I  do 
know  he  was  the  first  to  jump  out.  If  he 
hadn't,  it  might  have  been  too  late.  As 
it  was,  he  held  the  boat  so  it  didn't  crash 
us  all  on  the  rocks.  We  followed  him  out, 
making  it  even  more  difficult  for  ourselves. 
Because  after  discussion,  Gordon  had 
Flannagan  get  back  in  and  lie  fiat  on  the 
bottom  to  steady  the  boat  while  Gordon 
and  I  got  back  in.  He  also  remembered  we 
had  life-belts  so  we  put  them  on.  Then 
off  we  went  safely  through  that  400  foot 
stretch  of  rapids.  Gordon's  a  good  man  in 
an  emergency." 

His  co-workers  on  NBC's  "The  Railroad 
Hotu-"  report  he's  a  fellow  who  prepares 
for  emergencies.  They  grin  as  they  say  it, 
recalling  the  time  recently  when  a  re- 
hearsal was  interrupted  by  an  urgent  call 
from  Sheila.  Gordon  answered  from  the 
phone  in  the  sponsor's  booth  with  its  big 
windows  through  which  they  could  see  his 


face  first  turn  white,  sag  with  relief,  fur- 
row with  concentration  again  and  again. 
Finally  after  20  minutes,  a  broad  smile  of 
triumph  crossed  it.  Quickly  then,  he  hung 
up  the  phone  and  returned  to  the  stage. 

Sheila,  about  to  leave  the  house  for  a 
luncheon  engagement,  had  found  her  igni- 
tion key  to  the  car  half-melted  away. 
Questioning  the  children,  she  discovered 
to  her  horror  that  baby  Gar  had  recklessly 
stuck  the  key  into  an  electrical  plug.  So 
what  was  there  to  do  but  to  explain  to  him 
why  he  must  never  pull  that  stunt  again; 
and  then  to  call  Gordon  to  find  out  where 
he'd  put  the  extra  set?  He'd  put  it  in  a 
safe  place.  Too  safe  a  place  for  an  absent- 
minded  man! 

"Look  in  the  top  drawer  of  my  desk  .  .  . 
well,  then  try  .  .  ."  and  so  on  and  on  for 
most  of  the  20  minutes  before  the  key 
tiorned  up. 

His  fellow-workers  tell,  too,  of  the  way 
he  keeps  forgetting  his  special  music  scores 
which  cost  him  $100  each. 


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However,  it  is  evident  that  Gordon  usu- 
ally manages  to  do  something  to  make  up 
for  the  occasionally  disastrous  results  of 
MacRae  on  his  own.  When  he  found  he  was 
runner-up  for  "the  most  xmccoperative 
actor"  award  in  the  Hollywood  Women's 
Press  Club  poll  of  1950,  he  was  upset. 

On  his  own,  he  "crashed"  the  party  the 
women  gave  at  the  Beverly  Wilshire  Hotel 
honoring  actors  and  actresses  distinguished 
for  their  cooperation  with  the  press.  Since 
this  party  always  occiu-s  shortly  before 
Christmas,  some  celebrity  always  plays  the 
role  of  Santa  Claus,  distributing  the  mem- 
bers' grab-bag  exchange  of  50^  gifts.  So 
what  better  way  than  to  be  that  celebrity! 
After  he'd  doffed  the  whiskers  and  scarlet 
disguise,  he  boldly  took  his  place  at 
the  head  table  right  beside  the  honored 
cooperative  guests.  Introduced  by  Presi- 
dent Lindsay  Durand,  he  presented  the 
club  with  an  enormous  cake  in  which  an 
axe  was  buried,  asking  them  to  accept 
it.  Then  he  proceeded  to  complete  his  wel- 
come by  singing  his  way  into  the  heart 


all  begin  with  the 

NO-HIKE*  SLIP 


Lovely  you ...  in  your  exquisite 
No-Hike,  the  slip  that  flatters 
your  waistline... shapes  your 
ba8tline...fits  perfectly... and 
can't  ride  np  ever  I  High  top 
completely  covers  bra.  In  long- 
wearing  nylon  acetate.  Pink, 
White,  Navy,  Black.  Sizes  3244, 
Regular  and  TaU  lengths. 
Under  $4  at  fine  stores. 

•Patented 

REALCRAFT...A  DIVISION  OF  UNTTED  MILLS  CORP. 
180  Maduon  Ave.,  New  York*  Mt.  Cilead.  N.  C. 
Chicago  •  Lm  Angeles 


of  everyone  present.  In  all  that  time,  how- 
ever, he  made  no  apology  for  the  past  nor 
any  promise  for  the  future. 
•  That  was  a  good  thing,  because  two 
weeks  later,  all  set  for  cooperative  Gor- 
don MacRae,  a  writer  and  a  photographer 
arrived  at  the  MacRae  house.  They  rang 
the  doorbell.  No  answer,  yet  they  could  see 
the  house  was  ablaze  with  lights  despite 
the  fact  it  was  a  sunny  day.  Well,  maybe 
he  was  taking  a  shower.  They  waited  in 
their  car.  Every  so  often  one  would  go  to 
ring  the  bell  again.  Time  passed  without 
bringing  forth  their  man.  Finally  they 
went  to  a  filling  station  pay  telephone  and 
talked  to  the  publicist  who'd  set  the  date. 

"Why,  Sheila  called  me  at  nine  this 
morning  from  Palm  Springs,  where  they're 
vacationing,  to  say  Gordon  had  left  at  sbc- 
thirty  so  he'd  be  sure  to  be  on  time.  Maybe 
he  thought  the  appointment  was  at  War- 
ners.   I'll  check,"  the  publicist  said. 

A  check  of  the  studio,  the  radio  sta- 
tion and  Capitol  Records  produced  no 
trace  of  the  man.  The  publicist  called  the 
group  waiting  by  the  pay  telephone  and 
urged  them  to  go  back  to  the  house  and 
pound  on  doors.  They  did,  without  achiev- 
ing any  results. 

Breathlessly  afraid  the  star  might  be 
stone  cold  dead  on  the  highway  some- 
where, the  publicist  asked,  "Did  you  see 
a  car?"  1 


They  described  the  one  in  the  driveway. 
It  was  obviously  Gordon's. 

Three  hours  past  time  for  the  appoint- 
ment when  representatives  from  the  ad- 
vertising agency,  the  studio,  and  the  radio 
station,  along  with  the  press,  were  about 
to  break  into  the  MacRae  house,  the  door 
slowly  opened  and  there,  hair  standing 
on  end,  was  their  boy  trying  to  shake  off 
his  long  nap. 

Even  SheUa  is  hard  put  to  refute  Gor- 
don's argument  that  he  shouldn't  ever  be 
let  loose  on  his  own. 

"Well,  he's  just  absent-minded,"  Sheila 
helplessly  explains.  "He's  lost  half  of  what 
he's  been  given  or  bought  for  himself.  His 
father's  watch;  I  don't  know  how  many 
overcoats;  even  whole  suits.  And  the  time 
he  went  out  on  his  own  to  buy  a  house  for 
us!  That  was  just  before  Gar  was  born, 
and  I  wasn't  up  to  going  house-hunting. 
He  came  home  with  the  purchase  all 
signed  and  sealed,  all  right.  But  he'd  for- 
gotten how  convenient  it  is  to  have  more 
than  one  bathroom! 

"But  those  are  just  things  to  him.  He 
figures  someone  finds  the  things  he  loses 
and  puts  them  to  some  good  use,  so  they 
aren't  wasted.  As  for  the  house,  well, 
plenty  of  families  get  cJong  with  only  one 
bathroom,"  she  explains. 

"But  when  it  comes  to  the  really  im- 
portant remembering,  I've  never  known  a 


man  like  him.  He's  just  the  opposite,  then," 
she  smiles.  "He  never  forgot  such  senti- 
mental dates  as  anniversaries,  birth- 
days or  times  like  that.  Nor,"  she  con- 
cludes, "does  he  do  so  badly  on  his  own  as 
a  singer." 

But  even  when  it  comes  to  his  singing, 
Gordon  has  a  sad  tale  to  tell. 

"The  other  day  out  at  Lakeside  Country 
Club,  John  Carroll  said,  'I  have  to  sing 
"The  Star-Spangled  Banner"  at  a  benefit. 
Anybody  here  know  all  the  words?' 
'Brother,  I  do,'  I  told  him.  'I  learned  it  the 
hard  way.' 

"You  see,"  Gordon  goes  on,  "back  when 
I  was  with  Horace  Heidt's  band  playing 
in  Springfield,  Ohio,  there  was  a  big  War 
Bond  Drive  at  Wittenberg  College.  I 
agreed  to  appear.  Just  as  the  show  was 
about  to  start,  they  asked  me  to  sing  our 
national  anthem  as  my  solo.  Confidently 
I  got  up  and  started.  Well,  the  audience 
had  to  come  to  my  rescue  but  fast!  That's 
why  I  know  the  words  to  all  four  verses!" 

And  so  the  quest  for  Gordon  MacRae, 
the  brilliant  man  on  his  own,  was  abstn- 
doned.  Accepted  instead  was  his  insistent 
theme:  He's  a  lucky  fellow  with  a  good 
job,  a  wonderful  wife,  and  a  car  some 
place  in  San  Francisco.  The  End 

(Gordon  MacRae  can  be  seen  in  War- 
ner Bros.'  On  Moonlight  Bay. — Ed.) 


dearly  beloveif 


(Continued  from  page  58)  the  baby  was 
born,  she  wouldn't  pay  any  attention  to 
the  next  aches  and  pains  she  suffered. 
Much  to  her  surprise,  she  didn't  have  any 
more  aches  or  pains.  It  was  a  matter  of 
at  last  gaining  the  self-confidence  she  had 
been  lacking  and,  with  it,  peace  of  mind. 

With  June  thus  happily  occupied  and 
leaning  less  on  him  for  companionship, 
Dick  feels  freer  to  enjoy  his  own  pursuits. 
Because  of  this  he  is  noticeably  lighter - 
hearted.  If  any  change  has  come  about 
with  these  two,  it's  that  June  has  grown 
older  in  her  ways,  and  Dick  younger  in  his. 

Things  have  reached  the  point  where 
Dick  has  picked  up  some  of  June's  erst- 
while habits  that  used  to  annoy  him.  For 
instance  June  will  be  bending  over  Ricky 
in  the  tub  when  Dick's  voice  will  boom 
through  the  house.  "Joo-o-on!"  So  she 
wraps  a  towel  around  Ricky  and  carries 
all  25  pounds  of  him  under  her  arm  to 
Dick's  den.  He's  sitting  there  with  his 
feet  up  on  the  desk,  tapping  his  teeth 
with  a  pencil. 

"Yes?  says  June  with  all  the  patience 
she  can  muster. 

"I  love  you,"  says  Dick. 

"Thank  you  very  much.  And  now,  if 
you'll  excuse  me  — " 

You  can  teU  he's  happier.  Dick  has  an 
immense  collection  of  musical  instru-, 
ments,  all  of  which  he  plays  quite  well,  but 
in  the  old  days  they  didn't  get  much  of  a 
workout.  Now  he's  always  tooting  away  on 
something.  On  their  recent  trip  back  East, 
they  visited  the  home  of  a  man  whose  den 
was  crammed  with  brass  instruments.  Dick 
picked  one  out  of  the  collection,  a  type 
he  had  never  seen,  arid  inquired  about  it. 

"It's  a  flugle  horn,"  said  their  host. 
"They're  extremely  difficult  to  play.  Be- 
sides, they're  not  made  any  more.  That 
one's  almost  a  hundred  years  old." 

Feeling  the  challenge,  Dick  blew  a  few 
scales.  "You  should  have  that  horn,"  their 
host  exclaimed.  "You're  the  only  person 
I've  met  who  could  master  it." 

Of  course  Dick  declined  the  offer,  but 


a  few  days  after  they'd  returned  home  a 
package  was  delivered  at  the  door  while 
Mr.  Powell  was  reveling  in  breakfast  in 
bed.  June  brought  the  package  to  him 
and  he  grinned,  "It's  from  Roger,"  he  said. 
"I'll  bet  it's  that  flugle  horn.  He  shouldn't 
have  done  it."  But  his  fingers  couldn't 
open  the  package  fast  enough,  and  sure 
enough  the  prized  horn  emerged.  Dick 
stayed  in  bed  for  an  extra  hour,  serenading 
the  entire  household,  and  to  this  day  wiU 
play  it  at  the  slightest  provocation. 

"I  hate  to  admit  it,"  June  says,  "because 
he's  always  waking  the  children  from  their 
naps,  but  he  plays  that  thing  darned  well." 

June  is  so  captivated  by  her  days  at 
home  that  she  thinks  less  and  less  about 
her  career,  and  bets  are  down  around  town 
that  she'll  choose  to  retire  way  before  her 
time  is  up.  However,  she  works  more  con- 
scientiously now  •  than  ever  before.  Dick 
used  to  needle  her  for  weeks  before  she 
would  read  a  script,  but  now  he  gets  a 
speedy,  concise  report  on  her  opinion  of 
every  script  sent  her  by  the  studio. 

p)ART  of  June's  contentment  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  she  has  lost  the  awe  in  which 
she  used  to  hold  her  husband.  She  was 
in  love  with  him,  but  somehow  couldn't 
forget  he  was  Dick-PoweU-the-famous- 
movie-star.  She  felt  that  he  was  so  supe- 
rior to  her  that  he  couldn't  possibly  love 
her,  but  now  she  admits  that  she's  gathered 
a  little  more  wisdom  since  her  wedding 
day.  Someone  once  asked  her  if  perhaps 
she  hadn't  been  smart  all  along,  but  didn't 
realize  it.  June  smiled  a  little  and  said, 
"Well,  maybe  I  was.  How  else  could  I 
have  talked  Richard  into  marrying  me?" 

They  have  a  closer  compsinionship  now 
that  the  children  are  here.  June  used  to 
turn  down  Dick's  suggestion  to  taike  trips. 
She  still  resists  the  idea,  but  finally  goes, 
and  it  inevitably  turns  out  that  she  has 
a  better  time  than  he.  They  went  to  New 
York  this  June,  saw  all  the  plays  and 
topped  it  off  by  witnessing  the  graduation 
of  June's  brother,  Arthur,  from  military 
school.  Then  they  went  up  the  coast  to  a 
resort  ranch,  intending  to  stay  two  weeks. 
But  Pamela  developed  tonsilitis,  and  after 
one  day  they  came  racing  home.  They 
missed  the  children  on  those  trips,  but 


not  nearly  as  badly  as  when  they  went  on 
the  fishing  trip  in  August. 

After  a  formal  presentation  by  Dick  to 
his  wife  of  a  complete  outfit  of  fishing 
gear,  they  packed  up  their  Jaguar  con- 
vertible and  were  off  for  points  north.  It 
was  a  pleasant  morning  when  they  started, 
so  they  put  the  top  down.  But  farther  north 
the  temperature  rose  to  a  point  where  the 
sun  was.  driving  into  the  ground,  and 
they  decided  it  would  be  cooler  with  the 
top  up.  So  they  stopped  the  car,  pulled 
back  the  seats,  put  up  the  top,  buttoned  the 
curtains  and  were  off  again.  The  next 
morning  gave  forth  a  pleaszint  breeze,  so 
they  put  the  top  down  before  starting.  At 
noon  it  began  to  rain,  so  they  stopped 
the  car,  pulled  back  the  seats,,  put  up  the 
top,  buttoned  the  curtains,  and  proceeded 
on  their  way. 

"We  could  make  better  time  in  a  covered 
wagon,"  said  Dick. 

"I  shall  be  most  happy  to  see  a  fish," 
said  a  glimi  Mrs.  Powell.  "Any  old  fish." 

They  went  through  Idaho,  Wyoming  and 
Oregon  and  dipped  in  their  lines  wherever 
they  saw  a  Hkely  stream.  On  June's  first 
try  she  hadn't  cast  her  line  five  minutes 
before  she  screamed,  "Something's  hap- 
pening!" 

"This  is  what  I've  been  telling  you 
about,"  said  Dick.  "Now,  take  it  easy— 
don't  jerk  too  hard." 

She  pulled  him  up — a  shining,  wriggling 
three-pound  trout,  and  was  completely 
overcome  with  her  own  skill.  "Hurry  up 
and  take  him  off  my  hook,"  she  said.  "May- 
be I  can  get  another  one." 

She  did,  and  so  did  Dick.  They  had 
two  weeks  that  would  have  made  Izaak 
Walton  drool.  And  in  Oregon,  they  went 
for  salmon.  Dick  caught  a  33-pound 
monster,  and  June  was  lucky  only  once, 
catching  a  booby  prize  of  a  two -pound 
salmon.  She  was  content,  though,  be- 
cause the  natives  assured  her  she  had 
set  a  record  by  catching  the  smallest  sal- 
mon in  angling  history. 

N  this  trip,  they  telephoned  home  every 
^  night  and  assured  her  that  the  babies 
were  in  boxmcing  good  health,  slept  well 
and  peacefully.  But  by  the  time  June  had 
progressed  to  the  point  where  she  was 


baiting  her  own  hook,  she  was  chafing  at 
the  bit  to  get  home  to  the  children. 

"Let's  just  leave  the  top  down  on  the 
way  home,"  she  told  Dick.  "Let's  drown  or 
sizzle,  but  let's  get  home  to  Pam  and 
Ricky." 

Arrived  in  Bel-Air,  they  almost  knocked 
each  other  down  racing  up  the  stairs  to 
the  nursery.  In  the  weeks  they  were  gone, 
Ricky  had  started  attempts  to  crawl,  and 
Pamela  had  caught  an  English  accent  from 
the  nurse.  "I  should  like  to  be  bothed," 
she  informed  her  mother. 

It  was  at  this  time  that  June  relented 
and  allowed  Ricky's  picture  to  be  taken 
for  publication.  The  accustomed  procedure, 
when  one  is  in  the  public  limelight,  is  to 
have  photographs  taken  for  the  press  when 
a  new  baby  is  a  very  few  months  old.  But 
June  had  put  her  foot  down  where  Ricky 
was  concerned.  Everyone  argued  with  her 
— the  studio,  the  newspapers,  the  maga- 
zines. June  held  her  ground.  Ricky  was 
her  baby,  and  she  wanted  to  spare  him  the 
ordeal  of  picture  taking.  When  a  movie 
star's  child  is  photographed,  it  is  not 
merely  a  matter  of  one  picture,  but  a 
marathon  of  shutter- clicking,  going  on 
until  100  or  more  photographs  have  been 
taken.  Ricky  by  this  time  was  six  months 
old.  "If  people  don't  see  his  picture,"  June 
was  told,  "they'll  think  he  was  born  with 
shark's  teeth  or  a  leopard  skin." 

"I  don't  care  what  they  might  think," 
she  said  staunchly.  "We're  waiting  tmtil 
he's  older." 

It  wasn't  until  Ricky  was  seven  and  a 
half  months  old,  that  photographers  were 
allowed  to  approach  him.  Although  it  went 
on  for  two  whole  days,  June  could  have 
saved  herself  the  worry.  Ricky,  who  had 
learned  two  days  previously  to  stick  out 
his  tongue,  thought  the  whole  thing  was 
highly  amusing.  He  posed,  tongue  out,  like 
a  first  rate  ham.  The  day  after  the  picture - 


taking  he  stopped  putting  out  his  tongue, 
considering,  no  doubt,  that  he  had  done  his 
own  Thespian  bit  and  could  now  relax. 

Before  the  children  came,  June  and  Dick 
always  had  fun  together,  whether  it  was 
fast  repartee  or  wonderful  quiet  talks,  but 
now  with  Pam  and  Ricky  in  the  act,  it 
borders  on  the  hilarious.  Pam  is  a  natural 
comedienne,  dropping  bright  sayings  by 
the  bucketful  with  a  dead-pan  face. 

One  day  she  came  home  after  playing 
with  the  little  boy  who  lives  across  the 
street,  and  went  directly  to  June,  leaning 
her  elbows  on  June's  knee.  "I  had  a  mis- 
erable time  today,"  she  reported. 

"Oh?"  said  June.  "What  happened?" 

"I  played  with  that  Bunker." 

"What's  awful  about  Bunker?  He's  a 
nice  little  boy." 

"I  don't  think  so,"  opined  Pam.  "He 
spent  all  afternoon  kissing  me  with  his 
teeth." 

On  another  occasion,  when  she  had  been 
naughty  and  was  up  for  punishment,  she 
stood  awaiting  sentence  from  June. 

"Now,  I  don't  think  we'll  spank  you," 
said  June,  "because  that  has  no  effect  on 
you.   We  must  think  of  something  else." 

"Take  away  my  dinner?"  hopefully  sug- 
gested Pam,  who  eats  only  because  food 
keeps  her  alive. 

"I  don't  think  that's  a  very  good  idea," 
June  said.  "Instead,  I  think  we  won't  allow 
you  to  play  with  any  of  your  toys  for 
15  minutes.  You'll  just  have  to  sit  in  a 
chair  and  do  nothing  for  that  time." 

Pam  considered  this  for  a  moment,  then 
looked  up  thoughtfully.  "That  ought  to 
do  it,"  she  said. 

Pamela  talks  well  for  her  years,  per- 
haps because  the  Powells  have  never  spo- 
ken baby  talk  to  her.  She  is  a  grave, 
exceedingly  bright  little  girl,  who  picks 
up  new  words  to  add  to  her  vocabulary  as 
fast  as  most  kids  forget  them,  and  has  a 


habit  of  latching  on  to  June's  own  expres- 
sions. When  she  hears  Ricky  bellowing 
in  his  playpen  beneath  her  window,  she 
leans  out  and  calls  to  him,  "Don't  you  cry 
now,  my  darling." 

And  the  other  day  when  Dick  moved  her 
sandbox  into  the  new  play  yard  he  built 
for  the  children,  Pamela  observed  the  pro- 
ceedings with  some  annoyance.  "Daddy," 
she  said,  "why  are  you  moving  my  sandbox 
over  there?" 

"Because  it  belongs  here  now,"  said 
Dick.  "This  is  your  new  place  to  play." 

"Oh,  well  now,  really!  I  get  so  upset!" 
said  three-year-old  Pam. 

Both  Jime  and  Dick  remain  extremely 
careful  in  sparing  Pamela  any  jealousy 
over  her  small  brother,  still  requesting  her 
permission  when  they  want  to  enter  the 
nursery,  and  always  assuring  her  of  their 
love.  It  could  be  that  this  is  no  longer  nec- 
essary, for  Pam  and  Ricky  already  have  a 
strong  bond  between  them.  Ricky  kicks 
his  feet  when  he  hears  Pam's  approaching 
footsteps.  And  for  her  part,  Pam  has  her 
own  little  ritual  of  her  love  for  him.  When 
Ricky  was  born,  a  friend  sent  a  huge  box 
filled  with  all  manner  of  celluloid  rattles 
and  small  toys.  It  promptly  disappeared, 
but  every  day  Pam  moves  into  view  with 
one  or  two  of  the  toys,  carefully  washes 
it  and  presents  it  to  Ricky.  When  he  has 
tired  of  it,  she  removes  it  from  his  crib 
and  takes  it  back  to  the  secret  place. 

When  the  Powell  foursome  is  playing  on 
the  lawn  they  look  like  any  average  Amer- 
ican family  except,  perhaps,  that  they  are 
happier.  At  least  it  can  be  said  that  June 
and  Dick's  marriage  has  reached  the  point 
where  conversation  and  entertainment  are 
no  longer  necessary.  They  have  their  love 
and  their  children  secure  in  their  hearts, 
and  they  need  only  to  look  at  each  other 
to  know  that  all's  right  with  their  world. 
The  End 


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Service  Men  are  just 


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Guest  Editor  Carleton  Carpenter  looks  mighty  funny 
in  Joan  Evans'  shoes — but  his  advice  fits  fine. 


TXTell,  everybody  has  friends  and 
"  everybody  is  anxious  to  do  a  favor 
for  a  friend.  So  when  Joan  Evans  said 
airily,  "Look,  Carp,  while  I'm  down  at 
Laguna  Beach  doing  stock" — she  went  down 
to  do  Guest  in  the  House,  the  play  her 
father,  Dale  Eunson,  and  Hagar  Wilde 
wrote — "will  you  be  an  absolute  angel  and 
be  the  guest  editor  of  this  column?" 

"Me?  A  guy  give  advice  to  a  lot  of 
females  with  problems?"  I  asked  in  amaze- 
ment, and  at  that  moment  I  wished  I  didn't 
know  Joan  so  well.  I  was  licked  before  I 
started.  When  Joan  says  you're  to  do 
something,  that's  what  you're  to  do. 

"Don't  be  silly,"  Joan  sa'd.  You're  al- 
ways giving  me  advice.  You  know  how  you 
like  to  air  your  opinions." 

Well,  she  had  something  there.  Anything 
I  say  is  purely  my  own  opinion  and  I'm 
opinionated.  "May  I  really  tell  the  kids 
what  I  think?" 

"Sure,"  said  Joan.  "Tell  'em  the  truth — 
that's  what  I  do."  And  before  I  could  say, 
"Tell  it  to  Carp,"  she  had  thrust  a  batch 
of  letters  into  my  hand  and  was  off  for  an 
easy  life  of  18  hours  a  day  rehearsal,  leav- 
ing me  with  my  bare  face  hanging  out. 

So,  kids,  if  I  don't  tell  you  what  you 
want  to  hear  and  if  this  page  isn't  any 
good,  blame  that  Evans  girl.  Me,  all  I 
can  do  is  give  you  a  slant.  But  the  more 
I  thought  about  it  the  more  I  thought 
it  might  be  good  to  get  the  guy's  angle.  So 
here  goes.  To  break  in  easy,  I'm  picking 
a  letter  from  a  boy. 

It's  signed  H.  D.  Y.  and  it's  from  Hong 
Kong,  So.  China.  He  wants  to  know,  "At 
what  age  must  a  boy  fall  in  love  with  a 
girl  ?  And  how  can  L  express  to  a  girl  if  I 
love  her?" 

I  don't  think  there's  any  "must"  about 
falling  in  love.  And  it  doesn't  make 
any  difference  whether  you're  12  or  20.  The 


problem  isn't  when  it  happens — your  fall- 
ing in  love — because  that's  something  no- 
body can  give  you  advice  about.  Love 
hits  you  and  there  you  are,  and  if  you  have 
to  stop  and  wonder  if  you  are  in  love  or 
not,  chances  are  you  aren't.  And  now  for 
the  second  half  of  your  problem.  Just  be 
honest  and  relaxed  with  the  girl.  Show  her 
that  you  love  her  by  small  attentions,  by 
taking  her  out  on  dates,  by  wanting  to 
be  with  her,  etc.  You  know  what?  Girls 
are  pretty  doggone  smart  when  you  come 
right  down  to  it  and  they  catch  on  to  the 
general  idea  pretty  easily  if  the  guy  is  in 
love.  But  besides  there's  nothing  really 
radically  wrong  with  using  those  three  old 
fashioned  words,  "I  love  you."  Nobody's 
improved  on  them  yet  as  a  means  of  com- 
munication. 

^^OMES  now  a  letter  from  Eureka,  Calif., 
signed  J.  J.  "My  problem  is  danc- 
ing. When  I  was  in  grammar  school  I 
learned  the  two-step — but  that's  all.  I 
don't  have  any  sisters  or  brothers  to  teach 
me,  and  my  folks  don't  dance.  My  girl 


friends  tell  me  they  can't  teach  me  because 
I  need  a  boy  to  learn  to  follow.'' 

When  you're  first  learning  you  honestly 
don't  need  a  partner  as  much  as  you  think. 
Maybe  you  could  learn  the  way  I  learned. 
My  sister,  who  is  three  years  older  than  I 
am,  was  born  lame,  and  it  was  absoluteh" 
necessary  for  her  to  learn  to  dance.  We 
learned  together ,  and  this  is  how.  We  both 
sat  in  chairs  facing  each  other  and  did  the 
steps  sitting  down.  And  that's  a  swell  way 
to  learn  because  you  can  see  how  the  steps 
go.  So  get  your  girl  friends  to  teach  you  the 
basic  steps  like  that,  and  if  you  really  know 
the  basic  steps  it  is  easy  to  follow.  When  I 
was  in  seventh  grade  a  girl  in  my  class  started 
a  dancing  group — boys  and  girls — at  the  girls' 
club  to  teach  dancing.  She  made  the  boys 
help  in  the  teaching  and  they  needed  the 
lessons  too.  Boys  should  learn  to  dance  as 
well  as  girls,  but  take  this  sincere  word  from 
3'our  old  Uncle  Stretch.  You,  as  a  girl,  must 
never  feel  shy  about  cutting  in.  Boys  are  so 
often  a  lot  more  shy  than  you  are.  If  girls 
would  remember  that  boys  are  shy,  too,  there 
would  be  a  lot  fewer  problems  for  Joan 
Evans  to  answer. 

75  GIRL  from  Buffalo,  Xew  York,  who  just 
signs  herself  "Joan"  writes:  "I  am  14 
years  old  with  interests  far  from  boys,  dances, 
and  the  like.  I  like  school  and  hope  to  be  a 
teacher  some  day.  I  have  a  big  crush  on  my 
teacher.  She  is  the  most  wonderful  person. 
When  she  smiles  it's  like  heaven  for  she 
is  verj'  beautiful.  The  thought  of  graduating 
fills  me  with  an  empty  feeling.  Xow  I  don't 
know  whether  or  not  I  really  want  to  be  a 
teacher,  or  if  it's  just  that  I  want  to  be 
like  her.  That's  my  problem." 

A  girl  having  a  crush  on  her  teacher — 
especially  an  attractive  one — is  the  most 
natural  thing  in  the  world.  It  happens  all  the 
time  and  it  is  nothing  to  worry  about.  But 
idolatry  of  any  sort  is  wrong.  You  should 
never  let  one  person  obsess  you.  And  although 
it  is  fine  to  admire  good  qualities  in  others, 
\ou  should  not  pattern  yourself  after  any- 
body else  but  let  the  good  things  in  your 
own  personalit}'  emerge.  And  you  simply 
mustn't  aUow  yourself  to  hate  to  graduate 
because  you  can't  stay  in  school  all  your  life. 
The  teaching  profession  is  wonderful.  I'm  sure 
3'ou're  sincere  about  this,  so  by  all  means  go 
on  with  that  career.  And  admire  this  teacher, 
but  don't  idolize  her  and  don't  tr\'  to  cop}' 
her.  You're  a  big  girl  now.  Trust  your  own 
judgment.  Be  yourself. 

This  is  such  a  girl-to-girl  problem  that  I 
don't  know  why  Joan  thought  I  should  answer 
it.  It's  from  Winchester,  Tenn.,  and  the  girl's 
initials  are  B.  P.  S.  "W'henever  I  go  out  in 
damp  weather  my  hair  droops.  Even  if  just  for 
the  evening,  or  to  an  air-conditioned  theatre 
it  just  won't  stay  in  place.  I  don't  like  to 
have  permanents." 

Ninety  percent  of  the  girls  I  know  have 
permanents,  and  I  don't  think  it  hurts  their 
hair.  There's  nothing  wrong  w-ith  a  good  per- 
manent. Joan  has  a  permanent.  But  even  so, 
it  seems  to  me  that  I  go  out  with  lots  of  girls 
whose  hair  is  drooping  by  the  end  of  the 
evening.  In  fact,  I'll  tell  you  a  secret — Joan's 


WASHES  EVERYTHING 

BETIER! 

There's  only  one  "proof  of  the  pudding"  when 
you  buy  washing  products.  That's  to  try  them 
...  at  home  .  .  .  with  your  own  wash. 
Compare  .  .  .  feel  your  FELSO-clean  clothes. 

Try  FELSO.  You'll  see  that  gentle  just-right  suds 
give  you  the  freshest,  most  fragrant,  sweetest- 
smelling  wash.  Did  you  ever  see  whiter  sheets 
and  shirts  .  .  .  brighter,  more  colorful  prints? 
Did  you  ever  feel  softer,  fluffier  laundry 
...  or  any  so  easy  to  iron?  And  how  soft 
and  smooth  your  hands  are 
after  you  use  FELSO. 


You  should  keep 

your  mouth 
and  throat  clean 
all  of  the  time 


IT  TASTES  GOOO- 
IT'S  GOOD  TASTE 


Tangy  with 
Oils  of  Cinnamon 
and  Cloves 


/     DOES  A  THOROUGH  JOB  SO  PLEASANTLY  i  / 


down  in  Laguna  Beach  so  I  guess  it's  safe. 
I've  been  on  dates  with  Miss  Evans  when  her 
hair  drooped.  You  see,  you  just  see  photo- 
graphs of  her  when  she's  all  fixed  up.  Do  you 
hate  me,  Joanie?  Sudden  thought!  Gee,  she'll 
be  back  from  Laguna  soon.  I'd  better  make 
myself  scarce  a  few  days. 

T  T  ere's  a  letter  from  a  guy  who  is  in  the 
*  *  Navy.  He's  stationed  in  Puerto  Rico.  His 
problem,  as  he  says,  is  girls,  but  it's  like  this. 
He  writes:  "When  I'm  with  girls  I  don't  know 
what  to  do  or  say.  When  I'm  left  alone  with  a 
girl  I  pray  someone  will  come  along  and  re- 
lieve the  tension.  It's  easy  for  me  to  sit  down 
and  write  a  letter  to  a  girl.  In  that  way  I  can 
converse  freely  and  easily.  But  when  it  comes 
to  meeting  a  girl  face  to  face,  I'm  lost." 

I  don't  know  how  Joan  would  answer  you 
but  I  remember  something  my  Vermont 
grandmother  once  said.  It's  this:  '"The  secret 
of  being  a  good  conversationalist  is  to  let  the 
other  fellow  do  the  talking.  When  you  allow 
that,  you  get  the  reputation  of  being  bril- 
liant." So  don't  worry  about  being  tongue-tied. 
Girls  love  to  talk.  So  let  'em,  and  pretty  soon 
they'll  say  something  provocative  and  you'll 
answer  or  ask  a  question,  arid  you'll  be  talking 
easily  and  naturally.  I  imagine  the  girls  you 
meet  are  at  the  service  clubs.  Ask  the  hostess 
to  brief  you  on  the  girl.  Ask  her  a  few  ques- 
tions, then  you  can  just  sit  back  and  relax. 
She'll  take  over  from  there  and  be  glad  to  do 
it.  But  since  you  don't  mind  writing  to  girls 
why  don't  you  strike  up  a  correspondence 
with  a  couple  of  girls  who  like  to  write  service 
men?  That's  a  real  good  way  to  get  to  know 
a  person  and  to  break  the  ice,  so  when  you 
meet  the  girl  you  will  have  things  to  talk 
about — things  you  have  discussed  in  letters. 

G.  H.,  a  girl  from  Chicago,  says:  "My 
friends  tell  me  I'm  a  good  dancer  but  my  heart 
belongs  to  popular  singing,  though  nobody  en- 
courages me  and  I'm  afraid  to  sing  in  front 
of  people.  I  have  ambitions  to  develop  my 
voice  but  I'm  afraid  of  people  laughing." 

You  sing  in  the  shower,  don't  you?  For  years 
that  was  me.  I  was  a  shower  singer  and 
scared  to  death  to  sing  before  people.  But  I 
wanted  to  more  than  anything.  I  remember 
once  after  I  had  a  lot  of  straight  acting  roles 
on  Broadway,  I  got  up  the  courage  to  try 
out  for  a  singing  part  in  a  musical.  Well,  I 
finally  whipped  myself  up  into  doing  an  audi- 
tion. Honestly,  I  sang  like  mad,  and  when  it 
was  over  the  guy  said,  "Thank  you  very 
much,  Mr.  Carpenter.  We  think  you  are  a 
very  good  actor."  Was  I  downhearted?  Well, 
yes.  But,  like  you,  I  had  singing  ambitions 
and  I  was  determined  that  nothing  was  going 
to  get  me  down.  Remember  that  the  first 
time  is  the  most  difficult,  and  although  I 
didn't  get  that  singing  job  the  very  fact  that 
I  could  get  up  there  and  give  the  audition 
encouraged  and  relaxed  me.  So  I  decided  that 
although  I  was  still  scared  I  would  sing  in 
front  of  anybody  and  everybody.  Now  when 
Joan  and  I  go  to  a  party  she  comes  in  and 
says,  "Unless  you  want  Carp  to  sing — hide  the 
piano."  Believe  me,  I'm  no  Mario  Lanza — 
I'm  taller,  for  one  thing.  But,  all  kidding 
aside,  good,  bad  or  indifferent,  I  have  sung  in 
several  musicals;  I've  written  lots  of  songs 


(and  I  hope  all  my  good  friends  rush  right 
out  and  get  records  of  "Every  Other  Day" 
which  I  wrote  for  Whistle  at  Eaton  Falls, 
and  "Oh  By  Jingo"  that  Debbie  Reynolds  and 
I  recorded),  and  this  I'm  convinced  of:  The 
way  to  learn  to  sing  popular  songs  is  just  to 
sing.  Sing  the  lyrics.  Make  the  words  make 
sense.  Just  remember  how  good  you  sounded 
in  the  shower.  And  when  you  sit  down  at  the 
piano  to  entertain  your  friends,  pretend  as  if 
you're  all  alone.  Just  have  fun. 

Tt  GIRL  from  Cincinnati,  Ohio,  who  signs 
**  herself  B.  B.  sent  in  her  picture.  She 
wrote:  "The  two  boys  I've  ever- liked  broke 
up  with  me  because  of  my  nose.  It  isn't  de- 
formed, it's  just  sort  of  long.  They  say  I'm 
real  cute  from  the  front  view,  but  when  you 
see  me  from  the  side  I'm  called  'Hose  Nose.' " 

For  my  dough  there's  nothing  wrong  with 
your  nose.  Your  picture  is  very  cute,  and  you 
have  the  kind  of  features  that  would  just  look 
silly  with  a  pug  nose.  No  sir,  there's  nothing 
wrong  with  your  nose,  and  you  can  quote  me. 
The  only  thing  to  do  is  forget  about  it.  If 
you  forget  about  it  so  will  everybody  else. 
Some  of  the  most  attractive  women  in  the 
world — and  I  could  name  several  who  are  big 
movie  stars — are  not  uniformly  beautiful.  It's 
what  you  are,  honestly,  that  counts  and  not 
what  you  look  like.  Personality  really  counts. 
But  you  know  what  I  think  about  you?  I 
think  your  trouble  isn't  your  nose  at  all.  I  think 
maybe  it's  a  personality  problem.  I  think 
you're  so  conscious  of  your  long  nose  that 
you're  letting  it  affect  your  personality.  So 
you  make  it  too  important.  So  I  say  again 
— forget  it  and  just  be  that  cute  smiling  girl 
in  the  picture  you  sent. 

A  girl — R.  H. — from  Birmingham,  Alabama — 
writes  (without  a  southern  accent):  "I'm  13 
and  in  love.  My  parents  don't  approve  of  the 
boy,  and  you  may  think  it's  silly  for  a  girl  13 
to  be  in  love.  But  I  am  and  what  should  I  do?" 

Well,  I  don't  know  what  Joan  would  think, 
but  I  don't  think  it's  silly  for  a  13-year-old 
girl  to  be  in  love.  But  what  I  do  think  is 
silly  is  to  get  too  serious  and  intense  about  it. 
And  what  I  do  think  is  important  is  that  your 
parents  don't  approve  of  the  guy.  They  are 
older  and  wiser  than  you — remember  that.  I 
think  you  should  have  a  talk  with  them  and 
find  out  why  they  don't  approve.  This  you 
didn't  tell.  So  that's  the  first  thing.  If  you  can 
convince  them  he's  a  nice  kid,  then  go  out 
on  dates  with  him.  Take  it  easy,  don't  get 
too  serious,  relax  and  have  a  good  time.  If  you 
can't  convince  them  he's  okay,  then  listen  to 
what  they  have  to  say,  and  if  they  have  good 
reasons  for  not  approving  of  him,  you  have 
to  abide  by  their  decision. 

Well,  pardon  me  while  I  mop  my  brow.  But 
I'm  glad  the  eminent  editor  of  this  department 
went  to  Laguna  Beach.  I  really  enjoyed 
answering — as  best  I  could — your  letters.  And 
I'd  like  to  say  right  here  and  now  in  print 
that  if  Miss  Joan  Evans  wants  to  turn  these 
pages  over  to  me  again — and  if  you  can  stand 
me — I'll  be  happy  to  take  over.  Okay,  Joan? 
Okay,  kids? 

DO  YOU  HAVE  A  TEEN-AGE  PROB- 
LEM? IF  SO,  WRITE  TO  JOAN  EVANS. 
BOX  93,  BEVERLY  HILLS,  CALIFORNIA 


who'll  catch  dailey? 


(Continued  from  page  43)  but  Barbara 
Whiting  isn't  a  bobby-soxer  or  an  ordinary 
young  girl.  She  comes  from  a  family  of 
entertainers.  Her  sister,  Margaret,  is  one 
of  the  top  singers  in  show  business, 
and  her  father  was  one  of  the  famous 
Broadway  greats  of  all  time.  She  her- 
self has  played  Junior  Miss  on  the  air  for 
years,  and  has  acted  in  films  since  she 
was  a  teen-ager.  She's  mature  for  her 
age,  or  why  else  would  an  experienced 
man  like  Dan  Dailey  spend  so  much  time 
with  her? 

THERE  are  exceptions,  of  course,  but  most 
girls  refuse  to  admit  that  they're  in- 
terested in  marrying  a  certain  man.  More 
often,  girls  play  coy.  They  feel  they  owe 
it  to  society  to  be  completely  siirprised 
when  the  men  they're  after  propose. 

Ann  Miller,  for  example,  the  tall,  terrific 
brunette  who's  been  out  with  Dan  many 
times,  is  quite  taken  aback  when  reporters 
suggest  that  she  might  have  serious  de- 
signs on  him. 

"I  admit,"  Ann  says,  "that  Dan  is  really 
ooley  koo — a  dreamboat  if  you  get  me — 
but  we're  just  friends.  We're  just  out 
for  fun.  Dan,  with  that  wonderful  Irish 
blarney  of  his,  is  great  company.  He's  one 
of  the  most  versatile  men  I've  ever  dated. 

"I  met  him  at  MGM  years  ago  when  he 
was  playing  character  parts,  but  it's  only 
been  a  couple  of  months  that  we've  been 
seeing  lots  of  each  other.  We  go  to 
previews  and  parties,  but  the  big  time  with 
Dan  is  when  tiiese  parties  are  over.  Then 
we  go  down  to  some  little  restaurant  and 
just  sit  aroimd.  Everyone  loves  him,  and 
pretty  soon  he's  sitting  in  with  the  iiand, 
jazzing  it  up. 


"Brother,  how  that  boy  can  play  the 
trombone.  I  mean,  really  ooley  koo.  He 
can  send  you.  And  the  drimis,  too.  And 
you  ought  to  see  him  at  the  piano.  He's 
such  fun.  It's  a  million  laughs. 

"But  we're  not  going  steady.  Dan's 
playing  the  field,  and  so  am  I. 

"Of  course,  I  think  he's  far  and  away 
the  best  in  the  field.  But  so  do  a  dozen 
other  girls.  Dan's  not  just  an  entertainer. 
He's  a  pretty  deep  thinker,  and  he  has  a 
wonderful  way  with  people.  Introduce 
him  to  a  politician  and  right  away,  Dan's 
talking  politics.  Get  him  with  a  doctor, 
and  he's  discussing  medicine.  That's  why 
I  just  love  to  go  to  parties  with  him.  He 
makes  you  feel  as  if  you've  got  the  best 
escort  in  the  entire  room." 

At  28,  Ann  Miller  is  one  of  the  most 
beautiful  dancers  in  Hollywood.  Once- 
married  £ind  divorced,  she's  dated  most 
of  the  eligible  men  in  town  from  Nicky 
Hilton's  father,  Connie,  to  Greg  Bautzer. 

Currently  starring  in  Lovely  To  Look  At, 
a  cinematic  version  of  Jerome  Kern's 
memorable  Roberta,  Ann  declares  that 
she,  also,  is  not  ready  for  wedding  bells. 
"I'm  having  too  much  fun,"  she  says,  "to 
get  tied  down  now.  I  was  married  once, 
and  it  didn't  work  out,  so  why  hurry? 

"This  town  is  full  of  glamor  boys,  but 
glamor  boys  don't  necessarily  make  good 
husbands.  You  can  count  the  good  hus- 
bands on  your  fingers.  When  I  marry  a 
man,  I  want  him  to  be  good.  Now  Gene 
Kelly  is  my  idea  of  a  good  man — ^talented, 
responsible,  really  on  the  ball." 

Asked  how  she  rated  Dan  Dailey  in  the 
husband  department,  Ann  said,  "There 
you  go  again.  I  told  you.  I  have  no  in- 
tention of  getting  married  in  the  near 
future,  and  neither  has  Dan.  Can't  a  girl 
say  a  fellow's  ooley  koo  without  someone 
misinterpreting  her  words  as  a  proposal?" 

At  a   recent  party   thrown  by  Ann's 


agent,  Vic  Orsatti,  Ann  and  Dan  were  sit- 
ting together  on  a  sofa.  Later,  one  of  the 
guests  said,  "If  those  two  kids  aren't  in 
love,  then  my  20  years  of  experience  as  a 
director  are  zero." 

Y\  AiLEY  himself  denies  being  in  love  with 
anyone.  As  for  matrimony,  "If  I 
ever  marry  again,"  he  says,  "it  won"t  be 
for  a  long,  long  time.  I  have  lots  of 
friends  and  lots  of  fun.  I  play  tennis  with 
some  girls  and  ride  with  others.  One  girl 
I  know  is  a  whiz  at  ballroom  dancing  and 
we  go  out  and  dance  all  evening.  I  met  a 
gal  in  Topeka  who  plays  a  mean  piano,  and 
I  know  gals  in  Texas  and  other  states. 
Another  of  his  dates  is  Irene  Wrightsman. 
In  fact,  she's  accepted  more  dates  with 
Dan  than  with  anyone  else  since  her  ro- 
mance with  Kirk  Douglas  cooled.  But, 
naturally,  Irene  and  Dan  aren't  talking  to 
anyone  about  matrimony. 

"When  I  was  at  Menninger's,"  Dan  says, 
"they  told  me  to  interest  myself  in  a  lot  of 
new  activities,  so  I'm  taking  up  tennis.  It's 
a  great  game,  keeps  you  running.  I'm  the 
kind  of  fellow  that  likes  motion,  to  keep 
going.  Variety  is  good  for  me. 

"I  think  marriage  is  a  wonderful  thing, 
no  doubt  about  it,  only  you've  got  to  be 
ready  and  right  for  it.  Sometimes  when 
it  doesn't  work  out,  it  can  be  painful. 

"Right  now  I've  never  felt  better  in  my 
life.  My  mental  outlook  is  swell.  I  can 
thank  Menninger's  for  that.  My  five 
months  at  the  clinic  set  me  right." 

Hollywood  is  really  seeing  a  new  Dan 
Dailey  these  days,  and  the  girls  are 
actually  going  ga-ga.  Instead  of  the 
brooding,  sensitive  actor  who  used  to 
drown  his  worries  in  a  barrel  of  beer 
(they  only  floated  back  to  the  top  again) 
DaUey's  become  the  life  of  the  party. 
However,  certain  discerning  eyes  see  in 
Dailey  a  man  who  plays  the  clown  to 


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Maturity  is  not  measured  in  years  alone. 
It  varies  by  countries  and  by  climates 
and  it  varies  still  more  among  indi- 
viduals .  .  .  But  one  thing  is  certain — 
it's  an  important  milestone  in  any  girl's 
life.  It  deserves  serious  thought,  es- 
pecially with  regard  to  the  method 
adopted  for  sanitary  protection  at  the 
monthly  intervals. 

For  this  purpose,  dear  Young  Lady, 
consider  the  claims  of  Tampax.  It  repre- 
sents the  modern,  youthful  -wny  of  doing 
things  as  opposed  to  the  traditional.  It's 
very  popular  in  leading  women's  col- 
leges. It's  scientific,  too— doctor-in- 
vented, a  favorite  among  nurses.  Made 
of  pure  surgical  cotton,  Tampax  absorbs 
internally,  and  it's  so  tiny  it  can  be 
inserted  quickly  by  dainty  disposable 
applicator.  VTearer  cannot  feel  it. 

Tampax  discards  all  belts,  pins,  bulky 
external  pads.  Causes  no  odor  or  chafing. 
Eliminates  bulges,  edge-lines  under 
clothing.  Easily  disposable.  Month's 
average  supply  slips  in  purse.  Wear 
Tampax  in  tub  or  shower.  Buy  it  at 
drug  or  notion  counter  in  3  absorben- 
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cover  up  the  sadness  he  has  not  yet 
escaped. 

"The  reason  Dan  is  dating  all  those  girls 
— like  Ann  Miller,  Nancy  Smith,  and  Mary 
Ann  Hunter — is  because  he's  still  carrying 
a  torch  for  his  ex-wife,  Liz,"  says  one  of 
his  friends. 

"Why  do  you  think  he's  been  going  up 
to  Arrowhead?"  this  friend  insisted.  "Be- 
cause he  knows  that  Liz  has  been  up  there 
with  Bob  Neal.  I  don't  care  what  anyone 
says.  I'm  sure  that  Dailey's  still  in  love 
with  Liz  Hofert.  He's  a  proud  guy,  you 
know,  and  the  fact  that  he  couldn't  make 
their  marriage  work,  hurts  his  vanity. 
Besides,  I  think  that  deep  down  inside  he 
feels  inferior  to  Liz. 

"Liz  comes  from  a  fine  family.  She  has 
breeding,  good  taste,  innate  dignity.  Dan 
lacks  certam  of  these  qualities,  and  he 
knows  it.  But  he  tries  to  compensate  for 
them.  Here's  what  I  mean.  Liz  has  been 
going  around  with  Bob  Neal  of  Houston. 
I  don't  know  what  Bob  does  for  a  living, 
although  it  was  his  father  who  earned  the 
family  fortune.  Because  Liz  is  going  around 
with  a  boy  from  a  prominent  Texas  family, 
Dailey  has  suddenly  started  dating  girls 
from  prominent  Texas  families. 

"I'm  sure  that  he's  possessed  by  a  pro- 
found desire  to  prove  to  his  ex-wife 
that  he's  a  man  of  substance  and  gentility. 
One  of  the  regrets  which  haunt  all  self- 
made  men — and  Dan  Dailey's  one  of  them 
— is  they  lacked  a  cultural  background  in 
their  youth." 

All  this,  of  course,  is  theory.  Whether 
Dailey  is  carrying  a  torch  for  his  ex-wife 
only  he  can  say.  And  he  won't. 

His  behavior,  however,  is  that  of  a 
man  who  understands  both  his  strength 
and  weakness;  the  behavior  of  a  man  who 
has  taken  inventory  of  his  life. 


Dailey  knows  the  score.  He  knows  that 
half-a-dozen  women  have  their  hooks 
out,  waiting  for  him  to  bite.  He  knows, 
too,  that  eventually  he  will  get  married 
again — in  all  probability  to  a  girl  who  can 
maintain  his  hectic  pace. 

Tn  Hollywood  at  the  moment,  there  are 
a  dozen  girls,  including  Ann  Miller, 
Barbara  Whiting,  Nancy  Smith,  Mary  Ann 
Hunter,  and  Jo-Jo  SulUvan,  who  probably 
feel  well  qualified  to  make  Dan  Dailey  a 
good  wife.  They  understand  his  fetish  for 
music,  the  demands  of  his  motion  picture 
job,  the  universality  of  his  talents. 

"I  know  what  makes  him  tick,"  one  of 
the  above  girls  confided.  "I  know  what 
Dan  needs.  He's  been  too  self-sufficient 
all  these  years.  He  needs  a  strong  woman. 
Dan  is  growing  up,  and  he  has  yet  to  find 
the  secret  of  personal  happiness." 

That's  not  how  Dailey  sees  it.  Only  a 
few  days  ago,  he  confided  to  a  date, 
"I  know  the  secret  of  happiness,  baby. 
It's  not  here,"  and  he  tapped  his  heart. 
"It's  here,"  and  he  tapped  his  head. 

Dan  Dailey  insists  that  insofar  as  matri- 
mony is  concerned,  he's  not  having  any, 
not  for  the  next  few  years,  anyway.  The 
attractive  beauties  he  dates  nod  and 
say,  "Of  course.  Who's  even  thinking  of 
marriage?"  But  they  remember  that 
Clark  Gable  said  the  same  thing  before 
he  married  Sylvia  Ashley,  Pavd  Douglas 
said  the  same  thing  before  he  married 
Join  Sterling,  John  Agar  said  the  same 
thing  before  he  married  Loretta  Combs, 
Audie  Murphy  said  the  same  thing  before 
he  married  Pamela  Archer. 

It  happened  to  them,  and  they  are  sure 
it  will  happen  to  Dan  Dailey.  For  the 
easiest  man  in  the  world  to  marry  is  the 
man  who's  been  married  before.   The  End 


slow  boat  to  catalina 


{Continued  from  page  48)  After  that,  we 
took  turns  at  entertaining.  Ricardo  ren- 
dered "Baby,  It's  Cold  Outside."  Suzanne's 
version  of  "Truly  Truly  Fair" — complete 
with  French  accent — brought  down  the 
boat.  Barbara  and  Bill  were  halfway 
through  their  duet  on  the  tune  that  goes, 
"Sailing,  sailing,  over  the  bounding  main," 
when  our  good  ship  took  to  its  motors. 

"Full  speed  ahead  for  Catalina,"  shouted 
Al. 

"This,"  cried  Marsh  over  the  roar,  "is  a 
challenge." 

With  that,  he  promptly  took  ukulele  in 
hand  and  proceeded  to  contest  the  engine 
power  with  a  little  of  the  Thompson  l\mg 
power.  The  engine  won. 

"And  I  always  thought  sailing  would  be 
such  hard  work,"  ventured  Barbara  Hale, 
as  she  sat  on  deck  and  enjoyed  the  sun. 

Suzanne  got  up  and  wandered  past  the 
wheel.  "May  I  drive  for  a  while?"  she 
asked. 

So  for  the  next  hour,  imder  the  cap- 
tain's guidance,  Suzanne  drove  the  boat. 
Fortunately  there  wasn't  much  traffic  that 
morning.  And  once  we  all  got  used  to  the 
idea,  we  relaxed  while  Marsh  and  Ric  and 
Bill  tried  to  see  who  could  tell  the  tallest 
tales  about  their  boating  adventures.  Marsh 
has  a  small  sloop  of  his  own,  and  has  taken 
it  through  some  pretty  big  storms.  He  was 
launching  into  stories  of  high  winds  and 
waves  when  Betty  Rempp  called  lunch. 

All  hands  pitched  gleefully  into  the 
baskets  of  sandwiches,  and  fried  chicken, 
and  potato  chips,  and  salad.  And  Barbara 
stepped  down  into  the  galley  to  help  Betty 
brew  the  coffee.  Coffee,  however,  was  a 
long  time  in  coming.  The  boat  gave  a  Itirch 
and  the  coffepot  was  tossed  off  the  stove. 


"Hey,  there's  Catalina!"  someone  shouted. 
And  sure  enough,  there  it  was. 

"So  fast,"  said  Barbara,  delightedly. 
"How  do  we  get  ashore?" 

"Take  a  taxi,"  Bill  replied  nonchalantly. 

He  wasn't  kidding.  When  we  got  as 
close  to  land  as  permissible,  we  signaled 
for  a  water  taxi  and  went  ashore.  "Let's 
have  that  coffee  now,"  Ricardo  suggested. 

By  the  time  we'd  finished,  a  good  stiff 
breeze  was  blowing.  "Shall  we  explore 
the  island?"  asked  Marsh  halfheartedly. 

"The  wind  might  go  away,"  I  said,  feel- 
ing like  Miss  Davy  Jones. 

"We'd  have  to  use  the  motors  again  on 
the  way  back,"  added  Barbara. 

So  Al,  being  a  man  of  action  and  under- 
standing, stepped  out  and  hailed  a  laimch. 

"I'U  help  with  the  jib  sail,"  I  told  Ric. 

"m  drive  part-way,"  grinned  Barbara. 

"Never  had  such  an  efficient  crew,"  Al 
smiled. 

We  set  sail.  And  with  wind.  The  after- 
noon sun  was  beaming  down  and  we  were 
all  turning  pink  instead  of  green.  The  sky 
was  blue  and  the  oceEUi  matched.  Quite  a 
color  scheme. 

Halfway  home  we  found  ourselves  with 
escorts.  Barby  saw  them  first — a  school  of 
dolphins,  playing  alongside  of  the  boat. 

"There's  Wilmington,"  Suzanne  pointed 
out  a  little  sadly  when  she  sighted  home. 

Georgianna  Montalban  and  Barbara 
Thompson  were  waiting  on  the  dock.  "How 
was  the  excursion?"  they  wanted  to  know. 

So  our  happy  crowd  told  them,  just  be- 
fore we  went  into  a  huddle  to  set  another 
date  to  sail  to  Catalina.  "See  you  at  the 
Inn,  in  the  meantime,"  said  the  Williams. 

"You  bet,"  said  I.  Only  I  couldn't  tell 
them  the  real  reason  I'd  be  lunching  with 
them.  Secretly,  I  wanted  to  eat  a  few  of 
the  words  I'd  been  thinking  about  "grue- 
some boats."  A  matter  of  principle  with  a 
prospective  girl-yachtsman.         The  End 


KEEPS  MY  HAIR  PERFECTLY  IN  PLACE 


the  girl  who  won  gable  back 


{Continued  from  page  47)  few  close 
friends — said  recently,  "If  Clark  can  ever 
get  divorced  from  his  present  wife  (and  I 
don't  think  it  will  be  easy — it  will  prob- 
ably drag  on  and  on  and  on) — he'd  be  a 
dam  fool  if  he  didn't  marry  Virginia  Grey. 
Here's  why: 

"This  girl  wants  absolutely  nothing  from 
Gable,  no  money,  no  position,  no  false 
prestige.  She  is  one  of  the  few  thoroughly 
honest  women  he's  ever  known.  She 
only  wants  to  love  him. 

"She  has  known  him  for  years,  and  yet 
she's  never  asked  him  to  use  his  influence 
to  get  her  any  sort  of  a  job.  She's  been 
in  more  than  a  hundred  pictures  since 
the  age  of  nine,  and  she's  taken  her  chances 
with  the  casting  directors  like  any  other 
girl.  She's  a  fine  actress,  she  knows  the 
business,  and  whenever  Gable's  found  the 
going  tough,  he's  usually  ended  up  at  her 
house  out  in  Encino,  letting  off  steam." 

Even  in  Hollywood,  few  persons  know 
anything  about  the  Gable-Grey  entente. 

They  can  tell  you  all  about  Gable  and 
Dolly  O'Brien,  Gable  and  Iris  Bynum, 
Gable  and  half  a  dozen  other  beauties. 
But  Virginia  Grey  is  a  part  of  Clark's  life 
he's  kept  to  himself. 

If  you  ask  him  about  Virginia  Grey  now, 
as  one  reporter  recently  did,  he  says,  "Good 
actress."  If  you  ask  him  please  to  elaborate, 
he  says,  "Nice  kid."  If  you  ask  him  wheth- 
er he's  in  love  with  Virginia  Grey  or 
has  been  in  love  with  her,  he  grins  and 
says,  "Nice  day  for  fishing." 

SIMILARLY,  Virginia  Grey  will  say  very 
little  about  Gable.  When  Clark  was 
married  to  Lady  Ashley,  Virginia  told  a 
friend,  "Mrs.  Gable  is  a  very  lucky  woman. 
In  Paw"  (that's  her  nickname  for  Clark) 
"she  has  one  of  the  nicest  human  beings 
God  ever  made." 

Once,  when  a  studio  executive  expressed 
the  opinion  that  Gable  was  pretty  tight 
with  a  dollar,  in  fact,  still  had  the  first 
nickel  he'd  ever  made,  Virginia  happened 
to  hear  the  crack.  Executive  or  not,  she 
let  the  big  shot  have  it,  but  good. 

"Listen  Mr.  Big-Mouth,"  she  said,  "I'm 
no  authority  on  Clark  Gable,  but  I  can  tell 
you  he's  one  of  the  most  generous  men 
who  ever  lived.  When  Otto  Winkler  (a 
press  agent)  was  killed  in  that  plane  crash 
with  Carole  Lombard,  who  took  care  of 
Otto's  widow?  Maybe  you  don't  know 
it,  but  it  was  Mr.  Gable  who  built  a  house 
in  the  valley  for  her." 

Basically  a  gentle,  refined  sort  of  girl, 
Virginia  Grey  isn't  given  to  outbursts — 


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but  when  she  finally  lets  loose.  Brother! 
Watch  out!  She  shoots  straight  and  hard. 

She  let  loose  that  day,  but  the  executive 
who  was  on  the  receiving  end  of  her  blast 
took  it  nonchalantly.  "She's  obviously  in 
love  with  the  guy,"  he  explained.  "If 
Gable  were  to  hold  up  the  Chase  National 
Bank  tomorrow,  she'd  want  him  to  be 
awarded  the  Legion  of  Merit." 

There  is  no  doubt  that  Virginia  Grey  is 
in  love  with  Gable.  Long  before  Sylvia 
Ashley  dazzled  him  with  her  British  ac- 
cent and  her  imperial  social  manner,  Gin- 
ny  and  Paw  used  to  dine  on  meat  and 
potatoes  at  Paw's  ranch  house  in  Encino. 

It  was  during  these  homey  meals  that 
Ginny  learned  all  about  Clark's  days  as  an 
oil-well  driller,  a  lumberjack,  and  a  stock 
actor.  She  learned  how  genuinely  Clark  ad- 
mires talent,  how  he  comes  by  his  Dutch 
stubborrmess  through  both  his  parents, 
William  and  Adeline  Hershelman  Gable. 

She  learned  that  basically  Gable  is  a  shy, 
retiring  man;  that  despite  his  years  of  stage 
experience,  he  actually  trembles  when  he 
has  to  appear  in  front  of  a  microphone. 

She  learned  that  Gable  shies  away  from 
people,  because  over  the  years  so  many 
people  have  tried  to  capitalize  on  him,  to 
take  advantage  of  him.  She  learned  that 
the  old  tale  of  his  keeping  Carole  Lom- 
bard's room  exactly  as  it  was  at  the  time 
of  her  death  was  completely  imtrue. 

In  short,  she  learned  more  about  Gable 
than  any  other  woman  ever  has.  And 
learning  about  him,  she  got  to  understand 
him,  his  basically  conservative  yet 
generous  nature,  his  insistence  upon  re- 
maining down-to-earth.  She  came  to 
understand  why  he  attributed  his  acting 
success  to  luck,  and  why  he's  hung  his 
dressing  room  with  photos  of  the  days 
when  he  was  a  starving  young  actor. 
Across  these  photos.  Gable  has  written  one 
inscription,  "Just  to  remind  you.  Gable." 

"XTiRGiNiA  Grey  first  met  Clark  in  1937. 
•  She  was  20,  a  child  star  turned  adult.  He 
was  36,  the  heart  throb  of  the  nation.  He 
was  very  much  in  love  with  Carole  Lom- 
bard, the  best  screwball  comedierme  in  the 
business,  and  he  looked  upon  Virginia  as  a 
talented  young  girl  who  might  one  day 
reach  stardom. 

In  1937,  Gable  was  making  Saratoga  with 
Jean  Harlow  when  she  suddenly  took  ill 
and  died.  The  front  office  didn't  know 
what  to  do  with  Saratoga  since  it  was  al- 
most finished.  They  decided  to  test  three 
actresses  for  the  Harlow  role,  figuring 
that  judicious  use  of  close-ups  and  long 
shots  might  yet  complete  the  film  without 
the  fans  realizing  that  another  actress  had 
been  substituted  for  Harlow. 

The  three  actresses  tested  were  Rita  9 


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"Because  he  thought  I  had  ability  and 
for  no  other  reason,"  Virginia  Grey  has 
said,  "Gable  agreed  to  make  the  test  with 
me.  He  was  very  kind  and  very  helpful, 
and  I  think  we  worked  well  together.  Un- 
fortunately, I  didn't  get  the  role. 

"Clark  was  very  apologetic.  He  realized 
that  when  a  girl  is  20,  she  dreams  and  hopes 
a  lot,  so  he  came  up  to  me  one  day  and 
said,  'I'm  sorry,  kid,  that  it  didn't  work 
out.  But  there'll  be  other  pictures.'  And 
there  were,  too. 

"When  Clark  made  Test  Pilot  and  Idiot's 
Delight,  I  had  small  roles  in  them.  I'm  sure 
I  got  them  because  he  spoke  for  me.  He 
didn't  have  to.  I  meant  nothing  to  him.  He 
was  engaged  to  Carole  Lombard  at  the 
time.  He  was  just  being  the  nice,  sweet  guy 
he's  always  been.  We'd  see  each  other 
around  the  lot,  and  he'd  always  have  a  kind 
word. 

"After  he  married  Carole  in  1939,  I'd 
still  run  into  him  at  the  studio,  but  less 
frequently.  He'd  ask  me  how  things  were 
coming  along.  I'd  tell  him,  and  we'd  go  our 
separate  ways.  Just  professional  acquaint- 
ances." 

Less  than  three  years  later,  Carole  was 
killed  in  an  airplane  crash  near  Las  Vegas. 

Gable  was  really  shattered  by  Carole's 
death  and  announced  that  he  was  quitting 
pictures  for  the  Air  Force.  "I  want  to 
be  a  machine-gimner  on  a  plane,"  he  said, 
"and  I  want  to  be  sent  where  the  going 
is  tough." 

Shipped  to  England  in  1943,  Gable  was 
put  to  work  producing  a  film  to  attract 
recruits  for  aerial  gunnery  training.  With 
the  help  of  a  six-man  crew,  he  shot  50,000 
feet  of  film  showing  combat  conditions 
over  Antwerp,  the  Ruhr  Valley,  and  south- 
ern France. 

When  he  returned  to  Hollywood  to  edit 
his  film,  he  met  Virginia  Grey  once  again. 
The  date  was  December  20th,  1943.  Ironi- 
cally enough,  six  years  later,  on  that  very 
same  date,  Gable  was  to  marry  Sylvia 
Ashley. 

In  1943,  however,  marriage  was  farthest 
from  Gable's  mind.  He  was  happy  that 
he  could  spend  Christmas  in  the  United 
States.  When  Jill  Winkler,  Otto's  widow, 
invited  him  over  for  a  httle  Christmas 
cheer,  he  was  genuinely  thrilled.  When 
he  found,  too,  that  Virginia  Grey  was  also 
there,  he  was  overjoyed. 

He  rushed  over  to  her,  picked  her  up 
in  his  arms,  and  gave  her  a  big  kiss. 
"Gosh,"  he  said,  "it's  good  to  see  you." 

That  was  the  beginning. 

In  uniform  and  out,  Clark  started  seeing 
lots  of  Virginia  Grey.  They  would  dine 
either  at  his  house  or  hers,  never  in 
public.  During  six  years.  Gable  and  Grey 
were  seen  by  the  Hollywood  public  only 
three  times,  twice  dining  at  the  Beverly 
Club,  and  once  at  the  Los  Angeles  Tennis 
Club  matches. 

Yet  they  dated  each  other  several  times 
a  month. 

THE  idea  of  going  out  in  public  was 
never  discussed  between  them.  When 
Virginia  was  asked  by  a  friend  why  she 
didn't  make  Clark  take  her  to  the  hotspots 
and  the  previews,  she  answered,  "I'm  con- 
tent doing  anything  he  wants  to  do.  If 
he  likes  fishing,  I  like  fishing.  If  he  wants 
to  go  hunting  up  around  Bakersfield,  I 
want  to  go  hunting.  If  he  wants  to  park  the 
car  at  the  airport  and  watch  the  planes 
come  in,  I  want  the  same  thing.  It  makes 
no  difference  to  me  whether  we're  seen 
in  public  or  not.  I-  just  like  being  with 
him  any  place  any  time." 

Gable  regarded  Girmy  as  "the  old  re- 
liable," the  girl  who  would  always  be  there. 
For  a  time,  there  was  talk  that  Ginny 
would   marry   Richard   Arlen,   but  that 


came  to  nothing. 

There  was  talk,  too,  that  Gable  would 
marry  again,  but  as  far  as  Clark  was  con- 
cerned, marriage  was  out.  He  had  and 
still  has  a  faithful  secretary  in  Mrs.  Jean 
Garson,  a  former  secretary  to  Carole  Lom- 
bard. "The  daily  housekeeping  routine  of 
paying  bills,  ordering  food,  answering 
mail,  and  all  the  rest  of  it  is  still  taken 
care  of  by  her. 

Many  people  insist  that  one  cause  of 
the  present  break-up  between  Lady  Sylvia 
and  Clark  was  Sylvia's  inability  to  get 
along  with  Mrs.  Garson. 

Anyway,  as  long  as  he  had  Mrs.  Garson 
to  look  after  things,  Gable  was  never  in 
a  hurry  to  get  married.  He  never  proposed 
to  Ginny. 

Had  she  been  more  ambitious,  more  de- 
vious, Girmy  might  have  forced  the  play. 
She  isn't  the  type. 

"Sure,  I  love  him,"  she  confessed  to  her 
sister,  "but  thousands  of  people  have  been 
trying  to  marry  him  off  for  years.  Why 
don't  they  just  stop  match-making?  When 
the  right  time  comes  for  Clark  to  marry, 
he'll  get  married,  but  not  before." 

Gable  kidded  himself  into  believing  that 
December  20,  1949,  was  the  right  time  for 
him.  That  was  the  day  he  and  Sylvia 
Ashley  were  married  at  Alisal  Ranch. 
They  went  to  Honolulu  on  a  honeymoon, 
while  Virginia  Grey  remained  at  Encino, 
and  wept. 


The  alibi  of  a  drunken  driver  is  usually,  "I 
didn't  know  I  was  loaded." — Red  SkeltOH 
as  quoted  by  Irving  Hoffman  in  Tlie  Holly- 
wood Reporter. 


Like  all  good  troupers,  however,  she 
went  back  to  work.  Whenever  reporters 
asked  her  about  Gable,  she  insisted  that 
he  was  a  wonderful  man,  and  that  she 
hoped  he  was  very  happy. 

But  Gable  wasn't  very  happy.  Early  this 
year,  it  was  no  secret  that  his  fourth  mar- 
riage was  on  the  rocks. 

Just  before  leaving  for  Honolulu  aboard 
George  Vanderbilt's  yacht,  Sylvia  Gable 
filed  a  divorce  action  charging  grievous 
mental  cruelty.  That  was  in  June.  On 
her  return  to  California,  she  moved  out 
to  her  beach  house,  and  Gable  went  to 
work  in  Lone  Star,  with  Ava  Gardner. 

He  got  lonely.  After  a  hard  day's  work, 
there  was  an  empty  house  to  greet  him, 
and  no  one  to  visit  but  Howard  Strickling, 
the  MGM  press  director  who  lived  across 
the  road.  But  he  saw  Howard  practically 
every  day  at  the  studio. 

It  might  take  years  before  he  could 
technically  call  himself  a  single  man,  but 
certainly  Clark  had  no  wife  to  come  home 
to. 

What  was  more  natural  for  Clark  than 
to  call  up  Ginny  Grey,  the  girl  he  could 
depend  on  for  loyalty  and  friendship? 
Well,  he  called  her,  and  now  they  take 
rides  together  and  swap  stories,  as  they 
did  in  the  old  days.  No  one  ever  sees 
them  in  public,  because  Clark  hkes  to 
give  the  impression  that  he's  through  with 
women. 

There  are  some  who  insist  that  Gable 
loves  Virginia  Grey  as  he  might  love  a  kid 
sister.  Others  say  that  if  he  did  love  her 
at  all,  he  would  have  married  her  years 
ago.  The  smart  money,  however,  points 
out  that  Clark  didn't  realize  what  a  gem 
he  had  in  Ginny  imtil  he  went  ahead  and 
married  someone  else.  They  say  that  by 
remaining  herself,  Ginny  has  won  back 
the  King. 

Whether  she  has  or  hasn't  only  time  will 
tell.  But  if  there's  a  fifth  Mrs.  Gable  it 
may  well  be  Virginia  Grey. 

She's  the  best  thing  in  Gable's  life  since 
Carole  Lombard.  The  End 


she's  the  marrying  kind 


(Continued  from  .page  44)  but  the  mar- 
riage didn't  last,  and  the  reasons  for  its 
failure  don't  belong  in  this  story.  However, 
when  it  ended,  Vera  was  a  heartbroken 
and  disillusioned  girl.  In  Cincinnati,  Vera's 
birthplace,  in  the  Lutheran  church  which 
she  attended,  and  in  her  own  family 
circle,  divorce  was  frowned  upon.  Vera 
struggled  within  herself  for  months,  and 
by  the  time  she  made  her  final  decision 
to  get  a  divorce,  she  had  become  a  star  in 
Hollywood.  While  she  was  separated  from 
her  husband  the  bachelors  around  town 
were  constantly  calling  her  for  dates,  but 
Vera  felt  it  most  improper  to  go  out  with 
other  men  while  she  was  still  legally 
married.  By  the  time  she  sued  for  her 
divorce,  she  had  been  a  recluse  so  long 
that  she  felt  awkward  about  going  out. 
Once  Vera  made  the  plunge  and  began 
accepting  invitations,  she  had  to  learn  all 
over  again  about  candlelight  and  wine. 

In  the  following  years  she  was  squired 
by  practically  every  eligible  man  in  town. 

"If  a  girl's  in  pictures,"  she  says  modest- 
ly, "she  doesn't  have  to  be  very  bright  to 
attract  men." 

THE  remark  is  typical  of  Vera's  down-to- 
earth  career  and  Hollywood  itself.  She 
realizes  that  the  adulation  stars  receive 
is  often  due  to  their  position  in  life.  Her 
sense  of  values  is  old-fashioned  enough 
to  reap  the  approval  of  any  Mothers'  S\an- 
day  School  Society  in  the  U.S.A. 

When  she  met  Rock,  she  wasn't  imme- 
diately impressed.  It  happened  at  Giro's 
one  night  when  Vera  was  there  with  a 
group  of  people.  Rock  was  with  his 
agent  and  discoverer,  Henry  Willson. 

"I  wonder  if  I  could  meet  her,"  Rock 
said  to  Henry. 

"Certainly,"  said  Henry 
Vera  remembers  now  how  big  Rock 
seemed.  He's  six-feet-three  and  she  is 
just  five  feet  tall.  When  he  danced  with 
her,  she  came  up  to  his  chest  but  she 
noted  with  satisfaction  that  Rock  was 
amazingly  light  on  his  feet  and  had  a  fine 
sense  of  rhythm.  For  his  part.  Rock  was 
highly  nervous.  He  was.  dancing  with 
Vera-Ellen,  one  of  the  finest  hoofers  in 
Hollywood,  and  it  gave  him  a  sinking  sen- 
sation. He  felt  shakier  than  the  situation 
■warranted,  however.  It  could  have  been 
the  immediate  attraction  that  Vera  had 
for  him  (although  to  this  day  Rock  will 
admit  rlothing)  or  it  could  have  been  that 
Vera's  stardom  gave  him  a  sense  of  fright. 

Rock  was  new  to  Hollywood  then  and 
expensive  nightclubs  had  him  spinning. 
In  the  first  place.  Rock  is  a  nice,  sensible 
guy,  and  nightclubs  didn't  appeal  to  him. 
But  his  studio  insisted  that  he  be  seen 
and  photographed  in  the  popular  spots  as 
frequently  as  possible.  "Nobody's  going 
to  take  your  picture  if  you're  sitting  at 
home  listening  to  a  symphony,"  they  told 
him.  The  nieht  he  met  Vera-Ellen  was 
the  first  time  Rock  was  glad  he  had  heeded 
the  studio's  advice. 

They  began  dating,  quietly  and  easily. 
They  went  swimming,  driving,  had  dinner 
together.  The  attraction  began  to  grow,  and 
soon  Rock  was  dating  no  one  else.  As-  long 
as  he  took  Vera  to  places  populated  with 
press  photographers,  his  studio  was  happy. 
But  when  they  noticed  that  Vera  continued 
dating  other  men,  and  that  Rock  stayed 
at  home  on  those  nights,  they  began  to 
insist  that  he  squire  other  girls.  In  the 
meantime,  the  press  had  noted  his  prefer- 
ence and  columns  were  full  of  ref- 
erences to  the  romance.  Then  later,  squibs 
began  appearing  to  the  effect  that  the  ro- 
mance had  folded,  because  Vera  had  been 
seen  somewhere  with  A.  C.  Lyles,  or  with 


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Vera  was  acting  sensibly,  but  not  in  the 
pattern  of  Hollywood.  Vera  does  not  be- 
lieve in  going  steadily  with  any  man  un- 
less there  is  a  definite  engagement  between 
them.  And  Hollywood  publicity  is  a 
funny  thing.  If  a  star  is  married,  she's  sup- 
posed to  stay  home  and  hover  over  her 
family;  but  if  she's  single  she  is  supposed 
to  be  out — all  the  tune.  It  is  believed 
necessary  to  the  success  of  a  career,  and 
knowing  that  Rock  could  not  afford  a 
steady  diet  of  the  top  night  spots,  Vera 
simply  continued  dating  others. 

A YEAR  ago,  Rock  asked  Vera  to  marry 
him.  She  didn't  give  him  a  yes 
or  no  answer.  They  came  to  the  agreement 
that  it  was  too  soon  to  decide.  Each  of 
them  regards  a  career  as  very  important, 
and  Rock  was  not  yet  financially  able  to 
enter  marriage  with  a  star.  Vera  told  him 
candidly  that  she  wants  her  husband  to 
pay  the  rent  and  the  groceries,  and  to  have 
a  well-established  professional  position. 
Rock  agreed  with  her.  So  they  dropped  the 
subject,  and  things  went  on  as  before  until 
Vera-Ellen  left  for  England  to  make  Happy 
Go  Lovely.  It  was  their  first  long  separa- 
tion, and  they  both  realized  that  with  the 
other  absent,  something  very  important 
seemed  to  be  missing. 

When  Vera  returned  to  Hollywood  last 
fall,  they  were  seen  together  almost  con- 
stantly. It  was  then  that  they  knew  they 
were  on  the  brink  of  becoming  serious. 
They  drew  back  as  one  person. 

"I'd  marry  Vera,"  Rock  told  a  friend  at 
that  time,  "but  I'm  too  broke." 

The  financial  aspect  of  it,  on  Vera's  part, 
had  little  to  do  with  a  decision.  What 
bothered  her  was  that  she  knew  Rock 
wouldn't  be  happy  until  his  name  was  as 
big  in  the  business  as  hers. 

Vera  says  she  is  also  waiting  for  some- 
thing else.  Having  been  in  Hollywood  five 
years,  she  has  seen  too  many  newcomers 
lose  their  heads  and  all  sense  of  propor- 
tion when  success  comes.  With  his  success 
in  The  Iron  Man  and  the  new  Bend  of  the 
River,  in  which  he  co-stars  with  Jimmy 
Stewart  and  Arthur  Kennedy,  he  is  a  sure- 
fire bet  for  top  stardom. 

Vera  herself  wasn't  aware  of  this  until 
she  saw  him  for  the  first  time  on  the  screen. 
One  night,  realizing  she  had  never  seen 
his  work,  she  took  her  mother  to  a  double 
feature,  Winchester  73  and  Peggy.  Rock 
had  minor  roles  in  both  of  them,  and  when 
he  made  his  first  appearance  Vera's  mother 
gasped.  "Why,  I  know  him!"  she  said.  "He's 
the  one  who  raids  our  ice-box!" 

ALREADY  the  bobby-soxers  have  latched 
on  to  Rock's  good  looks,  and  his  over- 
night popularity  is  not  far  away.  Vera  is 
still  overly  cautious  about  marriage. 

"I  think  too  much,  I  guess,"  she  says. 
Rock  understands,  though.  In  fact,  they 
are  very  similar  in  disposition.  They  love 
the  same  things — the  water  skiing  up  at 
Lake  Arrowhead  on  Sundays,  dancing, 
roast  beef,  dogs,  quiet  evenings  in  front  of 
a  fireplace,  music — the  list  is  endless.  They 
both  love  to  eat,  particularly  when  it's 
Rock's  mother  who  has  cooked  the  dinner. 

In  the  middle  of  a  conversation  one 
night  he  said  that  if  they  got  married,  he'd 
like  to  take  her  to  his  grandfather's  farm 
in  Illinois  for  their  honeymoon.  "I  think 
that  would  be  wonderful,"  Vera  said. 
"Better  than  Honolulu  or  any  place  like 
that." 

Even  their  failings  are  similar.  Both  of 
them  forget  about  phone  calls,  are  always 
late  for  appointments,  careless  about  little 
things,  and  it's  a  toss-up  as  to  which  is 
the  worse  procrastinator.  Vera  finishes 
work  for  the  day  in  Belle  of  New  York, 
then  takes  a  dancing  lesson,  loses  all  sense 
of  time,  and  is  an  hour  late  for  a  date.  Or 


Rock  will  wander  into  the  gym  at  his 
studio  and  start  boxing,  and  forget  toi:. 
show  up.   Always,  the  one  who  is  keptlj" 
waiting  is  furious,  but  can  say  nothing]^ 
about  it,  for  it  would  be  a  case  of  the  pel- 
calling  the  kettle  black.  j^- 

Rock  Hudson,  according  to  his  friends,  t 
was  a  wonderful  and  humble  guy  when  he|' 
started  on  his  Hollywood  career,  and  more^ 
important,  still  is.  All  signs  point  to  thef^ 
fact  that  his  feet  will  stay  firmly  on  the' 
ground  when  the  adulation  of  the  fans,, 
starts  pouring  over  him.  Vera  still  feels  ar^ 
little  misplaced  in  Hollywood.  There  is  no 
hauteur  about  her,  no  false  pretence.  She 
doesn't  try  to  be  "sharp,"  doesn't  bend 
over  backward  to  effect  fast  repartee  in 
her  conversation.  She  speaks  the  same  way 
she  did  the  day  she  left  Cincinnati.  As  at; 
matter  of  fact.  Vera  is  trying  to  live  a 
Cincinnati  life  in  Hollywood — and  Rock"s 
trying  to  live  a  Winnetka  life  in  Holly- 
wood. Cincinnati  and  Winnetka  are  two 
of  the  many  places  in  America  where  men 
and  women  know  each  other  for  a  long 
time,  sometimes  many  years,  before  they 
decide  that  they  have  a  solid  basis  for  a 
happy  marriage. 

Vera  is  slightly  amused  by  the  contra- 
dictory reports  of  the  press.  "If  somebody' 
says  we've  cooled  off,"  she  says,  "it  means 
we  haven't  been  to  Giro's  or  the  Mocambo 
recently.  Then  we  go  to  a  premiere  to- 
gether, and  the  next  day  a  columnist  has 
us  engaged  again."  But  she's  fair  about  it, 
too.  "I  don't  blame  them  for  being  con- 
fused. We  don't  have  it  straight  ourselves.  ' 

To  the  suggested  possibility  that  she  and 
Rock  have  nothing  more  than  friendship 
between  them,  she  gives  her  head  a  quick 
little  shake  and  says,  "Oh,  no — it  isn't 
anything  like  that!  I'm  attracted  to  him — 
definitely."  But  she  admits  that  this  is 
different,  that  there  is  none  of  the  flutter 
which  accompanied  her  first  love.  She 
wonders  if  that  sort  of  youngish  excitement 
ever  happens  again,  or  if  a  second  love  is 
always  more  mature,  a  quieter  thing  that 
makes  companionship  more  important. 

Vera  hasn't  said,  in  so  many  words,  that 
her  love  is  deep  enough  for  marriage.  It's 
still  possible  that  some  day  a  man  will 
come  along  whose  charm  will  sweep  aU  of 
her  caution  into  a  cocked  hat.  At  any 
rate,  no  matter  who  gets  her  hand,  Vera- 
Ellen  is  well  worth  trying  for.  Men  date 
the  sleek  and  snooty  glamor  girls  for  con- 
quest and  excitement,  but  Vera  is  the 
type  men  marry.  The  End 


PHOTO  CREDITS 

Below  you  will  find  credited  page  by 
page  the  photographs  which  appear  in 
this  issue. 

6-7 — Modern  Screen  Staff,  10 — ^Lt.  Bob  Beer- 
man,  Rt.  Wide  World,  14 — ^RKO,  37 — Acme, 
38-39 — Bob  Landry,  40 — Lt.  MGM,  Cen.  Fred 
Hess  &  Son,  Rt.  Walt  Davis,  41 — Top  Lucas  & 
Monroe,  Rt.  Bot.  Modem  Screen  Staff,  Cen. 
Bot.  MGM,  Lt.  Bot.  Jules  Buck,  42 — Powolny 
of  20th  Century-Fox,  43 — Top  Parry-Beerman, 
Bot.  Globe  Photo,  44-45 — Bob  Beerman,  46-47 
— Beerman-Parry,  50 — Bob  Beerman,  51 — Lt. 
Associated  Press,  Rt.  Globe  Photo,  52 — Bud 
Fraker,  53 — Joe  Heppner,  54-55 — Paramount, 
56 — Top  Globe  Photo,  Bot.  Bob  Beerman,  57 — 
Bert  Parry,  58 — Bob  Beerman,  59 — 3  Top 
Beerman-Parry,  Bot.  MGM,  60 — ABC  net- 
work, 61 — NBC  network,  62 — Warner  Bros., 
64  Bob  Beerman,  65-66 — MGM,  68 — Parry- 
Beerman,  75-79 — Bob  Beerman,  William  Stone, 
98 — Bob  Beerman. 


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Continued  from,  page  66)  of  nothing  with 
lousewife-wizardry  and  motherly  love. 

There  weren't  many  movies  or  fancy 
rips  for  the  Keels.  The  whole  family 
)itched  in  to  paint  and  paper  the  house 
vhenever  redecorating  was  needed.  They 
hared  in  other  projects  by  which  honest 
yamUies  exhibit  their  self  respect. 

They  also  shared  the  farm!  Grace  Keel 
vas  the  oldest  of  five  children  of  the  Oster- 
camps,  who  had  110  acres  not  far  from 
jillespie.  There  were  Sunday  dinners  or 
jicnics  out  at  Grandma  and  Grandpa's, 
rhere  were  two  or  three  week  vacations 
"or  the  boys  there,  too;  quantities  of  rich 
juilk  from  the  herd  of  Jersey  cows;  plat- 
.cers  heaped  with  fried  chicken  from  the 
,2gg-money   flocks;    crocks   heaped  with 
(Grrandma's    delicious    cookies.    And  the 
woods  were  filled  with  wonders  for  Harry, 
as  he  was  called,  to  explore. 
All  these  filled  the  wonderfully  happy 
,.  ./days  before  Howard  was  11,  before  the  day 
J,  ,, his  father  suddenly  died. 

Then  Howard's  mother  had  to  take  over. 
It  would  have  been  simpler,  perhaps,  for 
Mrs.  Keel  to  have  taken  her  boys  and 
: '  moved  in  with  her  parents,  but  she  was 
determined  not  to  impose  on  her  now 
j.  elderly  parents.  Instead  she  supported  her 
boys  by  doing  the  things  she  knew  best — 
A;  baking  crusty  bread,  washing  and  ironing, 
ip|  nursing  here,  and  cleaning  there, 
h'    "I  used  to  take  for  granted  the  things 
)  my  mother  did  for  us  before  that,"  Howard 
-  says  briefly  but  with  feeling.  "I  guess  most 
jjkids  just  think  it's  coming  to  them.  But 
1  when  she  had  to  go  out  to  do  them  for 
3  others  to  earn  money  to  take  care  of  me, 
j  that  was  diiferent." 

I    Howard's  brother  was  old  enough  to  join 
I  the  Civilian  Conservation  Corps  which  the 
government  designed  to  get  able  yovmg 
)  men  off  the  breadlines  into  some  produc- 
,  tive  work.  He,  however,  was  too  yoimg  to 
[  join  the  CCC  to  relieve  his  mother  of  his 
care.  Howard  brooded  over  being  a  bur- 
den to  her.  In  his  desperate  effort  to  do 
.  something  about  it,  he  took  to  riding  the 
rails  to  various  towns  looking  for  work. 
Sometimes  the  cops  caught  him  and  sent 
him  back.   Sometimes  he  came  home  of 
J  his  own  accord.  But  he'd  always  wind  up 
jobless,  bewildered  and  hopeless. 

There  were  those  who  called  him  "a 
wild  one"  but  his  mother  didn't  listen. 
Neither  did  his  public  school  music  teacher 
who'd  watched  him  listen  to  a  tune  once 
and  immediately  reproduce  it  on  his  trom- 
bone. 

"Howard,"  she  told  him,  "you  have  a 
very  rare  gift.  You  have  a  perfect  musical 
ear!  If  you'd  just  practice,  you  could  go 
anywhere  you  want  to  in  the  music  field 
someday,"  she  insisted  repeatedly. 

But  someday  didn't  interest  Howard.  He 
was  worried  about  the  present,  and  was 
too  busy  scheming  schemes  which  might 
bring  immediate  money  into  the  house  to 
waste  time  practicing.  So  busy  that  his 
health  began  to  fail. 

Grace  Keel  saw  what  was  happening,  so 
she  packed  their  old  model  A  and  headed 
West.  They  settled  in  the  mild  climate  of 
Fallbrook,  California,  a  town  of  about  1,000, 
not  far  from  the  CCC  camp  where  How- 
ard's brother  was  located.  Mrs.  Keel  settled 
into  the  pattern  of  washings,  ironings, 
sewing,  bread-baking  and  whatever  other 
work  she  could  get.  It  was  hard  going,  but- 
her  reward  was  seeing  Howard's  health 
return  fast.  He  grew  rugged  enough  to 
play  on  the  high  school's  football,  basket- 
ball, and  baseball  teams.  Rugged  enough 
to  get  into  mischief,  and  earn  himself  the 
reputation  of  being  one  of  the  boys  most 
likely  to  be  called  to  the  principal's  office — 


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"And  not  for  anything  petty  either," 
Howard  recalls  dryly.  Despite  his  native 
intelligence,  he  kept  his  grades  at  the  dan- 
ger point,  and  just  managed  to  graduate 
with  his  class. 

All  the  time,  though,  he  managed  to  get 
odd  jobs  after  school  to  help  out.  Remem- 
bering them  today,  he  covers  them  with, 
"Oh,  just  anything  I  could  get.  Washing 
dishes  in  restaurants  and  things  like  that." 

/^NE  of  his  stories  about  Grandma  Oster- 
^  kamp  reveals  another  kind  of  work  he 
did.  "One  time  during  World  War  I  when 
hired  hands  weren't  to  be  had.  Grandpa 
was  trying  to  get  the  last  of  the  sUage  in 
before  dark,  and  a  threatening  storm.  He 
asked  Grandma  if  she'd  just  round  up  their 
herd  of  Jerseys  and  get  them  into  the  barn 
where  he  could  milk  them  by  lantern  light. 
Quite  a  bit  later,  he  went  to  the  barn  and 
found  she'd  milked  every  one  of  them — 22 
to  be  exact."  After  telling  the  story  he'U 
ask,  "Ever  milk  a  cow?  Looks  simple,  but 
unless  you're  really  used  to  it,  you  get  an 
ache  all  the  way  up  your  arm."  And  as  he 
pantomimes  an  experienced  milker's  rou- 
tine, one  gets  the  idea  that  Grandma  wasn't 
the  only  one  in  the  famUy  who  has  sat  on  a 
three-legged  stool  for  hours. 

School  out,  he  headed  for  Los  Angeles 
where  he  got  jobs  in  restaurants,  once  as 
a  singing  waiter.  Those  jobs  generally 
ended  in  explosive  scenes  since  young 
Howard  had  determined  not  to  tcike  any 
guff  from  anybody,  and  restaurant  patrons 
aren't  always  straight  out  of  Emily  Post. 
Finally  he  landed  a  job  as  a  mechanic  at 
Douglas  Aircraft  in  Santa  Monica.  Things 
had  never  been  so  good.  He  loved  to  work 
with  his  hands;  and  besides  it  meant  a 
steady  weekly  pay-check  for  the  Keels 
again. 

Somewhere  about  this  time  a  hasty, 
youthful  marriage  took  place.  It  is  im- 
possible to  say  more  about  it.  Howard 
himself  never  mentions  it.  And  when 
queried,  his  former  co-workers  at  Douglas 
don't  remember  anything  about  it,  though 
they  remember  Howard  well.  It  is  as  if 
this  short-lived  romance  never  existed. 

While  at  Douglas,  Howard  entered  the 
adult  education  program  at  Los  Angeles 
High  School,  studying  voice  with  the  night 
class.  As  only  one  of  40  in  the  class  he 
obviously  didn't  get  private  lessons. 

"But  those  classmates  provided  an  audi- 
ence," he'll  tell  you.  "The  most  critical  I've 
ever  faced.  They  didn't  mind  telling  you 
off  one  bit!"  he  smiles,  undoubtedly  re- 
membering some  particularly  sharp  per- 
sonal criticism. 

That  class  provided  the  springboard 
which  bounced  him  to  his  present  stardom. 
One  of  the  members  managed  to  land  a 
small  role  in  an  English  languags  opera 
being  presented  in  nearby  Pasadena.  Un- 
able to  appear  at  the  last  minute,  he  sent 
Howard  in  his  place. 

In  the  audience  was  the  late  George 
Huston,  a  fine  professional  actor  and  singer 
of  radio,  stage  and  screen.  Huston's  hobby 
was  helping  promising  young  talent.  And 
successfully  too,  as  John  Raitt,  Brian  Sulli- 
van and  other  present  stars  can  attest. 
Through  Huston's  interest,  and  londer  his 
guidance  Howard  lost  his  "I-only-sing- 
for-fun"  attitude  toward  his  voice.  Con- 
vinced by  Huston  that  he  might  reaUy  go 
places  if  he  took  his  talent  seriously,  How- 
ard settled  down  to  do  so. 

In  the  meantime,  he  was  progressing  at 
Douglas,  too.  After  a  short  stint  at  North 
American  Aviation,  Douglas  called  him 
back  to  a  better  job  as  an  outside  manu- 
facturing representative.  This  job  meant 
considerable  cross  country  travel. 

The  traveling  job  made  it  possible  for 
him  to  enter  some  scattered  music  con- 
tests. He  won  the  armual  Mississippi  Val- 
ley Festival  Singing  Contest  while  in  East 


Moline,  Illinois.  Before  he  moved  on,  the 
director.  Dr.  Bulard,  who  Howard  remem- 
bers with  deep  gratitude,  fixed  it  for  him 
to  enter  Chicago's  big  musical  contest. 
Howard  walked  away  with  the  prize  there, 
too.  His  triumph  in  the  big  city  led  to 
professional  concert  dates  in  Rockford, 
Illinois;  Davenport,  and  Muscatine,  Iowa. 

With  a  couple  of  professional  appear- 
ances under  his  belt,  he  auditioned  for  the 
National  Concert  Agency  back  in  Cali- 
fornia. They  sent  him  to  audition  for  Oscar 
Hammerstein  II.  The  famous  writer-pro- 
ducer promptly  hired  him  as  vacation  re- 
placement for  John  Raitt  in  the  Broadway 
production  of  Carousel. 

"I  didn't  have  any  stage  fright  then.  I 
didn't  know  enough  to,"  Howard  says 
now.  "It  wasn't  tmtil  I  substituted  for 
Curley  in  Oklahoma!  that  I  got  scared. 
Once  you've  succeeded  in  walking  on  stage, 
singing  and  being  charming  throughout 
that  first  act,  you're  constantly  scared 
you  can  never  do  it  again.  I've  never  had 
to  be  pushed  on  the  stage  the  way  some 
veterans  as  well  as  newcomers  have,  but 
I  was  terrified  all  right.  Remember,  I'd 
had  no  real  musical  training — ^just  a  little 
experience  and  a  lot  of  luck  which  I 
wasn't  used  to. 


Shelley  Winters'  latest  quote:  "I 
want  to  succeed  so  badly  I'm  will- 
ing to  work  for  it." 

Hedda  Hopper  in 

The  New  York  Daily  News 


"But  I  soon  got  the  musical  help  I  needed. 
Frank  Vespia,  a  swell  guy  who  sang  in  the 
Oklahoma!  chorus,  hoimded  me  into  going 
to  his  voice  coach,-  'Papa'  Rossi.  Papa  had 
retired  as  a  star  of  the  San  Carlos  Opera 
Company,  and  now  helped  young  singers. 
He  listened  to  me  go  through  a  few  bars, 
made  no  fuss  whatsoever,  just  said  he'd 
coach  me.  It  took  me  awhile  to  realize  how 
fine  he  really  was.  Just  being  with  him  was 
inspiring.  Not  only  did  he  do  more  for 
me  vocally  than  anyone  else  could — he 
was  a  good  friend." 

With  his  own  natural  talent,  and  Papa's 
help,  Howard  fulfilled  the  hopes  of  Rodgers 
and  Hammerstein  so  well  on  Broadway, 
that  they  selected  him  for  the  role  of  Cur- 
ley in  their  London  company  of  Oklahoma! 

"London  was  wonderful!"  Howard  says. 

T  ONDON  was  just  as  enthusiastic  about 
^  him.  He  was  a  tremendous  hit  there. 
Such  a  hit  that  he  got  his  first  movie  role 
there — in  the  British  picture  The  Small 
Voice.  This  in  turn  brought  him  Holly- 
wood's serious  attention,  with  MGM  hold- 
ing out  the  biggest  bait  of  the  season,  the 
lead  role  in  Annie  Get  Your  Gun. 

But  better  than  professional  prestige, 
London  gave  him  the  girl.  Helen  Ander- 
son came  from  Florida  to  England  to  dance 
in  the  chorus  of  Oklahoma!  Howard  took 
her  home  to  California,  and  they  were 
married  in  historic  Mission  Inn  in  River- 
side, on  January  3,  1949.  The  following 
year  a  daughter  was  born. 

That's  about  all  anybody  knows  about 
his  immediate  family.  For  although  Helen 
makes  some  rare  public  appearances  with 
him,  Howard  won't  let  out  a  peep  about 
his  family  if  his  vis-a-vis  happens  to  be  a 
reporter.  He  might  let  it  drop  that  he 
went  to  Florida  last  simimer  to  meet  his 
wife's  parents  for  the  first  time.  He'U  even 
admit  that  he  liked  the  folks  and  the  town 
they  live  in.  But  don't  ask  him  what  town! 

He  might  let  loose  with  a  few  four- 
letter  words  concerning  nosey  reporters. 
He  might  give  a  short  character  sketch  of 
actors  who  climb  to  stardom  on  publicity 
rather  than  talent.  He  might  turn  on  hi^ 
fabulous  charm,  a  charm  that  can  meike 
anybody  forget  what  they  came  for,  and 


just   be   happy   with   what   they've  got. 

But  more  likely,  he'll  switch  deftly  to  a 
;  story  about  Grandma  Osterkamp.  Maybe 
about  the  time,  years  ago,  when  she  had  to 
have  all  her  teeth  pulled.  She  drove  the 
horse  and  buggy  the  18  miles  to  the  den- 
tist, had  the  work  done,  and  then  drove 
back  to  the  farm  where  she  bustled  around 
getting  dinner  for  her  husband,  five  chil- 
dren, and  the  hired  hands!  Howard  will 
explain,  "She  wasn't  pushed  into  it.  She 
didn't  do  it  to  make  a  good  story.  She  did 
it  because  she  wanted  to  do  it  for  her  own 
satisfaction.  And  not  for  anybody  else's." 

Howard  believes  that's  what  makes  her 
so  wonderfully  different.  That's  why  he 
wants  to  be  just  like  her.  That's  why  he 
lives  the  way  he  does  .  .  .  for  his  own  satis- 
faction. And  the  rest  of  the  world  will  just 
have  to  be  satisfied  with  that.      The  End 


what  men  have  done  to  me 


(Continued  jrom  page  63)  stay  with  me 
when  she  occasionally  comes  to  Holly- 
wood. I'm  grateful  for  her  interest  in  my 
career,  and  I  try  to  demonstrate  my  grati- 
tude. 

Grips  and  gaffers  and  electricians  who 
work  on  my  pictures  refer  to  me  as  a 
pretty  good  egg.  I  try  to  be. 

Stories  that  I  act  like  a  prima  donna  on 
the  set  are  laughable.  I  remember  only  too 
well  when  I  myself  worked  in  the  line  as 
a  chorus  girl.  I  am  no  haughty,  snobbish 
social  climber;  no  lonely,  embittered  wom- 
Ein  obsessed  with  her  career. 

Thanks  to  Douglas,  I  try  to  live  gra- 
ciously. I  work  and  will  continue  to  work 
because  I  love  it,  and  because  I  also  have 
four  children  to  support. 

WHEN  I'm  wrong  about  anything,  I  ad- 
mit it  readily.  It  took  time  to  learn 
how  to  do  it,  but  I  learned.  Only  a  year 
or  so  ago,  I  was  making  a  picture  with 
Vincent  Sherman,  a  very  f&ie  director. 
Somehow,  I  couldn't  follow  his  direction. 
I  lost  my  temper  and  in  front  of  the  entire 
crew,  cried,  "I  just  don't  know  what  you 
want  me  to  do.  I  don't  think  you  do  your- 
self." 

Five  minutes  later,  I  was  back  on  the 
set.  "Ladies  and  gentlemen,"  I  said,  "a 
little  while  ago  you  heard  me  blow  my  top 
at  Mr.  Sherman.  In  front  of  all  of  you,  I 
should  now  like  to  apologize." 

That's  no  great  accomplishment,  of 
course — but  it  was  a  man  who  taught  me 
that  the  admission  of  error  is  an  integral 
part  of  character. 

When  I'm  wrong  I  up  and  say  I'm  wrong. 
I  don't  dilly-dally  about  it.  I  try  to  treat 
my  associates  with  fairness  and  honesty. 
I  pay  my  secretary  and  the  children's 
nurse  as  much  as  I  can  possibly  afford.  I 
learned  a  long  time  age  that  chiseling  on 
help  never  pays. 

I  also  learned  from  a  man  that  there 
is  more  to  marriage  than  sex — mind  you, 
I'm  not  knocking  it — but  love  is  infinitely 
more  than  that. 

It  was  Franchot  Tone,  my  second  hus- 
band, who  contributed  greatly  to  my  in- 
tellectual development,  and  I  don't  mind 
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Franchot  was  a  Phi  Beta  Kappa  at 
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Franchot  helped  me  cultivate  a  strong 
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A  few  of  the  gossip  columnists  made 
fun  of  me.  They  mocked  me,  called  me 
"Lady  Crawford."  I  was  burned  up,  but 
only  for  a  while  because  I  realized  they 
had  a  job  to  do.  If  they  wanted  to  kid  me 
— well,  I  think  the  years  have  proven 
pretty  conclusively  that  I'm  one  actress 
who  can  take  it. 

There  is  nothing  shameful  about  the 
pursuit  of  knowledge.  If  my  folks  had 
been  wealthy,  perhaps  I  would  have  been 
sent  to  finishing  school  and  a  good  univer- 
sity, and  after  that  a  year  abroad.  But 
they  weren't  wealthy;  and  I've  always 
had  to  make  my  own  way.  It  takes  brain 
power  to  do  that. 

Franchot  helped  me  develop  that  brain 
power,  to  channel  it  into  a  better  under- 
standing of  the  arts.  I  love  to  read.  I  now 
understand  good  music.  Looking  at  a 
really  fine  painting  means  something  to 
me.  I  perceive  the  artistic  motivation  be- 
hind the  work.  People  aren't  born  with 
a  sense  of  art  appreciation.  They  have  to 
learn,  to  be  taught.  I  was  taught  by  a  man. 

|\/|  Y  house  today  is  pretty  well-decorated. 

I  have  some  fine  paintings.  They  re- 
flect my  taste.  Taste  doesn't  come  to  a 
woman  overnight.  It's  a  gradual  process 
compounded  of  trial  and  error  and  inte- 
gration. 

It  was  also  Franchot  who  taught  me  a 
few  things  about  a  dollar.  "Acting,"  he 
pointed  out,  "isn't  a  very  secure  profession, 
my  dear.  Save  a  few  bucks  while  you  can." 

I  listened  and  I  invested  some  of  my 
savings  in  real  estate.  I  own  an  apart- 
ment house  in  Beverly  Hills,  and  it's 
pretty  good  income  property.  During  the 
years  I  wasn't  working — after  I  left  Metro 
and  before  I  went  to  Warner  Brothers — 
that  income  came  in  mighty  handy. 

I  am  not  tight  with  a  dollar,  and  so  far 
as  I  can  see  or  read — no  one  has  ever 
accused  me  of  that.  I'm  not  going  into  a 
long  list  of  my  charities,  but  I  believe 
money  is  meant  to  be  spent,  and  I've  spent 
plenty  of  it  on  all  things,  including  dozens 
of  worthwhile  charities. 

I've  made  bad  investments,  too— but 
there's  no  sense  in  crying  over  spilled  mUk. 

It  was  a  man  who  taught  me  that,  too. 
Forgive  me,  if  I  don't  mention  his  name. 
There  are  a  few  things  about  my  love-life 
I  prefer  not  to  share. 

Practically  everything  I  know  I've  been 
taught  by  men  .  .  .  not  only  the  good  things 
like  kindness,  humility,  graciousness,  and 
being  a  regular  fellow.  They  taught  me 
perseverance,  and  how  to  fight  and  hold  on. 

I  remember  how  many  people  came  up 
to  me  after  I  left  Metro  and  said,  "Joan, 
you're  being  foolish.  What  difference  does 
it  make?  Suppose  your  parts  aren't  so 
hot.    It's  still  money." 

"If  you  believe  in  something  firmly 
enough,"  I  answered,  "then  you  should  be 
ready  to  fight  for  it."  Well,  I  fought  xmtil 
I  got  the  parts  I  wanted.  I  went  without 
work  for  more  than  two  years.  Fair- 
weather  friends  left  me  by  the  dozen.  Re- 
porters ignored  me.  Gossip  columnists 
said  I  wasn't  news  any  more.  I  went  all 
through  that,  but  I  hung  on  luitil  I  got 
the  right  role.  It  was  Mildred  Pierce,  and 
it  won  me  an  Academy  Award. 

T'vE  also  fought  to  keep  my  marriages  go- 
ing.  I  remember  the  time  an  actor  who, 
supposedly,  was  a  deep  friend  of  mine  kept 
pumping  such  verbal  rubbish  into  my  hus- 
band's ear  as,  "Why  don't  you  step  out  on 
Joan?  I  know  some  real  cute  girls  over 
at  the  studio." 

This  actor  proceeded  to  get  my  husband 
drunk.  They  went  out  on  a  double  date, 
and  I  got  wind  of  the  fact.  I  wasn't  wor- 
ried about  the  actor.  I  was  worried  about 
my  husband. 

After  all,  the  girl  in  question  might  have 
blackmailed  him  or  involved  us  in  a  pretty 


huge  scandal.  I  found  my  husband  wit 
this  so-called  "cutie."  I  took  him  homi 
and  sobered  him  up.  He  was  apologetii 
and  grateful.  I  myself  was  terribly  hu 
but  by  holding  on  and  fighting,  I  save 
our  marriage,  at  least  for  a  while. 

If  a  girl  wants  anything  in  this  worl ; 
— and  I  still  believe  it's  a  man's  world-  • 
she  has  to  fight  for  it.  Maybe  she  doesn 
show  she's  fighting.  Maybe  she  appear: 
sweet,  simple,  feminine,  and  naive  bu 
underneath  she  must  be  imbued  with  som 
sort  of  drive,  some  sort  of  push,  or  sh 
will  never  get  anywhere. 

As  I  said  before,  I  am  in  the  positior 
fortunate  or  unfortunate — however  yo 
look  at  it — of  having  to  support  mysei' 
and  four  children. 

This  is  a  little  rough.  I  should  muc  ' 
prefer  to  be  married  to  a  millionaire,  t 
sit  on  my  south  side  most  of  the  daj 
relax  in  the  sun,  and  sport  a  beautifu 
tan.  But  no  can  do.  I  must  work. 

When  you  work  in  a  man's  world,  yoi 
adopt  some  of  the  male  accoutrement, 
am  direct.  I  call  a  spade  a  spade.  I  mak 
decisions  quickly.  I  keep  my  word.  Whei 
I  make  a  date  with  anyone,  male  or  female. 
that  date  is  kept.  I  value  friendship  tO' 
highly  to  endanger  it. 
If  you  read  anywhere  that  Joan  Craw  " ' 


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ford  is  not  in  the  market  for'  marriage 
that  she's  had  her  fill  of  it,  that  she  ^ 
been  reported  as  saying,  "No  more  hus  ¥^ 
bands  for  me!" — it  is  pure  poppycock. 

I  am  not  disillusioned  with  marriage.  I  ^ 
is  still  the  most  perfect  state  for  man  sine 
woman.   I  would  marry  tomorrow  if  th 
right  fellow  came  along — so  there! 

The  fact  that  I've  been  married  thre 
times  in  the  past,  I  regret.  I  regret  tha 
they  weren't  lasting.  Some  of  the  blam 
must  have  been  mine.  I  readily  accep  lis 
a  share,  and  am  wiser  now.  I  know  a  littL 
more  about  life  and  men  and  the  bird 
and  the  bees,  and  if  I  walk  down  the  aisl 
again  it  will  probably  be  for  keeps. 

Actors  generally  don't  make  good  hus 
bands,  so  the  chances  are  I  won't  marrj 
an  actor.  But  then  again,  a  girl  can  neve 
tell. 

At  the  moment,  I  am  not  sour,  embit- 
tered, man-crazy,  money-mad,  domineer 
ing,  haughty,  snobbish,  or  condescending 

I  am  a  normal  woman  in  the  prime  o 
life  who  works  for  a  living  as  an  actress 
I  love  fans  who  ask  me  for  autographs, 
sign  all  of  them.  I  love  to  pose  with  movie 
goers.  I  love  to  answer  their  mail.  I'rrloj 
flattered  when  they  go  see  me  in  motior 
pictures.  I  get  a  thrill  when  I  buy  a  ne^\ 
gown.  It  does  my  ego  a  world  of  good  wher 
three  men  call  up  and  ask  for  a  date  ii 
the  same  evening. 

In  short,  I  am  a  normal  womcin  Witt 
normal  desires,  and  normal  habits. 

Anything  said  to  the  contrary  is  simph 
untrue.  The  Enc 


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(Joan  Crawford  will  soon  he  seen  ii 
Warners'  This  Woman  Is  Dangerous. — Ed.) 


iiti 


Director  Vince  Sherman  once  got  public  opd- 
ogy  from  Joan.   She  learned  "to  err  is  human 


what  now,  princess? 


sot 


[Continued  from  page  38)  few  questions," 
he  young  woman  replied. 

"You're  a  reporter!"  Rita  screamed.  She 
Hatched  the  two  children  away,  ran  to  the 
loor  and  flung  it  open.  "Get  out!"  she 
shouted.  "Get  out!" 

The  girl,  who  was  a  reporter  for  a  local 
uos  Angeles  newspaper,  did  just  that. 
That  incident  was  only  the  beginning. 
All  that  day,  reporters  kept  streaming 
n  and  out  of  the  hotel.  After  a  while,  the 
lesk  clerk  discarded  the  ridiculous  pre- 
pense that  "Miss  Hayworth  isn't  even 
•egistered  here." 

As  for  Rita,  she  almost  went  out  of  her 
nind.    The  phone  would  ring,  and  she 
would  pick  it  up. 
"A  call  for  you.  Miss  Hayworth." 
"Find  out  who  it  is,  please." 
"It's  your  father." 
"Very  well,  I'll  take  it." 
Only  it  wasn't  her  father,  and  it  wasn't 
l^der  brother,  and  it  wasn't  her  agent  or 
any  of  the  other  people  she  really  wanted 
to  speak  to.  It  was  the  newspaper  boys. 
I   "We  have  a  report  from  Aly  Khan  in 
Paris,"  said  one.  "Aly  says,  'I'm  willing  to 
give  up  my  unstable  way  of  life  and  even 
quit  racing  horses  if  she'll  come  back  to 
me.'   What've  you  got  to  say  about  that, 
Miss  Hayworth?" 

'I  know  absolutely  nothing  about  that," 
Rita  answered.   "My  decision  was  made 
rt^'when  I  arrived  in  New  York." 
J*    The  phone  would  ring  again.  Rita  would 
;  reach  for  it.  "Your  agent's  on  the  phone, 
jMiss  Hayworth.   Mr.  Abe  Lastvogel." 
i    "Hello,  Abe.  How  are  you?" 
h    "Fine,  Rita.  How  was  the  trip?" 
1;    "Is  this  Abe?   Is  this  Abe  Lastvogel?" 

"Listen,  Miss  Hayworth.  Are  you  and 
jthe  Prince  gonna  go  back  together  again?" 
1  It  got  so  bad  after  a  while  that  Rita  had 
3  to  agree  to  a  press  conference.  But,  then, 
whatever  made  her  think  she  could  sneak 
into  Hollywood,  stay  at  one  of  the  largest 
ihotels  in  town,  and  then  drive  back  to 
(Nevada  completely  unnoticed? 

At  the  press  conference,  Rita  was  very 
Sgracious.  She  posed  for  pictures  with  the 
children.  Previously,  the  little  girls  had 
;  been  photographed  swinmiing  in  the  hotel 
'  pool. 

Here's  the  way  the  first  press  conference 
went: 

Reporter:  Your  husband's  lawyer  arrived 

fin  New  York  from  Paris  yesterday. 
He  says  he  will  attempt  a  reconcilia- 
'       tion  between  you  and  the  Prince.  Do 
you  have  anything  to  say  about  that? 
Rita:  I've  made  my  decision. 
Reporter:  How  about  the  religious  educa- 
tion of  your  daughter  Yasmin?  Is  that 
what's  holding  up  the  divorce? 
i  Rita:  She  can  make  her  ovm  decision  about 

that  when  she's  21. 
Reporter:  If  Aly  Khan  gives  up  gambling 
and  horse  racing — will  you  take  him 
back? 

Rita:  I  repeat,  I've  made  my  decision. 

Reporter:  We  imderstand  your  lawyer, 
Hartley  Crum,  has  been  in  Paris  talk- 
ing to  the  Prince?  Was  it  about  the 
settlement?  What  did  the  Prince  have 
to  say? 

Rita:  Mr.  Crum  won't  be  here  until  to- 
morrow. I  won't  know  until  then. 

Reporter:  Haven't  you  spoken  to  him  over 
the  phone? 

Rita:  No. 

Reporter:  Do  you  think  your  marriage  to 

Aly  Khan  was  a  big  mistake? 
Rita:  I'm  older  and  wiser  now,  I  hope. 
Reporter:  Do  you  plan  to  go  back  to  films 
or  will  you  just  live  on  the  financial 
settlement? 
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me. 

Reporter:  Will  your  first  picture  be  a  musi- 
cal or  a  drama? 

Rita;  I  still  love  to  dance,  but  I  haven't 
danced  for  two  and  a  half  years.  It 
would  probably  take  me  four  months 
to  get  in  shape  for  dancing.  I'm  going 
to  do  a  picture,  but  right  at  this  mo- 
ment I  haven't  the  slightest  idea  of 
what  it  will  be. 

Reporter;  When  your  residence  in  Nevada 
was  completed  a  week  or  so  ago,  why 
didn't  you  file  for  divorce? 

Rita;  My  lawyer  wasn't  there. 

Reporter:  Which  lawyer? 

Rita:  Mr.  Crum. 

Reporter:  While  you're  in  town,  do  you 
plan  to  go  out  or  just  stay  around  the 
hotel? 

Rita:  I  have  lots  of  friends  here.  I  certainly 

hope  to  go  out. 
Reporter:  With  anyone  in  particular? 
Rita:  No  one  in  particular. 
Reporter:  You've  been  in  Europe  a  long 

time.  While  you  were  abroad,  did  you 

miss  Hollywood? 
Rita:  No,  but  it's  good  to  be  back. 
Reporter:  You  say  you  plan  to  drive  back 

to  Nevada  in  a  few  days? 
Rita;  Those  are  my  plans. 

HThe  following  day,  Rita's  attorney,  Bart- 
^  ley  Crum,  and  Aly  Khan's  attorney, 
Charles  Torem,  arrived  in  Los  Angeles. 
Both  of  these  gentlemen  had  talked  with 
Aly  Khan  in  Paris.  Both  were  tired 
and  unshaven  when  they  reached  Beverly 
HiUs. 

Torem,  however,  carried  with  him  a  mes- 
sage for  Rita  from  Aly. 

The  essence  of  the  message  was  this: 
Would  Rita  please  not  do  anything  for  the 
next  six  months?  Would  she  please  hold 
up  the  divorce  for  that  period?  In  those 
six  months,  Aly  would  have  a  chance  to 
come  to  the  United  States  or  to  work  out 
some  equitable  financial  settlement  for  her 
and  Yasmin. 

Rita  insisted  that  she  wanted  no  money 
for  herself. 

It  was  then  suggested  that  Rita  meet  Aly 
in  Bermuda  and  discuss  the  possibility  of 
a  reconciliation. 

This,  Rita  refused  to  do. 

She  did,  however,  agree  to  postpone  her 
Reno  divorce  for  six  months  providing  the 
Prince  met  "one  primary  condition." 

The  condition  was  that  after  the  six 
months  had  elapsed,  the  Prince  would 
agree  to  cooperate  in  a  Reno  divorce,  if 
by  that  time  no  reconciliation  had  been 
effected. 

It  is  plain  that  Rita  never  wants  to  re- 
turn to  Aly  Khan.  When  she  left  him  last 
April  in  the  middle  of  an  African  safari, 
she'd  had  enough. 

She  realized  then  that  the  Prince  was  too 
old  to  change,  that  he  would  remain  a 
perennial  playboy  whose  life  revolved 
around  horses,  gambling,  and  beautiful 
women. 

Rita  Hayworth  believes  that  all  able- 
bodied  men  should  work  for  a  living,  and 
she  doesn't  mean  working  over  a  rotilette 
table. 

She  also  feels  that  women  are  just  as 
valuable  as  men.  According  to  the  Moslem 
tradition,  this  is  not  so,  which  is  why  Aly 
Khan  offered  to  settle  far  less  on  Yasmin 
than  he  has  on  his  two  sons  by  a  previous 
marriage. 

A  few  weeks  ago,  Aly  offered  to  start  a 
trust  fund  for  Yasmin  with  a  principal  of 
$250,000.  In  addition,  he  would  send  Rita 
$ia,000  every  three  months  for  the  little 
girl's  support.  Whatever  was  unnecessary 
or  left  over  from  that  figure  would  be  added 
to  the  trust  fund,  the  lump  sum  to  revert  to 
Yasmin  when  she  reached  21. 

This  is  less  than  Frank  Sinatra  settled 
on   his   family,    and    Sinatra    isn't  even 


titled,  let  alone  a  prince  with  millions. 

Rita  spurned  Aly's  offer.  "Yasmin  is 
every  bit  as  valuable  as  a  son,"  she  insists. 

If  Aly  settled  $3,000,000  on  each  of  his 
sons,  then  Yasmin  is  worth  an  equal 
amount. 

JUST  where  Aly  is  supposed  to  get  all 
this  money  no  one  knows.  His  father, 
the  Aga  Khan,  received  his  fortune  by  way 
of  tribute  from  all  the  Moslems  in  the 
world.  Once  each  year  he  is  given  his 
weight  in  gold.  Supposedly,  he  hands  some 
of  this  over  to  his  number-one  son,  Aly. 
But  the  Aga  isn't  too  pleased  with  Aly 
these  days.  He  not  only  liked  Rita  per- 
sonally, but  when  Aly  took  Rita  to  such 
Moslem  strongholds  as  Nairobi  and  Mada- 
gascar, the  natives  went  crazy  about  her. 
This  made  the  Aga  Khan  a  more  admired 
figure  than  ever  before. 

Once  Aly  was  married  to  Rita,  the  Mos- 
lem followers  felt  that,  at  long  last,  the 
playboy  had  settled  down,  and  that  this 
heir  to  the  Moslem  dynasty  was  preparing 
in  a  sensible  way  to  accept  his  religious 
duties. 

What  happened? 

Rita  took  Yasmin,  left  Aly  in  Africa,  and 
came  back  to  Hollywood — the  implication 
being  that  as  a  husband,  Aly  was  a  great 
hunter. 

What  Rita  fears  most  is  that  Aly  will 
contest  her  Nevada  divorce.  Technically,  if 
he  so  chooses,  he  can  accuse  Rita  of  de- 
sertion. A  contested  divorce  would  also 
mean  exposing  their  private  life  in  court. 

Rita  doesn't  want  this,  and  neither  does 
Aly. 

In  fact,  Aly  wants  no  divorce  at  all.  He 
knows  how  upset  his  father  is  about  all  the 
current  and  past  notoriety,  and  there  al- 
ways lurks  the  possibility  that  the  Aga 
will  disinherit  him. 

Aly  feels  that  he  can  make  Rita  happy 
by  treating  her  as  an  equal  and  a  beloved 
wife.  Moslems  never  treat  their  wives  as 
equals,  but  in  this  case  Aly  is  willing  to 
make  an  exception. 

From  all  indications,  however,  Rita  isn't 
buying  any  reconciliations. 

The  question  is:  What  now.  Princess? 
Where  do  you  go  from  here? 

Rita  has  worked  most  of  her  life  and 
feels  that  she  can  keep  at  it  for  at  least 
another  15  years.  Currently,  she  is  back 
on  Columbia's  payroll  at  $2,500  a  week. 

That  she  will  marry  again  goes  without 
saying.  She  believes  in  mirriage,  even 
though  three  of  them  crashed  at  her  feet. 
However,  no  one  can  pi'fedict  who  her 
fourth  husband  will  be. 

When  she  checked  into  the  Beverly  Hills 
Hotel  in  July,  a  reporter  happened  to  notice 
that  Ted  Stauffer  was  in  the  lobby. 
Stauffer,  the  man  for  whom  Hedy  Lamarr 
gave  up  everything,  furniture  included, 
used  to  be  one  of  Rita's  favorite  boy- 
friends. But  he's  married  to  Hedy  now, 
and  out  of  the  rimning. 

Of  late,  Gilbert  Roland,  who  was  once 
married  to  Norma  Talmadge,  has  been 
beating  a  constant  path  to  Rita's  hotel 
suite.  Roland  has  known  Rita  for  many 
years,  and  supposedly  is  very  much  in  love 
with  her.  One  of  the  town's  great  lovers, 
Roland  ardently  wooed  Doris  Duke  while 
she  was  in  Hollywood. 

There's  no  doubt  that  he  would  like  to 
get  married  again.  But  whether  Rita  would 
have  him  is  problematical.  For  several 
weeks  she  refused  to  dine  in  public  with 
him  and  their  friendship  was  kept  a  secret. 

All  the  love  that  Rita  has  right  now 
seems  to  be  concentrated  on  her  daughters, 
the  oldest  one  of  whom  is  vaguely  aware 
of  her  mother's  troubles.  "Why  is  our  pic- 
ture in  the  papers  so  much?"  she  asked 
Rita  recently.  But  that's  only  one  of  the 
questions  Rita  has  to  face.  There  are  a  lot 
more  she  must  be  asking  herself  and  find- 
ing even  harder  to  answer.  The  End 


I. 


this  time  it's  real 


(Continued  from  page  57)  be  going  with 
her  for  ahnost  a  year  just  to  pass  the 
time  away." 

As  for  Jean  MacDonald,  she  says,  "I 
have  no  engagement  ring  as  yet,  and  the 
question  of  marriage  hasn't  been  broached, 
but  Pete's  practically  the  only  boy  I've 
been  dating  for  a  year. 

■■Right  at  this  moment  if  he  were  to  ask 
me  to  marry  him,  I'd  probably  say  no. 
Maybe-  you  don't  Ijelieve  that,  but  when 
and  if  Pete  ever  proposes,  or  any  man  for 
that  matter — I  want  him  to  be  absolutely 
sure  that  I'm  the  girl  he  wants  for  life. 

"I  don't  know  if  Pete's  arrived  at  that 
point  yet.  All  I  know  is  that  he  is  one  of 
the  finest,  most  considerate,  most  intelli- 
gent j'oung  men  I've  ever  dated." 

How  well  Jean  really  knows  Petei"  re- 
mains to  be  seen.  A  few  years  ago,  one 
Hollywood  actress  was  certain  that  she 
had  young  Lawford  dangling  on  the  hook 
when  suddenly  he  walked  out  and  never 
phoned  her  again.  Later,  she  attributed 
his  sudden  defection  to  the  fact  that  she 
had  just  moved  to  a  district  in  Los  Angeles 
where  the  telephone  toll  was  15  cents. 

Such  tales,  however,  are  of  little  in- 
terest to  Jean.  To  her,  he  is  kind,  gener- 
ous and  thoughtful.  After  all,  wasn't  it 
Peter  who  suggested  that  she  come  to" 
Hollj'wood?  Wasn't  it  he  who  spoke  to 
the  big  boys  at  his  studio  about  giving 
Jean  a  job  in  the  publicity  department? 
Wasn't  it  he  who  introduced  her  to  his 
friends  and  made  her  feel  at  home? 
Wasn't  it  he  who  went  to  no  end  of  ex- 
pense to  see  that  she  was  comfortable 
when  she  flew  to  visit  him  in  Australia? 

In  her  book,  Peter  Lawford  is  okay. 

CHAPTER  one  of  that  book  began  last  Jan- 
uary when  Pete,  en  route  to  Aus- 
tralia for  the  filming  of  Kangaroo,  stopped 
off  in  Honolulu  with  feUow-actor  Dick 
Boone  for  a  little  relaxation. 

Pete,  as  everyone  in  Hollywood  readily 
acknowledges,  specializes  in  three  hobbies: 
beach  sports,  charades,  and  girls. 

After  a  day  of  surf-riding  and  sun-bath- 
ing at  Waikiki,  Pete  and  Dick  were  in 
the  mood  for  a  little  feminine  companion- 
ship. Hawaii,  being  one  of  the  most  hos- 
pitable places  on  earth,  Pete  had  only  to 
mention  his  desire.  In  a  flash,  he  was 
dating  Charlotte  Faye,  and  Dick  was  dat- 
ing Jean  MacDonald,  two  of  the  Islands' 
prettiest  girls.  Like  manj'  civic-minded 
gals  in  Honolulu,  these  two  spent  most  of 
their  leisure  time  at  Tripler  General 
Hospital,  visiting  wounded  soldiers  who'd 
been  evacuated  from  Korea. 

"Our  first  meeting  was  a  funny  thing," 
Jean  recalls.  "Because  actually  it  wasn't 
our  first.  I'd  met  Peter  at  New  Haven  a 
few  years  previously.  I'd  gone  up  to  Yale 
with  a  boy  from  Scotland  to  see  a  Yale- 
Dartmouth  football  game,  and  he  hap- 
pened to  Tun  into  Peter.  He  introduced 
me,  and  that's  all  there  was  to  it.  In 
Honolulu,  I  wasn't  his  date  at  all.  He 
was  dating  Bubsby — that's  what  everyone 
calls  Charlotte  Faye.  But  after  a  while, 
Bubsby  got  tied  up,  and  I  went  around 
with  Peter  and  Dick.  We  were  a  three- 
some on  the  beach.  We  had  a  great  time, 
and  I  really  hated  to  see  them  leave. 
Australia  sounded  so  far  away. 

"But  then  a  wonderful  thing  happened. 
Mrs.  Lewis  Milestone,  whose  husband  was 
scheduled  to  direct  Kangaroo,  suggested 
that  I  fly  to  Australia  with  her  and  tour 
the  Orient.  That  sounded  divine,  not  only 
because  I've  always  been  interested  in 
the  Orient,  but  it  meant  seeing  Peter  again. 
I  spoke  to  Mother,  and  she  said  all  right. 
"Two  weeks  later,  we  flew  to  Sydney 


and  from  there  to  Port  Augusta  where 
Pete  and  Dick  were  making  the  picture. 
In  Port  Augusta  I  really  got  to  know 
Peter.  I  don't  think  he'd  ever  been  to 
Australia  before,  but  he  certainly  got  the 
feel  of  things,  and  the  Australians  really 
liked  him. 

'"There  wasn't  much  to  do  at  night.  We 
used  to  see  two  movies  a  week,  and  we 
played  'the  game'  a  lot.  And  there  was 
swimming  and  horseback  riding." 

Love  may  have  bloomed  in  Australia, 
but  Jean  is  reticent  about  admitting  it. 
Intelligent  beyond  her  years,  she  weighs 
her  words  most  carefully  before  she 
speaiks 

People  who've  read  about  her  and  her 
flying  trips  to  Australia  and  Hawaii  some- 
how get  the  notion  that  she's  a  wealthy, 
giddy  society  girl  who  followed  a  hand- 
some young  actor  around  the  world. 
But  this  isn't  a  true  picture  of  her. 

JEAN  is  the  only  child  of  divorced  parents. 
Originally  from  Indianapolis,  she  was 
taken  to  Hawaii  by  her  parents  when  she 
was  only  eight.  A  few  years  ago  she  was 
sent  to  Finch,  a  finishing  school  in  New 
York.  Upon  graduation  she  returned  to  the 
Islands  where  she  got  a  job  on  a  local 
newspaper,  helping  to  gather  society  news. 

When  Peter  finished  Kangaroo  in  Aus- 
tralia, he  stopped  off  in  Honolulu  on  his 
way  back  to  the  States,  and,  for  three  days, 
he  and  Jean  took  long  walks  along  the 
beach,  talking  about  themselves. 

Pete  realized  rather  suddenly  that  Jean 
was  the  dream  girl  he'd  always  been 
dreaming  about.  She  was  the  girl  he'd  un- 
knowingly described  two  years  before  to  a 
young  woman  reporter  who'd  asked  him 
what  sort  of  woman  he  would  consider 
marrying.  "Let  me  put  it  this  way,"  Pete 
said  at  the  time,  "I  like  a  girl  who  has 
poise,  charm,  and  breeding,  but  she  must 
also  be  what  I  call  a  beach  girl.  I  love  the 
beach  and  everything  that  goes  with  it. 
After  a  day  at  the  beach,  I  usually  like  to 
dress  up  and  go  to  Romanoff's.  That's  why 
this  ideal  girl  of  mine  has  to  be  a  slick 
chick,  too — a  girl  who  has  social  know- 
how  like  Gloria  McLean  (Jimmy  Stew- 
art's wife)  or  Mrs.  Alfred  'Vanderbilt. 

"I  also  like  breeding  in  a  girl's  looks. 
There  are  many  girls  with  long  blonde 
hair  and  sexy  figures  whom  men  consider 
beautiful.  But  I  don't.  To  me  a  girl  with 
a  well-groomed  look,  not  the  flamboyant 
type,  but  a  quiet  beauty  who  radiates 
health  and  vitality  is  the  greatest  beauty 
of  them  all.  I  go  for  the  tj'pical  college 
types,  not  movie  sirens.  I  like  a  girl  to  be 
long-legged  and  wholesome  looking,  with 
a  clean-cut,  happy  face. 

"I  need  more  than  a  beautiful  girl  for 
a  wife.  I  want  a  stimulating  companion, 
and  someone  whose  personality  fits  in  with 
mine." 

When  he  got  to  know  Jean  MacDonald, 
Pete  realized  that  here  was  the  girl  he'd 
always  been  talking  about. 

"Look,  Jean,"  he  said,  "you  say  you're 
interested  in  writing  and  journalism.  Why 
don't  you  come  to  California?  There's  more 
opportunity  there." 

"Do  you  honestly  think  so,  Pete?" 

"Of  course  I  do.  Los  Angeles  is  really 
the  place  for  you." 

That's  about  all  the  urging  Jean  needed. 
A  few  weeks  later  she  was  living  in  Los 
Angeles,  a  house  guest  of  the  Lewis  Mile- 
stones. Sharman  Douglas,  who  has  been 
prominently  mentioned  with  Lawford, 
tossed  a  welcoming  party  for  Jean,  and 
she  was  launched.  But  Jean  wasn't  in- 
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of  Hollywood.  She  was  interested  in  getting 
a  job,  and  getting  to  know  Peter  better. 

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named  Rex  Ross,  setting  up  a  filing  sys- 
tem for  him,  and  putting  his  office  in  shape. 
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Sharman  Douglas  talk  stopped.  Apparent- 
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They  were  only  good  friends.  But  Pete 
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Jean  took  a  little  apartment  in  West- 
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they'd  speed  to  the  beach. 

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coming  and  going." 

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She  was  singing  about  herself.  The  dream- 
song  she  had  made  famous  had  come  true. 

'T'o  Judy,  this  fulfillment  meant  three 
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of  the  many  warnings  that  she  might  be 
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and  miss  a  performance.  It  brought  her 
$10,000  a  week,  a  much  needed  addition  to 
her  rapidly  diminishing  bank  account.  In 
spite  of  her  vast  earnings  from  her  movie 
career  and  recordings,  she  had  arrived  in 
London  virtually  broke.  It  gave  her  a 
new  lease  on  life  and  a  radiant  glow  that 
she  never  had  at  the  height  of  her  success 
in  Hollywood.  No  doctor's  prescription 
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getting  away  from  the  insular  life  in  which 
she  has  lived  ever  since  she  was  15.  She's 
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when  he  thought  it  best  to  say  no.  It  was 
he  who  beaued  her  to  the  gay  spots  around 
town  when  she  wanted  to  unwind  and  re- 
lax after  her  two  shows  a  night.  And  it 
was  he  who  accompanied  her  to  Paris 
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ishers, Scotsmen,  Irishmen,  and  French- 
men around  who  would  have  liked  to  cut 
in,  but  they  didn't  stand  a  chance — Judy 
only  had  eyes  for  Sid.  Whether  or  not  this 
romance,  which  started  when  they  ran  into 
each  other  accidentally  in  N.  Y.  about  a 
year  ago,  will  wind  up  at  the  altar,  is  still 
a  moot  question.  Certainly,  at  the  mo- 
ment, any  marriage  plans  are  premature. 
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final  until  January,  and  there'll  be  plenty 
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fore then,  especiaUy  involving  the  custody 
of  their  three-year-old  son.  During  that 
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side U.S.A.,"  including  two  nights  at  the 
famed  Carnegie  Hall  in  N.  Y.  There's  also 
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hoffe,  namely  Meet  Me  in  New  York.  Sid 
will  be  busy  with  his  own  plans  for  his 
picture  based  on  "Man  O'War."  Sid 
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him,  knowing  that  the  William  Morris 
Agency,  which  now  represents  her,  is  well 
equipped  to  handle  the  rest  of  her  tour. 
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relationship  will  have  any  effect  on  their 
romantic  interest  in  each  other,  remains  to 
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with  Vince  Minnelli,  and  always  will  be, 
because  of  their  mutual  love  for  their 
daughter,  Liza,  and  their  respect  for  each 
other's  talent.  It  is  not  beyond  the  realm 
of  possibility  that  this  close  bond  may 
eventually  reconcile  them.  In  any  event, 
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romance  is,  she'll  be  emotionally  prepared 
to  handle  it  now.  Without  realizing  it,  she 
herself  summed  up  her  emergence'  from 
her  dark,  unhappy  past  at  a  house  party 
given  by  Vivien  Leigh  and  Larry  Olivier. 
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nervous  breakdown  that  almost  ruined  my 
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{Continued  from  page  51)  The  great  love 
of  Betty  Hutton  and  Norman  Krasna  had 
lasted  exactly  five  days. 

On  the  surface  it  would  appear  that  the 
whole  thing  had  been  a  big  lie,  a  joke, 
maybe;  possibly  a  publicity  stunt.  But 
none  of  these  things  were  true.  It  might 
actually  have  been  love.  At  any  rate,  it 
was  a  serious  matter,  and  the  conclusion 
sent  Betty  Hutton  into  a  shell  of  retire- 
ment that,  at  this  writing,  she  has  not  yet 
emerged  from. 

THE  incident  of  a  hasty  engagement  and 
a  quick  separation  is,  of  course,  not  too 
odd;  nothing  to  get  terribly  excited  about. 
But,  in  Betty  Hutton's  case,  it  took  on  an 
added  importance  mainly  because  a  couple 
of  weeks  before  she  had  been  engaged  to 
another  man — and  had  also  said,  "This  is 
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While  vacation- 
ing in  Hollywood, 
I  visited  the  Car- 
thay  Theater  and 
mingled  i  n  the 
crowds  of  avid 
movie  followers. 
One  of  my  fa- 
V  o  r  it  e  actresses 
walked  up  and  I 
called  loudly, 
"Marta  Toren!" 

My  voice  was  drowned  out  amid  the 
noise  of  the  crowd.  But  behind  me,  1 
heard  someone  whisper  dramatically, 
"Now  see  here,  you  guys,  let's  keep 
the  voices  down!" 

I  turned  startled  and  peered  into 
the  grinning  face  of  Edward  G.  Robin- 
son. He  winked  and  laughed. 

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separable  from  Rugolo.  They  dined  to- 
gether, played  together,  and  had  their 
pictures  taken  in  loving  poses  together 
every  time  they  got  into  a  place  where 
photographers  worked.  It  was  a  cinch 
they  would  be  married.    Or  so  it  seemed. 

Although  the  excitement  wasn't  the 
same  as  with  Krasna,  the  happiness,  on 
Betty's  part,  was.  Her  co-workers  at  Para- 
mount could  tell  exactly  what  the  state  of 
her  romantic  life  was  by  the  way  she 
walked  to  the  sound  stage  in  the  morning. 
If  she  had  had  a  quarrel  the  night  before, 
she  would  stomp  down  the  studio  street 
looking  at  nobody  and  without  saying  hel- 
lo to  anyone,  her  face  as  long  as  a  fishing 
pole.  But  if  things  had  gone  well,  she 
would  dance  to  her  work,  slapping  people 
on  the  back  and  exchanging  greetings  with 
total  strangers. 

It  is  this  "on"  or  "off"  personality  of 
Betty  Hutton's  that  is  the  key  to  the  en- 
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to  love.  Her  life  is  a  frenetic  thing,  filled 
with  gaiety  one  moment — and  misery  and 
sorrow  the  next. 

They  tell  a  story  about  Betty  that  is  said 
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less for  weeks  until  somebody  brought  up 
the  name  of  a  girl  friend  she  hadn't  seen 
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she  succeeded  and  invited  the  girl  to  come 
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prepared  to  spend  maybe  a  week. 

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Betty  ■watched  her,  then  began  to  glo'wer. 
She  snapped  at  anyone  who  spoke  to  her. 
She  was  miserable.  That  evening  some 
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That's  Betty  Hutton.  Sudden  mad  pas- 
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With  two  exceptions,  this  has  been  true 
of  Betty  Mutton's  romances. 

The  first  time  Betty  was  in  love — really 
in  love — her  friends  will  tell  you,  was 
shortly  after  she  came  to  work  at  Para- 
mount. She  had  been  a  band  singer,  a  hit 
in  Broadway  shows  and  now  she  was  in 
the  movies  with  every  possibility  of  be- 
coming a  smash.  Those  first  weeks  on  the 
lot  were  wonderful.  The  new  girl  was  the 
gayest  thing  the  studio  employees  had  ever 
seen.  She  didn't  talk,  she  chattered.  She 
didn't  laugh,  she  roared.  She  didn't  walk, 
she  leaped  about  like  a  kitten. 

Then  one  day  she  fell  in  love  with  a.  di- 
rector. It  was  a  one-sided  affair  because 
the  director  happened  to  be  happily  mar- 
ried. This,  however,  was  no  help  to  Betty. 
She  was  madly  in  love.  Being  of  a  pretty 
proper  turn  of  mind,  though,  she  didn't  do 
anything  about  it.  She  just  grew  quiet, 
then  somber,  and  then  she  began  to  look 
haggard  and  she  was  as  much  fun  as  a 
*uneral. 

106    The  whole  temper  of  the  lot  changed. 


It  seemed  as  though  a  dark  cloud  had 
descended  on  the  studio.  Nobody  laughed 
anymore.  And  during  the  waiting  periods 
between  takes  the  company  sat  around  and 
glumly  waited  for  the  day  to  be  over. 

When  she  didn't  have  to  be  on  the  set, 
Betty  would  sit  in  her  dressing  room,  from 
which  she  could  see  the  door  to  the  direc- 
tor's office,  and  wait  to  catch  a  glimpse  of 
him.  She  would  sit  in  the  window  for 
hours,  obscured  by  the  curtains,  and  wait 
for  one  look — and  then  she'd  go  back  to 
the  other  room  and  weep.  It  lasted  for  a 
couple  of  months.   A  long  time  for  Betty. 

It  is  conceded  that  this  was  real  love — 
even  though  nothing  ever  came  of  it.  She 
didn't  fall  in  love  again  until  years  later 
when  she  met  and  married  Ted  Briskin. 

"D  ETWEEN  the  director  and  Briskin,  though, 
■L*  there  were  many  other  men.  Dates, 
just  dates.  It  seemed  that  Betty  would 
meet  a  fellow,  sound  as  though  she  was 
going  to  like  him,  and  then  not  talk  to  him 
two  days  later.  She  wanted  to  meet  some- 
one very  badly — but  just  didn't  seem  to 
have  any  luck  at  it.  Most  of  the  men  she 
went  out  with  were  neither  present  suc- 
cesses nor  too  hopeful  about  their  future. 
Betty  was  quoted  as  saying: 

"I  wish  I  could  meet  a  guy  who  could 
just  take  care  of  me.  Some  fellow  with  a 
good  job  and  a  lot  of  ambition  who  could 
support  me  and  a  family." 

She  did,  in  1945 — and  shortly  after- 
wards became  Mrs.  Ted  Briskin. 

They  will  tell  you  that  life  in  the  Bris- 
kin household  was  not  all  peace  and 
light.    There  were  times,  and  the  neigh- 


bors will  attest  to  this,  that  it  appeared 
the  roof  might  be  coming  off  the  place  any 
minute.  There  were  quarrels,  but  there 
was  also  much  happiness.  Betty,  it  ap- 
peared, was  able  to  cope  with  her  moods 
much  better  when  she  had  the  security  of  a 
home  and  husband.  If  she  had  had  a  bit- 
ter night,  she  would  come  into  the  studio 
in  the  morning  grumpy,  but  after  a  tele- 
phone call  from  home,  assuring  her  that 
everything  was  all  right,  she  would  perk 
up  and  lightly  get  through  the  day. 

Her  associates  liked  this,  and  looked 
forward  to  the  time  when  Betty  would 
save  all  oi  her  bombastic  temperament  for 
the  screen.  When  the  news  that  she  was 
to  have  a  baby  came  out,  they  thought: 

"This,  for  sure,  will  do  it!" 

The  first  child,  Lindsay  Dianne,  was 
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baby,  Betty  found  an  outlet  for  her  love, 
something  that  belonged  to  her  com- 
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A  second  daughter,  Candice,  was  born 
April  14,  1948 — and  Betty  simmered  dovwi 
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time  leaped  across  a  restaurant  to  sit  in 
a  friend's  lap  and  kiss  him  all  over  his 
face  became  the  cool  and  nodding  kind. 

Love,  aside  for  the  now  well-known 
bickering  at  home — something  that  can  be 
expected  in  any  family — was  wonderful 
and  had  done  a  world  of  good  for  Betty. 

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common  knowledge  that  the  Briskins  were 
not  getting  along  at  all.  Ted,  they  said, 
was  very  unhappy  with  a  situation  that 
kept  him  away  from  his  family's  business, 
the  Revere  Camera  Company,  in  Chicago. 

Even  though  love  ruled  the  household, 
it  appeared  certain  that  the  rift  between 
Ted  and  Betty  would  widen  and  split 
right  down  the  middle.  Ted  started  a 
camera  company  in  Hollywood,  with  Betty 
as  a  partner,  but  the  operation  was  small 
and  soon  folded  for  lack  of  interest. 

Tf  you  saw  Betty  Hutton  right  after  Ted 
moved  out  of  the  house,  you  would  have 
known  that  she  had  suffered  grievously  by 
the  separation.  She  wept  for  weeks  and 
seemed  inconsolable.  She  was  unhappy  all 
the  time,  even  when  she  was  supposed  to 
be  working,  a  new  thing  for  her,  because 
Betty  had  always  been  able  to  pull  herself 
together  to  shoot  a  mad  singing  number 
or  a  comedy  sequence. 

It  serves  no  purpose  to  recount  here  the 
off-again  on-again  months  that  followed 
with  Betty  and  Ted,  except  to  point  out 
that  it  was  obvious  she  was  very  much 
in  love  with  him  and  wanted  to  find  some 
solution  to  their  problem.    The  last  time 


they  got  together,  as  a  matter  of  fact, 
she  went  to  Chicago  to  talk  to  him  and 
then  announced  to  the  press  that  she  was 
going  to  live  with  Ted  in  the  East  and 
just  journey  to  Hollywood  to  make  movies. 
That,  of  course,  wasn't  a  workable  plan, 
so  the  separation  became  final— and  a 
divorce  followed. 

Then  came  Pete  Rugolo — and  the  plans 
to  marry  again.  Then  came  Norman  Kras- 
na — and  another  plan  to  marry.  And 
maybe  before  this  page  is  printed  there 
will  be  another  man. 

What  does  it  all  add  up  to? 

It  says,  and  quite  definitely,  that  Betty 
Hutton  is  an  unhappy  woman  unless  she  is 
in  love  and  married..  It  says  that  she 
must  make  up  her  mind  as  to  just  what  she 
does  want — the  hasty,  frantic  life  she  por- 
trays for  her  casual  friends,  or  the  true, 
sincere  life  she  so  seldom  lets  people  see, 
but  that  she  so  desperately  wants,  really. 

There  is  a  part  of  her  make-up  that 
never  lets  her  be  idle.  She  wants  people 
around  her  all  the  time,  laughing  and  tell- 
ing jokes,  and  talking  show  business.  She 
has  to  have  action  all  the  hours  of  the  day. 
She  likes  to  have  her  friends  come  to  call, 
but  the  moment  they  stop  being  amusing, 
she  can't  stand  them.  She  wants  love — 
but  she  just  won't  make  room  for  it. 

Long  before  Betty  Hutton  came  to  Hol- 
lywood, she  was  a  sober-minded  little 
girl  of  14.  She  was  singing  with  the  Vin- 
cent Lopez  orchestra,  straight  songs,  bal- 
lads simg  with  feeling  and  meaning.  She 
was  doing  all  right,  she  thought,  until  one 
of  the  members  of  the  band  told  her  that 
Lopez  was  going  to  fire  her. 


That  night  she  walked  out  on  the  stage 
to  do  her  numbers  as  usual,  but  she  was 
angry.  To  the  devil  with  the  script,  she 
thought,  and  she  began  making  fun  of  the 
songs.  She  slammed  all  over  the  stage, 
kissing  the  musicians,  knocking  over  the 
microphones  and  raising  old  Ned  in  gen- 
eral, while  the  stunned  Lopez  watched  her. 

When  it  was  all  over,  she  went  to  the 
dressing  room  to  pack,  and  Lopez  found 
her  there.  He  looked  at  her  oddly  for  a 
moment.  Then  he  said: 

"Why  haven't  you  done  that  before?  You 
were  sensational!" 

Betty  was  astonished.  But  from  that 
night  on,  it  was  the  way  she  always 
worked.  It  got  her  to  Broadway  and  from 
Broadway  to  the  movies — and  in  the 
movies  it  made  her  a  star. 

Maybe  that's  what's  the  matter  with 
her  personal  life.  She  thinks  she  always 
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clowning,  or  crying,  doing  it  big. 

If  she  would  go  back  to  the  ballad  singer 
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There  is  at  present  Pete  Rugolo  and  Nor- 
man Krasna.    Maybe  Ted  Briskin. 

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"Look,   Shelley,"   Betty   said,   "save  it 
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